Hey There,
Welcome Quogan fans! DarcyBeDippy here with a brand new Halloween fic. Since I'm a little bit of Halloween year round kinda person. This isn't so strange at all but this draft didn't exactly fit in with the other Halloween tale I've posted and still working on. This story was so fun and just a little spicy too... I had to share it. But yes, the T rating is gonna get pushed a little more in this story. You've been warned.
Standard disclaimers apply - I do not own Zoey 101, Zoey 102, Nickelodeon, MTV, or any of the other trademarked things mentioned. I am merely borrowing all of these things for my own twisted amusement. Most will be unharmed, though a few may have the wits scared out of them... it's all in fun!
Dedicated to AwkwardGurl05! Happy Birthday! Fellow Quogan and Halloween Lover! This one's for you on your special day!
"The Halloween Before"
A Quogan Halloween Story
Chapter One - The 23rd and 24th
(Logan's Perspective)
It's common knowledge that my favorite holiday is Halloween. I've handled PCA's Halloween attractions since nearly my first year here. Mostly because of this fact, but also because that idiot I took over for had no idea what he was doing. He didn't know the power of a simple 'jump-scare' he didn't know about the 'no-touch' rule between performers and guests. Or any of the other Mainstays! Plus his Dad didn't have a vault of monster movie classics, horror cult classics. Or even scary cat good ones to show in between! To take over the in-campus theaters like I did! The man had no chance!
So naturally, I'm in charge again, even though this is one of the last times I'll do something like this. I'm trying to hand off the tradition to Dustin. Zoey's little brother, because not only does he 'get it' but he's gonna be here a few more years after I graduate (this summer). He'll carry it on the right way, use the connections I'm giving him, then he'll hand it off to the next guy or girl.
But the only HUGE difference between this year and past years. Besides readying Dustin and the theme which changes yearly as it should. Was for the first time, I was trying my best to take parts of these attractions, walkthroughs, and even the movie selections to put just a little romance in there too… It's tucked into all of the horror, and scary stuff to the point no one probably noticed it. But that had never been something I tried for so much before…
I mean, I'm sure it happened a lot before now too. I just didn't care… Like I do, since I fell in love myself.
But this year, the year happening right now. I'm really trying to make parts of it just a little more like that. And I've had the hardest time working out spare time to be with my girlfriend… at all. Yeah, that's right, I have a girlfriend… FINALLY and YES, just the one girl… sickos! I'm not running around with a bunch of them. I didn't call any of the others really my girlfriend in the first place. They were all just casual dates mostly…
I keep just one girlfriend and she's probably THE one. I believe that a little more every day.
Of course, it's Quinn, the smartest friend I have. And after not being able to spend so much of the month of October with her. Because of all the drama the walkthrough has faced this year too... I HOPE she still claims me. She hasn't been mad or mean, she's nice as always. BUT Each time I try to make plans with her for Halloween Night though… after all of this is over… She keeps giving me the runaround… So I think she's mad at me and just not telling me. I'll find out when I can sit still long enough to finally talk this all out with her.
I hope I'm wrong! I hope she's not mad at me and that she understands how time got away from me on this... How important it is for Dustin to have all the right tools and instincts. To not mess this up too badly next year. The first one in ages where I'm not running the show.
Quinn doesn't seem mad, whenever I do see her… I just don't know! And she's had times where she's so laser-focused on projects, patents, and Quinnventions that she struggles to find time for me too. But somehow, she manages it way better than I have… ALWAYS. She still spoils me, every chance she gets. Even during those tighter times... how am I so bad at it, all of a sudden?
And I don't complain… much. When that happens… I don't! And Quinn never complains about the way I treat I just know I can do better. Like I know she's a genius and she needs to do stuff. I'm supportive of everything she does… all of it. So why can't I make time the way she does? Is there a hidden Quinnvention she HASN'T shown me that enables her to manipulate time flow? I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.
So I HAD to make our plans for the night before Halloween. It wasn't ideal but it was all I could get. So I planned to make it count when it got here. October 30th, is gonna be the BEST! I'm gonna make it the best.
But that's all happening this year. Right now. I think I need to talk about last year before we get too into the plans I've set up for Quinn this year. It just explains too much, honestly. And it won't make sense unless we backtrack a little.
Last year, the Halloween BEFORE this one! I had to manage movie times every day, the parties happening outside, we even made a deal with the coffee carts to serve Hallwoeen-themed treats and drinks. But NOTHING gave me more trouble than our PCA Halloween walkthrough last year! I had the hardest time keeping any actors or actresses to play ghouls in that walkthrough. Because of some urban legend started by LOLA! That KEPT freaking out all of my best actors and actresses. Making them all quit!
Turned out to be because of some urban legend she created in one her improv games during drama class. Then she hid herself in different places throughout the foot route. Scarring all of my scare-ers! AND Guests too! And then we didn't get as much foot traffic either because people were ALL too FREAKED to come! Only the horror movie watchers and Halloween lovers were still coming… They seemed to like it so much more having a backup story. It was twisted and dark as hell.
Some crazed baker who was always followed by a puff of flour, the smell of vanilla and who carried a bloody rolling pin. JUST - WEIRD! Only Lola would come up with something that nuts! And make it believable enough for a backstory like that.
But I had hardly any actors or actresses by the 24th of October! The week before Halloween! So I ended up relying on my friends to help me out.
This was right after Zoey left, so she was out! But Chase was a perfect ghost. Miserable, mournful, and whinny… We just threw a sheet over that and he killed! You know, when he wasn't all 'I gotta get to London!' You know, the Dark times.
Michael and Lisa had a whole skit they worked out where they were looking for each other through the whole thing and reunited at the end. (See, there was romance before I just didn't care!) He was a revolutionary soldier killed at war, and Lisa was his girlfriend who was hanged for witchcraft. She still had the noose around her neck. We even had her hanging out of the ceiling with the fake 'bodies' we'd made out of trash bags and recyclables… And duct tape, lots of duct tape.
Lola was a Day-of-the-Dead Skeleton cursing people in perfect Spanish… lots of hacking and spitting added to it. And if that didn't scare someone her screams would (anyone remember I was locked up with her in Quarantine and all she kept doing was practicing those blood-curdling screams?). Stacey had been a trippy fortune teller who never had good news. And her face appeared on the walls and inside of crystal balls all throughout the place. Thanks to about thirty hidden projectors. Mark had been one of the dead bodies at first. But when we finally added a bloody splattered hospital room to our storyline. He was the plague doctor's victim after that… a mistake I wish I could change…
Quinn had only been in that final week of performances last year. Her studies wouldn't let her join sooner. She'd been a plague doctor, you know with the long-beeked mask. And Mark was complaining that WHOLE week about being tired of her 'playing messed up doctor' with him…
The FOOL! Do you know how much fun that would be for any normal warm-blooded male? Messed up or NOT!? Any one with a pulse or sense of sex appeal? When their girlfriend is in the doctor role? I'd like to know but because of Mark, I may NEVER find out!
I can still remember their fights, between runs, during breaks. And no matter how Quinn explained to him. "It was all for play," or "For fun!" Or "We gotta scare kids and almost grown people." He acted like she was really trying to kill him or something! I know we're friends now, they've worked things out, and are happy with other people. But sometimes… he's such a waste of skin! And I could still shake him till he rattles for all the stuff he did to my girl before she was MINE.
Some people just don't get it! You know? Or don't wanna get it! And that's STILL Mark, now. Even when there's a girl in life who gives a damn about him.
Mark didn't like it this year when his current intrest Stacey... Who refuses to let him call her girlfriend and I don't BLAME her! Mark didn't like how Stacey's face and voice are still everywhere with upwards of 40 projectors… maybe 50. Gotta upgrade, EVERY year. It was a mix of some of her old recordings and some new ones. But bottom line, he's just… HORRIBLE! Sometimes!
I ignored him and told him to "pick a more vanilla love interest if he can't hang. Don't waste her time." Not that Stacey's always great, or anything. But I could have ruined her Prom night confessing to Quinn like I did. And Stacey still talks to me, she was even happy for us that same night! She still is! She's not always the best, but she sure as hell deserves better treatment than that! And Stacey, like Dustin 'get's it.' You know? She loves this stuff too and really freaks people out! Hell if I was gonna let ANYONE ruin this for her, when I could have stopped it. I should have done more for QUinn than I did before.
Yes, Stacey's playing the same role as last year, but her costume is better, her lines are even creepier and she's spent the last year preparing for this time of year... AND she's thriving! Who could turn that down? Not me!
Sorry again, that's this year, BACK to LAST year. And complaining about Mark! I remember how Lola, Lisa, and Stacey… really ALL of us had to keep telling Quinn she wasn't crazy. That most boys would LOVE a gig like this with their girlfriend. Or how the girls kept saying Quinn was crying herself to sleep at night all week long…
DO - YOU - KNOW - HOW - MUCH - I - HAVE - BEGGED - HER - TO - REPRISE - THIS - ROLE!? How I've bargained and brought it up at EVERY opportunity? Can you comprehend how important it was to me to smooth over this scar? LEFT - BY - F*CKING - MARK! Truce or no Truce! He did her WRONG! Or how BADLY I just wanted to 'play doctor' with my sexy, smart, science-crazed GIRLFRIEND! And see what it's like, now that she is MINE?! In nearly EVERY way!
Hell! I've tried to do that when it wasn't even HALLOWEEN! When we didn't even have that as an excuse. Do you know what she said to me?
"I'm not a doctor, I'm just a scientist. Just because I have a higher understanding of the human body than most. Doesn't mean I should do something like that. It's a lesson I've learned the hard way. Even as a seemingly harmless game, the repercussions have been far too costly in my past. And I won't jeopardize this one the same way."
Dustin said, "Why couldn't she have realized this before she almost killed me studying me when I had a cold?" I could have decked that twerp! But he ran away before I could.
I always asked Quinn after she said that, "What if I don't even need you to have a higher understanding of the human body? I just want you to have a higher one of mine?"
She'd always laugh it off and told me 'I was cute,' or something. But I could tell, it's still hard for her BECAUSE of MARK! She's AVOIDING it all together, because of Del Figgalo. DAMN HIM! I know, they're friends again, he even hangs out with me more often now, BUT this is STILL his fault! I really hoped to fix that SOMETIME in October. Since bringing it up all year did me NO good at all.
But back to last year, sorry. This is important!
The night before Halloween last year (the 30th)… My friends and I all accidentally stayed too long in the building where the walkthrough was happening. We were all unwinding after our BEST night of performing together. The line had been around the corner ALL night long to get in! So we'd stayed up too late after hours talking afterward. As friends do anyways! So when we all tried to leave that night, (it was after midnight). We couldn't, because the doors were all locked on the outside by security or the clean-up crews. So all of us ended up sleeping inside the spooky sets we'd built. It sounds terrible, to most people. All of my friends still talk about how totally freaked out they'd been all night that night. Even knowing it was all fake and plywood sets we'd build ourselves mostly. There was even a room last year with an inflated floor that was like walking on the moon. So it could have been worse, we all had a cushy place to sleep. (And yes, there's another room like that this year's attraction too. Even though the walkthrough's taken over a different building this year.)
Even though everyone knew we were the only creeps around. All my friends were freaked that whole night, but all I remember was the night being a total blast for me! I'd pranked so many of them. I'd pulled off epic scares, I'm still talking about.
But even I knew not to target Quinn as much. She was too upset, so the only time I'd tried to get her had been to make her laugh… I still wish it had worked better. And I'd gotten more than just the watery smile she gave me. But that still sticks out in my mind, more than any other reactions I got all night… I should have done more. She was my friend LONG before she was my girlfriend. I shouldn't have let him hurt her like that... I'm still trying to fix it. A whole YEAR later.
AND when Quinn was fed up arguing with Mark that night. But still trapped with him, she'd opted for sleeping near me, in that moon bounce room.
We'd ended up talking all night, I think we even woke up close to each other. The only other times we'd gotten to do that was when I saw her during the summer before that, field trips to the beach we found with our friends, and that weird night we were quarantined together with all of our friends. And this was way before we got together. I remember my heart beating so hard when I woke up saw her close. And thinking "WHY?" She's just like all of my other female friends... isn't she? And of course, now I know she isn't the same at all. (This was October, we didn't get together till February)
The only time I could get her to agree to meet up with me this Halloween is the 30th. Again, it's the night before Halloween, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with how things went last year. On that same date… you know? Does she even remember it the way I do? How she was both the most heartbreaking and BEST part of that WHOLE year! I'm dying to ask her… I really hope I get to.
She swears she's been so busy working on her latest Quinnvention. That she hasn't had a chance to miss me… but she forgets I know when she's lying! I know she was just saying that to make me feel better. So the 30th has GOT to be a GREAT night.
I'm willing it to be the BEST night! Even though I still wish it was happening on the 31st too. I'm greedy! Halloween won't be nearly as fun without her. Or if she doesn't see all the little bits of love I've sprinkled throughout this WHOLE experience this year. Just because I love her… But! I'm gonna take what I can get! It's October, I always say ANYTHING can happen during that month. And all my life it's always proved me right, every time! I hope it can with Quinn too.
I was so worried about keeping my performers from all quitting. The movie schedules for showings from my dad's vaults. AND planning this perfectly perfect night with my girlfriend… that I completely forgot how all of my friends LOVE to play pranks on me unless their employed as ghouls and too busy to plot against me. And our groups GROWN so much over the past YEAR! I wish I meant they'd grown up more, but no, we're a much larger number of bodies now. Maturity is still nowhere in it either! I have even more masterminds working against me than normal now.
Zoey's back this year, Chase too. Dana and Nicole came back for Senior Year! James, Vince, and Lydia (my OC match for James) were all new last year to the group. Then of course, Michael, Lisa, Lola, Mark and Stacey are all still here too. That's a lot of weirdos! Plotting against me! And they KNOW how to freak me out too! Not to mention the guys on the basket ball, football and wrestling teams taking their shots in between. It's like OPEN SEASON!
The Jerks! But I have to admit, some of them were really funny. Like the fake dismembered head they kept rolling out from under things, tripping me up... or showing up in my backpack. The shrunken heads in my locker, skulls or skeletons replacing friends when I'm not looking. But still talking to them. The slime shower, trick soap, AND the words that appeared on the bathroom mirrors and like they were bleeding on the walls. Always saying something stupid about me… They've upped their games throughout the years! But that's ONLY because I taught them ALL that stuff!
All of it!
I'm not even gonna tell you all they've been pulling. I'll just leave it at those few examples, and say a lot of my performers have been run off again. And it's all their fault! So it's the 23rd today, and tomorrow is the 24th again… and AGAIN! I'm begging my friends to help out with my walkthrough attraction. Because THEY ran off too many spooks! AGAIN! Then I find out Lola had created another urban legend too, about two muders taking place in the building where the walkthrough's happening this year... Why am I not surprised?
But LUCKILY! All of my gang was expecting it, and all of them seemed thrilled to hear me say 'I needed help.'
See? Jerks!
And Brooks (Zoey, this time) even said, "It wouldn't be really Halloween if we weren't helping you out, Logan. I missed out on last year and it was awful! Nobody at Covington took Halloween this twisted and I had nothing to do that whole week! Too weird! Nope! Give me something to do!"
Dana and Nicole agreed with each other for a change. Saying even they'd missed how creative the Halloweens were here at PCA. (Even though Dana had only been here one year, I was flattered). Vince remembered it always being AWESOME too, but this was the first time he was getting to help out and be SO involved. He was ALL excited. He even volunteered to be a serial killer. That's dedication! I'm still impressed… he's so sweet and soft-spoken since Lola started bringing him around… it's easier to forget that dark side he has.
So there was that, but Quinn couldn't even be there at the dinner discussion. When I'd talked to everyone else about it. I had to make a special trip to the science building. Just to talk to her… and she was majorly busy helping out with a group experiment with some of the younger kids. So I just told her, 'we'd talk about it later.'
And she'd said 'okay.'
So when the 24th began, and most of the walkthrough route had to be changed up. Because of all the new characters and skits my friends had planned for their performances. I handled this transition WAY better than Dustin did. Because this ALWAYS happens to me, EVERY YEAR! Without FAIL! And it's usually a blessing in disguise! Because people that come through 'week-to-week' get completely different stories and acts even if they visit over and over. It never gets stale or old.
Dustin had a much harder time wrapping his little mind around how crazy different all of the bits were, the set changes, and how they could all work together. To still tell a seamless story and follow a set pattern still. It was like putting together a crazy puzzle with living pieces. But HALFWAY through the night. Dustin was the first to notice the word of mouth OUTSIDE our attractions seemed to all be positively FREAKED!
That's what we NEEDED to hear!
But the STARS for our guests weren't any of our new storylines! Because they were all talking about the 'plague doctor' again in the blood-splattered set.
See! Quinn's impact goes deeper than she realizes!
But Dustin had to explain, "No Logan! They're not talking about it like it's something they saw last year at all! They're talking about it like it's something they experienced… TODAY. In our attraction, but it's NOT on our books. That's what I'm trying to tell you!"
So I asked my friends about it, and none of them would look me in the eye. And none of them could stop grinning under my pressure either! The only one to say ANYTHING had been Chase. Who could barely get out the words (without laughing) "Why don't you go check it out for yourself, buddy? While there's no other guests to scare?"
Zoey did tack on, "Yeah, you might learn something." As she took Chase's arm.
But… no.
They can't mean… she isn't… she couldn't have… We didn't even get to talk about it. She doesn't even know I was running low on performers.
All my friends laughed together… I think it was my face, that set them off. I even said out loud…
"SHE was BUSY! SO - BUSY! With SCIENCE! Mark made her completely self-conscious about the whole doctor thing! We've all heard her say so."
Zoey said, "Yeah, but that was Mark and this is you, and she knows Halloween's your favorite. We all do!"
Mark even spoke up, "I didn't mean to do that to her. I just really didn't like that game, and we were getting near the end, ya know? We weren't together all that long after it. I didn't like it… AT ALL. I apologized, helped her set it up today and from the beginning... she's planned this whole thing for you, man. We all helped her hide it from you all day, and I even assisted her while Stacey was her victim or Lola. They were taking turns most of the day. I was handing her tools and wearing one of those plague masks too."
Everyone else had played Quinn's victims too at one time or another. So Quinn had made it seem like NO one was safe to anyone walking through more than once. At the same time as she's honed this character to perfection before she even clues me in… How could I not LOVE this person?
I flipped out, "We didn't even get to talk about it! How can she- How is she-"
All my friends laughed in my face again. Before they all jumped up and walked me back to the entrance of the walkthrough. Letting me know, "She's waiting for you. And remember this is our hour break… you've got a solid 45 minutes before we come back and we have to keep performing for people." I think Chase said that I was only HALF listening at this point… maybe even less than half.
I think Michael said, "You can work out your new routines before anyone shows up in that time. Or you know, anything else y'all gotta work out."
Vince advised, "Get it out of your system though. Before you have to let public people walk in on you two again."
Solid advice.
And James said, "I've got a funny feeling you're not gonna let ANY of us play her victim anymore… Not the rest of the week."
To that I did tell them, "You're DAMN right."
All the girls were pouting, saying, "Quinn had made dying so fun!"
I told them confidently, "You'll find something else!"
And I had stolen the closing bit of this year's run, from the Disney 'Haunted Mansion.' Well, kinda. Ending each performance with our whole ENSEMBLE assembled in the last space they pass through. With ALL the characters dancing in the last room together. Even all of the ones who have died somewhere along the path. Like that ballroom in the Disney themepark ride… Hey, they've stolen from literally EVERYBODY and this is too low scale and vague for them to care. I made sure of that! But really, I just wanted an excuse to dance with my girlfriend again. We're both just too good at stuff like that! And I'm always finding ways to show her off like this, or giver her FULL permission to mess with my heart rate too. There's no downside here.
That is, if Quinn ever got to be part of it this year. I was putting a forever dibs on her as my dance partner. I have been usually ending up dancing with random partners each time. I even ended up dancing with Michael wearing Lisa's wig a few times… Imagine him in a Marie Antonette-style white powder wig. Michael had been the last one to tease me before I disappeared back into the entryway. "Looks like you won't need a drag dance partner no more neither!"
I did yell back at him, "I wasn't that desperate before! And you just WANTED to go drag!"
Then I was walking back through the FOG-filled halls. She's gotta be bringing some of her mad science skills up in here. I never got our stage foggers working THIS well. Even when I used the dry ice like she told me to! She had to have messed with them or set up her own better ones. Knowing her…
She had HUGE people stationed at the door of the room she'd taken over. Both of them were also wearing different styled masks like hers… Plague Masks, with the long beaks. But those guys looked like football players… linebackers to be exact. They lifted me and made it look rough. Throwing me on an examination table, strapping me down with these thick-looking rubber belts (they were easier to fight against then leather ones and plastic could snap). I put on a good show of fighting, and playing dumb like I didn't know what was happening. Like I'd just followed the too foggy trail trying to Scooby-Doo this thing. And figure out what plague doctor our guests kept mentioning. I even complained, that this was my show and I hadn't assigned ANY of these people. Trying to make their efforts look just as good. Boy am I glad I had Dustin install some cameras all throughout the route so people could see playback of their own reactions. I had a remote in my pocket to control all of them too. Turn them off or on. I wanted to watch ALL of the playback in this room. When the others had been playing 'the victim' too.
But when a hand, came from around the waist of one of these mouthbreathers and outta the fog. To push me back, I knew who it was just by her touch. Even though my costume is layers-on-layers for my whole headless horseman thing I've been going for this week. She was wearing her heavy-duty heat-protective gloves. That went all the way to nearly her shoulders. Her heavy round goggles over the eye slots of her mask too. I'd still know that hand, that slightly gliding touch anywhere. Even if especially against my chest.
I grabbed that hand before she could escape. "Quinn?"
She had a voice-distorter under that mask clearly. Because when she spoke, she sounded like Darth Vader it was so low and crackly. And I could see the beak of her mask sort of vibrating from the loudspeaker inside of it. "Are you here looking for someone? Here to assert your authority? Or are you seeking treatment? Mister theme-director?"
I snapped back into the roles we were already playing and affirmed. "I'm here to find out what plague doctor keeps stealing the rest of this project's thunder. I don't remember giving ANY one the right to play a role like this but one person and that's my girlfriend. So you better be her or clear out."
Her henchmen both lunged for me and I lunged back. Even though I was a little intimidated, I didn't want them to know that. But Quinn had stopped them. Saying, "It's okay boys, I've got this," she told them before letting them know. "You guys can go rest with the others...for now. Our commander needs convincing of our cause."
They were both wearing distorters too. Because they sounded like her, as they both said. "Yes doctor."
Then she paced the floor around me saying. "That doesn't sound very wise Mr. Horseman… or do you prefer Headless? Sleepy Hallow Legend?"
"I'd prefer to talk about this when I'm not tied up!" I jerked against the belts, while she ignored me.
"Telling your BEST and most MEMORABLE performer to clear out. Just because I'm not this girlfriend you speak of. That just doesn't sound like a good idea, won't you allow me to show you my methods before you pass judgement?" It sounded fair.
And I have been DYING for this chance SINCE Mark made her cry last year. I was just too chicken sh*t to tell her so at the time. So I told her now, "Alright… fine… convince me that you belong in my show… but you better be good."
"Great!" She'd agreed, shutting the doors and setting a timer. The doors were set to pop open whenever that timer was back to zero. Quinnventions, all of them, clearly.
But before I could say anything she was using a tongue depressor and said, "Say Ahh!"
I went "AHH!" Because she'd done that with no warning. She looked down my throat and said, "Hmm, good pipes. It's a shame they were cut short" She even pretended to look down the fake neck above my head. And observed, "Oh! That infection down there is glorious! A rainbow of the whole spectrum." As she went on pretending to look in my ears, up my nose, and caught a whiff of her perfume. It's SO Quinn! Only she smells that good, because she makes her own soap and perfume.
When she turned to get another tool, her hair smacked into me. And I could smell her shampoo too. God! Do we really have to let people in here? Can't they all just skip this room the rest of the night? You know turn off the lights and continue this doctor game?
As she was checking my reflexes. I asked, "Are you gonna make me turn my head and cough?"
"This isn't that type of place, Mister Horseman." She'd almost laughed under that mask.
"Pretty boring examination so far." I'd just gotten out before she climbed on top of me with a stethoscope and started using it to listen to my heart. I wondered if it was real, because knowing her… it probably was.
She announced, "There it is! You do have a heart, Mister Legend. No matter what all the others say."
I said, "You would know." As I willed my heart to not beat faster. But all that did was make it beat harder. Like it was gonna beat it's way out! How could Del Figgalo NOT be into this! GOD she's HOT right now. Straddling me and listening to my heart.
I tried to keep the conversation going. So I didn't ruin the game… She was killing it right now! I didn't want it to end! So I'd asked her. "Are you planning to using a chainless chainsaw? Because we kinda already covered that in other parts of this thing."
"I'm not a lumberjack Mister Headless… I'm a doctor." She'd said stepping back over to her table of toys and tools. Spinning back to me with her first choice of hardware in her hands. Even though her voice was way lower than it should be. It was sexy as all hell when she'd said. "I bring my own cutting tools." And she had in her hand a saw with three spinning blades that were all rusty, bent to hell, teeth in all different directions and coated in red splatters. It looked real and even smoked like saws do and put out that smell in the air that turns your stomach. She walked back towards me laughing manically. And it took everything in me, not to laugh at her brilliance! This was SO much more messed up than Vince's Stupid serial killer bit! So much more effective than a chainsaw! And it wasn't the only one she'd rigged up for this, it was one of many she had arranged on that table.
Vince isn't losing his job as the hockey-mask-wearing blood-splattered crazy chainsaw man after all. It just takes on a better power coming from a guy with his height and muscles. Not that mine wouldn't have worked too.
When Quinn got right at me, she flipped a protective blanket over my body and started cutting away on some part to the side of the table I was strapped to. It wasn't just cutting but sending up sparks! I was perfectly safe under the blanket, she'd even slipped goggles over my eyes in a fluid flip of her hand. She must have been practicing, it was all so perfectly arranged. When she wasn't using the saw, she was banging around me with a hammer and I was making it sound like she was killing me. Underneath the blanket, I was undoing my belts and getting free. I went still and played dead, like the girls had warned me to...
I waited for her to turn her back and say "Treatment successful." Which I can only guess is her ending line each performance before she terrorizes whoever else is standing around. Watching this, but since it's just us, and I really didn't want this to end… I saw my chance, took it, and sprung up from under the fire retardant blanket. Grabbed her, strapped her down, and started banging the rubber mallet around her. While she sounded like I was killing her now. I don't know, but I got the vibe no one else had played like this with her. Because she was laughing in between, and reacting.
But when the timmer she'd set went off and the doors around us sprang open, and the fog poured in from the other rooms. I knocked her mask off and found my girlfriend's glassesless face underneath the mask. Just like I thought I would. I knocked the distorter away from her mouth and kissed her before she could say anything else. And immediately she'd laughed into that kiss. Tickling the back of my throat all the way down to my heart. That was still pounding from the adrenaline, the fun, PRIDE how GOOD that was for our show… but MOSTLY, how freaking SEXY that whole thing had been. And I felt her working her arms out from under the belts to pull me closer.
When I ran out of breath I nuzzled my nose against hers saying, "Hi."
And she'd laughed out, "Hey." And hugged me tight. I ended up kissing her again.
When was the last time we'd gotten to do this? Had we both gotten THAT busy? Getting pulled in different directions? I couldn't remember if it had been yesterday or this morning. It felt like YEARS!
When she pulled away for breath, I started kissing down her neck next. And she laughed up over my head. "How did you know it was me? I was so covered up! I'd designed a new mask and everything. So it was different from last year's! I bulked up my shoulders by putting socks under my bra straps to make me look more squared off and beefed up. I'd thought you'd never know."
"I knew all along," I answered her, cuddled close. "I knew the moment you put your hand on me. Before I even saw your new mask, which is gnarly, by the way."
"Thanks, I had to keep it hidden for weeks in my lab. And I kept worrying you'd notice the fluorescent residue all over my hands whenever I visited you here." She'd nuzzled my face with hers while I stole a few more eskimo kisses and tickled her nose enough to make her flat-out laugh.
"Are you surprised?" She asked hopefully.
"YES! You've been so swamped and so have I…"
"It's a good surprise though, right?" She asked sounding so worried.
"Are you kidding? I love it, I love you."
"I love you too." She'd said hugging me as I helped her outta the belts.
I told her, "I love this idea by the way!"
"Thanks, I loved how you flipped the script on me and escaped in the end! Nobody else thought of that! But I will say the funniest victims I had all day were Michael and Chase. They were like crying together in a heap at the end of their turns. And it was hard not laughing at their dying sounds." She laughed even telling me about it.
"What about my turn… how does it rank?" I was dying to know.
"That was-" she started.
I guessed, "The scariest, the BEST of ALL or the way you want to do it from now on?"
"Well, it's all of those things too but…" She looked both ways before she whispered, "Baby, that was the hottest thing we've done in a while. Like seriously, it was sexy."
"It was, wasn't it!" I bragged, why not? Then I added, "Did you straddle anyone else when you examined them? Like that?"
She laughed at herself, "Nope."
"No, huh? So that was boyfriend treatment, right there?" I asked as she put her arms around my shoulders.
She flirted, "Well, you're not the only one who's been secretly dying to find alone time recently."
I had to tell her "I've been DYING to do something like this with you since last year. Even before we were a thing. I couldn't stand the way Mark ruined all of it for you, back then. How he made you feel so weird when you were BRILLANT as always."
She'd smiled and put a hand over her heart, "I remember you talked to me all night that night. When I couldn't sleep and I kept crying."
"You remember that." I had been wondering if she had.
"Of course, I did." She'd leaned her forehead against mine. Whispering, "How could I forget?"
"I've been wondering if you did… That night we were all kinda trapped here together. It had been fun for me… but you were so miserable… I was afraid you wouldn't want to come back." I ended up telling her.
She set me straight as only she can. "The only thing miserable about that night for me was anything having to do with Mark. All of the stuff happening with you and our gang… is nothing but fun. When I look back on it."
I know I let out a huge breath as I said, "Good! Because I don't know what I would have done if Mark had ruined it for you completely."
"He's apologized, I've forgiven him, and we're both happier with other people. Than we ever were as a couple." She spelled out.
"So you're joining the cast from here to Halloween Night?"
"Yep, surprise." She cheered.
"But I thought you had plans for Halloween Night. You always avoided any plans I was trying to make that night." I brought up… again.
She played with the fake chest surrounding my head, making me seem headless. As she said, "Well, maybe… just maybe I do have plans made for that night… But they're for my overworked and underappreciated boyfriend more than me."
"What?" I couldn't believe it. "Really?"
"Uh-Huh!" She smiled. "You're always going to GREAT lengths to surprise me or our friends. Since this is your favorite holiday I wanted to surprise you… But that's all I'm telling you. You'll find out what I have planned on the 31st. I'm just keeping it a surprise till the very end."
"Come on?" I tried to persuade her to give away more of her plans.
"Nope! No way! You'll find out after we're done here on Halloween Night."
I tried to kiss it out of her, tickle it out of her, and bargain it out of her. But she just kept preparing for showtime and telling me. "Nope! You'll find out!"
I would have kept on too… if our friends hadn't gatecrashed to remind us we were going live again in ten short minutes. I know they were trying to help but if they'd KNOWN what they were interrupting! MAN! I'd had her right where I wanted her.
We didn't catch another break like that till the end of the night. And after hours and hours of playing around with each other. I saw those looks my girlfriend kept giving me, and I knew EXACTLY what they meant. She was as hot for me as I was her right now. And as much fun as it was talking with everyone... I wish they'd all just leave! I had been literally wishing for the janitors to lock the doors, cut the lights, and leave us to our twisted games. But I'd had to settle for sharing my seat with Quinn. By having her sit on my lap, she'd been still talking about some of the reactions we'd gotten from people. Three people had peed themselves in our location alone. Vince kept running into that problem too. In his hallway, where he chased people. Good thing my brilliant girlfriend had the perfect clean up solution for just about every emergency like that... even the few people who vomited in different places were no problem for her.
The later it got the more tired we all sounded, and people started dropping like flies! Heading back to their dorms. I didn't want to go, but the more Quinn went limp in my grip, I could see she needed to follow her roommates. But as if this night needed to get better… Everyone left just fine, but when Quinn and I tried to walk out… The doors wouldn't budge… AGAIN. Only this time it wasn't all of our gang, she wasn't dating Mark and we didn't have to play a role… It was just us.
I tried to hide my excitement and focus on checking to make sure... that we really were all alone. Or if this was all a joke. So I didn't let it show till we'd tried ALL the doors and checked everywhere to make sure we really were all alone. I'd kissed her and I knew, even though the kiss was soft and sweet... there was no way this time alone was gonna stay so innocent, if you get my drift. I don't think we'd gotten to be together in that way since Fall kicked into high gear. Not since summer vacation had ended... We'd been sleeping in separate dorms across campus and we'd only gotten to go on a few dates together in September before all this chaos took over my life again. And as tired as the both of us felt... the wanting and the STEAM that had been building ALL that time. WITH the teasing, and tainting that we'd been doing all DAY and NIGHT between us. Getting hotter and wilder... was about to be unleashed... I just knew it.
It wasn't just me either, like I said before. I saw it in her eyes, heard it in her voice. She was as gone as I was... Thank GOD!
((Quinn's Perspective))
The moment it was official, we're locked in alone. There was a noticeable shift in my man's whole demeanor. He'd been teetering over the edge all night. I knew that just as sure as I knew I had been too! But the even softer way he spoke, the way he was always touching me after that. The way we couldn't seem to leave the other further than arm's length... I knew... We were both gonna get what we wanted tonight.
But my problem with that was this had been my whole plot for Halloween Night! Tease him and drive him crazy till then and THEN. Get locked in all alone and have our way with each other. That was my whole plan! AND now it's happening an entire week early and it'll just be weird if it happens again. But of course, Logan had no way of knowing what my problem was. He thought I was apprehensive about some other part of what was happening between us tonight. So as we headed back for the 'Moon Bounce' room and it's cloudlike inflated floors for the night. His hand was on the small of my back trying to comfort me as he said in the super soft and melt-your-insides tone of voice... "Baby, what's wrong?"
I had to be honest with him, I had to come clean or else it would only cause more misunderstanding now. So I told him as we helped each other out of the top layers of our costumes (we were both wearing normal clothes underneath). "Nothing, really... it's just... this was my whole idea for Halloween night. But it's happening tonight and it won't be as special now."
"You wanted to get locked in here with me again?" He'd asked sounding so shocked. Damn! See! I could have really surprised him for a change. He's like the master of stuff like that, a wizard!
I'd said, "Yeeeeees, but I'd had it all planned out to make it really cool… you know? You always make so many of my surprises fun and romantic. And I was gonna try to do that for you, for once. I was gonna have covers and everything set up here for us to sleep in and I was gonna ask you to unplug the cameras. So even if Dustin were to try and peek in during the night or a glitch were record anything... Nothing would be able to peek in on us while we're here."
"Unplug them? Why cause of all this group's history with glitches?" He'd guessed wisely and it had been a factor.
But I'd gone ahead and let his ego take the boost as I pressed myself to the front of his body. "Weeeeell, sure… but I may have been always hoping for activities to transpire that maybe Dustin's little eyes shouldn't see. To be happening between us too… if you know what I mean?"
He knew what I'd meant and said happily, "Really?"
"Yes… Logan… If our friends hadn't shown up when they did, this afternoon… It could have happened right there in our lab. If it was up to me." I was perfectly honest with him. Now that we were so close and he had his arms around me. I didn't want to be anywhere else.
He'd admitted, "Oh! My GOD! Me too!... You wanted me that bad?"
"Always." I'd admitted. And the smile he'd given me was ear to ear. As we'd kissed and snuggled "It's been weeks and weeks since we've had time to date. It's been even longer since the last time I got to be with you. I've missed you every minute of it." I'd said as I put my head against his.
He'd hugged me so tightly admitting. "I missed you too… Especially, like you're talking about… I thought I wanted you ALL the TIME before. But it's WAY worse now that I know what it's like."
"It's been so long." She agreed.
"Too long, I bet you that could happen here tonight between us. And it would still be AMAZING to have it happening on Halloween too. In all honesty, my plans on the 30th were all leading us there too. But I like you're idea better." Logan grinned.
"You were planning a sort of late-night date for the 30th?" I'd asked.
"Maybe, a very late date maybe. But I was hoping for a sleepover. Maybe on the beach, or our beach." He'd admitted too.
And I felt myself turning all red, "See, you're always so good at this-"
"No, no! You're plans are WAY better than mine, this time around. I'm not gonna want Halloween to be over again for another year. You're totally getting me to pull out all stops for you at Christmas time this year." Which is usually my favorite holiday. If I had to pick one. The only problem is that I can never seem to get any of my family to stick around for any of it. It's always mostly me spending way too much time alone and it turns out, that's the whole reason Logan's not to thrilled about Christmas either. Except for the sweet gift haul he takes in, and even he admits it's not always worth it!
I'd tugged on the collar of his shirt as I nuzzled his chest and shoulders. "Nope, you don't need to do that." I hopefully soothed, even though I know his heart rate was up. "If we're together, I'll have all I need."
He couldn't take it anymore, he'd pulled me into a kiss that nearly didn't end. But he seemed to remember, we weren't finished here. And when he broke off the kiss he struggled to say. "I gotta a few cameras to unplug. There are too many only I know about."
"I was gonna say I could offer my assistance but I don't know where you've hidden them all." I'd said warmly.
He said, "While I'm working on that, there's a whole closet full of bedding stuff that I got in case anything like last year happened again. There's enough for nearly all of our cast, so if you just grab a couple and a pillow maybe, you can still give me the full effect of what to expect on Halloween night."
I let him know, "I won't show you my whole hand of cards, but I'll see what I can do."
"There's more." He'd said so cute and hopefully.
"Logan, you've nearly been my boyfriend for a full year now... in all that time has anything ever been that simple between us?"
And he'd realized with a laugh. "Nope, never! It's always nuts! Never boring!"
"Neither will Halloween... or tonight." I'd teased before I went off to find the things he'd asked me to.
But when I got into that closet. There wasn't just enough pillows and blankets for a hotel. There was packages of new toothbrushes, and toothpaste in a corner too, bandaids, a first aid kit and other essentials in bags back there. He'd had everyone leave spare clothes on racks, in case of any accidents. And with the messes I'd seen today. That was more than smart, it was necessary! So I now knew to add some spare clothes of my own and where I could hide some other things I can use on Halloween Night too. It was the perfect hiding spot for scheming.
But I saved all my most twisted plotting for that night. And decided to keep tonight a little more simple in it's storylines. Mostly because I was tired before all of this excitement. But now that I could get a chance to be with my boyfriend again. I just couldn't wait to see if I could still surprise him. First I'd set up the whole 'bed-like' place in the moon bounce room, I got ready real quickly for bed, and let him see all my work. So he would think that was it.
But as soon as he'd left to go brush his teeth and get ready for bed himself. The rest of my scheme was in motion. Thank goodness I had been in the spirit this morning enough to don Halloween-themed underwear that matched. Orange with little twisted black pumpkins in a pattern. It was just the perfect little twist I'd needed. Then I'd climbed under the blankets and covered it all up, so he wouldn't know till we were close.
The hardest part of this whole thing, besides keeping my cool. Had been...
...Think about all of the bumping around that was going on, while he was walking to me. You know how bouncy castles and those types of floors work. I was getting bounced and knocked all over the place while trying to keep the covers over me just right. I was a giggling mess when he was walking that whole way. But it was the perfect cover for what I was concealing. He didn't suspect a thing! Even though all of those giggles had sounded very nervous!
He was just wearing his shorts now and a HUGE grin.
He was all ease and confidence, and then he lifted the blankets to climb in with me and saw what I was (or wasn't, winkwink) wearing. The look on his face, was SO worth it! And I did get out, that "My plans are much more elaborate for Halloween of course. But hopefully, this is enough of a preview for what to expect."
He was under those covers in a blink and he never ever rushed me in these moments. All he did those first several minutes was hold me and tell me over and over. How much he'd missed this and me. Even if the most blushworth moment had been when he'd told me, "Your skins' always like silk! How are you so strong but still soooo soft?"
I can't explain it, but the moment his arms were around me, and we were cuddled so safe and closely. All I could say was, "I don't know?" He always baffles me to near speechlessness!
I don't know how I did it, but I did again remember to ask, "Surprised?"
"I'm completely gabberflasted." He'd said so adorably. That's how he says 'flabbergasted,' and he's too cute to correct.
"Good surprised? Or too much?" I had to ask him. The level of embarrassment creeping up my spine could have taken out Tyrannosaurus Rex in one shot.
But Logan... he always makes me feel so safe and almost normal... He'd said. "Baby... this couldn't be better, or more perfect."
And for everything that happened after that. I could say the same.
That's All Folks!
Well, for this chapter… for now. It was just too fun, I am gonna make this a chaptered works too. I hope you will stick around for what will happen next. I hope that this did brightened your day. Please review if you can, I would love to hear from you. When this continues, would more themed stories like this be welcomed? Would even more of this tale be welcome? Let me know. Hope you're having a WONDERFUL day! Happy birthday to my friend! One more time! Could not have done it without you, Take Care and Much Love!
~DarcyBeDippy85