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POSTED ON Mar 22, 2023 22:17:02 GMT
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They arrive on the beach - their beach, he thinks proudly - alongside the balmy, morning breeze. Fresh scents of salt and spring enriched greenery, fringing either side of the sand, welcoming both a new day and start for the house that had sat lonely for too long.

Far too long.

Propping a ladder against its weathered side, its almost a miracle that it doesn't buckle from the weight. Angelo had nearly forgotten just how shit a state the building was in. 

I feel like someone's swindled a very comfortable retirement out of us.” And yet there's a lilt of amusement in the verbal eyeroll; that he didn't mind. Angelo liked a challenge. Both house and previous owner were alike in that regard.   

Handing a toolbox over to waiting talons, Major flies it up onto the roof of old shingles.

You first,” he smiles to , motivations less than courteous. 



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POSTED ON Mar 24, 2023 10:03:34 GMT
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Looking at the weathered husk of a beach house, with its layers of chipped paint and tired charm, puts Skyler in mind of a grumpy old man. By all accounts the structure should've fallen long ago, but it'd stubbornly held on against storms and the passage of time.

It was perfect.

Against all odds, the foundations had needed little work. Which meant it was time for her and Angelo to put their DIY skills to the test. Arceus help them.

"Bet that old sea dog's goin' to have a nice retirement." After he'd swindled them down to the very marrow, that is. 

Climbing up the stairs to the roof affords Angelo a nice view of Skyler's delectable shorts-clad bottom - somewhat tainted by Dorado's malevolent glare. 

"But he won't have this."

Skyler opens up her arms to encompass the idyllic landscape of beach, jungle and ocean, and the house groans as if in response. Perilously close to her feet, shingles shudder and clatter down into the living room.

Whoops.
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POSTED ON Mar 24, 2023 11:03:13 GMT
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Not even Dorado's sulking scowl can ruin the view. Angelo watches Skyler and her 'delectable bottom' disappear over the lip of the roof before he follows suit, carrying a roll of roof underlay beneath his arm. 

Shingles scatter beneath Skyler's feet just as he reaches the top, an Alto Marean curse breathed out when one narrowly shoots past his head. 

On his feet, Angelo peeks down into the belly of their shabby home. “Nice one.” His tongue rolls with sarcasm. “I was thinking the living room was lookin' a bit bare.

Blue eyes are drawn to the sparkle of the sea, winking in the corner of his gaze. Before Angelo stretches a paradisal collage of blue, gold and green - and her. 

Let him have his retirement. I'll take this.

For that view? No contest. 

He places down his burden next to the toolbox to ensure it doesn't crash into the living room, also. “Sure you don't want a second story?



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POSTED ON Mar 25, 2023 9:50:21 GMT
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Skyler and Dorado look down at the new decorative centerpiece in the living room. As if to add insult to injury, a few more shingles break loose and join in.

'Arceus damn it' is the least offensive curse that she spits out.

Now that Skyler was up here, she could see the parts where the wood had rotted through and allowed the roof to collapse into the house.

She pats Major on the way to pick a small square-edged shovel from the toolbox, the flash of a smirk curving her lips as she walks past . "We'll add a second story later for the kids, sure."

Skirting the edge of the hole in the roof, Skyler hooks a hand around an exposed beam and ignores the ominous groan of rotted wood as she peers inside. "We gotta replace all the shingles and a couple of beams..."

"It should be blue skies for the next three to four days, at least." She pauses, meeting ocean blues with the sheer, overblown confidence of someone who had never, not once in their life attempted to fix a roof. "I reckon we'll be done in a day."

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POSTED ON Mar 25, 2023 13:25:12 GMT
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He takes in the hook of her smirk as if it were the first sunrays of the morning, only to reign in the infectious desire for his lips to turn sharp in tandem.

In its place comes instead a dry, amused breath through his nose.

I don't think so,” Angelo dismisses flatly, reaching down to collect a pry bar from the toolbox. His and Skyler's jests surrounding children were not uncommon, even if they had metamorphized over the years.

You really think I'd let them take the superior view? Not a chance.

Turning to regard the splintered, loose roof shingles, Angelo takes in the weight of their first job - and the weight of Skyler's overblown confidence. 

You reckon?” He repeats, as if hiding a secret. Angelo had some experience fixing his hangar roof. “Then we better start. I'll take the other side. Save what shingles you can for firewood.

He'd see her proved wrong by nightfall, amongst the glow of a campfire.

Stepping over onto the other side of the roof, he digs the flat of his pry bar beneath a cracked flat of wood and wrenches it free with a satisfying crack. 

The first of many... 



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POSTED ON Mar 27, 2023 20:47:22 GMT
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The sun creeps upwards into the sky without warning, casting away the cool morning breeze. Work on the roof trudges on, far slower than Skyler had first anticipated.

It's past midday when her brows plunge into a frown, clearly unhappy with their progress thus far despite the sweat that slides down the curve of her back and her laboured breath.

Huffing with annoyance, she downs half a bottle of water, dumps the rest of it on her head and lifts her shirt to wipe her face. Fuck, March had no business being this freakin' hot.

Angelo's comment from before pops abruptly into her mind - 'You reckon?' - and the captain can't help the narrowing of eyes, the slight tilt of her chin as she regards her troublesome rascal of a husband with slight suspicion. 

He had some experience fixing roofs, didn't he? He'd worked on his - hangar. She was pretty sure.

The eyes narrow further, sliding away from him to consider the work before them. And the (perhaps definitely not realistic) confidence she'd held coalesces into illogical, single-minded stubborness. 

He thought he was so smart, did he?

The captain allows herself a couple of minutes to catch her breath, then, wielding the broad-edged shovel like a viking warrior did their sword, resumes removing shingles with renewed gusto. Too much, in fact. Dorado has to dodge a couple.

She'd show him. They'd be done by nightfall.
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POSTED ON Mar 27, 2023 21:15:19 GMT
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As the sun begins to climb towards the peak of infinite blue, so too does the rising of heat.

It matters little whether he'd grown accustomed to working beneath it or not, yanking up shingles while exposed on the unsheltered roof, still brings about the tickle of perspiration to bead on Angelo's tanned skin.

Sweat slides down his throat, dipping beneath the neckline of his t-shirt that's starting to feel too confining, when the sound of sulky exhales draws his gaze. 

She lasted longer than he thought... 

Pausing, he puts down his pry bar in favour of a water bottle. Angelo slowly unscrews the cap while appreciating the sticky sheen of Skyler's exposed abdomen and the entertaining fraying of an already short patience. 

Taking a slow drink, a droplet runs free from the curled corner of a savouring smile. Its caught against the back of a hand. “How's your side comin' along, sunshine?” 

As if he didn't already know.



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POSTED ON Mar 27, 2023 21:51:46 GMT
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Is that a hot-blooded flash of a glare from the other side of the roof? Or was it just the sun's glare on some reflective surface?

"Swimmingly." The word somehow manages to pry past clenched teeth, but only just so. It's accompanied by a grunt of effort and the clatter of wood shingles as they're forcefully ripped away and sent over the edge.

Skyler isn't working as much as she's waging war on the rotting roof. And, by Arceus, it's turning into a veritable bloodbath. Although one has to wonder as to who's really winning - probably not the inanimate objects. Or the captain.

Regardless of her commendable work ethic, this kind of passionate, haphazard approach usually lends itself to sloppiness. And that leads to-

"Son of a snivellin' buttrag!"

Whatever frenzy had been happening on the other side of the roof ceases at once, and if Angelo were to peek over the lip of the roof he'd see Skyler craddling her arm - and the rusty nail stuck halfway into her thumb.

She glares down at it either like she's about to make it, and all its family, regret their collective existence; or like she can't believe the sheer audacity of this thing to interrupt her work.

Probably a little bit of both.
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POSTED ON Mar 29, 2023 20:47:19 GMT
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Great. Still on track, then.” Angelo smiles, basking beneath the satisfying heat of a murderously hot glare burning across the roof.

Watching Skyler furiously attack shingles until they flew and cracked asunder, knowing he'd been responsible for lighting the flame, makes for an entertaining water break.

He relishes the show for a sip or two longer before getting back to work, replenished by the sound of chaos on the other side of the roof. 

Sounds of creaking, snapping wood and rusted nails being tossed into a steadily growing pile, accompany Skyler's melody. Encouraged to keep pace as they strip away the roof.

What did you do?” Angelo heads over with a chuckle, curious when inventive curses colour the beach house.  

A curse of his own is muttered as a boot slips on a loose shingle, stumbling his way over towards his scowling wife to see what the fuss was about. 

She looks like she's contemplating murder methods on a nail when he gets there. 

Just so we're clear.” Smooth and tinged with a curl of a smile, Angelo's voice already spells trouble before he'd even finished.

Callused fingers may wrap around her wrist but it's blue eyes, crinkled with smugness and mirth, that pins Skyler down.   

You can't blame it on this if you don't finish by the end of the day.

It's yanked out quick.  



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POSTED ON Mar 30, 2023 10:49:19 GMT
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Skyler huffs. "As if."

Angelo's treated to his very own string of curses as the nail is yanked out of her finger. Blood barely has any time to well up before Skyler's mending the rip in her skin, briefly aglow in a soft blue light utterly at odds with the storm on her face.

In the end, just like Angelo predicted and despite all of Skyler's efforts to the contrary, they don't finish the job by nightfall. They do remove nearly all of the old, rotted shingles and prep the roof for the new ones. But by the time the sun makes its final descent towards the horizon, even Skyler's legendary bullheadedness has been worn down to a flicker.

No matter what entity lends her strength, Skyler is only just human. An exhausted one, at that.

They don't have a shower yet, or running water for that matter, so the captain divests herself of her sweaty clothes (purposefully slow so Angelo has ample time to invite himself over) and goes for a much deserved dip in the ocean. Sore muscles are somewhat soothed by the coming and going of the waves, but Skyler knows there'll be hell to pay tomorrow - a twinge in her shoulder as much as promises it.

A massage wouldn't perhaps go amiss.

The crackling of fire soon joins the hissing of the waves, and Skyler leans back to rest her head on Angelo's thighs, all relaxed limbs, as food sits comfortably on her belly. Unsurprisingly, they'd been ravenous. Thank goodness for Mr. Dross' packed lunches.

"It looks like more of a house now." Not by much, it was still very much shabby and weathered. More akin to a creature that had come to life after a long hibernation. But it still brings a proud smile to Skyler's lips and a warmth that rests comfortably on her chest. "We'll finish it tomorrow, for sure."

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POSTED ON Mar 31, 2023 23:24:41 GMT
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They gave it their best shot but the beach house wins this round, leaving the war on the dilapidated roof to be secured another day. 

Good progress had been made, though Angelo had taken his own battle wounds in the process. Hands becoming roughened and scratched from the rasp of old, nail-infested shingles. There was also an unpleasant meeting between thumb and pry bar... 

Skyler had been taught some brand new Alto Marean curses today. 

After peeling sweaty clothes from sticky skin, Angelo had taken to the ocean after his wife. Gentle waves soothing against aching muscles, warmed from a day spent beneath the sunshine. For a time he's happy just to soak. Enjoying the sight of the sun bending to kiss the sea and it beloved scarred skin, in turn.

It's the first swim of many to come, on their private slice of paradise.   

Now he sits with Skyler using his lap as a pillow, content weariness shadowing the corners of his being in the glow of their promised campfire. 

Yeah. I reckon we will.” This time, it's genuine. 

Leaning back on his hands, soft sand pools between salt bathed fingers as Angelo takes in the sight of their beach house. Bones exposed, on the way to healing. 

Want to just stay here tonight? Then we can get started first thing.” Besides, he's quite comfortable here. Tired, too. But mostly comfortable, like he's home. “Y'know, it's been a while since you've invited me back to your cruiser, Dross.

There's ample energy left for a lazy, roguish smirk. 



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POSTED ON May 13, 2023 13:38:26 GMT
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In the end it takes them well into the next day - and a little bit of the morning after it - to finally finish the roof. It's grueling work despite the steadfast pace, all roughened hands and dripping sweat and the occasional curse when a finger is where it oughtn't be.

(Thank Arceus for Skyler's healing powers.)

The nights are fever dreams, cooling layers of sweat and exhaustion washed away by the ocean and stumbling steps rising from the ocean to seek warmth around the glowing light of a flickering campfire - and Angelo's embrace. 

Sometimes they're set aflame by the hunger of each other's desire; other times they allow the quiet to settle in, and sail the spaces between the stars above. Booze over their tongues and the promise of summer whispering past in a soft breeze.

A measure of peace before war comes around to knock on their door.

Satisfaction always follows her long into the night as they rest under the looming shape of a dream waking to life, carved by their own hands.

Life calls them away soon enough, but the beach house remains, ugly in the way only a mother, or two besotted fools, could love. 

They're back before a week is through.

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POSTED ON May 18, 2023 20:03:42 GMT
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Not even a war could keep them away for long.

Those two besotted fools return to their little, crooked beach house before the weeks end. Unable to leave its lonely presence waiting no more.

Despite coming armed with the tools necessary to bring some light and cheer to the dilapidated house they'd rescued, its Angelo who seeks fixing. Comfort. 

With the future looking dim, storm clouds gathering on the distant horizon, the pilot finds himself drawn to the beach house - into the future it represents. 

The one he desperately wants to craft.  

Set up in the shade of the porch sits a portable workbench, the front door that he'd pushed off the frame on their very first visit secured on top. With a steadying hand on top of its age-damaged surface, Angelo works to strip away old flaky paint and smooth over wooden scars with a sandpaper block. 

Hey, sunshine?” He calls over the scrape of therapeutic circles. “Turn the radio up would ya?



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POSTED ON May 19, 2023 20:28:18 GMT
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They'd come more prepared this time around.

An old radio (with some good years still left on it, guaranteeed Mr Dross) sits on the front porch's admittedly precarious railing, grainy music mixing with the lazy lapping of waves and the distant call of Wingull. It's nearly idyllic, a far call from their adrenaline-fueled day-to-day.

A place to rest. A place to heal.

Skyler reaches forward from her equally precarious position atop the very same railing to turn a dial, wincing when horrible static cuts through the peaceful scenery. "Ah- shit, hold on. This old thing's a bit wonky."

The window frame she'd been sanding is momentarily put aside as she tackles this new task with the bare minimum amount of common sense: which is to say, she remains sat on the railing, thighs pressed around it tightly as she reaches back and stretches her arm in a Cirque du Soleil-worthy maneuver.

Music is blessedly restored, an old tune full of guitar strings and soulful singers talking about past loves.

"Gotcha." Mission accomplished, Skyler's about to return to her previous position when her eyes are drawn to the front door. "Say, Angel..."

Many a great misadventures had started with these specific words leaving Skyler's mouth.

"Which color d'you reckon we should paint that door? Can't be white..." Too boring.

"What about purple? Storm purple. With a blue frame."

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POSTED ON May 22, 2023 19:42:32 GMT
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Sucked into the rhythm of scraping concentric circles against the surface of his weathered canvas, Angelo's mind drifts. Scattered like wood dust to the winds.

He doesn't realise he'd been drawn into an absentminded spell until the radio suddenly crackles with static. Soulful croons barging charmingly into his head, clearing the fog.

Oh, right.

Pulling himself free, Angelo lifts his gaze up towards Skyler. Meeting the question with a soft exhale of amusement, just in time. 

Hm... I was picturing yellow door, with an orange frame.

Looking down, a callused palm brushes away dust to see if a scratch he'd been working at still remained. 

Y'know, figy berry colours.” Comes the far too casual clarification. “I think its a nice gesture to our new community, don't you think?



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