Chapter 5:
A/N this was meant to be up for Halloween, but because the mothership went to visit my aunt and took the laptop with her, I couldn't. Then when I came to it today, I found that I had lost this chapter. Which Sucks. Like loads. So I'm sorry about that but as a please-forgive-me-and-don't-kill-me gesture I give Pavel in a pumpkin costume. Enjoy! I'm not really sure what exactly happens in America in Halloween, but I hope it is like England. So if I get anything wrong, I will flounce off and drink tea in my country mansion while watching the horses from my fifth story balcony
Just kidding. I only have four stories.
Trick or treat:
Halloween was always an exciting time; it meant sweets and decorations. The decorations had been an… eventful time.
After Spending most of the day sitting in the lounge, with copious amounts of paint and glitter (that had ended with Bones looking rather distressed with tissue paper and glitter in his hair, while trying to get JT to stop painting a bone on his arm. JT had thought it very amusing at the time). While JT seemed to just be creating a mess, he did actually make some pretty cool decorations. He and Hikaru had been spending a while in the corner of the room with some black wire, pom poms and tape. The others hadn't noticed what they had been up to, which really was a bad idea. They had quickly realised their mistake when they were covered in small black things which, Jt was very pleased to say, looked a lot like spiders.
Uhura had screamed and run over to the wall. When she realised that they were fake, had scowled at the boys and decided that JT would need to lend her those books she wanted to make her not kill him.
Gailia, had also screamed. But that was more about her new scarf that could be ruined than anything else. She had checked it over before laughing at Uhura. Then going over to check on her.
Bones had completely ignored the small black things, while vowing to get revenge later.
Scotty, had also not been badly affected by the fake spiders, but had instead of waiting for revenge, had thrown his paintbrush and screwdriver at JT and Hikaru. They both hit JT on the head (he was now sporting a rather nice bruise, that was hard to hide by his fair hair)
It had clamed down after that. Hikaru helped Pavel (who had not been included on the spider prank) make a pumpkin costume. Pavel was making the hat, while Hikaru made the frame for the main body. They were a great team and the costume looked great. They could all tell that he was going to get the most sweets this year.
Uhura and Gailia were making matching hats, which went with the costumes they had already bought (from another trip to the mall). They were both listening to some of the latest songs and nodding their heads along with the beat. The hats were tall and sparkly with bright red ribbon and lace netting around them. Gailia was a master with material.
Scotty had decided that, he would make a moving skeleton. JT had joked that he should call it Bones because it probably had the same acting abilities as him. Bones had given JT a scowl for that, nobody mentioned the 'Acting Incident'. Scotty was tinkering with said skeleton, to try to get it to play the right music. So far he had only gotten some rather disturbing tunes that went along the lines of 'baby, baby, baby, oh'. Whatever girl had sung that needed some serious help. Scotty was adsorbed in his work and hoped it would work out fine.
JT, had managed (no one knew how) to get Bones to agree to wear whatever Jt made for him. This had lead to some sneaky conversations with Gailia that had made Bones very worried however, it wasn't as bad as he had thought. JT had decided on a full black all in one; He was currently painting the bones onto it, it would match a grumpy skeleton mask, he had already made. JT had thought it hilarious while Bones had to admit, that it did look pretty good.
Bones, himself had given up on his project (he was awful at art) and had instead agreed to start hanging the decorations around the house. He had started on the stairs with winding some black and orange streamers around the banisters. He had been startled when he felt a presence directly behind him. He had then dropped the streamer, which had fallen down to the ground floor (he was on the fourth). Cursing whoever was behind him he turned around.
Spock was standing ramrod straight, as usual. He was peering down curiously at McCoy, as he stood on the stairs. He probably thought that this was just another 'illogical human festival that because of my Vulcaness, is highly inappropriate'. McCoy was waiting for him to move so he could go and get the streamer. Spock spoke first.
"I apologise for causing you alarm, human hearing is less than a Vulcan" Spock spoke in his usual tone.
McCoy was pissed, Spock had just made him drop the streamer, then insult him. Green-blooded hobgoblin. He was trying to think of a clever retort when Spock turned away from him and carried on down the stairs. McCoy looked on shocked as he reached the bottom and calmly stepped around the dropped streamer and into the study. He'd been in there a lot recently, probably getting adopted to Vulcan, if what JT had told him about the location of the incoming comms, was true.
McCoy sighed as went down to pick up the streamer, he was intercepted by JT carrying his costume. He risked a glance at it; he had to admit that it looked good; the bones were neatly painted in white. JT had some serious skill.
"Bones! How you doing, I'm just gonna put this out to dry. I'll come help you when you're done" JT said proudly showing off the costume.
McCoy wanted to refuse the help, but he looked so happy at that moment, he didn't want to ruin his best friends mood.
"Sure, I'll be upstairs, bring some more streamers while you're at it" McCoy said. He was dreading what inevitable accident would happen later as JT walked off.
It turned out that having JT around was actually pretty good. He could hold the streamers in place while Bones, stapled them in place. There weren't even any injuries, which was a miracle in itself. They finished quickly and spent the rest of the day with the others, making the final preparations for tomorrow. They were going to have a party before going out to the town trick-or-treating. All the costumes were done, most had been hand-made and Pavel's definitely looked the best. Hikaru had made the frame a bit too big and now Pavel struggled to put his arms down when he had it on. The cap also kept falling over his eyes, making him bump into things, the best was another boy also dressed as a pumpkin. This had left them both on the floor looking dazed. Hikaru had snapped a quick photo before helping him up. It had been a fun day
************************************ 24 hours later *******************************
The party was in full swing; Uhura and Gailia were currently applying the ornage make-up to Pavel's face. Hikaru and JT were still eating the cake that had been abandoned in favour of the dance floor and games. Bones and Scotty were both playing Pool in the corner. Someone had painted the balls as pumpkins and the table was covered with fake cobwebs. Everyone had gone all-out on the decorations. It looked great.
The party wound up about half an hour later as everyone got ready to leave. Everyone climbed on the bus, JT and Bones getting the back seats for all their friends. They started telling ghost stories at the back of the darkly lit bus. JT seemed to know the most, he told stories from all over the federation, and had them enthralled. They were almost disappointed when the bus drew to a halt in the town.
They quickly separated in groups. The older ones had been grouped with younger ones to look after. Most of their group stayed together with exception of some other kids joining them. Laura was dressed as a fairy and Liam as a bat. They were a brother and sister from Kansas, who were pretty, knew to the home.
They set off in the direction of the richer neighbourhood; the houses here, were large and imposing, with smart cars and extravagant decorations for the holiday. The first house they came to had a collection of pumpkins lining the path. They were expertly carved and quite scary with the flickering tea-lights inside.
Deciding to use Pavel as their secret weapon, they knocked on the door. When it opened they were greeted by a tall man dressed as a wizard, he spotted Pavel first and the others could see that their plan had worked. They came away with handfuls of sweets and chocolate.
This tactic worked for most of the neighbourhood, the people here just adored Pumpkin Pavel. His bag was so full that JT had had to take his and give him another that he had brought just in case.
They were still telling the ghost stories as they went from house to house. JT was currently telling them about two brothers who hunted demons and other supernatural things. Bones quickly shot him down as he recognised the stories from some old 21st century TV show. All he remembered about it was the heavy metal and a cool car. His sister had liked it because of 'all the seriously hot guys getting beat up'. Bones really did not see the appeal.
They had gotten to the edge of the neighbourhood by the time Bones had finished his explanation. The road darkened ahead with gnarled trees and sharp overhanging branches. They hadn't noticed that JT had disappeared as they peered down the road.
They were about to turn back, when they heard a sound. It could have just been the wind, but they could have sworn it was someone whispering. The noise grew closer and the children were rooted to the stop, frozen with fear.
'Come and play, play with me, we can have fun' It was closer now. Pavel was hiding behind Hikaru and Bones had both Liam and Laura wrapped around his legs. Gailia and Uhura were clinging onto each other with Scotty in front of them.
'BOO' the voice said, it felt like it was so close, they could almost feel the breath of whatever it was.
It was at this point Bones finally realised that JT was nowhere to be found and worked it out.
"JT get yourself out here! You're scaring the kids" Bones yelled into the darkness. He was annoyed at his best friend. He probably planned this form the start.
"What? I'm here. Why are you all stranding there? I dropped my fangs and went back to look for them, they were at the last house we stopped at" JT startled them from behind. He looked confused, as his friends seemed entranced by the dark.
Hikaru spoke up first fear evident in his voice as he clutched Pavel "Wait, If we're all here and you're there." He paused. "Then WHAT is in THERE" He panicked.
JT still looked confused. He was even more weirded-out when they all turned around and took off running. Leaving him standing there at the end of the road on his own. The others were far away by now
'I want them to play with me NOW' the voice sounded angry.
JT knew a lot about what angry people can do. So he did the smart thing and dashed off after his friends back to the bus. He could feel something behind him as he ran, it made him faster. After taking some shortcuts he arrived back at the bus before his friends. They were still running in the distance, Bones was holding Laura, Scotty holding Liam and Hikaru holding Pavel (Pretty difficult with the pumpkin costume) They ran up to him panting hard. JT didn't look happy.
"You could have waited for me, I had no idea which way you had gone" JT sounded hurt.
They all looked sheepish at his remark; he was right, they were wrong to leave him.
"Sorry, we all thought the voice was you, when we worked out it wasn't, we ran" Uhura was looking guilty as she spoke.
"Ve are wery soorwy about zat, no von should be left behind" Pavel was now on the ground again.
JT had heard the voice too and did accept that ir was pretty scary. They probably thought he was right behind them; he would forgive them for it.
"It's cool, it was pretty scary though. I wonder what the voice was?" JT pondered as they all made nods of agreement.
They were still debating this fact as the others returned to the bus and everyone climbed on. They snagged the back seats again but sat in silence as the bus trundled off, the voice had unnerved them. Pavel was going to be snuggling up to JT fro protection tonight.
JT spared a thought to Spock, he had stayed back at the house in the study. JT knew that some ambassador wanted to adopt him with his human wife. They couldn't conceive because the wife could not handle the copper-rich blood of a Vulcan baby. JT felt happy for him, if a little sad that they wouldn't be able to play chess anymore, but life goes on.
The bus pulled up outside the house and they hopped off. The kids were rushing ahead to go hide their sweets before the adults found them. JT had hidden Pavel's second bag and planned to give it to him later.
Uhura and Gailia had taken their shoes off and were picking their way up to the door. They really shouldn't have worn those fine heeled shoes. Even if they did look pretty good in them.
Bones was walking next to JT and Scotty as they all talked about tomorrows work on the car to be done. Scotty had bought some new parts and knew the car was almost done and ready. He liked his costume and would keep it for next year maybe would add some more bones to make it more accurate.
They decided to go straight to bed and split off at their respective floors. JT quickly undressed out of his costume, getting tangled in the cape didn't help. He was still in this position as a throat clearing alerted him to someone at the door. When he finally got out of the cape he was faced with Spock with a slight flush on his cheekbones. JT then realised that this was because of the fact he was standing in his underpants. He knew Vulcans were pretty conservative and was probably embarrassed. JT threw on his pyjamas and stood to face him.
"Hey Spock, sorry about that, what do you need?" JT said sheepishly
"I apologise for entering unannounced, I wish to enquire if you had a piece of paper that I could write a letter on" Spock replied still flushed.
"Uh… yeah sure" JT replied, he made his way over to the desk and picked one out and handed it to Spock. Spock just nodded his head and left, leaving a puzzled JT in his room.
He got into bed 20 minutes later. Pavel came in 20 minutes after that and curled up against him. They were asleep in seconds, unaware of a presence with them.
'I don't need them to play, they will always play together' the voice was happy.
A/N I HAVE DONE IT, I ACTUALLY FINISHED. I had to go out to a fireworks display because of bonfire night (for all you Americans this is basically a day where we celebrate some guy called Guy trying to blow up the houses of parliament). But here it is. Reviews are appreciated ad well as ideas for the next chapter because I have no idea what to do. I hope you all had a good Halloween and didn't get killed by some thing.
Bounus cookies to whoever spots the TV show refrence.