A Sound of Bells

by Ride_Forever

Summary:

Renfield Turnbull is in a festive holiday mood...and so is Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the 13th Canadian Prime Minister).

Notes:

• For SLWalker, kalijean.

TYK to my fanpair -- verushka70 -- for cheerleading. *\0/*

Gifted to SLWalker and kalijean who have always inspired me for all things Turnbull.

Written for the Event Central Western Title Challenge with the title "A Sound of Bells" and for the RCW 139 Ficlets Collection (139 words with the first paragraph starting with "R" and the second paragraph starting with "C" and the third paragraph starting with "W") and for the dSC6D snippets comm on Dreamwidth (challenge 21 with the prompt words "border," "vacuum," "hum," and "liquid").

 

On YouTube: Turnbull singing a short bit of "Santa Drives a Pickup".

 

On YouTube: Paul Gross and David Keeley singing the full-length "Santa Drives a Pickup".

Renfield Turnbull wiped some spilled liquid off the kitchen counter and then vacuumed the room from border to border after baking Christmas cookies in the Canadian Consulate’s kitchen. Diefenbaker gave Turnbull his “hungry like the wolf” look and added a hopeful wag.

Church-bells nearby sounded the hour and Renfield began to hum “Christmas Bells are Ringing.” After humming a few bars, he burst into song: “Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong! Christmas bells are ringing!”

Waiting for the cookies to cool, he segued into one of his favorite Christmas songs: “Santa Drives a Pickup”. Recalling a previous Christmas-time of singing it at the Consulate, he did a few dance steps around the kitchen while singing “Oh Santa drives a pickup, the reindeers ride in back, look out for that fat man, he’ll be comin’ down your stack.” Dief snagged a cookie.