The Lighthouse Cottage (Saturday Evening)

[spiritandsword]

Annja had never realized how hard it would be to keep Garin from actually carrying through with his offer to kill Sean's mother. However, if Sean's sister would refrain from giving Garin new and interesting ideas about it, it would be less of a headache for her. She was beginning to see why so may people always developed drinking problems after this weekend every year.

She supposed that it was a good thing that Savannah was happily engaged as Garin had already expressed to Annja that he would love to take her to bed for a night. "Or a weekend."

Annja was proud of herself for not hitting him and hoped that Sean hadn't heard that.

"Why does she have to meet me, again?" Annja asked Sean, trying to ignore the flirting Garin was doing with her sister-in-law.

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[bigbrothersean.livejournal.com]

"Because I'm hoping that if she gets a chance to meet you, she'll change her mind."

Eternal optimist, that one.

"Plus if someone wants to kill her, it'll be easier this way."

Tempered with Nast cunning.

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Savannah said with a grin as she leaned back against the couch. "Easier to dispose of a body if we're not in public."

She paused.

"Built in alibi, too."

Look, at least it was just her and not Johnny, too, okay?

[fearsthesword.livejournal.com]

Garin let out a laugh at that. "Oh, I like you, girl," he declared.

And this time he wasn't even trying to be a skeeve.

[spiritandsword]

"Stop encouraging each other," Annja said, turning to look at Sean. "How much like your uncle is she?"

[bigbrothersean.livejournal.com]

"Let's put it this way... temperamentally, she'd have been much more suited to him. I have no idea what my father ever saw in her."

[othernasts.livejournal.com]

Belinda wasn't sure what Sean expected to come of this meeting, but she wasn't about to back down from the challenge that this Annja person presented. Sean had married some school girl he had met in this damn place, and it was up to her to convince them to see sense.

Look, she didn't like having competition, okay?

Sighing, she knocked on the door.

[fearsthesword.livejournal.com]

"I got it," Garin said, already thinking of something. Well, more like something Savannah had teasingly suggested. Close enough.

He got to his feet and went to answer the door. "Oh, my, Sean didn't tell me he had a beautiful older sister."

[othernasts.livejournal.com]

Belinda looked him up and down and gave him her best smile. "Then we are both surprised, because Sean didn't tell me that Annja had such a handsome older brother."

"Don't you dare," someone hissed from inside the house.

"I'm Belinda Nast, Sean's mother."

[fearsthesword.livejournal.com]

Garin was more than happy to shamelessly hit on Belinda in the name of distracting her.

He'd have been hitting on her anyway.

"Come on in," he said, stepping back. "Garin Braden. I'm not Annja's brother, just a friend of hers."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Oh don't be so modest, Garin." Savannah said mischievously from where she was sitting on the leather couch. "He was actually Annja's boyfriend before she and Sean got married." She tilted her head. "Hello, Belinda."

[bigbrothersean.livejournal.com]

Sean looked at Annja and groaned quietly. "Well, at least if she's flirting with him, she'll be too busy to bitch at us very much."

[spiritandsword]

"Are we going to be that lucky?" She asked under her breath as Belinda came into the house.

[bigbrothersean.livejournal.com]

"We can sure as shit hope so."

[othernasts.livejournal.com]

They weren't going to be that lucky.

"Hello, Sean."

[bigbrothersean.livejournal.com]

Of course they weren't.

"Hello, mother." Sean was hoping for at least a measure of civility.

[othernasts.livejournal.com]

She smiled and then looked at Annja. "And you must be Annja."

[spiritandsword]

Annja gave her a polite smile. "Yes. It's nice to meet you, Mrs. Nast."

In some universe, she might even mean it.

"And, of course you already know Savannah."

[othernasts.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately," she agreed, her eyes flicking to Savannah. "I thought Josef dealt with you."

[fearsthesword.livejournal.com]

"Belinda, would you care for a drink?" Garin asked, cutting in to lower the tension in the room for a split second. "I mix a mean... well... just about anything, really."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Gin and tonic," Belinda said, glancing at Garin before looking back at Savannah.

"Well see, Belinda, Josef decided that perhaps trying to kill me graduation weekend wasn't such a good plan." She heard Annja make some sort of sound, but she didn't look away from Belinda. "Although he did tell me that if he wanted to, I would already have been dead." Savannah's smile showed all of her teeth. "Had he attempted to do so, he never would have left this island alive."

Savannah may have forgotten that she hadn't told her brother everything. Ooops.