A/N: Halloween Heist bonus chapter
A few months later at Halloween, for the first time in her life, Amy was actually looking forward to the holiday. She and Jake arrived at the precinct early, already dressed in their costumes; overly stereotypical, old-school, high-collared, fake-fanged (and completely non-sexy; Amy was never going to go that far, except maybe in the privacy of their own bedroom) vampire costumes.
They'd only been there a few minutes when Rosa walked in, in her own vampire hunting costume; which admittedly wasn't much different from her everyday outfit, just with a few extra real weapons and a large wooden stake and a wooden cross.
"Hi Rosa!" Amy said brightly, waving at their friend, before transitioning to a look of mock fear, saying as she pointed at the stake, "Oh, no! I hope you aren't going to drive that through our hearts!"
Rosa merely smirked at them as she sat down at her desk, turning the cross to face towards the vampire couple, as they waited for everyone else to arrive. They'd secretly told everyone in the office to dress up, while keeping Boyle in the dark about it, so he'd be expecting to be the only one dressed up.
A few minutes before starting time said Halloween connoisseur stepped off the elevator, dressed as usual in an obscure costume that was way too easy to intentionally confuse with other costumes. But as soon as he saw everyone else dressed in costumes, his face lit up.
"Oh my! Everyone dressed up!" he practically squealed in excitement, as he took in everyone's costumes. "And you three came in coordinated!" he added, looking at Jake, Amy, and Rosa. "I can't believe you didn't tell me so I could join in! But this is absolutely amazing! Best day of my life!"
"This is absolutely amazing, best day of my life; title of your sex tape," Jake whispered into Amy's ear, causing her to groan, and roll her eyes at him, and slap him playfully on the arm.
Becoming a vampire certainly hadn't slowed down his playful teasing of her. Not that she'd really give it up for anything in the world; it was part of why she'd fallen in love with him in the first place, and he just wouldn't be the same without it. Even "The Worst Date Ever" was one of her fondest memories after they'd finally gotten together for realz, especially considering he'd had the opportunity to accept a relief team and return to embarrassing her with his ridiculous 'date', but had instead chosen to stay on the stakeout and just hang out with her, despite it meaning that he'd lose a lot of money on date embarrassments he wasn't able to use.
After everyone dutifully misguessing Boyle's costume, they all headed into the briefing room to debrief for the most important event of the day, nay, year — the annual Halloween Heist.
As always, Jake already knew he was obviously the greatest detective slash genius, but this year he had three distinct advantages over everyone else in the fight for the yearly crown. He and Amy were on the same team for the first time since the first year, when only Jake and Captain Holt had been playing; they were adding Rosa's prodigious skills to their team; and he and Amy could now move almost silently and undetectably, especially in the dark, and Rosa herself was quite skilled at it as well. They were going to be unstoppable, especially considering pre-established rules that year said that it was going to be a free-for-all; not that anyone had ever actually obeyed the pre-set rules during a heist, and Jake knee Holt wasn't actually going to go at it alone.
Once darkness had settled around the precinct, it was officially time to start the heist. Gathering everyone in the center of the room, Jake pulled the object to be heisted out from his desk (causing Algernon to scuttle to a more secluded pile of junk in Jake's drawer), holding it high above his head for everyone to see.
"This year, we will be competing for this empty dvd case with the words 'Kind, Sober, and Fully Dressed' written on the front of it. That's right, everyone; we're playing for Santiago's sex tape!" he exclaimed with his flair for bravado.
"Completely empty, nothing here," he added for emphasis in his normal voice as he opened the case, showing it to be in fact empty, before turning towards Amy with a grin on his face. But before he could even start getting the words out, she said it for him; "Title of my sex tape."
Returning to the heist at hand, Jake continued, "It will be locked in this safe, with the passcode one, two, three, four, five, sitting on this pedestal in the middle of the bullpen. As usual, whoever has the case in their position at midnight is officially the greatest detective slash genius."
With great pomp and circumstance he lay the dvd case in the safe, closing the safe door and locking it.
"Let the heist begin!"
~B99~
Fifteen minutes later, after everyone had returned to their desks, keeping a leery eye towards the safe, the precinct was suddenly plunged into darkness just as Rosa was walking past the pedestal on her way to Jake's desk to hand him a folder.
As everyone else in the office scrambled to make it out of their chairs and over to the safe to prevent anyone else from opening the safe during the blackout, all while not tripping over everything that they couldn't see in the dark, Rosa deftly punched in the code. Jake, who could see in the dark and was expecting the momentary power failure, quickly took the few steps from his desk over to the safe, grabbing the dvd out of it once Rosa had the door open. As Rosa quickly shut the safe door back, Jake threw the dvd case across the room to Amy, who was walking past the briefing room doors behind Rosa's desk on her way to the evidence room to put up the evidence box she'd been looking at when the heist began. Also being able to see in the dark, Amy easily caught it and slipped it into the evidence box.
As soon as the case was out of sight, she turned the lights back on.
Jake and Rosa were on the floor fighting, with Jake shouting about her trying to cheat by turning the lights off while she was right next to the safe, while Rosa was arguing that he'd been the one to turn the lights off and she'd stopped him from being able to open the safe. Charles was lying face first on the floor, clearly having tripped over something. Terry was standing up, only having made it a few feet from his desk before the lights came back on. Holt had made it to his doorway. Gina was too busy playing Kwazy Cupcakes on her iPhone to have even noticed the lights had gone out. And Hitchcock and Scully also didn't seem to have noticed anything had happened, though likely for different reasons than Gina.
And Amy merely resumed walking towards the evidence room, no one paying her any attention since she hadn't been anywhere near the safe.
At Holt's barking orders, Jake and Rosa scrambled up off the floor with their hands up, both showing that they didn't have the dvd in their possession. Holt walked over to the safe and tested the handle, finding it still securely locked. Everyone giving everyone else distrustful looks, they all slowly returned to their desks, fairly confident the dvd was still safely locked away inside the safe.
Meanwhile, Amy had returned the evidence box to the evidence room, making sure she was safely in the one spot of the room the cameras didn't capture when she removed the dvd case and slipped it into an inside pocket of her work coat, before returning the box to it's rightful place on the shelf.
Walking back into the bullpen, she stopped at Rosa's desk and said, "I know it's late, but I'm going to go take another look at the crime scene. Want to come with me?"
She and Rosa had been working a nearby murder case together for several days.
Rosa stood up and grabbed her coat, following Amy to the elevator, as Jake shouted after them, "Giving up that easily? Going to be hard to steal the dvd outside the precinct!"
While they were gone, Jake made a spectacularly obvious and unsurprisingly ill-fated attempt to distract everyone so that he could steal the safe, easily being stopped by Holt. Gina and Terry had also made passes at the safe, but when Amy and Rosa got back to the precinct a couple hours later, the safe was still sitting in the middle of the precinct, unperturbed.
The safe finally disappeared during a briefing Holt called them all to an hour before midnight, but his sneakery of being the one behind it's disappearance despite being in the briefing room with everyone else the whole time was quickly discovered when he opened the safe in his office and discovered that it was already empty, shouting loud enough that everyone in the office could hear him.
After that, everyone scrambled to all the various hiding places that had been used over the years to hide the heist object, to see if they could find where it had been hidden. But thirty minutes of searching every nook and cranny of the precinct was to no avail, and everyone finally got back to their actual jobs, all secretly wondering who could have stolen it, and where they'd hid it.
Fifteen minutes before the day was set to expire, the bartender at Shaw's called Jake to ask him to come break up a bar fight that'd started.
"Ames, Rosa, bar fight at Shaw's we have to break up," he said, standing up and grabbing his coat. "Holt, we'll try to be back by midnight to see who stole the dvd. Don't find it in the fifteen minutes we're gone."
Jake, Amy, and Rosa walked down to the bar, strolling up to the bartender.
"Still safe and sound?" Jake asked him, leaning up against the counter.
"Shame there isn't a real bar fight we can break up," commented Rosa as the bartender reached under the counter to grab the dvd case Amy and Rosa had dropped off on their way to revisit their crime scene.
As Jake took the case from the barman, he said, "Cheer up, Rosa, the night's still young. A bar fight could still pop up while we're having our office Halloween party. You might get your bar fight then."
The three of them quickly changed back into their costumes that they'd taken off after the morning briefing much earlier in the day (since investigating crime scenes and talking to suspects and witnesses while wearing vampire and hunting costumes was slightly frowned upon by the NYPD, and especially Captain Holt), before heading back to the precinct.
At the stroke of midnight, the elevator dinged open, and Jake, Amy, and Rosa stepped out onto the fourth floor, Jake holding the dvd case above their heads, king and queens of the Nine-Nine.
After the trio elaborately described how they'd pulled it off, with Amy cheekily replying, "Vampires can see in the dark, didn't you all know that?" when they were asked how Jake had managed to throw the dvd case to Amy while the office was in near complete darkness, everyone else changed back into their costumes from that morning, and they all headed back down to Shaw's for their normal post-Halloween Heist celebration.
As everyone shared a few drinks and even more stories, enjoying another Halloween night over and done with from their police officers' perspective, Jake and Rosa (and to a lesser extent, Amy) played up their costumes, with Rosa stalking Jake around the bar with her wooden stake and cross, and Jake pretending to bite Amy's neck with his plastic fangs every chance he got. But eventually the party began winding down, everyone knowing that Captain Holt wouldn't accept their late frivolity as an excuse for not showing up to work on time in the morning.
As the late night approached the witching hour, two vampires and a vampire hunter, both in costume and reality, slipped out of the bar and into the dark night, no one any the wiser to the secrets they held.