A/N: Requested anonymously as part of Fictober 2018!

Prompt: Trying to convince their children they're all demons

Shall we introduce the new readers to the entire LD family? This sorta blew up... so, uh, oops? Enjoy!

If there is ever any danger of this backfiring, April knows better by now. A series of bizarre kindergarten art from her oldest children, both Jack and Robbie, almost three years apart and still the six-year old and his sister produced dark imagery that required a one-on-one with Andy, April and their teachers.

"First of all, and this is very, very important..." Andy finishes settling all of the kids in a semicircle in front of April in their kitchen atop stools. He sits with the newest additions interchangeably cradled in his arms and in a high chair that has managed to last three pregnancies. "Your dad and I have something important to tell you."

"Another sister!" Jack yells out and Andy mimics him shortly after.

"No, bud. I, uh, think you've already got enough sisters to share with-" she glances at the pair of beautiful creatures in Andy's arms, their little Lucy and Victoria. Were twins ever in her grand non-plan? "No, I think you guys are old enough to know that I am actually the queen of darkness and I'm a demon."

Jack and Robbie catch on instantly, but poor Samantha is a little lost. She looks over at her older siblings and then at Andy, then to April, for some sort of guidance to what any of that meant. The twins, of course, gurgle at the sound of their mother's voice. It would have to do as a response.

"You are not!" Robbie, precocious as ever, almost yelled her disapproval at what had to be the truth. "Ma! Not a monster..."

"And your dad? Oh, he's one too. He's the king of all the little evil monsters in the world," she grins through the fake vampire canines she filed down - a repentant vampire who ran with monster babies from a series of trysts with a handsome, if klutzy Van Helsing played by Andy. His costume consists of a black hat he found in an alleyway weeks ago and her empty laptop bag where he claimed to have his tools. "It's important because Jack here is my sweet, Jack-o-Lantern prince."

"Mom..." he whines and looks down. "When are we gonna go trick-or-treating?"

"Candy!" Robbie yells again, always yelling. Always so loud, and already as big as Jack. "Candy! Candy!"

While she chants, April looks to Andy for support.

"We're gonna go soon, we just have to make sure everybody... knows who their superior officer is," when he finishes Andy nods knowingly. "Yeah, because your awesome Aunt is here this weekend for mom's birthday party-"

"Auntie Nat?" Jack looks over, grinning. It comes out more as Annie-Nat and April isn't sure if that's just funny or cute. Her sister always told them the strangest stories about her life and Jack could sit rapt for however long Natalie could stand it, like she was his personal weird storyteller.

"Yep, she's gonna babysit tonight while we-" Andy raises a hand and loops a finger around in the air, indicating all of them. "Get candy for everyone! More sisters means...?"

He doesn't look anywhere for a second and then slowly peeks over at Robbie, who is almost hopping out of her seat in excitement.

"More candy!" she answers.

"Yes! Good job, bug," reaching over, Andy gives his daughter a high-five and then looks down at Sam beside him. "And you are going to help me get as much as we can, right?"

Sam nods, still kind-of in awe at everything happening around her. She fidgets at the fabric of her little witch's cloak but then lets it settle before starting again. She hasn't said much but to April it's almost like she's understood everything around her since she was first born, a little more in touch than her siblings could be sometimes.

"Jack and Robbie-" April points at the two of them. "You two are my generals tonight."

"Yes!" Robbie finally gets off of her stool and flops down.

"Bear, I haven't even told you what that means yet," she says with a hint of laughter tinging the last word. When the girl finally calms down, understanding they're not leaving at that second, April continues. "You're each gonna have two bags, one for you and one for your sister that isn't coming."

"I call Lucy!" Jack raises his hand in the air.

"And after we collect all the extras, we are going to come home and share all of it with each other and Auntie Nat," April can't help herself smiling at the roar of joy that answers her. Andy joins in, and thankfully the four-month old twins are so used to these outbursts that it does little to phase them. The sound of a car pulling into their driveway at that same moment is the perfect timing. "Go, my demons! Let's get some candy!"

With that, April darts past the running children behind her and waits for them to file out of the front door. Natalie groans a little at the three children swarming her but she doesn't fight the hugs and excitement. They break, Andy picking up a needy Sam for at least a portion of their night.

Several times, when they walk to a door Jack mentions that he's a demon despite the oversize fake football player's gear and April just explains that it's like The Faculty which does a good job of confusing the young man handing out candy. He gets away with murder, filling up a bag and a half over the course of the night. He makes sure that Robbie remembers to ask for extra candy for their sister at home, followed up by Andy with Sam. Andy holds her hand the whole way, walking up to the door and watching his little daughter in the miniature paintbrush costume open her bag and stare up at strangers.

They return only a little more than an hour later, arms stuffed with goodies and Andy burdened like a pack mule but still energetic and practically shouting everything he says to the rest of them.

"Stop yelling," Natalie confronts him at the door, scoffing with that same apathy. "Whatever, dude, your kids are asleep."

"Thanks, I guess," April shrugs, watching the wave of children pour out into the living room well past a reasonable time to be awake.

"Whatever," is the response she gets along with a hug. "Good to see you, or something."

"You want some candy? We got extra for you and for us, but also you," Andy scratches the back of his head, looking over to where the kids are already making trades. He whines and then drops the laptop bag slung over his shoulder. "I mean, if you've got like half an hour? It'd be nice if you stayed."

"Yeah, and you can explain to your nieces and nephew that we're all related to demons," April offers.

"Cool," is, again, all she gets before Natalie shrugs. "I didn't think you'd go through with the Talk."

"So that's a yes?" Andy asks, a little slow on the draw when candy is literally right there and he needs to have self-restraint.

"Duh," she turns and makes sure to walk in front of Andy, just slow enough that he watches in agony as the kids are already setting up their own hoards.

April stands back for a second, taking it all in, and has to take a deep breath to keep the strength a Demon-Queen needs to confront her children and explain how she needs all the sour tributes they have.