VD - Fundraising Part 5

You’re tired, but you also feel good when you get home. It’s easy to see that you feel better being productive. It wasn’t looking after the help that was difficult for you as a housewife, it was all the downtime and not knowing what to do.

Now you know what to do: whatever Morrigan tells you.

You find Cas and Pol in the kitchen, cooking dinner. You help them, which they enjoy. There’s enough ambient lust coming off you that just your presence makes them a little high. Through the open window, you can see the castle continuing to take shape, and hear the banging of hammers and the creaking of rope pulleys.

You can tell now that the castle was a… misguided attempt to do something for Demi, or for yourself. Unfortunately, it’s too late to back out now. The castle is happening. On the other hand, if Morrigan does win and you are suddenly an important person, then having such a castle will be appropriate, at least.

You don’t regret it. You like Lady D and her daughters. Lady D isn’t a substitute for your own mother, who you miss, but she’s better than nothing.

Demi comes home at her usual time, and Pol hurries away to do for her exactly what Morrigan’s maids do: get her out of her clothes before she gets upstairs, where a bath is waiting for her. You wash your hands and follow, coming into the front hall to see your red, naked, pregnant wife making her way up the stairs.

“Hey,” you call.

“Oh. Baby,” she says, looking down at you. “How was your day?”

You jog up the steps to catch up with her. “Good,” you report.

“She put you right to work, didn’t she?” Demi asks with a smirk, walking down the hall to your bedroom. You help her into the bath, mindful of her belly, and pick up a sponge.

“What’s the special occasion?” she asks as you wash her body.

“I just have more energy,” you say.

“That’s so funny. You humans are strange.”

“It helps me to have something to do,” you say defensively. You were always a bad student, but you always tried. And you always worked hard at soccer. You never thought about it, but the truth is right in front of you: you are a hard worker. Being a housewife was never going to be a perfect fit for you.

“I can smell the fundraising on you,” Demi says mischievously. “Anyone I know?”

“There was this bossy lady that liked getting whipped. And a big dude in a nice suit. And another dude that promised us a ton of funding if we’d watch him jerk off,” you tell her.

“Did you watch?”

“Nope. Morrigan got under his skin by like teasing him and playing it up. She said we’d only watch him if we won, so he has to make sure that we would win. Morrigan’s really good at that stuff,” you say. “If we win, I guess we watch him do it. He’s good-looking and stuff, but he reminds me of my dad.”

“Sounds like fun,” Demi says.