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Jinx sat in her chair tapping her feet impatiently as she stared at the mirror in the guest room of the Kiramman mansion. Though she’s been told countless times that technically it’s her room if she is to believe what that stupid sister stealing piltie Caitlyn has been saying these past few months. In all honesty if you had told Jinx from two or heck even one year ago that she’d be living it up with the fancie pantsy pilties up in Piltover she’d probably have blown you up… or called you crazy… or both… probably both.
Most days had Jinx tapping her feet out of sheer boredom but this morning was a different story. Today she was tapping her feet in excitement because today she was getting her weekly visit from her dear old man Silco.
Even though Jinx often wishes she could see him more sadly due to the whole deal with piltover she’s been put on house arrest which from what she understands is thanks to her sister's girlfriend pulling some strings to keep her out of steelwater. Still though it’s better than being locked up and because Zaun held up their end of the bargain by surrendering her to Piltover (though technically she surrendered herself) Zaun was officially recognized as a country by Piltover.
As Jinx sat alone in her room lost in thought she heard the distinct sound of the doorbell being rung and immediately bolted shooting out of her room in a flash of pink to open the front door. Upon reaching the front door she swung it open expecting to see Silco and his calm demeanor but was instead met with a tall rather macho muscular man who Jinx could only describe as ‘probably a meathead’ behind him was another man who also looked like a meathead but like a meathead who had seen less shit then the first meathead. In her head Jinx decided to call them Meathead 1 and Meathead 2 respectively.
Meathead 1 stood proudly as he gazed down at Jinx “is councilor Kiramman home by any chance?”
“Right here!” came Cassandra's voice as she rushed down the hallway with a look of concern on her face.
Reaching the group Cassandra looked frantically between Jinx and the new arrivals noticing that nothing seemed to be amiss she let out a sigh of relief “sir Crownguard I’m glad to see you accepted our invitation this year i apologize if our reception was a bit lackluster” Cassandra turned her attention to Jinx as she said the next part “and i hope that this one didn’t cause you any problems”
“Hey! I haven’t done anything to these meatheads!” Jinx said, defending herself which caused a chuckle to be heard from somewhere behind the two brutish looking men. Realizing what she had just said Jinx slowly turned her head expecting to see an angry and scornful look on the man's face but was instead surprised to find a small smile creeping its way onto the old man's visage.
Just as it looked like Cassandra was about to apologize again the man raised his hand in a pacifying gesture. “Don’t worry this little one has caused us no issues to speak of councilor”
Cassandra looked sceptically between the two for a few seconds before letting out a sigh of relief and relaxed “well if that’s the case then please feel free to come in and make yourselves at home”
As the strangers made their way inside Jinx caught sight of a third figure hidden behind the other two, a normal looking girl with blonde hair. Well normal when you compare her to the two goliaths in front of her. In hind sight Jinx may have been staring at the blonde girl for a bit longer than she’d liked to admit as they made their way to the living room.
On the way Cassandra had introduced the three strangers to Jinx the first one introduced himself as Pieter Crownguard then he proceeded to introduce his son as Garen Crownguard and lastly his daughter as Luxanna Crownguard.
Once they arrived in the living room Jinx immediately plopped down in the middle of the couch and spread her legs to take and just let herself sink comfortably into the couch before turning her head in Cassandra’s direction to ask her a question “so when’s the old man coming?”
Jinx could almost hear Cassandra grind her teeth out of some mild annoyance before she spoke “he’s not coming today dear” she replied coolly.
Jinx’s relaxed demeanor stiffened considerably at that “why not?!”
Cassandra took her seat on a chair positioned opposite of Jinx “he’s decided to visit on Christmas and as he is allowed only one visit a week by the council it has been agreed upon that for this week it will be on that given day rather than his usual visits”
A flicker of pink flashed through Jinx’s eyes before they fixed onto the council woman glaring “you're on the council couldn’t you just… I don't know do SOMETHING?”
“It’s not that simple Jinx” catching herself before things escalated anymore like past conversations with Jinx are prone to do Cassandra took a calming breath “listen i know how much his visits mean to you. But at the end of the day the council voted to only let him have visitation once a week if you saw him today then you wouldn’t get to see him on Christmas”
Jinx sat up from the couch and mumbled a quiet “yeah whatever” as she strode away her way to her bedroom.
Lux watched carefully as Jinx made her way out of the living room, her mind barely registering Cassandra apologizing to her father for Jinx’s attitude as her body moved to follow Jinx without much thought as if it was the natural thing to do.
As she made her way through the Kiramman halls following Jinx, Lux noticed how Jinx tended to stick to the shadows, how she’d hide even as she made her way through what was essentially her home to Lux the way Jinx moved seemed so fluid like it was as easy as breathing for Jinx. If Lux hadn’t been following her she doubted she would have been able to notice which served as a testament to how skilled Jinx was.
Arriving at what Lux could only assume was Jinx’s room where Jinx headed inside before almost slamming the door in Lux’s face. Standing in front of the door for a second, stunned Lux quickly shook off any nerves and reasoned that if she had gone this far she might as well go a little bit farther.
Opening the door Luxanna immediately locked eyes with Jinx who was in a much more worn down getup than a few minutes ago and was frozen like a deer in headlights with one arm and a leg stuck halfway outside the window.
At the bizarre sight Lux couldn’t help the small chuckle that crept its way out and from her lips “were you trying to sneak out through the window just now?”
“Uhh no” Jinx said as she very slowly reached for something on her belt before throwing a small device at Lux which burst into a cloud of smoke.
Coughing Luxanna quickly made her way to the window catching the briefest glimpse of Jinx’s hair before it disappeared behind a building. Hopping out the window Lux chased after the strange blue haired woman.
After chasing Jinx almost all over Piltover Lux finally managed to catch up to her on the roof of a seemingly random building. Taking a minute to catch her breath Lux was surprised to look up and find Jinx staring right back at her.
“Could you maybe tell me what we’re doing out here?” Lux asked.
“While I'm taking a nice stroll and a breath of fresh air and you’re following me” Jinx hummed before she thought about it again for a second and then nodded to herself “yep that about sums it up. So blondie are you here to take me back or something?”
Lux shook her head “no i just wanted to hang out you know.” adjusting her clothes Lux looked over at Jinx a little embarrassed “it’s just that i don’t really have any friends out here aside from one and from what i hear she’s busy with her new girlfriend”
“So what? You want to go shopping?” Jinx asked smugly not expecting Lux to take seriously.
Clearly Lux didn’t get the memo as she then proceeded to nod aggressively “we can go shopping if that’s what you want to do”
Jinx was going to say that she had better things to do then go shopping with some stuck up rich girl but after seeing just how excited Lux was Jinx decided it might be better to just go along with Lux.
Passing through the market Lux stopped by a stall that was filled to the brim with a bunch of the same green plant. Stopping beside her, Jinx studied the rather useless looking plant with all its stupid looking berries.
“Whatcha looking at their blondie?” Jinx’s eyes flickered curiously between lux and the plants.
“Just looking at these mistletoe’s” Lux responded.
“Is there something special about them or something?” Jinx looked curiously at Lux.
“Well uhh, haven't you ever heard of people kissing under the mistletoe?” Lux questioned Jinx to which Jinx responded by giving Lux a disgusted look and shaking her head no “oh well it’s something that a lot of people like to do to celebrate Christmas i don’t know it’s origin but i believe the tradition goes something like when two people are under the mistletoe they have to kiss”
“Hmm” Jinx thought for a moment before pulling out a coin purse and plopping down a golden cog. “I would like all your plants… please”
The shopkeeper stared at Jinx and Lux in shock before quickly nodding and handing Jinx the cart full of mistletoes.
Lux followed Jinx in silence for a good minute or two before a thought crossed her mind “hey you know you paid like more than ten times what those are worth right?”
Jinx looked back at Lux and flashed her a smug smile “i know besides it’s not my money it’s the Kirammans”
“Right okay and what did you want to do with all the mistletoes?” Lux asked, a little concerned.
“I thought it would be fun if we just went running around hanging up mistletoes everywhere. Just imagine all our unsuspecting victims” Jinx looked over at Lux with a face of pure excitement. “Now onward! Let us cause untold mayhem”
Sneaking their way through Piltover Lux and Jinx ended up hanging a mistletoe under every doorway tree or wherever else some poor unfortunate soul might find themselves they even made their way into some very important government buildings to hang up some. They even put like a hundred in the hextech research department or whatever. But when Lux asked about if it was okay to go into such places Jinx always responded that it was so Lux decided not to dwell on it too much.
Making their way back home Lux was surprised to find they still had over half a cart full of mistletoes remaining “what are we supposed to do with all this?”
Jinx smiled back smugly “don’t worry I’ve got a plan for the rest of this” Jinx patted the cart confidently.
Once they were back at the Kiramman mansion Jinx left Lux to hide the cart.
Heading inside Lux snuck her way back into Jinx’s room without being caught shortly after which Jinx came sneaking through the window. Laughing and giggling they conversed over the evening's escapades after a few hours though they were called down for dinner.
Seated at the table were Lux, Jinx, Cassandra and her husband Tobias Kiramman, Caitlyn, Caitlyn’s girlfriend and Jinx’s sister Vi and of course Lux’s father Pieter and her older brother Garen Crownguard.
“Well you two look like you’re getting along” Cassandra hummed as she took a sip of her tea.
Jinx stabbed whatever meat was on her plate speaking a little before shoving it down “well she’s not as bad as i thought” swallowing she continued “she’s kinda i don’t know fun i guess”
Cassandra looked a bit stunned at those words before nodded along carefully “well I’m glad to hear that your finally making some friends your age Jinx heaven knows it would do you some good”
Turning her attention to Lux Cassandra addressed the young noble woman “Lux did you enjoy your time with Jinx today?”
Smiling brightly Lux let herself reminisce over the day's events and responded excitedly “oh i did i especially enjoyed all the mistletoeing we did!”
At Lux’s words the room grew eerily silent, some present even spitting out some food in shock and a proud “that’s my sis!” sounded from Vi and Caitlyn’s direction. After the tension passed dinner continued on like normal save for the strange glances Lux and Jinx were getting from everyone else for the rest of the night.
Eventually it was time for bed and luckily it seemed Lux and her family were staying over for Christmas unluckily Cassandra said no sleep-overs for whatever reason and when Jinx asked if Lux could sleep over in her room she got a very fast and firm no from just about every adult.
The rest of the week went by pretty fast with Jinx and Lux hanging out all day like they were best friends who had never seen each other in so long that they were making up for lost time while also at the same time being so intune it was eerie regardless that was how it was.
Christmas morning came and when Lux went to leave her room she was surprised to find huge piles of mistletoe scattered throughout the hallway and Jinx kneeling like a kicked puppy surrounded by Caitlyn and Vi.
“What happened here?” Lux asked cautiously.
Caitlyn regarded Lux apologetically “sorry Lux we found Jinx this morning hanging up mistletoe all along this hallway normally this wouldn’t have been a problem”
“But” Vi interrupted “as you can see my sister went a little… overboard when it comes to the mistletoes she hung up” to emphasise her point Vi made a sweeping gesture towards the mounds of mistletoe now littering the hall.
“Right, I see” looking between all three girls Lux’s eyes settled firmly onto Jinx’s “can i talk with Jinx alone?”
Seeing the fire in Lux’s eyes the two girls decided to back away from Jinx, Caitlyn slowly nodded giving Lux permission to take Jinx away.
Grabbing Jinx’s wrist, Lux brought her into her room without saying anything, having Jinx sit on the bed while Lux went around the room searching for something whatever it was Jinx couldn’t tell you.
Anxiously Jinx started tapping her feet and glancing around the room but as time passed Jinx found it harder and harder to sit still and eventually spoke up to fill the silence “are you mad at me?”
Stopping her search Lux stared back at Jinx like she had grown a second head “why would i be mad at you?”
Jinx decided that fiddling with her thumbs suddenly looked very interesting “well it’s just that Caitlyn and Vi were and it just kinda looked like you were”
“Oh I’m sorry if I made you feel that way Jinx… it’s just phew~” Lux made her way over to Jinx with an arm behind her back sitting down beside Jinx on the bed Lux blushed slightly before bringing her other arm from behind her. Dangling from Lux’s arm was a single mistletoe looking shyly between Jinx and the mistletoe Lux asked cautiously “what would you say to this?”
Looking at Lux and the mistletoe Jinx’s eyes lit up and she reached out and pulled Lux straight into a kiss smiling into it Jinx couldn’t help but let out a few giggles which after a few moments led Lux to start giggling into the kiss too.
They probably would have continued for much longer had a series of coughs not come from the now very much open entrance to the bedroom.
“I see you’ve been doing well Jinx” Silco spoke calmly as he studied the situation, his eyes not betraying the contempt he held towards Lux “and to which Piltoven house does this one belong to?”
Still reeling from the kiss Lux shot back without much thought “oh I’m not from Piltover I’m a Crownguard from Demacia”
At those words Silco’s eyes lit up like he had been told the best news ever “oh that’s so good to hear for a moment there i thought these Piltovens had managed to seduce my daughter like they had done to her sister. I’m so glad she’s taken an interest in someone who isn’t among our past oppressors”
“Um right okay well I’m glad everything's okay” Lux looked hesitantly over at Jinx.
“Yeah me too” Jinx nodded back at Lux.
After sharing a glance Lux, Jinx and Silco made their way over to the tree to celebrate Christmas.
Entering the room last was Cassaandra who looked utterly exhausted “did you hear apparently some ruffian has been making the rounds stringing mistletoe every which way for the past few days the council had to make an official announcement to clarify that we are not as of this moment haunted by Christmas ghosts”
Jinx laughed a little bit before letting her head rest comfortably on Lux’s shoulder “merry Christmas starlight”
Looking down at Jinx, Lux proceeded to place a kiss on the top of Jinx’s head “merry christmas my little bluebell”