THE NEXT MORNING
Gina gracefully carried her body around the corridors of the mansion. The last night had been a great success, considering everybody's unease when around her mother. Okay, she wasn't the easiest person to cope with, and her only daughter living in a border school with no immediate plans for the rest of her life had pissed her off majorly, making her a constant pain in the ass.
Her marriage to Logan was another tricky point in her relationship with her mom. She hated the fact that Gina wasn't coming back to her homeland to stay and marry some local guy that SHE would point out, so she never came to the wedding.
You can never blame a mother that wants the best for her child however. Especially her mother, who had been the only person in her life until her twenties. She just couldn't realise that she couldn't define her daughter's life anymore. And she took that out to the other poor residents of the mansion.
However the dinner they shared last night...well, it reminded Gina of the dinners they shared with extended family every week or so. Full of chatter, little adorable irritations...but her mother didn't participate in anything irritating last night. For the first time since her arrival, she seemed to blend in and go with the flow. She even caught her smiling once or twice. What could provoke such a change in her behaviour?
Everyone ate and complimented Elisa for her delicious cooking, but she insisted that all the credit should go to Jean and Rogue, for getting the whole job done, while she only had pointed one or two things out.
Hank had eaten a normal meal for the first time since the meal after her wedding, and seemed very content. Of course he was using his image inducer at the time, like Kurt did. None of them needed her mom to take them for a demon and set Cornutino after them.
Bobby seemed a bit bruised on the other side, but nobody commented on it. Rogue had said that the poor bastard had taken a fall of the stairs, but she had a weird gleam in her eye while saying that.
Everyone had eaten and then been shooed to their beds by Elisa. She said that they should get to bed soon, since it was Monday tomorrow and they had classes to attend or teach early in the morning. She said goodnight to everyone paying special attention to Logan. She looked like she had now understood why she married him and shot a mischievous look to both her and Logan. Then she went to her room, obviously in the verge of sleeping.
Now a new day had come, and things seemed to march on to a better level by now. Having her break between classes, Gina thought of paying a visit to her mother and see what she had been doing since she woke up, token that Elisa always got up very early in the morning.
Knocking on the door to Elisa's bedroom (she would be given one hell of a speech if she just barged in like this), Gina slowly opened it and walked in.
Nobody greeted her.
Nobody gave her a speech, even a little brief grumbling.
Mom wasn't there.
Her stuff was not there too. The bed was tidily made, and the old curtains put back into place. The room looked like a renewed hotel room, ready to accept new guests.
The only thing spoiling the 'hotel' image was a tiny piece of paper folded nicely and left on the bed, Gina's name written on it.
Gina hastily walked over to the bed and picked the piece of paper up, unfolded it and started reading.
Within minutes, as she kept reading, her eyes had grown in frustration and her fingers were wrinkling the paper viciously.
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THE PREVIOUS NIGHT
"Cornutino! Don't wander far from Mommy!"
Elisa was concerned over her "child's" mental stability. Had he really lost his gift to track down muties? She couldn't hide the fear in her eyes, and Remy could see that.
He had volunteered to escort her outside, since Xavier's gardens were not the safest place in the world, considering that any kind of psychotic villain could be stalking the X-Men from there. And an old lady that was walking her cat was the easiest target for any kind of unethical villain.
Elisa couldn't help herself from checking out the younger man once in a while. He was one hot dish. When she was young herself, she was a bombshell wanted by any man in her village, but her devotion to her dead husband and Jesus never allowed her to start a new life. And now it was far too late. But this man seemed to stir something into her, since he somehow reminded her of her late Carlo. They had the same style of swift walking and charming ways. This man had even helped her out with the groceries when her son-in-law was resting his ass on a couch not even caring if a visitor came in and saw him like that. What kind of a school was that, if the teachers had such manners?
It was dark out there, but the moonlight was granting them a great and romantic lighting that night.
Gambit had to admit to himself that he was attracted to the old lady's strict manners and solid ethics as well. If she were 15 years younger, he would have gone for it. But wait... since when was a woman off limits for the great Gambit? That made him begin to reconsider a bit.
Now Elisa had lost her cat and looked around for it under some bushes, bending her gracious (!) body in very arousing ways. Gambit came next to her and bent over as well ,looking within the bush's branches for two bright catlike eyes that shone in the dark.
Finding them, he reached swiftly and grabbed Cornutino before he could prove a worthwhile resistance. The cat was surprised, but too shocked to resist at all.
Holding the cat in his arms, Remy started handing it over to its rightful owner. As Elisa reached for it too, their eyes met and they felt electric sparkles tingle through their veins. Both of them.
Still sharing the cat in their hands, they both reached for each other and kissed passionately.
Or at least that's what they thought they were doing, because poor Cornutino, still in their hands, couldn't stand the sight and fainted in disgust as soon as he saw them hungrily sucking each other's face.
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BACK TO THE NEXT DAY
Gina read her mother's goodbye note once more as Logan had arrived by her side to see what all the wailing was for.
«Dear Gina,
For the first time since you left home I feel really happy and completed!
If you are reading this, then it means that Remy and me have left forever. If we're still here, then shame on you for sneaking off classes to visit your old mother!-I should have known better when...oh, sorry for drifting like that for a second, Remy says we should hurry.
Now that I'm again in love, I can finally understand why could you renounce your possible life in Italy and stay here with no obvious future ahead, having a useless but good-looking male for a mate. I can now feel the same thing for Remy here. Cupid is blind and since God doesn't try to restrict him a little, then He shouldn't expect from us to renounce our lovers!
I know you will be happy living here. The other people here need a lot of nurturing in order to become decent people, but I guess you can handle them.
As for our home back in Sicily and the 13 acres of land I inherited from my brother-in-law, I will put your cousin Tony as an heir, since you obviously haven't got any need for them. You're beyond materialistic riches now and you already got yourself a husband, while poor Tony still hadn't had a chance with women and this land might make him more desirable to some lass back home.
Don't come looking for me and Remy. We're going on a trip to L.A. and Hollywood and then we're going on a cruise crossing the Pacific. Afterwards we're thinking of using my savings from all these years and buy ourselves a little home in some tropical island, don't know which yet.
Always remember that I love you darling.
Tanti Baci,
Your Mom.
P.S: I'm leaving Cornutino with you. He's now somewhere in the garden, slacking off.
P.S. 2: And beware of those damned muties!!! "
Gina stopped reading as soon as a scream came from the gardens. It seemed that Bobby had found Cornutino.
Gina started crying into Logan's shoulder as soon as he reached to hug her.
"Why would my mom do that to me?..."
"Shhh, shhh, baby...I guess she's happier now." he said, trying to comfort her. However he started grinning above her unsuspecting head. The truth was that he was insanely happy for getting rid of the crazy bitch.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW!?!" Gina shot at him." She's left with that sleazebag friend of yours, who's gonna use her and then throw her away! I'm sure that he doesn't even love her!"
"But, honey-" he freezed in shock because he saw his wife having a familiar Gollum look.
"Don't' you 'honey' ME!-that freaking bastard blew her mind away!-he's gonna flood her with fake promises and then leave her for a pretty Filipino girl!-Like I don't know him already!-and you, yes *you* don't tell me you hadn't any idea about what was going on-c'mon, you can read *pheromones* dammit!-and the stupid woman is giving my old home to that shithead Tony, who can't even get a permanent job!-he's gonna sell my house. *my* house and spend the money on Blackjack!-that bastard!-I should have known better!-just wait and you'll see, mister, what "Gina Maledetto" means!-I'm gonna get them and then force Gumbo out of the X-Jet!-or leave him stranded in Antarctica and then..."
By that time of her grumbling, Gina had abandoned Logan's arms and was making circles around the room, planning her vengeance on everybody.
Logan sighed and rested himself against a wall. This grumbling was making him very very tired again. He put his head between his hands and tried not to sob.
Gambit and his Sugar Mommy had left. Now Logan was rid of his mother-in-law, but he couldn't feel that much-desired closure he had been seeking.
He knew why.
The abrupt departure of Elisa had clicked Gina into changing.
The woman he was married to was changing into something else, something horrid, and something he would have to spend the rest of his life with.
What the people always said was right. Eventually, *every* woman changes, and turns into her mother. Men would suffer the fate of being married to their 'mother-in-laws'.
As the grumbling kept going, something that Logan knew that would mark his everyday life from now on, he started bumping his head onto the wall.
But nothing happened because his thick skull was made of adamantium.
Gina just kept grumbling, exactly like her mother always did.
~THE END~
Bottom Line: When it comes to grumbling, there is NEVER closure.
Phfeww! That's all! Now send me feedback or else I'll set Elisa to get you and grumble until you get an aneurism! Lol!
SOME TRANSLATIONS :(You didn't think the names were just names, did you?)
Maledetto: accursed
Cornutino: Little horny
Tanti baci: many kisses
Oh, and just in case you were wondering...I'm not Italian. I'm Greek though. :-)
If this fic seemed tiring to you, then it's just a side-effect from Elisa's grumbling, Not my fault. :-)
Gina gracefully carried her body around the corridors of the mansion. The last night had been a great success, considering everybody's unease when around her mother. Okay, she wasn't the easiest person to cope with, and her only daughter living in a border school with no immediate plans for the rest of her life had pissed her off majorly, making her a constant pain in the ass.
Her marriage to Logan was another tricky point in her relationship with her mom. She hated the fact that Gina wasn't coming back to her homeland to stay and marry some local guy that SHE would point out, so she never came to the wedding.
You can never blame a mother that wants the best for her child however. Especially her mother, who had been the only person in her life until her twenties. She just couldn't realise that she couldn't define her daughter's life anymore. And she took that out to the other poor residents of the mansion.
However the dinner they shared last night...well, it reminded Gina of the dinners they shared with extended family every week or so. Full of chatter, little adorable irritations...but her mother didn't participate in anything irritating last night. For the first time since her arrival, she seemed to blend in and go with the flow. She even caught her smiling once or twice. What could provoke such a change in her behaviour?
Everyone ate and complimented Elisa for her delicious cooking, but she insisted that all the credit should go to Jean and Rogue, for getting the whole job done, while she only had pointed one or two things out.
Hank had eaten a normal meal for the first time since the meal after her wedding, and seemed very content. Of course he was using his image inducer at the time, like Kurt did. None of them needed her mom to take them for a demon and set Cornutino after them.
Bobby seemed a bit bruised on the other side, but nobody commented on it. Rogue had said that the poor bastard had taken a fall of the stairs, but she had a weird gleam in her eye while saying that.
Everyone had eaten and then been shooed to their beds by Elisa. She said that they should get to bed soon, since it was Monday tomorrow and they had classes to attend or teach early in the morning. She said goodnight to everyone paying special attention to Logan. She looked like she had now understood why she married him and shot a mischievous look to both her and Logan. Then she went to her room, obviously in the verge of sleeping.
Now a new day had come, and things seemed to march on to a better level by now. Having her break between classes, Gina thought of paying a visit to her mother and see what she had been doing since she woke up, token that Elisa always got up very early in the morning.
Knocking on the door to Elisa's bedroom (she would be given one hell of a speech if she just barged in like this), Gina slowly opened it and walked in.
Nobody greeted her.
Nobody gave her a speech, even a little brief grumbling.
Mom wasn't there.
Her stuff was not there too. The bed was tidily made, and the old curtains put back into place. The room looked like a renewed hotel room, ready to accept new guests.
The only thing spoiling the 'hotel' image was a tiny piece of paper folded nicely and left on the bed, Gina's name written on it.
Gina hastily walked over to the bed and picked the piece of paper up, unfolded it and started reading.
Within minutes, as she kept reading, her eyes had grown in frustration and her fingers were wrinkling the paper viciously.
***************************************************************
THE PREVIOUS NIGHT
"Cornutino! Don't wander far from Mommy!"
Elisa was concerned over her "child's" mental stability. Had he really lost his gift to track down muties? She couldn't hide the fear in her eyes, and Remy could see that.
He had volunteered to escort her outside, since Xavier's gardens were not the safest place in the world, considering that any kind of psychotic villain could be stalking the X-Men from there. And an old lady that was walking her cat was the easiest target for any kind of unethical villain.
Elisa couldn't help herself from checking out the younger man once in a while. He was one hot dish. When she was young herself, she was a bombshell wanted by any man in her village, but her devotion to her dead husband and Jesus never allowed her to start a new life. And now it was far too late. But this man seemed to stir something into her, since he somehow reminded her of her late Carlo. They had the same style of swift walking and charming ways. This man had even helped her out with the groceries when her son-in-law was resting his ass on a couch not even caring if a visitor came in and saw him like that. What kind of a school was that, if the teachers had such manners?
It was dark out there, but the moonlight was granting them a great and romantic lighting that night.
Gambit had to admit to himself that he was attracted to the old lady's strict manners and solid ethics as well. If she were 15 years younger, he would have gone for it. But wait... since when was a woman off limits for the great Gambit? That made him begin to reconsider a bit.
Now Elisa had lost her cat and looked around for it under some bushes, bending her gracious (!) body in very arousing ways. Gambit came next to her and bent over as well ,looking within the bush's branches for two bright catlike eyes that shone in the dark.
Finding them, he reached swiftly and grabbed Cornutino before he could prove a worthwhile resistance. The cat was surprised, but too shocked to resist at all.
Holding the cat in his arms, Remy started handing it over to its rightful owner. As Elisa reached for it too, their eyes met and they felt electric sparkles tingle through their veins. Both of them.
Still sharing the cat in their hands, they both reached for each other and kissed passionately.
Or at least that's what they thought they were doing, because poor Cornutino, still in their hands, couldn't stand the sight and fainted in disgust as soon as he saw them hungrily sucking each other's face.
***************************************************************
BACK TO THE NEXT DAY
Gina read her mother's goodbye note once more as Logan had arrived by her side to see what all the wailing was for.
«Dear Gina,
For the first time since you left home I feel really happy and completed!
If you are reading this, then it means that Remy and me have left forever. If we're still here, then shame on you for sneaking off classes to visit your old mother!-I should have known better when...oh, sorry for drifting like that for a second, Remy says we should hurry.
Now that I'm again in love, I can finally understand why could you renounce your possible life in Italy and stay here with no obvious future ahead, having a useless but good-looking male for a mate. I can now feel the same thing for Remy here. Cupid is blind and since God doesn't try to restrict him a little, then He shouldn't expect from us to renounce our lovers!
I know you will be happy living here. The other people here need a lot of nurturing in order to become decent people, but I guess you can handle them.
As for our home back in Sicily and the 13 acres of land I inherited from my brother-in-law, I will put your cousin Tony as an heir, since you obviously haven't got any need for them. You're beyond materialistic riches now and you already got yourself a husband, while poor Tony still hadn't had a chance with women and this land might make him more desirable to some lass back home.
Don't come looking for me and Remy. We're going on a trip to L.A. and Hollywood and then we're going on a cruise crossing the Pacific. Afterwards we're thinking of using my savings from all these years and buy ourselves a little home in some tropical island, don't know which yet.
Always remember that I love you darling.
Tanti Baci,
Your Mom.
P.S: I'm leaving Cornutino with you. He's now somewhere in the garden, slacking off.
P.S. 2: And beware of those damned muties!!! "
Gina stopped reading as soon as a scream came from the gardens. It seemed that Bobby had found Cornutino.
Gina started crying into Logan's shoulder as soon as he reached to hug her.
"Why would my mom do that to me?..."
"Shhh, shhh, baby...I guess she's happier now." he said, trying to comfort her. However he started grinning above her unsuspecting head. The truth was that he was insanely happy for getting rid of the crazy bitch.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW!?!" Gina shot at him." She's left with that sleazebag friend of yours, who's gonna use her and then throw her away! I'm sure that he doesn't even love her!"
"But, honey-" he freezed in shock because he saw his wife having a familiar Gollum look.
"Don't' you 'honey' ME!-that freaking bastard blew her mind away!-he's gonna flood her with fake promises and then leave her for a pretty Filipino girl!-Like I don't know him already!-and you, yes *you* don't tell me you hadn't any idea about what was going on-c'mon, you can read *pheromones* dammit!-and the stupid woman is giving my old home to that shithead Tony, who can't even get a permanent job!-he's gonna sell my house. *my* house and spend the money on Blackjack!-that bastard!-I should have known better!-just wait and you'll see, mister, what "Gina Maledetto" means!-I'm gonna get them and then force Gumbo out of the X-Jet!-or leave him stranded in Antarctica and then..."
By that time of her grumbling, Gina had abandoned Logan's arms and was making circles around the room, planning her vengeance on everybody.
Logan sighed and rested himself against a wall. This grumbling was making him very very tired again. He put his head between his hands and tried not to sob.
Gambit and his Sugar Mommy had left. Now Logan was rid of his mother-in-law, but he couldn't feel that much-desired closure he had been seeking.
He knew why.
The abrupt departure of Elisa had clicked Gina into changing.
The woman he was married to was changing into something else, something horrid, and something he would have to spend the rest of his life with.
What the people always said was right. Eventually, *every* woman changes, and turns into her mother. Men would suffer the fate of being married to their 'mother-in-laws'.
As the grumbling kept going, something that Logan knew that would mark his everyday life from now on, he started bumping his head onto the wall.
But nothing happened because his thick skull was made of adamantium.
Gina just kept grumbling, exactly like her mother always did.
~THE END~
Bottom Line: When it comes to grumbling, there is NEVER closure.
Phfeww! That's all! Now send me feedback or else I'll set Elisa to get you and grumble until you get an aneurism! Lol!
SOME TRANSLATIONS :(You didn't think the names were just names, did you?)
Maledetto: accursed
Cornutino: Little horny
Tanti baci: many kisses
Oh, and just in case you were wondering...I'm not Italian. I'm Greek though. :-)
If this fic seemed tiring to you, then it's just a side-effect from Elisa's grumbling, Not my fault. :-)