Christmassy Drabble Tree

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Sorry if this is a little early, but we've had these in the past and I thought it might be fun.  The way it works, for anyone new to it, is one person posts a drabble (about 100 words; it doesn't have to be exact) and the next person takes a line from that and uses it in their own drabble.

(I've used a prompt I gave Kahvi elsewhere, but I'm sure her interpretation will be different from mine.)

"It's ruined!  Ruined!"  Rimmer pointed a long, dramatic finger at the rainbow hued chart, which was divided neatly into squares adorned with painstaking copperplate handwriting.

Lister raised an eyebrow as he wafted the stench of charred pudding away from his nose.  "Yeah, man.  The fact that I messed up your fancy table is really the important thing here."

"The pudding was supposed to be eaten by 3pm so we could spend the next hour relaxing, followed by "It's A Wonderful Life" in the cinema at four, then dinner at seven thirty..."

His despairing tirade was cut short as a pair of whisky-moistened lips landed on his own.