"I mean, you don't need mistletoe for that but 'tis the season." He grins at the thought of how totally gross they're going to be once he's out of this cast, how he won't be able to keep his hands off her and all their friends are going to be horrified by how attractive a couple they are. But hey, it's his first Christmas being surrounded by people who actually like him in a long time and definitely his first Christmas spent with a girlfriend.

It's not like he's spent all these years moping around, hell no, he'd show up to lab in a crappy, old Santa hat and poke around kaiju guts until Hermann yelled at him for getting entrails on his side of the room and the hat would be thrown in Hermann's face and then it would proceed like any other day. He's never minded it, Hermann had been closest to what he could consider family at the 'Dome--but this time, here, he remembers what it's like to have loved ones around. "I might not leave your apartment if you get that tree, though, I've got what might actually be a physical attraction ot the smell of evergreen."