This chapter is dedicated to WeasleysGroupie. Thank you for the idea.
Hello, my lovely readers. It's been a little while but I'm trying to get some updates up slowly. Although Halloween was Thursday I couldn't help but write a Halloween themed Dare Club chapter. Let me know what you think and enjoy!
Chapter 7: Happy Halloween
Anna did not want to have to take care of these children during Halloween. It was bad enough when Damon Salvatore had shoved Klaus Mikaelson out of the treehouse and nearly split his head open like a watermelon. But to have to deal with them on this night, "No way." She had yelled at Lexi.
"Anna. I can't do it all on my own and you know it." Lexi argued her hands on her hips. She was already dressed in her Alice in Wonderland outfit. Anna's scrubs were sitting on her bed. Flopping down on the bed, Anna crossed her arms.
"No," Anna growled, staring at the floor.
"Please, Anna. You know how hard it is to keep track of all of them at the same time." Lexi reminded her friend. "These kids are special. They have to be protected. Okay. We agreed we would keep them safe."
Sighing, Anna grabbed her costume. "Fine. I'll go. But I swear that if anything happens I will not say I told you so. And you can keep an eye on Damon and Klaus tonight. Those two are either going to get killed, kill each other, or get someone else killed before they hit their eighteenth birthdays."
Lexi sat down on the bed. She was simply satisfied with the fact that she had convinced Anna to go in the first place. She agreed with Anna, Damon and Klaus, if they weren't careful, would get themselves hurt. After Anna came out of the bathroom the doctor and Alice walked out the door of their house and down the street. Their first stop was to pick up the Salvatore boys.
When they arrived at the Salvatore's they collected a Ninja Turtle and a vampire.
Their next stop was to pick up the Mikaelsons. Their picked up a lawyer, a priest, a gladiator, a baseball player and Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell greeted their babysitters with a loud giggle and then wacked the vampire in the head with her wand. "Ow," the vampire complained. "Klaus, make her stop."
"Bekah," The Gladiator yelled.
Tinkerbell began to cry until the Lawyer picked her up. "Chocolate, Bekah." The lawyer reminded her. "If you're good, you'll get lots of chocolate."
"Yey," Tinkerbell exclaimed as they went to pick up the Gilberts.
After ringing the doorbell, Peter Pan opened the door. "Jeremy," a black cat yelled. "You're not supposed to open the door." The cat came to the door. "Hi, Elijah." The cat said to the lawyer. The lawyer smiled and flushed slightly. "What's up with the priest?" The cat asked.
Another girl in a cat costume came to stand beside the taller cat and bit her lower lip looking at the priest. "Sage is a copycat." The vampire roared with laughter. The gladiator began to snicker.
The black cat held up a claw. "Watch it, Damon. Kat has claws tonight." Turning around, she yelled up the stairs. "Come on, everyone, we don't have all night." Gwen Stefani came down the stairs followed by mini versions of Romeo and Juliet.
Moments later, Romeo and the vampire were in the middle of a sword fight. The sword that the vampire was using had been provided by the gladiator, who was cheering for the vampire although he was friends with both. The baseball player suddenly decided to enter the fight and began to beat the other two with his mini baseball bat until Alice took the bat and threw it on top of the roof. Cinderella, Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Glinda the Good Witch came down the stairs.
Their next stop was the Lockwood's. There they picked up a werewolf, a quarterback and The Incredible Hulk. "Mason you're green, man." Romeo told his friend with a grin.
"Yeah, I am. Hey, Kat," The Hulk called to the black cat.
"I hate green things." The black cat said as she twirled a curl around her finger.
The Hulk looked hurt and moved back in the group to talk to Romeo, who was waving his sword around. The black cat came to walk beside the lawyer. "Elijah, are you having fun yet?" She asked with a wide grin.
"Yes," the lawyer replied before turning to Gwen. "I really like your costume. Who are you again?"
Gwen laughed, "I'm Gwen Stefani, punk rock goddess extraordinaire."
Somewhere behind them two Disney princesses, a witch, a vampire, a ninja turtle and a gladiator were deep in conversation about how to get the most candy. Cinderella was more interested in staying close to the gladiator than candy. The gladiator was ignoring her. He was afraid the vampire would dare him to do something embarrassing again. "I dare you to pull Katherine's tail off." The vampire told the Ninja Turtle. The turtle ran off to do his older brother's bidding.
Feeling bold tonight, Belle decided to dare the vampire. "I dare you to wear Caroline's crown for the rest of the night."
"Lena," Cinderella cried out, her lower lip wobbling. Belle turned and was surprised to see her friend on the verge of tears.
"I'm sorry, Care." Belle told her friend as Cinderella reluctantly handed over her crown to the vampire.
"Want my sword?" The gladiator, asked holding the weapon out to the princess.
"But Cinderella didn't have a sword?" Cinderella told the gladiator.
"Tonight she does." The gladiator told her solemnly.
"Okay," Cinderella took the sword and then stabbed the vampire. "Die, blood sucker, die," she yelled.
"No stabbing each other," The doctor yelled, shaking her head.
Alice smirked, "This is going to be a long night."
"Ya think," The doctor shook her head.
Romeo and Juliet seemed to be the only content ones in the group as they walked serenely from house to house collecting candy and comparing their candy. Romeo handed over a Snickers bar to Juliet who preferred them over Reese's cups. She kissed him on the cheek and he blushed.
Up ahead the vampire was handed an apple which he handed to the gladiator and whispered something in his friend's ear. The gladiator sighed before taking a big bite out of it. Then he began to gag. "There was a worm in that apple. Are you some kind of sick freak that you're handing out bloody worm infested apples?" The next group of trick-or-treaters ran to the next house.
Shaking his head, the gladiator and his friends moved on. Suddenly he noticed Cinderella and the werewolf arguing. The football player and Peter Pan had come over to watch but were doing nothing to stop the altercation. Some other children the gladiator was unfamiliar with came to stand behind the werewolf. Hesitating no longer the gladiator moved forward. "It's mine." Cinderella was shouting at the werewolf holding on to a bag of candy fiercely. Before the young gladiator knew what was happening the werewolf grabbed the bag and shoved Cinderella to the ground.
Cinderella's gown tore on a branch and she began to sob. The gladiator hurried over to his fallen friend and looked for the sword he had given her earlier. "Where's the sword?"
Wiping at her tears, Cinderella replied. "He took it, too."
"Little monster," the gladiator growled. He reached down and gathered the girl into his arms. "We'll get it back." He informed his fairy princess. Hefting her into his arms because he was still quite young and he did not know how older people made this look so easy. Giving up, Klaus set Caroline on her feet.
The vampire and ninja turtle came to stand with their friends. "What's up?" Damon asked.
"I'm going to take back my candy!" Cinderella yelled with a warrior whoop before she took off down the sidewalk.
"Don't run," the doctor yelled watching four of the children speed off down the sidewalk. With all these humans out she couldn't use her speed when she really needed it. Running after the kids, she saw them disappear around a corner.
"Anna," Alice shouted. "Have you seen Rebekah or Kol?" Lexi looked worried.
"No, I thought you were with them," the doctor replied.
Alice shook her head. "I was watching Elijah, Rose, Jenna, Alaric, Mason, Finn and Sage. They wanted to go to some kind of party that one of their classmates was hosting in the neighborhood." Then it dawned on her that someone else was missing. "Oh, God. Katherine. I'm also missing Katherine."
"Well, how many black cats can there be?" Anna asked, exasperated. Looking around her she realized that she might have spoken too soon. There seemed to be dozens of black cats. "Okay, I'll look for Katherine. You look for the other kids. I think they were all headed in the same direction."
Lexi nodded and took off, her pigtails flying. Her pretty slippers pounded the pavement. "Stefan! Damon! Klaus! Caroline! Jeremy! Tyler! Matt!" Then she remembered something else. There were more children. "Bonnie! Elena!" She screamed. "Cone on guys. This is NOT funny."
"Lexi," Bonnie called from a few feet away. "LEXI!" Hearing the fear in the little girl's voice, Lexi decided to run at full speed. "Screw it," she muttered to herself. When she found the girls, Bonnie was sitting on the sidewalk rubbing Elena's back, who was hiccupping.
"What happened?" Lexi asked, when the familiar smell of blood hit her nostrils. She peered down at Elena's bloody nose. "Oh! Seriously." Dropping down to her knees she lifted the girl's face to examine the damage.
"Some older kids knocked us down and took our candy." Bonnie informed Lexi, frowning. "One of them hit Lena in the nose. I got angry; then they went flying that way." She pointed down the street. "Then they ran away saying that I was a freak. What's a freak?" Her eyes were huge as she stared into Lexi's.
"Honey, you're not a freak. Do you hear me?" Lexi asked, holding the little girl's shoulders.
"Okay," Bonnie gave her a cheerful smile before looking at Elena. "She needs to go to the doctor's office. Will they give her a shot? I hate shots. They hurt real bad."
Shaking her head, Lexi gathered Elena into her lap. "Lena, I want you to close your eyes and imagine you're drinking something you like."
"Orange juice," Elena whispered, closing her eyes and opening her mouth.
"Bonnie, I'm going to help Elena. And you can't tell anyone okay?" Lexi whispered to Bonnie before she bit into her wrist and then poured a little bit of blood into Elena's open mouth.
Bonnie's nose wrinkled up but she watched closely as Elena's nose moved back into place. "Cool." Bonnie breathed.
Elena opened her eyes. "My nose doesn't hurt anymore." She looked shocked.
"No, I don't believe it does. Now, let's go find the others before I have to heal the whole group. Or we have a bunch of child vamps running around here." Pushing herself to her feet, Lexi picked up two fairy tale characters and then ran like her life depended on it. "Oh, whoa. Really? You have got to be kidding me."
The missing children were in the cemetery. Caroline was on top of Tyler Lockwood and looked like she kicking the werewolf's rear end. "Caroline, stop it." Lexi yelled. Setting Elena and Bonnie on their feet, she ran over to the other kids.
"He took my candy and Klaus' sword." Caroline yelled, getting off of Tyler, who was crying.
"Caroline, look at me," Lexi forced the girl to meet her eyes. "WE do not beat anyone up. Tyler is your friend. Now, I want you both to apologize to each other." Caroline and Tyler muttered that they were sorry.
Setting off again to find Anna and Katherine. Lexi had the children walk single file ahead of her. Fifteen minutes later they found Anna but there was no sign of Katherine. "Where is she?" Anna questioned Lexi placing a hand in her hair. This was not good at all. Anything or anyone could be prowling the streets at this time of night.
"I know where she is," Elena volunteered.
"Where is she, Elena?" Anna asked.
"I can't tell you. Kat gets angry when I tell her secrets." Elena looked down at her feet.
"Lena, you have to tell us." Lexi told the girl.
The vampire came forward and whispered in Elena's ear, "I dare you to tell me where Kat is."
Elena looked at the others and then whispered in his ear. "She's in the Lockwood cellar."
Lexi and Anna led the children as quickly as possible to the Lockwood cellar. They were not too happy about allowing the children to go down there by themselves but they had little choice in the matter. They didn't want Katherine to run again. Standing off to the side Lexi and Anna watched Elena, Damon, Klaus, Caroline and Stefan walk down the stairs. Jeremy, Matt, Rebekah, Kol and Tyler stayed with the babysitters.
"Katherine!" Elena called quietly. She heard a sniffle and headed in its direction. "Kat!" Sitting on the floor was her sister. Katherine had taken off the cat ears and her tail.
"Go away!" Katherine yelled, her voice hoarse.
"It's cold down here," Damon informed the group.
Katherine turned to glare. "Lena, why did you bring them?"
"Because you're not supposed to go off on your own," Damon snapped at her. "The Boogey man could be down here. Or the mayor."
Katherine tightened the grip of her arms around her legs. "Just go away. Please."
"No!" Klaus told her.
Opening her mouth to yell at the younger children Katherine decided to give up. She didn't have any more fight in her that night. Damon took off his cape. "Here, you need to put something on. It's cold and damp and you'll get a cold or something."
Not knowing what to say Katherine took the cape. "Next time you decide to dress up as a vampire let me do your makeup."
Damon smirked. "Okay. Now, can we go? This place is creepy."
"Yeah," Katherine nodded, wiping her eyes.
"Why were you down here?" Klaus asked Katherine.
Katherine frowned, "Your brother kept ignoring me and then my friends started ignoring me." Sighing, she began to pull at the ends of her hair. "I didn't think anyone would care where I was."
"We did," Stefan told her.
Katherine laughed. "Thanks, kid. Let's go get some candy and try to scare my friends. I dare you!"
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