Original Challenge

Maria is the main character and she's the black widow, she marries men for their money then kills them in amusing situations. She marries Max, Kyle and Alex and kills them, but it has to be funny, i.e toasters in bathtub type things (think addams family values).

She's being hunted by FBI or Interpol agents who are Tess and Isabel. Tess doesn't want to capture Maria though because she thinks what she's doing is some sort of brilliant feminist statement so she keeps trying to sabotage the case.

Liz was Max's fiance who he dumped for Maria, she's suspicious of Maria and is after her to find out what happened, she can either die in a volcano or Maria can pay her off, you decide.

Maria moves on to multi millionaire artist Michael, who she plans to kill on their wedding night but it doesn't go to plan because she falls for him. In the end M&M have to end up together, one dead husband come backs cause he isn't dead, and hooks up with someone else and everyone has to end up happyish. It's a black comedy type thing.

Title: Its all about the money
Author: Rosie (MajandraSoLucky)
Rating: M
Summary: Challenge Response. See original challenge.
Disclaimer: Well. Everyone in Roswell relocated into my head. Seems they're mad at TPTB. So, I'm sharing. I'm a good girl. I'm sharing!
Thanks to: Katana, who helped me with the deaths :)

Chapter 1

Maria Deluca watched, head bowed, as they lowered the coffin into the ground. She adjusted her thick black veil over her face, trying to keep the triamphant smirk from displaying itself to the others at the funeral. Poor Kyle Valenti. The man had been a successful football star, raking in thousands a year. At the age of 25, he had met Maria. She'd been 23 at the time, and widowed twice. Now, she guessed it was third time lucky. Lucky was right. Maria was lucky. "My poor darling Chia. It must have been such a painful death and nobody was there to hear his cries."

Yeah, right.

*~*~*

Kyle was in the garage, working on Marias 72 XJ6 Jag.

"Maria, would you pass me the spanner?" Kyle called out from under the car. "Sure," Maria answered. She picked up a spanner and handed it to her husband. "I'm just going to get a drink. You want one?"

"That'd be great," he said. Smirking, Maria walked up the steps to look through the window to the garage. There he was, under the car, the jack propping up the car. Probably the only thing preventing the car from falling on him, causing painful and sudden death.

Which, of course, was the main idea.

Maria focused with her mind. If she could just give the jack a little nudge with her mind � and there it went. The jack fell to the floor with a dull clunk, but that was nothing compared to the satisfying crunch the car made as it fell on top of her poor defenceless husband.

A scream rang out of the garage. Maria stood impatiently, waiting for the screams to end. It took 5 minutes for someone to be crushed to death under a 72 XJ6. Smirking, she headed up the flight of stairs and calmly made herself a martini.

5 minutes later, she hauled her car off her husbands body. Hmm, a few broken bones. Obviously dead.

"Better call an ambulance," she said sarcastically. "And my lawyer."

~*~*~

Third time lucky, alright. Lucky for her.

Who would have thought an alien could have become the richest "woman" in the United States?

TBC ...

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