Halloween Night (Chapter One)

-In honor of my 16th birthday, I'm releasing this part early. Stay tuned because I'm posting parts 2 and 3 on October 31st!-

Damian - 21 

Tim -16 

Jason - 13 

Dick - 8


Bruce leant in the doorway to the drawing room, chilly from the open window letting in the icy late-October air. "There is a front door, y'know."

Selina turned around in her seat with a devilish smile. "Where's the fun in that?" The stood and padded across the room, throwing her arms around her fiancés shoulders and giving him a gentle kiss. "How've you been?"

"Alright. Could been better. How about you?"

She shrugged. "Good. Carrie and I had a blast in Metropolis."

Bruce let out a half-snort half-sigh. "I still can't believe you stole her from me, she was such a good Robin."

"Well," Selina shrugged. "I'm the favorite. Why wouldn't she name herself after me?"

"I'll get her back eventually." Bruce countered. "She'll be a bat in the end."

"Well Barb is Batgirl, and Katie is Batwoman, so I guess Shell be a bird."

"Hey Selina!" Tim called out, leaning in the doorway behind his father. "How was your trip?"

"Hello Timmy. It was fun. How did your Social Studies test go?"

Tim shrugged a little. "98%. I, -uh, forgot to put my name ad date at the top..."

Selina smiled at him. "You can challenge that mark." 

"Are you staying at the manor this weekend?" Tim asked. "Just wonderin'... Because Jay and Dick would be really excited if you did, so..."

"You don't have to bribe me Tim, I'm staying." She laughed lightly.

Tim pumped his fist in excitement. "Nice! I have plans tonight, and I need help convincing Jason to take Dick out."

"Ah, an ulterior motive." She remarked, bumping past her fiancé and heading towards Tim. "Where are your brothers?"

"Prepping their costumes." He waved her towards the dining room. "I need Jay to take Dick Trick-or-Treating tonight, because Kon and the Gang are coming over for a movie marathon tonight!"

"Exciting." Selina observed.

"I know right!" Tim exclaimed, stopping in his tracks. Excited to tell someone about it. "I've got so much candy and popcorn and chips and stuff! I even got soda and hot cocoa! And Bart got this- never mind. It's going to be incredible."

"Awesome." Selina pushed the door open and stepped into the Dining room. One of the boys at the table glanced up and waved.

"Selina!" Jason called.

"Selina?" Dick looked up excitedly and grinned. He hopped off his seat and stumbled over to say hello, throwing his arms around her waist.

"Hi Kitten." She fluffed his hair a little. "There's no way you grew."

Dick nodded, his face still in the material of her sweater. "Uh huh!"

"In five days, Kitty?" She asked in disbelief. She bent over and checked his feet. He was standing in a pair of Selina's high-heels that she'd left at the manor. They were far too large for him.

"Birdie was looking for the shoes to his costume, and got distracted playing dress up." Jason commented. 

"It wasn't dress up!" Dick complained. "I just wanted to try them on." He murmured, stepping out of the shoes and passing them to their owner.

"Thank you." She took the heels. "How are your costumes coming?"

Dick ran, barefoot, back to the table and grabbed his costume. "Awesome!" He was WonderWoman  for Halloween; Jason had made him well aware of the irony. "I'm making the leotard-like part, and I have the boots, and the bands!" He said excitedly, showing off his home-made costume.

"Very cool! I can't wait to see it done." She smiled at the little boy's innocent excitement. "What about you Jason?"

The young teen held up a pile of clothes he'd gotten from their Pre-Halloween trip to the thrift store. "One low-maintenance costume coming up!"  

"Do you know what you're going to be yet?" Selina asked, amused by the tween's slothfulness.

"Eh. I'm hoping I'll figure that out half way through." Jason shrugged. "I'm hoping to find a muse! Some inspiration!"

"Well, choose something that will keep you warm while you're out trick-or-treating..." Tim observed. 

"Tim! I told you! I'm not taking him trick-or-treating!" Jason objected. "That's kids stuff. Besides, why can't Bruce take him?"

Selina straightened her cardigan, which was still skewed from Dick's hug. "Bruce and I are out tonight."

"Then what about Demon?" He whined.

"Hmm?" Damian leaned in from the kitchen, uninterested, he pulled out an earbud. "What was that?"

"Can't you take Dick Trick-or-treating? I don't want to!" Jason whined.

Damian frowned and shook his head. "No."

"Why not!"

"Father banned me from it years ago. Apparently I'm not 'child friendly'." He scoffed. "I don't know what I used to enjoy about the holiday. All hallows eve was just a pagen tradition which was converted to make money."

"Come on!" Jason complained.

"Jason, you don't have to trick-or-treat, you just have to watch him." Selina pointed out.

"It's still lame!"

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Jay is Fester, and Damian is Wednesday, and Tim's Pugsley, and Selina is Morticia and Bruce is Gomez." Dick explained.

"No way." Tim disagreed. "Bruce is Morticia and Selina is Gomez." His little brother snickered despite himself. "Just personality-wise."

"Right, Bruce is Morticia and Selina is Gomez!" Dick agreed, grinning.

Selina looked up from helping lace Dick's WonderWoman boots "and what does that make you?"

Dick thought for a second and through his hand into the air. "Thing!"

"Well, You're all ready to go WonderWoman. Go show Bruce, he'll love it." Selina encouraged, tying his boot's laced in a double-knot.

Dick hopped off the sofa and hurried out. "Don't worry Catwoman, I'll be back in later to arrest you!"

"Oh. Okay." She said, holding back a laugh.

Jason brushed past His little brother with a snort of laughter. He looked up at his soon-to-be step-mom. "There's something: I called Roy, and I'm making him babysit Dick out with me."

"Hey, that's good. at lease that will be fun."

Jason nodded. "and I'm making my costume, it'll be done soon." He was a lot more excited about Halloween when he got to spend it with Roy.

There was a ring of the doorbell and Tim shot through the room like a bullet, he unlocked the door and threw it open. "HEY! You're here early! Come in!" He lead The blonde girl into the foyer. "Kon said he's gonna be here at six-twenty, so he'll be here at six-thirty-five." 

Cassie shrugged off her coat to hang it up. "And Bart won't contact anyone, and then show up inexplicably late, having brought a bag of chips to apologize for it."

"Yeah, that checks out." Tim agreed. 

"Hi Cassie!" Dick shouted, skipping back through the room. "Do you like my costume?"

"Hi Dick." She looked him up-and-down, grinning. "Hey! You're WonderWoman! Great costume. Mine was a little last-minute..." she joked, looking down at her skeleton leggings. 

"Nice femurs" Tim teased, laughing a little.

"They were on clearance: Four Dollars!" She exclaimed.

Tim raised his eyebrows. "In this economy? What a steal!" 

Dick bounced excitedly. "Me and Jay are going Trick-or-treating!"

"NOT true. Me and Roy are escorting you while you trick-or-treat." Jason scoffed, stepping out in his costume: tight black jeans, and a black hoodie with red lining. He had white power dusted over his face.

"What are you."

"I'm not completely sure, I'm calling myself 'stoner Dracula'."

Tim snorted. "The undead."

"Yeah, sure, I'll go with that." Jason shrugged. "roy'll be here in a minute, so grab your shit."

"Bruce says for both of you to take jackets." Selina said, stepping out. She acknowlaged Cassie with a little. "Hi."

"Hi." Cassie replied.

"Don't worry. You kids will have the house to yourselves. We're going out for dinner." She assured.

"Whoo. Timmy's Quadruple is all by itself." Jason snarked. "What would that be, Selina, a love rectangle?"

"I couldn't say."


-In part 3 I will add a photo of my classic Robin costume! I'm channeling Bert Ward and Nick Lang-

Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top