Winter Bingo 2011/2012, Card One

[butterflyboy]

That time of year again!

lines	spoon	casanova	dreaming of a white Christmas	glowing
icy roads	tango	slippery	drummer	toast
by the fire	drunk	Author's Choice: mirror	hay	commercial
young	ghost of Christmas past	hooks	melt	ice princess
feast	Northern Lights	commitment	aunt	cozy

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young: Pretty Girls Make Me Nervous

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Time Period: Post-"Secundus 2"
Notes: I just wanted to do a silly piece about Victor and his oldest. The title's taken from a Prozzak song, "Pretty Girls," that I've always found amusing and quite Victorish. (I'd link you to an excellent Corpse Bride fanvid, but the creator made it private. :( ) I thought it fit.

Victor had decided long ago that Chester was his mother’s child. Sure, he had inherited practically all of his looks from Victor, but in personality, he was pure Alice. He was confident, brave, oftentimes a bit sarcastic, and sometimes a bit tactless. Everything about him seemed to be the opposite of what Victor had been like at his age.
Which is why Victor couldn’t understand why Alice insisted Chester was more like him than he thought. He’d seen his oldest child in action many times – Chester was a Liddell through and through in everything but looks. When you wanted someone who acted like a Van Dort, you went to Vincent. What was Alice seeing that he wasn’t?
And then, one day, Victor happened to be around when Allison Laidlaw came by for a friendly visit. Which meant he was around to see how his eldest reacted. Chester had spent most of the call either paler or pinker than usual, stammering over his words, and bumping into things whenever he moved, nearly breaking a vase.
Oh – that’s what Alice had meant when she’d said Chester really was a young Victor.