Description: Yoongi’s first Halloween with Euny, and apparently he has to choose a costume? He’s not sure about any of this. One of the halloween raffle stories. (“What happened to normal Halloween costumes? Like spider-man or something?”)
Warnings: None
Posted: 11/2/2021 (was supposed to be yesterday, TuMbLr.)
Tags: Sanctuary series, hybrid au,
Fluff: 1,259
Author’s Note: Stupid dumblr, deleting my scheduled post, and making me format all of this again. I have one more halloween raffle story to post, hopefully tonight.
“What happened to normal Halloween costumes? Like Spider-man or something?” Yoongi complained, sorting through the costumes on the rack. “If I have to dress up, can’t I at least wear something…typical?”
“You have to dress up,” Taehyung insisted, pulling a costume off of the rack. “Ooh, this one could be fun.”
“I’m not wearing anything that could be potentially scary. Euny doesn’t like scary costumes.”
“Right. Don’t need nightmares. Ooh! I could wear this Tigger costume! The tail is long enough!” He waved the adult-size costume around with more enthusiasm than Yoongi could ever muster.
Yoongi pulled out a detective costume. “What about this?”
“Kind of boring.”
“Wouldn’t Euny be okay as long as I dressed up?”
“She’d be more excited if it was a fun costume!” He argued happily, tossing the Tigger costume into the cart. “You could be Pooh!”
“No,” Yoongi declined, sighing and looking through the costumes again. “Why does Jimin insist on us wearing these costume anyway? We’re just taking care of the twins and Euny. You’re the one going trick-or-treating with the triplets and Jungkook.”
“And Hobi and Namjoonie.”
“Right. How could I forget.” Yoongi rolled his eyes.
“It’s Euny’s first Halloween!”
“It’s not, though.”
“It’s her first with you,” Taehyung pointed out.
“You’re going to dress as Tigger for trick-or-treating with the boys and triplets?”
Taehyung stopped. “Oh. Right. No. So. What about a pirate costume?”
“You’re the one wearing it.” Yoongi pulled out a prince costume. “What about this?”
“She is going as a princess, it would be cute,” He agreed, then gasped. “It’s a knight costume! We could all match! I’m getting it! We should take family photos!”
Yoongi quietly shook his head in amusement over his younger brother’s enthusiasm. “If you can get Euny to let you take a picture with us, then go ahead. But you know she’s scared of the camera flash.”
“I’ll get one, you watch me.” Taehyung glanced at his phone. “They’re on their way back to the apartment with the twins.”
“Okay. If you’ve made up your mind, lets get some food for dinner and candy for trick-or-treaters.” Yoongi pushed the cart along, not watching to see if Taehyung followed.
“Hyung, are you sure you don’t want to take Euny trick-or-treating?”
“She’s too little, she wouldn’t enjoy it. She’ll get overtired and cranky, and then I’ll be cranky because it could have been avoided.” Yoongi shook his head. “Besides, leaving Jimin alone with the twins?”
“Ariel is there!”
“Leave Ariel alone with Jimin with the twins?”
“Fair.”
It wasn’t that Jimin was incompetent. Jimin was excellent with kids and babies. No, the problem was that Jimin really, really wanted kits of his own and sometimes got a little…distracted. Ariel and Jimin weren’t trying for kids, though, not yet. So, there was a lot of whining and cajoling and trying to talk sense into Jimin while taking care of the kids.
When they also had the triplets, it was different because there wasn’t time to think about wanting kids.
So, Yoongi was there to run interference and to avoid the chaos that was trick-or-treating.
“I want to be a kitty! Like that!” A boy, a human boy, pointed at Yoongi as they passed in the store.
It’d been a while since anyone was so…blatant.
Taehyung had stopped.
Yoongi didn’t bother. The boy’s mother was shushing him and telling him not to be rude. It wasn’t his job to educate or correct such a young kid.
It was his job to get something for dinner and candy for the kids in the apartment building Jimin and Ariel lived in.
Taehyung didn’t bring it up, and Yoongi didn’t have any plans to bring it up either.
Jimin was purring over one of the twins in his lap and Euny, half-reading the book in his hand. Some sort of kids halloween book.
Ariel was holding the other twin, already wearing some sort of blue witch costume—nothing dark or scary—and she had her hair up and sparkles on her cheeks. “Hey! Go ahead and get ready, we’ve got this.”
Yoongi nodded, setting the groceries down and taking his costume.
The prince costume wasn’t too…ostentatious or overdone, which was a small blessing. Still, it took him a while to change because while to shirt was the right size, the pants were…decidedly not. So he had to go through his suitcase to find some pants that would match.
But he was a little excited to match his daughter.
Jimin had, apparently, dressed Eunyeong while Yoongi was searching for pants.
She was the cutest little princess ever. Taehyung had picked out her outfit, and it was an excellent choice.
But she absolutely glowed when she saw Yoongi. “King! Appa King!” She bounced until she was set down and raced over to him.
King. Yeah. Okay. That would work. That was better than a prince.
Taehyung came out with a plastic shield. “Don’t forget Uncle Knight TaeTae! Here to gaurd and protect you!”
Euny squealed delightfully.
Taehyung looked at Yoongi. “Can’t we at least take her to some of the apartments to trick or treat?”
Yoongi looked over at Ariel and Jimin.
“Go for it,” Ariel said, setting one of the twins into the swing and strapping the baby in. “The twins are asleep. And the neighbors aren’t doing anything drastic or scary.”
Jimin nodded. “Although, the one neighbor said she always dresses as a sexy cat. She checked to make sure it wouldn’t offend us.”
“Awesome! Let’s go! Euny’s first trick-or-treating!” Taehyung dragged Yoongi toward the door.
Yoongi smiled a bit and took the plastic jack-o-lantern bucket Jimin offered. “Can you say ‘trick-or-treat’?”
Euny shook her head with a soft mew.
“Can you try?”
“Riiowee,” She squeaked, obviously reluctant.
Taehyung chortled and bounced down the hall to the first neighbor’s door, knocking. “Trick or treat!”
“Tiwoweee!” Euny called as well.
Yoongi grinned, setting her down facing the door.
The neighbor opened the door, wearing a cat-costume. “Oh my goodness! Look at this adorable princess and her bodyguard!”
Euny twisted a bit, tail moving but hidden under her skirts. “Icky feet!”
She gushed while Yoongi melted internally. She dropped a piece of candy into the bucket that Yoongi was helping Eunyeong hold.
Euny watched it drop, then looked up with big eyes. “Candy?”
“Yeah,” Taehyung cheered. “Tell her thank you.”
“ ‘Tank-ee’,” Euny started vibrating. “Candy!” She started running down the hall toward the elevator.
Yoongi and Taehyung quickly exchanged and look and went after her. “Only a few houses, Tae, you don’t have much time.”
Taehyung just huffed, but also laughed. “And I need to take our picture.”
Yoongi scooped up Eunyeong and pulled out his phone. “Try a selca.”
Taehyung gasped happily and crowded in. “Smile Euny! Smile for candy!”
She grinned at the mention of candy (which Yoongi knew he would have to investigate how often she was getting candy, but for now, on Halloween it was just going to be okay), and bounced in Yoongi’s arms seconds after the photo was snapped.
Taehyung held the phone like it was precious and then was using Yoongi’s phone to text the photo to everyone, including himself.
Yoongi couldn’t help but feel that everything was right with the world in that moment. It was silly.
And a little spooky.
Something he wouldn’t let go of no matter what manner of demon or spirit came at him.
