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"I'm sure others would stroll through at some point, see us trying to rebuild things, and decide to settle down too." Van said looking around to see the shape the rest of the house was in. Everything seemed partially crumbling or decrepit, like the slightest touch would send it into an irrepairable heap similar to the door. There was also a fine layer of dust over everything.

((Is it weird that I went to wiki to look up pregnancies to see if the bebeh would be kicking yet? Because I did. Three months in, and there'd be no baby movement yet and the bulge would be just starting to appear. I feel so dirty and wrong for some reason....))

"I wouldn't even know where to begin." Van said as his imagination sprung to life. Suddenly he could see the house as pristine as it was when it was first inhabited. He could see Mala and Riley going about their daily lives before he came into the picture, then that rough period when he came along and possessed Riley, a time filled with much banter, and then came the image of him and Mala raising their own child here. A warm smile crossed his face at the thought as he sat down in a nearby chair without thinking, the whole thing falling apart immediately upon contact, causing the god to fall unceremoniously on his a**. "Okay, that wasn't one of my brighter ideas..." he said rubbing his rear in pain.

((And there was a Van post back on page 173 or so of STMWTV, unless you're trying not to get post-happy again. >w>;; ))

((Hey, more conflict = more drama, and more drama = a Zelly in glee. I say go for it. >XD ))

"I don't remember if you had a basement, so I'm going to assume not and say the floors down here are safe. Otherwise we probably would've fallen through the floor by now." Van said. "Though in general, I'll do the more dangerous work and the heavy lifting. You shouldn't strain yourself too much while you're with child, especially in the later months." he said placing a kiss on Mala's forehead.

((Fun. Oh, and remember how I said a friend and I were having a drinking game with the movie we were watching in class? We only got two sips today (due to appearances of a building called 'The Bradburry' or some such and half a barbie doll). D: And I can't remember ever seeing a more narm-tastic climax to a movie. I'm sorry, filmmakers behind Blade Runner, but it's hard to take your villain seriously when he's running around in his boxers, screaming and howling like a maniac, while chasing the hero....only to save him in the end and give a touching little monologue before dying of natural causes...The collective response from my friends and I was one big 'WTF did we just watch?!' XD ))

"Just watch out for falling ceilings. After that spectacular display of dignity, I can almost guarantee you're going to find me falling through a hole on the second floor." Van half-joked as he headed for the staircase.

((Yaaay~ for OOC text that dwarfs my actual plot post! : D ))

((Let me put it this way: he kinda resembled an original Terminator era Arnold Schwarzanager with white hair. xd ))

Van slowly climbed the stairs, gently pressing on each one as he made his way up to see if they'd support his weight before he suddenly crashed through them. At the rate he was going, he'd do more damage to the place in one day than what time had done over the course of several centuries. After a bit of floor testing around the second floor which resulted in a few new holes in the floor, thankfully without Van dangling from the ceiling, he poked his head into the room below via a gaping hole that wasn't his fault. "I think I already collapsed all the weak spots up here. Other than that, it looks like the attic gave way on its own a while ago." he called down, the entirety of the attic now sitting in a heap on the floor below him.