A/N: This is the sequel to my OC fic If you're Irish! If you haven't read that here's what you missed. Kieran and Gina got married and Kieran's niece and nephew from Ireland came over for the wedding and threw a massive party where Effy ended up kissing Sadie(Kieran's niece) then Effy told Sadie that she really liked her and wanted to start something with her and Sadie told Effy that she had a kid!!! It didn't put Effy off though, nor did meeting Sadie's very liberal and very entertaining mother Anne Marie. The wedding went off without a hitch (pun) and left Naomi and Emily wondering what their own wedding would be like... Sadie and Dermy(her brother) announced that they would be moving to Bristol (and Sadie's daughter Aiden of course) so Dermy could open his own tattoo shop then At the reception Dermy threatened Freddie for being a dick to Effy and then he ended up kissing Katie!
Anyway this is the first chapter, I hope everyone enjoys it - as always review and let me know what you think! =]
The room was dark, much darker than usual. The only sources of light were the flickering candles held in hallowed out skulls and ornate, gothic looking candlesticks that cast an eerie glow on the thousands of cobwebs that hung all over the place. Cast iron shackles had been bolted to the walls in different places; some of them covered in blood and one with what looked to be a dismembered arm hanging from it. A putrefied skull rotted on a pyre on the coffee table. It sent a shudder up Effy's back when she looked around the usually bright room.
"I love what you've done with the place." She chuckled, her voice dripping with sarcasm. In the corner of the room her girlfriend giggled as she distributed the last few fake cobwebs. "You really don't do things by halves do you?"
"Well it is Derm's favourite holiday you know, so we have to go all out." Sadie grinned as she made her way towards Effy. Her long red hair was pulled back off her face and her jeans and vest top were covered in cotton wool cobwebs. Her arms were splashed with fake blood and she'd even managed to get some on her face. Effy laughed at the sight of her.
"You look like a hot, deranged psycho killer from a low budget slasher movie." She reached out to wipe the blood off her nose and kissed her.
"You think psycho killers are hot?" Sadie raised a questioning eyebrow at her.
"No." The brunette smiled sweetly and shook her head. "I think you are hot."
"Thanks." The older girl said cockily, kissing her before she had the chance to retort. By the time they broke apart Effy had forgotten what she was going to say.
"Where's Aiden?" She asked, thinking the toddler probably shouldn't see the living room like this as she noticed the fake blood spatter on the wall.
"In the kitchen carving pumpkins with Naomi and Emily." Sadie informed her, taking her hand and leading her down the hall towards them.
"Hello Effy!" Aiden grinned, elbow deep in pumpkin flesh and pleased as ever to see the brunette. Emily sat beside her tentatively watching over everything she was doing while Naomi was busy carving her own pumpkin.
"What are you doing?" Effy asked in her most intrigued sounding voice.
"Make a pumpkin." The little girl said proudly as she threw a spoonful of pumpkin seeds into the designated bowl on the table.
"Wow!" She sounded impressed. "Are Naomi and Emily helping you?"
"No I help me." The mini Sadie remained as defiantly independent as ever.
"Alright then." Effy chuckled, sorry she had asked. "Where's Dermy?"
"He and Katie went into town to pick up the costumes." Emily explained. She still found it a little odd to refer to them as a couple even though they had been seeing each other for months it had only been official for a few weeks.
"Then he has to pick up Grainne and Nainsi." Sadie added. Her cousins were flying over for the Halloween party.
"So what does the living room look like Eff?" Emily asked. "None of us have been allowed in."
"Hey there's a reason for that!" Sadie huffed. "We want it to have the full effect when you see it tonight."
"It will be worth it." Effy assured them. She'd never seen anyone go as far with decorating as they had. She wondered what it would be like at Christmas. Emily huffed and made some comment about favouritism and Effy being under the thumb which she ignored.
"Well what do you think?" Naomi asked as she proudly revealed her pumpkin face to them. The orange face stared back at them with crooked squinting eyes and fangs.
"It's great babe." Emily smiled encouragingly at her girlfriend.
"Really scary." Effy added with just the slightest hint of sarcasm.
"Yeah." Sadie fought hard to suppress a laugh. "We'll just...keep it away from Dermy's."
"Why?" Naomi's eyebrows knit together as she frowned.
"It might scare yours." Sadie chuckled as she moved across the room and carefully lifted another pumpkin out of one of the cupboards. She turned it round to show them the very detailed sketch of a vampire's face that her brother had spent three hours carving last night. Naomi's jaw dropped at the level of detail and she hugged her mediocre one closer to her.
"You shouldn't feel bad. He is an artist after all." Sadie reminded her.
"I like yours better." Emily reassured the blonde. "It's cute."
Naomi perked up after Emily flattered her pumpkin for a while and Aiden eventually removed all the innards of her pumpkin with the help of Effy. Sadie cut a hole in either side and tied a rope through it making a handle. She lined the inside with a plastic bag because no one wants to eat sweets that taste like pumpkin juice.
"Now let's get this mess cleared up because someone in here needs a bath before they get their costume on." She said in her authoritive mum voice. The other girls still found it slightly weird how even they responded to it.
"Well I didn't want to say anything but you do kind of stink." Naomi teased her sort of sister.
"Oi!" Sadie exclaimed indignantly narrowing her eyes at the blonde. "Bitch!"
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"Diarmuid! Diarmuid!" Two think Northern Irish accents cut across the din of the train station. He waved to acknowledge their presence in the hope it would shut them up. He squeezed Katie's hand slightly as the approached his cousins.
"Hi." He greeted them with a hug.
"Hey." They smiled back. Nainsi's eyes lingered on the brunette beside him for a second.
"Katie, right?" She asked, faking uncertainty.
"Right." Katie smiled back with the same amount of attitude.
"Eh this suitcase isn't going to carry itself you know." Grainne interrupted their staring competition by dropping their bag at Diarmuid's feet. He dutifully picked it up with one hand and reached for Katie's hand with the other to reassure her; he knew if he was in her situation he'd be shit scared of his cousins. He led the way out of the busy bus depot.
"So what's your apartment like?" Nainsi asked.
"And where will we be staying?" Grainne added.
"It's lovely. And Aiden has graciously offered to let you sleep in her princess room." He replied.
"Who is coming to this party tonight?" Grainne asked.
"And what are you dressing up as?" Nainsi added.
This stream of double questions kept going until they reached the apartment. Katie Fitch could talk a lot but even she felt exhausted by the pair.
"We're back!" Diarmuid called when he opened the door.
"Great!" Sadie called from upstairs. "How was your flight?" She shouted over the sound of splashing and giggles.
"It was alright." Grainne looked confused. "What's going on up there?"
"Aiden's having a bath." Sadie answered, appearing at the bottom of the stairs with splash marks all down her top.
"And you just left her alone up there?" Nainsi shrieked half shocked half panicked. Sadie looked at her like she'd gone mad.
"Give me some credit Nance." She rolled her eyes. "Effy is with her."
"Oh." She sighed with relief. Katie wondered if Effy was really qualified to supervise a toddler in the bath.
"Where's Emily?" Katie asked suddenly noticing her sister's absence.
"She went home to get ready. She wants to come to Kieran and Gina's to see Aiden in her costume before the party." Sadie explained.
"Oh cute." Katie cooed. She had grown to love the little girl since she started dating Dermy; it was hard not to. "I might do that too actually."
"Good idea." Diarmuid smiled. He liked to see his girlfriend interacting with his niece.
"Sadie!" Effy squealed from upstairs as Aiden giggled hysterically.
"I better get up there..." She looked up the stairs dubiously. "Do you two want to come up and I'll show you Aiden's room?"
She knew her brother would probably want some privacy to say goodbye to Katie. They were still in that nauseatingly cute honeymoon period of the relationship. Sadie opened the first door at the top of the stairs and flicked on the light. The room had been painted pale lilac with a pink princess border around the middle. There was a double bed pushed against the far wall, under the window, which her cousins were grateful for except that it was dressed in Peppa Pig sheets.
"Well I certainly won't be getting any tonight." Grainne remarked upon seeing them.
"Damn right you won't be getting any action in my daughter's bed." Sadie confirmed. "Think of these sheets as contraception."
Nainsi laughed at her sister's misfortune, she had been talking about the fit skater boy from the wedding the whole way over.
"Anyway make yourselves at home; I'm going to go deal with whatever state the bathroom and my girlfriend are in." She smiled and excused herself. She paused in the doorway of the bathroom where Effy was kneeling at the side of the bath completely soaked. She couldn't help but laugh at the sight.
"I think we got a bit carried away with the splashing." The sodden brunette admitted guiltily.
"A bit?" Sadie scoffed as she pulled another towel out of the cupboard. "Come on; let's get you both dried off."
"I was going to take her to your mum's before we go to Kieran and Gina's. What do you think?" Sadie asked casually as she helped Aiden into her fairy wings. Effy was sitting on the edge of her bed towel drying her damp hair.
"Really?" She smiled at her thoughtful girlfriend. "She'd love that."
"Yeah, of course." She smiled. "Aiden wants to show Anthea her pretty costume, don't you button?"
Aiden nodded enthusiastically and giggled.
"We're all ready now." Sadie smiled at her daughter than turned to Effy. "What do you think?"
"You are a very pretty fairy." Effy smiled while Aiden spun around to better display her dress. It was a white vest with pieces of pastel chiffon puffing out from the waist. The whole thing was covered in glitter and sequins just like her wings.
"Alright you're ready." Sadie finished adjusting the wings. "Want to go show Uncle Dermy before we leave?"
"Yes." The child bounced excitedly, sprinkling glitter all over Sadie's bed.
"Go on then, he's in his room." She watched the almost two year old race down the hall, wings flapping behind her.
"She's so cute." Effy giggled as Sadie dropped onto the bed beside her.
"She's not the only one." Sadie grinned and pulled her girlfriend down for a kiss.
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"Katie?" Naomi looked shocked when she answered the door.
"Expecting someone else?" The brunette scoffed, she had text Emily to say she was coming round.
"Yes actually." The blonde retorted cheekily.
"Let me in Campbell." She rolled her eyes and pushed passed her. She ran up the stairs to find her sister stretched out on Naomi's bed in her bra and jeans.
"Oh God! Ew!" She wrinkled her nose in disgust and screamed. "For fucksake can't you two keep you knickers on for five fucking minutes?"
Emily and Naomi blushed appropriately and looked away. Katie moved to sit down on the bed but quickly reconsidered it choosing to drop her bag beside a chair in the corner instead. She began to extract different items from the bag and set them on the desk.
"Well get ready then, Sadie and Effy will be here soon." She stared at them. Shouldn't take them too long to get ready since they were mostly undressed when she arrived; she shuddered imagining it. Emily grabbed her costume and headed to the bathroom, still not able to look Katie in the eye.
"Are you sure you've got enough tan there Katie?" Naomi said sarcastically looking at the three bottles now sitting on her desk.
"It's for my costume." She sighed. She slightly regretted her decision to come here now. She stripped off her baggy clothes until she was standing in just her underwear and pulled out an orange looking glove. Naomi didn't even realise she was still watching her.
"Would you mind not perving on me Naomi? You are kind of dating my sister." Katie smirked.
"As if I'd perve on you when I've seen the better Fitch completely naked." Naomi grinned back as Katie groaned in disgust.
"Thanks for the mental image!" She scowled. "Shouldn't you be getting ready?"
"Oh, yeah." Naomi had almost forgotten why Katie was standing in her room in her underwear smearing copious amounts of sun shimmer on herself. Katie giggled quietly.
"Muff munching pervert." She muttered under her breath with a grin.
"Fucking hetero tease." Naomi grumbled back giggling to herself. They shared a look and fell about laughing.
"What's going on?" Emily was confused when she returned in her costume. Seeing her sister and her girlfriend laughing like that together was not an everyday occurrence.
"Nothing." Katie shook her head and tried to regain her composure. Emily looked to Naomi.
"Me and your sister were just...bonding." She smiled. Emily looked between them, seriously doubting that that was the case but if they were getting along better then she wouldn't complain. It would make her life a whole lot easier.
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"Trick or treat." Sadie grinned at Anthea when she answered the door.
"Well aren't you adorable?" The blonde woman cooed at Aiden.
She had to admit that at first she found it strange that Effy had fallen for a girl, but the happiness the relationship brought the young girl was undeniable and that was all she ever wanted for her daughter. The poor girl had had a bit of a shit time before she met Sadie. Anthea also had reservations when she found out that Sadie had a child. For one thing it took her a while to grasp exactly how a lesbian gets accidently pregnant but when Effy told her the story she saw that it was yet another thing the two girls had in common; their troubled pasts. When she met Aiden she couldn't even remember why she'd been worried, she was the politest and best behaved child Anthea had ever met. It was hard not to fall in love with her instantly.
"Anfea!" Aiden greeted Effy's mother. "I'm a fairy."
"I can see that." She smiled and dropped a handful of sweets into her pumpkin. "You're a beautiful fairy."
Aiden beamed at the compliment and was even more thrilled by the sweets Anthea was continuing to load into her little pumpkin.
"So how's things?" Sadie asked when Effy ran upstairs to grab her costume. Years of bar work had gifted her with the ability to make conversation with pretty much anyone under any circumstance.
"Oh, you know, same shit different day really." She chuckled drily. "What about you? How's your brother's shop doing?"
"Fantastic actually. It should be opening next week." She smiled. It was hard to believe that the dream her brother had always thought impossible would be coming true in such a short time.
"That's great." Anthea smiled sincerely. "What about this party? All set for it?"
"Her living room looks like a dungeon." Effy reappeared in the door.
"You're welcome to come along." Sadie offered. "If you think you can keep up with us that is."
Anthea laughed. "I don't think my dear old daughter would be too happy if I showed up."
"Damn right." Effy mumbled under her breath so only Sadie could hear.
"Besides my days of partying like that are long over." She assured them feeling a pang of nostalgia.
"Nonsense! I bet you can still keep up with the best of them." Sadie flashed that disarming grin of hers. Effy rolled her eyes. Her girlfriend was too charming for her own good; no wonder her mother was completely in love with her.
"We better get going though. Aiden tell Anthea where we're going now." Sadie said as she scooped the child up in her arms.
"Ke-yan and Gina's house." She said matter-of-factly.
"Really?" Anthea feigned amazement.
"Have a sleepover." Aiden nodded with a grin.
"Wow." She never failed to be impressed by the child's vocabulary.
"Thanks for the sweets Anthea." Sadie smiled heading out the door with Effy following close behind.
"You're welcome." The blonde woman laughed. "Thanks for calling in. Have fun tonight."
"We will." Effy promised.
"See you later." Sadie called back over her shoulder. Effy looked at her and shook her head laughing.
"What?" She asked defensively.
"She already loves you. You don't have to try so hard."
"I'm not trying anything." Sadie pouted. "I'm just naturally a lovely person."
By the time they reached Kieran and Gina's Aiden was bouncing with excitement and sugar.
"Treat a treat." She squealed when Gina answered the door.
"Oh my God!" The blonde exclaimed. "She is so cute. Kieran you have to come see this!"
"What?" He grumbled as he sulked out of the living room.
"Isn't she adorable?" She smiled. Aiden was loving the attention.
"Cute as a button." He rolled his eyes. Not that his great niece wasn't adorable, he just wasn't one to gush. Sadie understood that. Gina huffed.
"Naomi, Emily, Katie! Come see Aiden." She shouted up the stairs, not satisfied with her husband's reaction.
"Oh look." Emily had a broody look in her eye when she fussed over Aiden.
"I'm a fairy." The little red head played to her audience. They took it in turns admiring her. Sadie was entertained and filled with emotion at the same time.
"Been sunbathing Katie?" Sadie chuckled at the older twin when the fuss subsided.
"It's for my costume!" She growled in frustration. There was some more playful teasing, most of it coming from Kieran before the subject of Katie's incredibly orange skin was dropped. Aiden, now disinterested in the conversation since it didn't revolve around her, made herself at home in the middle of the floor and got stuck into the sweets in her pumpkin.
"All of her stuff is in this bag." Sadie informed Gina, handing over the backpack she had been carrying. "You have her milk and stuff don't you?"
"Yes." Gina nodded. She was genuinely excited about babysitting; it was so nice to have a little one in the house.
"And the cot is all set up." Kieran added proudly, choosing not to mention that he had almost lost a finger in the process.
"Well that's everything then." Sadie sighed and called her daughter. "Come and give mummy a hug."
Aiden ran to her and gave her a hug and several sticky kisses. Katie, Naomi and Emily still found it strange that Sadie was "mummy" though Effy had gotten used to it now; she hardly even noticed it anymore.
"You be a good girl, alright?" She said in a warning tone. "And I'll come pick you up in the morning. I love you."
"Love you too." The little girl gave her mum one final hug before hurrying back to her sweets.
"You might want to cut her off soon." Sadie suggested in a hushed tone.
"But that's what Halloween is all about!" Kieran scolded his niece.
"Fine then. Let her eat them all if you want, it'll be your funeral." She smiled wickedly at him. "Good luck running after her when she's full to the brim with E numbers."
Kieran's face fell. He hadn't thought about it that way.
"Don't worry about it." Gina reassured her. "She's in good hands. Just you go have fun."
"I know." Sadie smiled lovingly at her new aunt.
"And we will." Naomi added putting her arm around Sadie to usher her through the door.
"Bye." She called back as she was shoved onto the street. "Here where's your costume?" She suddenly realised the blonde wasn't wearing one.
"Don't worry! It's in my bag." Naomi rolled her eyes, the Irish pair had been so adamant that everyone make a big effort to dress up.
"Good." Sadie smiled at the blonde. She was starting to get excited about the party now. She laced her fingers through Effy's as they walked up the road softly humming to herself. Effy laughed when she heard that she was humming the song from the nightmare before Christmas.
"This is Halloween." She grinned at her girlfriend, Sadie's excitement mirrored in her crystal blue eyes.