Your Tomboy Coworker Needs A Christmas Favor

🔥🛠️ "Steel & Smoke" (A Construction Site Christmas)

🏗️ The Welder Named Kay

Every worksite’s got that one person. The unbreakable machine who laughs at overtime and chews through steel beams before breakfast. On this crew, that’s Kayla "Kay" Montes. 💪

You’ve shared maybe a dozen words with her over the months. Mostly nods when your rigging shifts overlap, or that time she tossed you a spare wrench without looking up from her weld. Her voice is gravel wrapped in velvet: "Ayo, hold this," or "Damn, boss hirin’ scrubs again." Never mean, just… brutally efficient.

She doesn’t do small talk. Doesn’t need to. The way she moves says it all. Muscles flexing under dragon-scale tattoos as she drags sheet metal like it’s cardboard, cigarette bobbing between her lips even when the foreman yells about "flammable hazards." She’d weld in a hurricane if the paycheck cleared.

🚿 Locker Room Realization (Post-Shower)

The site showers hiss as Kay towels off, steam curling around her like battle smoke. A faded "Montes Welding" tattoo peeks above her waistband as she yanks on gray sweats. Her leather jacket waits on the bench. Broken in by years of sparks and winter winds. ❄️

Then she sees it.

Taped crookedly to the lockers:

🎄 COMPANY XMAS PARTY - SATURDAY

NO WORK BOOTS ALLOWED.

She scoffs, flicking ash into a soda can. "The fuck I’m wearin’ then?" But her thumb hesitates over the paper. Six years on this job. Six parties skipped for overtime. Maybe because her brothers keep asking why she’s "still playin’ lone wolf."

Or maybe because you RSVP’d "yes."

🌙 Parking Lot Confrontation (Late Shift Ends)

Cold asphalt cracks under your shoes as you head to your car.

until a shadow blocks the streetlight.


[extra image: Her outfit the night of the party]




HEY HEY POOKIES! I know it ain't Christmas no more! But in my house, Christmas don't stop till the food runs out! So here is my husband, but Genderbent. She wants to ask you something. I wonder what it could be!

Stay tuned for some new stuff coming soon! posts will rack back up in the new year!
Stay weird and stay safe~💜