Title: It Is Beginning to Look Like Greedmas
Author: Cassie Mun
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Greed and Cassie
Shipping: Greed and Cassie
Prompt: Orange Blinky Lights
Word Count: 700
Rating: T
Summary: Cassie gets the Devil's Nest North ready for Halloween and Greed is confused as of why this holiday is so important to her.
Notes: I am doing the 31 Halloween Writing Prompts this year, sounds like fun.
Disclaimer: I don't any of the characters from Fullmetal Alchemist, they are all owned by Hiromu Arakawa. I own Cassandra Lichtenberg.
He just stood there, staring. Greed was confused at why the Devil's Nest North was covered in weird orange, black and purple Christmas decorations when it wasn't even Christmas; at least not for another two and a half months. The place looked like a macabre winter wonderland, minus the winter or better yet replace winter with creepy. There were skulls candle holders on the tables, spider webs made out of cotton balls in various corners of the room with cute looking spiders made out of black yarn puff and tube cleaners with little googly eyes. Rubber bats hanging from the ceiling and well as skeletons and ghosts on the walls.
"It looks like Cassie and Martel went all out in getting this place ready for Halloween, but I didn't expect this." said Greed to himself as he looked around then the sight of orange blinky lights that surrounded the bar that caught his attention. Then he said, "Orange blinky lights? How fucking Halloweenie can you two gals get?"
"What is wrong with the orange blinky lights? I like them, they stay." said Cassie as got out of the restroom of the bar.
Greed looked at his possession as his eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Cassandra people go all out like this during Christmas, not Halloween, the only people in this damn city that go all out when it comes to Halloween are the crazy people at that star building place next to the university and the park. They always go Halloween happy for the entire month, but they have the beer parties for Oktoberfest every year, I give them that much."
Cassie just gave him a death glare that Greed was expecting.
"What did I say?" asked Greed totally dumbfounded at her anger.
Suddenly Cassie snapped, "Those crazy people at the star building place, which is properly called an observatory, are my family. My father, mother, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and brothers work there when they are not working for the university, the café next to the observatory or for the military Greed."
"Oh. But why do you guys go all Holiday crazy about Halloween though, I don't get it."
Cassie huffed under her breath, "Typical Amestrian."
Greed was taken aback by that remark, wasn't she an Amestrian too? Calming down a bit he looked at her and said, "Look, I am sorry Cassandra, I truly am. But I don't understand why. Please tell me."
She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. "Halloween is steep in old north Cretan and southwest Dracman religious traditions. Stories about spirits, undead, fey creatures, and beings from other realms of existence are all part of my family culture and heritage. Hell Creta's alchemy is just as much as a religion as Letoism is here in Amestris. Hell some of the alchemy that my family practices is forbidden in Creta and maybe even here in Amestris, but since alchemy is alchemy and as long as no one performs human transmutation or turn anything into gold or any other valuable metal and sell it then the military will look away."
Greed understood her. It was a religious thing and the way Cassie was acting around him and telling him about it, Halloween meant more to her than just what she was saying. It was more to the Halloween thing as a whole. And it was that hidden something that got Greed interested. Walking up to her and lifting her chin up with his thumb and forefinger, Greed made Cassie look up at him as he smiled.
"Okay, if all this and the orange blinky lights mean that much to you, then I will keep them up, but on one condition Cassandra."
"And what would that be Greed?" asked Cassie back as she looked at Greed with a 'what the hell are you up to' look.
Greed sneered, "You tell me the real reasons behind this Holiday and why it means so much to you."
"Are you sure Greed, what you might hear isn't all cute and pretty as people make this Holiday sound."
"Trust me, I can take it doll. I can take it." Greed said back.
Cassie sighed, "That is what I was afraid of."