Authors note:- Halloween themed fun set in the earlier original cast days, fun, fluffy and smutty.
Trick or Treat 1/4
"Why am I doing this again?" I swear if he doesn't stop moaning I'm going to leave him here and get the tube home I only agreed to help because he practically begged.
"You're doing it because you don't know when to quit when you're ahead and stop pissing off the AC you've done it once too often now and none of us have any choice but to go to his bloody Halloween party."
"So how come I'm the only one shopping for a costume?"
"Because you normally hate Halloween the rest of us do these things every year we already have costumes. Hurry up I'd like to make it home in time to relax a bit before I have to get ready, I can't believe you left it to today it's Halloween and the party is tonight."
I was enjoying a lie in this morning when he called, for weeks he's been assuring us he had a costume sorted for the assistant commissioner's party tonight but did he? Did he hell so with the promise of a nice lunch as compensation I put on hold my afternoon plans to catch up on recorded TV and agreed he could pick me up at 12. It's now almost four we've had the lunch, which he grumbled the whole way through, and now we're in our 3rd fancy dress shop. It's Halloween today and everything worth having is gone personally I think the idea of him dressed in tight fitting Lycra with his pants on the outside as Superman is hilarious but he's not so sure. I may also have an ulterior motive for that but more of that later.
"Sir this is the only other thing we have in your size it's old stock but..."
"I'll take it." Oh god the first sign of anything that isn't a superhero and he's all over it, I suppose as Dracula he's at least getting in the spirit.
"Boyd you'll need teeth and some fake blood too." He's looking at me like I've taken leave of my senses he really has no idea about this Halloween lark as I turn to the sales man scanning the accessories behind the till. "You're a vampire Boyd you need to look the part, give him a set of teeth, one of those bottles of fake blood and a pot of the white face paint too."
"Grace what the hell am I supposed to do with all this? I thought it would just be a case of putting on the costume, turning up and trying not to kill anyone until I'd been there long enough to leave."
"If you're going to do it you might as well do it right."
"But what do I know about make-up and fake blood and all of this? Grace come on stop laughing at me!"
"I'm sorry but you're hilarious when you're acting like a 5 year old." I can't stop laughing it really is amusing to see him like this and it's not like I'm not going to help that was all part of my plan, well the revised version of my plan once I knew I'd be seeing him this afternoon. "Ok, buy a couple of bottles of my favourite wine and pay the cab tonight and I'll let you come home with me and get ready for the party there I'll help with your make-up."
"God Grace I'll buy you a crate of wine and hire a limo if that's what it takes to get you to help." I knew he'd say that, he's really hating every second of this but then I knew he would. See that thing I was going to get back to later here's what you need to know. The man now beaming at me gratefully is the love of my life, he doesn't know that though for now it's between you and me. I've known him nearly five years now and in that time I've fallen hopelessly in lust which developed into love and I've decided I'm sick of hiding the fact. Lately I've been getting the feeling he wants more too but he's not sure how to broach the subject, it's Halloween, I have a costume I hope will blow his mind and if I'm right the signals he's been sending are telling me to go for it. It's not one big thing, its lots of little things that alone would mean nothing but together they've given me the courage to take a chance. I could be completely wrong of course but I don't think I am. When we were forced to attend this party it felt like a sign and I'd already decided that by the end of the night I'd know one way or another but when he called this morning it was like someone was telling me the time was definitely right. "Two minutes I'll grab the wine will two bottles be enough?"
"Depends how drunk you want to be before we get there."
"I'll get three." I'm laughing again as he jumps out of the car at the off sales round the corner from my home. I can't tell you how nervous I am right now but it's excited nerves, he makes me feel like a teenager again, like I want to say and do things and take risks like no one has ever been able to make me want to before. "It's ok for me to leave the car at yours tonight isn't it? Grace? Earth to Grace?"
"Yes of course, sorry I was miles away." He's got back into the car and I was miles away, well not miles actually just round the corner later tonight in my bedroom with him doing...oh no don't go there Grace that's way too dangerous right now, way too dangerous. I've got to actually get through the party and play things right.
"Clearly. Penny for them?"
"I was thinking how much I'm looking forward to tonight."
"You're weird you know that?"
"What? We're going to a party, yeah it'll be full of people we don't want to spend time with but Mel, Spence and Frankie will be there and we can make the night enjoyable don't you think?" We've pulled up outside my house and he's killed the engine staring at me for a second. There it is, one of those moments where he holds my gaze a second longer than necessary and looks like what he's thinking is less than pure.
"Maybe, what are you going as don't tell me it's something predictable like a witch or a ghost or something."
"Oh no it's neither of those, you'll just have to wait and see but I think you'll like it." My turn to challenge him with my eyes and the smile he's giving me is so full of mischief it's all I can do not to reach for him right now and kiss him like he's never been kissed before. Oh I'm in so much trouble if I'm reading this all wrong I could be about to blow my entire world professionally and personally to hell. If I'm right though the risk is going to be more than worth it.