Author: Sweetwater Gal... aka me! *big grin*
Rating: more or less PG-13ish...
Teaser: A simple suggestion leads Joan to become a part of Gavin
Price's life, but at what cost?
Disclaimer: All the characters are a part of Barbara Hall's imagination,
and CBS-Sony entertainment. I also unfortunately do not own Adam/Chris,
CBG/Kris or Price/Patrick *pouts* And if I owned Adam... he'd be
with Joan and not Iris. *big grin*
Spoilers: Takes place after "Night without Stars" and before any other episodes after that doesn't apply to this story.
Author's Note: Honestly, what's more icky? Joan being paired
with CuteGuyGod or Mr. Price? Don't give up on me and my twisted imagination
because believe it or not, the ending will ultimately make any Joan/Adam
fan happy. Oops! Spoiled my own ending... darn *wink* By the
way, this is my first attempt at writing a JoA chapter fanfic so please
be patient. Just like BHall, I've already mapped the whole thing
out... it just needs to be written out... Don't forget to read and
review w/ no flames b/c I'm sure that my CGG worship will land me in the
place of hotness.
JoA~~JoA~~JoA
Prologue: The Bus Ride
Joan Giradi had, believe it or not, something far more worst to deal with than Grace's insistence of beheading Cousin It. Cousin It being their Adam's new girlfriend, Iris.
She stared out at the window of the bus as it strolled through downtown Arcadia. With a frustrated groan, she recalled how she had gotten to this point and how she wasn't at all surprised to be here. Especially considering how her life was just getting back to... normal. Then again, when you talked to God on a regular basis, Joan figured that she had every right to be paranoid lately at her newfound fortune.
Why oh why couldn't God be more like... well, like Grace? At least some of Grace's "suggestions and advice" were a lot more easier to swallow. Like thinking up ways to get rid of It. Joan by all means didn't wish any harm on Iris, but when it came to Adam Rove, Joan couldn't help but not like the girl. Call it jealousy (definitely on Joan's behalf) or call it being defensive (Grace took over on this territory), whatever... Grace, and especially Joan, wanted Iris to leave their Adam alone.
But has God given her suggestions like that? Oh no. No, no... instead Joan had to deal with suggestions like getting a job (one that deals having to deal with a snippy boss), doing better in school (like she wasn't already trying her best!), join the chess club, join the debate team, take the school's ticking time bomb to the dance (granted that things seemed to work out at the end), take care of kids, smash Adam's art work... well, fine, God didn't tell her to do that, but she did it anyway because God wasn't clear enough to her on why Adam shouldn't participate in the art show! So technically, Joan still kind of placed God as the being that told her to do it...
And this latest one? Ha! Joan knew she should've seen this coming the second the entire Arcadia High student body started buzzing about the latest gossip: Vice Principal Gavin Price's absence.
Joan knocked her head softly on the window, thinking sullenly, "And today started out so great..."
Everyone at school couldn't stop talking about Mr. Price. How he wouldn't be attending school for a couple of weeks because of an unfortunate mishap that occurred at home. An incident that was as mysterious as the seriousness of his condition. It seemed that the only one that knew even some of the details was Principal Chadwick... and he wasn't talking.
Joan couldn't even get a single detail from her mother, Helen. Not that it mattered because despite whether Helen knew the details or not, Joan was amused at watching her mother doing a horrible job at hiding her glee of being Price-free for weeks.
As Joan regarded the looming building now appearing over the horizon, she started grumbling how she couldn't even savor that day's highlight. Okay, granted it had been somewhat mildly strained even before the Almighty of Bad Timing showed up...