"What's Halloween like?" Robert asked at lunch one day. It was only a week before the 31st and the school was abuzz.

"What do you mean what's Halloween like? It's Halloween," replied Arthur with an honest, confused look on his face.

"Well, I've never celebrated it before so I was curious what exactly you were supposed to do," Robert replied much to everyone's surprise.

"But what about movies? Haven't you at least seen a Halloween movie or known someone who does celebrate the holiday?" asked Eames.

"No not really."

"Oh my god, Robert you have to have Halloween with us then! You've have been seriously deprived of your childhood," Ariadne said.

"Well, I know you do trick-or-treating, I think that's what it's called, but isn't that meant for the younger kids?" Robert asked.

"It's supposed to be but someone dragged me out last year to do just that," replied Arthur as he gave a glance towards his boyfriend.

"Hey," said Eames, "you are never to old to go trick-or-treating."

"Um, yeah you can be and just so you know, we are in our junior year. Trick-or-treating is getting kind of old," Arthur shot back.

"First off, no it isn't, and second off, Robert cannot finish high school and have not gotten to experience a real Halloween night. If it makes you any happier I won't force you to go with me next year if you come this year."

"You mean you're still planning on going trick-or-treating in your senior year? Eames, I honestly wonder about you sometimes," Arthur muttered with a shake of his head.

"It's free candy and you get to dress up. What isn't fun about that?" Eames countered in a huff, obviously irritated. "You are still a kid Arthur so act like one every once in a while."

"I'm not a kid, I'm a teen," Arthur said, annoyed with Eames remark. However, instead of trying to carry on and on, he asked, "Why don't we stop while we're ahead? I'll go this year okay, but no guarantee for next year."

"Fine fine, be a party pooper will you," Eames said with a roll of his eyes even though it was clear that he was happy Arthur agreed.

"Wait a moment," Robert suddenly said, "you mentioned dressing up. What would I go as? I have absolutely no idea what I'd dress up as."

He probably shouldn't have said that as now hundreds of ideas were thrown at him, everyone having their own suggestion on what Robert should wear for Halloween.

On the night of the thirty-first, Robert met up with the group, Arthur, Eames, Ariadne, Yusuf, and now Eric, at Eames' house. Everyone was dressed up, Ariadne as Belle, Yusuf as Aladdin, Eric as a grim Reaper, Arthur as Sebastian from Black Butler, Eames as the 11th Doctor, and Robert as David from the Lost Boys.

Though Arthur was uptight with all this and Robert wasn't quite sure what to do, everyone ended up having loads of fun, especially when their bags began to fill up with candy.

"You're sure you are fine with this?" Mal asked for probably the hundredth time.

"Yes, I didn't have any other plans for tonight," replied Saito. "It's perfectly fine."

"Good good, well in all honestly I think Phillipa is very happy with the arrangement. She hates having to wait for James when trick-or-treating and I thought for sure that I was going to have to listen to her complaining about not getting enough candy all night since Dom had to work late tonight of all nights," Mal said with a sigh. "Thank you once again."

Saito smiled, "It's perfectly alright."

He waited with Mal in the hallway as Phillipa was still getting ready and also helping her younger brother with his costume too. Saito himself was simply dressed in jeans and a button down shirt with his running shoes. If any of his students had seen him at that moment they probably would've had to look twice, especially with how relaxed their principle seemed to be at the moment.

Finally, Phillipa came out into the hallway, pulling her brother along. James was dressed up like a little pirate and she was in a traditional Star Trek costume.

"So are you just any character or are you a specific Star Trek character?" Saito asked.

"I'm Captain Kirk of course," she said, smiling and crossing her arms. "Last year I was Spock and next year I'll be Padmé or Padawon Anakin."

"You and your sci-fi shows," Saito said with a laugh. "I told you, you should watch Doctor Who if you like science fiction so much."

"Oh I'm planning to but I still need to finish watching Star Trek: Voyager first and then finish Star Trek: Enterprise," Phillipa replied. "Come on now, are we going or what? There'll be no more candy if we just stand here talking."

Mal shook her head as she said, "You two go on ahead and remember Phillipa, 8.30 at the latest and do not try to convince Saito otherwise."

"Got it mom," she said with a smile as she quickly thru the door open and headed down the front steps.

"Good luck," Mal called after Saito as he hurried after the young girl.

Phillipa had already finished with the first house and was headed to the next one when Saito caught up with her. "I'm not as young as I use to be so try not to run to far," Saito said.

"Fine, be that way," she countered back, in Japanese instead of English though.

"I see you've been practicing," Saito remarked with a smile.

"Yes, how did I do?" she asked as they arrived at the third house.

"Very good. You still need to work on the punctuation a bit but you're certainly learning the language very quickly, especially for someone your age. If you want, next week I can start teaching you how to write in Japanese."

"Oh, I'd love that," she answered beaming.

They continued on, going from house to house, neither really talking when Phillipa said, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Ask away," replied Saito.

"Well, I know it's been about a month but is it not still kind of strange being with my dad again? There are loads of kids at my school whose parents have problems because of things like this which I personally think is fairly stupid. I'm happy my parents are smart enough but I was curious about what you think."

"Stop talking like that. You sound thirty years older than you are," Saito said with a laugh causing Phillipa to smile in return. "But no, it's not really strange. Your father and I were in a relationship for what feels like a life time ago. You'll probably understand it better once you get older."

"I think I understand it just fine," she replied. It was in a snooty voice though, more like an enlightened voice.

"Well, you're certainly smart enough to," Saito said. "Just promise me you'll stay like this and that you won't turn into a bratty teenager or anything."

Phillipa laughed as she said, "My dad tells me the exact same thing."

Saito chuckled with her, as they continued on for the search for candy.