~ Beware The Scorpion Sting ~
Later on the following morning, Tink and Sparrowhawk returned to fly the group to Italy for the second half of their vacation. They were all excited, especially Belle who was looking forward to renewing her own vows at the Trevi Fountain and after all of the children were put to bed, she and Rumple stayed up late watching Three Coins In The Fountain and Roman Holiday. They wanted to visit several places around Italy and as they did in Greece, they would just play it by ear.
She was also pleased that Penelope and Kyria would be accompanying them for the trip, knowing how important it was to her father that he spend as much time with Penelope before they returned to the States. It was too soon for Maurice to propose but neither could deny their love was as true as hers was for Rumple and Marie's was for Archie. Even if her father decided to move to Greece with Penelope, she wouldn't mind it at all. His happiness was all that mattered. She just wasn't looking forward to their parting. It would not be easy.
Robin and David, unfortunately were both ready to check themselves into a hospital. Regina and Snow were becoming more irritable in the final weeks of their pregnancies, Regina being the worst of the two. Everyone was amused when Roland made the announcement that his father had been banished to the sofa for the night for keeping his wife awake with his snoring.
"Oh and unlike my wife, there's no compromising!" Archie teased.
"You wait, Hopper! Sooner or later she's just gonna leave you down there alone."
"Never happen," Archie said confidently.
"Don't count on it, dearie. Your wife is a Bordreaux and these Bordreaux women can be quite devious when they're in a snit," Rumple reminded him.
"Papa, come on. I wanna go to Italy!" Adriana cried.
"Calm down, dearie! We're going!" Rumple chuckled.
The flight time from Athens to Rome was far less than the flight time from the States to Greece, less than three hours. Sophia and Alessandro rode out with them to the airport, everyone thanking them for their fine hospitality.
"You are more than welcome in Storybrooke if you want to visit," Regina offered.
"Yeah, you gotta come to Storybrooke!" Ellie insisted.
"We will someday," Alessandro promised. "You take good care of Mum and Kyria."
"Not to worry dearie. They're in good hands," Rumple assured him.
The kids raced onto the plane, begging their parents to let them watch a movie during the flight and even the babies were excited. Their parents kept them entertained with their Beauty and the Beast and Jiminy Cricket puppets but Bobby kept grabbing the Beast puppet and tried to chew on its hair.
"Dearie, ye canna eat the beast!" Rumple teased.
Bobby wailed in protest. Valora, sensing her brother's distress started crying too and seconds later all three infants were sobbing.
"Now, now ye imps...none o'that!" He picked up Bobby and Valora while Belle cradled Victoria in her arms and the two of them sang a lullaby to their children to calm them.
Regina and Snow were relaxing in their seats with their swollen feet elevated. "Ooooh I cannot wait to have this baby," Snow moaned. "No matter where I sit or how I sit, I can't get comfortable and now the bed feels like I'm sleeping on a brick wall."
"At least your husband doesn't snore," Regina grouched. "I thought this pregnancy would be easier than the last one!"
Marie and Belle burst out laughing. "Never, ever make that assumption, Regina!" Marie said. "All three of mine have been different and certainly not easy."
"Well he better not pass out or else!"
"Jeff passes out again he's getting the broom to his ass," Emma threatened.
"Not the broom. No, not the broom!" Jeff moaned.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again. I HATE THAT BROOM!" David exclaimed.
"Mommy, can we see Italy from here?" Maggie asked. She peered out the window. "Aww this is dumb! All I see is sky an clouds!"
"That's because we're flying above the city Mags," Henry said. He and Grace were watching The Empire Strikes Back with the Happy Army bears. Several times over the years he wished he and Grace had their own bears for companions but they never asked Adriana about it because she only gave them to the younger children when she thought they needed them.
"Hey Major Rumple, you think Adriana would give me a bear of my own?" Henry asked their leader.
"Why dinna ye ask before, dearie?"
"Ahh I thought she only gave them to the little kids but I always have fun with you guys and for some strange reason I can't make one of my own." Henry laughed. "Driana seems to have cornered the market on bear animation."
"Tell ya what: I'll put in a good word for ya with Adriana and we'll see 'bout gettin you a bear...you and Gracie."
"Thanks, buddy."
"How far is this place we're staying from Rome?" Archie asked.
"Near the Coliseum. You're going to love it, Belle. They have a court where you can play boule, only they call it bocce."
"That's wonderful!" Belle cried and hugged her husband.
Robin whistled. "Place is costing you a fortune Rum."
"He can afford it," David chuckled.
"I certainly can and there's more privacy in a villa than a hotel."
"I just can't wait to see it and the city," Regina spoke up.
"It's beautiful Regina. We had a wonderful time while we were here. I'm just glad we'll get to see more of the country this time," Marie smiled softly. "And of course go to the opera."
"I still say you missed your calling Regina. With a voice like yours, you could be one of the finest singers in Europe," Archie praised.
"I'm happy with my life the way it is. Being a diva invites too much unwanted attention, attention I'd rather not have anymore. My mother would have loved it and so would Zelena. I'm happy just singing for our town."
"All right folks, we'll be landing in ten minutes," John Darling announced.
"YAY!" the younger children cheered.
A fleet of minivans awaited the family at the airport, provided by a private car service Rumple hired for them and each family had their own van with their own chauffer.
"Buongiorno, e benvenuti in Italia!" the drivers greeted them and sprung into action, gathering up the families' lugguage and packing them into the vans though most of the men insisted on helping the drivers load the vans themselves, something the drivers weren't used to with wealthy clients. It was a refreshing change. It was a short drive from the terminal that offered very little in terms of sightseeing until they arrived at Villa Puccinello. The owner, Giovanni "Nutch" Pulcinello was rumored to be a descendant of the House of Savoy, the last of the Italian kings but he hadn't used his obscure title to build his fortune from himself and his wife Gianna "Gennie". The Pulcinellos were now in the States visiting their many children and grandchildren and often rented their villa to wealthy tourists.
Unfortunately, Villa Pulcinello was being cased regularly by a group of cat burglars and pickpockets that the police were having a difficult time catching. The villa had a state of the art security system and six full time guards on the premises, one of them a younger man who had just been hired before the Pulcinellos left for the States. The couple was unaware that the man had taken the job so that he would have inside information on how security at the villa worked and if there were any marks they could hit.
Just before his shift started the guard met with his friends at their hiding place a few minutes away from the villa.
"Got a huge score coming in...group of tourists from the States...rented the place for a whole month! We can hit them then clean out the house and the old fossils won't know a thing!"
"What about the other guys? Sanny's like a hawk...watches everything you do."
The young man smirked. "When he's not watching his little porn shows. Best time to move is when he's doing that. You could set off a bomb and he won't hear it."
"You just make sure he's occupied when we get there, all right? When's these tourists supposed to get here?"
"On their way now."
He entered the passcode for the gates and strode down the driveway, a package under his arm. Santino or Sanny, the head guard was waiting for him at the guardhouse. "Gonna be a busy day Luc. Those tourists are on their way now and we got the club coming to play bocce on Sunday."
"I thought they weren't gonna do it with Nutch being outta town?"
"Nah. They're still playing."
Luc held out the package he was holding. "Got this the other day." The other man unwrapped it to find a collection of pornographic videos. "Haven't seen it yet but maybe we can watch it later?"
"I don't know...we've got those tourists coming."
"It's a group of Americans with a bunch of kids and they're already rich so it's not like they're gonna clean the place out. C'mon! I'd rather sit and watch this than listen to a bunch of whining American brats."
"Okay. Let's get 'em settled in first."
The guards assembled outside as a line of minivans pulled into the driveway in front of the main house, dropping off five families and a group of teenagers, most of them having young children and five infants. Luc groaned. He was part of the house security detail and the last thing he wanted to deal with was babies screaming at all hours of the night. It would also make robbing the villa a lot more difficult if the parents had to wake up every two hours to shut them up.
"Rumple...it's beautiful!" Belle whispered. Villa Pulcinello's design was inspired by the famous Villa Rotunda in Vicenza with twelve bedrooms, each with its own adjoining bath, a tennis court, indoor and outdoor Olympic sized swimming pools, a bocce court, a gazebo and a second story patio. In the center of the driveway was a water fountain with a statute of the Madonna with Child and in all of the windows there were small figurines of Jesus with lights in them that made it appear as if they were watching you as you passed by them. There were also many marble statues of angels throughout the courtyard.
"Whoa...this place is like a mini Belle Reve!" Bae whistled.
"The statuary is beautiful," Regina praised.
"It is indeed, dearie and I do like those figures in the windows."
"Signora Pulcinello had those custom made. She always says she believes the Lord is always watching over us and she wanted something to reflect that," the housekeeper spoke up. "Welcome to Italy. My name is Mariana and I'm the signor and signora's housekeeper."
"It's a pleasure to meet you dearie. I'm Robert Gold. This is my wife Belle and our children: Baelfire, Adriana, Victoria, Valora and Bobby."
"I like all the angels you have. They chase frownies away!" Adriana piped up.
"The Pulcinellos wanted me to let them know when you arrived so that they could greet you personally. They're using Skype."
"That would be wonderful!" Belle exclaimed.
Archie stepped forward. "I'm Archie Hopper and this is my wife Marie and our children: Gisella, Jonny, AJ and Maureen and our nanny Mary."
"Belle is my sister...and this is our father Maurice Bordreax and our friends Penelope and Kyria Palakas," Marie introduced.
"We're from Greece!" Kyria announced.
"Well, I hope you enjoy your stay."
"I'm Emma Hatter and this is my mad lot...my husband Jeff and our kids Henry, Gracie and Maggie."
"We're all mad here!" Jeff quipped.
"We're the Nolans...I'm ahh Emma's sister. I'm Mary, my husband David and this is our son Neal," Snow said. They agreed that claiming Emma was Snow's sister would be easier to explain than them being mother and daughter. Even the best plastic surgeon in the world wouldn't have been able to Snow appear younger than her daughter had Snow's aging process been accelerated.
"We're the other half of the mad lot," Robin joked. "We're the Hoods...yeah my name's Robin Hood. Dad loved the movies. Anyway, this is my wife Regina and our kids, Roland, Jason and Ellie." Robin said smoothly.
"We're Bae's friends. I'm Andi, this is Becky, Ewan, Kat and Bobby but don't get confused if we call each other Wraith...that's me...Fury..that's Becky and Kat's nickname is Shadow while Bae's is Fire. We kinda have a club."
"Smooth Wraith smooth," Bae chuckled.
The families were then introduced to the butler, a man in his early sixties named Joe but he told them to call him "Egg".
Ellie eyed him curiously. "Why you want us to call you 'Egg'? You don't look like an egg."
Joe laughed. "It's what everybody calls me...been doing it since I was a bambino...said my head was shaped like an egg."
"That's kinda mean," Adriana remarked.
"Oh, I've gotten used to it. Have you ever played bocce, cara?"
"My mama plays boule. Is that kinda like bocce?"
"It certainly is and if you don't know how I'll teach you."
"Cool!"
Egg was not popular with Nutch's Sunday men's bocce league who all felt women did not belong on the court while he believed the sport could be played by anyone and never hesitated to teach someone when they asked him to.
The chef was a man in his early fifties named Nunzio. He'd been hired away from a five star restaurant by the Pulcinellos who loved his cooking and there even times when the couple joined him the kitchen to prepare meals.
"You're in luck, dearie. There are a few of us who know our way around a kitchen and can give you a rest." Rumple boasted.
"Ah, grazie! I need a rest once in a while. All I ask is that you keep it clean and organized."
Marie giggled. "Oh you don't need to worry about that. Our husbands are as OCD about their kitchens as you are I'm sure!"
"Since the signore has had heart surgery he doesn't get to do some of the things he used to but he does like to cook."
"Yeah, Papa's been known to scrub the kitchen floor with a toothbrush to clean the grout!" Bae smirked. "You could eat off of it when he's done."
"And the toilets Bae," Adriana added.
Bae nodded."That's for sure!" He could also recall being made to do both those things as punishment for getting into trouble, both in Storybrooke and the Dark Castle.
Rumple eyed his offspring resignedly. "When you grew up as I have, dearies, then you'd know why I'm so fanatical about cleaning things." Rumple had grown up in squalor and dirt, and had devloped a horror of filth and germs after witnessing first hand how poor hygiene and spoiled food had carried off the population of whole villages as a child.
"Well you'll find no dirt here, Signor Gold," Mariana assured him. "Well, why don't we get you all settled in."
Marianna and Egg escorted them to the second floor so that they could unpack their luggage before they would give them the grand tour of the villa. Most of the kids wanted to sleep in the same room and one of the bedrooms had been turned into a nursery for the twins and triplets. Luc volunteered to help with the luggage so that he could report back to his crew, noticingthat all of the women wore expensive jewelery as did the spokesman of their group, wanting to ger his hands on the man's wallet and the credit cards he was certain had unlimited amounts. His crew would be able to live comfortably for years on the haul they would make.
"No jumping up and down on that bed, John Wayne Hopper!" Archie said sternly when he carried his son's suitcase into the room he was sharing with Jason and Roland and caught the three boys trying to make the bed their trampoline. He snapped his fingers. "Down...all of you."
"Sorry Daddy," Jonny said sheepishly.
"This isn't a zoo guys and you need to remember to respect other peoples' property," Robin added.
"Okay..." they chorused.
Archie put in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD to entertain the boys while their fathers unpacked their luggage. Luc walked in carrying Zach and Zara's cage. Once he took the cover off, the two snakes hissed at him.
"Holy fuck!" he exclaimed, terrified of snakes.
Two fathers glared at him.
"Be nice guys," Jonny pleaded with the snakes.
We don't like him Jonny...he has a rotten smell about him, Zara sent.
You're just bein paranoid cause you don't know him yet.
I don't think so. You be careful...and we're going to be watching that one. One move and he gets bitten, Zach sent.
Mickey and Minnie flew out of their cage and circled the guard, chirping angrily.
"What the hell...you got a zoo or what?"
"Hey, they're my friends," Jonny protested. "Calm down guys...s'okay."
Zach and Zara are right. We don't like that man, Minnie sent.
The guard was even more terrified by the Golden Retreiver, Dalmatians and the poodle standing in the doorway, all growling.
Major stalked into the room. The police dog was getting on in years, but he could still strike fear into a criminal's heart. He sniffed and his lip curled up. He didn't snarl, just glared.
The guard backed away nervously.
The shepherd whuffed at him pointedly. He didn't like the fear scent mixed with guilt scent that oozed from this one's pores. None but the guilty feared him.
Maj, what's wrong with you guys? Jonny asked him.
That one-he smells like a crook, Major woofed. Fear scent and guilt scent. We don't like it.
You gotta have proof 'fore you accuse somebody, ya know.
The shepherd's tongue lolled. Don't need to tell me the law, pup. Once I WAS the law. But I'm going to watch this one.
Kay.
"What do you think you are, Doctor Doolittle or something?" Luc asked the toddler.
His backside is mine! snarled Pongo.
Stand down, Pongo! Major ordered. We can't go around biting this idiot, unless he hurts one of us. If we do, we'll end up in the pound and sent home.
He's right, Perdy reasoned.
All right but no one insults my family.
Major nuzzled him. Let the idiot bark. It's all noise. If an idiot calls someone else stupid, he's giving them a compliment.
We'll all watch this joker...and we better tell the bears too, sent Kermit.
You do that, Major sent. The rest of us will be on alert status . . .makes sure nobody tries anything. You can each take a family to guard.
What can we do...we're crickets? asked Minnie.
Well we can burst his eardrums our chirping, offered Mickey.
And don't forget our master was able to do many things as a cricket, Perdy reminded her.
They all looked to the former police dog for guidance.
Luc stormed out of the room and went out to the patio to send a text message to his cohorts. We've got a serious problem. These fuckin people have a zoo with them! Dogs, snakes, frogs and bugs!
All of us split up . . .and if you smell or hear or see anything suspicious . . .follow and make sure they aren't going to harm any of our family. If they look like they're going to hurt anyone or are taking our master or mistress' property you take them down and hold them.
Got it! the others sent.
Major went himself to guard the infants, placing himself in the nursery and lying alertly on the floor.
Little Bobby sensed the dog in the room and gave him a small smile from the crib.
Belle opened the box containing the majors Adrianna assigned to her sliblings and placed them in the crib near the babies while Marie put Major Archie and Major Marie in the crib with her own children. The bears were not going to be animated as often at the villa much to their disappointment but they were contented to watch over their small charges.
What's going on Major? asked Major Severus, Bobby's Happy bear.
All of the bears sensed tension in the air and if anyone would know the cause it was the former police dog.
Major explained the situation to the bear and asked him to pass it on to the rest of the bears and Minions to be on alert for suspicious activity.
After everyone was settled in, they gathered in the living room. Marianna turned on the Pulcinello's desktop computer and connected to Skype to inform her employers that their guests had arrived. A petite, ginger haired lady in her late eighties appeared on the screen.
"Oh, hello! I'm Gennie!"
"Hey, hello there!" Nutch called out, appearing on the screen beside his wife. "You get settled in?"
"We certainly did Signor Pulcinello and I just wanted to thank you on behalf of everyone for your hospitality," Rumple said after everyone made their introductions to the Italian couple.
"Eh, just call me Nutch! We're going to come back before you leave so we can get a chance to see all of you."
"Your home is beautiful!" Regina praised.
"Yeah it's like a castle! We gotta castle too!" Neal bragged.
"Yeah, so do we!" Ellie piped up.
"My papa's got one too!" Adriana added.
Nutch was laughing on the other end of the screen. "I bet they're a handful, eh?"
"You're not kidding!" Emma exclaimed.
While the families were talking to the Pulcinellos, the bears, Minions, dogs, snakes and crickets stayed on alert. They hadn't seen the suspicious guard after they first got settled in but they knew he was lurking about somewhere. The dogs were downstairs with the families while the others kept watch in the rooms. When they were certain no one was around, Major Duke opened the window to Jonny, Jason and Roland's room so that Mickey and Minnie could fly out and Zach and Zara would slither out via the trees. The snakes and crickets had been assigned outdoor patrol.
They talked with the Pulcinellos until Angelo called them in for dinner, the chef insisting on cooking the entire meal himself despite Rumple and Archie's protests. Both men knew how stressful it was to cook meals for large groups and assured the chef that he would at least have some assistance for future meals when he needed it.
Out by the gates Luc and his crew waited impatiently for their oppotunity to strike. One of them was carrying an animal tranquilizer he'd gotten from a friend who often raided the pharmeceutical cabinets at the vet's office where he worked for a quick high. None of them were going to risk the wrath of the dogs, especially the one they called Major. It looked like it could tear them apart.
After dinner Archie and Jonny led the dogs outside.
"Okay guys just go to the bathroom and run around a bit but ya can't mess up anything," Jonny instructed them.
Major snorted. What do you think I am? A pup?
Sorry keep forgettin'.
Ooooh I wanna play in the pretty gardens!
No, Pinkie! They're not yours an remember the last time how mad Regina was when you messed up her flowers!
Okay, okay I'll stay away!
Besides we have work to do, don't we? Major reminded his friends.
Three dogs barked in agreement.
"All right. We'll let you outside for an hour," Archie said and he and Jonny walked back into the house just as Bae and his friends were walking toward the patio door.
"We're gonna take a walk," Bae said. The truth was, he wanted some time alone with Andi as did the other boys with Becky and Kat and the gardens seemed large enough to afford them some privacy.
Major picked up the guard's scent near the front gates along with four others. He beared his teeth and snarled.
I knew it! Front gate! Move it!
The pack raced toward the gates, Major and Pongo in the lead. The dogs held the title for the fastest time in the agility trials for the Storybrooke festival for the past five years with Pinkie and Perdy close behind them. One of the men at the gate spotted the dogs approaching.
"Oh shit! Rocco, get the damn dart gun out!"
Major knew what a gun was from his time on the force. Gun! Down! he barked in warning, then he sprinted and tackled the guard about the knees, knowing better than to jump up and risk taking a bullet, like he had the day his partner got killed in a shootout.
The dogs scattered, so they weren't bunched together and easy targets. Pinkie went for one man's ankles, growling and biting ferociously. The poodle had a nasty temper when roused.
Pongo tackled a third man to the ground and snarled right in the other's face.
His mate ran after another trying to flee and bit him right in the backside.
Rocco's hand closed over the gun, just as Major's closed over his arm, and the dog, who knew how to incapacitate a suspect, ground his teeth down firmly, with a low warning growl, advising the idiot to be still or else he'd bite off his arm.
"Fuckin dogs...somebody shoot em!"
Seeing some of his team out for the count, but still wanting to get the loot, Luc swore, and said, "Fucking dogs! C'mon, you guys, keep goin'." Leaving their comrades as bait, the rest crept up to the house.
"Hey guys, we're gonna go over here...have fun!" Ewan winked at Bae and Andi and led Becky away from the rest of the group.
At a statue of the angel Gabriel, Bobby paused and whispered, "Kat, I have a message for you, darling," then drew her close and kissed her.
As they were walking past the Madonna fountain Andi happened to look up at the second story window to see someone climbing into it, a bungee cord dangling from the sill. "Bae! They're breaking into the house! Into your dad's room!"
"Oh no they're not! They're gonna get stung!"
"Guys, get over here quick!" Andi cried out when she found their friends. "We've got some assholes trying to break in the house. They're in Rumple's room right now!"
"Well they're not goin' anywhere!" Ewan said determinedly.
"Let's sting 'em good guys!" Bae crowed and started climbing up the bungee cord with Andi behind him. Kat ran into the house to alert the rest of the family while Ewan and Bobby opened a first floor window to sneak in, both of them disturbed that the alarm hadn't gone off.
"Becky! Get the camera goin...we got an inside job here!" Ewan called out to her.
"Where the hell are the freakin' guards!" she grumbled.
Though they wished they had their gloves for the climb, if there was one thing Bae and Andi knew how to do, it was improvise. Their suspect was already in the room and they could hear another rummaging around. When they got inside, Belle's dresser was a shambles and her empty jewelery box lay on the floor and Rumple's wallet had been cleaned out.
"Sons a bitches!" Bae snarled. They heard a noise in Archie and Marie's room.
"Oh no you don't! C'mon Wraith!"
Kat was nearly out of breath when she entered the living room and found the rest of the family watching a movie. "There's...people in the house...trying to steal from us!" she gasped. "Bae...and Andi went after them..."
"WHAT?!" Rumple roared. He jumped to his feet, grabbed his cane and summoned Archie's umbrella and Belle and Marie's brooms."No one steals from ME dearies!"
A group of angry adults stalked toward the steps ready to show a couple of two bit cat burglars why it wasn't wise to mess with the likes of Rumplestiltskin and his family.
Bae thrust the door of his uncle and aunt's room open just as one of the burglars was trying to shove all of Marie's jewelry down the front of his pants. He tackled the man to the ground while Andi incapacitated the other with a lamp.
"Nice try assholes," Bae snarled. "Rule number one of burglary: never try to hit the house of an expert."
"Or try to rob ME!" Rumple said menacingly from the doorway.
"Great job Bae. We'll handle this!" Emma said firmly as Robin and Jeff hauled the men to their feet, bound them with the bungee cord and dragged them downstairs while Kat, Ewan and Bobby stood watch over the children. The deputy and the outlaw forced the two burglars to kneel on the floor while Rumple and Archie stood over them, glaring.
"We want everything you took. NOW!" Archie demanded.
David and Jeff pulled them up and started searching them, finding pieces of jewelery in their pockets along with the contents of Rumple's wallet.
"You're being awful quiet? Got something to say?" Emma inquired. Both men shook their heads.
Bobby stepped forward and smirked at them. "Spit 'em out boys. You don't want us going in after em."
"And we know where you put things," Bae hissed. "Because nobody knows how to hide goods like a former Scorpion!" His eyes flashed and he made one quick gesture and a bracelet was dangling from his fingers. "Capice?" Another flick of a wrist and the bracelet vanished up his sleeve.
"And ye might wanna lighten your load in the knickers too," Ewan added.
Then, demonstration over with, he shook his wrist and the bracelet was handed over to Emma.
"You heard them boys...hand it over...or we strip you!"
Rumple made a slight gesture and a pair of white gloves appeared in his pocket. He took them out, smiling devilishly. "Kat, ye might want to take the wee ones upstairs. This could get a bit messy," he said while he donned the gloves and snapped the elastic for emphasis.
The terrified burglars spit out several rings and one of Belle's necklaces, making the others wonder how the hell they managed to fit it all in there.
Kat sniggered as she led the kids upstairs. While Maggie was walking by them she started laughing. "They're gonna give you a jumbo enema!"
"Better not have any in your crack cause it's gonna hurt!" Jason taunted.
Ellie kicked one of them in the foot. "Hope it scratched your willie up good and you get 'fection that makes it fall off!"
"Oh my God Robin...she's vicious!" Jeff whispered. "Why do they always have to aim south!"
Rumple was starting to think that a little curse of that nature sounded very appealing.
"You're gonna get twenty years to life, and some fat guy named Bubba's gonna make you his wife!" Adriana sang sweetly. "Congratulations!"
Once the kids were out of the room the boys started pulling items out of their underwear, including Marie's heart shaped pendant and ring.
"You bastard!" she hissed and swung the broom.
Belle was incensed when she found a rose pendant on the floor from the other boy's underwear. "That goes double for me!"
Becky walked into the house just in time to record the women dispensing their own justice with the Bordreaux Brooms.
"Now...I have...to have...it FUMIGATED!" Belle ranted.
"I should feel sorry for them," David hissed. He hated that broom! 'But I don't!"
"Me neither," Jeff added.
"So where the hell where the rest of the guards when this was going on?" Snow demanded.
"Allow me to enlighten you," Becky said and handed her phone to the former princess. The other guards walked into the house just in time to see their negligence caught on video.
Regina approached the group, her eyes flashing. "You were too busy watching porn while these people were trying to rob us blind and possibly harm us and our children?! Well, my dears, your ten seconds of entertainment better have been worth the punishment I have in mind for you."
"Daddy, the dogs caught more of em out by the gate!" Jonny announced.
"The police are on their way," Marianna announced.
Regina silently cursed all of them with a particularly nasty one that was similar to a punishment Bae had given her beloved sister...a case of the itches in a sensitive area...for the rest of their lives.
When the police arrived they were shocked to find that the group of cat burglars they'd been chasing for months had been successfully apprehended by a group of American tourists. They led the group away, all of them cursing in Italian, One of them tried to break free from the officers restraining him to try to scratch himself on the Gabriel statue in the garden.
Rumple gathered up all of Belle and Marie's stolen jewelery and cast a cleansing charm on them before returning them along with enchantments that would prevent them from ever being taken again. As he was cleaning up the bedrooms, Marie and Belle hugged the former gang members.
"Thank you Bae," Belle sobbed. Though she didn't wear most of the pieces in her box all the time, she cherished each one because they'd all been handmade by her husband.
Bae hugged her. "You're welcome, Mama. I just wish I'd figured out sooner there was a rat in here."
"Well we stung 'em good, didn't we Fire?" Andi asked.
"We sure did, Wraith!"
The Pulcinellos were shocked when Rumple called them on Skype later on that evening to tell them what happened at the house and the couple praised the group of teenagers for their bravery and were outraged by their security company's negligence, promising that they would hire another, more reliable crew to look after the villa and the family while they were staying there but they suspected the family was quite capable of looking after themselves.
Their first night in Italy had come to an end and if that evening was any indication, just as many surprises awaited them in this country as they had in Greece.