Snow landed quietly outside the walls of the base, it wasn't a particularly special occurrence, it was Alaska after all. But the holiday cheer that had been brought on made the entire ordeal hard to make for, Liquid had begrudgingly allowed some soldiers to put up decorations that they'd found so now you and Mantis sat on the couch in the break room on Christmas Eve. You both were recovering pay to stay here despite the holiday and you'd both jumped on the opportunity for the extra cash, him because he had no one waiting for him at home that would miss him during the holiday and you for presumably a similar reason.

Eventually he turned to you and huffed a few breaths through his gas mask before enunciating clearly but with a slightly sheepish tone as of worried you'd either laugh at or deny him: "Do you want to go see if we can try and make some sugar cookies to decorate or something? It's a bit too late to try for gingerbread."