Author Jade Elf
Title Intrepidity
Rating pg (for now)
Disclaimer
With a smile, wink and a nod
She admitted it was quite odd
That she would write a book
With kings, elves, and a took
Of which she would make not a buck
For she was fast out of luck
For it was not she who first told
Of this story with heroes bold

Last time

"Oh wait let me guess Cassandra Lorene made the complaint?" Leaf said after a half second of contemplation. The only person she knew that would meddle in her affairs like that would be her own mother. Her mom was still trying to convince Leaf to move back in with her. It was ridiculous Leaf was a 35-year-old adult. She could do what she wanted with or without her mother's permission.

"Um... I am not at liberty to discuss that information at this time," the bald man said stuttering. Leaf looked at the man with pure annoyance on her face.

"Well let's get this over with. What do you want to see first?"

The inspector spent four hours rummaging through Leaf's things, only to decide that there was 3 thousand dollars worth of things needed to be done. All of the work was necessary to bring her home up to code.

It was silly things like the nails that she had used were made of wood, she had to go and get metal nails to secure everything. She couldn't use iron nails because it would mess up too many of her spells so that meant brass or copper, which was EXPENSIVE! Or the fact that she used dried moss for insulation. Does anyone know what fiberglass does to animals that nest in it?

The idiot said that he would get back to her on weather or not that was legal. She had a week to bring everything up to code or she would be kicked out and her home would be condemned.

Once again, Leaf was thankful that her mother had paid her well as a secretary. She had made enough money to build this house, buy the land and enough left over that she wouldn't have to work for a couple of years, until she found something she wanted to do. The cost of bringing the house up to regulations it would take a year off the time she had to figure out what she wanted to do, but it wouldn't hurt her too horrible.

Leaf sat back and smiled. She had just finished 7 days worth of work with very little sleep, but it was worth it. In her hand she held her official license of a completed inspection proving that her home was up to code. She started nodding off somewhat tiered after going so many days with so little sleep. Normally she could go a day or two without sleep without any ill side effects but she had ever tried so little sleep for so long.

She was just getting comfortable in front of the fire when a gentle nudge in the back of her mind told her that someone was coming. Leaf sent a feeling of gratitude back to the origin of the warning.

She stood up and put a kettle of water on the stove when she heard the sound of tires driving to fast on a gravel road. She stepped outside and saw her mother's BMW pull up. Leaf mental cursed at the fact that she had forgotten that today was the day her mother was coming to visit. Her mother was probable planning to take her back to New York.

The car stopped and a perfect foot in a designer shoe and black nylons could be seen. Then the rest of the body could be seen. All of Leaf's life she had been compared to her mother. Leaf had come to accept that she would never be as beautiful as her mom. Cassandra stepped out of the car in a designer gray dress suit. Her incredible long black hair was wound back into a smart little bun. The rest of her was immaculate from her lacquered nails to her angel's face. If her mother didn't make it so well in the lawyer world then she could have been a modal and never needed airbrushing.

"Elisabeth how are you darling?" said Leaf's mother with all the inflection of a modal's she looked like.

"Mother it's Leaf now, and I am doing simple divine." Leaf said with some smugness knowing what was coming next.

"Are you sure? You don't have any problems with your house do you, because if you do there is always a place for you in New York." Leafs mother said bewildered.

"Oh no I am perfectly happy here. As a matter of fact I just had the house inspected and it meets every single code and regulation." Leaf held up the certificate. "You see I am perfectly legal to stay here." Leaf said getting tired of the little game, cut to the chase.

"Oh I do see," said Cassandra more then a little angry.

"Well mother why don't we go in for some tea, I just but the water on to boil," Leaf said with resignation knowing that the battle would never be over.

Thanks to the-real-mo, for telling me I put this story in the wrong section.