It's December 23 in Dimmsdale. Just one day away from Christmas Eve, and two days away from Christmas Day.
Timmy was especially ecstatic today, even moreso than usual. His neighbor friend and stepgodsister, Chloe, noticed, as she saw Timmy skipping out of his house on the snowy streets. She also noticed that their fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda (disguised as green and pink dogs), must've noticed it even more, if the bags under their eyes meant anything.
"Hi Timmy", Chloe greeted her friend. "You must be pretty excited for the upcoming Christmas Eve."
"Sure am", Timmy said. "But that's not the reason why I'm so stoked right now."
Chloe was a bit puzzled. "About what could you possibly be more excited about than Christmas", she asked.
"Today's the day Timmy's going to buy the perfect gift for Trixie", Wanda answered in Timmy's place, and sighed afterwards.
"At least as perfectly as I can afford", Timmy continued.
"I'm sorry, Timmy, but I don't think that'll be a whole lot", Chloe told Timmy. "Certainly not enough to impress Trixie, from what I've heard."
"Well, I'm certain that it'll at least be a trillion times better than the gift I gave Trixie last year", Timmy boasted.
"Oh yeah, I remembered that", Cosmo interrupted. "You gave her a pretty cruddy drawing of the two of you, and you promptly got kicked out so far away from her, you landed all the way in Oregon!" The green dog-guised fairy giggled at the memory as Timmy's eyes drooped to an unimpressed expression.
"I admit that's very easy to top", Chloe said, "but I don't think you'll have enough to get her to care even a smidgen about you. Especially now with those rumors of her courting with Remy floating around..."
Timmy's expression drooped even further into a scowl. "Don't ever remind me of Remy", Timmy said in a deadpanned tone.
"Oh, sorry", Chloe said.
Timmy returned to a happier expression. "But don't worry about not having enough to afford. I got this."
"Oh, I get it", Chloe realized. "You're gonna wish for money to spend on a gift, aren't you?"
"If I would use magic, I would just wish for the gift immediately", Timmy said. "This gift will be from genuinely earned money."
"A very mature decision, I'll say", Wanda added.
"I'm not sure if you noticed, Chloe", Timmy said, "but I've been saving a lot of money since the very start of this year. I've avoided buying comic books and video games as much as I could, which was very painful and difficult by the way, and I've been earning money by doing various chores, such as painting fences, mowing lawns, clipping Crocker's mom's toenails-"
"TMI, Timmy", Chloe interrupted, while making a disgusted face. "Get to the point already!"
"Oh, right", Timmy realized. "Anyway, all of that has totaled up to 527 dollars and 47 cents! And that's not even counting the quarter that already rested in the piggy bank before I began saving."
"And you're going to spend all of it on a gift for Trixie", Chloe asked.
"And I'm going to spend all of it on a gift for Trixie", Timmy confirmed. "And I'll be giving it today."
Chloe was a bit surprised at that. "Why today?", she asked.
"I reckon that Trixie won't have enough time to even want to spend a second with me on the next few days", Timmy explained. "As you know, tomorrow, the Tang Mansion will host a Christmas Party for all the rich and popular crowd in the evening, and the rest of the day is probably booked on preparing the whole feast. And the day after that is Christmas, of course, so she'll be loaded with gifts already. So I'll be giving her my gift nice and early."
"Makes sense to me, I guess", Chloe shrugged. "Well, good luck with your gift, Timmy. But please don't be surprised if she denies you again."
"Thanks, Chloe", Timmy said. The two friends said goodbye and Timmy was heading to the mall.
After some Christmas shopping, Timmy has reached the Tang Mansion with a little box that contained his newly-bought gift for the girl of his dreams.
"Alright, we're here", Timmy said to Cosmo and Wanda.
"Good luck, sport", Wanda said. "We're going back to Chloe, if that's alright with you."
Timmy nodded and his two fairy godparents poofed away. He then faced the mansion, approached the front door and rang on the doorbell.
Trixie herself opened the door and seemed surprised to see the bucktoothed kid at the front door.
"Tommy? What are you doing here?", she asked.
"Just giving you an early Christmas gift", Timmy answered, ignoring Trixie's misnaming of the bucktoothed boy. "I've heard of the party your family is hosting tomorrow, and supposed you'd be too busy to want my attention."
He presented the tiny box to the asian girl. "Merry early Christmas, Trixie", he added.
Trixie had a neutral face when she heard it was a Christmas present. She still remembered the cruddy drawing Timmy made for her last year, and didn't expect this gift to be much better.
However, to her own surprise, Trixie pulled a gold necklace out of the box. It had several sapphire pendants hung onto it, with the biggest one shaped like a heart. Mesmerized at this surprise gift, Trixie stammered: "H...how did you get this, Timmy? You're not rich at all." This time, she did remember Timmy's name.
"Oh, I've been saving up a lot of money over the course of this year, and earned a lot of it too with chores", Timmy explained Because I want to make sure to give you the perfect gift this time around. Miles better than my drawing from last year, at least..."
Trixie kept looking back and forth between Timmy and the necklace. Did Timmy love her so much, he'd save a year's worth of money for a nice gift?
"By the way", Timmy added, "I chose the sapphires because I think they'll match perfectly with your beautiful, ocean blue eyes."
Trixie couldn't help but faintly blush when she heard that, even if it were a pretty corny flirt.
"So, umm, what'cha think", Timmy asked. "You haven't really said much about it, so..."
"Oh, um, Timmy", Trixie sprang up. "Um, I...I um...", she continued stammering.
But Trixie stopped when the two heard from inside the mansion a snobby voice: "Trixie, dear, you're taking quite a while at the door there."
Great. Remy was visiting Trixie. Timmy tried resisting the urge to groan.
Within seconds, the blonde, green-eyed boy appeared beside Trixie.
"Oh... it's Turner", Remy sighed when he saw Timmy. He turned to Trixie and asked: "So why haven't you sent him away yet?"
Trixie looked flustered when this was asked to her. "Oh um, Timmy got me a Christmas gift", Trixie responded, showing Remy the gift necklace.
Remy squinted his eyes as he inspected the gift. "A gold and sapphire necklace?"
Remy took the necklace and threw it in a gray garbage container in front of the Tang Mansion's lawn. "Sorry, Turner, but that won't do to impress my girl. Now look at this."
Remy presented Trixie another gift, in a slightly bigger box than the one Timmy's gift was contained it.
With hesitation, Trixie opened the box and pulled out another necklace. This necklace was made of platinum and had a lot of emerald pendants hanging onto it. There were at least three heart-shaped emeralds, with the biggest one being hung in dead center.
Trixie didn't really know what to say with this one, but it was clear that Remy was trying to one-up Timmy big time. Whether it was a coincidence or not, Trixie didn't know.
"Much better, right", Remy asked. "I knew you'd like it. It's because the emeralds match perfectly with my dazzling, sea green eyes, isn't it?"
"Hey, don't assume Trixie likes your gift more just because it looks more expensive than mine", Timmy said in defense.
"Maybe you shouldn't assume Trixie would like your gift in the first place", Remy retorted. "After all, the gift did come from you, an unpopular, low-rank loser."
He faced Trixie and suggested: "Come on, hun, let's leave this loser alone."
Trixie glanced at Timmy for a few seconds, before closing the door on him.
Timmy was now facing the shut door.
Timmy sighed with sorrow. "I guess Trixie didn't like my gift, after all", he stated with a sad tone. "An-and, it seems those rumors about her and Remy were true, too."
Timmy began sniffling as a tear rolled on its cheek. "All that hard work... painting those fences, mowing those lawns, clipping Mrs Crocker's disgusting toes... all for naught... Trixie will never like me or my gifts..."
Timmy began slouching his way away from the Tang Mansion, as he muttered: "At least I'm not getting my butt kicked all the way to Oregon this time... Feels just as painful, though..."
What Timmy wasn't aware about, however, is that a set of beautiful ocean blue eyes was sadly and regretfully watching him slouch away from her home.
Author's Note: Here's a Christmas-centric fanfic!
Now I got this idea after coming across this one old Fairly OddParents fanfic by HysteriaFan17 called "Timmy's Christmas Present". It's a Tootmy fanfiction, and the author must really dislike the Timxie ship because it kind of bashes Trixie somewhat in the middle of it... figuratively and literally, because Tootie beats her up, and Timmy suddenly switches from Trixie to Tootie afterwards... eh, I don't want to turn this into a criticism, so I'll just say it has its own fair share of problems aside from what I mentioned.
The reason why I'm writing this fanfic is actually because the idea of Timmy buying a Christmas gift for Trixie but Remy intervening, to me, sounds like an interesting premise for a more Timxie-centric story like this one. However, it's mostly this first chapter that's based on the fanfic (and only the first half of it), so it's not exactly a rewrite. There won't be anyone beating up on anyone either, and Tootie is omitted. No, I don't hate Tootie, I just don't think she's needed in this story.
No, this doesn't follow the same timeline as an earlier crossover fic of mine, "Phineas and Ferb in Dimmsdale: Bet-tle at the Mall", or its upcoming sequels.
Alright, I think that about covers it. Give it a fave or a follow if you like it, and tell me what you think of it so far