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Treasured Riches

by Amelia

Songfic: Christmas in Your Heart

5th in a series.

Follows: Over the River and Through the Woods, Let it Snow, She Made Christmas Eve Bright and United in Caring

Magnificent Seven Holiday Fic

Maude stepped off the stage, looking this way and that.
But no sight of anyone to greet her accustomed as she with grand entrance in flight.
Hearing laughter ringing clear from down two doors,
There she headed, stepping into a world she had to look twice before believing.
"Ezra darling boy, there is a dirty creature accosting your shoulder," she was seething

There's a road that I remember leading to a special place
Where the door was always open to a smiling face
There's a picture on the mantle of a boy that looks like me
It's always the same, there's a stocking with my name you see

"Mother, you came for Christmas to be, and Ms. Teri isn't a creature but my friend, you see."
Two ladies, one of fur with sight so sharp, one of beauty eyes calculating all to a 'T'
Both laying claim to the man between their fire shining bright everyone could see.
"Maude, Ms. Teri is a friend to all of us and even has saved my life. So ya might want to think twice of the words you next let fly," Vin softly reported, seeing both females bristle.
Looking more at the one called Teri, she found the fur was groomed to gleaming quality, the sparkle of gold and jewel bracelet adorning the neck as a collar. But it was the light in her boy's face that told the true value of the friendship now owned.

And a candle in the window, a flame against the night
There's a candle in the window, it's like God's perfect light
It don't take a lot of money to know what riches are
Just a candle in the window, oh it's Christmas in your heart, Christmas in your heart

Suddenly she saw the truth, her boy had found his home at last.
It was more than just the men that sat and stood at his side, but a knowing always there would be someone watching out the window, waiting for his return with concern.
She hid the smile that warmed her heart for him, for appearances were everything.
But glad she was he found his treasured riches in this Christmas light.

Wherever the years may take me, no matter how far I go
There's going to be a candle burning, it's always nice to know
It don't take a lot of money to know what riches are
A simple candle in the window and Christmas in your heart

"Well, come along, my Darling boy, you and your paramore are taking your mother to dinner. I trust you have taught her table manners, for you know I won't be associated with such sinners."
"Says the woman who conned her son out of his own saloon," Chris said under his breath.
The six watching as their friend left, his arm escorting his mother.
Their smiles grew wide as the little addition of the seven was seen leaning from Ezra's shoulder, pulling out hair pins with the paw that had just been in Vin's blueberry Christmas jam...

There's a candle in the window, there's a flame against the night
There's candle in the window, it's like God's perfect light
It don't take lots of money to know what riches are
Just a candle in the window and Christmas in your heart