the season to be jolly

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All supernatural excitement aside, it's almost Christmas!

Soph shows up on Tony's doorstep with a bag of gingerbread house ingredients and a big smile. "Hi Jarvis! Where's Tony?" she asks.

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Soph lays the gum quilt on the bed. "All made nice and neat."

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"D'awww."

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She likes the bubblegum weaving effect and repeats it to make a little rug.

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"You are the best at gingerbread interior decorating," Tony declares.

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"I should major in it."

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"Totally."

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"And then I can have my work showcased in glossy gingerbread decorating magazines."

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"Tastiest career ever."

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"Definitely. Just don't tell anyone that I burnt the gingerbread I made this morning. The gingerbread tabloids will have a field day and my reputation will be ruined."

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"Not a peep," he promises.

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"Of course, now you have blackmail on me and I will have to do all your gingerbread decorating for free to make sure you don't decide to squeal on me. So I guess we do this again next year," she hums merrily.

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"Yep. I'm ruthless," Tony agrees. "Think we can stick the second-floor walls on?"

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"Yeah, go ahead," she says, adjusting the rug's angle slightly relative to the gingerbed. She starts trimming the downstairs windows.

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On they go! He spends a triangle to make the icing dry when he's sure it's all stuck on right.

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"How many floors d'you suppose Gingerbread Jarvis should have?" Soph asks, starting another batch of candy cameras for the second floor.

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"Good question. Three might be pushing it. Wouldn't want him to collapse under his own weight."

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"Yeah, that'd be bad. So I guess the roof is next. And a chimney, let's give him a chimney."

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"Got it!"

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"And a skylight."

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"Sure."

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"Oh, hey, how about an actual attic? Not a whole floor, just, under the roof there can be more candy things." Soph starts making more candy things.

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"It's a deal."

He makes a gingerbread attic floor to stick on top of the second floor, then starts building a peaked roof to go on top of that.

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Soph crafts and places candy junk in the attic. And empties a Pixie Stik into it to represent dust.

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Tony blinks at the pixie dust.

Tony giggles.

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"The gingerbread people are very negligent of their attic," explains Soph loftily.