batdaughter:

Christmas was usually Marissa's favorite holiday.  She and her mother had always done something fun and special for it but now Vicki was dead and worse than that (in Marissa's mind) was that she was stuck in a huge house with a father who was probably still running daily dna tests to make sure she was in fact his.  Marissa still wasn't sure how the man felt about her and though she didn't want to admit it, that made her sad.  She always wanted a father.  Now that she had one, she wasn't sure he wanted her.

But questions aside, she did still have to get him a Christmas present.  She wasn't going to let being half-orphaned entirely wreck things for her.  Since she couldn't figure out what to get him, she decided to ask and marched straight to where he spent a lot of time, per Lucy.  His office in the manor.

"Are you busy?"