Many of those were kids not unlike Duo once was - alone, poor, and hungry, and Duo knew too well how fearful many of them were of men. The working girls and mothers who might stop in had plenty of reasons to be mindful of strange men too, especially strange men offering them anything for ‘free’.
Duo was a grown man now, a little broader in the shoulders though still slim in his waist, but sometimes he could become something else entirely. Hallowe’en gave him a good excuse to be that somebody else, as he sometimes was when he volunteered - tonight, as far as anyone around here was concerned, he was Baby.
Duo volunteers at a local outreach centre on Hallowe'en, not expecting to be caught in full costume.
My notes: Sometimes you just want something sweet, hot and queer. This is smut with a little bit of plot, but there's a lot of world-building and characterization packed in for such a short fic.