[TM] 253 - Awesome

Oct 27, 2008 18:57

Awesome wasn’t the word for it.

“You’re seriously either ripping me off or I’m fully rocking my mojo today.” Rian breathed, setting AJ on his feet to toddle across the bare, expansive dining room as she turned to face the man standing a few feet away. “Tell me my mojo is rocking?”

Her companion laughed, revealing a glimpse of fang that left her untroubled. “You’re not being ripped off, Rian. That I guarantee you. Texas isn’t exactly the world’s most Paranormal-friendly state, that’s the only reason I’m moving.”

“And the price?”

“The ‘family discount’ here is minimal. Sure, I know your grandfather, but I didn’t pay that much when I bought it, and I’m not hurting for the cut. Besides, it’s admittedly a fixer upper…”

He wasn’t kidding about that. The problem were all fairly minimal, though. Joss had shown her the leaky water heater, the water damage that felled the ceiling in one room upstairs, and was including the cost of new pipes in the price of the house.

Still, it was a three bedroom, two and a half bathroom house perfectly located about three and a half miles from the local fire station in Magnolia, Texas. It was big, it was affordable, and it was just shabby enough to be beautiful to her. Fixing it up, making it her own, giving her plenty of room not only for herself and her family, but for another little family unit should they ever want to spend an extended amount of time in her company…

“So…family discount?”

“Family, Freak Lovers, and adoring fan, your last article in Undead America was thoroughly entertaining.”

“And that’s it?”

“That, and your granddaddy scares me.”

Giggling, Rian wrinkled her nose at him cutely…a little charm never hurt anyone after all, so what harm did it do to be a little bit adorable?

“Joss, you are a sweetie pie fang face and my granddad is a fool to have ever let you move so far away from SoCal. Still? If not for you moving, I would miss out on this awesome house…did I mention it was awesome?”

“So you’ll take it?”

Turning once on her heel, she watched as AJ stomped around and giggled, enjoying the echo of the empty room.

“Wrap it up, Jossy. I’ll take it.”

Muse: Rian Baxter
Fandom: Original Character
Words: 387

tm: challenges, verse: magnolia, theatrical muse

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