That's not gonna fit...

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When: The week before Xmas
Where: California
Who: lizfirestarter ,wanker4life, robbie_harper

"You do realize our house has a roof don't you, Owen?" Liz looked up at the tree that she was sure wouldn't fit in their new living room unless you chopped a few feet off it. How they'd get that damn thing home she had no idea. She looked from the tree to Owen to Robbie and back before she sighed. "I know it's his first Christmas and all but do we really need a tree that big?" It felt somehow wrong having a big evergreen tree when they didn't even have snow.

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[wanker4life.livejournal.com]

Owen looks at Liz and he's got something in mind for the house. "It's going to fit the new house just fine." Owen was thinking of putting the tree outside of their new house.

The time spent on bodies was also spent on getting things moved out of there ASAP as was the tree hunt. "Its not only his first Christmas but we can make this one extra special."

It did feel weird to wear nothing but a light leather jacket in December and he's not freezing his ass off.

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"Yeah?" Liz shifts Robbie to her other arm as she steps closer to the tree and Owen. It hurts her neck looking that far up to see the top of the tree. She huffs and look at Owen with a raised eyebrow. "Spill it. What are you planning?"

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Owen's not sure how he's going to explain it all to Liz and he bites on his lip. "It'll look smashing outside by the pool. We can put a wee tree inside the house and a big one outside." He wonders what people in California do with trees. He saw palm trees lit up and looking all Christmasy. "We can decorate our palm trees with lights."

He's trying to sway her away from their proper home the home that's not a rental that they've been living in.

"I still think this tree will fit just fine. And Robbie is agreeing with this idea."

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She looks up at the massive tree again. "Do we have room by the pool?" Liz doesn't spend much time out there, of course. Everytime she does Robbie seems fascinated by the water and then Liz feels guilty she likes water about as much as a cat does. "Palm trees with lights?" It seems almost as wrong as not having a snowball fight this year. She always has snowball fights at Christmas.

Liz doesn't even notice Robbie reaching out to the tree like it's the greatest thing on the planet until Owen says something. She looks down at the little reaching hands and shakes her head. "Fine, I know when I'm beat." She says dryly as she goes to offer Robbie to his dad. "How we gonna get this thing home?"

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"We have plenty of room by the pool." Owen has made use of the pool on those nights he spent at the HUB slaving over a dead body with a bottle of beer. It was nice to look out over the city and think back to what's going on.

He's worried about whatever happened to Jack and this is a good way to get everything off of his mind.

"We can have them load it up onto a truck and they'll deliver it for us." Owen takes Robbie and he looks at the little guy who's still trying to grab for the tree. "You don't want to eat that mate."

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She knows. Or at least Liz has noticed Owen's a little more withdrawn than usual. It doesn't help with those wedding jitters that she feels like Owen is hiding from her sometimes. As usual, she thinks it's something she did wrong. "I'll take your word for it, I guess."

She wrinkles her nose at the idea of someone else delivering a tree. "We don't even get to cut it down here." Liz says sadly as Robbie tries to reach out for a branch. She sighs and practically shoves Robbie at Owen. "Here. You take him. He listens to you." Something Ianto said to her before makes her snicker as she shakes her head. "You two think alike. Like father like son and I guess you both think we need to make every other family on the block have tree envy."

Liz looks up at the tree again and then back at Owen and the baby. She can't say no, not when they both want it. "Fine. Let's get Treezilla home and buy a million foot tall ladder and a truckload of bulbs so we can decorate it."

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"Trust me Liz. You should join me outside a bit more and I know how you love the chance to bundle up at night." Owen goes to wrap his arm around her and he stands there looking at the tree. He likes it. He's now has his home for his family ready and he leans over to kiss Liz on the cheek.

He pulls back and he looks at her with an odd look. "That's alright, we'll end up sticking together like a pair of saps on a cartoon." He teases, and he goes to take Robbie when he's held out to him. Owen's going to let Robbie touch the tree and fill the baby's need to full fill his curiosity.

"That sounds like a great idea. First, I want to get home.. I'm exhausted." Owen's trying to sway her to head home first. "We can get the bulbs later and decorate on Christmas Eve. We need to start our own family traditions."

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"But outside is by the water." Liz whines, and makes no attempt to hide it. But Owen does have her pegged about liking the cold and the night. She nods. "Yeah...it's been a while since we've done that." She snuggles her head against him a moment. "The beach when we were here earlier in the year was...amazing." Liz sighs nostalgically.

Liz can't help beaming at the both of them. Sometimes it's like Owen's a completely different man around Robbie. Better, and Liz never thought that was even possible. "Just don't end up creepy when he's too old for you to be best pals, OK. Come to think of it, don't let me end up creepy either."

She frowns when Owen mentioned he's exhausted. "You work too much." Liz says simply as she leans up to kiss him gently. "You want to go home we'll go home." The mention of traditions nearly makes her blush. "I like that. I really like that."

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"There's nothing wrong with the outside by the water. There's plenty of parts outside that aren't near the water in the house." Owen's making sure to avoid saying old house and he treats it as normal. "We've got that fire pit and we can roast marshmallows and let Robbie play outside."

He blushes a bit and its Owen who seems more comfortable with the idea of being a parent than Ianto or Jack. "I'm not gonna end up some creepy parent who won't let a grown kid off a leash."

"Yeah, let's go home.." He leans back over to kiss her cheek and he's excited to get home.