"Commander, if you don't stop playing with that whip, you're going to lose it."

Next to the speaker, an Indiana Jones grinned sheepishly and began coiling it up. Kathryn Janeway rolled her eyes. What had possessed her to let people wear costumes on Halloween?

However, she thought with another sharp glance at Chakotay, most people had been somewhat responsible, although she had had to reprimand a female ensign for her rather… creative bunny costume.

At least I won't have to deal with Tom today. And Harry's got a day off too… Oh no.

What are they up to?

She barely heard the tubolift doors opening, but she did hear the loud CRASH! that followed. That's probably my answer.

She stood up and turned around, just in time to see a… thing rising from the floor.

It had four legs and a dirty-brown colored body. What looked like a bundle of tangled yarn surrounded like a mane what she supposed was a face. At least, it had black spots in the places for eyes and nose, and a large lopsided hole about where you would hope to find a mouth. She stared, mouth open as it suddenly spoke.

"For gossakes, Harry, look where you're going!"

"What! I can't see a thing in here; it's pitch black. Why did you get to be the front anyway?"

"Because I thought of this costume in the first place."

"Yeah, great costume. A lion."

Janeway found her voice. "Mister Paris?"

"Uh… Happy Halloween?"

"May I ask what you're doing on my bridge in the getup?"

The front feet of the lion (presumably Paris's) began to shuffle around nervously. "Well, y'know, it's Halloween. And we've got a few kids on the ship now, but we're not really set up for trick-or-treating. And well, this part of space isn't really teeming with aliens or black holes or anything interesting, so people have been kind of bored…"

Janeway rolled her eyes. "Kindly get to the point."

"Me and Harry-"

A voice from the back half of the lion hissed "This was your idea!"

"Fine, I had the idea for a sort of trick-or-treat in reverse. We both had the day off, so we could deliver candy around. A lot of people chipped in to replicate it all."

There was silence, which after a few seconds Harry broke by whispering "Give her the bribe!"

"Oh yeah!" There was a slight rustling sound and Tom's arm poked out of lion's 'mouth', carrying a small paper bag. Janeway took it all cautiously unwrapped the contents. She placed one in her mouth.

"Chocolate covered coffee beans… Alright. Go ahead and deliver, but try not to be disruptive."

She could almost see Tom's cocky grin. "Yes Ma'am! Alright if I cover the bridge right now?"

"Go ahead."

The 'lion' began to move clumsily around the various consoles, doling out candy as it went. However, it stopped short at Tuvok's, causing the back half to walk right into the front. "Tuvok, you haven't got a costume on!"

"Halloween is a human custom. I am not human."

"C'mon, lots of people who aren't humans are wearing costumes today."

"Perhaps, but I not one of them. Furthermore, I do not even possess a costume."

"If you did, would you wear it?" Tom's arm came snaking out of the 'mouth' again, this time carrying a bright red cowboy hat. With fringe. "We came prepared," he said, by way of explanation.

With an almost imperceptible glance skyward, Tuvok put on the hat.

(A/N: What do you think? Good, bad, in between? Got a suggestion for someone's costume? Leave a review! Please?)