Fics like Trick or Treat

“Do they celebrate Halloween in the other world? I wasn’t there long enough to find out.” Miss Dowling turns away from the window again, brows raised; then they furrow in contemplation, “We do, although it’s not quite so… commercialized. It’s a celebration of the living and the dead, more reminiscent, I think, of your Day of the Dead than proper Halloween. Alfea holds a festival every year, we invite the parents and guardians of the students, but some choose to go home to celebrate in their own way. We celebrate our own lives, and those of the ones we’ve lost.” Bloom nods quietly: it’s an answer, but it hovers dangerously close to topics neither really wants to address. “So no Spider-Man costumes?” Miss Dowling huffs a laugh, finally stepping away from the window, “No, no ‘Spider-Man’ costumes, no costumes of any kind, though we do get dressed up. It’s quite fun.” “I’m sorry I missed it.” “There’s always next year,” and the acknowledgement of ‘next year,’ that they’ll get through this well enough for there to be a new year, that her headmistress will welcome her back to Alfea in time to experience it, has Bloom clearing her throat against the emotion choking it.

Fics like Trick or Treat

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