Day 27: Halloween movie (Scott & Kate, far future)

Same setting as day 12: spooky book, but a few months earlier

"So, what have you got for our movie night?" Scott asked tentatively.

After Richie and Seth had destroyed the Lords of Night (with more than a little help from his sister; who would have dreamed she could be such a badass!? Definitely not him!) all the culebras had found themselves human again. Given how old most of them had been, they hadn't had much time to enjoy the experience. Scott, for one, was still getting used to jumping from fifteen to twenty overnight; every time he caught a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror, he kept wondering who was there.

After the reversion, it had taken him a couple of weeks to track down his sister, all the while working to adjust to things like having a heartbeat again, and having to take a dump on an annoyingly frequent basis. But at least finding Kate hadn't been too hard, since he'd made a point of checking on her a couple of times per year already.

He'd found her in this little house by the Pacific Ocean, happily living in sin - very happily, judging from the noises that echoed down the hall every night – with the murderous thief who she'd first set eyes on over the barrel of a gun.

According to Kate, Richie and Seth's own reunion before the trip into the underworld had been much stormier, featuring enough swearing to make Tarantino blush, flying fists, guns akimbo, and broken furniture.

Luckily, he and Kate had been raised to be more civilised. So while Richie and Seth were having their own sibling bonding night – which, Kate eye-rolled, would probably involve shitty tequila, knife throwing contests, and at least two fist-fights, one just between them – he and Kate were doing movies and popcorn after dinner.

"Well, I grabbed a bunch of movies, you make the final pick," Kate invited.

Scott walked to the pile of DVD cases, and picked up the first.

"Um, Kate, what the fuck? Twilight?"

"Oh, sorry, I just got that one to annoy Seth. The others are for tonight."

Scott tossed that one into one of the random boxes that still littered the house – Kate and Seth had only just moved in when he found them – and sorted through the rest.

He looked at the cat, who had settled on top of the TV, and muttered, "I'm sensing a definite theme, here."

Poe simply twitched an ear, and stared back, as if to say 'Well, what did you expect?'

"Well?" Kate asked brightly.

"The Lost Boys," Scott stated, holding up the case. "Fright Night the reboot. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dracula Unbound. Blade. Seriously?"

Kate gave him a look that could very well have staked him, a month ago. "Seriously."

Scott sighed. Okay, yeah, he probably had this coming. "Lost Boys, then Blade?"