rescuing the man • koen

[Morganna La Fey]

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uh....yeah

Koen Raymond Jade

the words by christina perri

love   is   a   ghost 

I promise you the truth can’t hurt us now

Morganna glanced down at her phone once again before she looked back up at the house, this was the place. From the outside it looked nice. Climbing out of the car she pushed the door closed behind herself and locked it before she made her way up to the front door. This was something new for her, coming to the rescue of a man who was having a fight putting together some furniture, she pretty much knew nothing about about Koen besides the fact that he had some adorable kids and seemed like the kind of man who would do anything for them.

Reaching the door Morganna unlocked her phone and shot off a quick text to tell Koen she was at his door, she didn't want to risk waking his kids up in case they were light sleepers. Shuffling her feet a little she put her phone into the back pocket of her jeans and fidgeted with the hem of the light sweater she had pulled on as she waited. She felt nervous but logically Morganna knew there was nothing to be nervous about. Yes, she was a short woman but that didn't mean she couldn't take care of herself. Hell, on a daily basis at work she tended to wrestle with men bigger and strong then herself.

She could do this, she could help him put together furniture. Shaking her head a little Morganna ran a hand through her short hair and waited patiently for Koen to come and let her in. Besides, she was technically being paid for getting out of bed and coming to help him, she was being paid in free food.

DONE BY MYST!

[Koen Raymond Jade]

To be honest and truthful, yes, Koen was having some trouble putting together some furniture. He was a smart guy, but the instructions from IKEA were like reading German to a non-German speaker. Some words you could get but the whole message was lost. Plus, she was perfect eye candy for him. A little different than what he liked or looked at, but didn’t matter for him. This was a good excuse to maybe get to know her a bit more. One couldn’t have enough friends, right? Or even more so, good friends? He didn’t mind. Plus it was good to have someone to enjoy time with, instead of having the television being your best friend when you’re free, no one’s around, and the kid’s are asleep.

Getting off the phone with Morganna, Koen continued to try to decipher the collaborated words of nonsense of the instructions. But to no avail, he didn’t quite get them. “I swear some steps are missing…” He commented to himself, slowly starting to fade in and out of caring to attempt to put this together while he waited for the lady to show up. After some moments, he gave up and just sat on the ground, playing around on his phone before his Rottweiler dog walked up to him, jumped on the couch, and claimed his spot on the couch right behind Koen. That was when his cell phone buzzed.

“Oh!” Surprised, he checked the message then got up. Immediately, the Doberman dog he owned rushed to the door, head poking out between the curtains. She knew better than to bark while her owner was up. “Easy girl.” He got up and walked to the door. Moving Valentine aside, Koen unlocked the door and soon opened it with a small smile. “Thanks for not ringing the door bell. It would have set off the security alarms…” His words trailed off, eyes pointing downwards at his Doberman before opening the door further and taking some steps back so that she can come on in. Quickly, Valentine went to work. She began sniffing Morganna.

Walking to the couch and to the area where the unfinished furniture was, Koen turned around and looked at her. “That’s Valentine. Three years old, first time mother. She’s a good girl.” He spoke. When she was done sniffing her, she walked past Koen and walked back to the side of the couch where three puppies resided. When she returned, Nero, the Rottweiler, poked his head up and barked. “Shush!” Just as he was ordered, Nero stayed quiet, but that docked tail of his kept wagging and wagging; chocolate brown eyes earning for her to come forth and adore him – as he was such the attention hog and drama queen. “And that’s Nero. He’s a good boy as well.” Looking over to the furniture pieces he got from IKEA Koen sighed, “And this is the furniture. Unlike my dogs, this is bad and more complicated than any person I’ve met.”

[Morganna La Fey]

Morganna waited patiently and gave a small smile in return when Koen opened the door, looking down at the dog she gave a small laugh "I was more worried about waking your little ones up if I rang the bell" she said as she stepped inside when Koen moved to the side. Gently petting the dogs head Morganna smiled down at her "Cailín maith" she said gently calling the dog a good girl in Irish, letting the dog do what she wanted Morganna followed after Koen "Quite the beautiful name for a gentle soul of a dog". Looking at the Rottweiler she tipped her head to the side a little, "He looks like his a little bit of a trouble maker and an attention seeker" she said with a grin before she turned her attention to the offending furniture in question.

"Well, with the two of us we might be able to un-complicate it" she said as she pushed up the sleeves of her sweater before she sat down on the floor, picking up the instructions Morganna read them carefully before she quirked a brow "Huh, I can see how this is confusing" Morganna said before she flipped the instructions over looking at everything before she eyed the piece of furniture in front of her. Biting her bottom lip she moved onto her knees and set about getting all of the pieces sorted as a small frown appeared between her brows as she looked down at the instructions in her hands, "Whoever wrote these instructions needs to be hit on the head with something and then taught how to write better so people can understand them" she muttered more to herself. Tucking her hair behind her ears Morganna then pulled off her sweater showing she was wearing a white tank top under it and she placed her sweater on the floor beside herself, "So, what so far have you figured out?" Morganna asked as she looked over her shoulder at Koen.

Sure she didn't actively go running after men for attention, but Morganna wasn't going to deny the man she was now spending time with was scrumptious and wouldn't turn down a proposition to stay the night if he offered. But maybe that was her loneliness speaking, or the lack of sleep. Either way it was completely true. Or hell, she would be happy if they just became friends. There didn't seem to be enough friends in Morganna's life at the moment and having some more would give her a couple of reasons to turn down picking up extra shifts for work, "If you think this thing is more complicated than any person you've met come and work in the ER for a day, there's enough complicated to go around" Morganna said with a light laugh.

[Koen Raymond Jade]

Koen smiled a little bit at her words. So she was hot and she was considerate. That was always good in a girl. His ex was far from that. “They take after their daddy. A train could run past them and they wouldn’t wake up.” Well, that was half true. Sometimes they were such light sleepers that it wasn’t even funny. Babies were unpredictable to say the least. “Thank you.” Like any canine, he loved getting compliments. His pride as well as his ego was now showing. “The media makes it seem like his breed is a troublemaker when in fact, Rottweilers are the most versatile canine out there. Very protective and a real family pet.” That was the truth alright… If anyone did their research on the breed, that is.

When Morganna rolled up her sleeves and took a look at the instructions he grinned a bit. “See? I swear that’s the last time I shop at Ikea.” Maybe he could get his mother to get his father to make him stuff, but that was a slippery slope to take… And probably a bad idea. Though if it did work, it would be beautiful and hard to dismantle for his father didn’t play around with that kind of material. Koen snickered a bit at her words, which he did catch. Yay for being a werewolf with heightened sense of hearing, right? “Yeah, you got that right.” He said, picking up one of the pieces he was working with, thinking that they might need it soon for something if she can figure out the instructions, “Do we need this?”

As she questioned him, Koen pointed to a few things. “Well, I got the base all worked out on, but as for everything else, like the sides and stuff – I have absolutely no idea.” It was the truth and half of it was he was playing dumb with her. The guy liked what he saw… What could he say. “I’ll pass on that.” He spoke when she talked about the ER. That was one place he would rather not work in for one, and two – be in it. He wasn’t a big fan of hospitals. “Why don’t you become an actor. Now that is more difficult than people realize.” Not the ‘acting job’ he had in the past, but the official one that was on big screens in theaters one. Hopefully she didn’t know about his past… Though if she looked him up, there was quite a few articles about a porn star actor going professional… Oh well. “So, got an idea?” He said, inching closer to her, moving the piece he had on his lap in case she needed it she can take it or if she didn’t need it she could ignore it and take another piece.