The First Times

First Prank (Hallowe'en)

Just before anyone wanted to know, it was Autumn again.

Ana's school had been over and she had spent the summer surrounded by fun, family and sun. She liked when Silena and Luke would follow her around, trying to catch her, or when Silena asked her to do her hair because 'Mommy and Daddy are great but they can't do a braid.' She had more visits from Grandfather Hades and Grandma Naomi, but Dad and Papà forbade her to go to Grandpa Apollo's Summer End party.

The first days of October, she had a request for Nico and Will.

"I wanna prank someone."

Nico and Will shared a look, wondering from where did that come from, but Ana giggled and said that she wanted to try it after hearing how great it was from Uncles Travis and Connor. Leaving aside the desire to kill the Stolls, Nico agreed reluctantly, which prompted Ana to promise that she won't plan anything dangerous and that he could be part of it. That calmed him down.

Weeks passed and Ana hadn't spoken about the prank again, which made both Will and Nico relax, believing she was over the idea. Their happiness lasted short when she came, a week before Hallowe'en, announcing she had a plan to scare Will's residency class the night of the 31st. She laid out the plan and was greeted with speechless grownups.

Neither could say if it was a genius or a mad idea.

Finally, Will started to laugh and picked Ana up, twirling her around. Ana took it as a good sign, smiling a little wary. Nico joined soon afterwards, claiming that it would her first and last prank in the Hospital. Ana swore over her heart, smiling innocently.

The day of the prank had arrived and, after the ceremonial celebration of the Samhain, everyone of the Solace-di Angelo family went to get ready for the prank later that day. Will had even gotten permission from the morgue's main coroner- a chubby limping funny guy named Dr. Evans -to carry out this and not involve nurses or other personnel.

As soon as Will got into the Hospital for his residency, Nico and Ana headed to the morgue where they placed make up on her, to make her look more pale and bruised and, obviously, dead. Ana was having the time of her life and Nico was enjoying himself as well, watching her smile. When Dr. Evans walked in, they knew it was time.

Dr. Evans went outside, making excuses that the morgue was unsuitable for use now. Dr. Palmer- Nico knew the guy's reputation -was trying to walk in no matter what and, after what it seemed a conversation for permission, the group walked in. Many of the group were female and their shock was real while the few males try to be a little sentimental.

"No..." Will's cue, he paled as ice, pretending to lose his balance. A female intern caught him before he could hit the floor, getting everyone's attention, waving their hands in front of him.

"Mr. Solace, if you can't handle this view-" Insensitive Dr. Palmer broke in, almost making Ana break character.

"Did you say 'Mr. Solace'?" Dr. Evans continued the charade, earning a nod from the girl holding Will, since he 'wasn't in the condition to answer'. "Oh, dear... The girl in that table is Solace-di Angelo." Everyone gasped, while Will slowly got away from me and stumbled towards the table, looking slightly dead.

"Nico..." He touched his shoulder, turning him around a little. His obsidian eyes were red because of the effort of 'trying' to cry. "How...?"

"W-we were co-coming to s-see you..." He hiccuped, trying to explain. "A-A guy o-on a bike tripped and- and h-his handle f-flew away and-" Nico stopped talking and took a deep breath, looking away.

"Our principessa." Will gripped tight Nico's shoulder. "She was so- so young..."

"I'm sorry, Will." One of the interns apologized, sadly. However, that was Ana's cue. They had pre-recorded her shrieks and Dr. Evans- who was no where to be seen by the interns -was playing it from his office. She allowed Nico and Will to take a step back before raising her arm and grab Will's. To complete the act, Will paled and didn't move.

"What are you doing?!" Will accused Nico, turning to him and winking in secret. "It's not funny!"

"I'm not doing this!! I can't do it!!" Nico defended himself, though he was dying to laugh. A loud shriek was heard again. And again. And again. Soon, screams of 'the morgue is haunted' while everyone ran away were heard and replaced by laughs and chuckles of the four conspirators. However, the prank was nowhere nearly over.

Thanking Dr. Evans for helping, Nico and Will cleared Ana's make up and changed her clothes. They went the other way out of the Hospital, avoiding the psychiatrist ward and bending the Mist a little to make everyone 'forget' Will was ever in class. When they reached the morgue's door, everyone was there, insisting a dead person was moving.

"I'm sure I saw then!!" One repeated. Will hid a smirk and decided to scare them a little.

"Who you saw?" Everyone turned around and saw Will walking in their direction, looking healthy as ever. He was holding Ana by the hand and Nico was walking next to them. A natural response from everyone present- even annoying Dr. Palmer -was gaping unashamedly to them.

"She was dead!!" An intern pointed at Ana, who frowned and looked at Nico, continuing the ruse.

"Papà? I'm not dead, right?" She checked, touching herself. Nico simply smiled at her.

"Of course not, principessa." He assured her. "You're as alive and me and Daddy." He gestured himself and Will.

"Looks like it's a bad time to show you the morgue..." Will trailed off, looking disappointed. Everyone started to shriek and scream, some even fainting.

Ana couldn't say it out loud, or she would give away the prank.

But it was the best prank ever!

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This is taken from Mortals: Meet... part 1. I had to fix some things to fit the timeline of the story, which I'll fix for the revise version too later. Please, I apologize for my continuity errors (though, part of me wants to keep them, like Conan Doyle).

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Good morning/afternoon/night!

First, happy be-later Christmas to everyone! Also, happy Hanukkah to those who are Jew! Yesterday, my house and family were such a ruckus that I didn't have time to post and, when I did find time to post, I was extremely tired and all I did was going to bed with a fully belly...

Also, I want to explain that I didn't post on Sunday simply because it would be great to post everything on Christmas, but even at that I failed, heheh!

Today, I'll be posting more than one chapter! That's right! Besides the usual The First Times chapter, I prepared two Christmas' chapters! Those would be available on the Christmas' Presents book, if anyone is interested... so here we go!

The First Times: 1 chapter!

Christmas' Presents: 2 chapters!

Next Sunday would be the last post of the year and Next Monday, the last day to vote on the poll!!

xoxo, SilverHuntresses