Christmas Lessons

Lightning seemed to find the decorations enchanting. He was sat in a coffee bar in central Jump City, his girlfriend sat opposite him. They both had gingerbread lattes, and Kitten was enjoying watching him exploring the new drink. He liked the taste, it appeared.

Finally, the Titan gestured to the decorations hanging over the cafe. "Kitten? What is all this about?"
She gave him a slightly shocked look. "Please tell me you know what Christmas is..." She had had to deal with his poor knowledge of a lot of things, like American culture, etiquette, technology...she didn't want to deal with this as well. Lightning didn't answer and turned to look out the window. She sighed.
"Okay...how do you explain Christmas?" She thought for a moment, finger over her lips. "Okay, so it's supposed to be this time of peace and goodwill to all men, and basically a holiday all about winter, every 25th of December. Basically, everyone gives everyone else presents, and there's a feast, and you kiss under mistletoe, and crackers, which are things that you pull open and stuff comes out, usually hats, games and really bad jokes, and a guy called Santa comes and gives presents to everyone, if you believe in Santa."
They looked at one another for a little while.
"Presents?"
She laughed. "I thought you might like that, Zappy-Poos."
His face quickly changed to a scowl. "What did I say would happen if you called me that?"
She waved him off dismissively. "Yeah yeah, dark storms and death threats, whatever. Anyway, you always have this huge feast and stuff, and it is my favourite holiday, next to Valentine's Day."
"Val-?
"I'll teach you about that one later."
She drummed her fingernails on the table, watching him trying to take it all in. "And why is there a holiday?" He asked curiously.
Kitten thought for a moment. "I think it was a Pagan festival at first, but Christians wanted to crush the Paganism so they decided an event they would never know the actual date of happened on that day, so it became the birth of Jesus. But then, I heard all that from Cash, and he isn't the most reliable of people, he's just a really irritating Athiest. Personally, to me, it's just the birth of Jesus, but I know you're Buddhist or whatever, so..."
There was a small hesitation. "Cash is the boy who is dating your spider-headed ex, yes?"
"Yeah, him."
"And Paganism is another religion?"
She nodded. A few minutes passed of relative silence and drinking fancy-named gingerbread drinks. "I'll let you off getting me a present this year since it's your sort-of first..." She told him, smiling. "Hey! You and your brother should spend Christmas at my house!"
He seemed a little startled by this prospect. "At your house? Your father will not mind?"
"He might, but hey, it's just like any other friend staying round...and I don't want you homeless on Christmas."
"I am not-"
"Living in clouds counts as homeless, Zap."
"Huh." He crossed his arms and thought for a moment. "You will not take no for an answer, will you?"
Her face pretty much said it all and he heaved a sigh.
"I will run it by my brother."

A week later he was sat in the disgustingly pink bedroom belonging to his girlfriend, eyes drawn to colourfully wrapped gifts with an almost aweful quiet. She couldn't stifle a laugh. It was sort of adorable, the child-like glee on his face. His brother was pretty much the same, but he was downstairs. Kitten's father was in his little basement room, working on...well, things...and working off his anger at his daughter deciding to invite these Titans to his home out of the blue. Honestly, did she have no sense of decent villainy? She seemed to have a strange thing for the skinny one, and that annoyed Killer Moth beyond belief. Still...when push comes to shove...

December 25th, Christmas morning

Thunder and Lightning were given the guest bedroom, which used to be a  pet room before the basement came along  for Killer Moth's experiments. Kitten waited until the  sun rose before walking into the guest room with an armful of presents. The brothers appeared to still be fast asleep. She arranged the presents in a small pile, deciding to make things seem truly magical for them and giving the impression of Santa paying the household a visit, as they  still weren't awake, and then she crept  back out and went to sit before the tree. She waited there for a moment, eyeing the presents beneath the tree. When she heard the distant chatter of the brothers in the other room, she got up and went over, grinning at the glee in their voices. She had already opened her stocking gifts, but she had only gotten main gifts for the twins. There was a strange scrabbling sound and she heard one of them approaching the door and jumped back to avoid being hit in the face, and when the door opened, she was faced with Lightning's energetic grin. He was already wearing a jacket she had bought him. She had bought his brother another one, same kind, different colour, different size. Lightning's was green, as the electrical elemental had told her green was his favourite colour. She didn't know the same for Thunder and got him a red one as it was the first in his size she found.
"Hey Zappy-poos!" Kitten cooed, wrapping her arms around her boyfriend. She heard him groan and heard a laugh from the brother at the rather amusing nickname. "Having a good morning?"
He pulled away, grinning ear to ear. "I feel great! I have presents, and everything seems perfect and-" He cut himself off and held up a finger to excuse himself before he ran back inside the guest room and came back out with his hands behind his back. "I got you presents too."
He giggled as her eyes went wide. "Really? Oh my God, you didn't have to-"
She cut off as he kissed her. He didn't think her eyes could get much wider now. She pulled away softly and looked up, following his extended arm. At the end, his hand was holding a small bunch of mistletoe dangling from a bright pink ribbon. Kitten let out another giggle. "That is sweet..." She breathed, beaming.
"It's not all." He replied, passing her a golden chain with pink disks on one half. They were clearly plastic, and they had what were supposed to look like rubies in their centres. It was clearly quite a cheap trinket, but she reminded herself he was trying his best to avoid thieving and that with what little he had, it was probably the best thing he could afford. She forced a smile and he shifted uncomfortably.
"I know it's not very good, but I was trying to...I couldn't...I thought you might like it, but..."
"Help me put it on." She handed it back to him and turned around, lifting her hair clear of her neck so he could fasten the clasp safely. Once done, she brought up her arms and wrapped them around his shoulders, placing a chast kiss on his cheek. "Merry Christmas, baby."
"Uh, m-merry Christmas." He stammered back, blushing, well aware his brother could see the scene playing out.