Felix had been still up shuffling through papers. Harrow had fallen asleep early that day with his own lesson plans still in his hand. Felix of course helped his husband into bed before returning to his work. That was when an owl tapped at the window and a letter was delivered to him. With a curious cock of his brow he opened it.

A small chuckle when he read what was to be his code name. Of course he instantly knew who the letter came from because of the simple fact that he had a code name. It was a silly one and he would never escape those weird, silly, gummy candies. Felix read down the letter and could feel a childish grin spread. It was about time something like this was going to happen.

Felix was almost too excited to go to bed but this was something he would need rest for. Sure it took almost an hour of just laying in the bed just listening to the sounds of his sleeping husband and the various animals before he finally drifted to sleep, but that didn’t stop him from hoping right out of bed in the morning to get prepared for whatever he was going to walk into. Felix had spoken with Scott on several occasions about orcistrating demonstrations, of sorts, but this or that would always put a wrench in such a thing. Finally and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

There was still a good amount of wedding planning to go. Running off to Vegas had helped relieve the stress that had him almost ripping out his hair before, but now he was just buzzing with the fact that he was actually married. It didn’t help that he couldn’t really tell anybody. So recently he had felt like he was going to pop with all this secret keeping. A nice bit of mischief would no doubt take the edge off.

With Harrow working on his second cup of coffee and struggling to get completely awake so that he could also head to work Felix kissed him and quickly explained that he had to help their fellow Professor Hartley out before classes got going. Felix was out the door as fast as he could help it and walking quickly through the snow. He had made it a couple of minutes for the time of six o’clock and he was not disappointed a bit by what his friend had already managed to get set.

Felix peeked around one of the snowmen “Sco….I mean Black Hawk,” He called out remembering their code names. He was only a little disappointed that he didn’t get to help create the army that was crowding the courtyard. Still he could feel the excitement bubble up from his toes.

The last thing that he was thinking about was Ian shutting down their reenactment. It was all for the sake of knowledge of course! There should be absolutely no reason to end something that was so clearly educational. He was overlooking all the work that had been done with his mouth agape when Scott landed next to him almost causing Felix to jump out of his skin.

“SCOTT! …ahem… HAWK,” he would never remember to call his collogue by the code name. On a regular day names were terrible for him let alone spur of the moment code names. “This is all magnificent!” He proclaimed throwing his arms out. “I’m more than impressed though a little sore that you didn’t wait for me to start it.”

“I wouldn’t have minded in the slightest.” Felix was often an early bird, though he wasn’t sure how his husband would have been the happiest that Felix would be fleeing their house for a snow ball fight. Though by now Harrow should understand that a snow fight was very hard for Felix to ever say no to. And this, well this was just playing to his love of snow and his love of history. There was no way he would miss this grand of an event for anything.

He laugh more when Scott commented on the weather. “I really should give you a taste of my home town if you think this is nippy.” He walked with the other trying his best to take everything in. He wanted to study all the work Scott had done. “This is going to be the greatest thing the school has ever seen.” Felix’s eyes went wide with excitement when the catapult was pointed at. “It will go down in history itself. “ At least hopefully in the walls of Salem at least.

Felix lit up with the news of the time. It didn’t occur when he arrived, he was just so in awe of everything that was already set to launch. That song. He only knew it because of Harrow. The same reason he knew every word of the Reindeer song from the same film. Felix had yet to actually see the thing. One day, maybe.

“I thought you would never ask,” Felix said with a grin, his own ideas of what to add shooting off in his brain. Felix took the hat from Scott and placed it on his head bounding off to a corner that could clearly use a second watch tower along with another catapult or two.


[notes: just gonna tack this here at the end again. Perma open for Salem students and proffs to join the madness <333 ]