A Kim and Ron's Halloween Together

AN: This story takes place after my "Ron's Halloween" and if you're curious I advise you to go read it as it might help make more sense for this story.

Chapter 2: Anniversary

(Middleton)

Kim is driving with her nervous husband sitting beside her in the plum colored car. She looks over and at him, knowing just what was making him so nervous. "Are you ok Ron?"

"Yeah… well, actually no. Doesn't this feel like we're just inviting trouble Kim?" He looks out the driver's side window but his worried reflection could be seen in the window to Kim.

Taking her hand off the wheel for a second, she reaches out to touch his shoulder comfortingly and she says in her most calm, loving voice even though she is almost as nervous as he was in truth, "Look honey, I think we've proved we can handle anything that's thrown at us and despite how bad things have been sometimes… she never actually did anything we couldn't recover from or become stronger for it."

Ron turns back to look at his loving wife, gazing at her beautiful face as she puts her hand back on the steering wheel.

"I know you're right Kim, but I lost you… I mean I almost lost you… It would be too painful to lose you again after going through all that." He still worried that someday the mysterious woman would come back and take one of them or both away for good. That it was all just a huge setup to an even bigger fall.

Kim pulls over and parks as they reach their destination before she says, "I know and believe me. I would be just as devastated if anything were to ever happen to you again. We both know the pain of losing each other but if anything she taught us to value our time with each other… to open our hearts and minds to what we could be together rather than separate. I have to believe she won't repeat her lessons."

"I know, and I don't think she will either but what if… what if there are new lessons that she thinks we need to learn still?" Reaching out, Ron cups her face in his hands and gazes into her eyes. "I love you so much Kim."

"I know Ron and I love you with all my heart too. That's why I believe we need to do this. We need to go on the offensive and find her to find out if she has any more plans for us or at the very least we owe her a thank you for helping to bring us together." She leans forward and kisses Ron on the lips very lovingly.

"Now come on, lets go check out the house." She unbuckles her seatbelt as Ron does the same and says, "Ok Kim, I'll be right there and always beside you."

Kim smiles at that and waits for him before getting out of the car at the same time as him. She walks around to his side since the place they were going to was on his side of the car.

Ron takes Kim's hand, squeezing it as he looks up at the house before them. "Now we're both absolutely sure that we want to go into there now that it has reappeared?"

"Whatever happens Ron, I promise to be with you every step of the way."

"Thanks Kim and I promise it too."

Together, they start to walk forward towards the old house until they reach the gate. After they both take a deep breath they go through and continue up the old rock path up towards the house.

With every step they took towards the house, the more they became more confident. As if they were going on a mission and by the time they reached the old worn door they were completely relaxed and ready for anything.

They look at each and with a silent nod to each other they both bring their hands up to knock at the door. Their hands even manage to knock at the exact same time so that anyone inside would have guessed that it was just one hand knocking at the door.

There was nothing but total silence as for the longest time but both of them were determined to get answers and if knocking and waiting respectively for the longest time was not going to give them what they sought then they would try the door and see if they could find the old woman they both seen before.

"Kim… how long should we stand out here like this? It is getting cold."

"Until someone answers the door, Ron." She softly squeezes her husband's hand even though she was beginning to feel cold too.

"Um… What if no one answers the door Kim? Or… what if you do?"

"How am I going to answer the door Ron? I'm right here. Holding your hand." She raises the said hand in question to prove that she had not let go yet.

"Oh, I don't know. What about that ancestor of yours that…" He raises his voice higher as he says, "Looked and sounded exactly like you!?"

"Whoever that was couldn't have been me then right? So if she answers the door then you'll know it wasn't me."

"I guess… but magic's a tricky thing Kim. What if you can be there and here?"

"Ron, that makes no sense. If I'm here then I can't possibly on the other side of the door right?"

"Does it KP? Then how do you explain the whole other life I led without you? What if somewhere you led a whole other life without me?" He blinks as he sees Kim's face change into a small smile. "Uh… what's with that look Kim?"

"You called me KP, Ron… I was just thinking about our life before our marriage. We've come so far together haven't we?"

"Heh, Yeah… and we have the rest of our lives together don't we?" He looks into her eyes lovingly with a nice smile at her and forgets about the cold for at that moment he felt warm with the love from her heart.

"Yeah, we do and there's no way I'm ever letting go of you." She smiles back at him, her eyes locked on his so she misses how the ratty curtains near the entrance to the door pulls back just long enough for a pair of eyes to see who was at the door before falling back into place.

"Want to try knocking again Ron?" asks Kim as she raises her free hand to brush back her long red hair and tuck some of it behind her ear.

"Sure thing Kim." He smiles at her innocent gesture that he'd come to know as "I love you" in secret.

Together they turn to the door again and after the first knock the door starts to creek inwardly as if the knocking had pushed the door open. They look at each other out of the corner of their eyes as obvious thought was shared, "This has got to be a trap!"

Never had either been to balk at danger, they step forth with silent determination even as a pair of eyes in the shadows whisper below their hearing, "Finally, they are ready…"

(Meanwhile)

"Do you think they're ok?" Mrs. P. asks her husband in her witch costume outside the haunted house that they ran every year.

"Oh I am sure they'll be ok. They just said that they had to do something important first and would be over afterwards. Besides they can handle just about anything thrown their way."

"Good Evening!" He says as he takes the ticket from a 10-year-old boy and lets him into the haunted house where Tim and Jim were awaiting.

Looking at her husband in the vampire costume with the fake teeth on that she'd gotten from their dentist so that his costume would look extra realistic, she thinks 'I hope you're right. You didn't notice but Kimmie had that serious look in her eyes. I do hope she isn't foolish enough to go looking for the owner of that house. I know that she was thinking about it but I doubt the house will ever reappear… I hope!'

Suddenly there are screams from within the haunted house and the kid who'd just bought a ticket goes running out of the door and nearly knocks over James in his attempt to flee from whatever horror he'd witnessed inside.

"Are you ok?" She moves over to check on him out of concern.

"Yeah, I'm ok. The boys are really scary tonight. That's like the 10th person tonight that we've seen fly out of the haunted house since we've opened. If this keeps up we won't have any repeat customers."

"Maybe we should tell the boys not to be so scary? I know it is Halloween and they're in their environment but those kids look completely scared out of their wits!" Mrs. Possible looks in the direction of the opening as she tries to remember if anything in the plans she'd heard could account for such fear.

"You're right as usual hon. I'll go back and tell them to tone it down." He turns and walks into the entrance.

A few moments go by before Mrs. Possible realizes something. For a haunted house, it was being entirely too quiet. She couldn't recall hearing once the usual ghostly wails, chain rattles and spooky music before the kids would come running out screaming.

Looking around she sees that no one seemed interested in going in at the moment so she felt it was safe to be go back and see what was taking her husband so long in returning.

She walks in and immediately she senses something wrong. She could feel… something strong in the air. The walls seemed to be oozing green slime and glowing. The spider webs were more numerous and even felt like. She almost shrieked as she saw a live, large spider crawl down one of the many webs in the corridor.

Gulping quietly she continues on forward before she begins to notice a heavy fog on the ground forming from just around the corner. Thinking about the previous haunted house attempts she very softly whispers, "The boys have really outdone themselves with this one."

As if in answer to her incredibly soft whisper, a faint but realistic howl is heard as if coming from a far away distance. She continues to walk and notices that the ground had changed from the wood floor to a dirt with tiny rocks feel but with the heavy fog nipping at her ankles she couldn't see the ground.

If possible, it seemed to grow even darker with every step and the part of her mind starts to scream, "There is no way the boys did all this! For the love all that is Holy, Get OUT!"

Still, she presses forward now out of growing concern for her husband and the boys who were still somewhere in the haunted house as far as she knew.

The darkness lets up and she can see why as she can see a full moon now in the sky even though the full moon had really been just five days ago. The light of the full moon reveals old, decrepit trees with their branches looking like scary claws attempting to scratch out the moon in the sky. The footing begins to reveal what feels like small roots that had surfaced in the ground as if to try and trip her since she could not see through the heavy ground fog.

She hears the howl again but this time it is much, much closer since she could hear it so loudly now. A noise catches her attention and she trips on a root that took advantage of her distraction and she falls face first towards the ground.

She lands face first into something that was not the ground, but warm… quickly moving she sits up and swings her hands over the object hidden in the fog and it parts long enough to reveal the vest and cape of her husband's vampire costume! She realizes that she'd landed onto his stomach!

Moving in fear she moves her arms and hands quickly, fanning the stubborn fog until she can find his face. She grabs him by the shoulder and lifts him up into a sitting position as she says, "James? Wake up! What's wrong with you?"

Suddenly a very feminine voice that sounded young, but impossibly old says, "I happened."

"What? Who are you? Where are you?" She looks around but as she pulls him closer to her chest, cradling him close to her.

Out of the shadows from one of the thicker tree branches a slim woman steps out with her long black hair that flows down past her hips. The moonlight cast a shadow over the front of her, disguising all but two brightly glowing red eyes looking down at her.

"I thought he was a real vampire like me… When I found out otherwise, I punished him for his deceit. Are you a real witch?"

Mrs. Possible frowns darkly at the woman who'd just hurt her husband and shouts, "You don't want to mess with me, I can be a real witch when I want to be."

"Very well then… I shall leave you alone. For now, since this is a special night..." The woman with glowing red eyes then steps back into the shadows and only once when the red eyes disappeared, did Mrs. Possible feel safe.

Mrs. Possible looks around and says, "Just what is going on around here?"

AN: Well everyone, it looks like things have just taken a turn for the worse doesn't it? What do you think of how Kim and Ron are as they face the house that has come back on this Halloween night. The very same house in which they first traveled to another land and got Ron hurt and also sent Ron through time to start the Possible line? Any ideas about what Kim and Ron will learn or face this time around? What could that woman with the glowing red eyes have done to hurt Mr. Possible? What could she be? What do you think is the fate of the tweebs? Any thoughts about could be the source of the howling? Could this be why everyone ran screaming out of the haunted house? Would you like that haunted house? Grin

As usual all thoughts, ideas for Halloween, suggestions for scary music in this chapter, impressions about the trilogy (this one), feelings about or created in this chapter (any fear?), and more are always welcome.