Can you do #30 on the prompts list? Thank you so much for your stories!
CHB'23 #18: No Competition
Post 2x06 Vampire Weekend
The party is dying down but he's enjoying himself with his friends, sitting with a few beers and trading stories.
"No, you had to be there," Ryan's giggling. "I'm chasing the head one way, Espo has the ass going the opposite way down the street."
"Except neither can see where they are running," Espo continues the story. "Fool misses the fire hydrant right in front of him. Goes down. Hard."
Castle is laughing, hearing the teams tales of woe of arrests of Halloween past, doesn't envy Lanie the task of determining fake or real blood.
"How about you, Castle?" Lanie says. "You must have had some wild Halloween parties."
Castle agrees. "None that I will mention with mother present," he teases the medical examiner.
"You haven't done Halloween until you've done Halloween with your theatre troupe," Martha insists. "Now, there is some commitment to the bit."
Castle groans but he watches his new friends, his partner turn rapt attention to the actress, knowing from experience that none of them had ever experienced anything the way Martha Rodger does.
"Go on then, Mrs R," Ryan encourages. "What's the weirdest Halloween experience you've had?"
"I was once doing a modern retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, you know, the Shakespeare play?" She checks everyone nods before she continues. "It was dreadful but we couldn't make the director see that his modern tweaks to the story just weren't working. Harriet, one of the actors, she insisted on trying to perform a séance and contact Shakespeare to rectify the situation and..."
She waited, watched them all get drawn in.
"Bam!" She clapped her hands, watched them jump. "Stage light blew out above us, Harriet was dreadfully frightened she'd summoned something that she quit the next day and we went back to the original."
Castle sat back, laughing at the looks on his friends faces. Martha Rodgers was definitely no competition when it came to tall tales.
