By the time Jack and Sally came back from their honeymoon, everyone in town was starting to think they left Halloween town for good. But, in retrospect, the newlyweds weren’t gone for very long. Maybe it just seemed like a long time because Jack was so popular that even one month without him seemed to last forever. Or, maybe it was because the mayor was starting to get nervous about the Halloween planning for that year. They only had 128 more days until the next Halloween. Hardly enough time to plan!
But Jack and Sally came back, and the town realized that their fears of Jack abandoning them were unfounded. Like they always were.
"Welcome back!” cheered the mayor, throwing his stubby arms into the air with a joyful smile on his face. As if he was able to make more faces than just extremely happy or extremely sad. "It’s wonderful to have you two back in town! It just hasn’t been the same without you! Now, Jack, we need to get planning for next Halloween! 128 days is hardly enough time to get everything prepared."
"Of course Mayor!" Jack said enthusiastically, putting his boney hand on Sally’s shoulder. "Tomorrow." And, while the Mayor was in a surprised stupor, Jack went with Sally back to his house, talking and laughing almost the whole way.
But behind him, he could hear the mayor whimpering in a very sad and defeated tone: "but…128 days…"
Jack and Sally planned to socialize with the rest of the town, but not until after they’d had some time to their selves. Jack would help plan-- "Help" a word here meaning: doing all the work because the mayor is only an "elected official" and "can’t make decisions by himself." Which simply has to be a nice way of saying he wants Jack to do all the work-- Halloween tomorrow, like he promised. But that night he was just going to sit in his house with his wife, enjoying the few lasting hours of having nothing to do. Once he started having to help plan Halloween, he would be buried in work that the Mayor had “no authority” to do.
Yeah, no authority is completely different from not wanting to really do anything.
"It’s nice to be home," Sally said as she sat on the arm of Jack’s chair in the library. "Valentines Day town is nice-- but it’s just a little too pink for my taste.” He smiled and pulled her into his lap.
"Well, now we’re back in Halloween town, where everything is dark and dreary,” He said, tracing his boney finger along her jaw line. She smiled and sat up enough to give him a kiss.
"So...tomorrow is the day huh?"
He nodded, moving her so she was resting her head on his shoulder. She smiled and closed her eyes, taking a moment to enjoy the reality of being in Jack’s arms. She remembered how, not long before, she could only imagine having his long arms around her and his skull against her hair. She preferred the reality to the fantasy, at least in the reality she didn’t feel like a stalker.
"Unless you want to step outside and do it right now." He said, but the tone in his voice let her know that he was only joking. He never at any point meant for her to do anything that night besides be in his arms. It was their first night in their home as husband and wife, and Jack didn’t want anything to interrupt it.
"...and you don’t think we should tell Dr. Finklestein first?" She asked, "He seems like the kind of person to get angry if we don’t tell him first." Jack laughed a little as he pushed some of her red hair behind her shoulder.
"Blame it on me then. Tell him I wouldn’t let you say anything,” He said with a smile. "If you remember correctly, I just can’t seem to make him angry. Even after I broke some of his equipment.”
"That’s right. Although he wasn’t very happy to get his glass slide back snapped in half." They both laughed, Jack rubbing his skeletal thumb against her knee in small circles.
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That next day they went into town to make their announcement. The whole morning, Sally was nervously working in the kitchen, and her hands were shaking so badly that Jack had to come up from behind her and wrap his own hands around her’s.
"Calm down," He said gently, "Everything’s going to go fine."
She put a smile on her face and turned around. "I know. I’m just nervous I guess."
He brought his long index finger up to her forehead and pushed away some of her hair. "That’s understandable. But just remember that you’ve got nothing to be nervous about. I’ll be right beside you the whole time."
She nodded and stood on her tip-toes to kiss him, trying to force herself to take his advice and calm down. She really didn’t have anything to worry about, but she couldn’t help feeling like the leaves that filled her limbs were made of angry butterflies instead.
The moment the town heard that the Pumpkin King and his new queen had something to say, all of Halloween town was listening. Standing on the edge of the fountain in the middle of town with his arm on Sally's shoulder, Jack made the announcement in his usual, self-confident way that Sally loved.
She wished she could be as comfortable in front of large crowds as Jack was. But she'd have to learn to be, she was the wife of the Pumpkin King. Big crowds came with the territory.
"Everyone, Sally and I would like to make an announcement," Jack said, his words were simply reminders to the crowd that had already gathered. They knew that was why he was standing on the well with his new wife, but they didn’t say a word about it. They just listened intently, eager to hear what was so important. "We’re going to have a baby."
And after a moment of total, hushed silence, the crowd broke out into loud cheers.
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A/N Below:
[b]*Authoress appears in cloud of smoke* o.O two years since I wrote in this?! Holy smokes! One day I got an email about a review on here and I was like ?.? wtf is that? So I looked and I was like OMG I want to work on iiittt!
Bad news: I forgot what I planned to do for the fic.
Good news: I thought of some better stuff than what I had before
so yay!
Also: I re-read what I already had written and I’m ashamed to say the least. Horrible spelling, horrible grammer, just—gah! I almost wanted to go back and re-write everything, but then I decided that the best I can do is get better. Right?
So, I’m sorry about the…you know…horrible mangling of the English language in earlier chapters.
Gah! And wtf is this about? I drew the BEST pick of Anna and co. I possibly could but, lo-and-behold, I have no scanner to put it up in the fanart section. So you’re all kinda stuck with my crap-tastic paint made drawings of two/three years ago. ^_^’ sorry!
p.s: the idea to send them to valentines day town was from Jackfreak's JackxSally honeymoon pic ^_^ and it is here that I thank her and to tell her that I thought her pic was insanely CLEVER! <3's her pix! ppl should check them out! <3[/b]
