Re: lakeside mansion: Hugh C./Audrey C.
Hugh took another bite, and considered, turning his head to watch her looking at the room, and his eyes followed hers. The house was beautiful although he couldn't say he'd had a thing to do with it. In the aftermath of the trial he'd felt claustrophobic in Seattle, too obvious and too visible, and his biological father had offered to buy him a place somewhere quieter. And Repose it had been. But it also - if he'd been the one buying - he might have picked a place like this. The wood and the stone and the glass reminded him of design in the Pacific Northwest, and although the location wasn't that, obviously, it felt like home. The kitchen had everything he needed, the movie room everything he could have hoped for in his wildest dreams, and the only thing he'd changed was to add a room for dancing early on.
"I think it took me a while to see Repose's beauty," he admitted to her. "I was not in a good place when I moved here," he turned the coffee in his hand for a moment. "And it was pretty hard for me to see anything much that was beautiful. But it is. It's got a different beauty from home, and it'll be different from Colorado, I'm sure, although I've not really been there," he offered a small smile. "But I, um, was in Chicago area - well, Michigan, - filming for most of October and I realized at one point that I almost missed Repose, and I think I realized then, that it had gotten under my skin. Or... maybe that I'd managed to make enough friends here that it was starting to feel a bit like home. It's pretty, but if I hadn't had Heart and the cats - even with them - it was too solitary for a long time."