Stella is in her apartment, alone, like she always is. There's something she knows, and it's killing her. Why does that have to happened? it's unfair. She's thinking about what she saw almost one month before in the lab corridors: Peyton had her hand on Mac's face, yeah she saw it, they tried to hide it, she did too, but the thing is that she knows about Peyton and Mac already. Now she's alone in Christmas night, the previous years after Claire's dead she's spent those moments with Mac, two lonely souls, who shared some good moments just to feel better. But tonight she's alone. She fells asleep in her bed. Like 1 in the morning she's waken up by the fireworks, she stares at them through her window, but suddenly she hears a noise, someone is in her apartment, she remembers about Frankie, she takes her gun, and goes to her living room, she can see a man looking at the fireworks through living room's window "put your hands where I can see them, and turn very slowly", the man did what she said... it was Mac "Mac?", "Stell, ... ehh... oh... I... just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas... and well... bring you a present". "Where's Peyton?" "Peyton? how do you know that?..oh right, you saw us. She's with... oh well... her ex-husband called her and she decided to come back with him". "Ex-husband? so you came here 'cause you're alone now, right?" "Stell, let me finish. That was right after I told her about our Christmas together, she was fed up of hearing your name yesterday, then she told me about her husband... she's never been married so... I guess she just... left me. So could I spend this night with you?, I mean Christmas, I brougt food", "Oh, well Mac, I shouldn't leave you stay... but I want my present, what is it?", he takes a little blue box out of his pocket "here it is" "Tiffany's? OMG, give it to me!!!" she opens it it was a pair of earrings "Earrings?? I love 'em, I must have 1000 pairs" "I know" "I have a present too Mac, in fact I've had it for so long that I don't remember" "What is it?", she got closer to Mac, and gave him a little kiss on his lips "Oh, Stell, ... you've ruined it all" "What? I thought you want it too, it doesn't matter, I'm sorry" Mac took her hands and said "Of course I want it too, but that was my second gift" Stella just jumped on him and kissed passionately, and well just imagined the rest of the story
