Spoilers for s02e09 - La Llorona and warning for a homophobic slur.

/ / / Halloween \ \ \

"Roddy!" Elly said loudly enough for Roddy to pull his phone away from his ear. "…Roddy?"

"Have you stopped yelling?" Roddy asked.

"I wasn't yelling," Elly said, her voice was still loud but not enough to hurt his ears. "What are you doing tomorrow after school?"

Roddy thought about it for a moment, he had no plans but Elly was way too excited. When she was like this he would end up hanging out with Jägerbars who looked at him like they would enjoy bathing in his blood and doing things that no self-respecting Blutbad, or teenager, should be doing.

"I'll know if you lie," Elly said with a laugh. "I am going to do my house up for Halloween so I want to get everyone over to help. Holly's coming with her mum and I've invited Barry and Frank."

"Seriously?"

"It's Halloween!" Elly said as if there should be no more need for explanation.

Roddy rolled his eyes. "I had planned to do nothing but watch crappy TV and eat junk food."

"I will feed you," Elly said immediately. "And…I have the best set of movies to watch while we work."

Roddy had a feeling that the movies would be camp old horror movies but he supposed he could deal with it if she was going to be feeding him. "Fine."

"Excellent," Elly said. "Barry will pick you up from school tomorrow afternoon."

"No," Roddy said but there was silence from the other end of his phone. He pulled it away from himself and looked down at the message telling him Elly had hung up – probably to go and call Nick to get him to come and help too.

"You can't put me in a car with Barry," Roddy said to the phone but he knew that there was no getting around Elly once she had decided to go all out on something.

The next day Barry, and his phallic symbol of a rumbling car, were waiting on the curb as soon as Roddy came out of the building. He went over and stuck his head in the window first.

"You going to kill me?" Roddy asked.

Barry glared around his sunglasses and shook his head. Roddy knew that was the best he was going to get so he slid into the car and did up his seat belt. One of his classmates walked by, paused, and then looked at Roddy and Barry.

"So, you are a little fag," the guy said and then continued on his way.

"Who was that?"

"Michael," Roddy said shifting in his seat. "Just some idiot in one of my classes."

"Want me to go and beat the shit out of him?"

Roddy looked at Barry confused. "No, but…thanks for the offer."

Barry shrugged and they pulled away from curb to head to Elly's. When they got there she was already halfway through decorating the lounge room and the rest of the house looked like a Halloween advertisement. It also looked awesome but Roddy didn't say that. Something about the way Elly beamed at him told Roddy that she could read his approval all over her face.

Then he saw the kitchen, and the food, and the sweets. He fell on a plate of homemade cinnamon buns like he hadn't eaten for a week, he could see Barry eying the food off and handed him a bun before he went back to sampling something from every plate.

"Don't make yourself sick," Elly said. "You have fifteen minutes and then you can come and help outside."

Roddy watched as Holly decorated in the lounge room and kept sneaking into the kitchen for food. Her decorating looked a little haphazard and decidedly overdone but she smiled at Roddy as she worked. She still looked at Barry like she wasn't sure if she needed to rip him in half but she hadn't growled at him since the picnic. Holly's mum was working with Elly in the lounge room and had a perpetual look of bemusement as Elly whistled while she worked.

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I'm thinking there needs to be a one-shot for what happened with Angelina but I haven't had time to write it yet. Let me know what you think.