fandomtownies | The Fourth Sin

Jarod held the door open for Granny Weatherwax and allowed her to precede him into the Sin, happily oblivious to what Becky was reading. "Welcome. The kitchen is back that way," he pointed. "I'll put the water on for tea in just a minute."

Granny followed Jarod into the kitchen of the - well, must be a boarding house, from the look of it. She sat down at the table and waited.

"So, what brings you to Fandom?" Jarod asked, as he put the kettle on for tea and began to warm the teapot. He began to open and close drawers, eventually finding two blueberry muffins and putting them on a plate.

"Heard you folks could use a witch around these parts," Granny said. "You'll want to be heating those up," she added, nodding at the muffins.

"Of course I will," Jarod replied, turning on the oven and pulling out a piece of aluminum foil to wrap the muffins in. He made a little package, then placed the muffins in the oven to warm. "And we've got at least one witch here already," he said, thinking of GOB. "How many does one small town need?"

"That oven t'ain't gonna do much good without a fire in it, boy," Granny scolded.

"The fire's on, ma'am," Jarod replied. When the kettle whistled, he pulled it off the burner, measured some loose leaves into the teapot, then poured some water in. He set the teapot in front of Granny, then returned a minute later with a teacup and saucer. "Milk, lemon, honey, or sugar?"

Granny peered at the oven. "Milk, thank you," she said.

"Milk it is, then," he said, pulling the carton out of the refrigerator and placing it on the table in front of her. "So, do you have a place to stay?"

Miho walked in the back door and blinked at Jarod and the old woman.

Jarod waved to Miho. "//This is Granny Weatherwax. She was on the roof.//"

Miho wiped a little of the blood from her face, cursing herself for not checking out her own house before entering. Then she bowed to the old woman. "Good evening, ma'am."

But Granny hadn't noticed Miho come in. She'd heard yelling (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/556281.html?thread=21808377#t21808377) and gone to investigate.

Should any of the occupants be looking out the window or the door, they would see the spectacle of a grown man in tight red pants and a red and blue shirt jumping, leaping, and prancing by. Laughing.

GOB wanted to go to the Sin tonight. Strictly for business, not for seeing Becky. He kind of hated her after yesterday. Kind of.

He wasn't happy that he had to hurry past his new neighbor to get into the building.

And he also wasn't happy that the woman he just met kind of brushed him off.

Oh, yeah, this was the perfect night for him to deal with people in the Sin. He walked up to the desk. "Hi Becky," he said without much enthusiasm.

Becky noticed him enter. As he approached the desk, she switched the totally proper book she was reading for one featuring a handsome man in red, wearing a hat.

It was entitled, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mounties.

"Hi," she said lazily.

"For the love of God," GOB said. "Is there any way I can just go up and have a good time without having to deal with whatever crap you want to put me through today? Just for one night?"

"Don't know what you're talking about," Becky said, flipping the page and making a note on a pad of paper. She drew a heart around the note, and continued reading.

GOB tried to see what was written on the paper. "Yes, you do. You know full well what I'm talking about. This whole 'I come in, you keep me down here for as long as possible, you try to be cute, I get frustrated because I should be up there,' THING that we have going. It's fun. It is. But for the love of GOD can we just skip that tonight?!"

He sounded very frustrated by life right now.

Becky raised a brow, and wrote down another note.

If GOB could read the paper, he would see that it said:

May want to leave the hat on - this is OK

and below that:

Lots of red - detractor. But? Hot - OK

"You have some interesting delusions," she said, flipping the page. "And I never try to be cute. At least not with you."

GOB did see the paper. "Oh, so that's why it's never cute," GOB said in a tone that he'd probably regret later.

"All I want is a little distraction from this CRAP the past couple days! Hell, I'll even pay extra to not have to deal with this right now! You can keep me down here twice as long next time!" His pleas were starting to get loud. Other people in the building might be able to hear them.

Granny wasn't a nosy sort of person. She just liked to stay informed. And it wasn't sticking your nose in someone's business when they were doing their business so loudly that it wandered over and smacked you in the nose.

She stood up and walked out to the lobby of the Sin. She crossed her arms and gave GOB a look that suggested he might get a roll of newspaper on the nose if he didn't quiet himself down soon. But all she said was, "No need to be going on like that, boy."

"Oh, great, just what I need now! You look very nice for your age, but if you're all that's available tonight, I'm going home, lady," GOB said, making a terrible mistake.

Becky snorted derisively.

"You're going to make the roof lady cranky," she warned.

And for the second time in two days, GOB said a sentence that he really shouldn't have said. "Oh, I'm so scared."

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