Holiday Slash Ficlet: Christmas Tree/Menorah

[amanuensis1]

Cross-posted to anthropomor_fic



Christmas Tree/Menorah.

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Christmas Tree longs for Menorah, but knows it will never work.

Tree loves Menorah's sleek elegance, the simple beauty of nine yellow flames. Nothing tacky or overdone, even when the children insist on using a different color candle for every holder.

Christmas Tree, on the other hand, is subject to so many indignities. Multicolored lights, multicolored lights that blink, multicolored lights that chase. The assortment of ornaments that becomes more and more mismatched with every new media event: Snoopy, Disney Princesses, Harry Potter. The popcorn strings that are becoming so ragged, but are never discarded because the children of the previous generation made them. And most insulting of all, the year the tasteful silver star at the top was replaced by a stuffed green Grinch (in Santy Claus hat and coat, oh, yes, indeed).

Tree feels like a painted, aging whore.

While Menorah's age only enhances the attraction. The rich layering of wax drops, that refined translucent strata. A mosaic.

It is the last day of the Festival of Lights. Menorah will go back into storage soon. Either Tree says something now, or the opportunity is lost for yet another year.

Tree concentrates. Menorah is so clever, so rooted in somber history; surely Menorah knows Morse code? Tree concentrates as hard as possible, and soon the pattern of Tree's blinking lights have changed: Short short. Short long short short. Long long long...

Has Menorah seen it? The I love you, all but shrieked across the distance?

Is it Tree's imagination, or...has Menorah's shamos grown...a little straighter, a little...taller?

There's a reason the household tries to keep open flame away from Christmas Tree.

Some things just need protection.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Hee! *applause!*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly!

[norah.livejournal.com]

*adores you*

brilliant, truly.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, thank you!

[brevisse.livejournal.com]

That was... Strangely sexy, oddly touching, and terribly funny. Well done!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

All those things? Wowza! Thank you! ^_^

[laylah.livejournal.com]

Oh, so cute! Poor Tree!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Tree is so forlorn. *hugs tree*

[lagoonlady.livejournal.com]

You are an amazing writer. Amazing.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*hugs you hard*

[aretina.livejournal.com]

Looked at LJ cut.

Thought no way.

Clicked anyway. Read.

Wow. How true.

Can't believe I just said "how true" to a story about an anthroporphised tree and a sacred object....

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*capers about, giggling madly*

[surexit.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you did that.

I don't believe I enjoyed it.

*worships*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

A whole big day of disbelief, yay! *snuggles*

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a new OTP. *applause*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*giggles and hugs you!*

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

At first I was like 'Eh?' but now I'm like 'Yeah!'

Who would have ever thought!? And The Grinch and HP decorations! *squees*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I so very much had to get the HP reference in there! ^_^

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

Menorah is the MAN. And the ending is strangely beautiful, mostly because I wanted their love so much I didn't even think...flame...tree..not good. Wah. Their love is nevermeanttobe!

*sucks on a candy cane*

by the way? YOU ARE CRAZY. (I love you!)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I see them ending happily...in a blaze of glory, maybe, but happily! Mmmwah.

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

*Giggles*
Is THAT why I had the Talking Heads playing in my dreams all last night?
I blame you.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Talking Heads? Which song?

("Girlfriend Is Better"? "Psychokiller"? Nah. Which?)

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Burning Down the House!
*You couldn't NOT have thought of that!*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I swear, I did not! Thought of six TH songs but NOT that one! *giggles*

[ex-milkthist86.livejournal.com]

I suspected after the Finding Nemo slash, but now it is certain. You have the ability to slash anything and make it good. A very useful talent, that ;)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, you dear. The fandom has done it to me--slash is just everywhere, man!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hee! A resounding Happy Merry to you, from the bottom of my mixed-marriage heart.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, goody! You know what it's like too! That is so my christmas tree and that is so my menorah. (Well, I never put the Grinch on the top. He's just hanging around underneath.)

[justinetre.livejournal.com]

Only you could pull this off

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*grins* You're such a mensch.

[justinetre.livejournal.com]

mensch?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Yiddish for really great person!

[justinetre.livejournal.com]

YAY!! High five!