#her name is sanja and she will not step inside a building if it doesn't have windows

[lulivalu]

my oc 🤍

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@virgil-sanders-the-gay-emo here you go!

There is a knock at your door, and you open it up to see a tall, thin person with pale skin. They lower their sunglasses to reveal piercing red eyes and smile at you. "Hey darlin'," they say, voice low. "Let me in?"

You nod quickly. "Yes, of course!" you say, and they step in with a sigh of relief.

"You know, it's bullshit that I have to give you permission every single time," you say. "I mean, I don't mind or anything, but why can't I just give you a standing order? Isn't that how it works in all the horror stories? You say they can come in once and then they can come in forever? How come the only time that doesn't work is when it'd actually be useful?"

Sanja-- for that is their name-- scoffs. "Oh, come now. You know those stories aren't accurate."

You sigh. "Yes, I know, you're a massive troll who likes spreading inaccurate information about your own species."

Sanja bows deeply. "You called?"

"I just... wish there was a way that whatever..." you wave your hand in the air, "magic that rules you could understand that this is your house too."

Sanja's grin is piercing. "Well..."

You stare. "Wait, is there actually a way to do that?"

Sanja smirks. "That's for later, I'm afraid."

You slap your forehead. "Troll."

"Vampire, actually," Sanja retorts. They look around. "Is anybody else here right now?"

"What, I'm not good enough for you?"

"No, no, that's not what I--"

You laugh. "I'm kidding, pretty bat. Only Rora's here at the moment, I'm afraid. Arthur is off in space visitng family, and..." you frown slightly, "I'm not sure where Selene is."

"Well, isn't it kinda hard for her to get in here?" Sanja offers. "What with the being a mermaid and all that?"

"No, no, I built a canal that leads into the house, remember?" you correct gently.

"Riiight." Sanja looks a little embarassed. "Forgot 'bout that."

You head inside, holding Sanja's hand, to find Rora standing next to a shattered egg carton. Her hands are covered in fur and her nails look like claws. She appears to be crying.

Sanja runs over to hug her, but quickly backs off as she growls, teeth long and sharp.

"Bad touch day?" they say.

Rora nods miserably. "I was trying to make cupcakes..."

"Hey, hey, it's okay. 'S not your fault," Sanja says. "I'm gonna go get a mop to clean all this up. Just stay right here. Everything's gonna be fine." They shoot a look at me, then at Rora, bright red eyes conveying an obvious message. I walk over to her.

Rora sniffles. "I... I dropped the stuff cause my hands turned and then I couldn't clean it up and--"

You sit next to her, trying to figure out what to do. You aren't very good at comforting people, especially when they don't like touch. "Can you change them back?"

Rora closed her eyes. The paws fluttered for a moment, before settling back again. "No... I'm sorry..."

"Hey, hey, it's okay," you say. You reach out to wrap an arm around her shoulder, and she doesn't pull away, so you draw her in close. "I love you.

You can hear the sound of Sanja picking up the shards of egg one by one and placing them into the garbage bin. Rora sinks deeper into your shoulder and you sigh. Everything seems to be settling down--

"I'm back!" a loud shriek comes from the main hall.

Rora startles, barking loudly back at the noise and flashing into wolf form for a few moments.

"What?" the voice-- your girlfriend, Selene, says. "Is no one coming to greet me?"

"Be there in a minute!" you shout back. You turn towards Rora. "Are you okay if I go for a minute?"

She nods mutely, so you head out to the lobby, where Abigal is swimming around in the pool that you build into the house. Your entire house has canals built into it, as a matter of fact, so Abigal can get around easier. Standing next to the canal, is someone you've never seen before. Pale, though not as much as Sanja, and beautiful in a way no human could ever be. You smile to yourself. Supernaturals. You really do just seem to attract them.

Selene waves at you. "Hi! I'm back!"

You smile at her, clapping your hands together. "Hi! Whose this?" you gesture towards the person standing by the canal.

Selene blushes and looks down. "Um... this is my friend. I was thinking about maybe dating them but I wanted to talk to you all about it beforehand."

You do not say anything, for a moment, and Selene continues to speak.

"I mean if you're uncomfortable about it I would understand--"

"No, no!" You rush to interrupt. "I didn't mean it like that, I was just surprised. I have no problem with it."

Selene beams.

"Great! You can talk to my friend here and I'll go talk to the others, okay? Alright, great, thanks, bye!" Before you have a chance to say anything, she's already dived away into the water.

You turn towards Selene's friend. "Hi," you say, stretching out a hand to shake. "What's your name?"

They take your hand, eyes darting back and forth. "I... don't really want to say."

You study their face more closely. The pointed ears, the soft glow, the shimmer in the air. "Ah," you say. "Fae?"

They jolt. "I- yes." They peer at you with more suspicion. "How did you know that?"

You giggled, and tuck a strand of hair behind your ear. "I'm pretty used to supernaturals by now. I mean," you gesture around, "you've seen my house. I know how to identify fae, werewolves, vampires... lot of different things."

"Hmm," the fae said. "Well, alright then."

"So... is there anything I can call you? Just so I don't have to think of you as Selene's friend all the time."

They nod, finally finishing the handshake. "Reed will work. Xe/xem."

You smile. "She/her."

"And your name?"

"Oh no. You're going to have to get to a much higher relationship level with me to get me to give away my soul. But you can call me Bee."

"Like me!" Sanja said, bursting out of the shadow. "You gave me your soul."

"No I did not," you say, laughing slightly. "You're not a demon, we've been over this."

"I mean..." they shrug. "I was damned by God, I'm immortal, I'm typically considered evil in popular media... what more do you really need to be a demon?"

"Yes, you are damned by God. But you are a human damned by God. Demons are angels. So the only way you could have my soul is if you turned me, which we aren't doing."

Sanja pouted. "Fine." They turned to look at Bee, and their face brightened up slightly from it's perpetual smirk. "Oh, hey, are you Selene's girlfriend?"

"... we prefer the term partner," Bee said after a moment.

"Neat! Good for y'all. Anyways, I'm--"

"Don't!" you say. Sanja's mouth slams shut, and they take a step back.

A blush rises to your cheeks. "Sorry," you say. "It's just... xe's a fae, so..."

"Ohhh," Sanja says. "In that case, you can call me V."

"V for Vampire?" you say.

"You can prove nothing," Sanja hisses.

As you laugh, the sounds of excitable squeals and splashes begin to echo through the foyer, presumably from Rora and Selene.

"So!" you shout over the noise. "You said you had something to tell me about how the house could remember it belongs to you!"

Sanja hesitates for a moment, then laughs. "You know, I was going to say this isn't a good time, but honestly I can't think of anything that represents our relationship better than this." Their voice cuts through the noise like a knife as they kneel to the ground and pull out a ring.

Your heart stops.

"My love," Sanja says. You can't pull your eyes away from them. You don't know if it's a vampire thing or just a them thing. You don't particularly care. "My darling. The light of my life. Would you like to marry me so that I can enter your house on command?"

"Yes," you say, grabbing the ring and slipping it onto your finger. "Oh my God, yes."

"Oh thank something that worked," Sanja mutters as they rise. "I don't know what I was going to do if you said no--"

You grab their wrist and, ignoring Bee and Rora and Selene(who've come out to see what was going on by this point), dip them into a kiss.

Their lips taste like moonlight.

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