Vash Lives In A Sulky House

"There's someone at the door~! There's someone in the front hall~!"

Vash did his best to not hit himself in the face. Or to shout at his house, because even though in most cases he would say that was a sign of insanity, yelling at iMarcus was likely to cause his insanity. "How many times do I have to reiterate this? You refrain from answer the door unless I say you can. I alwaysanswer the door."

By this point iMarcus was humming some song. "Oh? Fine, then I won't tell you who it is!"

"iMarcus!" Vash demanded, but the house went quiet. Wonderful time for his house to start sulking. Vash sighed, pushing his hands back through his hair. Then he stopped when he heard iMarcus' voice in the front hallway, rambling on to whoever it was who had been insane enough to come into this house.

Heidi was a saint for dealing with any of this.

"This is what you have to stop!" Antonio was waving his arms around in the air before he noticed Vash and stopped. "Vash! You have to stop your house from calling me!"

It took Vash a few moments to respond, as it took him a few moments to discern what Antonio was saying from what iMarcus was rambling on about. Which was when he realized that iMarcus was rambling on about a wedding and Antonio was talking about stopping that.

So Vash did not even have to ask Antonio to clarify. He motioned back out the door and the both of them stepped outside so that they could hear themselves think. Their own thoughts, of course. Not the thoughts of the other person. Lack of contact with iMarcus did not cause that at all.

"That," Vash began, because he refused to give a house a gender, despite the fact that the voice and personality were clearly masculine as the man the house had copied it from, "has been calling you?"

"Three times now," Antonio said, some concern actually showing on his face. "Which I wouldn't mind, normally, despite the fact I have to clarify that it really is not Mister Vargas, but if Lovino picks it up instead... He'd freak, I know it."

And let alone with all of this wedding planing going on... Lovino was not the calmest person to begin with, Vash did not even want to think about how he would react with it now.

This was not the first time iMarcus had done something like this. Except Feliciano did not mind the calls, except for also worrying about being confused as to whether he was talking to his grandfather or his house. Still, Vash needed to stop this and he was not certain how to do it. iMarcus never really did what he asked, except on occasion.

"I will speak with Kiku and see what can be done," Vash sighed, rubbing at the bridge of his nose. "Until then... I have to recommend disconnecting your home phone line and just use your cell phone. I will talk to him as soon as possible."

"Would you? Thanks, Vash!"

Vash would have said it was no problem, except he did not lie in order to make someone feel better. And it was a problem.


Notes:

That is the end of the day which began on chapter... fourteen, I think. Next chapter is going to be a week later. Unless I have forgotten something. Hearth is becoming slightly too complex for me, I might have to solve a problem or two sooner than I originally planned, just to make certain I have not swamped myself. Ugh.

On that note, Happy New Year! It is 2010! Wow, planet Earth is old! And she is already lying about her age. That conniving little speck of blue in space!