Hallowe'en was Emily's time of year. Of course it was. Well, technically, it was Reid's. It was his favourite holiday, after all. But she enjoyed it too. Mainly for the aesthetic because, come on, it was her.
She also enjoyed decorating, for some holidays anyway and quite happily used Hallowe'en as an excuse to do just that. Like with Christmas, Emily made sure that her apartment properly reflected the holiday. Which may or may not mean that her apartment ended up looking like a haunted house.

Garcia knew this which meant that she persuaded Emily to help her decorate her office. Which, to be honest, didn't take much persuading on the currently blonde's part.

"I had some decorations left over," Emily greeted Garcia as she came into her office. "I don't know if you already had some..."

Emily's voice trailed off as she noticed the, ahem, explosion of orange and black decorations that were in boxes and on Garcia's desks. There was some purple and red mixed in there as well but it was overwhelmingly black and orange. Of course Garcia already had decorations.

"Oh, yay! More," she said eagerly, making grabby hands at the box Emily was holding, which Emily gladly handed over.

"It's not much," she warned.

Really just the leftover from her decorating, so it was a real oddball assortment. There was a pumpkin man dressed up as a cat, some plastic bats and spiders and a string of ghost lights.

"It's perfect," Garcia said happily, pulling out a tiny cat ornament with a witches hat on it.

Emily had an embarrassing amount of those. She apparently couldn't help herself when it came to them. Case in point, that particular one she had bought on her way onto work this morning. Look, it was cute and the hat was oversized on the little cat. She couldn't just walk past it now, could she? Of course not! The question now was where to put it. There was no good spot left in her apartment and it deserved to have a prominent one, be shown off. Were there rules about Hallowe'en decorations on your desk? Well, it was going there today.

"You always have amazing decorations," Garcia said enviously. "Where do you find them all?"

"Well, Hallowe'en is my aesthetic," Emily bragged. "But it is only a cat dressed up and other bits and pieces. Nothing special."

Spencer chose this moment to poke his head around the door.

"What's your aesthetic?" He asked Emily and then looked over to Garcia. "Do you still need a hand with the decorations?"

"Hallowe'en, " Emily replied at the same time Garcia said, "Of course!"

"I think that went without saying," he chuckled and dodging the pinch that Emily attempted.

She was extremely satisfied to watch as Spencer's normal lack of grace came into play. Sure, he managed to successfully avoid her punching him but that movement made him collide with a box on one of Garcia's desks which of course went tumbling to the ground. Spencer followed suit also managing to tangle himself in a string of pumpkin lights.

"Careful!" Garcia yelped.

Emily just laughed, like the good friend she was. It dodnt help that when Reid lifted his head that he somehow had the lights wound around him. Emily laughed harder.

"I'm okay. I think," he said hesitantly, looking around him.

"Are you sure?" Garcia asked worriedly.

"He's fine," Emily said dismissively, hauling him up.

"Hey," he said, dusting himself off and shedding glitter from whatever ornaments he had landed on. "That was your fault."

"My fault? You were the one who fell."

"Because I was avoiding a punch from you!"

"Well, you should have just taken it and then this wouldn't have happened," she said, gesturing at his current state.

Huh, the lights had switched on from whatever way Reid landed on them. They were blinking.

"And just let you punch me?"

"Exactly."

It made perfect sense to her. He shook his head in despair. The look was somewhat ruined by the lights in his hair. He tugged at them but they didnt budge. It looked like they were properly tangled in there. Now it was her turn to roll her eyes. Trust Reid to manage that.

"Come on, she urged. "Let me get those off you."

He gave her a wary look but she pulled over a spare chair and pointed at it. He knew better than to disobey that particular look.

"Ouch," Spencer winced as Emily tried to free him from the lights.

"Stay still."

"I am!"

"You're not!"

"Ow!"

"That's what happens when you don't stay still."

"How can I stay still if you're yanking at my head?"

She gave him a particularly hard tug for that comment. He yelped loudly.

"Play nice!" Garcia chided which neither of them paid any attention to.

"How did you even managed to get them tangled in your hair anyway?" Emily asked in exasperation. "You just fell on top of them, not rolled through them."

"I don't know! Ow!"

"Stop being a baby."

"I'm not being a baby!"

"Ah ha!"

She managed to get a whole length free. Sure, it was still attached to his head but some of it was free.

"This is still - ow! - all your - ow! - fault!" He told her between yelps.

Emily decided that it was best to not even reply to him. Baby.

"Are you untangling them from my hair or pulling my hair out?"

"Well, I was doing the former out of the goodness of my heart but I could do the latter if you wish?" Emily asked in a dangerously sweet voice.

"Please don't."

There were go. Far more subdued. Good. Eventually Emily got the string of lights freed from Reid's hair without cracking his neck or taking out clumps of hair. Mind you, his hair was now even more unruly than before and literally sticking up in all directions.

This meant that they could actually help with the decorating. You know, the whole reason they were here in the first place.

"Where do you want these nesting pumpkins?" Spencer asked, unable to resist taking them all out and lining them up.

They each had a different face, some cute and smily and others fierce and frowny. The tiniest, little one had the most adorable glare on it.

"Oh, here," Garcia said, clearing a stack of files from the side of her desk. "Make them look in different directions."

Reid did as he was told and Emily had to admit that the effect was quite nice.

"Is that tinsel?" Emily asked, pulling a string of it free from the box.

"Uh huh," Garcia replied around her mouthful of zipties. "It has bats!"

Emily looked closer at it in confusion and then saw it. Huh. It really did have tiny, foil bat shapes in it. Cool. She definitely had to start decorating more for Hallowe'en.

Pumpkins and some cats was definitely not enough. In her defence, she hadn't realised just how many decorations were out there beyond the bog standard ones. There was only so much you could do with a collection of bats, spiders and pumpkins. Oh, and cotton cobwebs. Though, she couldn't have those anymore because she had an actual cat who thought that spiderwebs were toys for him and caused all sorts of chaos with the ripped pieces of them because of course they never stayed whole for very long. Even the ones made out of actual rope!

"What has bats?" Morgan asked, sticking his head in. "You guys having a party without me?"

"A decorating party," Reid said, playing with the webs between his fingers.

"Oh, you can help," Garcia said, dragging Morgan in without giving him a chance to refuse.

So, he got stuck in too. Despite there not being a lot of deocrations, no one seemed to agree where the best places for them were. Each placement leading to some sort of bickering.

"There will be no spiders over here!" Garcia said loudly as Morgan dumped out a bucket of plastic spiders.

He looked up and raised an eyebrow in question.

"If one fake spider makes it anywhere near me while you are decorating, I swear I will punch you."

That vehement statement from Garcia got more that a few eyebrows rising.

"Baby girl, are you actually capable of punching someone?" Morgan asked in amusement.

"If spiders are involved? Yes. Well, maybe. Probably not," Garcia admitted and then crossed her arms. "But I won't like it."

"We could just not use them?" Spencer suggesting, placing the one he was holding back into the box.

But Garcia wasn't having it it.

"No!" She said, much to their confusion. "It can't be Hallowe'en without spiders!"

"Pretty sure everything else shows that it's Hallowe'en," Morgan tried to placate her.
Spencer nodded. "There's no need to have something that scares you near you."

"No, no, no!" Garcia shook her head vigorously. "There has to be spiders. There has to be!"

The three agents looked at each other and then shrugged, none of them able to make sense of their friend. It was better just to go along with it.

"Okay, the spiders stay," Morgan said.

"As they should." Garcia crossed her arms. "Can't leave anyone out."

They all shared a smile at that very typical Garcia statement.

"I'll make sure to stick them on well and won't put them above you," Emily reassured her.
All that did was earn her a highly sceptical look before she slowly nodded.

"I guess that will do."

"Where do you want these lights?" Reid asked, holding out the ones that had until recently been in his hair.

Emily immediately took them off him and she got an insulted look for her trouble.

"Yeah, you aren't doing anything with these."

"Why is pretty boy not allowed the lights?"

"Doesn't matter," Reid said quickly which of course made Morgan even more curious.

Emily let a grin spread across her face making Reid groan.

"We had a little bit of an incident earlier."

Morgan looked extremely happy at that prospect. "Oh, really?"

"I have pictures!" Garcia said happily.

Reid groaned again.