A/N: Requested on tumblr by lunabelles as "April/Andy costume shopping with Jack."

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"Ugh, these are all lame," April exhaled. She sifted with one hand through the plastic pile of pumpkins, ghosts, more pumpkins, a silly ninja costume, and then yet another pumpkin. "Store bought costumes suck."

Her other hand was busy holding onto Jack's who refused to sit down or be held at the moment. He wanted to walk around and poke and prod everything around him, much to the dismay of his generally lazy and extremely tired mother. After picking through the costumes, she took his other hand and Jack walked in front of her, onto her feet.

They stepped in unison, a simple and silly game they'd played since he could stand that didn't seem to go away with his newfound independence.

"I told you we should let him be a beer can–" Andy started but then laughed awkwardly when April glared him down. "I mean, yeah. Let's keep looking!"

April and Jack tottered around the aisle some more, taking careful steps together while Andy browsed.

"D'you think a pumpkin with, like, blood on it would be cool?" he asked, and April grunted disagreement. She focused more on looking down at the ground and her feet.

"There's nothing creepy here," she sighed.

"There's a ghost!"

"Andy, it's a pillowcase," she said.

"Oh, right," and she could hear him nod like it was obvious and he should have known. It only made her laugh under her breath.

They spent a few minutes ignoring the costume search, laughing and April telling him where she was going next only for him to try and sound out what she had said and repeat it in a gurgly mess of consonants and fumbled words.

"Hey babe, you should check this–" he started, but then abruptly shut up.

Turning around slowly, Jack still balanced on her toes, they both looked up at Andy. He was holding a little costume with CUPCAKE in giant, stylized font on the packaging. April was busy inspecting the rest of the scene to notice, since his eyes were laser-focused on the two of them and she visibly saw his chest heave. His mouth was half-open and she couldn't tell quite yet but it seemed like he was going to cry.

"Babe?" she asked, swinging Jack's hands in hers outward and back in. "You okay?"

Andy sniffed loudly and nodded. "Oh, yeah. Um, yeah… totally fine," he said, refusing to look at them. He focused at the package in his hands and sniffed again. "So, how 'bout this one? I was thinking… um, like decorating it with creepy stuff?"

He presented the package and April smirked. Rolling her lips, she slowly walked Jack and herself over to him, watching Andy's face break into a massive grin at the sight.

"Can I make him a zombie cupcake?" she asked and Jack tried saying zombie cupcake but only came up with a shwom grr and April couldn't help herself, chuckling.

"Seems like he's into it," Andy nodded, taking a deep breath. He crouched in front of Jack. "That sound awesome, buddy? You're gonna be our tiny, bloody cupcake."

"With guts and blood and everything," April said excitedly, looking down at Jack.

When Andy stood back up, he leaned his head down to kiss April quickly. She knew he wanted to say a thousand things and normally they would have right then. Right now though, they didn't need to have this moment in a grocery store costume aisle. After all, they had some extra decorations to put on Jack's absurd, gorey costume that he no doubt would be embarrassed about for years to come.