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Fall

Daisy stretched her calf muscles one final time, then proceeded to grab the flashlight that was sitting on the railing of Luigi’s back deck. Switching it on she started to jog away from the warm light of the house into the dark woods. There was a clear trail where the trees didn’t dare grow, but they did reach their roots trying to trip an unsuspecting hiker. Daisy kept her eyes and flashlight trained on the ground to avoid the obstacles the gnarly black trees tried to put in her way. The air was cool enough that Daisy’s breath was visible. She wore long burnt orange leggings, and an oversized yellow hoodie to keep the chill out. her jog was rhythmic with each step crunching the dead leaves underfoot. The trees above had mostly lost all of their leaves due to it being late fall.

Daisy checked her watch it was 4:57am. The sun would be up at 6:30am. She planned to run for 30 minutes on the trail then turn back. Maybe she would cook some waffles before Luigi woke up. She had weirdly woken up at 4am and couldn’t go back to sleep. After a day of helping Luigi clean out his house in preparation to move, she would have figured she would have been exhausted enough to sleep throughout the night. Luigi’s house was fine. No strange sounds. It wasn’t too cold or too warm. She had been quite cozy in his bed. Always the gentleman, Luigi had offered up the only bedroom which was on the top floor. He was snoozing away in his recliner in the living room with Polterpup on his lap when Daisy had suck past earlier. Whatever woke her up gave her a chance to get in a morning jog. The rest of the day would be full of loading things into the moving truck.

With Mario getting married to the princess, he would move into the castle. While Luigi would move back into the house they had both built on the outskirts of toad town. Daisy couldn’t even imagine all the complexities that would go into building a house. But Luigi had done it twice! He built his house after kicking King Boo out of Boo Woods! It was funny to her that Luigi, of all people, chose to reside in Boo Woods. It was far away from friends and family and shopping centers. But maybe he liked being away? His own little getaway. Still, even if his house was cozy the surrounding was creepy. Luigi hated creepy! The twisted trees that made up Boo Woods cast eerie shadows. Daisy mentally shrugged. In the middle of the day, it wasn’t so bad. But right now, it was the definition of spooky.

Daisy checked her watch again to see how far she still needed to go. “OH!” THUD! Daisy ended up face first into the ground. Her flashlight skittered down the trail. Daisy sat up, picked some leaves from her hair. She rubbed her chin. There was going to be a bruise on that later. She felt a breeze on her knee. She probably had scraped a hole in her leggings. She pouted those were one of her very few cold outfits. She tried to see what she had tripped on, but in the darkness it was useless. “Stupid tree roots.” Daisy said to no one. She stood up and dusted off some more leaves from her outfit. She heard giggling and froze.

Oh no! She thought Boos didn’t live in Boo Woods anymore! They appeared suddenly circling her like prey. They giggled and smiled viciously at her. Daisy got into a fighting stance. She waited. Then sent a fist flying through the face of a boo directly ahead of her. She didn’t connect with anything and the boo to the right of her pushed her off balance. She stumbled. A boo from behind grabbed her foot. She fell again to the ground. The boo dragged her though the leaves laughing all the way. He floated her up in the air. Daisy made the mistake of looking up at her attacker. As soon as her eyes made contact, he went invisible dropping Daisy. THUD! “OW!” She landed on her shoulder and neck. Her body and legs making a weird tent. The Boos laughed harder at her predicament. She scrambled to her knees. Daisy rubbed the back of her head. “Stupid boos...” She mumbled. They continued to circle her jeering delighted at her pain.

“Daisy!”

She looked up as a blinding light flashed. She felt a hand on her arm helping her up. It was Luigi! They sprinted down the path. Which was hard for Daisy because all she could see was white. Luigi noticed. “Jump on!” Luigi backed into her, and she understood. She jumped and let him hold her knees up. She held on to his shoulders. Luigi ran with Daisy riding his back like a backpack. She figured he was used to having weight on his back when he was fighting ghosts with the Poltergust. She heard barking and growling. It must be Polterpup. What as he growling at? Luigi burst through the back door. He put Daisy down. “I’m g-going to get puppy!” He quickly explained and was out the door again. Daisy looked at the floor. She could see a little but only out of a large tunnel of white. She heard a yelp of pain. She whipped her attention back to the door. “S-stay B-back!” She heard Luigi’s shaky voice call. She heard Polterpup whimpering and felt him cower around her legs, he must have fazed through the door. Luigi quickly came thought the door slammed it shut and turned several locks. He turned around leaning his back against the door, “Phew!” He wiped some sweat off his brow. He took some unsteady steps toward Daisy on his shaky legs. “A-are you ok?” Her tunnel vision was filled with some of Luigi’s concerned face.

She blinked several times. “I might have looked right into your strobe light.” She grinned sheepishly.

Luigi waved his hand in front of her face, she flinched away from the movement that had entered her narrow field of vision. “I’ve done that too….” He sheepishly admitted, “Many times…. It will clear up.” He took her hand and lead her from the back kitchen to the living room and sat her down on his recliner. Polterpup limped to Daisy’s feet laid down and whined. Daisy leaned down to pet his head comfortingly. “Let’s look at your foot.” Luigi squatted down in front of the ghost dog. He hummed in thought.

“What happened?” She blinked some more.

“He jumped at a Boo that was chasing us. Got his front paw bit.”

“Oh no poor puppy!” She scratched the dog behind the ears. “What a hero! Are you a hero? Yes, you are!” She baby talked the doggy. Luigi smiled at the scene. He stood up and walked back to the kitchen. He came back with a first aid kit, a damp rag, and a bowl of something. Daisy’s vision was improving. She looked in the bowl. It looked like blue liquid or blue fog. “What is that?”

Luigi set the bowl in front of Polterpup. The Dog happily licked up the substance. Luigi shrugged. “I think E. Gadd said it was ghost energy or ghost goo…?” Luigi lifted Polterpup’s damaged paw for Daisy to see better. The paw reformed into one that wasn’t dented.

“Whoa.” This world of ghosts that Luigi was deep into was so new to Daisy.

Luigi shrugged again and opened his first aid kit. “C-can I…?” He motioned to her face.

She gave an affirmative, “uh ha.” She couldn’t really see his next movement so she jumped a little when she felt him lift her head so he could get to her chin. She focused on the ceiling as he cleaned her scrapes. She could feel his hands were shaking. Maybe from adrenalin or fright from the encounter? He was trying hard to be delicate.

Once he was done with her chin she looked down, finally noticing her knee. Blood was oozing out from around the dirt that was in it. Daisy rolled up her pant leg so Luigi could get a better reach of it.

He used the damp rag to get the dirt out of the wound, sterilized it and put a large bandage on it. Daisy watched him work. She had been patched up many times before, but she was fascinated at Luigi’s efforts while still shaking. How sweet the scene must have looked. He looked up at her breaking her out of her thoughts. “A-are you h-hurt anywhere else?” They both blushed. Luigi because he was being observed so intensely and Daisy for being caught observing him so intensely.

“My head, neck, and shoulders are a little sore.” She moved the said body parts a little testing the range of movement.

Luigi closed the first aid kit and stood up. “I’ll be back.” He semi-jogged back into the kitchen and came back with a bag of frozen peas. He handed them off to Daisy. “F-for your head.”

Daisy gratefully received the chilly bag and placed it on the new bump on the back of her head. Luigi sat down on the floor next to the napping ghost dog. Sensing the silence Daisy changed the subject. “How do you face ghosts?” From what she could see he looked down at Polterpup. Daisy continued. “I mean you can’t even punch them! I tried and my fist went right through!”

“I guess once you have the right tools….?” Luigi shrugged again.

“Speaking of tools why didn’t you have the Poltergust with you!” She raised a fierce eyebrow at him.

Luigi chuckled under the worry, “These are the Boo Woods. They live here. I wouldn’t want to be captured in my own home. I just figured I would stun them and run back to safety.” He looked up at her hoping she would be convinced.

Daisy hemmed and hawed, “That’s kinda what’s been bothering me lately. Why do you live in Boo Woods? You hate Ghosts!” Polterpup barked indignantly. “Except for this cute sweetie of a doggy.” She smiled at the ghost dog. He wasn’t having it. She reached her free hand out to pet his head. He reluctantly excepted the pets at first then fully leaned into the affection. He panted happily Daisy was forgiven of her offence.

Luigi thought for a minute. “I guess to…keep…The professor away from here.”

Daisy was shocked she stopped petting Polterpup, “I thought you were friends with the professor?” Disappointed at the lack of pets the dog laid his head back down to nap.

Luigi fiddled with his hands, “….Yes… I am…. it’s just…. sometimes he is… a little… unethical….” She gave him a look to continue, he took a deep breath. “Like I said this is Boo Woods. The Boos live here and as long as no outsiders come then everything is good. It is when people trespass on the Boos territory, they get a little…. territorial. If the professor had his way, he would be in their faces trying to study them. maybe even taking samples from them…”

“But what about King Boo? Won’t he use these Boos to find you?” Daisy’s eyebrows creased; she adjusted her hold on the frozen peas as Luigi answered her questions.

“Not all Boos work for King Boo. Like how not all koopas work for Bowser.” That was true. Daisy thought of the koopa citizens in her kingdom. Luigi continued, “I think King Boo likes to use traps…. rather than being practical…” He chuckled nervously. He hoped that was true at least. Daisy frowned at the chuckle but didn’t interrupt. “M-most people will stay away just because it is creepy. But that attracts the professor.” Daisy heard frustration rise in Luigi’s voice. “He asks me if there is any boo activity and I tell him no. He trusts me and stays away. And it’s true! I don’t bother the Boos. I go out when the sun is up, and they are sleeping. And stay inside my house at night. I leave my outside lights on just-in-case, and they don’t bother me.”

Daisy nodded, to the best of her ability, thoughtfully; realization hit her, her eyes widened. “Who did you sell this house to!? Are they going to keep the Boo Woods safe?”

Luigi smiled at her switch of concern. “It’s a toad who use to work for the professor. He knows how the professor is and knows the situation.”

Satisfied with the answers Daisy slouched down in the comfy seat, keeping the cool bag on her head. she looked around the room most of her vision had come back just a little ring of white at her periphery. quietly she uttered her last question. “Why didn’t I know any of this earlier?”

Luigi ducked his head so that the brim of his hat covered his face. “You never asked...” he said quietly. Feeling anxiety build up about how that explanation might be taken, words exploded out of Luigi’s mouth. “I-I didn’t kn-now that you w-would…. A-and I-I would have…I-I D-didn’t t-think… I-I mean…I s-should…. ”

Daisy smirked a little at his flustered nature. He truly hadn’t thought to tell her. Daisy set the pea bag down on the chairs armrests and lifted the brim of Luigi’s hat. He stopped his mouth and looked up at her face pitifully. Her smile grew. “It’s okay, Luigi” When he heard his name the pity in his face faded. “I didn’t tell you what I was doing. I just woke up with so much energy, and I didn’t want to wake you.” She let go of his hat and planted her hands on his shoulder. “It’s ok. I forget to tell people things too.”

Luigi rubbed the back of his arm and cast his eyes to the side ashamed. “Because I forgot you were put in danger.”

She snickered “Eh, Life is dangerous, that’s what makes it exciting.” She shook his shoulders encouragingly. “It’s ok, it all worked out. I have my two ghost fighting heroes here.” With her other hand she gave Polterpup a pat on the head, he woke up to her touch.

Daisy placed her hand back on Luigi’s shoulder and looked right into his blue eyes. She was so thankful her eyesight was now mostly back. “That is very heroic of you to keep the boos safe.” She used her hands on his shoulders to bring him forward so she could kiss him on the cheek.

Luigi was surprised at first but melted into the kiss. Daisy let him go and looked at his humble blushing face. Now full of energy, Polterpup playfully ran round the two joyfully barking. They giggled at his antics. Luigi stood up from his seat on the floor. “Let’s make breakfast?” He offered a hand to her. She gathered the almost thawed pea bag up and accepted his hand.

“Any breakfast foods have peas in them?” She smirked.

He pouted his lips thinking and looked up at the ceiling like it was full of recipes. “I can think of a few.”

As they cooked Daisy’s eyesight came back to 100%, just in time to watch the sunrise out of the kitchen windows.

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