Gomez awoke at 10:00 A.M. and automatically something didn't feel right. Morticia rarely awoke before he did. He shook off the feeling and walked downstairs, ready for breakfast. To get to the kitchen, you must first walk through the livimg room. He walked in to find his whole family, excluding Morticia on the couch. They all looked as if they had been up for hours. And they also looked worried. "Is everything alright?" Gomez asked, getting a sinking feeling everything was not.
"It's mother..." Pubert started. "She's gone."
And at that point... Gomez's whole world crashed down and for the first time in his life, his heart dropped into his stomach. "What do you mean, she's gone?" He asked.
"We looked for her everywhere." Máma explained. "And we found no trace of her. She just vanished."
"No." Gomez said. "She couldn't possibly have just vanished, without a trace! We have to search harder, find some sort of clue. I was beside her all night, nothing could have happened-"
"Gomez," Fester interrupted. "I think she was kidnapped."
"Don't be silly, father was with her!" Pubert said. "Maybe she has a secret power where she has night vision and defeats good guys at night. And she'll be back in a few hours."
"Yea, or maybe she just ran out to get a few things." Pugsley attempted to calm everyone. "We're over-thinking this whole thing. Anyway, she could have gone to ease her mind about last night. She was pretty upset about that." He did not even realize he let a secret slip until everyone started looking at him as if he had a siamese twin with nine heads and blue skin.
"Did anything else happen with your mother last night?" Gomez asked.
"N-no, I-" Pugsley was cut off.
"Tell. Me. The. Truth. Now!" It was the first time Gomez had ever yelled at any one of his children. Reprimanded, yes but never yelled.
"Yes, father." Pugsley said. "Last night before she got ready for bed, she came into my room and tried to make things right. She said she understood if I was mad. I said I wish I had regular parents, I didn't mean it. But she said that someday when I find a girl, like you and her found eachother and started a family, I would understand how hard it is to keep everybody happy. I said she ruined my chances of that happening. She didn't yell but she seemed really upset. Not by her facial expression, you can raely read that. You could just... tell. And I told her to try and think about us a little more. I didn't mean that either. I've never said those things before but I was just so angry-" His eyes grew wide and teary eyed. "She told me that she loved me and all I said was goodnight and goodbye. I didn't mean that kind of goodbye! This is all my fault." And for another first timer, no one said a word to tell him it wasn't true.
"Something could have happened to her, Pugsley!" Pubert cried. "She loves us. No wonder she didn't check on me this morning."
"I'm sorry. I'll help look for her." Pugsley said.
"Alright. Let's split up." Lurch said in his slow, zombie-like voice.
So they searched for hours upon hours. They all came back for lunch except Gomez and Thing. They searched two towns and Gomez was beggining to grow weary from lack of eating. And they found not a trace of her. He asked anyone on the street if they had seen her and spent two minutes describing her in detail. Everyone said they would look but he knew they would probably forget. He cried, he panicked and it only made him work harder. Where could she be? he thought. I've looked everywhere! And eventually, the day turned into night and he had searched seven towns over. He was driving to the eighth when he fell asleep.
It all happened in a flash for Thing. Gomez fell asleep at the wheel and Thing immidiatley took over before they hit someone. He pretended to be Gomez's hand so nobody would get suspicious. And he drove home. And Gomez awoke his bedroom a day later. It was again morning and he kicked himself for sleeping through a day he could have used to search for Morticia. He walked downstairs and the rest of the family was already dressed. They all searched again and again found nothing. They searched over four towns and stopped in the middle of the road. They all went home including Gomez against his expressed wishes and after lunch Máma asked a question.
"What are we waiting for? Let's keep looking."
"Where the hell is there to look?" Gomez cried.
"Exactly." he heard a voice say.
"Who is that?" Gomez asked. "Didn't you hear that?"
"Gomez, maybe you should lie down." Fester suggested. Gomez, to his disappointment was the only one who heard the voice. He ran up to his and Morticia's room and saw that the closet wall had turned into a screen. He then noticed the screen lighting up and what he saw would startle anyone but the devil. Becuase it was the devil.
"Hello, Gomez." Satan said. "How are you?"