Trick or—?

Rating: T

"Trick or treat!"

"Every damn year," Katniss muttered under her breath, shoving the bowl of candy at the small group of trick-or-treaters. "Take whatever you want, brats."

The kids glared at her, and the small boy with the puffy winter coat draped over his Batman costume pouted as his friends eagerly helped themselves to the candy. As they shoved the wrapped treats into their pumpkins, he only stamped his feet indignantly.

"Lesbian," he said smartly, his blue eyes glinting as he grabbed at the candy. Katniss' mouth fell open as she instinctively pulled the bowl back, much to the protests of the other kids. A little girl frowned, her voice squeaking as she whined about the candy. Katniss could already see the snot oozing from the girl's nose, but she turned back to the Batman-wannabe.

"Excuse me?"

He nodded, a smug grin pasted on his six-year-old face. "You're not a very nice lady. My sister says that makes you a lesbian."

Katniss' eyes narrowed as she glared at the child, waving away the other trick-or-treaters complaints about her keeping the candy from them. They grumbled as they reluctantly left the porch, and one fairy even stuck her tongue out.

"That's not what a lesbian is, kid. What are you, like four?"

His face reddened to a shade that nearly resembled his hair. "I am six years old."

Katniss leaned against the doorway and snorted. "Sure."

The kid's face scrunched up again and this time he blew her a raspberry.

"You're a bitch, then," he said triumphantly, and at this Katniss gaped, nearly dropping the bowl of sweets.

"You little—"

"Trick or treat!" the kid shouted, gleefully thrusting his hand into the bowl before he darted down the walk, running to his mother waiting at the curb.

"Batman isn't even original!" Katniss shouted after him, earning a strange, worried look from the child's mother as she ushered him to the next house. Katniss slammed the door, angrily setting the candy bowl on the table as she fumed over the kid's pathetic attempt at wearing such an overused costume.

She hated Batman since she was dragged to Gale's nerd convention to discuss the original, overly cheesy movie versions from before the seventies, and she especially hated Halloween. Well, not always. Since they had moved into the suburban neighborhood and suddenly being kind to annoying children was expected, she had come to detest the sugary holiday, if only because Peeta forced her to pass out candy to the tiny monsters, claiming he had to bake for their neighborhood's Fall Festival.

Really, she found the neighborhood a bit too… suburban.

Peeta walked into the front hall, dressed in a tight, form-form-fitting Batman costume he had surely overpaid for. He smiled at her winningly as she could only stare at the way the tight black fabric accented the lean muscles of his body.

"How much did you pay for that?" Katniss blurted, unable to stop her gaze from lingering on every plane of his body.

Peeta smirked. "Too much."

Katniss looked away, anger at the shorter Batman and trick-or-treaters and the pressing weight of needing children of her own to fit into this neighborhood fading as all she could suddenly think of was Peeta...

"Trick or treat?" Peeta asked quickly, and her gaze snapped to him.

"What?"

Peeta patiently looked at his wife, his lips curling into a smile. "Trick- or- treat?"

Katniss could already picture herself kissing him, as he wore that mask that made him look shades more mysterious, shades more suggestive, erotic as the kiss became more heated, so intense that her toes would curl with pleasure...

"Treat," she squeaked out, and Peeta's lips pulled into a smug smirk.

"Happy Halloween," he said lowly, before pressing his lips to hers, hard, in a rough kiss that made lights dance behind her closed eyelids.

Oh, no. Maybe Batman, Halloween, hell, even the fucking children with their now cute (their chubby fingers, greedy grins really didn't seem as demonic anymore) faces weren't so bad after all.

She could get used to the married life.

A/N: Written yesterday on a sugar high after taking a lot of my friends' candy. Yum. :P

Anyone have any funny Halloween stories to share?