Once Holly left the room to tend to other patients and her daily things she does being a doctor, I ordered the food to where it would be delivered for tonight around the time that Holly would be clocking out.

With the food order put in, I move over to the large bag Tony brought in early this morning when Nicolas was still asleep. I open it and inside are all the packages that was delivered to my house and Tony picked up then had wrapped for me.

Grabbing the first few out, I place them on the counter around the small tree that is here. Nicolas's eyes go wide and he looks over at them with the largest smile ever.

"I didn't think I would have any gifts being here." He smiles.

"Of course you will buddy." I laugh.

I leave the two on it that doesn't have any writing on them with a different paper in the bag and slide it behind the couch to where Nicolas can't see them. Those are the small Santa gifts that he has for in the morning.

"Is the pink paper one for Holly?" Nicolas looks at the counter.

"Yes it is buddy. That is the one we got her together."

"You need to hide it because Holly will know it is not mine with it having a pink paper." Nicolas laughs.

"You're right there." I laugh with him and place it underneath two of his to where you can't see the paper.

The other item we got her Tony put it with the paper as if it is Nicolas's which is easy to hide with the three others that are his.

I move to sit on the bed with the gifts on the counter.

"Buddy, could we talk for a minute?"

Nicolas nods and places the legos he is messing with to the side.

"How would you feel if I was to date Holly after we get out of here?"

Nicolas's face lights up. "I would like that Daddy!"

"I didn't want to do anything until I knew how you may feel about it first. Because it is you and I, buddy." I smile and tickle his sides some.

"Holly is so nice and I like her alot."

"So do I buddy." I sigh some.

I feel like this was super easy asking him. I thought he may say more and he looked like he wanted too but doesn't. There is a large part of me that wants to ask him if there is anything else on his thoughts of it, but I want him to tell me on his own and not be forced to share every single thing.

Nicolas asks for paper and pencil to write up a list to Santa. I can't wait until he has me place it on the counter by the tree and he is asleep tonight to where I can read it and trade it for the gifts.

The day goes by painfully slow and the food arrives just a few minutes after the time for Holly to have clocked out. She has not arrived yet and I wonder if she had something come up with a patient to where she is a little later.

The door slowly opens and Holly walks in but has changed out of her scrubs. She now wears jeans and a blue blouse that hugs those sexy curves. In her hand is a bag like one would take to the beach that you can't see through.

"I had to run and get these out of my car." Holly smiles.

"What is that?" Nicolas asks watching her walk to the counter.

Holly smiles and pulls out a package wrapped up. "Gifts."

I get the food placed out on the tray that rolls and bring it over to the bed, as Holly puts the gifts by the tree. My eyes bug out of the small packages.

"That is quite a bit." I laugh.

"I couldn't choose and found so many goodies." Holly laughs.

"Who is all that for?" Nicolas smiles.

"Well we will just have to see won't we." Holly laughs and gives him another hug and sits on the bed beside him.

I sit at the end of the bed to where I face Nicolas and Holly both. Nicolas flips the lights on and we all smile slowly eating on the pasta that was in front of us.

"Can we just open the presents now?" Nicolas smile widely at Holly and me.

"Isn't that supposed to wait until in the morning?" Holly laughs.

"I agree with Holly." I chime in.

"That is no fun though and it is so hard to wait." Nicolas giggles.

"You, buddy, will be up all night if we open them now." I shake my head, laughing.

"I could let you have just one." Holly gets up from the bed.

Nicolas claps and smiles widely. She goes over and picks up one of the small packages from the ones she brought. Holly hands him the package and he wastes no time tearing through the paper.

Nicolas lets out a small squeal. "It is a lunch box!"

I see that it is his favorite Scooby-Doo.

Cleaning up the paper Holly gives him another hug. I put in the movie that he wanted to watch tonight. I move the tray and Holly throws all the plates away from dinner before joining Nicolas on the bed.

He is fast asleep before we get half way through the movie. Getting out of the chair, Holly watches me get the two items from behind the couch.

I carefully pick up the paper and put the gifts down to where they don't make any noise. That is the hardest part to it all because it is the one night a year he will sleep so light the least little sound will wake him.

Opening the paper I read over what he has on his list to Santa. My eyes blur over immediately and I can't even finish reading it as my tears start to flow. I take a deep breath and slowly release it, turing to look at Holly.

"Could you lay him down and step over here?" I ask her lightly.

Holly does it easily and looks at me skeptical. I am normally one to hide my tears but this is just to much and I won't hide it from Holly.

I pull her into my arms and kiss her once she is close enough. This kiss holds so many emotions that has been brought out even harder for her.

"You really need to read this Holly." I give her a soft smile, handing her the paper.

A/N---

Hey Hey Guys!!!

Did they have a good Christmas Eve so far?

What do you think Nicolas wrote to his letter to Santa that has Jack so emotional?