#always swore I’d never make a web weave about real people but….

[putitintospeeddrive]

Getaway car x brocedes

That’s it that’s the post

[the-banannah]

A new Story Idea for Mwah

Ok,, had a pretty weird bits and pieces dream last night, but that's because I had bits and pieces of sleep. (Also, dream space is weird, what happens there I'm not liable for)

OK!

Young Lady (mid/late 20's not sure what age specifically yet) is studying abroad (meaning over in the UK cause I'm in North America) on journalism/reporting.

Her current lease is almost up, so she starts looking for another room to rent, sees an add in the paper for a fairly cheap price, goes to check it out, thinking it's gonna be way too good to be true, cause that price is wayyyyyy too cheap.

The Landlord is there and he's too handsome, but he's also really business like, "Are you so and so?" Says she.

"I am, and I have twenty minutes to show you the house, please don't dawdle."

The 'room' is actually a mansion, super comfy but obviously build in recent years. Landlord (Name's Luke btw) gives her the quickest walk-through of the century, stops back at the parlor and informs her that he's gone throughout most of the week, but would be living in the house on weekends, and would prefer not to be bothered since he's usually decompressing from work.

"What kinda work do you do?"

He's real quiet for a moment and gives her a critical look. ".... Custodial, for a nationwide company-"

"So you're a janitor?" Before she can fix her snide comment, which wasn't meant to be snide, or rude, she just wanted some more clarification-

"...Yes."

His watch beeps (She doesn't recognize the brand) and he informs her that the lease agreement is on the counter, as well as keys, and she's welcome to see herself out. He grabs a briefcase and a funny feathery hat she thought was a piece of art off the wall and leaves.

Other than him leaving a stranger in his really expensive house he didn't seem too bad, didn't give off a funny vibe, and true to his word, the contract and the keys were on the counter.

Contract was pretty straight forward, no friends over on the weekends, no friends or SO staying overnight on weekends, clean up after yourself, food, laundry, water, and electricity were included in rent, she would be a fool not to pass this up, and there was even a 'grace month' to see if she wanted to stay, so her first payment was easily a month away.

She signs the contract, takes the keys and gives herself another walk-through.

She moves in that week with the help of a friend on a Friday. She started to personalize her room, starting with some cleaning, only to come face to face in the laundry room with what she swore could have been a gremlin in flannel. The basket was dropped, she turned and ran-

-head first into Luke, right into his chest, which didn't seem to wind him at all, even though she's now got a headache.

"I said I'd be home on weekends."

"What was that?"

"Tho I suppose Friday usually isn't a weekend-"

"Luke?!"

"-My mistake."

"Is that another tenant?"

"No, that's a colleague from work."

"Why does he look like that?"

"He always looks like that, but he'll be gone by tonight, he just needs to do some laundry."

(This may or may not be the actual word flow, bear with me, it's now 30 min since I woke up, it's all escaping me now 😭)

Anyways, the Lady and the Landlord eventually warm up to each other, even more so when the Lady gets laid off from her work, and ruefully tells Luke she's gonna need to get out of the lease.

He says that he can't break the lease(tho he seems really weird about it, like if he broke it early (even tho it was only a month) he'd be in trouble?), but he can put an addendum on it, that she does house work (he already kept the place spotless) in exchange for rent + extra.

She takes the addendum, and as she starts to clean (Mostly it's just dusting) she notices every Monday there's either a lot of hair, glitter, dried flower petals, just really odd things left over from whatever Colleague Luke would bring over for laundry/a meal/whatever the excuse of the week was.

After a daring rescue from an unsavory fellow, they get even closer, to the point that she starts giving him a hug and kiss on the cheek out the door.

Eventually, Luke comes home on a Thursday, and organizes a nice meal for the two of them, and explains what his job is.

He's a custodian yes, but he deals with supernatural clean up. The Fae have a rave out in the forest, there's going to be over sized mushrooms, glitter up to your shins, and spider webs that shouldn't be so thick, or have writing in their weaving. Trolls have another Civil War, there's a forest missing now. Paranormal, mythical creatures, myths and legends, anything that's out of the 'ordinary', they clean up. And if someone doesn't clean it up, humans will find out.

And sometimes they do, that's the colleagues Luke has been bringing over, humans that need to get cleaned up and sent back out, if their psyche isn't broken. And if it is, they help that human transition into the next stage in their life.

(INSERT MORE PLOT POINTS, THE BIGGEST THING I WANNA GET TO IS A LONG STORY AWAY)

It's been a bit since the dinner, but Luke and the Lady are getting along splendidly. She's got her degree, started freelance reporting on the side, and they've been in a relationship for a while too.

Only downside is that Luke has to keep her secret from work.

And Work wants her to transition to the next stage of her life, or death, whichever happens first.

They have no idea that they've been in the same house for so long, much less dating

She's known that Work might want her dead, she asks Luke that if it comes to that, at least make it painless and/or a surprise.

What she doesn't know is that Luke has a ring meant for her, not a dagger

Work decides that Luke is incompetent to complete the job, so they send The Never Ending Bus (name pending)

It's a bus that only stops to let people on, they never get off, unless they're with Work, even then, it's usually just to take a shortcut rather than flying in a plane.

Luke knows that's a mental death sentence, and tries to follow through with the job, but can't.

As the bus is pulling up to the door

Luke pulls out the ring box and gives it to the Lady.

She doesn't know what it is yet, but gets onto the bus, shortly followed by Luke, who's trying to appear like he's going to work (he's failing, big time)

She and him 'happen' to sit next to each other on the bus, and that's when she looks at the box.

I'll add more as I go, but that's basically the gist! Human gets wrapped up in Fae Cover Up Org, falls in love with one of their most efficient workers, has to go into hiding to live