If anyone noticed, there was no indication, not that he'd have much shame if he was seen. Lock tried to at least free his tail, as he wanted to touch her, but his ankles were bound too tightly to gain any leverage. He didn't stop struggling, even as she set him down.
"Define 'good'."
Lock winced at her careful touch, but gave into her kiss. He held it as long as she would let him. The second she left, though, he tried to free himself. Even in the darkness of the cave, the moon gave him just enough light to see the shape of his bindings. It took a few minutes, but he managed to free his ankles. When Lillith came back, he'd be standing with as much of an inviting pose as he could with his hands still bound behind his back, the pants hanging off his tail, and a smirk on his lips.
The rest of the night went by in blissful torment. By morning, they'd be curled up together, scratched and bruised and happily in pain. At some point, Lock let Lillith put in the new earring. A small sign that she marked him as hers, and the new weight on his ear was taken in with pride.
They both rinsed off the following evening before they headed back into town. Lock happily clutched her hand as they walked, and carried the basket under his other arm. At the cemetery, they kissed again before parting ways.
Lock stretched a bit as he walked. Lillith's torment left him delightfully stiff, but as soon as he got home, he needed a bath, and then he and his siblings had work to do.
Shock was down in the lair. After Oogie passed, Barrel took over the kitchen. The bedroom was used for whatever purpose the trio needed at the moment. There was one more room back there that had been redone. As a child, Shock trained scorpions for use in her trouble. Over the years, she'd become Halloween Town's expert on them, and bred them for the town. Shelves holding several small tanks and supplies lined most of the walls. A large table in the center held a bigger tank, venom extraction tools, and other necessary equipment. The remaining wall space had the framed remains of favorite pets long since passed, carefully pinned and marked with their names.
There were very few things Halloween Town could trust from them: trouble, double-crossing, and the best-bred scorpions they'd ever seen. Shock always kept the best ones for herself, but the witches since made a deal with her for their stock of scorpion claws, tails, and venom. Her wares were the only thing anyone in the town could trust came untainted from her or her brothers, and Shock herself set that standard, as it would only take one ruined potion to lose the business.
That didn't mean there weren't ways around it for other trouble...like using a delivery to help distract some of her targets to acquire a broom. Or make an accident happen.
Shock gathered a few vials of venom and carefully packed them in a backpack with some jars of various scorpion parts and old rags between them to help cushion them. She then went to one of the tanks and opened the lid to retrieve the scorpion inside.
"Up for a little trouble, Loki?" she asked.
The scorpion hissed and crawled into her hand. Shock smirked and lifted her pet up to her left ear. Loki crawled up behind her ear and hooked his tail over it to hang from it. His tiny claws and pinchers gently nipped her earlobe to keep himself positioned like an earring. Some of his legs further tightened along the rim of her ear to keep himself stationary.
Shock reached up and lovingly ran a finger along his shell. Loki let out a strange, but contented sound as he settled in place. Shock then grabbed the backpack and headed to the dining room for breakfast.
Barrel was preparing a stack of wailing waffles for them. Shock came in and set her backpack down before taking her place at the table beside Carver.
"Is Lock back yet?" she asked.
"He's getting a bath," Barrel said, "but he'll be down soon."
"Good," Shock said.
She took one of the waffles, then broke off a tiny piece to give to Loki. Like a true spoiled pet, Loki happily devoured it, and especially enjoyed the little wail that emitted as he chewed. Shock ran the tip of her finger over his head. The insects that crawled around the lair and their tree house gave her more than enough to feed her stock, and for the most part, Shock only gave them the best insects, but once in a blood moon, she let her favorite pet of the moment share with her.