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Hey, this is D-D-Della Duck, but oh no, I'm not here! Drop me a line and I'll get back to you ASAP! Della out!

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[ She laughs as well, happily taking the next basket. ]

I bet Atom will love these too! Now the entire household can be full of merriment and full stomachs!

[ She giggles. ] That's the idea! Wouldn't be much of Christmas if not everyone got some treats, right?

Darn right! This is a Christmas for everyone, with gifts, hugs, and no more traps!

[ ...um-? ]

[ ...yeah no, she has to ask. ]

Traps?

Oh, I used to set traps to try and capture Santa Claus since I thought he betrayed my uncle. But we're all good now!

[ ducktales. woo-oo. ]

...should I even ask?

The short version is, my uncle led me to believe Santa Claus was a bad guy, but it was actually just my uncle being a jerk.

[ Okay yeah, she has to know. ] What's the longer version?

For that, we might wanna enjoy these treats with some cocoa and chairs. Come on in and make yourself comfortable!

[ She considers that for a moment, because she does have other gifts that she still needs to drop off, and she hadn't planned on staying too long.

...but she's just soooooooo curious.

So eventually she steps inside, placing her bag somewhere she can easily pick up later as she follows Della. ]

[ Della leads her to the kitchen, and begins shuffling around to grab some mugs, cocoa powder, milk, pot, kettle, etc... ]

Okay, so, first, the backstory. My uncle has always aimed to be the richest duck in the world, ever since he was a duckling. To that end, he's traveled all over the world and taken every odd job available. Also, pretty sure he's either immortal or a time traveler, but, whatever.

[ Cause that's normal! ]

[ Considering Amy's own group of friends, that is pretty normal, so she just nods as if that makes the most sense in the world. ]

Okay.

[ Ingredients in pot, heat on! ]

So a super long time ago, way out at the North Pole, Uncle Scrooge was selling coal door to door. Unfortunately, he was kind of being a giant jerk about it - since it's super cold there, he knew he could jack up the prices to way more than was necessary. But he was a one-man operation at the time, so he was having trouble making deliveries.

That's when my uncle met the big man himself... Santa Claus.

[ Given Della's earlier remarks, the last one isn't too surprising. But Amy is still intrigued as she nods. ]

Did he try to sell coal to Santa too?

[ Stirring, stirring, stirring... ]

Not exactly. Scrooge was grousing about how he needed to make a bunch of deliveries, while he was staying with a bunch of elves. Santa overheard, and decided to "help" Scrooge out by promising to deliver coal all over the world in a single night... together.

Now, of course, that's pretty difficult - but as it turns out, magic's involved. They worked together to find the legendary Feliz Navidiamond - a magical stone that stops time!

[ Amy tilts her head curiously. ] Feliz Navidiamond? That's a pretty convenient name. It was really always called that?

You bet! And it was guarded by flying reindeer, which Santa begged Scrooge to keep, and they had to fight off a giant killer snowman. With adventures like that, the two became really close buddies! Best friends! And they were sooo close to doing the whole "Everyone Gets Goodies One Night A Year" deal together...

[ She nods in understanding. Given her own experience, she could definitely get two people growing closer over adventures like that. ]

So what happened?

[ A big sigh. Della begins to slowly pour the cocoa into their respective mugs. ]

... Scrooge wanted to charge people for the gifts. Santa wanted to do it for free. Scrooge said Santa could either choose their friendship, or making Christmas free. Doesn't take a genius to see what he did.

And that was that - Scrooge stormed away and declared from then on, Santa Claus was his enemy for life.

[ Amy takes her mug, but mostly just to hold between her hands while the cocoa cools a bit. ]

Oh no...that's so sad.

[ Della takes the seat across from her. ]

And since then, Scrooge hasn't allowed Santa Claus to ever come to his house, and convinced us he was an evil dude. I mean, I sure bought it - for a couple of years I tried to capture the jolly old giant for him!

... But then this year, the truth finally came out. Santa came to the mansion and asked help in delivering presents, because he was injured and couldn't do it himself. Scrooge only agreed so long as Santa left him alone forever... but as it turns out, Santa was totally faking the injury. He just wanted Scrooge to discover the joys of Christmas and giving!

[ She finally takes a sip of the cocoa, thinking over Della's words. ]

So they made up then? Everything's okay between them?

Well... Scrooge swapped out the gifts with coal, and had to be pretty much smacked in the face with the fact nobody wants coal and would think they were being punished, so they had to do the trip all over again, but this time me and the fam helped out...

But yeah! Now they're cool.

[ She takes a sip of her cocoa, letting the story sit for a moment. ]

I'm glad they were able to work things out.

Me too! It turned out to be one of the best Christmases ever! And I'm so glad my uncle could realize he was wrong...

[ Siiiiip. ]

... 'Cause if Christmas morning I found out he'd given my babies coal, I would have done VERY BAD THINGS to him.

[ Never mess with her boys. NEVER. ]

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