All the usual disclaimers are in place, I don't own the rights, to the fifty shades trilogy or the music and films in this short fan fiction story, and as I am dyslexic, please do not read if you are a grammar aficionado, I am not great at sentence structuring...


Putting Down Roots:

Chapter One: Small Town Life:

As I approach the road to the cabin, a cabin, that apparently, will be mighty fine for our man weekends, once I man up. I had been badgered into buying this, by my ape of a brother Elliot. I look up at it sat nestled in the hillside and fuck me it's far from what I imagined it to be, I don't usually buy my homes sight unseen, but this, this was beautiful and it does look a little like my Aspen home, only without the snow. I drive the rest of the way up and see just what Elliot meant, it's peaceful and secluded. Taylor has all ready secured the place and is to stop in his own rooms in the barn conversion, so that he can have his daughter stay with him, it's a barn conversion, a new build that Elliot and his crew built in a matter of weeks. Security are to be bunkered above the garage and at the far end of the barn conversion is the security rooms full of ll the latest spy ware and IT and surveillance gear. Gail Jones, my house keeper is Taylor's significant other and they obviously share their quarters. They have been an item for a long time and are the two most constant people in my life, outside of working that is, and are in a strange way like family.

I am here for two weeks on my own, I wanted peace and quiet to regroup my thoughts and expectations and life goals, I hear my mother saying those things over and over and smile and here I will have it. Barney, my IT guy, has set up my secure internet and has kitted out the house for all my technical needs; he also says there is a ghost in residence, I guess I will wait and see? I grab my bags and head up the dozen or so steps and head in. The place is amazingly clean and there is that definite newness smell about the place. The woody smell reaches my nose and it feels almost calming and my head is at last in a peaceful place. I look at my latest home alone, it is very comfortable and amazingly large, as is everything in my life OTT and well, me...

I have taken this extended leave to try to clear a pathway in my crowded brain, something needs to be clear and thank s to her, its already getting there. I have had my last ever run in with her, Elena and I having now come clean about my lifestyle to my parents, I didn't want to, but I had no choice, well not at that time anyway, because they found me and they thought they were about to see me smack their good friend Elena and do her some serious damage. I was actually pushing her away from me, She'd chosen my parents home, of all the places to make a drunken pass at me, right there in their cosy lounge, in their home too, she'd decided to claw me, to get mt attention, me she pawed in my no touch area and I flipped. What made it worse, she had to do it at my mother's fucking birthday party. They came in just as she was in the submissive position and I was about to use my belt on her, I guess from their point of view it did look as though I was going to beat her senseless, what her with her ass on display and me standing in the position I was, what they didn't know was, she would have creamed in her panties at any other time, for that connection of leather on skin. Elena told them what we were about to do and it sort of escalated from there, the whole thing was very surreal, it happened, but I wasn't at the time, I wasn't sure how it escalated but hell did it...

I know it ended in Elena having her bleached blonde hair being pulled from her head, and being smacked so hard that my mother actually put a dent in her Botoxed brow, when my mother's expensive birthday gift from Elena, ended up being thrown at her head, as she headed to the gate to be free from my mom and her temper. Funny thing was my mother had quite the aim with the Lalique vase. She was egged on when both Elliot and Mia encouraged her with screams of go mama, go mama. I was being comforted by my father at the time. She had ousted me as a masochist to my parents and sneered as she did, perhaps thinking I wouldn't retaliate, but I did and when the words left my mouth I was free, free from the secrets and the lies I had fed myself for all these years...

"Elena I am what I am because of you, what did a fifteen year old know of these things?" My mother gasped and my father grabbed me.

"You learnt from the best to be the best, I made you, I broke you in and I trained you to be fucking perfect, the best fuck a woman could ever have and that is my doing, I lent you the money so you could become a billionaire, I made you and I fucking own you boy..." That was when Mama Grace flung into protective mode...

"My son, you groomed my son, you paedophilic bitch, you took my child's innocence and you are proud of it, well, just how proud will you wear my battle scars, you fucking monster, you vile sycophantic bitch..." The rest was pretty much a hazy cloud, I know it didn't last as long as it seemed too, but then after I told them everything I slept in my old room for two days solidly, there were no nightmares no sweats, I just slept in my peaceful place. I am here under doctors orders to take a two week break, my first long vacation since starting Grey Enterprise Holdings Incorporated.

Elliot had finished the building work a week ago, then Gia and her team of assistants had finished the place off to my exacting standards. Security was as good here as it was at work and at home, I owned the god damned mountain and it was totally fenced off, tastefully done and not too intrusive to the locals, but I was safe in my new home. I unpacked and my new wardrobe here is not my usual suits, ties and designer range crisp white cotton shirts, I mean it is, its designer mountain man type apparel from Timberland, Abercrombie and Finch. I was taken for my new wardrobe by Mia, I guess as Mia says I'm bringing sexy back to the mountains of Montesano, like I give a damn.

I walk around and there a seven guest bedrooms all with their own bathrooms, a half bath next to the mud room and a kitchen Gail never wants to relinquish ownership of. Its fine by me, I can use the microwave, the jug kettle and the toaster, I'm sure I will survive when she isn't here. I do however need supplies, so I decide to head into the small town of Montesano and I swear when I get there they have is closed the place because it is so damned quiet. Gail has packed the freezer with ready to heat through meals; I just need the staples, I can do this shop for myself. I'm a grown assed man. I head down the main street; really, this is their busiest street? I pull into the parking space of the small store and grab a basket...

This should be fun, Gail does this for me and my mother before her, well my mother's housekeeper did our shopping, I can honestly say being the fucking spoilt boy that I am, I just opened the cupboards and ate drank and was merry, for all I knew fridge fairies filled the fucking things, all I know is I have never shopped for fucking food before. I walk around and it's like I have landed on a whole different planet. I think there's a system to this, up and down the food packed shelving aisles, and you head one way I think? I then realise I have left the list that Gail made me stuck on the fridge at home, great. Milk, I need milk, I see the fridges and fuck me there are shelves full of the fucking stuff, okay, which one do I fucking drink? I will not call Gail. I wander the wall of whiteness and my head starts to spin, okay do I have 0%, wait that's water surely? 1% a little less watery, then there's 3%, what the fuck? I grab the 3% if it tastes crap on my cereal I will come back and try the others; I grab the biggest, because it means fewer trips back.

I grab some cream, butter and a pack of yogurt, I like the Greek ones, and wow they have them here, Whips my favourites for some unknown reason Taylor laughed whenever he saw me eating them, when he eventually explained I sighed, let him get his kicks somewhere else, so I throw a few of those in. I think I'm getting the hang of this, it's not as hard as my employees make this out to be. Women, they moan about anything. I grab some cheese in a tube, there are loads of novelty items to do with cheese, there are string bags with mini cheeses from around the world, I laugh, I don't think so, it also comes in a can, so I grab that too. How do they get cheese into a fucking can, and why would you? The bread aisle next and I throw in a few loaves and some bread rolls too. Crackers for the canned cheese, which I will try later and then on to the cereal aisle, wow there are loads. I get a box of muesli that looks like the one Gail uses and some Granola again, I think it's the one Gail uses. Oh lord they have Lucky Charms, my cereal of choice, when I was much younger, but they were banned when my fighting got out of control, sugar issues were not the cause of me being a angry child and teenager...

I think I have everything, nope coffee I need coffee, fresh coffee. I see their selections and inspect them, choosing a blend that is similar to mine but it is way cheaper. I then peruse the toiletries aisle and I am amazed at how cheap lube is here, not that I need it and their condoms are, well, cheap too! Obviously, if I don't need lube I don't need these. I hear a snigger behind me and a woman, well a young lady is on her phone, I walk away to give her time alone with the condom rack, instead she goes to the feminine products, which makes me glad I'm a male, monthly cycles is all that's going through my mind now damn it. I think I have everything and then remember I need eggs and bacon, crap my basket is overflowing. I rearrange the items and make a well in the middle for the eggs, bacon and sausage I find these items are being served behind the counter, the spotty boy serves me with a grunt, god is he been smoking dope, or does he just look dopey? Okay, so there is no job satisfaction here then? He packs a block of bacon in paper and two links of sausages, I need to know what quantities Gail buys, they freeze right?

"Is that all Sir?" He looks at me like I have spouted two heads.

"Do you have any strong cheese?"

"This one's pretty dammed potent?" A woman stood behind me tuts.

"Paul, how many times have I told you, if you don't know something ask Clare to come and serve?"

"You don't work here any more, you are not the boss of me any more Steele."

"That's Ana to you, I'm a customer now. Treat me as such; do you want me to tell daddy on you again?"

"Oh fuck you Steele, you are a bitch..."

"What did you call the lady?" I shout at the idiot, but her hand pats my back and through I flinch a little, I do not totally flip out and recoil from this woman's hand.

"She is and she knows it... Fuck you Steele." He threw his hat in the trash and flipped the other customers, who were waiting, off. Good customer feedback always appreciated, says the sign on the wall... Umm we will see.

"Excuse me one little minute." The lady behind me moves behind the counter, washes her hands and puts a hat and a smocked apron on.

"Now what do you want Sir, was it a strong cheese?" I am staring into the blue pools that she has for eyes, and I know there is a queue behind me and I shake my head. "Do you want my recommendation?" I shake my head like a fuck wit, yes. She cuts a taste test off the corner and it tastes great.

"That's really good can I have that please?"

"How much, do you want?" How the fuck do I know?

"I don't know how about a big chunk?" She smiles kindly at the moron looking at her and slices me a fairy large chunk of cheese off the large circle of cheese.

"Anything else, Sir...?" No, I don't think so, other than your name and number, perhaps? I see a man come and join her and she hugs him tightly.

"Anastasia Steele, we meet again..."

"Adam Steele, what's been keeping you?" She hugs her husband and smiles sweetly at me, all the good ones are taken it seems...

"Is that alright Sir, do you need anything else today?" I smile and take the offered up cheese.

"No, that's fine for today, and thank you." I smile and head to pay for my goods. I see the young man being smacked about the head by an elderly guy; good give him one for me. I am helped to pack my food choices and pay for them, wow food is so dammed cheep, its cost less than my breakfast order in Seattle. The grocery clerk packing offers to carry my bags to my car and I say I can manage, flipping the sacks into my arms I head to my SUV and place the bags on the ground and open the back. I get them into the back and close the trunk.

Then I notice sitting all forlorn on the forecourt, is a tiny puppy, it's tied with string to the sign post and he is scared shitless. I head over and untie the little thing, looking around I can't see anyone around, I look again and she is not a he and she is now shivering and cold, shaking in fear and smells terrible. I look around and see the man from the earlier, one half part of the happy couple and I approach my car, grab a blanket from the back and wrap her in it.

"Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you, but this little lady was tied to the post there, she has no collar and is too young to be here on her own, is there a dog pound nearby?"

"Nearest ones in Portland, well the nearest good one anyway, and the vet isn't open until tomorrow, she takes in strays too, so do you think could you keep her until tomorrow? Maybe bathe her and give her some cooked rice, warm milk and water?"

"Is that what dogs eat?"

"Small puppies her size do, they do eat meat, but in tiny amounts, mixed in with the rice, Puppies pretty much eat anything and everything. Place her in a small room with a rug and some water and lay down newspapers and she will be fine, the veterinary surgery is two blocks up and down the street a short way. She opens at ten. Hi, I'm Adam Steele. Home on leave."

"Hi, I'm Chris Trevelyan; I have just bought a place in the mountains near to Lake Sylvia State Park? You're on leave from where can I ask?"

"I'm a marine, it's a family thing. My dad served as did his. Did you buy the old Lewis place? If you did we are near neighbours, as we have a place by the lake? It's a small place and again I am sorry but gossip has been ripe about who got the place. Are you planning on living in it, or is a weekend getaway?"

"I don't know yet, I work in Seattle and haven't made my mind up what I'm doing yet." The puppy had fallen asleep in my arms. "Is there a pet store here in town?"

"There's Marshall's in Aberdeen, head down Olympic and its signposted. It will have puppy foods and shampoos; have you become attached Mr Grey?"

"She may be company; do I have to tell anyone I have her?"

"No, chances are it's one of the families moving out of town. The job losses when they closed down the building of the big shopping centre here has killed this place. It was supposed to be the thing to save us."

"Why did it have to close down, it's pretty obvious it is needed here?"

"The firm went bust building it and the contractors didn't get paid, they got it closed and lost everyone their jobs." Interesting I seem to have found my simple task to do here then, whilst I re think my future role in GEH Inc...

"Thanks I have a friend who likes a challenge. It seems Lucky Lady we are going to Aberdeen to get you some supplies. Thanks Adam, and don't worry I will take her to see the V.E.T tomorrow."

"I'm pretty sure she can't S.P.E.L.L yet. See you around; you can't miss us, but if you need us we're the Steele by the mailboxes as you fork up the mountain to your place." I nod and accept the box he has for Lucky Lady, I place her and the rug in the box and head into Aberdeen; I may have got my shopping head on. It seems I am buying a construction site and dog products, I wonder what type of dog my dog is? As I head home, the back seat is crammed with everything Lola needs, I'm also trying on lady dog names for size... I head up the road and see the mail box for the Steele's it's a very nice mailbox as mailboxes go, it's a miniature house. I open the gate and drive up my private road, Elliot is here and he dashes to help with the shopping.

"We always wanted a dog, can we keep her Chris?"

"I guess so; she is smelly though. There's a ton of crap for her in the back; I also got a doggy play pen, a dog bed and a cushion. Can you set it up in front of the fire, she has a chill according to the woman in the pet store, she has a jumper to wear, build up food and milks and all sorts of associated dog crap." He takes the things from the trunk and the back seat and I carry in some bags and our Montesano pet. As I unpack the food, Elliot bathes our new pet dog. He comes down with her wrapped in one of my best fucking towels.

"She's a whole lot better; she smells pretty, don't you Booty." It seems Elliot is trying out names too.

"Booty, that works; she has four white boots on see?" I like that.

"Cool, what have you got for dinner Christian?"

"Cheese in a can and crackers and a cart load of crap..."

"Please tell me you got tube cheese too?"

"As I said loads of crap, Gail will only rid me of it when she gets here. Elliot, do you know the construction you have going on in Seattle, when does it end?"

"Next week, Wednesday is the hand over and then I have a small team doing the fix it list why?"

"How would Grey Construction like the contract for building the shopping and leisure complex just outside of town here?"

"I wouldn't mind a crack at it, I know the guy who owns it, he's looking to recoup his loses, he got the building when the owners skipped out owing him millions why?"

"I want that to be my new weekend project for a while."

"It will be a change to your usual weekend activities that's for sure. Elena tried to get back into Grey Cottage yesterday, Mom covered her in black tar paint, a bushel of feathers and then for good measure she threw that ugly bird statue she had in the lawn, right through her widow screen. That Lincoln woman is all kinds of fucked up, she keeps saying you love her and she made you, she is bat shit crazy."

"Love is for fools she told me, love makes you drilled into me and for years too and then suddenly I love that dried up and withered old hag do I? Well, she can fucking rot for me."

"I had a run in with her in my youth too, I told her to fuck off back to whichever coven she was a member of. I don't think her facial expressions have changed in the fifteen years she has been our neighbour, do you?"

"She is botoxed to the max, and face has been lifted so many times her eyes now look oriental, and boob jobs and nip tucks, she has had the works, somewhere running around there is a mini Elena made with all the crap they cut from her." I joke. He laughed as we fed and watered Booty. I made a call, and I had Ros close on the deal for the shopping and leisure centre, here in Montesano. It turns out she was all ready involved in buying it for the land, I am freakishly amazed at this coincidental happening. After we have been to the vet with Booty in the morning, Elliot and I are meeting with his crew chief and his new architect, Jose Rodriguez...

We have a restless night camped out with Booty by the fire, she is such a sweet thing and we have drip fed her milk all night and tempted her with fine slices of veal, she finally went to sleep about five o'clock and Elliot and I joined her. We were woken at nine by the screams of our damned sister Mia, who gave my sister the damned gate code? I will kill you Lelliot, he shrugged his shoulders and went to get showered and changed.

"Aww Christian, she is adorbs, what is she called, hello beautiful..."

"She is called Booty, funnily enough and is due at the vet for her check up, are you coming and holding her?"

"Is she for me?"

"Nope, she is for the house, she is the pet for the house here Mia."

"I'm going to dog nap her and take her to Paris with me."

"Get your own damned dog, this one's mine." I kissed my dog and then my sister.

"Great I'm way down the pecking order now Booty. Get changed and have a wash you stink of dog." I could insert a joke about Booty not being the only bitch in the room, but I love my scatty sister. I changed and came down to find Booty in her travel case and Mia clearing away dog poop, a very changed Mia indeed. Elliot came down and we all three got into my SUV. His has Grey Construction embossed on the side and for now I like the anonymity being a Trevelyan gives me here.

"Right you two; here in Montesano, we are the Trevelyan family. Mia, Elliot and I am Chris, for once in my life I want to be just Chris Trevelyan, real estate agent."

"It's not strictly a lie; you are Chris Trevelyan in fact we all are, but why do you want to lie to them?"

"Mia, you see how I live in Seattle, I am watched and I am followed, I lived a very different life there, here I just want to be me. For as long as I can."

"I like being in Paris for the same reason. It's so refreshing not being your damned sister and just another class member."

"I like being me and I like being Harry Sparks too... Keeping the name simple is always the best when going incognito."

"Elliot you give them false names so the girls can't find you."

"You say half full Chris and I say half empty. Are we off to find the puppy doc then?" We head into the small town again and find the vets surgery quite easily.

"The A.R.K: Anastasia Steele & Katherine Kavanagh: DMV & NAV Licensed. We have the right place Chris." I do have eyes Elliot. We head in after I take my pup to the receptionist, Elliot is all ready making cow eyes at the blonde behind the desk and Mia is playing with the collars and the cute things they have for sale, my dog is not wearing a pink tutu, unless Elliot is walking her. I grin.

"I found this little thing tied to the sign for the store down the road and Adam Steele said I should bring her in for a look over."

"He would, he likes to drum up business. What's the name?"

"Booty, for now, but she has had several."

"Your name...?" Opps, well that looked intelligent, not...

"Chris Trevelyan..."

"Argh, the new guy on the mountain, you don't look like a recluse. Welcome to town. Put her on the scales here, I guess you don't know if she has been wormed nor had her injections do you?"

"Nope, the lady at the pet store said she has a cold and was dehydrated, so we sat up most of the night drip feeding her the milk stuff she had me buy. Elliot and I made her drink little and often."

"That's his name is it? I am Kate Kavanagh, partner here. Our receptionist upped and moved out of town so we are on our own for now. Ana, Ana can you come and work your magic on Booty Trevelyan?"

"Are you not seeing to her?"

"Nope, I was just grabbing my bag, I have a horse with a twisted colon to see too, I came in for my gun in case you know I have to put it out of its misery. They were trying to save money and were nursing her themselves, alas they may have left it too late, it's not like we push for payment."

"Oh, why is that?" I nosily ask.

"We are vets first and foremost and are here to help animals, not get rich quick, we eat well and we drink for free, people pay what they can and how they can and when they can, but they don't see us starve either." Kate seems very caring towards the animals, I guess it helps to enjoy your work?

"I can assure you I can pay and will pay. Adam says Anastasia takes in strays, surely she can't afford that too?"

"She hunts for their food, with her daddy. She can make them all better, so she doesn't turn an animal down, put them to sleep or turn them away if she can help it. We have the land at the back to build out onto for a rescue centre for strays and the unwanted of the area, there are a few and Booty is very lucky you want her, there are plenty not so lucky. Anastasia I have to be going."

"I'm here bossy boots, oh hello, it's you again. How was the cheese?" Argh it's Mrs Blue Eyes...

"It was most excellent Mrs Steele."

"Less of the Mrs, I'm Ana or Anastasia, only if you have too and it's Miss Steele if you still have a stick up your butt or are from the tax office. Adam said you rescued Lucky Lady. Come through; are you and your partner coming through?"

"He's my brother and that's my sister buying Booty all manner of crap."

"Sorry, I just thought... Never mind, how was she last night Adam said she was a pitiful mess?"

"She was okay once she had a bath and some warm milk and some veal in her, we gave her little and often, she was fed the milk from the pet store every fifteen minutes through the night and slept by the log fire in her jumper, the lady at the pet store said she had a cold."

"She has, but she seems okay, let me check Miss Booty over. Why did you think I was married, can I ask?"

"You and Adam seemed to be a couple."

"Oh we are very close, very close and share everything, unfortunately, we shared the same womb too, he's my twin brother."

"Okay then, so who was the idiot in the shop?"

"Paul, he is ex high school idiot I had the misfortune to know, he was an ass then and he still is. I worked in the store at the weekends and school holidays, to put myself through vet school at Oregon State University. Several of their customers and the idiots father, helped with my fees, if I promised to come back and open up my practice here, we needed one, so I did."

"Oh, how very community spirited of you. You could make more in the city you know?" I say as she checks the dog and me over. Wow, this day just got better.

"I do, but to be honest with you I like it here, here is home and here is where I want to raise my children one day." Killer words, they just deadened my ardor.

"You don't have children then?" I watch as she does things to Booty. Who is fast asleep on her blanket on the table, I hope she is just a lazy pup and not a sick puppy.

"God no, I only qualified last year and I'm just getting money coming in, I have plenty of eggs, cheese, pies, and enough meat to last for years, so I reckon that part will come later."

"Is she okay Booty, should she be asleep like this?"

"Yes, she is fine; you are doing the right thing, keep it up and in a couple of days you will be wishing her quiet again."

"Do you know what sort of puppy she is?"

"Yes, she looks like a black retriever and a pedigree I would guess, she is not chipped, would you like her chipped?"

"Yes, please Ana do everything she needs to be well, will a thousand cover it?"

"Errrr, it's going to be about a hundred at the most."

"Well take the rest for the kennels for those less unfortunate that you want to build, in fact I know someone, who dishes out grants for a worthy cause such as this, he could fund the new kennels out back for you?"

"Wow, you really must be in love with this puppy, to go to so much trouble, but yes thank you anything helps." She jabs Booty with a needle, then another, then she puts drops for the fleas she may have, though we or rather Elliot did bathe her in flee shampoo.

"There you are one jabbed, tabbed and wormed pet puppy, you little girl are so lucky to have found a nice home."

"Feel free to come by any time neighbour."

"I may do, you fenced off some good hunting ground, Mr Trevelyan we thought drugs were being grown behind the fence, until rumours of a recluse moving in circulated..."

"I wouldn't believe everything you hear Miss Steele, but for fixing my little friend here I will make the kennels happen, and thank you Miss Steele. Thank you so much..." I walk out feeling happy to be here, I think I have just found my way home...


short and sweet, well for me anyway, was going to do a one shot but hell I couldn't lol...