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Fortunately for everyone's sakes, particularly Gabby's, things had reached a point where the other ladies wouldn't abuse the situation. Charlene and Stella had been able to build up a decent, if still fairly complicated and exploratory, friendship, with the latter becoming more of a consistent presence at Omega house. Besides, whatever other feelings that Charlene had about Gabby staying with her consistently above all she was determined to give her little fox kit the best Christmas of his life. Truthfully, Christmas had always been a "touchy" subject for her and Gabby, a combination of both of them having families who were quite stringent about the importance of certain aspects and also never getting things they actually wanted, or needed for that matter. In any case, now that both of them were free of that Momma Fox, with her sisters as support, was on a mission to give her kit an amazing holiday and it had given her a bit more of a maternal outlook than usual.
As for Bethany, she was fairly concentrated on her new arrangement with Trace, and with the semester ending she had a great deal of work to do as well. She certainly intended to get some holiday fun of her own with her poppet, well except for....that other holiday. None of the other mommies knew this yet, but Bethany Price never celebrates New Years...for....reasons.
In any case, everyone agreed and not long after Stella and Gabby are standing in Charlene's room. The three of them, with a little help from her sisters, had just finished bringing a good chunk of Gabriel's stuff into her room. Now Charlene is seated on the bed watching the predictabley long goodbye.
"(kiss, kiss) Oh mama's gonna miss you so much, sugarplum (kiss, kiss)," Stella coos as she says her goodbye while simultaneously covering Gabby's face with kisses. "You're gonna be a good little boy for your other mommies aren't you (kiss)?"
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