Chapter Ten
Halloween had finally arrived and luckily Anna had finally made up her mind about what costumes the group was going to wear. But that wasn't until that night, currently they were all welcoming Renee's mother home, and Gordon, who luckily her father loved the name of his new son.
"He just keeps getting more adorable," said Anna as she smiled at his little hands that reached up to grab something while his mum held him.
"That's generally how it goes, then they hit the age where you can't stand them," said Gregory who was holding Jules. It seems like Jules has grown very fond of him.
"If you were referring to us, I'll have you know-" started Rudolph looking at his brother.
"I was," stated Gregory and Renee shoved him.
"Be nice," she scolded
"Oh. Come to daddy," said Renee's father as he reached down and took Gordon. He immediately started crying and everyone burst out into laughter. This has been happening that Gordon would cry every time his father held him. "Every time," he said sadly as he handed him back to his wife.
"Someday he will get use to you," said Renee and her father gave her a little shove.
"All right, time to get ready for Halloween. Kids are in charge of decorating, mums in charge of food and fathers in charge of going out and getting drinks," said Dottie walking in to the room. The parents were having a little Halloween party while the kids all went trick or treating. Gregory and Renee had to watch over the little kids and help Jules.
"And don't mind me if I pop out every once in a while. Halloween is the busiest night of the year for me, darn kids messing with each other trying to find a good scare in a cemetery," said Renee's father groaning a bit.
"Right, well, let's get started," said Dottie.
Two hours later the house was decorated on the inside thanks to the kids. A bit messy in some places but pretty festive for the most part. The food had been made and there was a bucket of candy front and centre at the table and the husbands had bought sodas and beers and some wine, the latter two for the adults of course.
They were all heading home now to change into their costumes. Renee went up to her room and looked at her costume that was laying on the bed.
"All right then," she said and changed. All the accessories were taking some time to put on and heard the other families return, most likely fully dressed, while she was putting on the finishing touches.
"Renee hurry up!" shouted Anna getting excited to go trick or treating.
"Trust me, it can't be that bad," said Gregory as he looked over his hair in the mirror.
"All right, I'm coming," she shouted back and came out of her room and down the stairs. She paused halfway down and smiled while Anna smiled and jumped, literally for joy.
"Oh you make you beautiful corpse bride, dear," said Freda who Renee noticed was dressed like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, Frederick was dressed like Jack Skelington.
"Thank you," she said walking down the stairs the rest of the way and stood next to Gregory who was Victor van Dolt from Corpse Bride, while she was Emily. "And you all look amazing too. Good choice with the Tim Burton theme, Anna."
"Thank you. I love his work and thought it was perfect. At first I was going to go with Nintendo characters but I kind of ran out of them for everyone," she said and Rudolph and Tony, who were Lock and Barrel, while Anna was Shock.
"Nintendo would have been awesome," said Tony.
"Well you guys better go off and get some candy before it's all gone. Be careful, catch after them," said Dottie who was dressed like Dottie from Pee Wee's Big Adventure while Bob was dressed like Pee Wee.
"And take good care of Jules," said Renee's mother as she handed him to Gregory. She was dressed like Alice from Alice in Wonderland while her husband was the Mad Hatter and Jules was dressed like the Cheshire cat.
"We will, don't worry," said Renee smiling at her brother.
"Let's go!" yelled Tony and he ran out the door with Rudolph and Anna behind him.
"Bye!" shouted Renee as she went after them and Gregory followed.
They started walking through the cemetery, headed for town, and Renee was concentrating on not getting her dress or veil caught on anything. She looked over at Gregory and saw him giving Jules a piggy back ride and smiled, then she noticed his hair.
"Wow who knew you could style your hair to hide your shaven parts," she said smiling.
"It took Anna and my mum's help but it actually looks like the guys hair doesn't it?" he said, " and I must say I like your whole costume, more sexy than I could have imagines."
"Shut up," she said but liking the compliment. She was concentrating on not tripping and trying to keep an eye on the kids up ahead. There was a ditch in the ground and her white heel got stuck in it and she would have fallen over if it hadn't been for Gregory quickly grabbing her arm.
"Whoa, you okay?" he asked as he helped her get her footing. He held her hand up while she rolled her ankle around to make sure it wasn't damaged and she side stepped the ditch an smiled at Gregory.
"Thanks," she said looking up at him.
"No problem. Wouldn't want my bride injuring herself further now would I?" he asked smirking.
"Hey, love birds, let's get a move on before all the good candy is gone," shouted Tony. The two teenagers looked at the three of them as they stared at them and stepped slightly away from each other.
"Just keep going, but make sure we can still see you," said Renee. The three nodded and Anna gave them a big smile before locking hands with Rudolph and Tony and they all rushed ahead.
"We better try to keep up with them," said Gregory clearing his throat.
"Right," she said. They continued to walk behind the three others, neither of then noticing that they were still holding hands.
After a long night of trick or treating, and all of the town loving their costumes, they were heading back to Renee's house. They entered the cemetery and saw her father there.
"Hey dad," she said walking over to him as he scouted the area looking for kids.
"Back so soon? Did all go well? Let me see the loot," he said. They all held their bags of candy up and Jules gave a happy cry out when Gregory held up both of theirs.
"Oh no, that boy is going to be up all night, make sure he doesn't get too much candy," he said looking at Renee.
"I won't," she said.
"Good, can't imagine Gregory's parents would be happy if he was all hyped up on sugar," he remarked and the others laughed and Gregory groaned.
"Hey," he protested.
"Quiet down, he was only joking. We'll see you back at the house, dad," said Renee and they continued on.
"Race you back to the house," said Tony to Rudolph.
"You're on," sad Rudolph and they took off with Anna trying to stay with them.
"I can't do anything in this dress other than walk, so let's stay at this pace, they can find their way back," said Renee.
"I agree," he said tugging at his tie a bit before shifting Jules in his arms. They walked along in silence, the moon lighting their way back. Gregory paused to shift the bags of candy and Jules in his arms and Renee kept walking.
"I must say, Jules has grown very, very attached to you. If you keep holding him soon he will literally be attached to you," she laughed and turned around to look at Gregory when she saw he wasn't there, "Gregory?" she asked going over to where he just was and looking around, "okay Halloween trick is over, come out now. We need to get Jules home."
She stood there listening to the sounds around her but she couldn't hear him anywhere. She was about to walked towards the tombstones thinking he was hinding behind one and preparing to pop out an scare her when she heard Jules crying in the small forest to the side.
"Jules!" she whispered, still trying to hear other sounds, and she rushed towards his cries, her candy bag laying in the middle of the path behind her. She came to a tiny clearing where she saw Jules sitting in the middle crying.
"Oh, come here, it's all right. Where did Gregory go?" she asked picking him up and rocking him. He kept crying but kept pointing in one direction she turned and saw another clearing past a few trees that was lit by a stream of moonlight. She walked over there then gasped and kneeled down next to Gregory who was laying in the middle of the clearing on his back. It looked like there was a sign of a struggle for he had a busted lip and a small bruise on his cheek.
"Gregory, are you all right? Can you hear me?" she asked placing Jules down and patting his un-injured cheek. He groaned and opened his eyes to look at her, "Oh thank you, what happened?"
"Get down?" he yelled grabbing her shoulders and rolling them over so that he was on top of her and protected her from the swing of a tree branch. Gregory grunted as it hit his back and Jules cried out. Renee grabbed Jules and looked up at the attacker in fear.
"Impossible," she muttered wide eyed.
"Hello, vampires," sneered Rookery as he gripped the tree branch. Gregory put his arms around Renee and Jules and hissed towards Rookery. It didn't have quite the same effect as it did when he was a vampire with fangs.
"Or should I saw humans. Do you know what your little act did to me?" he asked taking a step forward, "I hit my head on a rock, forgot who I was. I was in the hospital all this time since some fisherman found me washed up on shore. It wasn't till I saw the whole lot of you at the hospital when I finally remembered who I was. And now it is time for revenge," he said before yelling and charging. Gregory, quick as lightening, got up and blocked his attack.
"What could you want with us now, we aren't vampire anymore," said Gregory as he continued to block the attacks of Rookery.
"Oh ho ho ho, you might not be vampires anymore, but now it's personal," he said. He then saw an opening and dodged Gregory and aimed for Renee who covered Jules to protect him. Gregory quickly jumped in the way and got hit in the ribs.
"Hey, you're fight is with me," he said grabbing onto the end of the branch. He glanced back at Renee and made eye contact with her to see she was okay. Jules had big tears rolling down his cheeks and something inside Gregory snapped at that look. He pulled on the branch and did a spin and soon the branch was in his hands.
"Well looks like I offence now," he said and Rookery glanced around to find something to block but Gregory was already attacking. He got many hits in while Rookery stumbled back. Soon he was out of the tree line and glared at Gregory.
"This isn't over, boy-o. I'll back for you lot of ex-vampires, mark my words," he hissed before disappearing into the shadows. Gregory watched to make sure he was gone before rushing over Renee and Jules and kneeling next to her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"We're fine, let's just get home and make sure everyone else is," she said referring to the three young kids she let go home by themselves. Gregory helped her up and she picked Jules up and hugged him and she gripped her neck. Gregory grabbed his and Renee's bags of candy and urgently went back to Renee's house.
A/n: So now I have the main plot for the end of this story in motion. I don't know for sure when it will end but soon enough.
I went with the Tim Burton themed costumes because Tim Burton was the theme for decorating my parents house this year for Halloween (last year it was Sweeney Todd). I really wanted to do Nintendo characters but there weren't really enough decent females besides Zelda, Daisy, and Peach, and there are more females then that.
Thank you for reading and reviews and comments are welcomed.
_Charlotte