Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton does. I made up Molly but that's it folks!

Author's Note: The information I have in this chapter about Oogie's past and Bug Day is fact from The Pumpkin King video game. Found out about it online off of Just look up Oogie Boogie and you can find it. Anyways...just wanted to say I didn't take credit for comming up with that...since I didn't...so..enjoy chapter five!

Chapter Five: Dinner Date

"Now you come strait back home after work young lady!" Jewel instructed in a stern tone to leave no room for argument as she placed her hands on her hips just as Molly walked to the door. "Last thing we need is for you to get...lost...again! Honestly dear, how could you have gotten lost! This town isn't that big!"

Jewel's daughter didn't seem to listen to what her mother was saying, but nodded her head, "Yes mother...I'll be back after work..." she replied in a dull tone. She then noticed a moth still flying about in the early morning, most likely trying to find a place to rest it's wings. The rag doll caught the moth gently in both hands and began to walk to the Witches' Shop. Molly didn't really want to go to work today, but then again, she never did. Though today she had a trick up her sleeve...or more accurate, in her hand.

The two witches greeted Molly when she entered their shop, "Oh Molly!" the shorter witch cried out, "What happened to you yesterday? The whole town was wondering where you were."

"Jewel was running about like a chicken with it's head cut off she was so worried." added the taller witch.

'Yeah I'm sure she was...' Molly thought dryly before she began to make herself cough into her closed hands. Once she coughed a few times, she said in a horse tone, "I just got lost the other night while walking and it took me all day to find my way back home, that's all." She then began to cough again.

"Oh you poor dear..." the Tall Witch said as she sympathetically patted the rag doll woman on the back. "You sound just dreadfully sick! Sure you didn't catch a nasty cold?"

Molly coughed harder this time, almost hard enough to make a person end up with one of their lungs on the floor. "Oh I'll be fine, just a little Mothitus..." she spoke in a soft, miserable tone of voice. When she coughed again into her closed hands, she opened them and the moth she caught after leaving the house began to flutter gracefully around above the three women's heads.

"Goodness! Mothitus?" the Short Witch cried, "I'm highly allergic to moths!"

The Taller witch managed to catch the moth into her hat and placed a shrivered, wort covered hand over it to keep the moth inside. "Molly dear, we'd appreciate your help a lot, but until you are over this Mothitus, I'm afraid we're going to have to ask you to miss work. Just until you're better of course."

"Of course, I understand..." Molly sighed before coughing more and leaving the store. Once the door was closed all the way behind her, Molly grinned and said under her breath, "Suckers..." Taking notice that several of the townspeople were starting to leave their homes and continue their preperations for Halloween, Molly began to walk with a faster pace out of the gate that lead towards the Cemetary. Placing her hands into one of her pockets and wiggling her fingers to make the contents inside make tiny clanking sounds that sounded similar to the jingle of coins, or something coin like, she thought out loud, "Wonder if he'll be expecting to see me so soon..."

"Here you go Betsy, eat up! I know you must be soooo hungry old girl!" Oogie crooned as he patted his giant spider's head just above the group of eight eyes. The giant spider was eating from a large bowl about the size of a wading pool that was filled with Snake and Spider stew that he had made the other day but didn't really eat. Oogie then left the Labyrinth on the bird cage elevator and once he got up to the top, he was just in time to see Lock standing there with a smug grin on his face. The little devil boy had been following him around all morning with that grin that was begging for Oogie to slap right off.

The redheaded boy asked innocently, "Molly come back yet?"

Oogie narrowed his empty eye sockets and replied irritably, "The answer is still the same as the last time you asked me that! NO!"

An evil little chuckle escaped the boy as he continued pestering the Boogie man, "I toldja that she wasn't comming back!"

"It hasn't even been a day!" Oogie replied defensively as he headed to the Torture Chamber, where with the press of a button, he could torture Lock to make him too tramatized to even speak for a long time. "And if it seems she won't return I'll just take her back by force!" he added in bitter declaration.

Lock didn't seem all that convinced, "Really? How you gonna do that?"

A pointed burlap hand was reaching out to a bat shaped button that would soon spring a surprise for the little demon boy, "Here...let me show you..." Oogie responded with a twisted grin.

Just before he was about to press the button, Shock and Barrel ran into the room, causing the Boogie man to pause and look at them. Both of them had excited looks on their faces, though Shock seemed to contain her excitement better than Barrel, who was jumping up and down. "OOGIE! OOGIE! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT!"

Oogie watched the small boy jumping up and down, moving his head along with him until he felt his neck feel a little sore from doing so. "What? And hold still or I'll nail your feet to the floor."

Barrel stopped jumping as Oogie wished, but he didn't seem as frightened by his threat as he normally would. Beaming up at him, he replied, "Common! We gotta show you something!"

"We think you'll really liiiiiike it..." Shock added with her sly grin.

"I bet I will..." Oogie replied dryly, but then sighed knowing that he might as well humor them. "Alright...show me..." The two children then began to leave the Torture Chamber and headed down to the Billiard Parlor. Oogie walked slowly behind them with Lock not too far behind. Oogie's expression was one of boredom, until he entered the parlor, and then his eyes widened in great surprise.

Molly was sitting on his pool table with a small smile on her lips as she chuckled lightly, "You know it's not nice to make a woman wait Oogie."

Shock and Barrel grinned up at Oogie as they noticed that their boss stood there with wide eyes, while Lock had a look of total disbelief. The little witch and the skelleton costumed boy took Lock's hands and lead him out of the room so the two could be alone. Oogie stood there for a while until he realized that she was waiting for his responce and shook off the look on his face. Clearing his throat he then finally said to her, "I see that you are back...so you must have taken my threat seriously...well...g-good."

Instead of trying to argue with him, she mearly hopped off the pool table and began to walk over to him with a smile still on her face. "Well yeah, of course I did! Why? You afraid I wasn't?" With a soft chuckle, she then reached into her pocket and was fishing for something unknown. "I brought something for you..."

'Oooh a present? For me?' Oogie wondered, and couldn't hide his curiousity that overtook his features as he asked, "Hm? What is it?" Then he remembered the threat she made the other day and gave her a suspicious look, "It's not scissors, is it?"

Molly shook her head with a smile still, and found what she was looking for but didn't reveal it just yet. "No...guess again!" she answered with a bit of a grin, suddenly feeling in a playful mood. It was odd, since she rarely showed excitement for something so simple as a guessing game.

Once she clarified that the contents of her pockets was not scissors, the Boogie man seemed even more curious than before. Placing his pointed hand near his mouth in wonder, he tried to think of what it could be. When he couldn't think of anything, he responded, "Just show me...I don't like guessing."

"Aww...but that's no fun..." Molly pouted slightly before she pleaded, "Come on! Guess one more time! Pleeeease?"

"Oh I don't know!" Oogie threw up his arms from frustration, "You got the whole town in that pocket of yours or what?"

Molly frowned as she put her hand on her hip, her attitude returning though her tone was light hearted. "Hey! Is that some kind of fat joke? If it is, I would like to state that you have no room to talk!" She then giggled in that soft womanly way she always had when she was teasing him.

"Feh! You're just lucky I fed Betsy just now..." the burlap sack man muttered as he folded his arms over his chest and pouting slightly himself.

"Betsy?" the rag doll woman repeated quizzically tilting her head to the side.

An menacing chuckle escaped Oogie, "Oh don't tell me you forgot about Betsy? Especially since the two of you got along so well last time you met down in the Labyrinth. I think she is really fond of you."

"Are you talking about that spider...?" Molly asked cautiously, and when Oogie nodded with a sinister smile, she began to laugh uncontrollably.

Upon hearing her laughter, Oogie Boogie of course, got defensive as narrowed his eyes and demanded, "What is it that you find so funny!"

A few chuckles escaped Molly before she could finally gain enough control over her laughter to ask him, "Y-you named your spider Betsy?"

When she continued to laugh at the fact, Oogie growled, "AND JUST WHAT IS SO FUNNY ABOUT THAT!"

"Hehe...n-nothing..." she replied now out of breath and holding her sides. As she wiped away a tear of laughter from the corner of her eye, Molly reminded him about their guessing game. "Hey! You never finished guessing what I brought for you! Come on Boogie, guess one more time!" Molly's pale face was aglow with an emotion she rarely showed. This giddy behavior was a new experience, one she didn't quite understand, but felt the need to indulge upon it.

Although Oogie didn't seem to want to indulge upon her behavior as he folded his arms over his chest and told her, "No!"

"Pleeese?" she pleaded with him again with big doe eyes, "Guess some more and we can play whatever game you want first."

Oogie looked thoughtful for a moment before he gave into her bargain, "Alright fine. Ummmm..." He began to think some more as he scratched his head, "...you have...some cards?"

"Hehehe...noooo..." she answered then said in a cheerful tone that was usually against her nature, "Those are in my other pocket! Guess again!"

"Ugh!" he sighed then asked in annoyance, "Just how many guesses are you going to give me? Uhhhh...you finally made a pair of dice?"

Molly's eyes widened for a moment and she took a tiny step back, making Oogie think for a moment that he guessed right. She muttered softly under her breath to herself, "He remembered what I told him..." in soft wonder. The rag doll was so use to her comments about her hobbies going unnoticed or waved off by her mother and father, that she had not been expecting the Boogie man of all people in the Halloween world to remember such a small thing she mentioned. Smiling even more now, she shook her head and told him, "Nope! But you're pretty close now!"

"GAH! THEN WHAT IS IT!" Oogie shouted in exasperation. At last, Molly removed her hand from her pocket and showed to him a thick coin like item. It was white, which glowed more in the lighting of the room, and sketched into the middle was a skull and a small number ten written on its forehead. "Oooh, what do we have here?" he asked intrigued, though he wasn't expecting an answer. He already knew upon first sight that it was clearly a poker chip.

Molly handed the curious glowing burlap man the poker chip, which he took almost instantly to examine more closely. "I make them whenever I'm bored at home." she stated, then added with a half hearted laugh, "So I've got tons of them back there. I-if you'd like I could bring them over next time I come to visit. They are just collecting dust in my room. Would be nice to actually use them."

Oogie grinned, liking this idea very much, "That would definitely make our games more interesting...especially since we no longer have your freedom to wager on."

The rag doll nodded in agreement then asked, "So what game would you like to play first?"

"Batsnot!" Oogie answered at once, and added quickly, "Cheat free this time too!"

"Hey!" she exclaimed offended, "I did not cheat..." adding softly under her breath so that he could not hear she admitted, "...much..."

A snort escaped him as Oogie commented, "Right and I wasn't looking at..." he then trailed off, catching himself before he admitted something himself.

"Looking at what?" Molly questioned with an innocent tone as she blinked naively, though she had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about.

Oogie shrugged, "My cards."

"Oh." Molly blinked innocently, though she secretly thought, 'Batsnot!' Casually walking back to take a seat on the pool table again, she commented casually, "Well if you really think I'll cheat again I guess I'll just take off my shoes and bare my legs again so you're convinced."

A wide grin spread across Oogie's face until he realized it and forced himself to look more seriously, "Ah..yes I think that is a good idea Doll Face."

'Of course you'd think that...' she thought to herself as she shuffled her cards and sighed, "So what are we going to bet with today? Playing for nothing gets old fast."

"Well I picked the game, so why don't you choose what we bet with." replied the Boogie man, "You're good with that."

"I've got pocket lint..." she suggested, then giggled at how silly it sounded.

Oogie chuckled too, "We need something more than that!" Then a thought occured to him and a wicked grin spread across his face as he laughed dark and deeply. "I believe those three pains in the neck left some of their candy. We could bet with that I'm sure they wouldn't mind." Molly nodded and he set off to find this candy he spoke of. "I'll be right back." he told her softly as he creeped out of the room.

As she waited, Molly decided to discard her boots and pull the hem of her dress back up to just below her knees before she laied down on the felt covered table. It didn't take too long for Oogie to return with a large sack of Lock, Shock, and Barrel's candy over his shoulder. Sitting up with a smile she then shuffled her cards one more time and asked, "Want me to deal, Boogie boy?"

"Be my guest Doll Face," he nodded and recieved the cards she delt to him, looking them over until she asked him something.

"Miss me?" she asked in a coy way as she batted her eyelashes at him.

"Oh if only I had a heart!" Oogie replied as he pointed to his chest and pretended to look like it was in pain, "It would have broken the moment you left. Hahahaha."

Molly then placed her hand over her chest and gasped then spoke in an overly sweet tone, "Aww...and if you were serious, I might say that I missed you too."

Oogie smirked and asked her, "Who said I wasn't serious?"

"Oh batsnot!" declared the rag doll as she waved off what he said. Of course neither of them seriously missed each other, right? Both of them were just teasing each other...or at least that's what they were trying to convince each other of.

The two began their game and placed down cards one at a time and soemtimes two at a time, and all the while Oogie tried not to stare at her legs too much, though it was pretty much in vain since Molly made sure to catch his attention once in awhile. Though unlike before, she didn't do it to distract him from noticing her cheating, because she didn't feel the need to cheat for her freedom. Even without cheating, Molly was still beating Oogie at Batsnot with six games to none. They were on their seventh game when she asked him, "How serious does Mothitus sound to you?"

"I don't know," Oogie replied with a shrug as he set his cards down, "why?"

"Just trying to figure out how many days of work I can get off because of it." Molly placed down another card just as she heard a soft chuckle from her card playing partner. She found herself laughing a little herself until she asked him, "Why are you laughing?"

Oogie chuckled a little more before he answered, "Playing sick to visit dear old me? I believe you were missing me much more than I missed you."

Molly wondered if that was so, but shook it off casually, "Not really. I'd rather be here than that boring job that keeps me busy. Jack and the Mayor don't want me to con the townspeople as much as I use to."

"You tricking townspeople? Sweet innocent little Molly the rag doll?" Questioned the Boogie man amused while placing down his cards. "I just can't imagine it."

Noticing that he was mocking her, the rag doll woman placed down her cards with a scowel, "You'd be surprised...especially since I just won." While the sack man realized that this was true and tried to figure out why he hadn't noticed her card hand shrinking, Molly added with a smug grin, "Don't worry, you can keep the candy, I don't have a liking for sweets."

"Neither do I..." began Oogie and before she could come back with an insult, he added quickly in a defensive manor, "...and don't you dare make any comments!" The raven haired doll chuckled after he glared. "What I really like is Snake and Spider stew."

"Really?" she suddenly asked with great interest. When Oogie nodded his head giving her a questioning look, Molly continued, "I like it too, even though I've only had it once."

Oogie blinked, "Why only once if you like it?"

"Well..." Molly sighed as she replied, "I don't exactly know how to cook, and nobody at home enjoys it much." Taking a look out into the room, she looked down the hall to see where the window in the Torture chamber was. It was already getting dark outside, and she hadn't noticed how long she and Oogie had been playing."Wow, it's night already..."

Taking notice that the next words that came from Molly would have been that she had to leave, Oogie tried to seem as casual as he could while he suggested, "Perhaps you should stay for dinner...before you leave. I plan on making some if you're interested."

Looking back at him with green eyes, Molly thought about the shrill voice of her mother when she'd scold her for comming home late. Though if she said she had to work late for some sort of reason, perhaps Jewel would understand and not seem suspicious. The fact was also that she didn't want to go home just yet, "Okay, I think I'll take you up on that offer. I've got some time to kill anyways."

After agreeing to have dinner with him, Oogie showed her to where he did his cooking and Molly followed as she entered his bland looking kitchen. It was the least decorated part of his lair, with a large pot, stove and a table that could seat six. "Need any help with getting certain ingredients together or something?" she asked him as he began to fill the large pot with water.

Once Oogie began a fire started at the bottom of the pot, he turned to her with a devilish smile as he bowed overdramatically, "Of course. That way you can do all the cooking next time you stay for dinner."

"Making the guest cook for the host," Molly replied as she rolled her eyes, "how polite you are."

"Of course Doll Face! I am nothing but polite. Or have you forgotten how we met?" Oogie responded before he pointed to a spice rack that was close by. "Grab the basil and crushed pepper."

Molly smiled as she walked over to retrieve the spices and answered Oogie's question, "Yes, I remember well. You pretty much told me do as you said or else."

Meanwhile Oogie walked over to a cage on the ground with snakes hissing and slithering around in it and chose three of the largest ones. "I think I said please when I did."

Molly walked over to him with the two spices in hand, "No, you didn't. I would have remembered that."

"Well I was polite enough to sew your arm back on after Betsy tore it off." he responded as he threw the snakes into the warm water and smiled when he heard the creatures hiss in pain as they were being cooked alive.

"Okay so you did one nice thing. Doesn't mean you're polite." she told him, then suddenly a burlap hand touched hers and she looked up at Oogie who was suddenly right in her face.

Oogie grinned in pleasure as her eyes widened, "Don't forget that I saved you too." he crooned before taking the spices from her and began to sprinkle some pepper into the beginings of the stew then threw in some basil.

After getting over being taken by surprise, Molly then placed her hand over her heart and sighed in a soft dreamy way, "Oh how could I forget that my brave hero?"

Despite the fact that she was mocking him, Oogie laughed because he found it highly amusing to be called a hero when really, he was not. "Just don't tell anyone about that. I wouldn't want to get a good reputation."

"Yes, wouldn't want the big bad old Boogie man to be thought of as nothing more than an overstuffed animal!" Molly chuckled before comming up behind him and wrapping her arms around him and resting her head against his back.

Oogie began to sprinkle in a little more pepper right when Molly decided to give him a hug and almost dumped most of the contents of the pepper shaker into the pot. After regaining his wits, he turned back as best he could to give her a dry look. "How would you like me to add you into the stew? I know Betsy would like the new addition."

Molly giggled as she let go of him and asked, "Anything else I can do?"

"Yes...swear that you'll never do that again..." Oogie replied in disgust just before muttering to himself. "Knew sewing her arm back was a bad idea."

In a dry tone, Molly clarified what she meant, "I was talking about helping with the stew..."

Oogie Boogie handed her a long wooden spoon, "Stir it while I get the spiders." As she took the spoon from him and began to do what he told her, he went to retrieve a jar filled with small spiders crawling around inside that was on top of a high shelf. As he walked back towards her, a question popped in his head and he decided to ask it. "So Doll Face, who are your parents? I'm surprised you're not anxious to get back to them as you were yesterday."

"Dr. Finkeilstein created me." she answered as she continued to stir, staring at her reflection in the strange liquid mixture. "The wife he created wanted a 'perfect daughter' to occupy her time and make herself look better than the other women in town." Now that Molly thought about it, it was rather depressing that she was created just to be her mother's little walking and talking trophy.

Tossing the spiders into the pot, he looked at Molly's slightly depressed disposition at the moment and replied, "She sounds...charming. And you must really help her prove her point."

With a fake laugh, Molly retorted bitterly, "Oh yes...she's always going on about how my antics will cause her reputation to be ruined and then adds casually how mine will be no better."

Oogie took notice of how she was stiring the stew faster now, and walked behind her, "No, no, no! You're stiring it all wrong!" he informed in a slightly annoyed tone at first before he reached around her so that one arm was on each side of her and wrapped his pointed hands around the top of the spoon just above her own hands. Turning his head to the side so he could see the contents of the pot, he added in a less harsh tone while moving the spoon slowly, "You see, if you kept stiring like that your arms will get tired quick and it might cause some of the stew to slosh over the rim." He took a step closer and soon he found his front pressed against her back, and felt her body stiffen slightly. After a few moments of stiring in silence, he remembered what he said about her mother and smirked as he thought of an overprotective mother's reaction to seeing her daughter caught in something that resembled an embrace with the most hated man in all of Halloween Town. Leaning down a bit he whispered to Molly with a dark chuckle, "You know, I would love to see your mother's reaction if she knew where you were right now."

Molly felt that same bit of vulnerability that she had felt yesterday when he grabbed her around the waist trying to prevent her from leaving in anger. It was diffrent when she teased him by flashing some leg and giving a friendly hug. It was times like this that she remembered that he was who he was; Oogie Boogie, the Boogie man. Trying to hide her discomfort, she responded, "If only she knew who you were. I asked her once about you but she didn't know."

"Darn..." Oogie muttered but grinned as he did, looking at his and her reflection in the red liquid they were stiring together. While the rag doll was wry of this close contact, he on the other hand, found himself enjoying it. Not because she felt uncomfortable, since he was unaware of this, but because she allowed him to be so close without wrinkling her nose in distaste nor was she cowering in total fear. When he first met her, he would have loved it if she trembled in constant fear, but now it seemed nice, in a diffrent way, that she didn't.

"A-almost nobody will talk about you..." she added, trying to fight her urge to let go of the spoon and slip under his arm to get away from him.

After hearing that, Oogie did not respond, though he continued to stare into the stew. Molly then noticed that within a single moment he looked angry, and upon instinct her body grew stiff; afraid that he might be rough with her for saying something wrong. But he didn't do anything to her, but instead tried to change the subject, "Looks like the stew is almost ready."

The rag doll realized that she had held her breath until she heard him speak, and after taking in a few breaths of air, she decided to allow him to change the subject. "Is it?"

"Yeah it doesn't take long once the ingredients are added." Oogie informed with a nod.

Molly then couldn't help but ask him about why the townspeople seemed to want to forget him. "Do you know why nobody wants to talk about you Boogie?"

"Probably because our 'King' doesn't like me. When he chooses not to like someone everyone has to feel that way." Oogie Boogie responded with a slight glare as he mentioned Jack the Pumpkin King.

"I didn't know Jack disliked anybody." Molly stated as she looked up at the face of Oogie instead of at his reflection. "And I snuck into his house without him knowing to find a clue about who you were. Of course this was before I had the pleasure of meeting you."

Oogie felt very flattered that she had actually wondered about who he was, and couldn't help laughing a little to hide how much of a complement that was to him. "Well I hope you weren't too disapointed..." he told her as he smiled down at her, staring into her green eyes now instead of staring at their reflections as well.

The rag doll smiled back and said, "I am still trying to figure that part out."

A few moments of silence passed before the Boogie man pretended to look hurt, "Ow...that stung."

"You know for a big guy like you..." Molly began as she then began to elbow his stomach softly, "...you sure do act like a big softie."

No longer flattered, Oogie glared down at her and mumbled, "You're just lucky the stew is ready or I would add you in."

As Oogie pulled the spoon out of her hands and placed it on a shelf to get a laddle, Molly's teasing demenor returned to her as she cooed, "Oh, you don't mean that Boogie-woogie."

The burlap man glanced back at her with a grin returning to his face, "Nope. But only because I wouldn't like the way you'd taste. Heh heh heh." After grabbing a laddle, he then got two bowls from the cupboard.

"Really?" Molly inquired innocently before she added malciously, "Didn't know you were...picky. Tee-hee."

"Oh ha ha! Maybe I'll not give you any now, since I am sooo fat I should eat it all by myself!" Oogie barked with narrowed eyes.

"Well I wouldn't want to deprive a growing sack." Molly giggled as she patted his stomach twice. When Oogie muttered as he began to pour some Snake and Spider stew into a bowl, Molly then added in a kinder tone, "Aw don't mutter like that! I'm just teasing you Boogie!"

Oogie pouted, "And I was nice enough to invite you over for dinner, and cook your favorite too."

Molly rolled her eyes, "Well you didn't like it when I was nice to you..." Oogie then shoved a bowl full of hot stew in her face for her to take. "Thanks..." she replied as she took the bowl and walked over to take a seat at the table.

"Oh now she thanks me!" the Boogie man grumbled as he fixed himself some stew and followed Molly to the table after retrieving two spoons for them.

After Oogie handed her a spoon, Molly said in her defense, "Better late than never." She smiled when she heard him chuckle and sit down across the table from her.

"I guess so." he said before he began to eat his dinner.

Molly watched him eat for awhile until she began to speak again, "Well, I did manage to learn that you're not from Halloween Town. So then where are you from?"

"Well, believe it or not, I use to rule my own holiday." Oogie replied after swallowing, and ate some more before he continued, "It was called Bug Day, but it was forgotten, so that's why I came here to Halloween Town."

Unlike anyone else who was a resident of Halloween Town, Molly was very interested in what Oogie had to say, and it showed plainly on her face. "Really? Well, that does explains a few things about you."

Oogie looked amused by her interest, "Like what Doll Face?"

"Like how bossy you are!" Molly replied with a giggle as Oogie predictably glared at her for her responce.

"At least I have an excuse!" he snapped before he continued in an accusing tone of voice, "You're just as bossy as I am! Or maybe the word manipulitive fits better for you!"

"I am not manpulitive!" the rag doll woman said, now being the defensive one as she folded her arms over her chest and said as-a-matter-of-factly. "I prefer to be called a con artist!"

A low chuckle escaped Oogie, "So how's the stew? I noticed you have yet to taste it."

Molly realized that this was true, since she had gotten caught up in asking Oogie questions she forgot to try his stew. Taking the spoon in her hand and dipped it into the bowl to fill the untensil with the liquid. Once she got her desired amount of stew, she brought the spoon to her black stitched lips and sipped politely. The warm broth slid down her throat in a pleasent way. "Wow!" she exclaimed, forgetting how great a taste the dish really was, and it seemed even better than she last remembered. "It's great!"

Oogie chuckled at her enthusiasm, "Gambling isn't the only thing I am good at."

"I'd say!" Molly agreed as she continued eating the dinner she and Oogie prepared together.

At first, the Boogie man seemed shocked that she actually agreed with him, but that was a fake response. Oogie then looked proud, "Was that a genuine complement?" he asked in a suspicious tone, though it was more like he was gloating. "I should make note of this day. It's history!"

The rag doll rolled her green eyes at him, "Not like you give me a bunch of complements either, Boogie."

A sleezy grin crept up on his features as Oogie tilted his head so he could gaze under the table for a moment before he casually stated, "You have nice legs."

"Thanks, I can tell you mean that by how much you stare at them." Molly replied, sounding like she didn't really care about what he said.

Because she didn't seem offended, or to even give much thought to what he told her, Oogie got irritated. "Oh of course! You did everything you could to get me to, you cheater!"

"I didn't cheat!" Molly growled, then added in a guilty sounding mutter, "...Today..."

"HA!" Oogie slammed down his fists on the table before he pointed an accusing pointed hand at her, "I KNEW IT!" The rag doll stuck her tongue out at the burlap sack in response. "Oh that's attractive Doll Face."

"Judging by your taste, I would think so." Molly retorted, before asking with a knowing grin. "Or you think that I didn't notice that you were drooling through half of the fifth game?"

Oogie blinked once before he blurted out, "I WAS THINKING!"

"And just what about?" Molly asked curiously as she propped her elbows on the table after finishing her stew and rested her chin in her palms.

Knowing that he set himself up, Oogie chose not to answer her question and muttered to himself as he continued eating his stew. For a long time neither of them said anything, and the Boogie man stared down at his bowl for the most part, since Molly continued to stare at him intently. Glancing up at her again, he cleared his throat and asked, "So um...tell me...is spending time here...w-with me really more enjoyable than being out conning people in the town with those three pains in the neck?"

Molly still looked at him and nothing else as she answered, "Well, I don't get to con people as much as I use to with that job I've been forced to take, but yeah. I like spending time here. Kinda fun playing against someone who actually knows how to play the same games I do." Looking out of the small window that was also in this room, she took notice that the night sky was getting darker and stood up. "Oh hey I have go get going...it's getting late."

"Alright then." Oogie said, though his tone was soft, since he didn't want her to go, but there wasn't anything he could think of that would make her stay. After he finished his last spoonful of stew, he asked, "You gonna visit again tomorrow Doll Face?"

"'Course I am." she responded with a smile, "I've got Mothitus remember?" Molly then coughed into her hand a few times, trying to make herself sound sick.

Oogie chuckled softly, "Then I'll see you later Dolly." then he gave her a wink.

Molly winked back, "Later Boogie boy."

Oogie watched as the raven haired doll woman walked out of the room and when she was out of sight he began to grin widely. He stood up, taking both his and her dishes as he walked over towards a sink. The boogie man had a sudden impulse to start singing his line from This is Halloween when a curious Lock poked his head into the room and gave Oogie a smug little grin. "Gee, don't you sound happy."

At once the burlap man stopped singing and threw one of the bowls he was washing at Lock's head. "Shut up! I was just seeing if I still remembered it!" he growled, not wanting the brat to ruin the good mood he was in. The bowl he threw colided into Lock's head and broke upon impact. Lock fell back and in a daze, seemed to see stars floating around his head. This caused Oogie to chuckle as he contiued singing and washing the dishes he and Molly used for their fist dinner together.

Welp we're on chapter five, good to see that I've still got people keeping up with the fic! Glad to hear you're all enjoying the ride! It's going to get more exciting for these two very soon, but I just need to decide when they take off into that part of the story!

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I'll try to update more often, but I can't make big promises. Lately I've been sooooooooooo busy and it's getting soooo stressful with school that on weekends I try not to do almost anything. But hopefully the school stuff won't get to me for too much longer! Don't forget to read and review more my old and to whoever is new reading this!

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