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Halloween was coming soon, and of course parties were starting to pop up a little more, a costume party here for someones work, a birthday party with a costume theme, that sort of thing. This, was no different. It was a pre-Halloween party thrown by guys Urban used to work with a few years before and still kept in contact with, though not as closely as he used to.

Still, he'd gotten the customary invite to the part, and he immediately showed Sol, and called to say he and a guest would be there. Then...then was the costume shopping and he was currently putting the finishing touches on his costume as the Wolf. The mask was the one thing he'd have to pull on later since he needed to see to drive.

While Solange was busy he ensured he had all he needed in his jeans, and with a grin went to locate her a low whistle of appreciation coming from him. "Damn babe, I'm gonna have the hottest date there you know that right?" his eyes took her in appreciatively, a broad grin on his face. Oh yes...he could definitely appreciate her costume.

"C'mon babe, pick up the pace or we're going to be late! Your chariot awaits sweetheart."

Urban hadn't been aware of the strippers at work being in the spirit well in advance for a time but when he did hear about it he couldn't help but laugh. Somehow it seemed fitting they'd get into the spirit and he did wonder what they'd do for other seasons.

Zevian had been talking about going to work there more and more often, and he shuddered a little at the idea of the Mawile stripping! Then again the guy just wasn't his type, so it was no wonder it was a little creepy to him.

His eyes raked over her as she finished putting on makeup a wolfish grin crossing his face as he did as she bid and pursed his lips and let out a loud wolf whistle. "Hot damn baby you look extra fine tonight."

One hand drifted along her thigh, and he laughed. "Naw babe, just us going is good the guys provide everything all we bring is ourselves. You'll love it. They go all out. The music, fog and smoke machines, a maze and haunted orchard. I think it'll be a blast for us." a well deserved one after her recent discharge from the hospital. A bit of fun given all the crap they'd been through recently.

He snagged her hand with his free one then. "Ready to go? Or do I need to throw you over my shoulder and cart you out like the caveman I am?" he grinned lightly then as he waited to make sure she was ready before hustling them out the door.

Urban preened under her compliments and let a hand drift up under her skirt to playfully grope at her before she completely pulled away. He was just being affectionate in his own way and they both knew it.

There was a grin however at her disbelief. "Babe, trust me the magic they work on this orchard...it'll scare the stockings off you. No lighting anyone up." he laughed and grabbed his keys before locking up.

A look around before the door shut...it was so clean these days...and quiet. But...quiet is what Sol had needed. He regretted telling the kids they had to go somewhere else but between Cameron's accident, then Solange getting jumped and beaten up and all it was no wonder he'd lost it.

The door was closed and locked then and he slung his arm around her shoulder. "They have all these wicked special effects, people in primo movie monster makeup that looks so real you'd think it's a real zombie or whatever lumbering at you...people jumping out of trees, popping out of holes in the ground..."

He got the car opened up and held the door for her. "After you my sexy Red." his mask was tossed in onto the seat before she got in so it was out of his way. No way in hell he was walking.

At one time, she would have smacked the s**t out of him for such a touch. Now, she just smiled. Funny how things changed over such a short amount of time. "I'll take your word for it." Solange shrugged her shoulders, still not so sure on the whole orchard thing.

Her lack of enthusiasm was infectious, and his broad grin faded and an air of uncertainty crossed him. Maybe this was a bad idea...they could stay in...watch a movie...have a quiet night. She needed to rest and heal still after all...not all the marks were gone, the wounds fully healed. So he hesitated.

That was until she began to talk again, and about the party. That had him relaxing a little more, the worry and anxiety he'd been feeling seconds before dissipating and he shifted and snagged her pinky with his own a smile given to her. "Pinky promise I won't make fun of you if you scream babe."

He ducked into the car and pressed a kiss to her lips before he pulled himself back out and shut the door, before he went around to his side.

The drive took them a few miles outside of town to what used to be a farm and now was just used for events by the family of one of the guys he knew. Events like this.

The house was an old farmhouse that he knew would be just as ghoulish inside, as the land outside would be. Pulling off to the side he parked and turned to her with a grin. "Ready?"

"No recordings from me babe, promise." he grinned at her threat and squeezed her hand gently then.

He could sense her unease once the car was off and he couldn't help but cackle some. "I told you it was spooky, and we're not even to the good point."

There was the faint throb of music from inside, some flashing lights from some machine inside. He snagged his hood and pulled it on then. "Just look for the tall wolf if we get separated."

Once at the door he let them in and he noted the crowd a good fifty or so people. Music, laughing, food, booze. Still holding her hand he wound his way through the throng, grabbed two bottles of beer...and started out back. He wanted to hit that maze!

There was a chuckle of amusement behind that mask, and his fur covered tail swayed slightly in amusement at her words. There was a pause for her to hand off the basket, though it did require letting her hand go to do so, and in the mean time he'd stepped out the door and a little ahead enjoying the crisp night air.

It did help he stood so much taller than the other maze goers, though as he spotted her he of all things lifted his head and let out a believable howl that made a girl near him gasp in surprise. A dark laugh came from him at the response, and he let out another howl, 'stalking' Solange as he moved back towards her, one of the two bottles held out to her.

"Your furred escort awaits."

'******** babe I love when you do s**t like that." Urban laughed and lightly clinked his bottle with hers before taking a swig. This would be his only drink of the night so it'd wear off long before time to drive home.

"Mmm...I'll stalk you through the maze my amazing lady love." he rumbled at her more than a little pleased with the way the night was going so far and he headed towards the start of the maze with a grin. "Normally I'd have my sexy prey go in ahead of me and I'd sniff you out but I can't seem to keep my paws off you." his arm tightened around her shoulder lightly. "Lets see if we can't find the middle of this thing hm?"

Oh the plans he had once there!

Multiple wrong turns, and many laughs later and he'd found the middle. His buddies had decked it out with all sorts of carved up pumpkins and each threw it's flickering light over the maze. He moved towards the bench in the center and gently sat her down while fishing the little extra from his pocket.

That done, he did the last thing most anyone would expect and knelt down in front of her. "So...I thought what with tonight being Halloween...it'd be a good time to give you a treat...though hell for all I know you'll laugh in my face and call it a nightmare but anyhow...." he fumbled for the words as he pulled off the wolf mask.

"Look Solange...we've been through some s**t together, good and bad alike...and it's been on the bad side of things too long and I want it all to get better for us. Together. As a team So...would you marry me?" he held up the engagement ring he'd bought shortly before the attack on her, and slipped it onto her finger, waiting for her answer.

Urban was like Solange, unaware of any plans save for his own, and he was amazingly nervous for the first time in his life! Though he was pleased he was hiding that part as well as he was. ...well maybe. Her calling him out on his choice of words might have been proof he'd not done as good as he'd have liked.

"One year they dug fake graves and had mechanical s**t clawing up through the ground. The stuff of nightmares." he was glad this years center was more subdued!

Her tears actually frightened him a moment, because he could count all of the times she'd cried around him on one hand, with fingers left over, and they were all far too recently. So to add to that amount worried him!

Then he saw her smile, and his heart skipped a beat and his arms caught her and pulled her close pressing a hard kiss to her lips before he pulled away and tilted his head back a loud Roar filling the air, followed by a howl. The big bad wolf had captured red riding hood, and for good!

"I love you too babe, more than anything. Now...you get to have fun telling your brother...and Jayme. He's going to cry you know." he laughed and kissed her again, his hands caressing along a bare thigh.

"Wonder how long we have alone here before anyone else finds the middle of the maze..." he wiggled his brows at her suggestively then. He couldn't help it, she brought out the animal in him!