Quote: Devine Blood (a Ranma/FullMetalPanic/OhMyGoddess crossover, by Thrythlind)
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Quote:Time: 1200
Date: September 9,
Location: 1841 Via De Luna St.
Pensacola Beach, Pensacola, Florida
I looked from the street at the property that I had been
hired to maintain. It wasn’t a bad site, and the cedar sided two story wouldn’t
be hard to maintain externally with its metal roof. The only detractor I could
see myself was that it was set up similar to an old row house which meant that
the wet wall would likely be the centerline structural wall. The central air
unit was sufficient for the buildings size and the exterior unit was heavily
caged to prevent the theft of the copper inside it. Then there was the twenty
Kw propane powered generator in its own small shed that would kick in when the
power was inevitably knocked out by one storm or another. The shed actually was
attached to the building and also protected the power and water meter’s as well
as the 120-gallon propane tank.
The final deciding factor was that the building was listed
as pet friendly which had been the final requirement for me to say yes to the
job. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my family and the old homestead out in the
woods would always be home, but after my mother’s death and with having to put
down multiple animals in the months since my mother’s death due to their own
age I just couldn’t stay there anymore. There were just too many personal
ghosts to deal with, things I just couldn’t work through at this point in time.
So two dogs joined me in my own two bed one bath apartment
that was the bottom center of the complex on the side away from the gulf. I wasn’t
stupid and I had grown up in the area so I knew exactly what kind of storms
could roll out of the Gulf of Mexico at practically any moment. Oh sure,
hurricanes you usually had at least a few days, (I could predict usually a week
ahead of most weathermen) warning that they were coming so that you could
prepare or evacuate as needs dictated, but plain old gulf storms that blew up
in a night or so could be damn near as nasty, and gale force winds were nothing
to sneeze at. Thankfully parking for the apartments were on the landward side
of the building so I could actually park my Fiat right outside my apartment.
Walking inside I spent a few minutes paying attention to my
girls before heading through the apartment to finish unpacking. I still had to
set up my personal electronics and library shelves as well as put my books in
place before the new tenants arrived. I also needed to lock down my personal armory
as well. Ok, I was a bit of a gun nut, as well as a collector and five years in
the Marine Corps had only given that direction not quelled it, so it was that
the center closet in the apartment, what would for most people be a coat closet
was loaded with a gun safe that would be hell for anyone to try and crack. A seven-digit
passcode as well as a thumb print scanner secured the door so that no hands other
than my own could access the weapons within.
With the last book put away, the last wire connected and the
lock secured on the safe I turned my attention to my future tenants. They were
coming in two different groups, one a merchant group that needed some downtime
and the other a group of school kids from Japan on vacation according to the
initial description. The final files on my charges were supposed to be being
emailed to me, so I was now sitting in my office/library futzing around on my
tablet while I waited.