Upstaged by Alpaca

Fandom: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Category: gen

Rating: G

Word Count: 99

Notes: Written for the LiveJournal group MFUWSS December 2009 Challenge #5 – “mittens”

 

Usually I am Santa to the girls at HQ… but not this year.

Instead of a heavenly cloud of special perfume, every girl was wearing — in addition to their pert white shirts, pencil-skirts and hip-holster — a riotously colored pair of mittens.

I corner Wanda. “New dress code, or did Uncle Alex Scrooge turn down the heat again?”

Wanda smiles. “Oh, Napoleon… a girl likes to have her hands warmed this time of year.”

I recognize that smile. Where is Illya?

“Just her hands?” I ask, knowingly.

She blushes!

That does it. Next year, I’m buying them all woolen underwear!