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in which karen teller saves expat fairy celegorm from zombies
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She rests her head on the table and sighs.

"D'you need anything else while you're here?"

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"Nah."

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"D'you want anything else while you're here?"

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"...kinda want you to be like 'oh I forgot that I'm really into people collecting rare exotic herbs from the woods and you should do that instead of going to school'."

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"Not super into that. But you don't have to go to school if you really don't want to."

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"It'll be fine."

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"I have a ridiculous fairy classmate with a ridiculous magical life debt stuck in my house, who doesn't know what a toothbrush is, and who can't go home until I think of something I need eight hundred thousand dollars of, and my sister is dead, and my niece is a werewolf, and I'm sitting in this increasingly run-down house that I can't take care of, because I'm too proud or scared or stubborn or whatever to call my parents for help, and my second job sometimes throws zombies at us and tries to kill us, and I can't even talk to you about that because everything is weird now, and nothing about that is fine, actually."

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"I can take care of the house. And the sister. And hopefully the zombies, most of the time. And I don't see why you stopped talking to me but if that's the problem maybe you could just...start talking to me again!"

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"Whatever."

She grabs a hat and a scarf out of the closet and puts them on. "The shower doesn't do hot water and you can only access the bathroom through the bedrooms, so if you wanna shower or pee or investigate brushing your teeth then you gotta do it before little Connor goes to bed. I would count it as a favor if you put the baby to bed at nine, Zales can tell you how. I'm sorry for being a jerk. I need to - think."

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"Kare, there's curfew soon - "

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"I don't care," she says, and slams the outside door behind her.

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He will shower, and pee, and investigate brushing his teeth and conclude it seems like being human would be a hassle, and put the baby down at nine if the ghost can explain how this is done. 

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Yep. You get her some milk and you help her brush her teeth and you put her in the crib and you tell her a story. She can do the story part if he doesn't wanna.

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Stories are good, they count for debt. He tells her a story about clever fairies entrapping a silly mortal and bringing her away to their court to dance until she's too tired to stand.

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That's kind of a fucked up story but okay.

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Gotta teach kids to be wary of strange fairies.

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Fair enough.

Karen's still not back when little Connor goes to bed at nine thirty. She's still not back at ten.

"I think she meant to leave you the living room."

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Nod. 

 

He finds the sleeping bag and goes to sleep.

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She gets home around one and locks her bike up. She doesn't head inside, just sits down with her back against the side of the house and mopes.

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The ghost wafts over and pretends to sit.

 

"They offered you money?"

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"Check for eight hundred and twelve thousand something dollars, yeah."

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"Would it solve anything for you to take it?"

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"I dunno. Probably. Wouldn't have a used-to-be-work-friends fairy person hanging out anymore. Have to figure out what to even do with it without making mom and dad suspicious."

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"Yeah."

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