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bakerstreet2012-02-18 07:40 pm
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The Domestic Meme
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| THE LIST! 01] baby Suddenly, there's a new addition to your family! Are you expecting? Adopting? Struggling to find the perfect name for your child? Or maybe you're up at a ridiculous hour in the morning because they're crying like crazy. 02] just married Congratulations! You and your loved (?) one are about to start a whole new life together! It's time for the honeymoon... 03] house hunting Are you seeking out an apartment? A dream house? Or just any old place, as long as you're with your other? Make sure to weigh your options very carefully... 04] household chores It's time to clean/cook/garden/take care of something! Do you work together, or does one of you hide until everything is done? 05] shopping Whether it's for furniture, groceries, or something in between, shopping is something that everybody must do at some point in time! What varies is if they like it or not. 06] family vacation WE'RE OFF TO DIDNEY WOOOOOOOOORL or wherever ... well, as long as the kids are happy, right...? You may not be happy (or maybe you are), but it's mainly about ~family bonding~. 07] romantic retreat It's you and your loved one's anniversary, and you decide it's time to take some time off and take them somewhere nice, where you only have each other. 08] comfort Is somebody sick in bed? Or perhaps they just had a bad day? Sometimes, a good breakfast in bed or a home-cooked meal can really lift the spirits! Or perhaps you want to try medicine, or laughter, or something else? 09] pet Suddenly, you have another addition to the family! Is it a puppy? A kitty? A fierce dragon? Whatever it is, make sure to give it a name and to take good care of it! 10] holiday Happy birthday/New Years/Christmas/Valentine's Day/whatever! It's a very special day that only comes once a year, so make it count! 11] argument Oh, no, who left the stove on... Or maybe it's about why they were out late last night? Either way, there is a lot of tension today, and one of you may or may not be sleeping on the couch tonight. 12] making up It's time to make amends for that fight/divorce/whatever you had before! After all, you love each other... right? 13] surprise, surprise You are feeling rather loving tonight, so you want to remind the other person how much you cherish and appreciate them... if it's by something cute and adorable or hot and sexy is completely up to you. 14] proposal 15] other I know I'm forgetting like a bajillion and one different things here, so this is the option for that! |
Kay, OC, AND I SAID HAAaaay ay ay ayay #3
They'd planned to buy, of course. Aaron liked owning things, and Kay was cheerfully indifferent -- she had funds saved, enough that she wouldn't even have to cheat to pay her half of most of the houses they looked at. (There'd been one they'd checked out overlooking the river valley, a functional mansion, that she'd signed up to take a look at for shits and giggles... and then noticed Aaron covetously eyeing the marble and brass). After she'd come round to the idea of moving in together properly, which as the dog's puppyhood waned had happened increasingly quickly, she'd dived into it and decided, what the hell, they'd do it right.
Five places they'd ticked off the list of possibles so far, and right now they'd made the trek out to a place outside the city's limits, a short distance into the agricultural territory surrounding them. It was an old hobby ranch on an acre of prairie and aspen forest, one of the less conventional places they'd taken a look at.
"Kinda a fixer-upper, I bet you five bucks," she told Aaron as they left the car, slamming the doors behind them. "If they have an outhouse I'm going to laugh." 'Three bathrooms' had been specified, but it wouldn't be the first prospective sellers that considered glorified pit toilets a bathroom.
Re: Kay, OC, AND I SAID HAAaaay ay ay ayay #3
"First things first, if we decide to do this, we're not playing host to Skye's flea-bitten cronies every month." The thought of cleaning up after a pack of rowdy werewolves set Aaron's teeth on edge.
They walked up the short gravel path from the driveway to where the realtor was waiting, a woman in a smart business suit in grey and white, who offered a hand in greeting. "We just know you'll love this house," she told the both of them, all smiles.
Aaron smiled back, though he did glance at Kay. 'Don't laugh,' he thought, '...or at least, don't laugh until the price is announced.'
If you want to come up with other places they've been or looked at, do include them!
The place wasn't such a shit-hole, though, after all, and Kay wasn't quite as prone to laughing as they took a walk through. It had been well cared for, and the story from the realtor came out -- an older couple with grown children, planning a move to the coast to be nearby for impending grandchildren-to-be. Quaint. Adorable. Honestly, it looked as if the pair had put a lot of effort into keeping the place up, and many parts looked hand-renovated or hand-crafted.
Kay had to admit, she saw the appeal.
The realtor led them through the expansive main floor and then the upper living quarters, revealing that 'three bathrooms' wasn't, in fact, a misnomer. When they circled back to the kitchen, Kay asked the chipper woman who had been explaining room by room, "mind if we have a minute?"
"Of course," she responded warmly, knowingly. As if the sale had been made -- well, she was good at the act! Kay smirked after her as she left, and then pulled out a chair, sitting down at the big round table. "So." She looked up at her partner, sussing out his reaction. "I'm charmed. Never lived on a ranch before. Well... not for a while."
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Never the less, the fact that he'd taken on Vanar as a responsibility had probably done more to shape his outlook over what, exactly, kicking around in a flesh and blood body meant. The puppy was growing into his ears and feet, and that meant that he was getting huge... which also meant that all of his training was beginning to be put to the test, and all of Aaron's subsequent training in dealing with all things dog had been put through its paces. Thus, there was that niggling feeling that all of this open space would be good for the mutt...
"We'd probably have to have a run or something built for the dog," he acceded, pulling a chair out and sitting across from Kay. "I didn't see much in the way of fences, just low wire demarcations."
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What didn't was the vibe she was getting from him. Tilting her head back against the back-rest of the chair, she looked at him with raised eyebrows. He wasn't transparent, exactly, but neither did he tend to be subtle with his distaste. "You know, this wouldn't be the only place that could accommodate the dog. You'd prefer to be urban, right?" She tilted the chair backwards a little, brought it stable again, idle movement while she considered. "There was that place in the valley. No, not the hill mansion."
The only thing -- and the thing that she was reluctant to bring up -- was proximity to the city meant proximity to the organization that they were trying to avoid. The more Kay got to enjoying the game of lets'-pretend they had going, the more she had invested in making sure her nastier enemies didn't find them. It had, of course, been years without the witless organization catching on that the powerful elemental they were chasing daylighted as a human in a high-rise downtown, but there was always a risk wandering around the city. They knew what her human body looked like, they knew that she cavorted in the city from time to time, and if the wrong person was in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Orphaners could go from 'occasional nuisance' to turning her life upside down again. Scuttlebutt went that they didn't bother with supernaturals outside the city limit, and the number of creepy-crawlies that played in the woods to the north could attest to that.
Since when did memes turn so serious bidness? X3
"I'm not saying I dislike this place, just that it's pretty far off the map from our usual stomping grounds." He'd managed to make a few friends and allies, as such, in the city... "but we've got one more place to look at."
Granted, the dopey little white-picket place (as advertised) had been added as much for a laugh as the mansion had, but Aaron was seriously beginning to think that their options were growing lean. "Tell you what, if the last place is a no-go, we'll come back to this one." If Kay was willing to actually put some work into the place, there was no reason that he couldn't work in some of that brass and marble, after all.
When DOG
She led him out of the house again, in a purposeful search for the lingering realtor. Finding the woman lingering on the wide front porch, Kay reported, "we'll need some time to think, we'll talk to you again in a day or two," and despite suggestions (not unlikely feigned) that perhaps they should consider purchasing soonest, they took their leave, heading back to Kay's old red volvo.
((You get to describe the next one. X33))
Dog tier? But we're not playing fandom, schnukumpops~
The recalcitrance didn't last for long. He threw up his hands as the radio went silent again, managing to avoid hitting the ceiling of the vehicle -- a feat, considering how his hair was jammed against the roof unless he hunched. "Why is this harder than it should be? Why don't we just kick someone out and take over their space?"
But that tiger, I wants it
Beiuetuifiul wonan, you can't always get what you want~
Eventually his scowl lightened however, and he sighed. There was no way that he had the capacity to do either of those things in his current situation, and though Kay probably could, she was so invested in playing the game of life, he couldn't see that happening... and he was too, more or less. There was the whole sprawling, trundling future to look forward to taking over. For now he'd content himself with playing house with an insane woman. They'd been doing okay so far. No needles full of questionable content into eyeballs or bad endings, at least.
"Let's just go look at the next place," he settled. It was a few minutes before they were navigating the little neighbourhood wherein their destination had been advertised. It was definitely starter-home territory, but the place looked decidedly less savoury than Aaron, at least, had been expecting. Pulling to a slow creep in front of the house with a for-sale sign on it, Aaron was back to scowling again. "Do we have to go in?" he wanted to know. The entire place was in bad repair, the building looking shoddy, the fence missing picket struts. He wanted in no way to be associated with this dump.
:| <-- disapproval
She shut down the vehicle, left it with a decisive slam of the door and ambled around to stand on the sidewalk with her hands in her pockets, staring dubiously at the house that seemed to stare back. "Jeez, it looked better in the ad. How old would that picture have to have been?" The neighborhood had to have been nice once; the house had an air of shabby, eroded cheer, optimism faded to the thinnest lingering whiff.
D:
Kay led the way through the gate (it was lopsided and refused to close the moment they opened it,) and up the overgrown pathway. They knocked, and an older man -- obviously the realtor -- came to the door. "Ah, hello, welcome," he greeted them. "You are Aaron and Kay, yes?"
"That'd be us," the blonde replied, looking dubiously over the man's shoulder.
"Come in, then, come in." The realtor stepped aside and they all had to shuffle to fit into the boot room, beyond which was a tiny living room to match their current one. There was no furniture in the building -- apparently whomever had moved out last had done so before the house had been resold. "This quaint little beauty has had a lot of good history," the man was telling them, for lack of a long lead about. Really, once they peered down the hallway, they'd seen just about everything upstairs: bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen. "A perfectly family house, relaxed and quiet neighbourhood."
Aaron was forced not to make a face: if by 'relaxed' the man had meant 'saggy', then certainly, the neighbourhood fit to a tee.
Leading them down the stairs into a fixed up basement, the realtor was continuing, "a great den for watching the game or making crafts," he grinned, and this time Aaron really did have to shoot a look Kay's way. It was a mixture of, 'is this guy for real?' and 'do we really have to keep this up?' At least the basement looked newer than the rest of the house: the 'den' was a fancified living room, and this meant there was at least space more than what they'd been using in their apartment without the pesky intrusion of bugs... he hoped. But honestly, this was a let down after the quaint old folks home. Aaron was unimpressed.
>:3
The pair of them had edged back towards the door, and their tourguide, as such, looked crestfallen. "We'll let you know," the elemental told him, letting Aaron get at the door while she ran interference, as such. "Thanks for the tour." She slipped out after her partner, closing the door behind them and trotting post-haste down the chipped concrete front steps.
"You know, I've never felt sorry for a house before," she told him with irony, swinging the gate open with a yowl of badly-maintained hinges. "That one was just so sad."
:/
Don't make that face at me. u_u