The Haunted House 17: The Yard

[aldersprig]

First: A story featuring a male keeper and a female Kept.
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Jasper was still watching her.  It took Mélanie a moment to remember what the last thing she’d said had been.  Oh. Fun.

It wasn’t going to be too fun if the house ate her, was it?

She would have to worry about that later.  Hopefully, the house wasn’t telepathic.

Hopefully, her boss wasn’t telepathic.

“I’d like it if you had fun,” he admitted.  “That’s a better result than I hope for, but this life, I enjoy it.”

She wanted to see the yard, to do anything to move away from this sort of uncomfortable conversation.  Mélanie finished her food in three bites. “Can I clear your plate?”

“You can.  Eager to see the chickens and the horses?”

read on…

Comments

[chanter1944]

Oh, dear, says the good-hearted thief? Now I’m super curious!

[aldersprig]

I keep thinking of jae’Fox-in-the-Henhouse, to be honest.

[sauergeek]

Yep, he's got Bad Manager written all over. He at least has good intent, but I'm wincing pretty much the entire time he's trying out management aphorism-ish stuff. Ow. And that's certainly not helping Mélanie any. I remember my reaction to that sort of thing: dubiousness to expectation of impending hostility. With luck he'll get over it sooner and better than did any of the shiny MBAs who I remember from the Internet boom.

"Oh dear"? Has one of the chickens from Science! come to make a call?

[aldersprig]

*giggles* Yeah, he is not very good at this.

[clare_dragonfly]

Dun dun dun!

I like Mélanie making long-term plans for the house. <3 And partners in which one likes to work and one doesn't sounds perfect!

[aldersprig]

I think they’ll make a nice team if she ever calms down.