Seven deadly sins one-shots

Simstaf & Ban x Jericho

This is from a Christmas book so shush

Simon watches the fireplace as the fire licks the bricks

"Simon are you gonna help?" Gustaf calls as he, Jericho and Ban drag boxes from the closet. Simon smiles and stands up, grabbing one of the boxes

Once all the boxes are out in the living room, the four knights start opening them, Ban pulls out the tree stand and starts putting up the tree with Gustaf

Jericho finds a long string of garland
"Hey Simon"
"Hm?"
"Can I wrap this around you?"
"What? Why?" He stands from the box he was by
"Because I want to see if this is long enough to cover you"
"Because I'm small"
"Maybe" the room bursts into laughter
"Your just-"
"Fun sized?" Simon finished the sentence for his boyfriend which earned a laugh from the other couple
"Okay Jericho, I'll give you five minutes and then we need to keep decorating"
"Sweet! Take this" she holds out the end of the garland, which Simon takes and Jericho starts running in circles around him
After five minutes, Simon is thoroughly Christmas-fied and all four of them are losing their shit laughing
"Wait, wait"
Ban runs to a box and digs out some ornaments
"No" Gustaf say laughing
Ban hangs the ornaments on the garland and Simon T-poses
"I have reached my final form!" All four of them burst out laughing even harder, Gustaf legitimately falls over and Simon has to lean on a wall.

Twenty minutes later, everyone has finally regained their composure, ban and Jericho are hanging ornaments on the tree and Gustaf is helping Simon get the last of the garland off
"Let's put this up" Gustaf smiles And Simons cheeks go a light crimson
"Mhm"

meanwhile, with Ban and Jericho
"wow"
"hm?" Jericho looked at her boyfriend from across the tree
"I've just-" he pauses "I've never had a proper Christmas" Jericho tilts her head "I've either not had a family to celebrate with or never had enough money or never had enough time or energy" he hangs an ornament "this is nice" Jericho smiles a bit, looking back to the tree
"I haven't properly celebrated since I was really young" she reaches for another ornament "first gustafs holy knight training got in the way, but then my dad died and Gustaf was under too much stress to even pretend to be able, then my holy knight training got in the way, then  mom got sick and it was just a mess" she reaches for another box of ornaments
"wow" Ban is looking at her confused
"hm?"
"how come you never told me about this?" he turns back to the tree
"never came up in conversation I guess"

"speaking of, when did you and Gustaf start holy knight training? I don't think you've ever told me about when he wasn't"
"well he started training the day after his fifteenth birthday, so I was twelve, he was in training for about year and a half before he became an apprentice holy knight, and he was an apprentice for a year and a half, crystal for a year, emerald for about a year and now he's ruby"
"what about you?"
"I started training the week after I turned fifteen but I struggled with training and was in training for about two years, after that I was an apprentice holy knight and we know where that went"

Jericho hung up the last ornament and Gustaf finished putting up the garland while Simon was putting out statuettes and candles. The group put up stockings and finally collapsed in the center to the room
"That was exhausting" Ban groaned followed by mutters of agreement from the other three
"It was nice though" Simon looked up smiling
"Yeah" Jericho Sat up and rolled her neck
"I'll go get us some water" Gustaf lifted himself up off the ground and walked to the kitchen. Ban sat up too as Simon rolled to his back, his hair pooling around him. A few seconds later Gustaf walks back with four glasses of water, handing one to each person, He sat down and they started talking, about anything and everything, one conversation flowing to another to another, Laughter rang across the yard, filling the house as the fire roared in the harth and the Christmas tree sparkled as snow started falling on the lawn, clinging to the grass and hitting the windows, its Christmas time, and the house finally feels like home...