Chp35 Coven of Anna
Seattle: West Core Warehouse
When Grey destroyed Ainsley Wesord family business, he kept this warehouse on the key South Seattle industrial wharf. The expansion of the space is planned for June. Till then its empty, perfect I move a trailer inside and have water, sewer, and electricity hooked up. Grey will be paying to accommodate his mother-in-law's rise to power. I don't doubt that little mouse Anna will bend to mommy's rules.
I plan on how to spend my money, and my yearly honorarium. I have the party all set and planned. Grey charity connects are much better than Wescord every were. I smile as I start me car to head home, shit it doesn't start and the mechanic I hired for the trailer is gone, I have no cell coverage, great. I know the front side has coverage, I start to walk, I feel dizzy, sleepy I lay down in the muddy puddle, gross but so tired.
Two men emerge from the shadows. Looking about one calls whispers on his radio. They nod. Never saying a word as a van and tow truck arrives. Jessica "jerry" Rokitansky, former teacher, former Wescord Dynamic finishes production manager, just fired GEH production manager for Dynamic finishes, pedophile and child rapist is on her way to a different world, different country. With the five other minions of Carla. She due in tomorrow. The day before Anna scheduled birth.
The older man stares out across the water to the headlands. He turns to the younger man "No matter what! The bitch is going away." Unspoken words with deadly meaning pass between the two. Reason different and the same. Blood oaths to friends and family. They leave, letting the overwatch teams stay. Tomorrow the world will turn right. Whether bloody or not is up to Carla.
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tomorrow is March 1. I arrive at the Hospital by four pm. The surgery is set for 1am. The best to control the press and Tabloids. Most importantly to control the family, I swear their more nervous and freaked out than me. I sip my tea, listen to the Adults and Christian scream from his office.
Stasia keeps me company, as Theresa regales us with tales of her Angel and Demon kids. I was shocked to find out the Angel is the boy and Demon is sweet Desiree. She inherits a dare devil streak a mile wide and forty miles deep. She been researching base jumping since she saw the patio. Apparently, grandpa Lloyd took them skydiving without Mamma or Stasia permission. They loved it, why am I not surprised.
I see Dodger float thru with smile on his face. Every time he looks at me, the hard-bitten pain riddled face creaks and breaks into a gorgeous brilliant smile. His steps lighten and he seem to de-age decades. Claude brings us ladies a set of fruits filled pastries. His and Mia bistro/bakery is taken off, but they spent the last week mostly here, pampering me and Stasia. She has been a god sent, the doctors won't let her travel. I'm secretly glad to have her here. My family fly in every weekend, Theresa has moved temporary down stairs with the kids, she closest to Stasia.
Christians leaves his office pulling his hair, frustration written on his face, Dodger takes a defensive stance, if that thought is even possible. "Christian? Play some songs for me, Please?" I coo at him. The man morphs before my eyes. Into the man I know he is. Softly piano keys fill the room, lightness and dreamy melodies caress the listeners. I lay back letting Stasia and Theresa hold me. loving me. making me forget the pain, strife of my earlier life. Letting my future unwind before me. my boys are soon to be here. Christian still thinks all girls. Stasia pets my belly, she doesn't care which or what variety, just their health and loved.
C-pov
I play for the ladies. Watching Anna relax and just dream away. I let the previous hour go, forgetting my meddlesome family, all four groups of them. Our arguing over thing we don't know yet.
We've intentional not looked into the blips sex. We want to love them, not have ideas of what they should become. I caress the keys letting my inner emotions play. I see the guys even relaxing to the music. Lewis walks to the front of the Grand piano. An evil thought caress my ego. "Lewis sing for us." I start the intro as his face reddens and he shakes his head no. as the bar note chimes he sings. Moving like the closet lounge singer I know he is.
While I'm far away from you my baby
I know it's hard for you my baby
Because it's hard for me my baby
And the darkest hour is just before dawn
Each night before you go to bed my baby
Whisper a little prayer for me my baby
And tell all the stars above
This is dedicated to the one I love
(love can never be exactly like we want it to be) I sing
I could be satisfied knowing you love me
(and there's one thing I want you to do
especially for me) I sing
And it's something that everybody needs
While I'm far away from you my baby
Whisper a little prayer for me my baby
Because it's hard for me my baby
And the darkest hour is just before dawn
If there's one thing I want you to do especially for me
Then it's something that everybody needs
(the whole room sings to Anna)
Each night before you go to bed my baby
Whisper a little prayer for me my baby
And tell all the stars above
This is dedicated to the one I love
This is dedicated to the one I love, granddaughter sing Stasia
This is dedicated to the one I love, daughter sings the Steele's
This is dedicated to the one I love, niece and cousin sings the Wheelwright's
This is dedicated to the one I love, daughter-in-law sings the Greys and Trevelyan's
This is dedicated to the one I love, soulmate, wife I sing
"Dedicated To The One I Love": written Ralph Bass Lowman Pauling: Mama and Papa's: © Universal Music Publishing Group, CARLIN AMERICA INC
I rush over, kiss my Anna, before returning to piano. A family sing along fills the time before dinner, even Claude's very harmful base voice fills the room with this 90's tune.
I'm too sexy for my love (pointing at Lewis from the entry steps)
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts (off the shirt comes, button flying everywhere)
And I'm too sexy for Seattle
Too sexy for Seattle (Elliot and Luke jump on the stairs, shirt rip off, as Mom physical holds dad's shirt in place. Laughter rock the room as Walter joins the Monty crew on the steps. Jeff is rolling on the ground as his wife tries to strip the shirt from him. God I can barely play for the laughter choking me.)
New York, and Seattle
I'm too sexy for your party (they all point at Anna, who rolling on the couch with Stasia, Theresa and Gail)
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm NOT! disco dancing
(which lights off a Saturday night fever copycat of the moves)
'Cause I'm a model, you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk
On the catwalk, yeah
I shake my little tush on the catwalk (Stasia and Anna produced monopoly money throwing at the guys as they shake their asses. Beth wheels up, hands Kate and Mia each a wad, who stuffs it down Elliot and Luke's pants)
I'm too sexy for Mia's car
Too sexy for Christian's car
Too sexy by far
And I'm too sexy for my hat
Too sexy for my hat
What do you think about that?
Right said Fred; I'm too sexy: FAIRBRASS, FRED/FAIRBRASS, RICHARD/MANZOLI, ROBERT
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
Lewis finally kisses the ear damaging voice to quiet. As the girls yell more, more. I watch the family, really feeling the love and commitment. Desiree sit next to me a play, she's just learning. I teach her as we play more tunes. I look up feeling my wife. She nods tears in her eyes. I start for her, but Beth stops me. "you're going to be a great dad, bro. that what the tears are for. You're going to be a great dad." She hugs me. I see Anna nod to me. filling me with love, happiness. I remember the before me, now could I ever believe love was for fools. What an idiot I was.
Xxxxxxxx
March 1 10am, South Seattle: West cord Warehouse:
I walk into the warehouse, tonight I'll make my move while Anna is vulnerable and Christian is distracted. The family has agreed to not show up till morning, by then I'll be in trenched in Anna fears. My plans are perfect. I can feel the money in my hands.
BANG! All the lights darken except the one on me. I freeze. I hear footsteps, several people are surrounding me.
"Hello Carla, remember me?"
"Yea, Rays cheating whore from the Gulf."
"Calling the Kettle black our we" Sandy says
"Charlotte, I'm Grace Grey" Grace chime from the other side. Carla spins around
"Charlotte is dead, I'm Carla NOW bitch!"
"Calm down Sister, remember me? Theresa"
"Not really, how's senile mom, dead yet?"
"what a wasted human being." Says a voice behind her
"Who the fuck are you?"
"I'm Roz, Christian COO and Friend."
So, you're here to kick my ass?"
"Now Charlotte or Carla calm down. This is Mia, Anna's sister in law, Penny Anna's sister, you remember me, the nose. I'm Kate, friend and sister-in-law." Say the dyke bitch. As the circle around me fills in.
"We haven't met, thank God for that small favor! I'm your sister-in-law Willow, Jeff's wife. This is your niece Windy. We'd all like nothing better than to mop the floor with your face."
"Ladies, ladies let's not forget our manners. I'm Anna's adopted sister-in-law Mary, this is Anna's friend Andrea"
"Well what do you cunts want, I want money, give me it; an you'll never see me again?"
"Mom, ( I spin to a blonde ice queen holding a laptop computer with Anastasia on the screen) Charlotte I wish you had one speck of redeemable quality in you, but you don't. You've failed as mother, human being, even as an animal. You will be forgotten, a footnote in family history, a lesson taught on how not to live, be, or even exist. Carla tonight I have my children. Family and friends will join me and cheer them to adult hood. Grandma, your mother will hold them, photos will be taken so every day she will remember, read the story of her grandkids. Visit them, know she did right in her life."
"you can't do this to me, your mother. I gave life to you! birth to you! what about your goodness, caring, forgiveness?"
"Carla, you forget not only the maternal blood flows in me, but the paternal Frank's and Ray's blood flows in me. Yes Me! I will forgive you sometime in my seventies, till then feel Lambert-Steele side of me. the hate for the pain, suffering your selfish ways caused. Goodbye forever Carla. You lost, everything!" Andrea close the laptop computer.
The women turn a walk away, except Theresa and Roz. I watch two men enter the circle of light.
"Charlotte before I go, I what to tell you personally. I had your dad exhumed, cremated and sunk in a cesspool. Took a sledgehammer to the headstone myself. For mom. Me. and Anna." Theresa says walking away. I charge but the younger guy stops me, his face a cold scared masked. Evil eyes, cold shark like.
"Charlotte, Charlotte" Roz speaks
"Don't call me that! its Carla!"
"What every! You failed because you thought Anna was alone, the scarred little girl you abused and neglected. Tried to sell. She once was that. But that day is long past. She will always have family and friends, because despite your best effort, she is good and caring. You met the women who will defend her with our lives. Now goodbye" Roz says turning a walking away
"We haven't met, my name Dodge, your brother in law. Frank might have mentioned me" says the older man. Shit! I sprint for the door, the younger one trips me. as Dodge plants a foot in my chest.
"I'm JP. I'm friend of Ray's, and Thelonious, remember Anna's God father?" he says evil grin.
"Get off me, or I'll have you two arrested." I bluff, knowing something bad is about to happen to me.
Dodge steps off squats down. "Anna made me promise to never tell her what happens to you. As far a she knows you left the country for good. She made me promise to not kill you too, pith. You'll really wish she hadn't done that. JP here is taking you far, far away to a place where you can full-fill your addiction for sex, drugs, and pain. You'll be begging your owners for death in about a week, you'll not last a year. Frank would have wanted it this way. Don't worry the drugs will see you to your new life." The world fates away in peaceful bliss.
"remember, she must pay for her sins" Dodge says to the empty space around him. JP nods, dragging the bitch to hell.
I walk outside staring across the Sound and the headland beyond. This war is over, I'm sure a new one is around the corner. I'll be here. Always here. The women scary me with ferocity of love for Anna. She is so dam special. "Frank, you missed a hell of a girl growing up, but you can see from up there, how much she means down here." I squat and cry for my brother, myself, my long dead family.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, Taylor and Christian. I raise up we hug. Family!