Halloween: Thea & Eric

Thea sat in Eric's living room. Eric and one of his friends were debating about which horror movie they should watch first. Eric's friend, his name was Jake, had brought his current girlfriend who was babbling excitedly to Thea about the new cheerleading outfits at school. Thea half listened to her half listened to the movie debate.

Jake was trying to convince Eric that they should watch some movie involving witches who ate the souls of children and Eric was blatantly against that instead opting for an old werewolf film.

"Girls," Jake said. Britney, that was his date's name, immediately looked to him. "Witch movie of werewolf movie?"

"Witch," Britney stated, flipping her long platinum blonde hair over her shoulder.

"If we're doing a film fest we'll end up watching them both, right?" Thea asked. "So we can just watch the witch one, otherwise we'll never get started."
Eric agreed when he heard Thea agree to watch a film that portrayed her kind as soul eating monsters.

They sat on the couch, Jake on one side, then Britney, then Thea, and Eric on the other end.

Thea had never watched a horror film before. As it turned out, they were scary. Britney turned out to be a fear talker. As in one of those people who talked to the people on the screen.

"No… don't go in the basement! No! AHHHHHH!!!! OMG RUN!"

Thea wasn't much better of course. She was half on top of Eric screaming "GET AWAY FROM HER! NOOO DON'T EAT HER SOUL, SHE'S THE GOOD ONE!!!!!"

Jake was laughing, Eric looked shocked and then… the lights started flickering.

"OMG!!! THEY'RE COMING FOR US!!!" Britney sobbed.

The lights went out completely, the television shut off.

"E-Eric?"

"It's okay, just a power outage. I'll go flip the breaker."

This caused Britney to flip out. "You can't!!! They take the one who goes off alone first!!!!

"I think I have a flashlight in my purse," Thea said quietly. "Lets see… here!" she flipped the flashlight on.

"So… what are we gonna do if we can't flip the breaker?" Jake asked.

There was a knock on the door. "AHHHHHHHHH!" Britney shrieked.

"Should we answer it?" Jake asked. "I mean, who would be at the door this late?"

"I'll get it," Thea offered. She headed toward the door. The others edged behind her, careful not to trip over objects in the dark.

She opened the door. "Yes?" There was no one there… at least no one they could see. "Is someone here?" she stepped out of the house cautiously. "Blaise?"

"Come back in the house!" Britney hissed urgently.

"Whoever is here this isn't funny. I know you're still here, I can feel your presence." She started naming off people who would potentially try to scare her. "Ash? No? Hmm… Maybe James? I thought not." She walked farther out of the house, preparing a spell all the while. "Poppy?" she was getting more desperate.

The other three had followed her out of the house, afraid of being without her flashlight, she supposed.

"I…" she started. "I know you're in that bush," she said, shining her flashlight toward the bush. "So come out!"

And out they came. Three football players from their school. Two were obviously human, one was definitely a werewolf.

"Did you cut the power?" Thea asked, looking around at the neighboring houses, all of which had power.

The werewolf laughed. "What would we gain by doing that?"

"I was wondering the same thing actually."

"Why are you in my bushes?" Eric asked.

"Trying to scare you. Your electric went out?" one football player asked.

"Yes," Thea clarified. "Strange how it was the only house on the block that lost power, huh?"

She looked around nervously. "I don't suppose you saw anyone when you got here?"

"No one." The humans stated.

"Well, actually, I did. They were headed around back. Dark haired girl. Kind of moved like a cat," the werewolf mentioned. "Don't know who she was though."

"Well then, I suppose we should go check it out," Eric said.

"No way! I'm going home!" Britney hissed.

"That's only fair, I suppose," Thea murmured.

"Yeah, let's go, Brit. I'm sorry, dude, but I'm going after a psycho chick who cut the power."

"It's okay," Eric said.

Jake and Britney walked away.

"So then," Thea said, looking at the three football players. "What's up?"

"Keller wants to talk to you two," human football player/Circle Daybreaker, Chris, said.

"'Kay, thanks guys," Thea said. She and Eric walked back to meet the panther shape-shifter.

"Well, this is turning out to be quite the Halloween," Eric laughed.