Halloween drabble

[wren_kt7oz]

Hi everyone

Sorry I've been MIA for the past couple of weeks. The little 'calm before the storm' period in my worklife has ended and the storm has hit with a vengeance. I'm now in the middle of two major projects and have been working the most ridiculous hours - not just long hours, but at weird times of the day and night and even weekends. (To give you an idea, yesterday I started work at 3.00 pm and on Thursday I start work at 3.30am.)

Anyway, just wanted to give a heads up that I will be posting my "traditional" BJ Halloween fic in the next day or so. It's the 10th year running that I've done this, so that's kind of fun ... and scary, really. Just like Halloween itself. *g*

As an appetizer, here is a little Halloween drabble that came to me last night during the weekly conference call.

Prompt words were: slide, candy, broom.




Trick or Treat



Justin's tempted to let it slide. He knows it's not likely any kid will dare to trek up the stairs and knock on the door of the man they probably regard as scarier than Vlad himself.

But it's the principle of the thing. If some brave (or stupid) kid does come knocking, Justin wants to be sure there's candy ready for them.

Brian's all for giving them a "trick" rather than a "treat", and chasing them off with a broom.

So they compromise.

Candy is made available.

But the decorations up the stairs and on their landing are really scary.






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Comments

[kaycat08.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited to read your new Halloween story. This just made me laugh, I can totally see Brian scaring people away. I hope work calms down for you eventually.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I can imagine the kids of the neighbourhood daring each other to knock on his door LOL

As for work ... it will be horrible between now and Christmas, but hopefully will slow down after that for a while at least.

[bigj52.livejournal.com]

Sent you a text and a PM a few weeks ago. Did you get them?

Can't wait for the rest.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd responded to your message, but I've just checked and what I actually did was to hit 'reply' to the notification email. Which I guess was kind of pointless and has gone into some livejournal black hole.

I'm so sorry about that weekend. I wound up having to run a training session in the middle of the night on Saturday night (seriously, don't ask) and another early Sunday morning. By the time I'd finished I was completely wiped out and blush to admit that I forgot all about our lunch. I actually went home and switched everything off and slept.

My life at the moment is just ... well, let's just say I ran one webinar for some people in the UK on Monday night from 9pm to 11pm got home around midnight and to sleep about 2 am, worked a normal day shift the next two days then ran another webinar from 4am-6am on Thursday morning which meant getting up at 2.30. It's just bizarre. That part will settle down in the next week or so, but then it will be 10 and 12 hour days just trying to get through the workload to have all the damned training manuals ready to go to print by Christmas. It's three different manuals, all of which have to be translated into 16 different languages, and then get formatted and have all their localisations translated and inserted. It's nearly 60 all up, because while I can use the French and Dutch translations for Belgium as well as the English, and I can use the German translation for Austria and the French and German for Switzerland, each country has different localisations required. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and that doesn't take into account the online training package, or the certification test - also each in 16 languages.

It doesn't bear thinking about.


Anyway, I'm just really sorry. I should have known that the storm was about to hit, but I didn't even know that I would need to run the emergency webinars till the end of that week. They'd run out of trained auditors and needed to get some trained in a hurry so that we could close the market.

*sigh*

[bigj52.livejournal.com]

OK. And I thought my life was complicated. What a crazy week! You're forgiven. I rang you today and left a voice mail. I'll be in Melbourne from Thursday to Tuesday next week. Are you free any time?

[yvonnereid.livejournal.com]

Really good. I bet all the kids in west virginia are terrified of Brian lol ~ Vonnie xx

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

LOL I have visions of this bunch of eight year olds daring each other to run up and ring the door bell.

[yvonnereid.livejournal.com]

Lol,yea Brian would be raceing to the fromt door to roar at them and Justin would be trying in vain to stop him :)

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

I suspect that Justin might be more worried that Brian was going to "put on a show" that they'd never forget LOL

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

LOL Knowing Brian, I'd love to see what he considers scary decorations. *g*

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too.

Hearts and flowers, maybe. LOL

[kmboatright.livejournal.com]

Nice how Brian learns to compromise his beliefs to have a relationship.
:)

Glad you are out there, and fitting in a little writing.
Hope work calms down for you soon.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, honey. I'm sure it will eventually.

But yes, it is nice to see the boys learning how to compromise on the small things so that they both feel that they're not compromising on the essentials.

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

I can totally picture this!

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, C. Hope things are good with you.

[bodleian.livejournal.com]

Love the drabble, Wren, but I'm sorry that everything is crazy at work. Looking forward to the next story while trying to decide if I should be buy some sweets for trick or treaters. Had no one knock at the door last year.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, honey.

I only had two this year. *sigh*

Oh, well, I guess someone else will just have to eat the chocolate. LOL

[piksa.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Justin will come up with something to distract Brian with from scaring the poor kids to death, if any dare to approach their house. *g*

I had a week from hell with very long days last week. Luckily this week looks a bit better. Fingers crossed that holds! Was nice hearing from you! I hope work calms down.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweetknees. I'm torn between being sorry I missed seeing Randy in Silence and being glad he'd left the cast because otherwise I would have been in New York last week.

But ITA about Justin finding ways to distract Brian. He's good at that. *g*

[mdlaw.livejournal.com]

So cute and I'm so excited for the Halloween fic. I love them every year. m :)

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I actually look forward to writing them. Although every year around July I start to go nuts trying to think of a new story. LOL

Glad you enjoyed this little morsel, anyway.

[damietta.livejournal.com]

Great compromise, LOL. Brian is a trick and a treat all unto himself.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

That he is! What a great way to describe him.

[sjmpets.livejournal.com]

Can just picture Brian going after the kids with a broom and Justin running after him all the while throwing candy at the kids to make sure they got their treat before Brian's trick.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

I truly did laugh out loud when I read that. It's an irrestible picture. LOLOL

[m-elle-22.livejournal.com]

lol. love my boys! hope life at work takes a turn for the easy (or extra frequent conference calls).

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thanks, yes.

Fortunately (or not) I'm going to miss this week's conference call.

I owe you so many responses, I'm sure I'll catch up one day LOL

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Loved the differing POV's about Halloween is. :)

Hope work calms down soon for you.

[wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think it will be kind of insane for the next few weeks, but hopefully after this next week the really weird hours will be over. That's what's been killing me. My body clock is all over the place.