Halloween At The Quagmire's (ASOUE)

Halloween At The Quagmire's

Hey guys! Happy Halloween! I really love Halloween so I thought it was about time I wrote a oneshot based around the day. This is just a short, fun story and I hope you enjoy!

(Also feel free to play the song linked if you want to get into the Halloween vibe even more lol)

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Halloween had finally arrived and everyone in the Quagmire residence was feeling festive. The entire house had been decorated with pumpkins, fake spider webs, skeletons and a range of other spooky objects. The Quagmires took celebrations such as Halloween very seriously and would try to make everything bigger and better than the year before. Because of this, the whole family had been helping to decorate on the 30th, one whole day before the celebration, just to make sure everything was perfect.

The Quagmire's parents made all sorts of terrifying treats as well as your average party food ready for that evening, which was when the Baudelaire children were due round. The Quagmires were throwing a party of sorts instead of going trick-or-treating this year because as they got older, the people opening their doors and giving out sweets began to get less enthusiastic about handing out things to teenagers. Lots of people even refused to give them anything the year before, claiming they were too old and were just using the holiday as an excuse to get free chocolate. They weren't wrong, but the Quagmires had also been doing it because that's just how much they enjoyed halloween. They enjoyed the dressing up part especially and, despite just planning to stay in, this year was no different.

Quigley had slicked back his hair with way too much hair gel and donned an emerald and silver scarf to become Draco Malfoy, Duncan had covered himself in a white sheet to become a ghost and Isadora had decided to be a cat.

"Isn't that a bit basic?" Duncan complained as Isadora revealed her sparkly cat ears and face paint.

Isadora scoffed, "Says the one wearing a bed sheet."

"EXPECTO PACHACHA!" Quigley screamed, running full pelt into the room with his homemade wand outstretched in front of him.

As he ran past, Duncan reached out from under his sheet and grabbed the wand, which was just a stick that Quigley had painted black, and snapped it. Quigley stopped in his tracks, flipped his scarf over his shoulder and declared that "Father will hear about this."

Everyone helped to set the table, including a spooky tablecloth that Duncan lovingly painted on. From afar it looked nice but when you got closer you could see that the only design he had used was the word "Rad" over and over in different colours. "That's what all the cool kids say and it's pretty scary," he explained when Isadora expressed her confusion.

Quigley had just finished drawing a "scary" face on the last balloon when the doorbell rang. Mr Quagmire, dressed as Dracula, hurried to get it and opened the door to reveal the Baudelaire children. Violet had come dressed as Frankenstein, as in the mad scientist Frankenstein, not his monster. Basically she was just wearing her usual inventing attire topped off with a typical "mad scientist" wig that stuck out in all directions. She had Sunny in her arms, who was dressed as a venus flytrap plant. The mouth part of the costume came around her little face like it had eaten her alive and her tiny legs barely made it through the leg holes at the bottom, hence why Violet was carrying her around. Klaus was the last one to cross the threshold and shut the door behind him. When he turned around he was met with an intense stare from Quigley. Why? Because Klaus had come as the one and only Harry Potter. The stare lasted a few seconds before the two boys ran off, shouting spells at each other.

The Monster Mash echoed through the living room as everyone got settled and started trying all the gruesome snacks that the Quagmires had prepared, including a seemingly normal cake that "bled" strawberry syrup as you cut into it.