Chapter 9-
A/N: IEEEEE!!!! HAPPY LATE HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!!! Tosses out candyOk I have a tiny little request for everyone here, I want all of YOU, the reviewers to tell me about your Halloweens! I would love to hear about them. Mine was uber cool, the weekend of I volunteered at a haunted house and at the very end I silly stringed the guy who was Dracula!! But then he kind of chased me up the hill with a bottle of red juice that was labeled blood. ;;; Then on Halloween I went trick or treating with my friends and walked around a grave yard, paying the proper respect to the spirits of course.
Normal P.O.V-
Anna and Alice pulled Carl into the bushes, Alice plopped down and look at the friar and began to poke him in the nose, repeatedly.
"Hey come on Carl, wake up. Wakeie wakeie eggs and bacie" Alice whispered, Carl began to mumble.
"I'll have a slice of bacon please...."
Anna looked at the friar, then back to Alice, who smiled.
"It works on Jimmy all the time." She said, just as Carl's eyes opened.
"Where's the bacon?" He said looking up at the two females.
Anna smiled. "There is none, Alice thought you where dangerous and nearly smacked you with a stick and you passed out."
"Oh." Carl said.
"Heh.... sorry bout that." Alice said.
"Well I thought you where a monster."
"Oh that's nice!" Alice glared and Anna just rolled her eyes.
"Have you seen Gabriel?" She said.
"Yes I was just coming to find you." Carl got up and turned back into the bushes "Follow me." The small group followed Carl through the thick bushes to the rocks where James sat cross-legged, looking down at Van Helsing, who was glaring up at the latter and still curled into a ball, Libby looked like she was ready to attack the former.
"What happened?" Anna quickened her step and dropped down beside Helsing and Alice looked to Carl, who looked to Libby who pointed at James before smacking him upside the head causing him to fall face first into the leaves.
"He kicked Helsing in a very southern spot." Libby said, still glaring at James, who was now picking leaves out of his teeth.
Anna, who heard none of this because she was talking to her fallen hunter, the latter's face being almost purple.
Alice made an odd face at James before glaring evilly at him, making him hiccup and swallow a leaf, which he immediately began to cough back up.
"Anyone seen Kate?" Libby said suddenly.
Kate's P.O.V-
I could barely breath; it felt as though my lungs where on fire, just like someone lit a fire in my lungs and forgot to put it out!!
"Tell me!! TELL ME WHERE THE AMULET IS!!!!" Adriana yelled, my vision was swarming, but I could see like it was bright out.
"N-no! GO TO HELL!!!!"
With every ounce of strength in my body I pushed up and felt no pain, that witch was caught off guard and I charged at her, slamming my shoulder into her gut, making her fall to the ground. Clutching at her stomach, unable to breath. Suddenly just in front of me appeared Corbett.
"Sister!" He cried settling his gaze upon me, eyes flaring yellow. "You...little..." I rammed into him before he could finish his sentence. He collapsed to the ground, holding his rib cage. I ran straight at the blackness in front of me and hit it. To me to seemed like a very think jello, when I hit it I slowed down so much that time itself seemed to slow with me. I could see the moon shining brightly, the strange brightness of my vision dissipated and I broke through the blackness and landed hard on my knees, in front of some rocks.
"What the hell was THAT?!" I said rather loudly. Suddenly I heard a coughing from around the rock and then Libby say "Anyone seen Kate?"
I jumped over the rocks and landed next to James, who was coughing up a ball of leaves.
"We got ta run for it!!" I said.
Alice and Libby jumped while Anna and Van Helsing, who was curled up in a ball looked up at me. At that moment Kevin rounded the corner.
Normal P.O.V-
Libby and Alice stood up and grabbed Kevin by the arms and began to pull him along as they ran, Anna and Van Helsing, who was now able to stand, where bringing up the rear with Kate pulling James along, the latter still trying to dislodge the leaf from his throat. Watcher suddenly jumped down from the trees and fell in step with the rest without saying a word. He cast an eye toward Helsing and looked questioningly at James but said nothing.
Mall-
Van Helsing and company walked through the doors of the large mall, Anna, Van Helsing and Carl where staring around amazed. Kate and the other teens pulled them into a small alcove.
"Ok, no one is allowed to Helsing Van Helsing, just call him Gabriel." Kate said.
Everyone agreed.
"Hey, stay close to us, Ok? This is a big place and easy to get lost." Alice said.
"Right, so who is sticking with who if we must separate?" James said, having dislodged the leaf just before walking into the mall.
"I want to stick by Hel-Gabriel and Anna." Libby said.
"But I want to stay with them." Kevin said, crossing his arms.
"No way, you stay with Watcher." Libby shot back.
"Well, I'm staying with Carl." James said.
"I'll stay with Watcher, Kev." Alice said.
"How about we figure it out when it comes?" Kate said, looking around. "We are starting to get odd looks...."
All of the group walked out of the alcove, except for Carl as he was fascinated with the water fountain, he was looking at it and trying to figure out how to turn it on. He stuck his face up to the spicket, but his hand slipped and hit the button causing water to spout out and go up his nose. He began to sputter and cough while dancing around in a little circle. James was staring at him, he shook his head and pulled Carl over with the rest of the group.
"That's a water fountain, Carl." He said.
Carl finished coughing. "Oh...I was wondering was that boxy thing was."
Libby, Alice, Anna and Gabriel where silently laughing, trying to hide their smiles but failing, badly.
Carl was glaring at them, James flicked the girl's ears.
"HEY! I need that to like hear!!" Libby said holding onto her ear and glaring back at him.
Alice glared and poked him hard in the arm.
"OWIE!! Radar fingers of death and doom!!" He held onto his arm.
"Oh yeah! Jimmy, I wanted to say something to you earlier." Kate said.
"Hmm?" James said, eyeing the girls wearily.
"Why did you kick Gabriel there?! He NEEDS that to do stuff with!!" Kate said smacking her cousin in the arm.
"OW! Hey! It wasn't my fault! I thought he was that creep Corbett." James protested.
By this time the group was standing outside of Hot Topic. Gabriel looked up at the store and walked away, Anna followed as did Carl. Suddenly Alice looked up and blinked.
"Hey...where did Gabriel go?"
"Erm.. in there." Watcher said, wondering off into the store.
The teens looked at one another and went in after the rest. Once inside they found Anna looking at the selection of pants and the corsets, Gabriel was looking at the boots and the jeans while Carl was looking at the Nightmare Before Christmas stuff, he seemed to be taking quite a liking to Jack Skelington's dog. Kate walked over to where Anna was, Libby and Alice B-lined to the music line, Kevin and Watcher went over to Gabriel and James walked over to Carl.
"Why don't ya try it on Anna?" Kate said. Anna looked at her.
"We can do that?" She said.
"How else would you see if you like it?"
"You do have a point."
"Now we just have to figure out your size...." Kate began to mumble size conversions to herself while Anna wondered over to look at the jewelry.
"Hey, Gabriel I think you should go try on some a this stuff." Kevin said, picking up a pair of black jeans with chains hanging off of the sides, a skull was formed when the legs came together.
"HA! I'll bet a lot of people from my time could have a ball in here." Watcher said.
Gabriel raised an eyebrow and suddenly turned red. He had turned around only to come face to face with ladies underpants with fruit on them. He promptly turned back around and wondered over to where Alice and Libby where looking at CDs. Leaving Kevin and Watcher cracking up.
Kate had just picked out the right size for Anna and was now pulling her over to the changing room.
"Just go in there and put them on and come on out and see how you like them." Kate said stopping in front of the changing rooms. Anna took the clothes and walked inside.
Alice and Libby now had Gabriel listening to Korn. He was scrunching up his face and trying to take the head phones off.
"Gabriel! How can you not like Freak on a leash?!" Alice said looking at him strangely.
"That's because he would probably like something...less....something like Sither." Libby plopped the headphones on Gabriel's head and turned on Broken. The latter began to bob his head to the music.
Carl was looking over a stuffed doll of Jack Skelington when Watcher and Kevin came over.
"Oooo! Hey I remember loving that movie, it's a classic in my time." Watcher said picking up the large pillow of him.
"I always knew it wud be one." Kevin said.
"I don't know what this is but it's rather cute." Carl said, picking up the small ghost dog.
Kevin and Watcher looked at one another.
Back at the changing room Anna stepped out and Kate turned around, she broke out into a smile.
Anna was dressed in a red and gold corset with black pants with purple straps and D-rings that had cloth straps criss-crossing in the back. Under the corset was a black short t-shit with purple fishnet going down her arms.
"Looks sweet Anna." Kate said.
"Really?" Anna said. Kevin, Watcher and James had just turned around to see Anna and they all stopped and looked. Watcher shook his head and began to look at the shoes.
"Wow Anna! We have to show Gabe." James said, disappearing and then reappearing with Gabriel, Alice and Libby. The first former's jaw dropped, he quickly picked it up and walked over to her.
"You look wonderful, Anna." He said.
Alice roller her eyes and pulled the rest over to where Carl was.
"He needs look too, don't you think?" Libby said, looking at the friar.
"Yeah, it would be odd." Kevin said, he had his hand on his chin.
"We should give Gabriel and Carl a new look, just for this time anyway..." Alice said.
"How about ummm...that shirt and those pants?" James said pointing to a shirt that said "I just want to cuddle" and a pair of black pants with red thread and chain mail on the front of them.
"Ooo, defiantly cool, James." Watcher said. "But...he needs a jacket, he looks better with one." He began to scan the wall of jackets to the right of him.
"Wait...how are we going to pay for all of this??" Kate said. "I may have a credit card but I only have enough for one outfit from here and costumes."
Watcher smiled and leaned on air. "I have enough for all the outfits."
"What?! How??" James said, nearly giving himself whiplash.
"Well...I have acquired a lot of money in every time frame sooooo I will take care of these guys and you can get the costumes." Watcher said pulling out a credit card. "Deal?"
"But, you might need that." Kate said. "Just to save some money, take my Hot Topic card and get at least one of the items free." Kate took out her card and handed it to Watcher.
"No, I can cover it." Watcher said making to hand it back to her, but James stopped him.
"Trust me, dude. When my cousin insists on something, it usually happens . Especially if it deals with paying for stuff." James said, he then went back to looking at the jackets. Watcher blinked.
Anna was suddenly behind the group, back in her normal clothes.
"Oh hey, we are getting you that outfit, Anna." Libby said.
"Oh, ok." She looked at the teens. "What are you thinking..."
"Just goin ta give Carl and Gabe a new look for this time." Kevin said. "I like that jacket right there." He pointed to a short one with white puffy things coming out of it. "It's rather gentleman like." Anna looked at it.
"Who is it going to be for." She asked.
"Carl." Alice replied, she had returned with the specified clothes.
Anna looked at the clothes and then the jacket and shook her head.
"Does he have to have a jacket?" he asked. "Why can't he have that vest over there?" She pointed to a long vest coat type thing with no sleeves.
"Oh! Wow...that's uber cool, Anna, but what about this?" Alice held up a black zipper up jean jacket that had a cross patch on it.
"Hmm... that is good." Anna said. "The longer one can go to Gabriel."
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking." Libby said.
"Ahhh!! The friend speak is migrating to Anna!!" James said suddenly after grabbing the larger vest jacket with a hook. Libby glared at James then smiled.
"Its official, you are turning into one of us." She said.
Anna tilted her head confused. "What?"
"When ever the friend speak migrates to someone in our group then they are conforming to the reverse M&M theory." James said to the gypsy princess.
Anna blinked repeatedly. "I do not think I wish to know." She said with a smile.
"Hrm..." Just then Gabriel had walked over and was looking at the group. "What is going on?" He said.
"Your getting a new look for this time." Kevin said.
Watcher returned with a black shirt that said "You laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the same." And the pair of pants they where looking at earlier.
Later-
The group was outside of Hop Topic, everyone that was part of the Helsing crew was dressed from head to foot in new clothes. Watcher was looking at the receipt while Kevin and James were helping out Carl with his chains, which he had gotten tangled up in.
Carl was dressed in a black shirt that read "I just want to cuddle, black jeans with red thread and chain mail on the front, he kept his normal shoes, despite offers to get him a new pair by Watcher. Carl had gotten the chain mail on his pants stuck together, how, nobody even knew yet because the chain mail was on the front of his pants! James was holding him up while Kevin was trying to disentangle the linked bits of metal.
"Ah swear Carl, how did you even do this??" Kevin said, working at a clump of chains.
"I don't know! I just stood up and it was like that." He said, while trying not to fall into James.
"Did you happen to cross your legs?" James asked pushing the friar back up into a standing position, as he almost fell over.
"Yes..." Carl answered, regaining his balance.
"Don't." Kevin and James said together.
Gabriel was dressed in black jeans, with the skull and chains on them, his black shirt read "You laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the same." His boots remained the same. He was currently playing with the chains on the side of his pants.
Anna was dressed in the outfit she had tried on earlier. She was standing in front of a jewelry store admiring a ring in one of the windows. It was a gold band with a clear diamond in the center of it, simple yet beautiful. Libby came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder and they began to converse quietly. Gabriel looked up and sighed.
Gabriel's P.O.V-
I sighed as I watched Anna, looking into the store.
I wish I could...but...I just can't, stupid vow of celibacy.
I looked up and continued to play with the chain that was connected to these odd pants absentmindedly.
I could...no...I was sent to do God's work...would the order let me?
I let out another sigh and turned my head to see Watcher, was he watching me watch Anna?
Even if I could...I just don't have the funds...
I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked up to see Watcher.
Normal P.O.V-
Anna and Libby where deep in conversation, Watcher and Gabriel had just begun to converse. Alice was now helping with James and Kevin and Kate had wondered over to the store window and joined the conversation.
"Oh jeez Carl, how'd you do this?!" Alice said, looking at the now almost untangled mass of chain mail.
"I crossed my legs." He said, almost loosing his balance again, but James and Alice caught hold of him and righted him. Kevin was working at the last three tangled bits of metal.
"Didn't one of these guys tell you not to do that?" Alice said.
"No." Carl replied.
"He always has on those robes, how would we know if he ever crosses his legs?" Kevin said as he got the last chain link untangled.
"Good point." Alice said. At that point the others had joined them.
"Your free Carl!!" Libby said.
"Where are we going to next?" Gabriel asked.
"Everything Halloween." Replied the group.
They began to ascend the steps in from of them to the second floor, upon reaching it they stopped in front of a large store with many Halloween items displayed around the windows.
"I don't like this store...." Carls said, meekly from behind the others.
"Relax, none of its real." Watcher said.
The group walked into the store and the Helsing crew became fascinated by the many masks and costumes and wondered off in different directions, while the teens flocked to the section of adult costumes.
Alice began to giggle insanely at a costume of a friar; Libby walked over and looked oddly at her friend who was paralyzed by laughter. Libby looked at the costume and sputtered with laughter. At that moment Carl wondered over, stopped and looked at the costume before turning extreamly red, almost purple, he turned around so fast that he didn't see Gabriel, who was smirking at the wardrobe, and slammed into him. The said costume was of a friar with a very noticeable, not to mention big, lump on the front of his robes. The name of the wrong costume was "Keeping up the faith."
On the other side of the store Anna picked up a large plastic sword and was looking curiously at it. Suddenly her eyes caught a row of long velvet capes and vampire fangs.
What a curious holiday...it certainly isn't like this in my time. Anna thought as she picked up the fangs.
She got up and looked at all the hats and masks, a row of feathered old style masks caught her eye, one in particular. She walked over to it and shuddered.
I thought I would never have to see that mask again. She turned around to come face to face with a store attendant.
"How can I help you?" The woman said.
"Um... yes...I was wondering if you had...any angel costumes?"
Gabriel picked up a set of black-feathered wings and chuckled at the irony of it all. At that moment Kevin and Kate wondered up behind him.
"You should be an angel of darkness for the party Gabe" Kate said picking up a pair of larger wings.
"Yeah it'd suit you perfectly." Kevin said.
At that moment Anna joined the group, in her hands she held a large pair of pure white angel wings.
"I have found what I am going to wear." She said. Kate and Kevin smiled.
"Now you have to be the angel of darkness Gabriel, you need ta compliment one another. Kevin said, picking the wings back up and handing them to the monster hunter. Gabriel sighed, looked over to Anna and smiled again at the irony.
"Ok." He replied. The group moved over to join the rest, who were still looking for a costume for Carl.
"Come on Carl, you should be a werewolf!" Alice said, showing him the werewolf costume.
"No! It's too scary." Libby said rolling her eyes. "He might look at himself in a mirror and pass out!"
"That's right," Carl paused for a second and then glared at the girl in front of him. "Hey I don't scare that easily!"
"Braraaaaaaaaaw!" Carl whipped around to come face to face with an evil clown mask. He let out a little yelp and went disturbingly pale.
Gabriel took off the mask and smiled boyishly at his friend, who glared at him.
"What was that about you not scaring, Carl?" Gabriel said, placing the mask back in its place.
"Why don't you be a vampire?" Libby said, holding up an all black cape and a pair of fangs.
"... Do I have to have the fangs?" Carl said, eyeing the realistic fangs wearily.
"Yes." Answered all of the teens in unison.
"Oh alright, just as long as I can take them out if I don't like them..." Carl said, taking the items.
"Deal." Libby said. They went to the register and within 10 minuets they where outside of the store with their purchases.
"We should be getting back to Kate's home." Gabriel said.
"In a sec, I need to get DDR Extreme from Game Stop first." Kate said.
"I thought you only had enough for the costumes..." Watcher said.
"She reserved a copy before it came out, oh futuristic one." Kevin said, jabbing the future traveler in the ribs quickly and jokingly. Watcher's face fell as he straightened back up, he rolled his eyes at the younger boy and they began to walk. Soon the group was at Game Stop, Kate disappeared in for a second and then came speeding out with her hat pulled low over her head and two people running after her. Gabriel and Anna immediately became alarmed and moved to come between the teens chasing Kate. A boy dressed all in black, with a black trench coat that looked a little like Neo's from Matrix. Ran out in front of the rest, dodged Gabriel and Anna before making a rather spazzy movement and stopping several inches before her and glomping Kate around the neck. A girl with long brown hair and an athletic build dressed in an anti-happy outfit, came racing into the group and glomping both of them.
"Urgh. Hi guys." Kate said her voice was muffled from the two people glompage. They let go and the teen in all anti-happy smiled.
"Have you been avoiding us?" She said.
"No, Rachel, I haven't. I've got guests." Kate replied pointing to Gabriel, Anna and Carl.
Rachel was in Kate's grade.
She peered over at the three and smiled broadly. "Heeeeeeeeeey, you guys got Helsing clones!" This made the three shift uncomfortably, as Rachel became suddenly fascinated with Gabriel and just stared, making him shift oddly.
"Heh, yeah, right Rac, that one over there is Van Helsing, she's Anna and that is Carl the friar. "The kid in the trench coat said, laughing.
This was Marcum. He was a senior in Kate's school; he was also a DDR god, martial arts guru and Kevin's sensei. He was dressed in all black with a Neo coat and his black hair was semi spiked up.
"Your party is still in two days right, small one?" He said smiling as he dodged a poke from Kate.
"Yep, these guys." Kate gestured to the three behind her. "Are coming."
"Really? Oh coolness, where are they from?" Rachel said, tilting her head like an owl at the Helsing crew.
"Eastern Europe, that's Gabe, Anna and that little quirky guy over there is Carl." James said.
Marcum and Rachel stopped and looked at their companions.
"Your joking right?" Marcum said, walking over to Gabriel.
"No. That's their names." James said, completely oblivious to the stares he was getting from his friends. Marcum stopped and held out his hand.
"Hey, I'm Marcum." He smiled politely as each one of them shook his hand, Rachel just waved shyly. "Hey, listen, Kate, I'm bringing my god pads to your party." He smiled at the look on her face.
"Pads???" Kate, Libby and Alice said loudly. Marcum was already over by the railing of the steps.
"Yep, I got them." He waved and jumped on the railing. "See you at the party!" He pushed off, much to Rachel's chagrin, as she shot off yelling about him braking something important.
Libby shook her head muttering something about him being a show off, Kate glared after him but just smiled, Alice crossed her arms and smiled, shaking her head.
"Who where those kids?" Carl asked.
"A few friends." Libby answered.
Later-
The group was now back at Kate's house, she unlocked the door and they all filed in a single line. She shut the door and locked it, walked over to the couch and collapsed on it. The others followed suite.
"So wha happened ta ya Kate?" Kevin said looking up at the ceiling.
Kate sat up and sighed. "Adriana trapped me in some kinda think jello like black sphere thing, demanded the amulet and I didn't give it up so she put me into some kind of mind hold that caused me loads of pain. The funny thing was....that I could see in the blackness... like it was broad daylight or something, then I just got this huge boost of strength and rammed her in the gut, ran for it and nailed Corbett and jumped INTO the black jello stuff. It felt like time was slowly down with me as I hit it... then I came out and I was right next to you guys.... It was freaky." She finished.
"They...trapped you....in black jello...?" James said slowly trying to process the strangeness of it all. He made a funny confused face.
"Yes... I'm not sure what it was myself... you know anything Helsing?"
"No... I haven't heard of anything like that before." He replied, looking at Carl.
"Well, don't look at me!" The friar exclaimed.
Anna and Libby rolled their eyes.
"What ever it was... it made me feel like that damn beast was back." Kate said, seriously. "It makes me wonder if it was just latent all this time."
The group fell into shocked silence. After a few minuets of this Libby and Alice came over and hugged Kate.
"Are you ok now?" Alice said.
"Yeah, the feeling is gone, but it just scares me." Kate replied, hugging her friends back.
"There might be some of the beast left inside of you, something that will never go away." Van Helsing said, receiving a glare and many questioning looks. "I still have acute hearing and sight because of the werewolf in me that never truly left. Kate, you might just have something of the rage beast left in you, like night eye sight or improved strength."
"How do you know this?" James said, looking at him.
"When...when I was laying on the floor wounded." Libby cast her eyes downward, clearly still embarrassed about that. "I could feel... that your soul, Kate, was almost pure evil. That thing would have taken you over if God hadn't heard Anna and Libby's preys and sent me back. I was regranted an angelic power that I had lost when I became a werewolf, but only for a one-time use, I knew that I had to use it at that time. But what I felt was such an evil, more so than Dracula himself, that even if I didn't get that power back and somehow we defeated Dracula your soul would have been lost for good because your rage at that time was so great that... that you would have had to be destroyed. But I also felt something very powerful working to hold onto a small piece of your soul, to preserve your life, only it was becoming weaker by the minuet, it needed some help." He paused for a minuet. "I can still sense that very same darkness within your soul, only that light that fought so hard, your will, is much stronger than it and can keep it from growing. But that darkness is probably giving you improved strength or something along those lines." He finished.
Kate was in shock. She had thought that it was gone, for good.
"But... but how do I know that it wont come back?" She said meekly.
Van Helsing smiled kindly and moved over to the couch and looked her in the eye.
"It won't. I can sense that it wont."
"But..."
"Trust me."
Next day, Van Helsing's P.O.V-
I lay awake, unable to sleep past 6 A.M. I finally could no longer lay in bed and got up, as quietly as I could, so as not to wake the teens, they could sleep for hours on end but the slightest noise will wake them, I shook my head. I crept down the hall and past Anna's room, down the steps into the living room. I looked at Alice, Kevin and James all sleeping in a one corner, by the lightly smoldering fireplace.
They look almost angelic when they are asleep.
I smiled and then stopped just as I noticed the coldness of the room. I turned around to see Anna coming down the steps with a bunch of blankets in her arms. I looked at her and went over to the steps and took the blankets.
"What are you doing up so early?" I whispered, I had never known Anna to be up before 8 A.M when we were not on a mission.
"I couldn't sleep." She said. "So I came down stairs to get some fresh air and found the kids."
I smiled as we reached the bottom of the steps, we walked over to the couch and I set the blankets down.
"I'll restart the fire." I whispered, Anna nodded and began to place the blankets on the children so they would not be cold.
I bent down and removed the grate as quietly as possible, reached over and picked up more kindling and a few logs. I stopped and watched Anna place the blankets. I could not help but smile at the care she took as she tucked each blanket lightly in. I could not help but stop and watch her she was so beautiful. I blinked and realized just what I was doing; Anna had her head tilted and one eyebrow raised at me, I smiled at her and she smiled back, coming over to assist me with the fire place. Soon we had a good-sized fire going and the chill in the room was being knocked off quickly.
A little while later I was watching the sun come up over the horizon. Anna was snuggled against me on the couch type piece of furniture on Kate's deck. The day was going to be quite cloudy. Anna had fallen asleep a while ago. I looked down at her and sighed. She was so beautiful, so graceful.
Come on Gabriel, you've handled vampires, witches, and all kinds of nasty things with out flinching!! So why is it that I can't ask a simple question? Yes or no, a simple answer for a simple question. But is it really that simple? To ask my one true love...is it really that easy?
I was suddenly feeling extremely tired and drained, as if just thinking about this matter had sapped my energy. I looked back down at her and smiled.
I guess... it is easy to ask when you truly love them...but I must wait, for the right moment.
I closed my eyes and felt sleep take me away.
Normal P.O.V-
"Awe! Look, Alice isn't this just so sweet?" Libby whispered, pulling Alice over to the window. She looked out on to the deck and smiled. "Aww! That's sooo cute!" Alice said loudly. Libby glared at her.
"Ooooffff" Libby stumbled forward a bit and looked back to see a very sleepy and very annoyed Kevin fall back down onto the couch.
"What did I." She was cut off.
"Where his eyes closed that whole time?!" Alice said, a confused expression on her face.
Later, at Kate's Halloween party-
"I'm not coming out."
"Van, you have to!"
"Kate, you said I had to wear the costume, you never said anything about going out in public with it on."
"That's the whole reason we bought it!! So you could come to my party and not look out of place."
"I look silly."
"You didn't have any objections about it at the store."
"I didn't know that you would make me take off my shirt!"
"Stop whining or I'll send in one of the guys after you."
"I'm not whining."
"Then come out of the bathroom."
"No."
Kate growled in frustration at the monster hunter's stubbornness.
"Fine. Stay in the bathroom aalll night long while every guy at my party flirts with your girlfriend."
Shuffling could be heard from inside the bathroom and the door opened. Van Helsing stepped out. He was shirtless with large black wings adorning his back. Black baggy pants that had been bought earlier, black boots. The area around his eyes where kholed. He scowled at Kate and tried to walk away but Kate caught his arm.
"Any good angel can't forget his arm thingies." Kate smiled.
"Arm thingies?" Helsing raised his eyebrow apprehensively.
"I look ridiculous!"
"Anna, ya look fine."
"This outfit is far too revealing."
"No its not. Helsing will think you look hot."
"Hot? I look like one of Dracula's brides!!"
Alice broke into fits of giggles, while Libby sunk back on the wall.
"The whole point of this costume was for Halloween. There is going to be a Halloween party, so come out or I'm coming in."
"Don't you dare, Libby"
"Fine, I'll go get Gabriel and send him in."
A light click came from the other side.
"Do you want to stay in that room all night?"
"No..."
"Then come out."
"Can I put something else on?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because, it looks angel like."
"Angels don't have clothing that is this revealing."
"Van Helsing will be shirtless."
The click came again and the door opened and Anna walked out. She was wearing a pure white sleeveless tube top that stopped just at her middle abs with white jeans that covered her boots. Large white wings adorned her back.
"There, see you look fine." Libby said, Alice had stopped laughing and was nodding along.
Anna glared. "Where are your costumes?"
"Just put 'em in."
"No."
"Carl, there just fake fangs."
"They are scary."
"That's the whole point."
"You just said I had to set them. Not actually wear them!"
"Do you want to be a toothless vampire? Or do you want to look cool?"
"..."
"Wear them for an hour?"
"... Oh all right."
Carl put in the fake fangs and Kevin adjusted his cape and looked at his hair.
"We're gonna have ta fix that..."
"Fix what?"
A little later everyone was gathered in the now furniture cleared space of Kate's home. Most of the furniture had been pushed up against the wall or moved to another room earlier that day. Kevin popped in a special mix of songs and hit play; Werewolves of London began to play. Kevin was dressed in samurai robes that hung open to reveal shin length shorts, a katana and black boots. He had his upper body wrapped in black cloth with a red open vest clinging to the black material, the red vest ran down the length of his arms. Black dragons ran down the length of the arms. His hair was still tied back only it was tied back with a piece of cloth that was died black and red. His muscled body was well defined in this costume and he leaned casually against the wall, sipping a Pitch Black Mountain Dew.
James was dressed in a personally made fur-suit, it was the black werewolf that Van Helsing turned into. The mask was made from wire and had points on it so that every muscle in James's face would make a corresponding part of the costume move. Large white teeth made from wood and covered with white paint and glazed so that they looked white and evil. The fur was made from foe fur but he had dyed it to match himself. James had also made the paws extra durable and they looked and felt almost real. He was currently explaining how he got the suite to be so proportionate it his own body. This explanation-involved mind meltingly complicated mathematical equations.
Kate was dressed literally like the female version of Helsing. She was trying to get Van Helsing to let her barrow a certain crossbow.
"Please?"
"No."
"Why?"
"You might hurt someone."
"Oh come on, I'll put in an empty thing of arrows."
"Ermmm no."
"Pleeeease??"
Kate gave Van Helsing the puppy dogface and he slumped his shoulders.
"Just put an empty cartridge in it...and let me see it"
"IE!" Kate jumped up and hugged him around the neck "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!" She jumped down and bounded up the steps.
Alice was the female version of, you guessed it, Dracula. At the moment she was attempting to get a blanket away from Anna.
"Give up the blanket Anna! You are going to show off your costume. Its Halloween, it's a tradition!"
"It's too revealing!"
"Oh stop being miss puritan lady!"
Alice was pulling on the blanket that was wrapped around Anna.
"What?"
Anna gave another great tug.
"You're being silly. Now. Give. Me. The . Blanket!"
Alice tugged the blanket off of the princess and stumbled back falling on her butt. Libby walked in dressed as a psycho killer. She was in a straightjacket, with fake blood stains and a knife that was covered in dried fake blood and had fake blood inside of it. Her arms and legs had dangling bits of chain and cloth on them. She stopped and looked at the two before shaking her head and pulling Gabriel over, grabbing Alice and pulling her towards the door, which was being pounded upon. Libby dropped Alice and opened the door to be glomped by Marcum and Rachel.
"Argh!" Libby hit the floor and Alice in turn attackled those two.
"Hey! That's my leg! I need that to stand!!" Libby said, as Alice had just landed on her leg.
Carl came looking shyly around the corner, his hair was now dyed silver along with his natural hair color poking through in spots. He was dressed in a long cape with his Hot Topic stuff underneath.
"What's going on out here?" He asked.
"CAAAAAAAARL!!" Alice jumped up and glomped him, bringing him down onto the floor with the rest of the teens.
"Ooooffff... are you always this physical?"
"Yes." Answered the group.
Later on at Kate's party-
The music was loud and pumping, the attendants of the party included Frankenstein, wolf man, Dracula, Batman, Catwoman and Neo. At that moment "Broken" by Sither came on.
"Gabriel, Anna! Dance!" Kate said, pushing the two angels together on the floor. They looked a bit awkward at first, but Gabriel took Anna's arm and they began to do a tiny little waltz over the floor of the house.
Marcum came over and nudged Kate in the side. She looked back.
"Those two make a good couple, just like the characters, huh?" He said, watching the two through the black lenses of his sunglasses.
"Er, yeah, in fact they are going out..." She replied without thinking.
"Really? If I didn't know you better I would say that you are lying."
"Heh."
Just then Marcum noticed Kevin casting nervous glances at Kate. He smiled and mouthed something to him, he shook his head and turned slightly red. Marcum bowed his head and shook it before walking away. Rachel came over and stabbed Kate in the sides making her jump two feet into the floor and Marcum, on the other side of the room pushed Kevin out on the floor.
"You two have to dance now!" Marcum shouted above the music. "Hurry before the song ends."
The two teens glared at their respective friends who just smiled innocently and waved. They then looked at one another and began to nervously make their way over to one another.
"Awe looks like the little wench had a boyfriend." An Italian accented voice range out.
"How sickenly sweet...lets kill them." Came the deep Transylvanian voice of Corbett.
"Oh you've gotta be shittin me!" Kate said, turning around to see the two.
"Feisty aren't you..." Adriana said, throwing a table that stood in her way aside.
"HEY! Damn it! That's my mom's!!" Kate yelped out as the table cracked up against the wall.
"Shut up. You tell me where that amulet is or I will beat it out of you." Adriana said.
"Who the hell are you?!" Marcum said, stepping in between Kate and Adriana, his protective nature coming in.
"None of your business child." Corbett said.
Marcum glared darkly from above the rims of his glasses.
"What are you going to do?" The dark man replied.
"What ever I can." Kate and Marcum replied together.
In a corner Rachel, Carl and Libby where looking on.
"Who are those two?" Rachel asked, looking at Corbett.
"People..." Libby said, she received a poke in the side.
"I know that...but who are they?!"
"Girls, this is not the time to explain here. Listen, I need you two to distract them while go upstairs and retrieve a certain glass, then we will explain."
"What does a"
"Explain later, follow my lead." Libby said, running out onto the floor and hopping onto Corbett's back. Rachel stared for a few seconds before dashing out and tackling his knees, effectively knocking his sister over. Everyone began to dog pile onto the evil siblings.
"Get off me you little brats!!" Screamed Adriana.
"I'm through being polite!!" Corbett began to raise up just as a blue light came from around the corner and everything in the Hartford household went quite.