The Pink TuTu - chapter outtakes

Halloween

Aria and Spencer, and their family watch home videos on Halloween.

Hope everyone is staying safe. If you have anything you would like to see with this story, let me know. Any particular moment post Rosie's disappearances, or a certain Hope video.

Enjoy! :)

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*Montgomery-Hastings Residence*

It is now Halloween.

Exactly 18 weeks, or 4 months and 2 weeks, since Rosie's disappearance.

The police have run out of leads; the Search and Rescue groups of places to look.

Aria and Spencer have no idea what to do. They have now gone back to work, but Scottie is no longer in Daycare. They just cannot handle dropping him off somewhere that he may not be supervised 100% of the day.

I mean, sure, with Scottie being 17 months old and in the toddler room, he has three teachers watching 15 kids.

But even then, at some point, in the classroom, the playground, somewhere, somehow, there is going to be that one split secondwhere all three teachers are occupied by some other child.

And that will leave Scottie unsupervised.

"Mamma! Mommy!" 17-month-old Aaron Scott calls out as he is brought into the house by his Papa Byron.

Scottie toddles into the kitchen, and Spencer turns from where she was making a cup of coffee. She grabs him up and kisses his cheeks, forehead, and nose, making the little boy giggle.

"Mamma! Mommy!"

"Hey, Buddy! Did you have fun at Papa Byron and Nana Ella's house?"

He nods.

"He was so well behaved, Spencer," Byron tells her. "You and Aria are doing a truly good job raising him."

With tears in her eyes – god when did she become so emotionally fragile? – Spencer smiles and thanks him. He leaves and she takes Scottie to the living room where Aria is looking through a box of VCR tapes.

Scottie wriggles out of Spencer's grip eager to get to Aria. "Mamma!"

"Hey, Bud! How are you? Were you good for Nana and Papa?"

"Yes, he was," Spencer answers while Scottie slides out of Aria's arms and over to the box of movies.

He digs around for a few moments, his two mothers watching in amusement. "Mamma, wash dis!" he triumphantly holds one up, grinning and crawling back over to them.

"You wanna watch this movie, Bud?" Aria asks while Spencer looks to see which one it is.

It's a Halloween movie, fitting for what today is. They can watch this, then get Scottie dressed in his Halloween costume and go out for a couple of hours, before it gets dark and to be his bedtime.

"OK. We can watch this," Turning to her wife, Spencer questions, "Do you want to call the girls? Hanna can bring Mason, and Ali and Em can bring Taylor and Natalie over. It would be good for Mason to see, well..." She trails off, unable to finish.

To see Rosie, so he does not forget who she is.

While Scottie was 13 months when Rosie went missing in June, Mason was a few months older, at 18 months. Still, though, he does not really remember who his cousin is...was.