Happy Halloween, I know it's a day late but it's just a short drabble really. Text in italics is a flashback.


Regina stared at the pumpkin that was resting on the fireplace and let out a sigh as she looked to her cat who was idly playing nearby, she was bored, so, so bored. It was only her second day off work on maternity leave and she was already wishing she could be back there doing what she loved most instead of being cooped up at home with only her cat and her heavily pregnant belly for company.

She knew she should have probably stopped working a couple of weeks earlier than she had done, with being on her feet all day at work, she was beginning to feel fatigue setting in, but she had been determined. After she had crashed out for the entire weekend, she'd worked a whole week of shifts Robin had put his foot down and said that enough was enough, he wasn't having her put herself and their baby at risk by carrying on like she was doing.

It had taken him to tell her for her to finally realise it herself and when she had she broke down, telling him that she was so sorry and was stupid, but she was a pregnant woman with a million different hormones running through her body, what did he really expect?

Regina had about twenty days or so until her due date and although she had been making out that she was all calm and collected about it, she was secretly freaking out, she was a doctor, she knew the risks, she had seen women literally be torn open during child birth, it was a gruelling process, one she had been trying to avoid thinking about, but as that date loomed ever closer, it was becoming more and more unavoidable.

She liked to think that she had all the knowledge she needed for childbirth, technically she did, she couldn't possibly fit any more information into her head. Yet she still didn't feel at all prepared, her stomach was growing as well, rapidly as the baby increased in size and the worry only increased along with it. She had been doing everything she could to prepare her body for the birthing process, making sure that it was in the right condition. The thing was though she wasn't exactly big, physique wise she was small which meant that there was a larger chance of complications.

Regina soon came to realise that sitting at home doing nothing was wreaking havoc with her nerves, it was just leaving her to get lost inside her head and that wasn't good. She groggily pulled herself up out of her chair, groaning at the weight stretching her belly, she rested a hand on her protruding stomach and waddled towards the bathroom, deciding that it would probably be a good idea to relieve herself before she went anywhere.

Once she'd finished that she was just about to leave the restroom when she spotted Robin's face paint on the side, as usual he had to dress up for work, it was Halloween, so no one was stopping him from getting his way. She'd helped turn him into some sort of Frankenstein's monster character, a light coat of green on his face and a few fake stitches here and there. He'd left his paint behind though and she came up with a rather cute idea.

She heard a meow from the door and turned to see Lola watching her, "hello baby," she smiled before picking up the paints and applying some of the black to her nose carefully before drawing on a set of whiskers. She coloured her lips an autumnal colour before looking down at her bump and grinning.

Once she had finished she took one last look in the mirror that hung in the hallway, she straightened her cat ears, grabbed the lunch she made for Robin and headed out the door. It was getting more difficult for her to reach the steering wheel, but she was still managing at this point and she needed to get out of the house before she went stir crazy.

Pulling up to the hospital she parked in her spot and turned off the ignition before climbing out, grabbing her bag and heading towards the entrance, already seeing a couple of people dressed up she chuckled and shook her head, she had to admit, Halloween was one of her favourite holidays, they'd had a Halloween party the previous year and that had really been something.


"What are you supposed to be?" Regina asked Ruby as she sipped some of the Halloween punch Robin had made earlier, it even had fake eyeballs floating in it which was a little disconcerting, but the apple flavour certainly made up for it.

"Come on Regina, it's obvious," the taller brunette rolled her eyes.

"Is it?"

"Yes!" she protested, "slutty crayon!"

"A slutty crayon?" Regina furrowed her eyebrows, she really had heard it all now.

"Yep, they are all the craze this year, see I'm the red crayon and Lacey is the yellow one and Milah is blue."

"Wow, well, okay then," Regina scoffed, "you're not very scary though are you."

"Well, we can't all pull off a mega insane and lifelike corpse bride outfit can we," Ruby tutted and Regina just smirked proudly, she'd had the day off and the entirety of it had been spent painting herself blue and delicately adding on the bones and flesh details, she had the torn and muddied wedding dress as well as the blue wig. In fact, she had scared Robin to death when he came back from work to see her fully dressed up like that. It wasn't as though his costume was all that difficult anyway, all it was was a suit and then she had sorted his face out to make him look like Victor, once that was done there they had it, a couple costume.

"I like Halloween," was all she gave in response, "and Tim Burton."

"Right," Ruby nodded, "I think I'll stick to my slutty crayon."

"I have to admit, you do pull off the sexy crayon look rather well," Regina complimented, "in fact I think Dr Gale might have had a heart attack over there, you should have given her some kind of warning Rubes."

"What can I say, Zombie Dorothys have a thing for sexy crayons," the brunette smirked as she headed off in the direction of the woman she had grown to be head over heels in love with. She was nearly as bad as Robin and Regina for not confronting her feelings, hopefully if she had any sense she would make a move before it was too late.

"Hello sexy corpse."

"Well that wasn't creepy," Regina laughed as she tilted her head to look at Robin who had come up beside her and was holding a bowl of something strange looking, "what the hell is that?" she asked pointing into the bowl, she had bought many party snacks but she was pretty sure she hadn't seen those ones.

"Maggots," he grinned.

"Disgusting," she shuddered, taking one of the forks that he was holding and moving some of the food around, as soon as she did she realised what it was and laughed, "well, that's a new trick," it was mac and cheese with breadcrumbs but it had been made to look like a bowl of maggots. "Mmm," she took a mouthful and nodded, "it's soo good."

"Save some for the rest of us, I thought the maggots were supposed to eat you not the other way around," he chuckled as he moved past her to place the bowl on the table they had set out with an array of buffet foods.

"Yes well, I think it's time the tables were switched, don't you?" she chuckled as she looked at the painting of the maggot from the movie she had done on her shoulder and smiled.

"Maybe."

"Regina!" She turned her head and saw Tink bounding over to her dressed as a very un-scary vampire Tinkerbell, why were none of her friends actually trying to make an effort in their costumes for this party? All Tink had done was stick a pair of false fangs in and allowed some fake blood to trickled down her chin before throwing on the same costume she wore every single time she dressed up. "I need your help with something."

"Oooh, what?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at the look on her friend's face.

"There's this guy over there and I don't know who he is, can you please make introductions?! He's so hot, like Regina I am going to die in a minute just from looking at his face!"

"Are you drunk?"

"Drunk on lust for the incredibly hot no named guy, yes indeed I am."

"I think you might have had one too many," Regina laughed as she wrapped an arm around her friend, knowing that she was usually just this upbeat on a daily basis and that it probably didn't have anything to do with alcohol, however she supposed it did take the edge off a little.

"No I haven't."

"Okay then, which guy are you looking at?" she asked, looking around as she tried to work out who it was that her friend was so caught up on all of a sudden.

"The sexy Count Dracula," she stated, pointing to the guy stood talking to Robin.

"Oh, Graham, he's Robin's friend," she nodded, taking her friends hand and drawing her along with her as they headed over to them, "hello."

"Hey babe," Robin grinned, his arm wrapping around her waist.

"Wow, Regina, great costume," Graham looked at her with wide eyes and she laughed before shaking her head.

"Thanks, I'm kinda a Halloween freak. This is my good friend Tink, Tink this is Graham."

"Hi," she waved nervously.

"I suppose I'll leave the two of you to it," she smiled before pulling Robin with her in the direction of the kitchen, "are you ready to enact the plan?" she whispered with a sneaky grin.

"Of course."


She came up to the nurse's station and saw Tink, she wasn't surprised to see her in the same Tinkerbell costume, just with a witch hat this time instead of Dracula fangs. "Hello," Regina chuckled as she leant against the station and tucked her wild black curls behind her ear.

"Gina, of course you had to dress up on Halloween."

"Don't you know it," she smirked, "have you seen Robin?"

"Yeah, he'd just headed to the café to get a coffee," Tink informed her.

Regina smiled and nodded before heading off in the direction of where her friend had just told her that her fiancé was. She peered around the corner and saw him begin to walk in her direction, she knew what she was about to do was childish but she couldn't resist. Quickly she hid behind the wall and waited for him to come past, just as he was she jumped out at him, "booo."

"God!" he jumped and she giggled loudly as she watched him try to regain his composure.

"Trick or treat," she smiled, raising her eyebrows at him.

"Hi, you're supposed to be home resting," he tutted, smiling none the less.

"It's Halloween Robin and I was going insane at home alone," Regina complained, "can I at least stay here until I go home to greet the trick or treater?" she pouted, giving him puppy dog eyes.

"Fine, but no working for you madam, I want you to be sat down okay?"

"Yes boss," she rolled her eyes, "in fact I actually have some paperwork that I can be doing."

"Regina," he cast her a warning gaze.

"Yes I know, you've taken over my job, but I am pretty sure that I'm capable of filling in a few forms without risking going into premature labour, I'm bored Robin, I need something to stimulate my brain, stop me thinking about other things." She confessed reluctantly, she hadn't really voiced her fears out loud, she'd been worried about telling Robin, she didn't want him to worry about her, she wanted him to think of her as invincible, but right now she realised that she probably wasn't.

"What other things?"

"I just worry about things," she whispered, "about giving birth and how it's going to feel."

"Regina," he sighed pressing a kiss to her temple, "it is completely natural to worry about those types of things, we'll talk about it later okay, I promise," he cupped her cheek gently, "I need to go and see to a patient in cubicles."

"Okay," she smiled, "I'm gonna go sit somewhere, come find me in your next break, I have something to show you," she saw the smirk that appeared on his face and rolled her eyes, "get your mind out of the gutter," Regina laughed, swotting him, "now get back to work you."


Regina giggled as she came out of the kitchen and looked into the sitting room where everyone was mulling around, "this is going to be fun," she laughed before talking into her phone, "okay, Robin go." The lights cut out and she released a deathly scream, hearing the people in the main area of the house begin to panic. She tried not to chuckle as she laid down in the pool of fake blood they had dropped in the hallway and dripped some out of her mouth before telling Robin to commence with the next stage.

The lights flickered but didn't come back on properly, she knew that if they could only see her with a flashlight it would be more believable, "Regina!" Robin yelled and she had to squish her lips tightly together in order to stop herself from laughing out loud. He dropped down beside her, nearly falling on top of her, "Regina!"

So this might have been her plan but right now she was admiring the talent that actors possessed not to react when their on screen loved ones were lamenting over their death, it was damn hard. "Oh my god! What happened?!" she heard Tink cry as she too moved to the floor next to her, she wasn't in on the plan but clearly so far she was falling for it.

"I don't know, Regina!" Robin carried on crying and for a moment she actually thought he was genuinely concerned, he sounded it anyway.

"Is she breathing?" Tink asked worriedly, Regina felt Robin put her down on the floor and fingers that weren't his, so she was assuming they were Tink's, were pressing to her neck, she couldn't hold back any longer and reached out grabbing the other woman, causing her to scream blue murder as Regina burst into laughter. "You bitch!" Tink spat, sitting back on her heels, she had shot away so quickly, "I can't believe you just did that!"

"Sorry," she giggled, hearing Robin laugh as the rest of the group were torn between chuckling and tutting, probably because it was really childlike to play pranks like that, she knew it was but she couldn't resist, "I'm afraid I just had to get you back for last year."

"What by making me think you were dead?!" the blonde gasped, exaggerating her movements as she clasped a hand to her chest, "you nearly gave me a heart attack."

"Well," she shrugged, hugging her friend before falling back on Robin and cuddling to his side as the lights flickered on, "I'm more worried about getting that fake blood out of the tiles," she cringed, laughing as she looked at her boyfriend who shook his head and kissed her gently. "Come on, let's enjoy the rest of the party."


Regina watched from the nurse's station as her fiancé rushed about treating patients, the chair she was sat on wasn't all that comfortable and her back was beginning to ache, but she was loathed to move because she just liked to watch him every so often, to just observe what he was up to. She closed her eyes and felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, taking a steady breath, she tried to stabilise herself, one hand running over the lower section of her belly.

"Regina?"

She looked up to see Tink stood there with a worried expression on her face, "Braxton hicks," she informed her, waving it off, she was guessing that's what it was, they usually occurred at this stage in pregnancy and all the symptoms matched, there was no way she was going to be going into labour.

"You look like you need to lay down," the Aussie stated as she held her hand out for her to take, "come on you, to the on-call room with you."

"I'm pregnant Tink, not completely useless," she scoffed, taking her friend's hand anyway and allowing her to help her up, she groaned and rubbed her lower back, "can I give you some advice?" Regina breathed as her friend pushed the door to the on-call room open and they wandered in together, Regina managed to lay down on the bed, "don't have unprotected sex, ever," she muttered, "it leads to misery."

"Okay, I'll be sure to remember that," Tink laughed tucking the brunette's hair behind her ear for her, "comfy?"

"I can never be comfy again," she huffed, closing her eyes nevertheless, she needed her pregnancy pillow, at the moment that thing was her true love, never mind Robin, currently he wasn't anywhere near to being on the same level as that pillow, "not until this baby decides to come out."

"Maternity leave has done this to you," Tink shook her head as she joked, "two days off and you can't cope with your life."

"Do you want to try being pregnant and get back to me?" she grumbled.

"You have done amazingly," the blonde whispered, "you really have Gina, you've done so well and I for one can't wait to meet my god son or daughter."

"Thank you for being here for me," Regina smiled, not opening her eyes but simply reaching out to take her friend's hand, "you have no idea how much it means to me."

"Love you Gina," Tink chuckled, pressing a kiss to her hair before standing up, "get some sleep."

"Love you too," she hummed before trying to shuffle into a more comfortable position and Tink left her alone in the room.

About two hours later she felt a light kiss on her forehead and her eyes flickered open to meet Robin's, "hi," she smiled sleepily as she stretched out and touched him, "is your shift over?" she asked, she really wanted him to say yes so they could just go home and relax, but she had a feeling it wasn't late enough.

"I'm on my last break," he stated, "you should go home though Gina, I know how tired you are and you should be in a proper bed, not in here, there is no way that bed is as comfortable as our bed at home. How are you feeling?" Robin asked, tucking her hair gently behind her ear.

"Tired," she whispered, trying to pull him down to lay with her, "I want you to hold me," she groaned. She heard him chuckle as he scooted her over a little and laid on top of the covers before pulling her into his arms, his hands skirting over her skin.

"I only have five minutes," Robin stated, kissing her temple. She hummed and held onto him as he simply held her, "I thought you said you had a surprise for me."

"I do," she nodded opening her eyes and looking at him with a cheeky smile, "lift up my top," she instructed.

He furrowed his eyebrows a little before following orders and lifting it from the hem, she watched him and chuckled at the expression that formed on his face. "Wow," he snickered shaking his head.

"It's a bumpkin," she laughed, "might as well dress up the bump too," she stated looking at the orange paint that was covering hers stomach, the green vines twined around and curled down over her lower belly, she had also painted a cute little face 'carved' into the pumpkin.

"That is adorable," he grinned, "I need to take a picture of this masterpiece," he moved off the bed a took his phone out, "stand up Gina," he chuckled and she did as he asked, posing for him to take some pictures of her, "I love it."

"Good," she smiled wrapping her arms around him, she knew she might as well go home now, there wasn't much point in her staying any longer, they had both cars in the parking lot so they wouldn't be able to go home together anyway, she'd be much better at home than in the bumpy on-call bed. "I think I might head home now," she whispered, resting her head against his. "Do you have any requests for dinner?"

"I'll bring something home, don't worry about it," he pecked her lips gently, "any requests?"

"Chinese would be amazing," she hummed, just thinking about it was making her mouth water, she couldn't wait for them to just be able to chill out and eat, not just the take out, but candy as well, it was Halloween after all, you had to have a bit of candy.

"Chinese it is then," he nodded, "you're okay getting home, alone aren't you?"

"Yes," she chuckled, she knew how worried he got and it was cute, but she would be just fine. They headed out of the on-call room and Regina gave him one last kiss at the nurse's station before saying goodbye to Tink and leaving. The trick or treaters would be arriving soon and she wanted to get at least one more nap in before then, make up for her sleepless nights. Just as she climbed in the car she felt a sharp kick in the ribs and shook her head, maybe she wouldn't be getting that nap after all.