Serenity Hills

Victor awoke at his normal time...very early. He did his early morning workout routine and finshed off with a morning jog.

He had heard from Susan about a new neighbor. So, he thought he'd run in that general direction. See if he saw anyone. It was his inquistive nature.

Plus, it was always a good idea to keep an eye out in this place. He still didn't trust it. Things may seem like their close to perfect around here, but Vic knew that just when things seem to be great, they had a way of turning fast.

At least in his experience.

Victor hadn't celebrated the holiday in a few years. Never really had a reason to. Not since leaving the ship.

He wanted to do it right this year.

His house was decorated inside and out and he was offering to cook for his new friends Miki and Susan. Even got presents for them under his tree.

However, cooking part wasn't coming out as well as he had hoped.

"Fuck," Victor screamed as he opened the oven. The turkey was on fire. Which needless to say was not a good thing.

He grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out. Opening a window and side door to let out the smoke.

Miki adjusted her blonde wig for what had to be the thirtieth time in the past half hour. She was dressed as a fairy tale princess, Cinderella. She even had the extravagant blue ball gown and 'glass' slippers to go with it. She was regretting accepting to babysit Hilary Kingston tonight of all nights. The 10 year old girl, who was dressed as a fairy, had demanded that they go trick or treating to every house before they could attempt to go to the local haunted house for fake scares.

Miki was really wishing that she'd planned this better.. and she was going to kill Egon for sending her this costume instead of the one she really wanted.

"Come on! Let's do this one!" Hilary ordered as she dragged Miki by the arm to yet another door.

With a sigh, Miki rang the doorbell. If this kept up, she may have to rethink her opinion of Halloween.

I woke up with a splitting headache, but not just a headache, someone had sneaked in while I was asleep and coated my tongue with dog hair and dust, at least that is what it tasted like.

Stumbling of the top of my dinning room table, which by the way I had no idea how I got there or why I was sleeping there instead of my bed. I staggered, swayed into my living room and spied Miki and Victor sprawled on the couch with Victor's arm around Miki's shoulder.
Even through the pain I smiled at how cute they looked together. Walking to my front door I opened it wide... And nearly cursed at the blinding light that stabbed into my brain through my eyes. When did they replace the sun with a arc wielding light?

I bent over to pick up the paper and discovered two things. One, it is not a good idea to put your head lower than your butt when you are hungover and two, the newspaper dateline said that two days had gone by since we had gone to the cafe.

I blinked and suddenly it struck me. Victor and Miki were at my house, they were together on the couch and two days have gone by without me talking to Bardy so he was bound to check up on me soon, I was surprised he hadn't yet!

Oh and I suddenly realized for some reason I couldn't recall at the moment that I was wearing a skimpy yellow bathing suit and was leaning over in my yard staring at a paper I hadn't picked up yet.

Vic didn't know the how.

But somehow, the realtor broke him. He bought one of the houses in the Serenity Hills. He was looking ofr a new start somewhere. Here was just as good as any.

Finding himself would proove a challenge, especially considering he didnt fully trust this place, yet here he was.

He was moving in on a rather warm day so while lugging in all his boxes, he opted for a muscle shirt.

After a very strange, yet fun conversation with Miki, Victor found a house that reminded him of his house growing up.

He walked in and started looking around. A note out front said the realator would be at this particular house shortly.

She was going to kill Egon. (Not that Egon was her friend’s real name, but it was what she had dubbed him since they were kids.) Miki had no idea how he’d discovered this place or even how he’d managed to get her an invitation to an open house event. All the young private investigator knew was that she was here to find out why a few of her and Egon’s contacts had vanished from existence. Running a normal investigation firm was hard enough, but Egon just had to have the bright idea of going multinexus. Or was it multiverse? Miki couldn’t remember. It was all the same to her. She was still getting used to the whole thing. (And one day she’d force Egon to explain how the hell he’d discovered this stuff in the first place.)

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Started out like an average afternoon, got home and checked my mail.

Bill.
Bill.
Bill.
Credit card application.
Bill.

Then there was something odd. An invitation to a housing community on the nexus.

Dear Sir:

We would like to inform you of a magnificent housing community located in the nexus. Our belief in community and values make us believe that you are a perfect candidate for our development. We will be having an open house for you and a few select others that we would like to encourage to move to our development this weekend. We hope to see you there. A packet of information and an address is enclosed. Thank you again for your time.

I wasnt looking into moving, but given the slow nature of things in my life, change would be good.

Guess I had plans for the weekend. And it wouldn't hurt to take a look around. See what this place has to offer.