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“Aww, come on,” Cormac huffed. “It was on theme. Doesn’t that get me a few points?”
The vampire stared him dead in the eye for a few moments before saying, “No.”
He chuckled. “You're so cute.”
Henry blinked, cheeks flushing slightly. “You are so strange,” the vampire said sharply before crossing his arms and turning away.
Cormac grinned. He wanted to touch Henry’s heated cheeks so badly. They turned red so easily. Though he’d probably end up beaten to death if he tried. Would it be worth it? Maybe…
Either way, he’d get a chance to touch those cheeks soon enough…and other things. Though he’d still have to be good.
Cormac had a feeling Henry was a bit nervous about the performance. He was also pretty sure Octavius had somehow tricked the vampire into agreeing. Cormac wouldn’t take advantage of that, even if he would thoroughly enjoy the results of said trick.
* * *
Theo triedto use the press of the wall against his back to calm his racing heart, but the wings prevented him from fully connecting. So, it wasn’t working. Even Sprinkle’s constant purring and rubbing herself against his chest wasn’t helping.
He had to get out of here…
No…he was fine. He would be fine. Theo took another deep breath in and out, trying to ignore the overwhelming number of scents around him. He closed his eyes, shutting away all the noise that cluttered his vision.
Leaves and sticks crunched under their feet as they walked the path created between Octavius’ and Scarlett’s mansions. The path was about twelve feet wide, the bare trees on each side filled with lanterns and cobwebs. Some of the shadows being thrown…didn’t look natural. The twisting forms looked like claws about to strike out and drag him into the forest.
Turney jumped, barely containing his scream when a ghost-like illusion of a woman in a bloody wedding dress, with glowing red eyes, flew from a nearby tree and dove right through him as she let out a death wail. His heart was seemingly beating at a permanently increased speed at the moment. Octavius snickered beside him.
Why, oh why, did his boyfriend have to be obsessed with Halloween?! Why?!
“You are enjoying this way too much—FUCK!” he said with a sigh that ended in a scream when a human dressed like a murderous clown jumped out of the shadows to the right of them.
Where the fuck had that asshole even hidden?!
Octavius burst into a fit of laughter.
He covered the vampire’s mouth with both hands, glaring. “Shut it, you evil bat!”
* * *
Octavius grinnedbehind the zombie’s hands. His bunny was so cute, all scared and grumpy. Pulling Turney’s hands down, he gave him a peck on the lips. “Shh, it’s fine. It’s not real. None of it is real. Once you understand that, what’s to be scared of?”
The zombie just glared harder. “Knowing it’s not real doesn’t take away the scare factor.”
“Hmm, odd… It does for me.”
“Yeah, but you aren’t normal.”
That he was not. Normal was boring though, so why would he ever want to be normal?
He hummed. “Never claimed to be.”
“Though, I suppose I’m not either…because I think I find all this scarier than the times when I was actually in danger. You’d think facing wraths and wendigos would be worse. Apparently, my brain can be more stoic when in real danger, rather than when I know it’s fake…”
Octavius’ head tilted at that. “Hmm, thinking back…you were afraid, but there always seemed to be more anger than fear to me. But, perhaps your brain knows you don’t have time to completely freak out when you are in real danger?”
“Maybe…”
“Something to worry about later, my pretty statue. Come on!” He tugged Turney down the path.
His zombie bun jumped at almost every scare. It was…sooo funny.
