And so it begins. Wednesdays and Fridays all month. Enjoy!
PS. I know it’s Jay’s birthday but I am sorry to say I just didn’t have time to get a separate fic written, my apologies. Looks like Over Time will be finished in early August, anyway. Happy Birthday Jay!
“This is the first day.”
Jim did not look up from his PADD when Vanik spoke. Jim was sitting in the office area of the apartment he shared with Spock studying for a really important test. He vaguely wondered how Vanik got there. He hadn’t let him in and Spock wasn’t there. He did not need to deal with the pest just then.
“First day of what?” he asked absently.
“Christmas in July.”
Now Jim did look up. “Excuse me?”
“It’s July the first.”
“Right. Uh. Vanik. Wait, how’d you get in?” He shook his head. “Never mind. I don’t want to know. Because then I will be forced to tell Spock.”
“When do the celebrations begin?”
“Celebrations? Look. That’s not really how it works. It’s not really until July the twenty-fourth or so. You know around the real time for Christmas and Christmas Eve five months later. It’s just sort of a wow, it’s only five months until Christmas thing. It’s now less than half a year. It began in a summer camp in 1933. They had fake snow and trees and Santa even.”
Vanik nodded. “Correct. But over the many years since others have expanded on the time to celebrate ‘Christmas in July’. I would like us to be one of them. If you will recall we did something last year.”
“Did we? Well, even if we did, Vanik, I just don’t have time right now. Maybe later in the month, but I have this big test.”
“I am certain you will ace it as usual, Jim.”
“Right. But you know it’s a little hot to be dashing through the snow anyway.”
“Actually, that song originated as a Thanksgiving song.”
Jim rolled his eyes and went back to reading on his PADD. He hoped that would clue Vanik in that he needed to leave.
“Did you know that?”
“Not only is the answer no, I also don’t care.”
“I brought a Santa, a reindeer and a jingle bell.”
Jim looked up at him again. “You what?”
“Cookie cutters. I thought a pleasurable way to begin the month of Christmas in July was for us to engage in Christmas cookie making.”
Jim blinked at the boy, then sighed. He knew defeat when he saw it. So much for not believing in no-win scenarios.
“Tell you what. You go into the living room and sit quietly on the couch for a whole hour and let me study in peace for that time. And when that hour has passed, we’ll make those cookies. Deal?”
Vanik nodded enthusiastically. “Deal.”
Jim looked at him with skepticism. “You think you can be quiet for that long?”
“It will be a challenge but I am up for it. Especially if it means making Christmas cookies with you.”
Jim smiled, patted the boy’s bowl cut, and shooed him away.
It would take a miracle for him to pass this test at this rate.
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10 responses to “Christmas in July Flash, July 01, 2022”
Vanik!
Awesome choice to kick things off with the precocious and incorrigible kid. I’ve always adored him and his interactions with Jim especially. He brings a smile to my face.
Loved this! Fantastic.
And happy birthday to Jay!
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I like him with Jim especially too but I am a bit biased toward Jim LOL
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a Vanik story is a great present lol 🙂
Cannot wait for more!!
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thanks hope you had a great birthday
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Awww – Happiest Birthday Jay!! ✨ 🎂🎁🎈🍾❤️💚 ✨
I love the reindeer cookie best! Mine would all look like the gingerbread man with the deformed foot.
“He knew defeat when he saw it. So much for not believing in no-win scenarios.” – I giggled out loud at that line!
I always enjoy Vanik soooooooooooo much. He can come on over here and I’ll bake deformed foot cookies with him any time!
I find myself thinking of him as real sometimes! LOL Silly me. But then, in my head, they’re all real, in San Francisco through the time machine. (Just not the Vulcan destroyed part. Or even Romulus destroyed by the nova part.)
And they’re all happy. In the world of my mind.
And Vanik is the happiest!
Yay for doing this for us in spite of overtime. (I admit, at the very top when you said ‘Over Time’ would be finished by August, I started thinking…but I don’t remember a fic named Over Time – is that one Jay requested? I know, I know. I hadn’t had coffee yet. I’m old, that’s about all you can expect outa me first thing every morning. Literally took me at least 3 minutes till it hit me, duh! And I got coffee then.)
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Vanik has proven to be a very popular original character for me, even more so than the original little boy I wrote for them that became their adopted son from early fics. I love to write him with Jim in particular though I am not sure why! The little twisted foot is cute
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Perhaps because Jim met Vanik before he met Spock? And their interactions were first and so darling and different from Spock’s with Vanik.
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I’m guessing that’s definitely a huge part of it
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J, I thought the same thing! Lol!! I thinks it’s because of the capitalization of the two words! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I thought it was a title snd I was hmmmm?? which story is that? Lol! Never mind me LOL!
🎉Happy Birthday Jay! 🥳🎂🎉
Love little “nothing can stop him, not even locked doors” Vanik! …My phone knows to write the name Vanik as soon as I type Va. lol!
Making Christmas cookies together sounds awesome. Now I want sugar cookies! I’m sure Jim will ace the test! Doesn’t he always?!
Will Vanik return during Christmas in July ? He always makes me smile.
Hope you enjoy your weekend and the 4th of July!
❤️💚😘🖖
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I think this is Vanik’s one appearance for Christmas in July
He could possibly appear in December for Christmas
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