This is for @rnoreau for the @jeanmoreaunet fall exchange! I hope you like it, it was fun to write! Follow the read more :)
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Jean wasn’t completely sure what he’d done wrong in some previous life to deserve this, but apparently it was awful because going to the Trojans was trading one hell for another. They walked around as if life was sunshine and unicorns and Jean tagged along as the perpetual raincloud.
What brought this crisis on was the fact that the Trojans, instead of practicing as they should be on Halloween, are participating in some kind of charity event, where they take little kids from bad homes around the neighborhood trick or treating on campus. Jean knows nothing about this until Jeremy asks, “What are you going as for Halloween?”
Jean doesn’t look up from his book. “Halloween is for children.”
Jeremy’s smile doesn’t falter. “First, you’re wrong. Halloween’s awesome. And second, I meant for the charity event. Y’know, where we take kids around campus to get candy?”
At Jean’s blank look, he says, “Oh God. I didn’t tell you. Shit. I’m so sorry.”
He turns away to start rifling through his desk and finds a flyer in the rubble eventually. He hands it to Jean, who reads it silently and says, “We have to go trick or treating. With children.”
“Well…yeah. Giving back to the community is a big part of what we do. We do stuff for the other holidays too.”
Jean’s thoroughly annoyed, but there’s something about Jeremy’s puppy-like enthusiasm that makes Jean sigh and ask, “What do I have to do?”
Jeremy’s face falls. “You’ve never been trick or treating, have you?”
Jean doesn’t appreciate the pity in his voice and snaps back, “No, but I’m not stupid. I understand the concept.” He hates the kicked puppy look on Jeremy’s face, but he doesn’t let himself dwell on it.
Jeremy goes on, “Well, first things first, you need a costume.”