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A wide smile appeared formed on Erik's face and quickly he extended his hand out to Emma to shake it. He truly seemed thankful for the offer. Oh little did she know!

"Thank you! Oh thank you very much! I promise you I won't fail you! I'm Erik van Klaus by the way. Mechanical engineer. I promise you that I won't bother you. I'm very quiet and working most of the time anyways!" The act, his personality, the way he was speaking, it all seemed very real. He realized he had been shaking her hand for quite a while now so he laughed nervously and let go of it. "Sorry!" he chuckled some more. "I'm just really happy. I'll pay right now upfront if you need me to, but I really really need a place to stay." Now that she had taken the bait, there was no way any other demon would take away Erik's prey. Nothing could go wrong with his plan now.

Starting tomorrow, many men will start to show interest in Emma's persona and she will have dates. If she kisses a man that isn't meant to be her husband, well, good-bye heaven and hello hell! "Can we go now? I'm exhausted." Erik even let out a small moderate yawn. Truth was, demons didn't sleep. They could if they wanted too but they could live without it. Erik's fake luggage was at the corner of the building that was behind them. Everything perfectly alined for his lies and trap.





[OOC: I just realized your signature is Kana from Fairy Tail. Do you like that anime? surprised ]

I am so sorry guys! I will reply tomorrow i promise. I could not reply as my niece became sick.

Before Erik van Klaus could really have the opportunity to ask anything as they had almost made it to the end of the block her phone rang again. Emma raised a brow a bit surprised, stopping and to pull out her phone, curious who would be calling her as late as it was. She was fairly confident, this was a sign, getting any sleep before morning was quickly falling out of her grasp. She checked the caller ID to see her friend's name Alista Heart show up on the screen. Alista was one of those friends that most people would have a special ringtone for, as she was one of those people Emma wasn't the type to ignore a call, even a casual one. Besides, Alista was the type to do the same for her.

"Sorry, can you give me a moment, Mr. van Klaus? This should be only a moment," Emma said to Erik with an apologetic smile as she answered her phone switching it to speaker not to come off entirely rude.

"Alista," Emma said brightly, "A bit late for a call, yes? I haven't even made it home yet-though my delay is totally justified, I lucked out and found a more reliable roommate this evening. I was just about to show him the place, actually. Oh, and you are on speaker just a warning, I didn't want to be rude to him. Anyways, how can I help you? I am off on the weekends after all..." She added with a small laugh as she waited for her friend to answer her.

"Actually, no not yet-I said I haven't reached home yet," Emma answered wincing slightly as her friend asked about whether the man she had over was real or not. She didn't really need to be teased by Alista on speaker phone no less in front of someone she was going to sharing an apartment with. Then again, Alista hadn't actually really had a long line of suitors as far as Emma was aware-and if Alista did she was too busy with her work and shop and getting that to gain popularity then to have time to go on dates or really take notice. Maybe that was why Emma and her had grown so close? It was nice to have someone to relate to being in the same boat as her.

"We're about a block from the apartment right now," Emma said, and she glanced over at Erik and gave him an apologetic smile and waved him on as she began to start walking again to finished the last block of the walk home-and then heading up a few flights of stairs before reaching her actual apartment.

"And his name is Erik van Klaus, he's recently moved to the city. You know how difficult it can be to find a decent place to move into. He's in engineering," She answered with a shrug. "It's just a professional arrangement. He needs a place to stay-I have an extra room. And he says he can afford his fair portion of the rent. It is a bit late to work out all the details. I'm sure Mr. van Klaus and I can in the morning. After all, I do have a a basic renting contract written up already on my laptop."

She stopped when she reached a door with a call box with several numbers and some names on it of the various apartments in the building she lived. Pulling out her key she unlocked the door and opened it and said, still leaving her friend on speaker and on the phone, and smiled politely to Erik and said, "It's apartment 307... I hope you don't mind stairs."

She added to Alista as she held the phone and said with a chuckle, "I'm fine, by the way. Anything else? Should I give you to Mr. van Klaus so you can ask him questions that you think I'll overlook? I know he mentioned being tired so after settling in and making a final decision to commit or not he was- I assume- planning to go to sleep. I can just move the couch over to the other room if you want to come over, though."

"Alista, I'm so sorry, I need to go now, just send me a text if you are coming over, okay? Talk to you or see you sometime later," She added with a smile quickly hanging up before her friend could protest after Erik had spoken up first about the stairs and then asking if he could just go in and proceeding to step inside the hallway and began up the steps, looking quite exhausted. He sounded it too, considering his tone growing shorter.

Emma caught up to him as she hurried up the steps after him, not seeming bothered the slightest by the jog up at least a flight of stairs if not two to get to the third floor. She smiled as he stood by her door, seeming to glance briefly at the wall across the hall. "You need a key," She said, unlocking the door to her apartment. "It would be stupid to keep my apartment unlocked. Even if Madam Marie across the hall installed her own security system of a small army of saint statues it feels like."

She opened the door to her apartment, it was quite large actually, with a lot of open space and even overlooked the street below, though curtains were closed on the bay windows at the moment. One door was open to a furnished bedroom, while another was open to a room that stood empty besides a book shelf where a stack of law books sat in front of mostly, besides a few that had been shelved. She slipped off her heels as she entered the apartment-leaving them beside several other pairs on an organized shoe rack, took off her blazer and tossed it into the furnished bedroom where she tossed it to the bed and quickly shut the door, before setting her purse down by the door. Nodding to the other room she said, "That would be the free room I was speaking about. I can move the few books and the bookcase now or in the morning if you wish. I half contemplated using it for a library but as you can see I got distracted from the idea."

Motioning towards the general area where there were a couch and two chairs sitting around a coffee table and a dinning room table with seats for four sat to the left with a potted African Violet sitting in the center of it and a space that led to a kitchen that looked too clean to actually be regularly used and then two doors that were shut also were. On the other side of the general space was set up a corner desk with a laptop sitting on the otherwise busy desk full of papers and various files. "The bathroom is the door to the far right, and their is a moderate sized closet between that and the kitchen. Everything besides my desk is free reign out here. Your bedroom is your own space to do as you see fit or decorate, though keep in mind my lease doesn't allow any permanent changes be made to the apartment without prior approval of the landlord. That unfortunately includes hanging things from the wall or ceiling."

"Anyways, respect my privacy and I'll respect yours. And, you can use the couch out here to sleep if you wish-or we can move it to the other room if you prefer till you have a couple days to find your own bed, at least," She ended with a smile, folding her arms behind her back waiting to see if he'd be fine with the arrangement. Of course it was probably unfair to bombard him with all that information as late as it was.

"I'm a workaholic," She said with a shrug when he mentioned that she was organized. "I spend a lot of hours at work. It is fairly easy to keep a place organized when you don't spend a lot of time in it. My desk and my room are fairly chaotic, though. I mean that is where I usually am, only logical. And it being big and its location just means higher rent. Those two flights of stairs to get up here is one of the only reasons I could afford the place when my last roommate bailed on me two months ago." She answered.

"As for the money, just give me what a hotel room will cost you for the night and we can discuss the contract for you staying in the morning," She answered. "Otherwise I feel like I'm taking advantage of you. It's late for both of us, but I have the advantage of being a lawyer so I can rattle off legalities in my sleep. Hardly fair."

"And you staying here? Why should it matter on your gender? As long as you don't go around the apartment naked constantly or hook up with people in the common areas I could care less. And technically those things would apply to either gender," She answered bluntly. "Besides both bedrooms do lock from the inside as well as the bathroom. And, I never asked: you could easily not be interested in females at all which would eliminate any worry any woman should have about having a male roommate. Besides, it is a business deal, that doesn't matter, right?"

"Why? Do you think it would be problematic to stay with a woman?" She added with a shake of her head. "I'm far more concerned about the practicalities of that basically empty room and the fact I got stuck with the burden of an apartment much larger than I needed for another year at the very least, to tell you the truth, than the gender of a roommate."

Emma raised a brow when Erik laughed and told her that she didn't have to get all defensive. She hadn't realized how defensive she might have sounded. Maybe it was because it was late and she was probably more tired than she realized. And, she had her own worries about the situation-more of having let a stranger move in and essentially become her roommate with very little questions asked than the fact of the stranger's gender. Though, she found it odd that he pointed out her own defensiveness when he wanted to clarify who he actually chose to date or not. She didn't see where it really should matter-at least to her.

When he handed her the €75 she was half surprised by the fact he no questions asked handed over such a money-it wasn't like by just going into the room like he did he was going to have anything to sleep on, especially a bed like a proper hotel room. Even a hostel would have at least given him a bed to sleep on. "Of course, good night," She said quickly as he waved and entered his room and shut the door.

Shaking her head she unzipped her skirt as she headed to her room, picking up her purse and locking the door behind her. Changing out of her work clothes she was still in and into a t-shirt and shorts she picked up her phone from her purse and quickly texted Alista: "Everything is more or less worked out. Going to bed. Text me if you need me. Good night." Yawning, she fell back onto her bed, laying the phone beside her and closed her eyes and quickly fell into sleep.



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