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It had been a few days since he and jack had woken up ill, and Logan was feeling better.

Silently, he slipped out of bed, leaving Jack to get some more rest as he headed into the kitchen to brew some coffee and make some breakfast. It didn't take long, and soon he was standing at the bottom of the stairs calling for Jack to come downstairs.

He had a lot he wanted to get done. He wanted to do the tree and start talking about gifts. The holidays were getting closer, and this year they where going to be perfect... He was sure of that.

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Jack nodded and started to lift his cup, only to set it back down and sneeze twice in a row. He felt a thousand times better, but he wasn't well yet.

"You love me most when I sneeze, admit it," he chuckled, getting up to wipe his nose and wash his hands. He was so sick of being sick- though he wasn't dying, at least. Unlike the first day, now he got that it just had to run its course.

"Hurry up. Hurry," he added, walking up behind Logan to lay a clean hand on his shoulder. "I wanna get started."

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Logan wrinkled his nose at the sneeze and laughed. He wasn't sneezing anymore himself, he had a stuffy nose and the occasional headache, but he was feeling alright these days.

"Okay, okay, hang on," he replied, finishing his coffee and picking at his food a bit more before heading out into the main room with Jack.

"We should start with the lights," he decided.

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"Yeah? Okay," he agreed. He'd never done it before and given time he'd have probably figured it out, but it was more Logan's thing. Jack had never had one growing up...the tradition had sort of been lost.

"Do we just wrap them around it? That's how the compound one always looks."

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"Uh... Yeah. You just get them as deep into the tree as you can, and then wind them up. It's probably easier if one of us puts the lights on and the other one holds the remaining strands. What would you rather do? Decorate or hold?" Logan asked.

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"I'll hold," he decided without having to think about it. There will be plenty to do and since Logan seems to know what he's doing...at least somewhat...Jack's fine with lifting and carrying. He's good at it.

He started to go through the boxes, pulling out neat strings of lights, one after the other. He gave Logan I curious look and grinned.

"Are we going to use all of these?"

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"Probably not," Logan replied. "We can use some around the windows and stuff though, if you want..." he offered, plugging in the lights and starting to weave the string of lights into the branches and trees.

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Jack smiled and looked from the window to the tree to Logan. With all the lights outside and the trees decorated by animals, he wasn't sure they needed lights in the windows. But he'd seen pictures and films and it always made everything look so festive and inviting.

"That's a great idea," he agreed, feeding Logan a length of lights, and then another. "This is going to be the best Christmas."

Definitely better than a couple years ago when all he'd done was try to keep House from hurting himself as he detoxed. The memory of some of the things he'd done just to maintain some sort of normalcy made him ill. He smiled a little more softly at Logan, grateful that something like that was never going to happen with the younger man.

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"Yeah, it really is," Logan laughed, looking up from where he was hunched over the tree and flashing Jack a grin. "It's nice to not have to worry about anything. I think the rest of the year is gonna go smooth. I can feel it."

Still, Logan had no illusions of them ever being some happy 50's sitcom couple, and now that he was feeling a little better, he let himself look Jack over in a way he hadn't in days.

"I can finish the lights, why don't you start putting decoration's on?" he suggested.

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He caught the look in Logan's eyes and it rocked him in a way he hadn't expected. Although he insisted often that their relationship wasn't about sex and the reasons he loved Logan were beyond that, the simple fact was that Jack was driven by his libido.

And it had been days.

"I don't think I'd count on the year going smoothly," he chuckled softly. "But maybe it'll be easier than it has been. Every year seems to be a little nicer. No hurricanes, the dinosaurs haven't gotten out, no real trouble other than a few weird days here and there," Jack replied, passing off the last of the lights and turning his attention to the boxes to see what sorts of decorations they had.

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"I can live without the dinosaurs and the hurricanes, but it is kind of strange, don't you think? This year was so calm... I can't help but think next year wont be this easy," Logan admited, finishing the lights and turning to look at Jack.

"Just promise me that if things get crazy again, you wont leave me to go play hero all the time. We're partners now, and I want to know you'll take me with you. I want to know that you'll always let me have your back."

Because if anything ever happened to Jack; Logan wasn't Sure what he'd do.

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"I don't know how well that'd go over with the ITF if it was something serious," he replied. "But if it's something normal, yeah. We'll do it together. Might make it more fun."

He laughed a little and hung an ornament on the tree, then studied it as if he wasn't sure he'd done it right. It looked right, he decided, so he hung a few more, spreading them out so they weren't all clumped together.

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"Screw the ITF," Logan replied grufly, getting annoyed but quickly relaxing as he watched Jack decorate the tree.

Stepping up behind the other man, he slipped his arms around his waist and held him possesively. "You're doing really well," he said, his annoyance forgotten for a moment.

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He hung the last ornament in his hands and leaned back against the other man. Logan had to know by now the things that made Jack simply melt inside. It was simple things like the way Logan held him like this or stroked his hair that reassured him that it was okay to let go of the self control he kept in check.

"Thanks," he replied quietly, thoughts of decorating hard to concentrate on with the other man holding him like that.

"You want to do some?" he asked, though he kind of didn't care if Logan didn't want to finish it until later.

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"Yeah, I can do some," Logan replied, though he made no move to let go just yet, content to hold the other man a while longer.

He'd always thought he'd have moments like these. Though not with Jack, or any man for that matter... Yet now they felt right. As if things had always been meant to turn out this way.

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"Mmm, you sure?" he asked, moving just a little to squirm back against Logan. He purred softly and reached back to hold on to the other man's hip.

"If we finish it up, we could go take a shower," he suggested. "Get some clean clothes. Eat something that isn't soup..."

It didn't sound like lunch was what he really had in mind, though.

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"Shower sounds good. So does food, actually. But, uh, if we're gonna get clean, maybe we can get a little more dirty first," he suggested, almost sounding hopeful as he pressed closer and let Jack feel just what kind of mess he had in mind.

"How fast do you think we can finish the tree?"

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As if he would say no to Logan, especially when he was doing that. As if he could. Jack arched back against him and sighed softly.

"I think we can finish it fast," he said. "But not if you keep doing that to me.You make me want to drag you back to bed...the hell with the tree."

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"The tree is important," Logan grinned, letting go and picking up more decorations.

"We can't brush off the tree- but we can move fast. And then you can drag me where ever you want."

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He gave a soft sigh and a little groan, adjusting himself so his pants weren't so tight. There wasn't that much left and with the two of them working together, it didn't take long to finish decorating the tree. By the time they'd finished, Jack had almost forgotten his arousal.

He moved closer and caught Logan's hand.

"It's...gorgeous," he said, eyes glued to the tree. It was theirs. It was the first and he had a feeling it wouldn't be the last.

"I think we did a good job. What do you think?"

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"I think it's perfect," Logan replied honestly. "It looks fantastic. "

He squeezed Jack's hand and smiled. "It feels very- Jolly."

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"Jolly? Really?" he asked skeptically, pulling himself closer and pivoting to face the other man. He pressed a kiss to his cheek, then moved across Logan's jaw until he found his lips.

"Good word. Jolly. We don't have to stand here staring at it, though. Right?" he murmured, moving them as a single slow unit toward the stairs.

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Slipping his arms around Jack's shoulders, Logan grinned against the other man's lips.

"No, we can go wherever you want," he whispered between kisses, each kiss rougher than the last as they slowly made there way up the stairs and down the hall.

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He kept kissing Logan, letting go of his hand to tug at the other man's clothes. Breaking the kiss just long enough to get Logan's shirt out of the way, he stripped his off too and then dragged the the man down to the bed. The blankets were a tangled mess, though he didn't notice.

"Missed you like this," he murmured, rough hands groping Logan's bare body and toying with the waist of his pants.

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"Missed you too," Logan gasped, his hands working their way down Jack's chest as he groaned and squirmed against him.

"How long has it been? It feels like forever..."

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"Almost a week," he replied, nipping at Logan's lips and tracing away any pain with his tongue.

"Way too long, if you ask me. I'm not going to complain about sleeping with you so much...but I miss this," he continued, sliding his hand lower to cup Logan's cock in his palm and rub firmly. "Want you. Always."