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[stuckonyourheart]

There's a nebulous period that Patrick thinks is acceptable to have holiday gifts during, and for David, he picks a rough period that's close to Christmas, even though he knows that technically they could also be doing Hanukkah. And yet, he also remembers the big rush last year with Johnny deciding he wanted a big family Christmas.

Patrick's not complaining. There's no store to mine for decorations this time and thanks to the difference in time between them, Patrick also knows a perfect gift for them. He'd worked a few extra shifts doing math tutoring to buy it, which means that he's able to have it wrapped and ready when he comes home, carrying the large box with a bag on top of it. It fills him with absolute warmth as he steps over the threshold into their home, because it's more than he had at home. Here, this is their place, firmly together.

Back home, it had still felt like Patrick's, because David didn't love it the way that he should, not for a place that belonged to both of them.

Maybe at some point, they'll find something here that they both like. For now, he's happy to just be here with David. Peering just over the large wrapped gift, he tries to signal David with his eyes. "Can you take the bag?" he requests. "There's some cheese and wine inside." He's also not about to cook a whole holiday dinner, but he figures that he can do that much.

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[very_uninterested]

If there's one thing in life David is actually good at, it's giving gifts.

It's just that sometimes he doesn't necessarily give gifts people actually want, because he gives them the gifts he thinks they should have based on his opinions and his tastes. Which he recognizes is kind of shitty, but it also doesn't stop him from doing it most of the time. With Patrick, he knows he has to be better. He has to not screw it up, even if he's not prepared to get engaged just yet, and that is why, along with the regular gifts of a kind of boxy button down in a blue pattern that will definitely bring out Patrick's eyes, made of the highest quality cotton he was able to find in Darrow, as well as a very nice watch, there's a card in a white envelope. The card itself is kind of silly, just a dancing snowman, but inside the card, David has very neatly printed good for one trip to the dog adoption place.

He's not actually sure what it's called, the dog place, but he'll go with Patrick. Once. And if they don't find a dog they can agree on in that time, then he's on his own.

"Ugh, god, you are the sexiest man alive when you talk like that," he announces as he takes the bag from Patrick as requested.