A Summer for Jezebel

Mary Weather: Thank you Evil Riggs and Rogue for reviewing!!!

Disclaimer: I disclaim Godchild (if only I were Kaori Yuki ) and those childhood books of Madeline.

At the dining table, the three siblings sat together with Cain at the head of the table with Mary and Jezebel on either side of him. Reaching for a piece of grape, Mary immediately slapped Cain's hand.

"OUCH! Mary, it's just a grape!" cried the Earl as he massaged his pale hand. Jezebel snickers.

"Brother, don't be rude! We should say grace before we eat!" scolded Mary although she hardly ever did but she wanted them to make an impression on their older half brother, Jezebel.

After throwing another furious glance at the doctor, Cain says a little, er, interesting prayer with a twist he learned from reading Madeline. "We love our bread, we love our butter, but most of all I HATE MY BROTHER!!!"

Mary was furious about Cain and Jezebel not getting along but hearing the Earl flat out say he hated Jezebel will make her whole plan impossible! Grabbing the spoon of mustard, she flings it at her brother in rage.

"MISS MARY WEATHER!!!" exclaimed Riff, slapping his hands to his face in shock. Cain blinked through the mustard as the spoon slowly slides off his face.

The Earl was already angry about having his arch-nemesis in the same room, not to mention sharing a meal with him, but now he stands before him with mustard on his face! Cain's day just keeps getting worse and worse:P

"ARGH! THAT'S IT!" yelled Cain as he grabs the cupcakes. With his eyes twitching and glowing red, he shoves it onto Jezebel's face.

"OMG!" yelled Mary and Riff at the sight of white fudge and angel cake smeared all over his face and hair.

"D-Doctor?" asked Cassian nervously.

The grey-haired doctor immediately stands up.

"MWAHAHAHAHA! SERVES YOU RIGHT!!!" cackled Cain. He was fed up with Jezebel's company and his devil-may-care attitude.

Taking off his fudge-smeared glasses, Jezebel calmly uses a napkin to wipe it off. After putting them back on he says, "PREPARE TO DIE CAIN HARGREAVES!!!"

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!"


After the Doctor shoved a banana in Cain's mouth, Cassian and Riff decided it was high time they stopped them. Mary however, had decided to join in and helped Jezebel, er, decorate Cain's expensive tux with gravy and juice.

Actually, it was almost a food operation.

"You! Pass me that bowl of pineapple juice," asked Jezebel with a hint of malice in his voice.

He had pinned Cain down against the wall with his scalpels. Cassian was still trying to pull the doctor away from Cain, if only to prevent wasting food. Riff was busy pleading with Mary to stop but she huffed and ignored him.

"Okay!" called Mary as she carries the heavy diamond bowl over to Jezebel, not being careful, the juice spilled onto the carpet.

"MARY IF YOU COME ONE STEP CLOSER WITH THA-" but Cain's words were muffled by Jezebel's hand.

"And get me that apple!" added Jezebel as he gets a deliciously evil idea. Cain's eyes widened in shock as Mary quickly stuffed an apple into Cain's mouth.


"Miss Mary, please just go and change!" begged Riff, tired from all the struggling. Jezebel finally stopped torturing the Earl, but only after he and Mary tied Cain to a stick.

"RIFF!"

Sighing, Riff rushed to Cain's room. He tried not to laugh at the sight of the proud Earl, treated like a roast pig. He still had bits of apple in his mouth.

"Ptooi! Riff, get that THING out of my house right this instant!!!" shouted Cain after spitting out a piece of apple. His shiny black hair was pointing every-which-way with globs of gravy in it.

"Um, but Master Cain, it-it wasn't so bad. I mean, Miss Mary seemed to have fun with the Doctor so maybe you should…"

"I SHOULD WHAT? Let that insane madman of a Witch Doctor stay in my house ALL WEEK?!!"

Meanwhile, three doors down---

Jezebel, fresh after a bath, was wiping down his hair.

"Here," said Cassian, handing him his glasses. Watching the doctor standing in the sunlight of their window, he asks, "Earlier, you really, seemed to… be enjoying yourself."

Jezebel's eyes widened just a little. Slowly, he opens the window.

"MAN, THAT STUPID CAIN! HOW DARE HE RUIN MY FIRST-FAMILY-GET-TOGETHER-AND-NO-KILLING-EACH-OTHER PLAN!!!" ranted Mary. Her room was also three doors down.

Jezebel listened intently to the fury in his half-sister's words. Turning slowly in the sunlight, he gives Cassian a wane smile.

"Hmm... Perhaps," said Jezebel softly in wonder, "being a family might not be such a far-fetched idea after all."

Cassian blinked. The Earl's a jerk but he and that girl are the only family he's got… it'll be rough but maybe they really can be a family. And also… Cain is definitely not like his father. And with that thought in mind, Cassian's worried expression relaxed into a gentle smile.

Hope you liked it! Sorry for the short first chapter and please review!