Christmas Picfic Tuesday Prompt #2 for December 16th

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Here's the second theme and prompt of three for our Christmas Picfic. It's posting a little late due to problems with Live Journal. You can write a single stand alone fic with each theme/prompt or you can do a WIP with each part relating to the other and the 3 prompts/themes of course. It’s your choice.

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Second Theme and Prompt:

2. Ask and it shall be given.
                                                                                                       
                                                       

"Seek and you will find"~ for the Holiday PicFic Challenge 12/9

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It had started to snow again, making driving conditions treacherous on the already icy and slick road.  Solo and Kuryakin were returning from a failed mission, during which the life of an innocent had been lost.

Such a thing always weighed heavily on both men, but more so with the Russian.  It seemed at times to Solo that Illya felt personally responsible for every life, as if it were his fault the innocent was killed.

For once this was the case and made it worse and for that reason. Illya, looking pale, sat behind the steering wheel in their car, dour-faced and silent.

There was no use trying to reason with him, but in spite of that Napoleon still tried. He was convinced he could make Illya feel better.

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A Frozen Memory - Holiday PicFic Challenge - Dec 9th

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Illya Kuryakin stared at the pile of envelopes in the middle of his desk. Every year, he received dozens of Christmas cards, yet he’d never sent one himself. It wasn’t that he didn’t enjoy Christmas, he just didn’t see the point in giving a card to someone he saw every day. However, he always thanked each sender in person, because he was actually glad to be included. When he’d first arrived, they simply saw him as the godless communist who didn’t celebrate Christmas. Admittedly, that was true, but he soon started celebrating his own version. He may not be religious, but the idea of embracing family, friends, happiness and health were universal.

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