"It's so weird to see so many kids treat or treating as us." Violet said quietly to Jack-Jack as two Invisigirls and a Frozone ran past her with plastic trick or treat pails swinging. Violet, herself, had chosen at the last minute to go as Dorothy from the wizard of Oz after being half-way forced to take Jack-Jack trick or treating.
"But I'm only at home for this weekend! Then I have to head back to college. Can't I just hand out candy?" Violet argued as her mother put Jack-Jack's costume on, which was just slightly too big for his little frame. He had chosen to go as "The Dash", wearing one of her brother's old suits and mom had used some blonde hair spray dye to make his hair look blonde, even though now it was already wearing off and looking more of a cracking strawberry blonde.
"No Vi, I'm handing out the candy this year and Lucius has finally convinced your father to go bowling, just the two of them. Recently, her mom, dad along with Lucius and his wife had been going out on double dates to the bowling alley. Surprisingly, her mother and Mrs. Best were actually really good at bowling and had been sorely beating her dad and Lucius every week.
"So basically dad is tired of losing to you?" Violet asked with a smile.
"Yes, but I think he's also trying to get in some extra practice without being obvious. His manly ego is bruised." Her mother had apparently been teasing her dad that he should really be a pro by now with all the "bowling" he and Lucius had used to do.
"There, now there are two Dashes!" Her mother said as she straightened Jack-Jack's shirt. He looked at himself in the mirror and turned to give a huge smile to Violet, who gave a thumbs-up.
"Now, go get your pillowcase and the camera from the table and I'll take your picture." Her mother said as Jack-Jack raced down the hall complete with sound effects.
Her mother laughed before turning back to Violet, "He asked specifically if he could go out with you tonight. He really misses you."
"He did? Darn, that little guy knows just how to get to me…" Violet said, now feeling guilty. She finally relented and said, "Fine, I'll take him out, but you know he just asked because he thinks I'll stay out later than you or dad."
"That's my girl," her mother said and she gave Violet a hug as they heard the pounding of little feet up the stairs. An out of breath Jack-Jack, presented the camera to her mom as Violet went to go get changed.
When she got downstairs, she saw Jack-Jack impatiently squirming at the kitchen table. When he saw her, his face lit up and he jumped out of his chair.
"Okay, Vi's done. Can we go now?" Jack-Jack asked her mother, who was carrying two carved pumpkins out to the front porch.
"You can go when Violet says you can." Her mother said to Jack-Jack before turning to her, "Now, you two be careful and don't stay out too late."
"We will be." Violet assured her mother. Her mother smiled and slipped outside, shutting the door behind her. Violet then waved over to Jack-Jack.
"Okay, JJ, now-," Violet tried to begin as Jack-Jack tried to make an all-out sprint literally through the closed door. At the last second, Violet threw a force field around the door, which Jack-Jack bouced off of.
"Jack-Jack! You know you can't do that in public! Not even on Halloween. If we are going to go out tonight you have to follow my rules, got it?" Violet said sternly.
"Sorry, Vi. I promise I will, can we still go out?" Jack-Jack answered as he rubbed where his head had hit the force field.
"Of course we can, bud. Okay, let's see how much damage we can do tonight?" Violet said with a smile as she offered her hand to Jack-Jack.
"It's so cool! There's so many of you and Dash!" Jack-Jack said in awe as he watched the other kids.
Jack-Jack was right, Violet had been surprised by the amount of "Incredibles" she still saw. She and Dash seemed to be favorites with relatively few little Jack-Jacks. Violet hoped her actual Jack-Jack didn't notice; it was really only because Jack-Jack was still only allowed to go on relatively "safe" missions. He didn't even really have his own superhero name yet, but what can you call someone with as many different powers as Jack-Jack?
"Can we go to Mrs. W's house next?" Jack-jack asked as they turned onto a new street. He was proudly lighting the way with the large flashlight Mom had insisted they take. He now pointed it to a smaller house a few yards down.
Violet laughed; she knew the only reason Jack-Jack was making the extra point for them to go to Mrs. Wilcox's house was because she was known to give out full-size candy bars instead of the typical 1-2 fun-sized that most others gave.
"Okay, she'll love to see you. How's your pillowcase coming?" Violet asked eyeing the small Power Rangers pillowcase. She had told Jack-Jack as they left they would trick or treat until his pillowcase had gotten about ½ full or when they started running out of houses to go to.
Jack-Jack attempted to shield the bag from her and tried unworriedly to say "Um…it's still only got a little in it."
Violet shook her head as they walked, "It had 'a little' in it an hour ago. You've got enough sugar in there to last until Santa comes!"
Jack-jack gave her a huge pair of puppy eyes and desperately said, "Come on, Vi! Just this last street!"
Violet gave a dramatic sigh, "Last Street but then we head back. At this rate, Dash is going to beat us home."
Jack-Jack gave a yelled yes and ran up Mrs. Wilcox's driveway as Violet called in a force whisper, "SHHH! JJ, you are going to wake up the entire neighborhood!"
Jack-Jack excitedly stabbed the doorbell as Violet waited a few feet behind him. Jack-Jack reached to press the doorbell again, but looked back guiltily back at Violet. She had been reminding him how to properly trick or treat the whole night. After a few seconds, she could see movement behind the off-white curtains. Then the door slowly opened revealing A pleasant but tired-looking woman in her late 50's. Upon seeing her, Jack-Jack practically yelled his trick or treat and thrust the bag out in front of him expectantly. The older woman looked pleasantly surprised as she gave a little laugh.
"Oh, I didn't know the Dash would be visiting me tonight! I hope there are no villains around!" Mrs. Wilcox said as she 'looked' around her porch.
"Oh, no, Mrs. W. There's no bad guys tonight, "Jack-Jack said a little too seriously before continuing, "And I'm not really the Dash, it's me, Jack-Jack!" He then pulled the mask up onto his forehead.
"Oh my goodness, it is little Jack-Jack! Well, not so little anymore, you're growing up to be a big boy now!" Jack-Jack looked back at Violet, being obviously proud by the compliment. Mrs. Wilcox followed Jack-Jack's gaze and meeting her eyes, Violet gave a wave and a smile.
"Violet Parr! Oh, you've grown so big! Come here and let me see you." Mrs. Wilcox called as she reached inside her house for a plastic bowl.
Now embarrassed by her outfit, Violet slowly walked over to the porch.
"You're growing into such a beautiful young lady!" Mrs. Wilcox said as she leaned over to give her a hug, "I remember when it was Dash and Jack-Jack both racing up my porch."
"Thank-you, Mrs. Wilcox. Yea, Dash had decided to go with some other friends this year to trick or treat." Violet said. Next to her, Jack-Jack was obviously getting impatient.
"Violet says we can only go to a couple more houses." Jack-Jack said implying it was time to go.
Mrs. Wilcox looked down to Jack-Jack and shook her head very seriously, "Oh, well I better let you get back to your big night. Here, pick your favorite." She then offered a bowl of a variety of candy bars. Jack-Jack's brow furrowed as he debated which candy bar he wanted. Picking one, he jumped back into the grass and yelling back a 'Thank-you' when he turned back and saw Violet's face as she gestured pointedly back to Mrs. Wilcox.
"Now dear, you pick one too." Mrs. Wilcox said turning the bowl now to her.
"Oh no, I'm not trick or treating, Jack-Jack just needed someone to-" Violet began.
"You're never too old for candy; believe me I know" Mrs. Wilcox said with a wink.
"Thank-you, Mrs. Wilcox. You should know, you're house was one Jack-Jack had specifically asked to go to." Violet said as she picked her own candy bar.
Mrs. Wilcox gave a warm smile, "Aww, he's a sweet child. I was hoping he would come by tonight. I look forward to Halloween because it's so nice to see all of the little kids out and having so much fun."
Behind them Jack-Jack yelled back, "Vi! Come on, the lights in the houses are going out!"
Violet gave a sheepish smile as Mrs. Wilcox shook her head, "You go on now, and be safe!" Violet nodded her head and turned to catch up with Jack-Jack who was now almost dangerously swinging the flashlight as he searched for houses that still had their lights on.
A few houses later, an exhausted Jack-Jack yawned as he stumbled down the street with his engorged pillowcase dragging. Violet glanced at her watch and saw it was almost 9:00. This had been a long night for the little guy whose bedtime was still around 8:30.
Hey, come here, my little candyman." Violet said picking up Jack-Jack until he was riding piggyback on her. She took his pillowcase and the flashlight from him and carried them in either hand. Jack-Jack didn't say anything, but she could feel his head lay on her back as his arms wrapped around her.
When they finally got back home, Violet was surprised to see the lights of their porch were off; her mother usually was one of the last to turn off their lights on Halloween. Once inside, Violet put Jack-Jack down and told him to go change into his pjs. She would be up soon to put him to bed.
"Vi?…," Jack-Jack sleepily, " Tanks for taking me…" He gave a large yawn before slowly beginning to climb the stairs.
"No problem, buddy…" Violet said softly with a smile as she watched him leave. She took Jack-Jack's pillowcase to dump it onto the kitchen table and saw a note from her mother.
Violet-
There was a bank robbery in the city, might be the Underminer again. Dad's meeting me there. Dash is supposed to be home by 10:00. Don't let him or Jack-Jack eat any candy, they'll never sleep tonight. We'll be back later. Looks like we all got to dress up in costumes tonight!
Love, Mom
A/N: Okay, so this was really fun to write. Again, if you can't tell Violet's about college age and Jack-Jack is about 6-7 years old. Oh yea, and I haven't read any of the comics or other stories except for the movie, so that's just what we're going on. Hope everyone enjoyed it! By the way, for those curious as to what costume Dash chose, he was Darth Vader. Originally he had told Bob that he was going as the best sidekick there ever was: IncrediBoy! Bob had not thought this was very funny…
