Halloween

Prompt: themutantunderground "I don't think I've ever seen that much candy before."

"Well don't get excited, it's all mine."

Soulmate AU

Child!Lorna: Age 10

Child!Marcos: Age 12

Foster parents!: ThunderBlink

It's Halloween when Lorna finally gets to unleash her Uber innocence and childlike tendencies.

Marcos could only safely say that because he currently eyeing a dolled up Lorna bouncing on sugar rush all over their sofa with a fond grin on his own face as she squeals, high from the sugar and deliriously happy at not needing to dye her hair black.

He spies Clarisse laughing loudly at the corner, no longer shy and tentative as Lorna and her both Bellow out a cheer, clinking glasses as they pore over each distinctive mark on their bodies that usually differentiated them from the rest as mutants.

Halloween was the day that Lorna could be herself in the outside world, safe from scrutiny and judging eyes because of costumes and makeup that people took to wearing as tradition, which meant green hair for Lorna and no make up and contacts for Clarisse. He watches as John strides over to Clarisse and hooks an arm tenderly around her waist, and Marcos chuckles as Lorna pouts at their display of affection.

"Hey Lorn." He laughs as she squeals and throws herself into his arms, humming happily as she snuggles contentedly into his arms, curling her small arms around his neck and burying her face in the crook of his neck, one hand obssessively touching the mark of the Aurora Borealis near his collar bone fleetingly.

His body thrums with happiness as Lorna tucks her legs around his waist and he swings her around happily, glad to see the full blown smile on his small Soulmates adorable face.

"Shall we go?"

"Trick or Treat!" Her small hand is warm in his as she crows happily, tearing off down the path and nearly dragging him through the bushes as Clarisse and John both laugh at his expense.

"Whoa whoa! Slow down!" He catches her just as she trips and nearly falls, only to realise that he's fallen for her trick as she falls on him with a scream of delight, giggling happily as she smudges fresh snow in his face, her cheeks pink and red like fresh apples from the cold wind. "You shouldn't do that." He dusts the snow off her coat gently, chiding with a fond smile on his face.

"But Marcos always catches me!" The absolute trust in her tiny smile warms his lonely heart as she hugs his chest quickly, fingers latching onto his hands as she tugs him down the lawn to the next house. "Come on! Or else we'll lose all the candy!"

Both of them trudge up the pathway to the house of their neighbours, and Lorna's as flighty as a bird as she reaches up to ring the doorbell.

"Trick or Treat!" Both of them chorused at the same time, identical cute grins on their faces as they held out their buckets (Marcos was holding the fluffy bunny bucket Lorna had spent a day making for him, complete with green fur and sparkling atrocious lights, while Lorna held his wire bucket that he made for her, the strands glowing and gleaming prettily with his solar energy, the stones he'd imbued his powers with shattering into bright beautiful light.)

"If it isn't our adorable young Soulmates." The lady at the door coos as she dumps the sweets into the bucket. "You look dashing as usual, Marcos. And Lorna! What a pretty darling you are!"

"He's handsome." Marcos can't stop his cheeks from blushing as Lorna leans forward conspiratorially to agree with their neighbour. "He just doesn't know it yet."

"Oh and what are you gonna do when pretty ladies come chasing after him, young one?"

"Chase them away!" Marcos' heart swells in his chest as Lorna swells importantly, her eyes bright. "Marcos is mine!"

He smiles shyly as she grabs his hand possessively and tugs them away from the house, not before he turns to wave a shy goodbye to the nice lady neighbor that had given them sweets only moments before.

….

They both cold and tired at the end of the trick or treat, noses red from the cold but buckets filled to the brim with sweets that could very well send them into diabetes and sugar rush the next week.

"I don't think I've ever seen so much candy before." Marcos heaves his heavy bucket of sweets onto the table just as Lorna clambers up with hers, a trail of sweets from her pretty bag he had made for her scattering over the floor as she totters slightly in her overblown dress.

"Well, don't get excited. It's all mine!" Marcos only smiles tenderly as he picks up the stray sweets she scatters all over the place in her absolute glee, before placing them back on the table.

"I'm cold." Lorna sniffles, and Marcos immediately turns, his palms lighting up to cup her gently as he rubs her freezing hands and shoulders.

"There there. All better?"

"Mhm!" The bright lights are back in her hazel green eyes as she beams at Marcos.

"Are we pooling our sweets together?" Marcos grunts as he emptied out his basket onto the table. "You can pick the ones you like first though." Lorna hums in reply, and Marcos is simply content in watching the usually reserved her burn with a bright exuberance that only Lorna has in her extreme throes of delight.

"Well, someone is extremely happy today." John leans forward on his muscular arms as he peers at the two children, one bursting with happiness and Sparks of greenish electrical energy as she bounces on the back of her feet, the other, simply happy and content at watching the other being so deliriously excited.

"That's because we have sweets!" Lorna all but squeals as John chuckles.

"But you can't eat all today." The loud groan from Lorna sends Marcos patting her back comfortingly by her side as she whines.

"You'll get cavities if you eat too much, Lorn." He advises like the cool soulmate he is to his hot headed counterpart.

"But!"

"We can have some today, then more tomorrow, can't we Uncle John?" John sighs as he relents at the slight tilt of Marcos' head. If he didn't agree to what Marcos said, he might as well prepare himself for the very rare loud tantrum in the form of Lorna Dane coming his way.

"Alright alright. But you have to listen to Marcos, alright?"

"Yes!" The cheeky cheer is back on Lorna's face and John chuckles, knowing that despite Marcos solemn promise, he was pretty much a big pushover when it actually came to his soulmate.

He smiles back at Clarisse as she waits for him at the door, the pleasant sound of Marcos and Lorna (who already crammed two sweets in her mouth and was begging for Marcos to let her have more) behind them in the kitchen.

"Come on, big guy. We've got our own Halloween to trick or treat." John chuckles at his girlfriend's cheeky grin, and slides the doors close behind them, curling his arms around Clarisse's waist and pressing a fond kiss to her cheek.

"Happy Halloween, babe."

So xD this one turned out pretty unexpected, because I had no idea it would end up with both ThunderBlink and Eclaris.