Falling In Love With The Enemy
Part 10: Halloween Date
Purpledolpin05: So, this is how my version of Sheep-Shifting went. I mean we had Kaz turning into a sheep, Skoliver having their almost first ACTUAL date, Bree trying to help Perry get over the curse of dead co-workers, so why not see what Roman and Tracy were REALLY up to? So anyway, back to shout outs.
To Guest (V.A.): Thanks for the review, it was a pretty adorable chapter with January meeting Roman and Riker since they can be a sucker for babies (knowing how many siblings they have, Diaper Duty isn't something Roman fears of). That's cool, I can't wait to read your stories someday. Well, have you thought of getting a Wattpad account? I hope you will like this chapter.
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Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters from Mighty Med, Lab Rats, Lab Rats: Elite Force or the mentions of Ava, Auggie and Doy/Dewey from Girl Meets World. I only own my Original Characters. Enjoy.
[Tracy's P.O.V.]
It's Halloween tomorrow…
I looked around the penthouse, this place is getting super hectic. Skylar agreed to go on a date with Oliver (it's about time too!), Perry has been coming over to pester Bree, Chase seemed to be focused on cracking shapeshifting with Roman and Riker's fingerprints, and Kaz is being…Kaz.
Jones was excited for Halloween since he was going to meet up with a good friend from Portland name Cyd Ripley at Centium City's Spook-Fest. And the kids are preparing last minute Halloween costumes. Bob and Jenny recently got addicted to watching Miraculous Ladybug and they are planning to go as Adrien and Marinette. Spin and Jamie planned to go as King Ben and Mal from Descendants, and January and her little playdate, Doy (Dentist Friedman's son) as Evie Queen and Carlos De Ville. Jackie decided to go Trick or Treating as Olaf the Snowman while his sister Chloe is going as a panda bear. So yeah, all their costumes are super cute but also super pricey (thankfully, Jones managed to get a hold of Davenport's credit card)
Normally I would be in charge of chaperoning the kids on their trick or treating, but this time Doy's parents, Dr. Friedman and Dr. Blake-Friedman, and Madam Tsuki (our caretaker back at the Facility) wanted to chaperone and take the kids out instead. So that means my night will be off. (Huh, lucky me)
Since everyone else was busy with their Halloween plans, I decided to take a walk up the roof deck of the building. I might be afraid of heights but I am still a sucker for peace and quiet. Probably because Kaz owed Jones 5 dollars and now my brother's set his Double the Disaster Armada (Jackie and Chloe) at him to make sure Kaz pays up. Not to be mean and all, but Kaz can be a pain sometimes.
I was looking at the night sky while listening to 'Helpless' from Hamilton the Musical on mp3, when I suddenly felt someone wrapping their arms around me.
I yelped before I turned around to pepper-spray that shameless pervert.
"OW! MOTHER OF SWEET POTATOES, THAT BURNS!" I heard someone wincing in pain.
"R-Roman?!" I whisper-yelled, "W-what are you doing here?"
"Trying to hug you from the back?" Roman winced, covering his eyes.
"You should have told me." I looked away awkwardly.
"You were looking so cute looking out at the sky like that, I thought surprising you would be alright." Roman replied, while using a wet napkin (there's an upstairs recreation park for the residents, and a toilet. So, I went to soak the napkin in water before handing it to him)
"Yeah, I was kinda at fault too." I apologized.
"It's alright, it was a careless mistake." Roman replied, before he took my hand.
"So…how as your day?" I asked.
"Eh, average I guess. Riker and I had to work an extra shift at the costume store to earn enough money for next month's rental." Roman replied.
"How many odd jobs do you have anyway?" I asked, out of curiosity.
"A couple, about 6 to 7 part-time jobs. My brother and I started to work odd jobs after we graduated high school." Roman started to explain, "Originally, we only did part times to help out with the house since we have a lot of siblings. And Dad wanted me to be his successor when he retired at 60, but stuff happened and now we're on our own."
I felt really bad for Roman's family, they shouldn't be going through all of these hardships.
"Well uh…I got free time tomorrow night, since Trick or Treat duty has been under the chaperone of Madam Tsuki and the husband and wife dentists, Mr. and Mrs. Friedman." I replied.
"Really? That's good." Roman seemed happy.
"Maybe we can have some alone time together?" I asked shyly.
"S-Sure, but we can't have it at Centium City Community Park." Roman replied.
"and not here though," I muttered.
"What about the beach I took you on your birthday?" Roman suggested.
"It's a bit too far away, plus I had to be around the building to wait for the kids to return." I thought before I replied. I only have about 3 hours free so at least I wanna make the most of my alone time with Roman.
Just then, an idea popped into my head. It'd be risky but it was worth a shot.
"I got it, what about we have our date in room 11074?" I asked. Suite 11074 was the suite next to the Davenport's penthouse (AKA Perry's Suite).
"Isn't that the place where your cranky cat lady neighbor lives?" Roman asked.
"Kinda, she usually comes to check on us every fortnight. But she's gonna be preoccupied with Bree tomorrow, since she claims she is the next for the curse of her dead co-stars." I replied. Perry gave me a key to her suite (because she has us kids to help with the cleaning every week) so maybe Roman and I can have our date there. I mean, Perry is usually absent because she goes back to the Bionic Academy to spy on Douglas (although now Perry knows that Douglas dated Kendra, also Daniel's birth mom, but she would try to threaten Kendra to stay away from Douglas. But let's just say Kendra manages to soothe Perry down and became somewhat friends over their adventurous spirit)
Although I know that I am dating Roman, and also helping out the Elite Force, I would try to keep personal details away from him.
"Great, so I'll meet you up at…8?" Roman asked.
"Sure." I nodded, excited. After all the little meet-ups we usually have, we have never actually been on an actual official date-date.
"I'll bring some candles over, because switching on the lights would be suspicious." Roman nodded.
"And I think I'll settle with food." I nodded.
"Can't wait." Roman winked at me, before he starts to hold my hand.
"Me too." I giggled, feeling like a giggly lovesick schoolgirl.
Yes, I'm going on a date with Roman!
I internally cheered while I headed down to Mission Command. I've just tucked January to bed, she's just too cute, and she will be so adorable with Doy tomorrow when they go out in their Carvie Costumes
I noticed Chase working on his science experimenting.
"Hey Chase." I approached him.
"Oh, hey Trace." He looked up at me and smiled.
"I got you a glass of water, you've been down here for a while now." I told him, placing down a glass of warm water.
"It's hard to crack this shapeshifting DNA." He exclaimed in frustration.
I thought for a moment, since Roman told me that Jones and I are shapeshifters (how did he find out remains a mystery to me), I have been trying to get to know my Super-side of the heritage.
"Well, you could abstract some of my DNA? I mean Jones and I are partially Super." I offered, sitting beside him reaching a hand out.
"Really?" Chase seemed surprised.
"Yeah, I'd do anything I can to help my best friend." I nodded with a smile.
"You seem kinda cheerful." Chase commented, taking out some needles and ointment.
"Well, of course I am. I have a date tomorrow…with a couple of my friends from campus." I quickly changed the subject. I can't let Chase know I am going for a date with Roman.
"Ok, this could sting a little." Chase started to abstract some blood sample from me. I flinched a bit in pain, thankfully Chase knows what he is doing. (I better hope he is, if anything were to happen to me, I will personally hold Chase responsible)
"So uh…what are you planning to do tomorrow night?" I asked.
"Well I have no plans but to crack shapeshifting." Chase replied.
"My friends and I are going out for dinner, so I guess I am free after 9, if you're free maybe we can just hang out in the living room and watch Stranger Things?" I offered.
"Sure. It's a date." Chase nodded.
"Bro-date, right?" I nodded, covering my arm after Chase was done with the blood abstracting.
"Yeah, sure…" Chase looked away before he nodded with a smile.
He looks kinda down, maybe he's just tired?
"C'mon, it's really late, get some sleep." I ushered him to sleep.
"But I still have work to do." Chase shook his head.
"It's not good to go on like this, get some rest." I insisted.
"Fine, whatever you say." Chase sighed as he stood up, keeping all his experiment safe and away from the others.
"Who are you going out with tomorrow?" Chase asked.
"Oh, a couple of my friends from college: Valarie, Cecelia and Kath." I listed a couple of my college friends as backup for my lie.
"By the way, why can't your friends just hang out here?" Chase asked me.
"Uh I prefer to keep my life low profile, and I don't want my girls to get all fan-crazy if they know I live with the Elite Force. That and shenanigans always happens when someone new comes over to this place" I replied.
Whew, that was a close one. Let's just hope my date with Roman will go well without any disturbance.
Next day, Halloween
Well, so far things seem to be going well. Chase cracked shapeshifting (well kinda, it's a complicated process), Perry is pestering Bree (so that means Perry will be gone the whole night), Kaz has nothing better to do (and he's not interested in my business in which I told him I would be going to the library for a group project with my friends), and Skylar and Oliver are going for their date.
"Badabam!" Jones announced as he showed up in his costume, his dark hair was spiked up and he was dressed in black color…and he's got a sword.
"What are you supposed to be? Count Dracula?" I raised my eyebrows.
"No, that's ridiculous. I'm Kirito from Sword Art Online." Jones declared in a bold tone.
"That explains so much." I replied in sarcasm, before he snickered.
"Do you wanna build a snowman?" Jackie sang while he skipped around the living room in his cutesy Olaf customer. His sister, Chloe, was trailing behind him in a panda bear outfit.
"I cannot believe we have to go Trick or Treating dressed as Mal and Ben!" Jamie sassed at Spin, since they're all too young to dye their hair I did what I could and morphed their hair colors different (I guess that's my ability, metamorphosis as I can change looks and others looks on a dime)
"Aw, January, you look so cute!" I squealed when I saw January, her dark hair was changed to a darker shade of blue. She looks so adorable.
"I look great!" Bob bragged, wearing his Chat Noir costume.
"You look like a chubby kitten." Jenny snorted.
"Well, YOU look like a Powerpuff Girl!" Bob sassed back.
"I'm dressed as Marinette!" Jenny hissed.
"Ok kids, Mr. and Mrs. Friedman are coming over soon with Doy, Ava and Auggie, so remember to behave and do not run off, ok?" I kneeled down and told the kids.
"Ok!" the kids all nodded.
"See you later, Jan-Jan." I giggled before kissing January's cheeks.
"See you, Cece." January nodded with a big smile.
The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Bree ran to answer, only to find a tiny boy rushing pass her and heading to my little goddaughter.
"JANOY!" Doy screamed, wearing his cutesy Carlos De Ville outfit.
"DOYIEE!" January squealed as they embraced.
"Who are they?" Bree asked, pointing over to Ava and Auggie (Doy's friends) both dressed up as what I can only assumed as Tikki and Plagg from Miraculous Ladybug.
"Our friends from New York." Spin replied.
"Thanks so much for helping us out with the trick or treat duty." I thanked the couple. Surprisingly, Doy's parents look kinda like Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens if they were in their late 30s. [A/N: no kidding, I once dreamt of Doy and his dad; and his dad was Troy from HSM. I was like "what? Why brain, why?"]
"No problem, it's the least we could do for always helping us babysit Doy when we're busy."
"No biggie, I love having him over. And he really loves January a LOT." I giggled, looking at Doy holding January's hand.
"Ok, let's get this party started!" Bob whooped as the group of kids and preteens paraded outside the hall.
As soon as the coast was clear, (and Jones went to meet his friends) I went to change into something nice before I grab some food into a box. It was a simple white hooded blouse with blue jeans and purple sneakers.
"Woah, what's with the picnic box?" Bree noticed me while I was grabbing some chicken curry from the pot.
"I'm meeting up with some friends for a little potluck." I replied, stuffing in some cup noodles into the box. "We're all hungry and out of ideas. This is all I could do. By the way, I made some curry for dinner, it's mild spicy."
"Fine with me, I love curry." Perry quickly helped herself with the food.
"Trace, have you seen my test tube of the DNA abstract?" Chase walked over, before glancing at me. "I've managed to crack shapeshifting made created a serum for experiment purposes."
"Thanks, and no I haven't. have you checked with Kaz? He might have seen it." I asked, before looking at the door. "Look, I have to go."
"Oh…ok. See you." Chase nodded.
"Thanks." I smiled back before I headed out.
As soon as I was outside the door, I checked if the coast was clear (but it's a busy night) so I headed to the empty corner before opening a portal that takes me into Perry's suite.
Moments after I arrived, I spotted a crow outside tapping the window. I open up the window quietly before the crow flew in before morphing into Roman.
"Hey." Roman smiled over.
"Hi." I smiled back.
"Wait, don't switch on the lights." I whispered when I saw Roman heading towards the switch.
"Oh right." Roman nodded, before taking some the candles from his pocket with a box of matches.
We set up two candles before we started to eat dinner. We're having cup noodles, juice boxes and chicken curry. Yeah, really cheap and cheesy but it's a budget-dinner date.
"What?" I noticed Roman looking at me. "I know whatever I got might not be romantic material but it's all I have. Eat up"
"I was just thinking that you are the greatest thing that has ever happened to me." Roman replied with a straight face.
I felt my heart racing, why must Roman be so such a smooth-talker around me? And why must he look so handsome when he's all serious? *blushing internally*
"You're blushing." Roman teased a bit.
"It's just the lighting!" I lied, looking away. At this point, we were done with dinner. Except for the curry, I left a container for him to share with his family. It's not much but it's the thought that counts.
"I highly doubt that." Roman chuckled softly while looking at me.
"Hey, why don't we take a picture? Up until now, we've never really taken pictures of us like couples do." I suggested, before taking out my phone. Roman seemed taken aback by my suggestion, before he nodded. I mean I am normally the person who doesn't like taking pictures (you can say I am camera-shy) but I think I can let this one time slide.
"Smile," I teased before trying to snap a picture.
"Wow, you are a horrible photographer." Roman joked.
"It's too dark." I grumbled, giving him 2 candles. "Here! Hold these!"
"They burn!" Roman winced a bit before he smiled at the camera.
[No One's P.O.V.]
"I'm telling you, Bree! I am being HAUNTED by the ghosts of my ex co-stars. I heard that my ex rival-co-star, Rebeca Tucker DIED when she was camping in a haunted mansion by angry ghouls!" Perry was pestering Bree outside, but Bree had super-speed away to have some alone time rather than Perry-sitting when she could have been talking to the cute college guys who live on the 50th floor.
Just then, Perry heard a loud thunder sound (in which it was just Jackie and Chloe pranking the residents with Chloe's new vocal manipulation) and jumped a bit. She turned around and saw two glowing lights from her suite (hers had 2 half-transparent windows)
"The rumors that the crazy dog walker from 4012 was true! My suite IS HAUNTED! Oh no, it must be Rebeca Tucker, I knew she didn't like when I stole her hairbrush!" Perry yelped before she screamed and ran to Bree.
[Back to Tracy's P.O.V.]
"BREE! MY SUITE IS HAUNTED!" Perry screamed, before she ran to get Bree.
"Oh no!" Roman and I mouthed to each other before we quickly blew off the candles.
"Quick, hide all the trash." Roman whispered before I quietly opened up a portal and dumped in the trash.
Somewhere in Centium City Petting Zoo, Sheep Kaz was randomly dumped food on for no reason. And right when he was licking Jordan's hand. Jordan was helping out at the Petting Zoo sicne her sister and her boyfriend (Ocean and Scott Gabriel) were teaching the younger kids to ride on the little ponies [JAZ!]
My nose started to twitch before I sneezed. Roman quickly pushed me into a dark corner in which you can't see from the windows and covered my mouth.
"Did you hear that? It's the ghost wailing!" Perry yelped.
"I can't see anything in there." Bree flashed a torch through the window.
I was internally screaming but I kept shaking.
"Shh…it's ok." Roman whispered into my ear. Dude, you're getting too close…
"I heard from Marla from the 60th floor that there was once a lady who lived in my suite was murdered! And she was chopped into 18 little pieces!" Perry exclaimed. "It's true, Rebeca and the ghost later are after me!"
After that Perry dragged Bree away.
As soon as the coast was clear, Roman realized he was close to me (literally).
"S-Sorry." Roman apologized.
"No need." I shook my head. "Thank you."
"You're welcome, I will always be your knight in shining armor. Remember that." Roman smiled.
"Sorry our date didn't really end well as it might have, but I had fun." I told him.
"Yeah, we should do it sometime…" Roman nodded. "In a different place at a different time. Not here."
"Maybe we could find some time to go on dates?" I giggled.
"Somewhere only we know, like a rendezvous?" Roman winked at me.
"Oh haha," I giggled nervously before slapping his shoulder lightly.
"Perry has a shrine for guys she liked, so we better go before the 10pm Douglas special is on." I nodded, while we cleaned up the mess. Now it looks like no one ever break and entered.
"I'll see you later, ok?" Roman smiled before he leaned in to kiss my cheek. Why is my heart racing so fast? Eep! Get a grip of yourself, Tracy.
Roman tucked the container into his pocket before he shapeshifted into a crow and flew outside.
I made sure if the coast was clear before I open up a portal and reached the hallway of the penthouse.
Right at that moment, the elevator door opened as the children all came out along with Madam Tsuki and the Friedman family.
"Hi, welcome back." I smiled over at the kids, kneeling down. "Did you kids have fun?"
"Yeah! Want some candy?" Doy cheerfully offered me a piece of candy.
"Sure." I giggled, accepting his offer. Doy is so cute, and he really loves January. Hhm…I wonder what if they got married later?
"How was your night?" Jenny asked me.
"It was…great. I had fun with my friends." I nodded, blushing a bit at the thought of Roman.
"Ok, time to go now, what do you wanna say to January?" Mr. Friedman asked Doy.
"Bye Janoy, I'll miss you."
"Janoy miss Doyiee too." January whined a bit.
"C'mon, you have school tomorrow." Mrs. Friedman reminded her son.
"But I will miss Janoy." Doy whined.
"How about we come over next weekend so you can have a sleepover?" Mr. Friedman offered.
"Really?!" Doy looked so happy his big brown eyes could pop.
"Sure, your father and I have another Dentist Convention." Mrs. Friedman nodded.
"Great." Doy cheered.
So, in other words, the date could have gone better but I am kinda glad things worked out, well kinda. Because now Perry is convinced that her suite could be haunted and wants to offer Bree as a peace offering for the 'ghost' and requesting Chase to perform the exorcism. (So yeah, I am so sorry about that, Perry)
And that, is what happened when I went on my first date with Roman
Purpledolpin05: Well I have been drafting my version of Elite Force although most of the time Tracy hangs out with the EF crew or the Junior League (or in her case, she mostly hangs out with Chase due to their similar personalities and they balance out each other nicely as friends. Because Tracy is loyal and devoted to Roman and would never try anything to hurt his feelings), in my version of EF Sheep-Shifting Jones has gone out (like a bro-date) with Cyd from Best Friends Whenever since in most of my stories Cyd and Jones are best friends. Some of my readers ship Jyd since they are similar to each other but Jones is asexual and even in Change The Fates' Designs, it was implied by Tyson that Cyd was his mother. So it is possible that maybe Cyd and Jones might be more than just friends, but only time could tell since I like Jones being asexual while Cyd has Naldo. The children (or Junior League) went trick or treating with Doy, Ava and Auggie from GMW (I love those kids so much. I mean Augva is endgame, and Doy loves January) the Roman and Tracy scene along with Perry believing her suite was haunted was based on a Singaporean drama Love Thy Neighbor from a few years ago.
By the way, I recently saw some pictures of the baby I based Jayden (January's baby brother) going with a swim with his dad, and now I have this head-cannon of either Jay or Roman teaching January and Jayden how to swim. Eh, I will keep the swim date idea around, although Tracy would probably wear a cover-up swimsuit because she is kinda conservative rather than showing off herself like other girls might.
So yeah, thanks for reading. Feel free to fave, follow, review and tell me what you think. Have a nice day.