Author's Note: Sorry about not posting in forever. I have stuff going on and plot has been the last thing on my mind lately. So I'm very sorry about leaving you all hanging. I hate updates that are only Author's Notes, so I did a little interlude with a tiny bit of plot thrown in. I also wanted to throw something in about Halloween, since Halloween is coming up. So anyway, now you now I'm alive. Yay! I won't say when the next update will be, since I have no idea. I'm thinking the next update will be for the HP one though, since I'm super excited for what's happening next in that one. I am for Child of Spring too, but.. you know. Harry Potter! :P Anywho, if you have any suggestions for anything, feel free to let me know. I'm pretty sure this interlude goes along with Lillian's memories, since I don't recall mentioning any Halloweens..

Interlude 11: Sweet Dreams

Lillian would have been surprised to discover she had actually managed to fall asleep. She wasn't entirely certain that Jamie's plan was going to work, since they were out in the middle of nowhere, but he had seen it as their only option.

Lillian had been tense and worried until she fell asleep. Now she wasn't worried about anything, since was no longer mentally an adult trapped in a child's body. She didn't have any worries at all.

She was five years old again and it was Halloween. She was currently wearing a tattered black cape over her favorite pink dress that was more patches than dress. The cape had been salvaged out of the trash, and she had topped off her odd outfit with a little witch hat. To collect all the candy, she had a plastic bag she had found. Perhaps it wasn't the best costume, but it was all she had.

Her father had been in a horrible mood all day, despite the fact her mother had tried very hard to keep Lillian quiet and make sure nothing disturbed him. Lillian had gone downstairs to get a snack out of the kitchen, when he grabbed her by the arm and roared at her that he didn't want to hear all her noise, and then he'd tossed her outside like a sack of potatoes and slammed the door shut.

This might have upset Lillian normally, but today was Halloween and she couldn't believe her luck. Normally her father didn't allow her to do anything fun on the holidays.

She remembered last year when she had been forced outside and decided to roam around town (she knew all about how to cross a street, since her mother had ingrained it into her at a young age), and had overheard some kids talking about a scary ghost guy who appeared on Halloween.

Lillian thought she might have seen him this Halloween, but he didn't look particularly scary to her. Tall, wearing a black robe. Looked kinda bony and carried a big, pointy stick. She didn't say anything to him as she went past, since she knew most adults didn't like to hear noisy kids (or so her father had her believing), but she thought she heard him muttering about pesky wizards.

So Lillian spent a fun-filled night collecting as much candy as she could. Other kids had started to go home, but she wanted to stay out later.

It was a few hours later that she thought she had seem something golden flying in the sky. Lillian stared up at the sky with wide eyes. If she were braver, she might have stuck around to see what it was, but suddenly she realized how dark it was outside and how no one was around.

So instead she ran all the way home, her cape streaming out behind her.

Sandy watched young Lillian run away as he sat there up in the air, perched on his golden cloud like always.

He smiled sadly at the child. He hadn't meant to frighten her. As Lillian disappeared inside, he nodded to himself that he would give her extra sweet dreams tonight to make up for it. With that, he began to send out his streams of dreamsand.


Lillian woke up with a gasp at the dream that wasn't really a dream, but an old memory resurfacing. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, remembering the scary golden thing in the sky. She realized suddenly that wasn't frightening at all, it had been Sandy!

She shook her curls out of her face that had escaped the ribbon she usually had them tied back in, and wondered how many of the Guardians had known her before. She looked down as she remembered those unhappy times, when she only believed in a few of the Guardians anyway.

Her head snapped up when she heard a questioning tweet. She realized it was still dark out and she spotted Baby Tooth, holding Jamie's former loose tooth.

Lillian grinned as she spotted the little fairy. Their plan worked!


Author's Note: P.S. I threw that little tiny bit with Death in there for you CrossoverJunkie! :)