Fic: The Merchant's Wife, Veronica/Logan, PG
Fic: The Merchant’s Wife
Rating: PG
Word Count: 543
Prompt: Merchants from my au_bingo card.
Summary: She was the wife of a merchant not a merchant herself
A/N: Firstly this is written for the merchants prompt on my au_bingo card. Secondly this came out a little differently than I expected it. Actually I didn’t really know what to expect when writing this prompt and I’m not too sure I like how it turned out but what are going to do? I don’t expect to like absolutely everything.
It was times like this that Veronica couldn’t help but miss her husband. While he was away for good reasons, his work as a merchant kept him busy, she couldn’t help but want him around when big, life changing moments where happening in their children’s lives. It wasn’t his fault though. She was sure that Ellie hadn’t meant to walk while he was away just as she was sure that the men who kept knocking on her door couldn’t take a hint. She was married to a merchant, she wasn’t one herself. Still it seemed whenever her husband was away that she would take the honorary place, even if she didn’t want it. She understood why her husband liked it. It must be nice to know that the best manufactures in the country would only deal with him but it also annoyed her that the little businesses thought that she could get them a better deal on the resale while Logan was away. Sure she helped him with the books, Lord knows that the man wasn’t that smart when it came to keeping the books in order, but that didn’t mean she could cut people deals. It just wasn’t her place.
She found the whole thing a little dull anyway. The only way they made money was to sell their products at a higher price than they had brought them. It was only fair and what they deserved, after all Neptune California wouldn’t have all the business that it did if it wasn’t for Logan, but the town’s folk didn’t see it that way. They thought they were being robbed. In all honesty the price had never risen over a dollar more per product than the original price and anyone who couldn’t see that as a huge saving could keep going to Vinnie Van Low in her mind. She didn’t want her husband dealing with people who were willing to save a few dollars even if it meant putting a shitty product on the shelf. People like that disgusted her.
In the end it didn’t matter though. Veronica knew what mattered. Family, her and Logan, their children, and the life they had made for themselves. If they ever did leave Neptune like they had talked about it wouldn’t be that bad. The manufactures knew Logan well enough to know that he would be able to resell their product wherever he went and they would trust him to make them famous in the new place. It would be a good way to stick it to the people of Neptune, taking their best merchant away and moving far away from a town that felt poisonous had its fair share of promises but they had agreed, until everyone had turned their backs they would stay put. It was the right thing to do after all, even if the people of Neptune felt the need to treat them poorly at times.
Turning her thoughts back to her daughter as she walked across to her older brother she couldn’t help but smile. No matter what this place had brought them a lot of great joy, especially in the form of their three children and merchant’s wife or not she would love her husband til the day she died.
The end
Rating: PG
Word Count: 543
Prompt: Merchants from my au_bingo card.
Summary: She was the wife of a merchant not a merchant herself
A/N: Firstly this is written for the merchants prompt on my au_bingo card. Secondly this came out a little differently than I expected it. Actually I didn’t really know what to expect when writing this prompt and I’m not too sure I like how it turned out but what are going to do? I don’t expect to like absolutely everything.
It was times like this that Veronica couldn’t help but miss her husband. While he was away for good reasons, his work as a merchant kept him busy, she couldn’t help but want him around when big, life changing moments where happening in their children’s lives. It wasn’t his fault though. She was sure that Ellie hadn’t meant to walk while he was away just as she was sure that the men who kept knocking on her door couldn’t take a hint. She was married to a merchant, she wasn’t one herself. Still it seemed whenever her husband was away that she would take the honorary place, even if she didn’t want it. She understood why her husband liked it. It must be nice to know that the best manufactures in the country would only deal with him but it also annoyed her that the little businesses thought that she could get them a better deal on the resale while Logan was away. Sure she helped him with the books, Lord knows that the man wasn’t that smart when it came to keeping the books in order, but that didn’t mean she could cut people deals. It just wasn’t her place.
She found the whole thing a little dull anyway. The only way they made money was to sell their products at a higher price than they had brought them. It was only fair and what they deserved, after all Neptune California wouldn’t have all the business that it did if it wasn’t for Logan, but the town’s folk didn’t see it that way. They thought they were being robbed. In all honesty the price had never risen over a dollar more per product than the original price and anyone who couldn’t see that as a huge saving could keep going to Vinnie Van Low in her mind. She didn’t want her husband dealing with people who were willing to save a few dollars even if it meant putting a shitty product on the shelf. People like that disgusted her.
In the end it didn’t matter though. Veronica knew what mattered. Family, her and Logan, their children, and the life they had made for themselves. If they ever did leave Neptune like they had talked about it wouldn’t be that bad. The manufactures knew Logan well enough to know that he would be able to resell their product wherever he went and they would trust him to make them famous in the new place. It would be a good way to stick it to the people of Neptune, taking their best merchant away and moving far away from a town that felt poisonous had its fair share of promises but they had agreed, until everyone had turned their backs they would stay put. It was the right thing to do after all, even if the people of Neptune felt the need to treat them poorly at times.
Turning her thoughts back to her daughter as she walked across to her older brother she couldn’t help but smile. No matter what this place had brought them a lot of great joy, especially in the form of their three children and merchant’s wife or not she would love her husband til the day she died.
The end