A/N: Requested for a non-Halloween thing, but I co-opted it into a Fictober prompt because, well, I had to!

Enjoy!

"What's he supposed to be?" Ann asked, looking down at the black-clad and oddly white baby in April's arms.

She actually bothered to go out and attend the annual Ludgate-Dwyer pre-Halloween Halloween party. Or semi-annual. Either way, Ann got cards that were from them, usually just gags or a stupid card that would yell insults at her over and over always in April's recorded voice. This time she took the kids, along with Chris, and decided it was time to see what was so amazing since the last time she saw the now expanding family. A few other people were there that Ann didn't know, but the constituents seemed oddly full of people from Pawnee, and specifically the Parks Department.

So much for hating everyone who worked there, Ann thought smugly.

"A vampire!" April said with such enthusiasm that it worried Ann.

Andy bobbed his head in that same jubilance. "He's so awesome, and a tiny little vampire 'cause he always bi-" he tried to say before April jabbed him in the ribs. "I mean, because vampires are cool."

"Can I hold him?"

Normally this would cause April to scoff and pretend that Ann was made of diseases and awfulness, and instead Jack was handed over normally. She should have expected something was up, but was too excited to think otherwise. April barely let her talk in their "conversations," let alone hold her child.

Maybe this will-

But interrupting her thought was an oddly sloppy, gummy feeling nibbling at her finger. Looking down, Jack has it in his mouth and continues chomping away, albeit harmlessly. He looked so focused that Ann thought it was cute, if a little weird feeling.

"Yay! I told you he'd do it, babe," Andy claimed with a joyous whoop after. April had yet another masked look of approval and happiness. "You totally owe me ten bucks."

April huffed and handed a bill to him. A bill that was likely going to be deposited into the joint bank account Andy had called Ann with help on setting up. She just shook her head.

"Okay, can I have my vampire baby back?" April asked and scooped him up without an answer. Her face lit up in an instant and she nuzzled close to the baby, walking away to speak with Leslie - or, in reality, show him off to her.

Andy stepped over beside Ann and beamed. It was the happiest she'd seen him in a long time, and this was Andy they were talking about.

"She's so amazing with him," he mumbled.

"Yeah. I'm kinda surprised," Ann admitted. It was a surprise hearing that they were having kids, and Ann wasn't sure which part scared her - more April or more Andy. "You guys are... happy?"

"Oh my God, she loves him so much. I know she, um, wouldn't want me to tell you," he laughed and spoke as quietly as he could to her. "She totally does all that babytalk to him all the time, and gets like super weird when you interrupt it. I mean, when I do. But I think she's okay with me hearing it."

"Okay..."

"I'm just saying, if you wanna get back at her for the... um, creepy phone calls," Andy said and nodded with a grin before bounding off to join April by Leslie.

The creepy phone calls were her "invitation" to the party. Ann knew the affected voice right away, but played along anyways. Then they got really weird, and at really odd hours, and with voices she didn't recognize.

The best part was that Ann had seen it. April would lean her face in close, tickle at him, and talk when no one could hear her or she was leaving the conversation, which was as abruptly as her phone calls. With a mischievous grin, Ann decided to pursue them through the house until she caught April being cutesy with her child.

Yeah, that would totally show her, Ann thought. Catch her loving her child. That'll get her!

It was stupid, but at this point Ann wanted to prove that she still knew April wasn't nearly as frigid or evil as she liked to pretend.