Ghost Adventures Live was amazing, and we'd done it before trick or treat so AJ could have her fun with Cassidy. And this year, I'd be dressing up as well, nothing too obvious, just a kitsune youkai (Fox Demon).

When I had told Zak my idea a week earlier, he just laughed until I gave him my demon stare. He stopped, before I broke into a fit of – what else – purrs.

"Heeeyyy…." I slurred. Zak's hand found the top of my head, and then he found the area behind my ear and started to scratch it, like I actually was a cat.

"Damn….this actually is stimulating. A bit."

But now was the time. And my LBD couldn't wait…I mean, what's a seductive demoness without her little black dress? Yeah, thought so. So I headed into the bathroom in the master bedroom to wash up before I get ready. Cause tonight was Halloween.

(Zak's POV)

I helped AJ get together; she was (as figured) going as a ghost hunter. Kenzi had found a small over the shoulder bag for her to put candy in, and I'd found one of my old headlamps. AJ was wearing a pair of Kenzi's old faded blue jeans, and a GAC tee. In her hands she had an EMF detector and a digital voice recorder. She smiled at me after she'd gotten all set, and I noticed her lose front tooth had finally come out. But then Kenzi stepped out from the bathroom, her hair wrapped up in a red towel, another around her body. I told AJ to go wait for Nick, Aaron and the girls downstairs, which she happily did. I turned around to see Kenzi unwrapping the towel around her hair. Wet strands of dark brown hair fell down around her shoulders, some touching the skin on her shoulder blades, now decorated. Kenzi had gotten a tattoo, right after the reunion. I smiled as my fingers automatically began to trace the vines surrounding a single rose, which inside there was writing, reading, "Zachary – forever and a day." I had her full first name written in cursive on my ankle. Kenzi shivered, pulling the towel around her even tighter as I wrapped my arms around her. I kissed her neck, watching the goose bumps erupt on her smooth skin. I grinned.

"Ooh, baby why do you always do that? Every single time I get out of the shower, you always trace those vines. I actually don't think we have time to screw around." She added. I laughed, picking her up and setting her up the bed.

"Well, if AJ crashes early enough…we can come back." I said. Kenzi only sighed annoyed at that, whispering arigato (thank you) under her breath, but then leaned forward to kiss me. I forgot how vulnerable she seemed when we were like this, it was as though she didn't want to lose herself and get distracted. But she stopped, and got up off the bed, walking toward her closet.

15 minutes later… (Kenzi's POV)

Wow. The dress I'd picked out fit me perfectly, as I'd planned. My heels were fine, only about 1 ½ inches. I can't walk in anything higher then 2, anyways. I clipped in my kitsune-ears, and turned to go into the bathroom to do make-up. Zak was already dressed (he was going as a vampire) in a black button down long sleeve and black jeans along with the most victorian-esque era boots and trench coat-like-jacket we could find. His fangs were already in, and I still had to put mine in. But then I realized something.

"Zak, honey, you're not a vamp yet." I said, just as he was going to head downstairs.

"Huh? I'm in black, I've got fangs, what am I missing?" he asked. I grabbed a stick of eyeliner and an eyeshadow palette in my hands and held them up. "The makeup."

"Ow, shit, that's my eye!" Zak said, trying to pull away. I was (un)successfully trying to put black eyeliner on him, right on the waterline and the lower lid. I had already put black eyeshadow on the lids, and it smudged really well, giving Zak that 'sexy, smoky eye' look most girls aimed for.

"Well if you'd just sit still….no wonder only girls wear makeup. Well…guys do if they're patient. 'Specially the Green Day guys. You're not." He laughed, but I put a finger to his lips.

2 minutes later…

"Blink." I said. He did.

"Kay, now take your index fingers and like drag them across your lower eyelid. It'll make it smudge." He did this, and then blinked several times.

"Is it possible to get this stuff in your eyes?" he asked. I laughed.

"So don't rub them. Damn…baby you look like a way hotter version of Edward. And…oh shit! Forgot the pressed powder. Close your eyes." I ran a quick powder-puff over his face, finishing the pale illusion and turning him into the sexy, sultry demonic being he was supposed to be.

"Now look, you're reflection's still there. And help my get my fangs in." I said laughing softly.

After trick-or-treat:

"AJ, honey, don't eat all that candy tonight, Dad will have a fit." I scolded her gently as she emptied all her candy onto the kitchen table. She turned to look at me, her face cracking into the same smile Zak always had before he kissed me, that half innocent but still devilish grin.

"I know he will. So I'm going to just make it look like I ate everything. I still want to see what'll happen." Well, after sorting through all the candy, I ran a bath for AJ so she could clean up. She came out of the bathroom half an hour later, wearing the robe Emily had gotten her for last Christmas, and hugged me goodnight, and went to bed.

I figured Zak was already asleep, or at least trying to scrub what little makeup I'd used off his face. I headed upstairs into our bedroom, but then gave a small yelp when I realized Zak had been up the entire time. I climbed onto the bed beside him, sitting back on my knees like a cat. I still had the ears in, but I'd changed into plush shorts and a crop top. I leaned in closer to Zak like I was going to kiss him, but he beat me to it, flipping me around so I was lying down. He started to kiss me, and I instantly broke into a fit of purrs, each lasting a little longer then the last. I stopped purring suddenly, I'd gotten a song stuck in my head. Katy Perry's Teenage Dream was starting, and I knew it would be awhile before it left my mind.

"Ai (love)…Z-Zachary….s-stop." He didn't, he only wrapped an arm around me, pulling me closer, as I realized it was getting like Twilight again. I knew he wasn't going to hurt me, but maybe there was that voice in the back of his head, arguing. Arguing that Halloween was the night everything came true. That the world we'd come to believe in, started on this night. And so should we, again. Restart the journey that led me to marrying him, those nights in NYC, that night at Bobby Mackey's when we'd both been so afraid, which was also the night we became parents (well, technically it was day, 2:00 in the morning). So I would, after all. I gave myself up, surrendering to Zak, feeling the nerves in my body turn electric at his every touch. Something back in my mind said that'd I'd forever remember this. But still the song went on, along with the night, with my mind, body, and heart tangled up in nothing less then the embrace of a perfect love.