Who: Rose Wilson, Roy Harper, Lian Harper When: Oct. 31, Halloween (forward-dated) Where: Around neighbourhoods of NYC What:Baby-sitter extraordinaire Rose helps Roy with Lian and trick-or-treating. Later, Roy talks to Rose about his adventures doing the 'right' thing... Rating: Hm. PG, mostly...
Halloween was Rose's absolute favourite holiday. But she so rarely went out for the event, preferring to stay in. She'd wait for children to come to her door, all the ones in her building that heard rumours about her and her eye. And she'd play scary music, turn down the lights and open the door without her eyepatch on. Sometimes the kids just ran away screaming. Sometimes they'd even leave their candy.
But so rarely did they ask her to 'do it again puh-leeeease!' like four-year-old Lian Harper kept asking throughout the night.
Rose, dressed in a black pantsuit and low-cut white top as Elle Driver (AKA California Mountain Snake), took Lian out for a second round of trick-or-treating after Roy finished his 'shift.' She somehow ended up carrying two bags of candy back and a tired little girl in her red and yellow ninja tutu outfit back to Roy's apartment.
"Is there really a worm in your eye, Rose?" Lian had asked, her voice muffled by Rose's hair.
"Ha! ...Ah, no. At least not that I know of..." Well, she'd put the gummy worm in cause it was hilarious and it really did freak those kiddies out. She managed to open the door to Roy's apartment after juggling around all the things in her arms.
"That was sooooooo funny when you scared those boys that were mean to me!"
"That's what I do. Scare away all the boys. Your dad is definitely going to thank me for that later. OK, buddy. We're here. You promised to do all those things you're supposed to do before going to bed and I promised to let you touch one of my swords for five minutes. No deal if you don't do it." Rose set Lian down once they got inside and she scurried off to brush her teeth and get ready for bed while Rose picked through the bags of candy, tossing out all the crap stuff (seriously, why did people give away those nasty banana marshmallows? And who the fuck gave out dental floss?)
It took Lian about 20 minutes to go from the red and yellow costume to her red pajamas, face washed, teeth brushed and all that necessary stuff kids had to do to get ready for bed (at least based on the list that Roy had provided).
And then she wanted a story ("I wanna hear about the facesuckers again!") before she finally passed out. Rose watched her sleep for a little while before leaving the bedroom and trying to figure out if Roy had anything good on his TV. Of course, she quickly learned, he had parental lock on, blocking all the adult and x-rated channels.
She finally popped in The Exorcist and stretched out on the couch, her long legs swinging over the side while she waited for Roy to return from ...whatever it was he was doing. The scene with the little girl's head twisting around was on when she sensed Roy returning and about 30 seconds later heard keys in the door.