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_eliot_spencer (_eliot_spencer) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2012-11-29 08:15:00

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*complete, 2012 11, character: april kepner, character: eliot spencer, dead: nathan ford

RP: Eliot/April/Nate
Who: Eliot/April/Nate
When: 11-29-12
Where: Cool Springs Inn
Summary: Time to settle in

Eliot sat at the small table in the motel room, eating the remaining fries from their take out dinner. April was across from him, laptop open, scrolling through rental sites. Nate sat propped against the headboard on his bed, legs crossed at the ankles, watching WGN News.

Eliot had worked his first day as a line cook at B&J's American Cafe. He'd been hired full-time on the spot on Monday after his interview. He'd be working around the Pappas' niece's college schedule, as she was the alternate cook, giving him Monday and Wednesdays off weekly until May. The hours at the diner were great, in Eliot's opinion, from 0600 to 1400. The early afternoons allowed for him not to have to find time to cram in his akido/kempo workout.

It had been a pleasant surprise that April had been able to find a job quickly, too. Eliot hadn't been concerned about Nate; by Tuesday, Nate had already obtained a full-time-with-benefits job in advertising sales at the local WCOE-FM radio station. April had gotten hired that morning as a part-time receptionist at Medspa Women's Healthcare.

With jobs in hand and salaries known, it was time to find a place to live and get settled. Three adults and a collie in a small motel room wasn't the ideal situation. Eliot slipped a fry to Cody under the table and hid a smile behind his hand when April gave him a look.

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april_kepner
2012-11-29 07:56 pm UTC (link)

"Don't feed him that stuff," April reprimanded. "He'll get sick. It's not proper food for a dog."

She scrolled down the site she was looking at, dismissing house after house for various reasons. Too small, too expensive, too expensive and too small... but whatever she looked at she kept going back to the same house.

One house, two two-bedroom apartments, one upstairs and one downstairs. One apartment would do for her and Eliot, if Nate took the upstairs one they'd share a house but still leave Nate with some privacy. Yet with both it would be close to $1000 a week which was more than they were willing to pay.

That didn't stop her from googling the house and looking at the street view. It looked like a lovely area, it would give them a small yard for Cody and it was only a 15 minute walk from Eliot and Nate's workplaces.

"I might have found something," April said, looking up. "It's too expensive, but it's perfect. It's a house with two apartments," she said turning over her computer so that they could see. "Nate could live upstairs, we could take the one downstairs. It's living together only not, you'd still have your privacy," she told Nate. What was better was that the closest neighbors would be in the next house, not on the other side of the wall.

Nate looked up from the news he was watching. "It's very nice of you to think of me, but I have my eyes on a place in town," he said. "I saw it in the paper today." What was better it was right above one of the pubs in town which suited him perfectly.

April's mouth hung open, because this was a horrible idea on so many levels. "Splitting up is a bad idea," she said. "How would you do evacuation drills? How would we warn you if there is an attack coming? What happens if you have an accident with your power?" She looked to Eliot for support. Surely he couldn't like this idea any more than she did?

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