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Outgoth the Goth

Chapter 11 – Family Reunion.

No One's POV.

After a few moments of stunned silence, Jade managed to speak. "You told me your entire family died tragically in a fire some 20 years ago and that's why you never speak of them."

Mortica let out an eerie laugh. "Fire! Not for lack of trying."

"Huh?"

Morticia Addams answered again. "You see, the last time I saw my dear sister, was the night of my engagement party to Gomez. Your mother was so angry about it, that she set fire to the house. Not before locking all the doors and windows, with us inside. My dear sister, you forgot the lock in the window in the study was broken. You did get cousin Hogatha and her husband Clifford, but everyone hated them anyway. They ate everyone out of house and home and never could shut up about that rotten prized poodle of theirs."

Jade's mind began to spin. "Wha? Fire? Angry Twins?"

Caroline stepped towards hers sister, holding the sword out, as if ready to strike at any moment.

Only then did Carolyn talk to Jade, her words full of venom. "You see Jade. Gomez, her current husband, I was in love with him first. I asked him out and he said yes. I then set up the perfect first date. A picnic in the abandoned and supposedly haunted mental hospital. The one where those teens were murdered the previous summer. I could barely wait and finally the day came. All day at work on the killing floor of the slaughter house where I worked, I was beyond excited. Finally my shift ended, and I eagerly drove home to get ready for my big date. On my way home I discovered that my sister had cut the brakes in my car. Had I not jumped out of the car, I would have gone over suicide cliff. She wanted me out of the way so she could date him. She took him on the date I planned and kept dating him, while I SPENT 7 WEEKS IN A BODY CAST!"

Morticia shrugged. "All's fair in love and war. I did sign the cast dear sister."

"Yes you did, it said in big red letters. DIE!"

Mortica and Carolyn, both holding broadswords began to circle each other, menacingly.

Morticia then took a step closer to her sister, also sword in hand. "My sister was still quite upset when Gomez and I announced our engagement 6 months later. The rest of the family was quite pleased by our engagement, that's why your mother tried to kill us all by setting the house on fire."

That said, Carolyn swung her sword and Mortica's head, but was blocked. The fight had begun.

Wednesday poked Jade in the arm. "You may want to stand back, those blades are razor sharp."

Jade put out her hands. "Wait...Wait..you two look nothing like each other."

Carolyn briefly looked to Jade. "Were fraternal twins, so were not identical. Still I looked too much like her, so after i left home. I dyed my hair blonde, tanned my skin and had plastic surgery on my nose, cheeks and chin."

Morticia chuckled. "Your new face is by no means an improvement, dear sister. You'll never be as pretty as me."

Carolyn visibly fumed, then swung her sword , lopping off the head of what appeared to be a monstrous Venus fly trap, some 5 feet tall..

Morticia visibly grew angry. "I grew and nutured that from when it was a seedling. Over 10 years ago. It would always get so exicted when a door to door salsesman would come. That meant treat time."

"I'm sure you did. That's why I killed it."

"Really sister, instead of the fire you should have done what you do best and poisoned us all. Instead you botched, as you always do. "

Wednesday this time spoke. "Mama, you told a bunch of psychotic circus clowns killed your twin sister, 20 years ago."

Mortica huffed, as the blades continued to clash, "I should have hired that axe murderer instead. The clowns obviously failed. You can never find good help these days."

As Jade watched the battle, she was surprised even further to see the mother handled the sword like a pro. But she also noted that Morticia was at the very same level of skill, so quickly the pair stalemated each other.

"If was bad enough Mortica that you stole Gomez from me, now Wednesday does the same to Jade and tries to bump her off."

Wednesday stomped her foot in frustration. "8 separate attempts mama. She simply refuses to die. Now my beloved Pets, snoopy and Petuna are gone."

Jade looked to Wednesday in confusion, as the fight between their mothers continued. "Wait, you only tried 5 times, the light, the garbage truck, the spider, the snake and the dog."

"I poisoned you no less than 3 times and you never once noticed it. I slipped enough strychnine in your coffee last week to kill 3 people and you still didn't die. You didn't even notice."

"My coffee has tasted a bit odd over the last few weeks." Jade then turned to her mother. "Mom, what..how could I not notice."

Using the distraction, Moricia swung and sliced Carolyn's arm cutting both the sleeve of her blouse and arm below it.

Carolyn ignored her bleeding arm but instead looked at the cut in her blouse with fury. "That was a $300 Donna Karin blouse, you rotten troll."

All Mortica did, was laugh, before turning to Wednesday. "Had I known Jade was my sister's daughter, I would have told you not to bother. Poison is her specialty and she's even more immune to it than I am."

"Yes Jade." Carolyn said with pride. "You inherited some of my immunity to poison; I've also been putting increasing amounts in your food for years. I did it to build up your tolerance of poison to my level. By now, you could drink a whole gallon of draino and all it would do, is give you gas. No need to thank me. I'm dying to teach you all my secrets."

Looking faint, Jade sat down and blankly muttered. "Poison."

Carolyn swung and nearly sliced off her sister's ear. "Yes dear. Poison is my specialty, No one's better at it than I am."

"She is." Said Mortica as the sword fight raged on. "In high school your mother tried out for the cheerleading squad. She didn't do very well, actually it was terrible. Not only did they reject her, they played the video of her rather bad tryout on the student newscast, in order to humiliate her. Within 3 months of that, the entire cheerleading squad, one by one, grew ill and died. With everyone else dead and most everyone in the school afraid to try out, your mother got on the new squad and became captain."

Jade tried to digest that bit of news, it wasn't easy. She was actually on the verge of hyperventaliting. "You killed the entire cheerleading squad."

"Jade, they were all mean. I hate mean people."

"Where there others?" Jade croaked.

"Just a few, they were all mean!"

Mortica nodded. "Bullies in our school tended not to last very long. By our senior year the bullying problem had been totally eliminated. Probably because, they had all been eliminated. By graduation her nickname was "The poisoner."

"Don't look so innocent Morticia. Boyfriends who displeased you didn't last long either. Or girls who were dating boys you liked."

"Mom, you don't do this anymore?" Jade said, actually rather pleaded.

"Not much anymore, just my first boss who kept grabbing my ass, an occasional business rival and a couple of corrupt building inspectors. There was also that horrible bagger at the food king, who kept putting heavy stuff on the bread. I really hate eating squished bread."

"This is all too much. I think I'm getting a migraine." Jade groaned, as she put her head in her hands.

The fight after that seemed to intensify with the evenly matched sisters quietly going it at. But after a few minutes, Carolyn driven by rage, got the best of her sister and knocked the sword from Morticia's hands.

Just as Carolyn was about to lop off Morticia's head, a loud female voice boomed out from the stairs.

"Morticia, Dolera stop that right now!"

Still half in shock, Jade looked to the stairs to see what appeared to be, an ancient crone, with shaggy white hair, with a long beak like nose and a black shawl. She looked exactly like a stereotypical witch. Jade guessed she probably was one. Little could suprise her now.

Carolyn West promptly dropped the sword and helped her sister up. Both then looked to the old woman and seemed to lower their heads in shame.

"Sorry Mama." Both sisters said in unison.

Yet another revelation for Jade. "Dolera? Who's Dolera?"

Jade's mother looked to Jade. "My real name isn't Carolyn, it's Dolera. After I burnt the house down I changed my name and assumed a new identity. I cut ties with my family as they were kind of ticked off at me."

Jade was taking in the revelations one by one, feeling sicker with each one. "Mom, your name literally means Pain, in Spanish."

Carolyn Aka Dolera, rolled her eyes. "Don't remind me."

"So you're known as Dolera the poisoner."

"Yep, Dolera, the poisoner, Frump."

The old woman came down the stairs and carefully looked over Carolyn, who stood quietly.

"Dolera you set the house on fire, then you don't bother to write for 20 years. I'm not sure which is ruder. And you have a beautiful daughter and still don't tell me and what did you do to your face and your hair."

"I'm sorry mama. Actually I call myself Carolyn now."

The old woman put out her arms. "Give mama a hug."

Carolyn then hugged her mother with a happy expression. "I missed you mama." To make things even more bizarre, Mortica hugged her sister as well and kissed her on the cheek. It was as they had forgotten, they were trying to kill each other only a few moments earlier.

Jade who was watching all of this with a bewildered expression, could be heard saying to herself with dismay. "My mother's a psychotic mass murderer, who tried to kill her whole family and has been feeding me poison for years so I'll be immune to it."

Wednesday who was standing next to shrugged. "Welcome to my world."

Carolyn then broke from the hug, walked over to Jade had her standup. "Mama this is my daughter Jade."

The elder woman walked up and smiled. "Jade, I'm your grandmother, you may call me grandmamma.'

Jade, who was still half in shock, smiled weakly and nodded.

"You look so much like your mother at that age. And you dress so much like her, even down to the boots and blue streak in your hair."

Jade instantly shot her mother an accusing look. "You always hated the way I dressed and looked."

"You reminded me of me too much."

Grandmama then turned to Carolyn. "It's so nice to see you here. So what brings you here?"

"Wednesday, was trying to kill my daughter."

"I had planned to stop my attempts; my heart had been broken after the death of my beloved petunia. The fight was no longer in me. But last Friday at the dance, Jade tried to kill me and sent me to the hospital. It was then I decided to try and finish her with Snoopy. Now my heart aches for him too. My two best pets now gone forever." Wednesday replied in her monotone voice, with only the slightest trace hint of sadness.

Morticia put her arm around Wednesday. "She did love her pets. You can see she's nearly beside herself with grief."

Jade tilted her head. "Wait, Wednesday you weren't planning to kill me at the dance?"

"No."

"Someone told me you were, that same someone who told me you were allergic to glitter and disco music."

Mortica put her finger to her chin. "I wonder who would have done that."

"HIM!" Yelled Jade, as she pointed to Pugsley Addams , who was standing at the top of the stairs.

Morticia looked to Pugsley, "Did you trick Jade in to attempting to kill Wednesday?"

"Yes mother." Said the rotund boy, in a pleasant voice.

"Why?"

"I enjoyed seeing the endless frustration on her face as her attempts kept failing. I hated that snake and I was also hoping Jade would get lucky. Then I'd be rid of Wednesday and my hands would be clean. Mainly I just wanted her room. It's bigger than mine."

"I see." Mortica said, as she turned to Carolyn. "Wednesday said something about Tori being missing earlier."

Hearing the word Tori, Jade then promptly grabbed a sword off the floor and pointed it straight at Wednesday's neck. "What did you do with Tori?"

Wednesday in response, backed up and off the wall removed a large battle axe. "What did you do with Tori! You may not be able to die, but that won't stop me from trying, scissor freak."

Grandmama smiled proudly. "Facing off just like their mothers did. Ah…the memories."

Carolyn stepped forward. "I believe my Jade. She has not kidnapped Tori."

Morticia looked to Wednesday. "Did you kidnap Tori? Tell the truth!"

"No mother, I have not kidnapped Tori."

Mortica seemed to think for a moment, then looked to Pugsley. "Did you kidnap Tori?"

Pugsley narrowed his eyes. "Does she have short red hair?"

"No, she's the brown haired, Latina girl your sister is dating."

"Than no. If you'll excuse me I have something to attend to."

Before he could leave, Mortica stopped him. "Pugsley, in punishment for tricking Jade, I order you to release whomever you have in your lab, unharmed. That means all her limb's intact. Right now!"

"But Mom! She has the right blood type and it's so rare!" Protested the boy.

"DO IT NOW!"

Pugsley frowned and stormed off, muttering. "I can never have any fun!"

"It seems that none of my grandchildren have this Tori?" Grandmama said quickly.

That left only one question in Jade's still, very rattled, mind.

"Then who does have Tori?"

So Jade has learned that not only is Wednesday her cousin, but her mom is almost certainly, criminally insane.

For safety's sake and simply to cover my bases, don't drink draino or any other poison, nor feed them to someone else. It will make people die.