Her home was exactly the same as she'd shown him in their dreams, a large, elegant Victorian from 1895. They pulled into the driveway that separated the back yard from the one behind it. Her brother's house, he remembered her telling him when they'd first moved here five years ago. There were some chickens wandering around the yard, kicking up dirt in the flower beds and Candy gave them an evil look before shutting down the car and getting out.
He followed her to the back door of her house and waited to the side as she asked while she went in to get something. She came out a moment later with a large dog the same auburn color as her hair. "Go get 'em, boy! Get those chickens!" She encouraged the dog as he sped off after the foul.
They laughed together as the birds screamed in terror before running for their lives. The dog didn't know wich one it wanted to chace ad darted back and fourth across the yard happily. "Oh my God! NO!" A woman came running from the house next door, trying to get the dog to stop. "Leve those chickens alone, you beast!"
Candy quickly walked over to her, "Hey! Don't touch my dog!" "You can't just let your dog torment these poor creatures!" "You love those chickens so much, why don't you keep them in a damn cage and keep 'em out of my yard.. C'mon boy. Let's go in!" She followed the dog back to the house as the woman stood there fuming.
"Damn tree-huggin' hippy bitch." Candy complained as she let the dog back in. Loki gave the woman a snide smile before following his old friend inside. The dog flopped down onto a large pillow on the kitchen floor with a heavy sigh as Candy closed the gate behind him, locking the animal in the kitchen. "I thought you didn't like dogs?" He asked as he trapt her against the gate in the doorway.
"I don't, usually, but Dante grew on me.. Kind'a like you did.." She'd forgotten just how tall he was as he towered over her by a foot and a half. He smiled down at her and let her go. She lead him throgh the library and into the foyer before heading up the stairs where she introduced him to her Momma.
A/N: YAY! I gots my first review on this story! *does the happy dance and gives mein wonderful reviewer and fellow Texan an awesome home-made chocolate cake*