Definitely for the Dogs

[Charity Croft]

Charity took another deep breath as she looked at the house. it looked... a lot bigger than she'd expected. She wasn't entirely sure what she'd been expecting, but something two stories that looked like it would house a decent sized family was definitely not high up on the list. The trainer ran her hands along her jean shorts again, telling herself that at least she'd dressed appropriately. Nice t-shirt, jeans, vest. Totally mature, not a sign of anything that would make her not seem like a total adult who could handle things. And she might have actually put a few pieces of jerky into her pockets for the dogs, because of course she did.

"it's just a little interview," Charity said, looking at the house and stepping forward. "Plus, Bell will totally vouch for me..." she looked up toward where the attic would be, "I really hope there's not actually ghosts in there."

Charity paused, liked her lips then nodded. Right, standing there wasn't helping. Three steps forward, right up to the door. Knock. Wait and hope that the dogs aren't out in the yard and waiting to attack strangers with jerky in their pockets.

Reid Chase

[Reid Chase]

Reid felt the tugging of her blanket a second after she woke up and as she blinked drowsily down to the source of the tugging to find Shep looking at her with his dark brown eyes, she reached out to scratch behind his ears before sliding out of bed and taking her own sweet time dragging a robe over her body.

Days of walking around the house naked were now put on hold since Bell wasn't comfortable with the display of skin apparently. Reid was somehow now very concerned with what did or didn't make her comfortable. She wasn't entirely certain if that was a good or bad thing for her personally.

As always, it was midday as she started getting her breakfast ready, frying up bacon and eggs, much to Ludo's excitement as she bounded out from her doggy bed to whine at Reid's feet.

"Yeah yeah hold on." She said, tickling the puppy's chin with her big toe. Once the food was ready, Reid made sure Ludo and Shep were fed before she got to herself. Just as she was about to dig in though, she heard a knock on the door. Reid grabbed a few pieces of bacon and walked over to the front door to open it, finding a bespectacled brunette who looked like she was lost.

Conveniently having forgotten she had an appointment, Reid regarded the woman curiously, with a hint of maybe quite possibly checking the woman out. "Yeah?"

[Charity Croft]

Well, there was someone at the door. She'd opened it and everything and... she appeared to be wearing a robe of some kind. She also appeared to be eying Charity and... was she checking Charity out? Well, at least Charity managed to look good today, so she had that going for her.

And her power was tingling as she focused on the redhead woman. Like Charity hadn't come prepared for that. "Hi!" she said, wiggling a few fingers and taking a step forward. "I'm Charity? Charity Legrange? We spoke on the phone?" She paused for a moment, trying to think if there was anything else she could say or do to trigger the other woman's memory. "Uh, Bell's friend?" Did that count? It should, right? Maybe Bell would even be showing up at some point to somehow help out with this whole awkward experience.

Charity was seriously wishing that she'd gotten some kind of written confirmation at this point. Actually, she wasn't even sure this was the right house...

[Reid Chase]

Realisation dawned on Reid fast as she realised that she actually had an appointment with this lady who posed her sentences as questions. The talkative loud one on the phone the other day, wasn't she?

"Yeah yeah. Guy's kid. I didn't even know he had a dame." Reid shrugged before opening the door wider to let the woman in.

"Come on in. I don't know where Bell is but I'm having breakfast. You're welcome to join me." She gestured to the kitchen, not even slightly concerned that it was in the middle of the afternoon and she was just having breakfast.

[Charity Croft]

"Well, he actually had several, apparently," Charity offered, along with a slightly nervous laugh. She smoothed her hands along her legs, telling herself it wasn't to dry off sweat or anything like that. Reid had opened the door and so Charity entered the house for the first time.

Naturally she wanted to look around, and she couldn't quite stop her head from swiveling to take in all the various nooks and crannies. it did seem... lived in, to be certain. Charity couldn't help but wonder what bits were Reid and which were Bell, assuming that her friend had even managed to put her personal stamp on the location as of yet.

Reid's continued words drew Charity's attention back to the woman. "no, no, that's fine, really," she said, moving forward. Did Reid say breakfast? Well, maybe she worked the night shift. Or got up earlier. "I had a big... midnight snack?" Charity let out a slightly nervous laugh at that before looking around again. "I have to admit, I didn't expect it to be this... spacious." Not by a longshot, actually.

[Reid Chase]

"Well, he certainly played his charms well." Reid couldn't help the once over she gave the woman once more before stepping aside to let the brunette in. As Charity looked around, Reid closed the door and walked into the kitchen where her bacon was being stolen off her plate by Ludo.

"Dude, come on." Reid whined just a little. Ludo scampered off with the bacon still in her mouth. "Little runt." The redhead chuckled, shaking her head as she slid into her chair to start on her food.

Charity eventually found her way into the kitchen. "Oh. Okay cool." Reid shrugged before digging in. Charity's comment about the house made Reid smirk. She remembered having this conversation with Bell before. Well, not a conversation. Passing remark more like. Speaking of Bell, where was she?

"The situation in which it was left in my possession was...complicated. But it's well taken care of. I pay the bills regularly, I have a working thermostat and there's always hot water."

[Charity Croft]

"yes, yes he did," Charity offered. She had grown more or less used to talking about her father's sex life at this point. Several of the people around here did seem to know him one way or another. Charity had grown as thick of a skin about the whole thing as she could. Didn't make her squirm any further to think about her dad that way, especially when you tossed in the bit about her having a crush on him at one point.

Then she'd seen the puppy and couldn't help but let out a little noise of joy. It soon turned into a giggle, which Charity only managed to suppress by bringing a hand up as the redhead turned into her chair. The brunette stepped forward then, again looking around.

"You... didn't..." Charity began, before stopping herself. Do not ask if it's a murder house. That had to be in the rules somewhere. She looked around. "Well, I can definitely help contribute to... the rent?" she looked around. "Or whatever?" Charity offered a slightly nervous smile, her arms folded behind her now as she stood in front of Reid, almost feeling like she was auditioning for a play or something.

[Reid Chase]

Reid did also have a semi lady boner for her teacher back when she was a kid, but it had really been respect that won out in the end. The guy was a good teacher.

Ludo seemed to have effected Charity, something which made Reid chuckle quietly before she tacked on a smirk, watching as the woman practically vibrated with excitement. So she was sold on the house.

"Yes. I have them tied up in the attic as we speak. Sshh. Our little secret." Reid pressed a finger to her lips before continuing the shoveling of food into hert mouth.

She nodded at the comment posed as a question. "If you're sure? Then why not?" She took a sip of her orange juice and gestured for her to take a seat. "You don't have a resume or something do you?" Reid asked, clearly amused that Bell had brought along a CV telling her why she should be a good roommate.

"Do you have any specific questions to ask?"

[Charity Croft]

It took Charity several seconds to realize that Reid was, in fact, joking, and that it was a relatively dark joke involving the actual owners of the house. When she finally did realize it, Charity let out a loud laugh, probably too loud, to try and cover it. There was something about a resume or something.

"Oh, right!" Charity said, moving to dig into the pocket of her shorts. She pulled out the little folded piece of paper. "This," she said as she unfolded it, "will tell you all about my rental history and how much I make and how much I've got saved up right now. I can get you letters of reference if you want, but Bell's probably already vouched for me."

Charity smiled and held out the paper. "And yes," she said, nodding, "yes, I do have questions. But I figured you'd probably want to read this first," she held it up again, smiling in what she hoped was a super friendly manner.

[Reid Chase]

Reid chuckled lightly at Charity's response to her joke. She did have to admit, it was quite dark.

She couldn't believe that she was getting resumes for people who wanted to live in her house. "Did Bell ask you to do this?" Reid asked, looking over the paper and chuckling. She thought Bell was the exception.

"This isn't even necessary. I was actually joking. Could you just sit down and have some food in you? You look like you need some."

[Charity Croft]

The question caught Charity slightly off guard. "What? I think she might have mentioned something, but, like, she didn't put me up to it or anything. I just figured that if we're going to be roommates---" Charity trailed off slightly as Reid leaned over, then quickly insisted that it wasn't necessary. Charity wasn't sure what to think about that. Shouldn't Reid be at least a little discerning when it came to roommates? Sure, it was Charity, and she knew Bell, but generally you wanted to vet whomever you were rooming with to make certain that you didn't end up with a serial killer.

This caused Charity to study Reid for a few seconds, trying to figure that out. She did hear the request: another push for food. However, by the time it finished, Charity's power had started kicking in, and she found her eyes flicking about through various points on Reid's body before honing in on her head. It almost seemed like Charity's eyes twitched for a moment as she looked.

"Telekinesis," she said, then shook her head. "I mean, uh, right, sure," she reached for a seat and took it, trying to ignore the loud screeching sound and the fact that she'd just effectively blurted out what was most likely the other woman's mutant power out of no where.

[Reid Chase]

Reid laughed and shook her head at Charity's response. The redhead was just not the type to be overly concerned about her roommates being anything but exemplary. Of course, that was mostly because she knew if anything happened, she would have Shep, her powers and her ability to defend herself. She would probably show discretion if she wasn't a cop.

"Honey, I'm a cop. I run background checks on a daily." She grinned. "If there was any sign of you being even remotely murder-y, I wouldn't have let you in through the door."

Ludo came bounding in again to get at the bacon on the table but Reid kept him at bay. "Greedy!" She stuck her tongue out at the little puppy before giving her another strip of bacon.

She looked up just as Charity mentioned her ability. "Uh...what?"

[Charity Croft]

Right, cop, Charity so knew that. She nodded along with it, trying to pretend like she totally hadn't just spaced off on that fairly important detail. Charity was almost tempted to point out that she was totally not murdery except that protesting that struck her as being precisely what a murdery person would probably do. Plus, if Charity were being honest, she really did have a few tendencies that were generally reserved to mass murderers.

The dog arrived: Charity almost got distracted. Were it not for her power kicking in and practically making her OCD she would have. Instead she prattling it off. Reid either hadn't quite heard her or she was just confused.

"I said sure," Charity offered cheerily, adjusting slightly in her seat. "I, well, I also said telekinesis, because that's what you do. Standard move stuff with your mind, based on mental will and all," Charity said, adding a shrug. "You know, maybe I should help with the bacon? It is bacon, and if we don't eat it, he's gonna get it all." She looked around for a moment, trying to find where the bacon was stored so she could follow the dog's example.

Oh, and she might have been totally trying to either impress or blow off the whole power thing. Charity herself wasn't entirely sure what she was doing in that regard. It was just move forward from there.

[Reid Chase]

Reid was ready to shrug her response off until Charity explained what she said. Frowning ever so slightly, Reid started to rethink the whole 'murder' thing. That was oddly specific. Until she realised this woman must be a mutant since she worked at BA.

Before Reid could say anything pertaining to that, Charity had decided to baconise herself. "She, but yeah. You should definitely eat it." The redhead shoved the plate of bacon to Charity and leaned back as she scooped up more eggs into her mouth.

"So what kinda questions you wanna ask me? Or you wanna start the tour already?"

[Charity Croft]

Yes, yes it was oddly specific. Charity could practically read those very thoughts on Reid's mind. Charity was already reaching for the bacon, and she took a couple of pieces. They did taste really good, and Charity nibbled at it while listening to the next bit, bobbing her head.

"Uh, well," she said, lowering it, "I did have several of the standard questions: rent, what's included in said rent, if there's anything I need to know, is there really a ghost in the attic, just how many dogs, when you say noise, are you talking sex noise or loud music, you know," Charity shrugged before taking another bite of the bacon, "standard roommate questions."