[closed - Jack and Maggie]

[irishcoffee]

It wasn't every day that a new arrival came to the Folly genuinely happy to be there. I got a lot of shock, the occasional screamer, tears enough to make a waterfall off the highest peak, but never someone that just plopped into one of the barstools, and ordered coffee and a muffin.

I didn't get any real sense that he was happy about it for any nefarious reasons, but I knew I'd be sending my preternatural investigators around to introduce themselves just in case.

In the meantime, he was a really pleasant guy with a great laugh and a flirtatious nature that he bestowed on anyone that came in for coffee, male and female. He'd even asked me out once, but backed off graciously enough when I told him I was with someone (with the obligatory remarks about it 'always being the good ones' and my lack of outward symbols that I was off the market.)

From then on, I told him more about the Folly, he told me more about himself and we genuinely had a fun afternoon, laughing with each other.

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[everywere]

I've resumed my security guard job now, only adjusted the hours so that I'm not working when Maggie is off. I don't like that I can't see her all the time but I know it's healthy to take some time apart. The highlight of my days are when I come into the shop just as she's getting off and knowing I get to go home with her.

When I walk into the shop at the end of the day, Maggie is laughing merrily with some guy on the stool. I can immediately smell that he's attracted to her and the way he looks at her makes my hackles raise.

I normally just wait in the corner booth for her to get off but today I go up to the counter and sit right next to the guy, muscles tense as I resist the urge to rip his throat out.