Six Halloweens

Nov 01, 2008 20:03

Title: Six Halloweens
Author: seraph05
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Fall Out Boy
Warnings: Swearing
Pairing: Patrick/Pete
Disclaimer: This is a kind of AU so in that universe I’m sure this all happened but here...not so likely.
Summary: This is a series of six short story/ drabbles about Six Halloweens Pete and Patrick shared for better or worse. They can be read as separate works but they are in a linear order. The first one occurs when they’re way young, the second a year later, the third a year after that, the forth a few years on from that ect Enjoy ^_^



Masks

She stood near the speakers shy and alone and he wondered if it wasn’t Halloween whether she would be at this party at all.

“Dude you’ve been eyeing her off all night, she looks pretty hot from here make a move” Zombie Chris insisted sipping casually on the no doubt spiked punch while all around drunk teenage frivolities ensued. Pete stood next to him hiding his unease under a cool laugh and behind loud music while he continued watching her and her badly fitting costume.

“Yeah she may look good from here but she’s wearing a mask, how can I tell if she’s a babe or not” he shouted craning his neck to look around the people who occasionally obstructed his view.

“Aw! She’s in a frinking nurse costume who gives a fuck what she looks like! Stop being a pussy and besides you’re covered in bandages! She won’t recognize you unless you tell her your name now go!” Chris said firmly and shoved mummy Pete into the crowd.

“Yeah an overly large nurse outfit” Pete mumbled but taking on Chris’s several points he made his way over to her with growing ease. He gave her shoulder a tap and she turned around.

“Hey” Pete shouted over the speakers vibrating behind her. He barely heard her voice but could distinguish a ‘hi’.

“Um so I swore to my friend over there that I would kiss a nurse before I went home tonight” Pete roared competing with the music as he jabbed a thumb in Chris’s direction “Can you help me with that?”

She seemed to ponder it for a moment, shoulders shaking in a brief laugh before she nodded. Pete grinned leaning in so his face was inches from the hot-nurse mask. He hovered there letting comfort fill the space then lifted the mask just enough to see her lips.

“Tutankhamen, by the way” he said in what he hoped was a cool rumbling tone before kissing her. Her lips where beautiful and soft and Pete immediately lost all regret. When their kiss finally broke Pete smirked satisfied.

“You’re a fucking good kisser and you’re hot! What’s your name” Pete shouted into her ear.

Lips pulled into a grin before the mask lifted off to reveal the fresh young blond beneath.

“Patrick Stump” the handsome boy replied lapping up Pete’s complete and utter shock “Oh and my brother bet me $100 that I wouldn’t go out in a nurse outfit and get kissed so thanks now I can go home”

Patrick turned to leave but Pete grabbed his arm. He pulled the bandages away from his face.

“…My names Pete Wentz actually”

Nightmare In The Park

“Geez where are Joe and Andy going to get here the movies going to start in 5 minutes” Pete whined opening a bag of chips.

“Pete we’ve all seen this movie like 50 times if they miss the first bit it won’t kill them” Patrick replied lying back on the picnic blanket and watching the people sitting on the grass around them. Most eyes where on the huge outdoor screen showing the last commercial before the film was set to play.

“It doesn’t matter you cannot miss the first bit of The Nightmare Before Christmas! Every second is genius” Pete exclaimed dramatically.

“To think before I met you, Andy and Joe I used to miss out on all this stuff” Patrick said nostalgically eyeing the costumes all around him “I mean don’t get me wrong internet is fun but it’s not a movie in the park is it?”

“Oh hell no” Pete agreed “You can’t beat a Halloween movie in the park especially at night. Sometimes the kids will run around playing tricks on you though. One year when I got up to go home I felt like there was something on the back of my head and I reached back to feel it and it was whipped cream. The little bastards had put whipped cream all over my hair” Patrick laughed loudly.

“I’ll try to keep that in mind” he chocked out as his breath came back.

“Fuck it’s starting” Pete swore staring around wildly before begrudgingly settling down next to Patrick. Patrick felt a buzzing in his pocket and pulled his mobile out.

“Yo” he whispered before falling silent for a moment “Yeah he is. We’re in the middle next to the couple with the purple piñata. Ok I’ll tell him, see you soon” he flipped his mobile shut and slid it back into his pocket.

“They’re about five minutes away” Patrick informed Pete “And Joe says not to freak out and that’s they’ve seen it enough times to get the rest of the movie without the first five minutes” Pete continued to watch the screen a pout dominating his face and remained silent. Patrick turned his eyes back to the screen for only a moment before he felt fingers trace over his own and then lace into them. He looked back to Pete.

“Till they get here”

Trick Or Treat

He was mopping and Pete could see his frustration burning in the way the floors took a rough scrubbing that was usually an easy rub.

“Someone’s not a happy camper” Pete commented and Patrick’s face flicked up to see Pete. To say it lit up would be a stretch but it didn’t look quite as irate.

“Yeah well what do you expect” Patrick grumbled going back to mopping “It’s Halloween and everyone but me is enjoying it. There’s been a million kids in here making a mess and leaving lolly wrappers everywhere and I get stuck with the late shift so there’s no real point going anywhere after cause it’s too god damn late”

“Aw don’t be like that Pattycakes” Pete tried a sympathetic tone as he jumped up to sit on a table in the closed diner.

“Come on Pete even you’re dressed up” Patrick grumbled eyeing off Pete’s vampire getup.

“Yeah but I have a surprise for you at home. Halloweens not finished quite yet and if you come over to mine we can play trick or treat” Pete said voice low and seductive.

“It better not be like last year’s ‘trick or treat’ I was walking crooked for a week after that” Patrick said tossing Pete a distrusting gaze.

“How can I help it if you don’t see a trick coming a mile away, I mean I put a pumpkin head in the doorway to your bedroom. I didn’t think you would ACTUALLY trip over it and sprain your ankle” Pete said exasperatedly.

“Well that was the first time id’ ever done that and it hurt” Patrick shot back and Pete could see he was in no mood. Despite this Pete gave it one more try.

“That’s what she said”

Though Patrick had turned his back on Pete, Pete saw him go stiff and he could almost feel the suppressed grin in the air.

“I saw that!” Pete laughed before sliding off the table “Anyway, come over when you’re done. We don’t have to play trick or treat we can just hang. I’m sure they’ll be some kind of horror movie marathon on”

“Alright” Patrick managed, only just maintaining his false sour demeanor.

“Catch you later dude” Pete called as he breezed out.

Somehow Patrick just knew that somewhere in Pete’s house a skeleton was waiting to drop into his lap.

The After Life Of The Party

Patrick clad in a bulls basketball uniform gazed around dumbfounded by the glitz and glamour. This was one of their first big Halloween’s since they’d become famous enough to warrant an MTV crew at their L.A party. Somewhere in the crowd he knew Brendon was running around in a Spiderman costume high on red bull. He knew Latin-lover Gabe would be wooing a gorgeous girl with his Hispanic tones or cutting a rug with ghost buster William. He’d seen Joe earlier dressed as an astronaut and Andy in a rabbit suit. They seemed to be having a ball too. Pirate Ryan and Spencer had chatted to him five minutes ago. What really surprised him were the glimpses he’d got of Rihanna, Kanye and John Mayer. They had all been invited but Patrick had held no hope of actually seeing them there. He could’ve even sworn he’d seen gangster Gerard Way hanging out by the fireplace but he wasn’t certain.

“Hey Patrick!” Patrick was snapped out of his wonderings as Travis appeared from out of the crowd bringing drinks, dressed as a king “Nice costume man, how’ve you been!?”

“Travi!” Patrick exclaimed giving him a hug before taking a drink off his hands “Thanks and I’ve been good yeah. You know we’ve all been pretty busy but its great to all be in the one place for this party isn’t it, it’s been too long!”

“Yeah man, all the Decay Dance bands in one place and with friends and the occasional family member, this is shaping up to be the best Halloween yet yo” Travis laughed “Plus the music is kicking who’s’ the DJ”

“Whiteshadow” Patrick replied nodding in the direction of the turntables where Pete was mixing it up.

“Ah I haven’t had a chance to chat with him yet” Travis commented.

“You’ll get a go, he’ll be finished in half” Patrick replied drinking his punch.

“No I mean there’s been this miss hanging around him all night” Travis commented as Patrick’s eyes flicked to Travis “They’re getting along like it’s going out of style”

“Well great…he hasn’t had a girlfriend for a while” Patrick said “It’s about time he met someone new” Travis nodded but Patrick was no longer focusing as intently on him.

His gaze climbed back up to Pete who was raised higher than all the guests and beside him in a schoolgirl uniform was a pretty, cheery blond talking into his ear. The corners of his eyes crinkled slightly with his glee. His lips chatted and laughed.

It wasn’t till the couple where leaving that Patrick saw them touch her.

Holloween

His voice was coarse and broken. He had been crying but didn’t admit it. He also didn’t mention that he was sitting alone in his mostly dark house so sad and miserable he barely knew how to begin to explain it. The receiver waited by his mouth on one end, while on the other end the answering machine listened.

“Pete”

“Pete look I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you. I should have just shut the fuck up and let it pass”

“I can’t believe it’s Halloween and I’m not with you”

“What…what costume are you wearing this year?”

“I know you’re pissed because she took it the wrong way and it fucked everything up. I didn’t mean for that to happen please believe me. I would never want anything bad to happen to you”

“Enough shit happens to you without…I want to be there for you not…not like this”

“I’m not going out tonight um….Joe’ll be at Angels and Kings but he says he doesn’t know where you’ll be. Andy’s the same. I hate that you’ve cut me off but don’t do it to them too they don’t deserve it”

“Pete”

“…fuck…”

“You know what fuck it, it was true and you know it”

“Don’t even know why I said it”

“…….yeah I do actually”

“Because it’s true”

“And I’m not gonna grovel and cry”

“I’ll talk to you when you’re ready”

Pete sat a blanket hanging over his head while he watched the answering machine. There was a long pause and a loud sniff.

“And I’ll fucking miss you in the mean time”

The line went dead.

Pete blinked wiping his face and wished he were out pretending to be someone else.

Jack and Sally

There where two loud knocks at the door but he didn’t notice till the doorbell rang. He walked over and opened the door. Through the spider webs he stared unimpressed at the man on his doorstep while on the street behind him kids in costumes paraded up and down the street.

“What is this?” Pete asked eyeing the Jack Skellington on his doorstep.

“I want candy” Patrick stated.

“Well you can’t have any” Pete replied straightening out his crudely stitched dress and long red wig, “I don’t remember inviting you”

“Yeah well I don’t remember Sally having tattoos. Now I said I want candy bitch and you’re either going to give it to me or I’m gonna take it from you” Patrick shot back with a grin while Pete gave him the finger. Out of the hallway Joe barreled into Pete.

“Is it Patrick?! Patrick!” Joe exclaimed gesturing wildly “Come on dude, come in, come in we got the new guitar hero game, Andy’s owning everyone and we can’t allow it, Cassidy’s about ready to spit she’s so sick of loosing and don’t even get me started on Chizzy”

Patrick walked in past Pete following after Joe who had run off back towards Pete’s living room. Inside was a handful of friends dancing, eating candy and watching the righteous battle that was going down between Andy and The Butcher. As Patrick prepared to sit down on the couch Butcher lost the game.

“NOOOOOOOOO!” He cried and all those watching threw candy and jeered. Gabe gave Patrick a shove towards him and Patrick took the mini Gibson from him.

“I’ll avenge you dude” Patrick assured him as he moped over to the couch.

With a few jabs on the buttons the game began. It was a vicious guitar off on Extra Hard with the song “Dead” and by the end Patrick’s score beat Andy’s by a few scarce points. Much victory celebration went down and after a few more songs Disashi took Patrick’s winning title. He collapsed onto the couch happy to watch the proceedings from the sidelines.

Three o clock found most of the guests asleep, absent or groggily watching the movie marathon on Pete’s large screen TV where guitar hero had been played for hours before. Patrick was lying on the couch head in Pete’s lap sleepily watching the movie half way between asleep and awake. Pete was also barely conscious hand lazily playing with Patrick’s hair to keep him awake.

“My dearest friend if you don’t mind” Pete sung softly voice barely loud enough to hold the tune.

Patrick turned to look up at Pete his half closed eyes watching Patrick gently.

“I’d like to join you by your side”

“That’s my line” Patrick smiled and began to sing along.

“Where we can gaze into the stars and sit together, now and forever for it is plain as anyone can see we’re simply meant to be”

Pete smirked leaning down and brushed their lips together.

“Happy Halloween Jack” Pete whispered, rubbing Patrick’s nose with his own before leaning back and shutting his eyes.

“Happy Halloween Sally”

A/N: Yes I shamelessly stole the perfectly romantic end of The Nightmare Before Christmas for my own evil ends. Live with it, it’s one of my prettiest peterick endings ever.

andy hurley, pete wentz, spencer, chislett, ryan, fall out boy, joe trohman, the butcher, william, patrick stump, gabe saporta

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