Write about something or someone that is: spooky.
Since Greg asked, and since I'm behind on scheduling prompts and read his request before writing this, here are the boys costumes from yesterday's festivities:
Max as Harry Potter and...
Miles as a ghost. A ghost named Boo, Max decided.
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I had noticed that yesterday's prompt went up earlier than when you schedule them :) I'm glad I asked; the boys look fantastic in their costumes... I'd say Max is ready to remake the Harry Potter films now. Of course, Miles will have to be the Bloody Baron then, since he's a ghost :)
Well, if we're continuing Hallowe'en prompts, I'll stay with my romance story for a little longer. (It still feels odd to be writing romance.)
Spooky
Aubergine and Adrian were put in the same ambulance, amidst a lot of confusion about whether they'd been shot in the attempted robbery. The police were taking people aside and asking them questions and getting angry when the answers disagreed, and the paramedics mistook Adrian's deathly pallor for a Hallowe'en costume at first, and then were puzzled as to why Aubergine was covered in blood but seemingly not bleeding. As the ambulance doors closed, putting a world-gone-mad safely away and calming the noise, Aubergine caught sight of a striking red-headed woman smiling at a stereotypical Irish-American policeman -- black hair, broad shoulders, a boxer's nose; exactly the kind of thing that would have made her swoon, she thought, if Adrian weren't here -- and saying, "Officer MacDoozle, I can assure you I don't arrange crimes just so I can do the Macarena at them."
Wouldn't that be something? thought Aubergine, only peripherally aware that she wasn't thinking very clearly. For all the times that Adrian had been on top of her, that was the first she'd been supporting all his weight. Committing crimes for television ratings!
"Sorry about the van," said the paramedic. She had dark hair too, cut in a short bob that just reached the upturned collar of her heavy green-and-yellow jacket. There was a large reflective band around the middle of it, rib-height, and when she turned round Aubergine could see "PARAMEDIC" written on it in white letters. "It's Hallowe'en and Derek was determined to have the van be seasonal."
Adrian groaned, and Aubergine looked around. The gurneys they were on, one on each side, had little plastic cobwebs stuck to them, and there was a bat on a string dangling from an elastic string attached to the roof. It jumped and danced as the ambulance started moving. There was also a skull sitting on top of the green oxygen cylinders.
"Spooky," she said in agreement.
"So what happened?" The paramedic had produced a clipboard and a pen from somewhere. "The police are certain there was a shooting."
"There was." Aubergine was relieved to have something to talk about. "There was a man, he tried to hold the clerk up, but the clerk hit him with something I think. I didn't really see, Adrian had just dropped a crate of beer on his foot and we were wondering if he needed to go to the hospital."
"So neither of you got shot?"
"No. I don't know who did, the gun went off after the clerk had beaten up the robber."
"Huh," said the paramedic, clearly disinterested. "Right, so the zombie here has a broken foot. Why are you all bloody?"
"He fell on me after he broke his foot."
"Not your blood?"
"No, it's all Adrian's."
The paramedic paled. "All of it?" She produced a pair of large scissors from a drawer and starting cutting away at the cuffs of Adrian's trousers.
"Oh Jesus. Put the sirens on Derek, we've got a bleeder!"
Greg - yes, I was trying to explain to him that Hogwarts has house ghosts and he was very confused as to why and what their purpose was. I might need to start rereading the books at this rate.
Yes, well, it isn't exactly a traditional romance, now is it? :)
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