Halloween Decorating - Caroline learned it wasn't worth it to waste energy wrangling the Mikaelson's for her festivities. She'd take charge and they'd trickle in on their own.
Caroline flitted about the The Abbatoir feeling pretty frickin' proud of herself. Not only had she gotten her hands on some fantastic Halloween decorations, but even Elijah gave his tentative approval of them.
Of course, when she says "Elijah" and "approval" she meant that he didn't spare the effort to take them down. Which was really the equivalent of approval in anyone else.
She had a particular fondness for the intricate (and edible!) chocolate carving of a haunted castle. The collection of jack-o'-lantern's that she acquired were gorgeous as well.
Now, Caroline had definitely learned her lesson from last year. Instead of chasing down the troublesome Mikaelson's and trying to force them to stay on task, everything worked out much better when she could lure them in.
Case in point, said chocolate carving and jack-o'-lantern's? She had caught Klaus side eyeing them. He may have thought he was being discrete, but she totally saw him sneaking in carved pumpkins of his own here and there.
When she picked up a decent, but still fake skeleton from the party store, Kol had scoffed at it. After returning from another decoration shopping spree she discovered he had switched it out with with a much more realistic prop. (It had better be a prop, Kol!)
Lamp covers? Rebekah somehow obtained some really intricate ones to disperse around the compound. She also found some novelty lamps whose shade's were made to cast designed shadows when turned on. (Caroline had her suspicions that they had been commissioned.)
Even Freya got into it. She spelled some neat, witchy looking cocktails. Not only were they wonderfully thematic, but they tasted delicious too. Caroline highly suspected that some of them were spiked with blood as well as alcohol.
All in all it was a very successful venture.
She made sure to thank them all after. To which they gave uncomfortable, disgruntled acceptance, but she totally caught the pleased smiles they all tried to hide.
Honestly.
AN: Quick and cute. If you're curious, yes, Kol switching out the skeleton was inspired by honestgrin's Picked Clean. I'm going to go with he didn't snag it from evidence this time. I'm sure it was similarly nefariously obtained though...
