Author's Note: Thanks for the review CrossoverJunkie! I know absolutely nothing about DnD, but that does sound pretty much like August. Anywho, I wrote a more proper Interlude for Halloween. It's a little short, but I picked a random 2000 year for it to take place in and wound up with 2001, and as I looked up movies that came out that year.. Lo and behold. Harry Potter! So I amused myself with Lillian's and Jack's costumes for that year and threw in a little plotting Pitch and some Sandy, and there you go. Even though not much at all is happening in it I hope you still enjoy it anyway. I can just imagine Jack trying to be all wizardly and wise.
Interlude 12: Halloween Past
Lillian looked down at her handiwork and grinned. She had "found" a pumpkin and just "happened" to also find a pumpkin carving kit to go with it and brought it home. This might be news if this was the first pumpkin she had brought home that year, but it wasn't. It was several years before 2012, and now Pitch's lair looked even spookier than ever, with the eerie glow of all the Jack O'lanterns lighting up every dark corner.
They were everywhere.
Pitch hadn't protested too much about this development, as he was still a little distracted as of late, but he had found the time to still make her and Jack's Halloween costumes that year.
Lillian was extra excited about her costume this year, since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was due to come out next month and she had been waiting forever for that. So in honor of the upcoming movie, she was going as none other than Hermione Granger, and Jack was going as Albus Dumbledore, since he refused to dye his hair or wear a wig that was in any other color than his natural hair color.
Lillian still rolled her eyes at this, since Hermione Granger and Dumbledore? It was more than a little strange. But she didn't care, she was all decked out in her Hogwarts Gryffindor robes as she put the finishing touches on the final Jack O'lantern. It was a silhouette of Pitch, holding a scythe ready to attack. She thought it was pretty good. This one she left in her room, after lighting it.
She smiled at it and then twirled around in her robes, her brown curls flying all over the place. She didn't even have to wear a wig to get the Hermione hair either. All she had to do was not comb her hair that day and the curls and the frizz did the rest. Pitch wasn't overly pleased about Lillian's hair, but Lillian had explained that Hermione had very busy hair.
Lillian even had covered a book with a fake book cover for Hogwarts: A History.
Jack had a little stuffed red parrot that was supposed to be Fawkes, that he glued onto the shoulder of his purple robes. Lillian thought he looked hilarious with long white hair and a matching long white beard.
Her favorite part of the costumes besides the robes, were the wands. Sandy had overheard two desperate wishes for some Harry Potter wands, and might have slipped in a word to Phil, since North was quite busy with the preparations for Christmas. So it was an excited Jack that had gone to Pitch's one day to show Lillian the two perfect wands he had found just sitting there on his frozen lake.
Lillian wasn't sure if they were accurate, since she had no idea what Hermione's wand looked like, or Dumbledore's, but she had to admit.. They looked very wizardly.
She swished her wand around and pretended to cast a few spells for a little while, before she realized what time it was and dashed outside.
"Don't forget your cloak!" Pitch called out as he heard the small stampede that was Lillian.
Lillian wanted to pout at this, since who wanted to wear what was essentially their coat over their Halloween costume? But Lillian didn't have a coat, she had a black cloak that would actually kinda go with her costume.
So she raced outside after grabbing her cloak to see a rather impatient Jack waiting on her.
"I thought you didn't like trick or treating," Lillian said innocently. She knew Jack felt weird about being seen on this night, since he wasn't used to regular people seeing him at all.
But she felt it was good for Jack and so she made him dress up with her every year and go out. Ever since the incident with the scary house though, they made sure to avoid that.
Jack gave her a smile (or tried to, that beard was mostly covering his mouth up) and ruffled her curls.
"And miss out on all that candy?" Jack replied. Before Lillian could say anything else, he called out "Race you there!" and took off like a shot.
"No fair!" Lillian cried, as what was supposed to be an old man was beating the pants off her. She took off after him, not noticing the pair of golden eyes watching them from the shadow of a tree as the sun started to go down.
Pitch stared after the retreating forms of Jack and Lillian and wondered how the time flew by. It seemed like only yesterday that he was comforting the small shivering form in the snow.. and then not long after, sewing her her first costume.
The eyes looked a little wistful for a moment, before a stamp of a hoof and a soft neigh caught his attention.
The Nightmare stepped towards him as he withdrew from the shadow he used to spy on Lillian and Jack, and Pitch hurried to shoo it back to the room he had designated for them. Soon the world would know all about his Nightmares and their wondrous powers, but he still didn't have enough of the black sand yet. He still needed a little more.
As Lillian and Jack raced off into the night, Pitch let his thoughts drift back to his plan to take down the Guardians.
An evil grin flittered across his face as he thought of what that night would finally be like.
Author's Note: Hope you guys liked it, even though it had no actual plot happening. I'm not sure how often I'll update as I still have stuff going on, but I can shoot for some small updates.
