They are now currently on their way to Robert's house for continuing their Halloween there. Robert has a better neighborhood than any of the cast so they decide to trick or treat there as it was more safe since there are a lot of children with them.
Lizzie and Sebby haven't told any of them about Elia's situation yet because they've been busy with the kids and Elia was with them all the time.
Andrea and Jax have FaceTiming Elia, Isa and everyone, wishing them a 'Happy Halloween' and apologizing because they aren't able to join them celebrating Halloween because they are stuck at the hospital as they both are surgeons.
For Halloween costumes this year, Isa, Maggie, Rose and Elia decided they'll be going as Avengers. Maggie as Agent Hill, Isa as Pietro, Rose and Elia obviously decided to become their parents' characters. Except Rose is Black Widow but Elia is a bit of both. Winter Soldier and Scarlett Witch.
She's supposed to be Scarlett Witch but she changed it at the very last. Because Jamie was supposed to be the Winter Soldier....
He's so attached to that character and when he knows Elia is the daughter of the person who played the Winter Soldier and Scarlett Witch, Jamie was amazed at Elia.
That was a nice memory of course. But also a painful one too. Nevertheless, Elia just shrugged it off.
The kids' costume was made by Elia's Aunties. Obviously. Duh.
The parents were dressed up as their kids were. They literally use their Avengers costume from the set... Except for Aunt Freda, she too, gets the costume from Elia's Aunties.
"Okay, please listen. Don't eat too much chocolate in your bucket. We don't want you to get your stomach hurt. Got it?" Scarlett warns directly at her daughter, Rose because she's still a kid who will get excited seeing there's a lot of chocolate for today.
She also knows if her daughter got a lot of sugar intake today, she'll not be sleeping and she'll be bouncing off the walls at night.
"Rose, you understand me?" Scarlett asks sternly as she saw everyone nodded their head except for her cheeky daughter.
"Yes, Mommy. I understand you" Rose finally said, sighing in exasperation making everyone else cover their mouth with their hands at the remarks.
"Lizzie, your Adelaine too" Isaac said, chimed in making everyone look at the teens in surprised while Elia just look at Isaac, offended and hit him in the arms
"Oh no. Please. I thought having a teenager means I got to pass this" Lizzie said grumbling under her breath. She experienced hyperactive Eliana a few weeks back when Seb accidentally gave her a lot of juice boxes that day. And she handled Rose a few years back too.
"HEY!" Elia protested as she heard her mother making everyone snickered at their laugh.
"No, Adelaine, listen to me. Just a few candies. Please" Lizzie said
"Well, I don't like chocolate much. Only on Halloween I get to eat candies" Elia mumbles quietly as she pouts sadly.
"You can still eat it but not too much. We all know how eating a lot of sugar could get you into" Lizzie reprimanded her daughter who just sighs in defeat like Rose did.
"Adelaine?" Lizzie warns as she didn't hear any agreement from her daughter.
"Yeah, yeah. Only a few candies and that's it" Elia amended.
"Come here please" Lizzie said noticing her daughter cute pouts
Elia just walks to her mother but she sneaks on the opportunity to push and punches Isa's on his arms again with force as she walks past him to her mother.
Lizzie just tugged Elia on her other side as they walked inside to Downey's house.
"Thank you, Baby. You know I did this for your own good right? We don't want you to feel sick" Lizzie exclaimed softly as she kissed the top of her daughter's head.
"Yeah, yeah. It's every parent's excuse. You're lucky I love you" Elia grumbles slightly as her pouts still firm in her face making Lizzie, Seb, Scarlett, Chris and Freda laugh at that cuteness.
The adults seem pleased that at least Elia is in a better mood than this morning.
They thought she forgot about it but she's just pushing off her emotions.
"Hey, welcome! Come in, come in! We're waiting for you guys for dinner and then we can get this Halloween started!" Robert greets them as they ring the bell.
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Oh boy were they wrong that Elia is okay after their silly interaction a few hours ago...
Elia is zoning in and out very often every now and then. And everyone could see her fake smiles because it didn't reach her eyes and her eyes didn't spark at all like usual.
What makes it worse is that she fakes it and everyone almost believes it if they didn't catch her zoning out and she still entertains the kids.
"What happened?" Scarlett asks worriedly as every adult is seated at the kitchen table drinking wine while watching the kids in the living room, laughing and smiling.
Lizzie just sighs sadly, breaking her gazes with her daughter to look at Freda worriedly too. She's worried that if she tells them, Freda must've been heartbroken about her son. She knows how heartbroken the mother could be because Lizzie's a mother too.
"Is it Jamie?" Freda asks or more like states after receiving the look from Lizzie. Lizzie just nodded her head sadly.
"Jamie made her birthday letters and birthday videos. Eli just watches it this morning when she's awake from her nightmares" Sebastian informs them seeing as Lizzie can't find her words at the moment.
Everyone just stared at the parents, shocked and sadly. They didn't expect that.
"Letters?" Freda asks, stuttering as she tries to not to cry.
"He made 20 letters for Elia. 20 days before Elia's birthday and he recorded the video's speeches for Elia on Elia's birthday night" Lizzie said, whispering sadly.
On Halloween, where everyone was thinking maybe today will be a happy day after an exhausted couple of months, their heart keeps breaking after the truth is revealed...
There are Evansson, Olsen-Stan, Freda, Downey's, Mackie and Tom Holland. They are the only ones who didn't go home to their family and decided to spend Halloween with them.
"Mags and Isaac got it too. Me too. He made it on Elia's birthday night" Freda states.
Everyone called it Elia's birthday night because they don't wanna say it was Jamie's death day. It will give Elia more guilt over everything that had happened. They don't need that. They don't want Elia to be hating her birthday because of it.
"The bad feelings they both have had since that night is that. And Jamie seems to know it" Freda exclaims. She had read the letter from his son and she was totally breaking down after reading the letters.
"She told me this morning that it hurts reading those but she insists that she's fine. She pushed aside her emotions again" Lizzie states.
"They'll never come out good" Robert exclaims and the others just nodded their heads agreeing.
"But we also can't spook her. She's too fragile no matter how hard we try to ignore it but she is fragile. We just need to find a way to tell her that it's not okay to keep pushing her emotions aside" Scarlett said.
"I don't know how else I should tell you guys that I'm okay. Yes, it hurts but I have to be okay. How long did I have to wallow? I am fragile I know that but that doesn't mean it didn't concern me about you guys. My guilt will become higher than my wallowing if you guys keep on acting like this. I know you're concerned, I really appreciate it but it has limits. It shouldn't be like this. This is not just about me. Everyone's affected by this as much as it is on me." Elia's voice startled them all from behind.
"And it is my first Halloween with you guys too. The first Halloween that I'll celebrate with my family. The happiness I've been looking for" Elia added softly as she looked at her family.
"I just don't want you to keep your emotions to yourself, Baby. I'm here, Daddy's here and everyone's here for you too" Lizzie states "Even if you just want to rant, you want to cry. We're here for you and we'll assure you that every day" Lizzie added.
"I know Mama. I know. But as I said, I'm hurt but I'm okay. Trust me. I'm okay because you guys are here with me" And somehow everyone reluctantly let that go even though it took them a while to convince themselves about it. But they just let it go because Elia is admitting she's hurt and sad but she's okay. Because that's what she wants everyone to believe.
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Our dearest strong girl Eliana Adelaine Olsen :'D Just gonna say buckle up for the next chapters because the last ride is about to starting!
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