Happy Halloween.

Authors notes: Ok everyone here is Halloween number two. I will be doing one more. Thanks for reading.

It was the first Halloween for Anna Callen. She was six years old and still adjusting to life in America. She loved her parents and her little sister but all the fuss over Halloween just confused her.

They had spent an afternoon carving pumpkins. That was fun but messy. Today her parents had put them in the car and had driven them to the mall. Anna had never seen so much stuff in one place. There was so much to look at, half of it Anna had no clue what it was or what it was for.

They went into a store and Anna stopped dead. There were fancy outfits everywhere.

"Momma what is this place?"

"This is a Halloween store. We're going to pick out costumes to wear on Halloween to trick or treat."

"You can pick out whatever you like Anna." Said Callen. He was holding Clara and she was giggling like crazy.

The walked over to the kids section and started looking at all the costumes. Clara's first Halloween they had dressed her up as a bumble bee. Callen wanted to stick with the bug theme as he always called her his little bug.

"Found it." Said Callen holding up a butterfly outfit. Mac just shook her head and laughed at him. Clara grabbed at the wings and giggled more.

Anna touched several costumes but none of them clicked. The she looked up and found a pink puffy dress. Her eyes got huge and she smiled. "I want this one." Mac picked up two different sizes and took Anna to try them on. She twirled in front of the mirror. "I love it momma."

"You are a beautiful princess."

Mac got Anna changed and they went to find Callen. He was helping Clara pick out decorations for the front of the house. Clara of course wanted everything. She wasn't scared of anything.

"Do you see anything you want Anna?" asked Mac. Anna looked around and saw a vampire figure. She stood behind her dad and hid her face.

"Sweetheart nothing here can hurt you." Said Callen.

"G you have to remember Vampires are a Romanian tradition and not the cartoon kind."

They took the girls to pay and on the way home they tried to explain to Anna what Halloween was all about.

"We go to people's houses and they give us candy?"

"Yes. It's called trick or treating."

"Do we play tricks on them too?"

"No that's just what they call it."

"Oh." Anna looked out the window.

Clara was kicking her feet and playing with her teddy bear. "Bufly."

"Yes Clara you're going to be a butterfly." Said Mac.

"Bufly." Said Clara again giggling.

Anna looked at her little sister. "Butterfly." She said the word slowly. Anna was still working on her English. Both her parents spoke Romanian so it was easy to talk to them. Clara was too young to understand her sister wasn't really her sister and didn't care if Anna spoke differently.

Clara looked at Anna. "Bufly." And giggled.

Callen looked over at Mac and they smiled at each other. It was going to be a good Halloween.

DEEKS HOUSE.

Kensi was in the kitchen elbow deep in a pumpkin. She dropped the guts into a garbage bag and made a face. "Deeks why am I doing this again?"

"Because we need jack o lanterns." Said Deeks. He was holding Lilly trying to get her to sleep.

"Why am I doing this myself?"

"Because someone has to get this little one to sleep."

Kensi glared at Deeks and went back to the pumpkin. She had cleaned out six so far and had six more to go. Right now Kensi hated pumpkins. Ten minutes later Deeks came back and put the baby monitor on the counter and finally started to help. It took them an hour to finish cleaning out each pumpkin.

"Ok time to carve." Said Deeks holding up a special pumpkin carving knife. He smiled at Kensi and started in on his first pumpkin. He was carving a complicated design.

Kensi watched him for a minuet then grabbed a steak knife and started in on hers. She was done in minutes. It took Deeks an hour to carve his. Once they were done they lined the walk with them. Deeks were all fancy and not scary at all. Kensi's were hacked and looked like Donny had carved them.

"What?" said Kensi as she placed her last one.

Nell pulled up and got out looking at the pumpkins.

"Nice pumpkins."

"Mine are on this side." Said Deeks proudly pointing to his.

"I see."

"And these are mine." Said Kensi.

"Very traditional Kensi, I like them."

Kensi looked at Deeks and gloated. "HA!" she said and led Nell into the house.

They walked in to the house just as Donny came walking into the living room his blankie in one hand and his teddy bear in the other.

"Mommy I hungry."

Kensi lifted her son up and carried him to the kitchen.

"Just like his mother." Said Deeks.

"So are we all meeting here for trick or treating?" asked Nell.

"I guess so."

Everyone had decided to take the kids out in one group.

"You know you and Eric don't have to go out if you're not up to it."

Nell looked down at her swollen belly. "Oh no I'm not missing out on this. I'm craving candy like crazy so I plan on eating as much as I can steal from the kids."

Deeks laughed and pulled out a stash of peanut butter cups he hid from Kensi and handed them to Nell. Her eyes got huge and she had three stuffed into her mouth by the time Kensi came into the room.

"I think your spending way too much time with Nell." Said Deeks. Kensi stuck her tongue out at Deeks and shoved some candy into her own mouth.

Halloween rolled around and Donny was running around the house in his costume. He had picked out a superman one and loved the cape. Kensi had Lilly dressed in the same bumble bee outfit Clara had worn the year before. Kensi and Deeks didn't dress up this year. They were too into the kids having a good time.

Nell and Eric rolled up and they laughed when they saw Nell. She had dressed up a bunny. "She wants to see if she can pass as a kid just to get the candy." Said Eric.

Callen drove up next. Anna got out in her princess outfit. Donny ran up to her.

"Hi Anna." He took her hand. "We get candy now."

Anna let Donny pull her over to the rest of the group. Callen got Clara out of her car seat.

"Oh look at you Clara." Said Kensi. "That is so cute on her."

"And with luck it will fit miss Lilly next year." Said Mac.

They just had to wait for Sara and Victor who insisted on being there to help take the girls trick or treating. They pulled up minutes later and had a small treat bag for each kid. They both looked at Nell and smiled. Mac had warned them that Nell was on a candy hunt tonight.

"Nell a special treat for you." Said Sara handing her a bag of truffles.

"Oh thank you." Nell tore into them and shoved two into her mouth.

Finally they were on their way.

"What ever happened to trick or treating when it was dark out?" asked Sara. "We always went out when it was dark."

"It's safer to do it in the light I guess." Said Mac.

Deeks was pulling a wagon with Lilly and Clara in it. Clara kept saying Butterfly over and over again. Lilly was all eyes as they passed different groups of kids. They hit the first house and Donny led the way. Anna wasn't too sure what to do so she watched the kids in front of them.

Donny put his bag out and said "Trick or treat." Anna stood next to him and held out her bag. They both got a candy bar. Anna was amazed that people were just giving them candy.

Nell went up behind them and held out her bag. The woman looked at her and shrugged giving her a candy bar. For once Nell was happy she was small. They walked back to the group. Callen and Deeks had carried up the girls and they got their candy. Lilly's would go to Kensi. Clara was old enough to maybe have a piece or two but Callen would end up eating most of it.

They hit the entire neighborhood then headed back to Deeks place. Hetty and Granger were there waiting on them.

"Oh my look at my girls." Said Hetty as Deeks pulled two sleepy little girls up the walk.

Anna was right behind them and smiled at Hetty. "Hello Grandma."

"Oh Anna what a pretty dress." Anna smiled and hugged Hetty. They headed in the house so they could check over the candy before anyone ate any. Kensi and Mac got the girls out of their outfits and put Lilly and Clara down for a nap.

Callen was ordering pizza and Deeks was in charge of the candy. Eric passed out beers to the adults and juice to Donny and Anna and one to Nell.

"I think Nell got more than the kids did." Said Deeks.

"You actually went trick or treating?" asked Granger.

"Yep."

"My wife is addicted to candy right now." Said Eric.

"I can't help it the baby wants candy." Nell rubbed her belly.

"Last month it was ham." Said Eric.

Nell simply rolled her eyes and ripped into a candy bar.

"Nell don't eat too much we have pizza on the way." Said Callen grabbing a candy bar himself.

"Ok everyone I have a box here. Any candy you don't want please put in here so I can take it to the soup kitchen tomorrow." Said Deeks.

Nell tossed in all the gum and anything with nuts. Callen put in the gum too as it was all too hard for Anna and he didn't like it himself. Soon the box had a nice amount of candy in it. Deeks hid it in the closet so Kensi wouldn't get into it.

The pizza came and everyone ate while they watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

They had just finished the movie when Nell grabbed her stomach. "Oh no."

"Nell you ok?" asked Kensi.

"I think my water just broke."

Everyone looked and sure enough there was a puddle on the floor under Nell. Eric's eyes got huge and he went pale.

"You're not due till for two more weeks."

"I don't think this kid wants to wait." Said Granger. They got Nell to the car and Deeks drove because Eric was having a breakdown.

Nell was screaming by the time they got to the hospital. "This kid is coming now." They made it to the ER entrance. Eric ran in to get help.

"Deeks this baby is not waiting."

Deeks took one look and almost passed out. "Um Nell I see a head."

"That's it Eric is never touching me again, EVER!"

Deeks had just looked back when the baby started to slip out. He grabbed it and looked up at Nell in awe.

"Well Nelly it's a boy."

Nell had laid back and closed her eyes. Just then a doctor and a nurse came running out. Deeks handed the baby over and looked for Eric.

"He passed out." Said the nurse.

Deeks pulled out his phone and called home. "Hey Kensi is everyone still there, ok put the phone on speaker."

"Ok Deeks it's on speaker." Everyone looked at the phone.

"Alright Eric passed out but he's fine. Nell had the baby in the back seat as soon as we stopped the car."

"What!" said Mac. "Deeks who delivered the baby?"

"Yours truly." Deeks sounded proud. "They are taking Nell and the baby in now so I don't know anything yet."

Deeks watched as they got Nell out of the car. Kensi had been in labor for almost two days with Lilly, a full day with Donny. He never saw anyone have a kid so fast.

An hour later Deeks found out that Nell was fine and so was the baby. They named him Jake Martin after his godfather. Nell insisted that Deeks delivered him so he had to be the godfather.

The next day everyone came to see the baby. Nell said she no longer wanted the candy and Deeks should give it to the soup kitchen.

"Well now we have to things to celebrate on Halloween." Said Kensi as she held Jake.

"Best Halloween treat ever." Said Eric.

The third Halloween story will be with the kids all older.