Halloween: Ash & Mary-Lynnette

Mary-Lynnette twirled around in front of her mirror. Ash and she were going to a haunted trail and she was really excited. She had never been to one, but she was sure she could handle it. She had been through way more real things with Jeremy trying to kill her and all. Mary-Lynnette was dressed as Arwen from Lord of the Rings. Her dress was red and black with gold detailing*. Ash was going as Aragon. She was sure it would be fun.

Although, she was certain that Ash would be the last person to scare on such a trail. But either way… it would be great.

Ash knocked on the door and she quickly opened the door.

"Hey, you look great!" Mary-Lynnette said, allowing him to come in. He was wearing armor and a sword**.

"And you look stunning, my lady."He took her hand and pressed his lips against in before leaning in and kissing her lightly. She giggled. "Ready to go?" he whispered.

"Yeah!" She took his offered arm and they walked out the door.

Ash opened her door and helped her into the car before going to his side. Then he drove to the haunted trail. It was really dark out and there was really creepy music playing. Ash went and paid for their tickets and then they waited in line to get in.

Once they finally got onto the trail Ash boredly threw an arm around her shoulders. They walked down a steep trail. There were white Christmas lights lighting the way. The lights would occasionally flicker and there was a weird rustling in the bushes. Nothing too bad, just kind of there.

Then they got farther into the trail. Guys with fake chainsaws jumped out. She jumped, but when Ash began laughing hysterically it kind of ruined their scariness. The guys seemed confused and they backed off.

"Wow! This is officially the funniest thing I've ever done!" he laughed. This of course set her off laughing. They continued walking. Now Ash was only holding her hand.

It was at this point that a guy wearing vampire fangs and a Dracula cape jumped out with fake blood running down his mouth. His hissed at them disturbingly. They could barely contain themselves.

The fake vampire seemed as confused as his chainsaw wielding friends had been as the couple laughed at him. It was obviously the first time he had been laughed at. They went around the vampire, still laughing hysterically.

Mary-Lynnette was beginning to think that nothing would really freak her out with Ash there, laughing at everything.

At which point they rounded a corner and she came face to face with a grimly smiling grim reaper. Ash didn't have time to laugh as Mary-Lynnette shrieked and leapt behind him, clutching his arm in horror

The reaper laughed evilly and moved toward her. In retrospect, that wasn't his best idea since Ash crouched slightly and growled. It was only to be expected of course, when Mary-Lynnette was scared he immediately went into protective soul mate mode.

Luckily for the reaper, he backed off warily and Mary-Lynnette was clutching Ash's arm so tight he would hurt her if he lunged.

"Sorry," the reaper squeaked, holding his hands up in surrender.

Ash gently tugged her forward as they continued though. "Come on, Mare, I won't let anything happen to you." He threw a red-eyed glare over his shoulder at the reaper, who winced and backed away fearfully. Mary-Lynnette released his arm, favoring his waist instead.

She huddled closer to him, quite an accomplishment considering she was already stuck to him like super glue, and he wrapped an arm around her protectively.

He was enjoying the situation way more than he would let on.

They went into a spooky little cabin with flickering lights next. It wasn't so bad except something dropped onto Mary-Lynnette's head from the ceiling and she yelped, burying her face in Ash's shoulder. He calmly brushed the fake spider out of her hair and gently soothed the nervous girl.

"I could lighten the mood for you, Mare," he mentioned light-heartedy.

"Heheheheheheh," a creepy laugh sounded in the dark. "Yea, Mare, lets lighten the mood."

She shrieked. "A—SH!" she cried.

"Save your little girlfriend, Ash, or we might just eat her. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" By this point of course Mary-Lynnette was half hyperventilating and Ash had figured out where the voices were coming from.

Ash cockily looked directly at the speaker. "You aren't so scary. You're just a human that wishes they were..." he paused as he considered the outfit they were wearing. "Another vampire, really?" Mary-Lynnette's hyperventilation ended immediately as she began laughing.

"Vampires are scary!!!!!!" the guy defended, realizing that not only had he been caught but his costume was being laughed at.

Ash smirked. "Only the real ones. Let's go, Mare," he started walking, half holding her up since she was laughing so hard. He glanced over his shoulder and called back to the guy, "and if you ever call my girlfriend by my pet name for her again, I'll come back and prove how scary real vampires are."

Mary-Lynnette began laughing even harder. "Good job, lightening the mood, Ash," she giggled.

"That wasn't my intention," he said with a sigh.

"Then what was your plan?"

"I was just going to ask you if you wanted to go make-out instead," he stated straightforwardly.

"Oh…" she giggled nervously. "We should probably keep going."

Ash nodded and they continued forward. She was no longer pressed against him like glue but rather just kind of lightly pressed against him.

They got out of the rest of the trail without much trouble since knowledge that Ash would show people what made real vampires scary came back to Mary-Lynnette when anything jumped out at them or spooky voices called out to them. The only problem she had was when they got to a maze, which was so dark she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. But Ash gently led her so she wouldn't bump into any walls since he could see in the dark.

"Well, that was… fun," Ash stated.

Mary-Lynnette giggled. "You mean, 'It was great watching you flip out, Mare,' don't you?"

"Actually, I was thinking 'It was great having you flip out and cling to me like glue'. Now that was awesome." Mary-Lynnette blushed in obvious humiliation.

"Shut-up," she mumbled, pushing his shoulder lightly.

He laughed. "Hey, just remember who defended you from the grim reaper and the spooky voices."

"True. But you shouldn't forget who gets to decide whether we make-out tonight or not."

"Oh, not fair, Mare. You know I can't compete with that… I surrender."

A group of guys and girls walked up to them. "So… uh, um… was it bad?" a blonde girl asked. She was busily drooling over Ash, as were all the other girls.

Ash shrugged. "Depends on who you're asking. Personally, I thought it was awesome."

"It was funny at first… but it got scary," Mary-Lynnette interjected.

"We've got to get going, Mare," Ash said, glaring at one of the guys who was looking Mary-Lynnette over appreciatively.

"M'kay," she submitted, allowing him to pull her toward his car.

He once again opened the door for her before going over to his own door.

"Hey, Mare," he murmured, leaning in close to her. "I love you."

"I love you, too, Ash," she said. She pressed her lips against his.

"Am I to take this as a 'yes, we can make out'?"

"Yeah," she said. He leaned back in feeling the Soulmate Principle swallowing them up. They were used to it now so it was quite comfortable, even the shock they received as their lips met.

He intertwined their hands, turning so he could more comfortably use his free hand in her hair.

They pulled away slowly. The only problem with the kisses they shared was that the separation was almost agonizing sometimes. Right now was one of those times.

Ash cleared his throat. "I should probably get you home before your father refuses to allow me to see you… again."

"Good plan. Those three weeks was almost as bad as the year."

Ash nodded and started driving. He almost laughed. Haunted trails were beyond awesome.

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Hope you enjoyed, please R&R.

These are the links to the outfits they wore.

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