Dr. Susan (Storm) Richards ∞ Invisible Woman (drsusanrichards) wrote in newalliance, @ 2013-10-31 21:22:00 |
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Entry tags: | human torch ii, invisible woman |
Who: Sue Richards, Johnny Storm, (maybe open to others later?)
NPCs: Ben Grimm, Reed Richards, Franklin Richards
Where: Baxter Building
When: October 31, 2013
What: It's Franklin's first Halloween. Cuteness is bound to ensue.
Rating: PG.
Sue liked Halloween. It was the one day a year where she could dress up as someone other than the Invisible Woman. She enjoyed seeing all the kids dressed up in costumes, pretending to be princesses and superheroes, monsters and aliens. She liked handing out candy. Sue knew most people would be surprised to learn she liked Halloween. It was the sort of thing they'd peg Johnny or Ben for. Over the past Halloweens, she'd come to know several of the children whose families rented apartments in Baxter Building. Such familiarity was inevitable, because only the loyalest of tenants stayed for very long in the Baxter Building. As the home of the Fantastic Four, it was a hotspot for trouble. But several of the apartments were rent controlled to make up for that fact.
Three Halloweens ago, they'd had an incident involving a Negative Zone breach. Thankfully, they'd been able to contain it. Sue didn't like the idea of the Fantastic Four being responsible for nightmares. Sue was one of those people who liked making Halloween fun, not scary. Her best costume, hands down, had been the Mummy. The costume was genius. With Sue's ability to make herself invisible, it had looked like the wrapped bandages were empty. Kids had loved it. There were years she'd neglected Halloween; when she'd been too busy trying to juggle being a hero and doing her PhD... but it had a certain nostalgia attached to it.
As a child, she saw the effort, time and love her mother took to make their costumes. She remembers sitting at the kitchen table at their house in Glenville, watching her parents' carve Jack'o'lanterns with surgical precision. Those were traditions she'd been able to keep going -- sort of. Now, Sue was excited to start new traditions with her family. It really was true what they said: Halloween was more fun when you had a kid. Sue knew that Franklin wouldn't remember his first Halloween, but she was determined he would enjoy it, because she was.
Franklin wriggled and squirmed on the changing table. "You're awfully wiggly, mister man," she said. Sue tickled Franklin's sides, eliciting a slight giggle. Sue cooed, blowing a raspberry on Franklin's stomach. "You're so cute, I vant to your blood,"
Franklin laughed. He was still roly-poly, rolling over and twisting. Sue smiled at him, because it was impossible not to. "I'm gonna need back up to rassle into your Cowboy duds."
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