Mama Bloom AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

"Ah Miss Dragon! I'm glad to see that you've taken up my offer of a tour around Alfea!" Griselda said looking pleased when she saw the red head walk through the gates wearing a purple sun dress and wide brimmed straw hat to protect her head from the suns as she looked up and smiled at Griselda.

"How could I resist? I haven't been to very many places aside from Cloud Tower so I have to admit that I am curious." Bloom said smiling brightly at the brown haired woman who blushed slightly but smiled back as she offered the red haired woman her arm. Dragon easily looped her arm through Griselda's and allowed herself to be guided around the school, a few students smiling and waving at her…Dragon merely giggled and waved back at them.

"Hello Miss Dragon. I see you took up Griselda's offer of a tour." Faragonda said smiling at the red head as she and DuFour were walking down a hallway, talking about something, before DuFour and Dragon literally bumped right into each other.

"Are you alright ma'am?" Dragon asked offering DuFour a hand up from the floor with a worried look. Griselda had kept Dragon from falling from the collision, but Faragonda hadn't been able to react in time to stop DuFour from falling.

"I am fine thank you. Sorry about that Miss Dragon, I wasn't paying much attention to where I was going." DuFour said smiling politely as she accepted the hand up and climbed to her feet, dusting off her dress and picking her wide brimmed hat back up from where it had fallen off of her head.

"That mark…" Dragon said staring shocked at the sight of a birthmark on DuFour's forehead and to the side, mostly covered by her hair and then completely covered by her hat.

"What about it?" DuFour asked raising an eyebrow at Dragon curiously. Dragon didn't say anything as she slowly reached up with a shaky hand and took off her own hat. Moving the hair on the left side of her forehead away, Dragon showed a small birthmark on her head…one that matched DuFour's.

"Goddesses…" DuFour breathed out softly as she stared at Dragon who quickly put the hat back on her head and looked at her feet almost shyly.

"I don't remember where I got it from, or what it means, if I even knew to begin with…I just know I've had it all my life…I can't tell how I know that though." Dragon explained softly while DuFour was merely staring at the red head shocked and the other two women were confused about everything.

"You were born with it." DuFour said softly, so soft that the older two women didn't hear her but the younger one caught the faint whisper.

"Hm?" Dragon asked curiously as she looked at the older woman.

"You were born with the mark. That's the only way that someone can have it." DuFour said slightly louder as she looked into the familiar cyan blue eyes that were staring back at her.

"What does the mark mean if it means anything? I've never seen it before." Faragonda asked curiously, while Griselda nodded her head in agreement with her boss and friend. Neither of them had ever seen the mark on the foreheads of the two very different and yet similar women. It was a red mark, which hid it easily amongst Dragon's hair while DuFour's hat hid it and matched it clearly if it were visible, that looked like a snake wrapped around a cross eating it's tail.

"I-…It's the mark of the cursed." DuFour admitted seeing as how Dragon didn't know, and even if she did know beforehand her amnesia would have made her forget.

"Cursed?" Griselda asked startled and causing DuFour to nod, before looking around and walking towards Faragonda's office.

"Not here. Let's go to the office." DuFour said, her tone brooking no argument as the others followed her confused but nodding. Apparently it was something personal. Griselda spared a curious look at Dragon who gave an elegant shrug of her shoulders in reply. She was as clueless as Griselda and Faragonda were on this matter.

"So what's this about a Cursed mark?" Faragonda asked as they entered her office and took seats around it aside from DuFour. Faragonda was in her desk chair, DuFour was pacing back and forth in front of the desk, Griselda and Dragon however were sharing the couch and looking at DuFour curiously.

"It's a family curse. It affects them when the person turns sixteen and has various effects depending on the person." DuFour began as she paced around for a moment, looking lost in thought.

"How did the family get cursed?" Dragon asked curiously.

"About two thousand years ago one of my ancestor was a master alchemist, it runs in the family amongst other traits, but he committed the ultimate Taboo of Alchemy. He tried to play god by bringing back his wife who died giving birth. From then on the family was cursed. On the Sixteenth birthday every child of the family has the tattoo of the Cursed branded onto their head, where it's usually hidden by hair." DuFour explained idly as she kept pacing, reaching up and brushing a hand against her own 'Tattoo'.

"Thanks to the tattoo everyone in the family who has it is a natural with Alchemy and due to losing something they also gained something after all it's the first law of Alchemy. Mankind cannot gain without first giving up something of equal or greater value." DuFour said as she finally stopped pacing while Dragon's eyes glazed over for a minute.

"It's a shame that it is not the law of the universe." Dragon said in a voice that was both hers and not hers at the same time, causing everyone to look at her for a minute before she blinked and returned to normal.

"That's pretty much the family motto. All of us with the mark gain the ability to do transmutation without a circle, if we let our instincts guide us then we don't even have to think about it more often than not. However because of this we all lose something about ourselves." DuFour said after staring at Dragon for a few seconds, nodding at the girl who blinked.

"Lose something?" Griselda enquired looking worriedly at Dragon who was staring at DuFour intrigued.

"Yes, usually something that can lower our life spans but not outright kill us. I lost several of my internal organs, enough to make me cough up blood when I strain myself but not any that would kill me outright." DuFour said causing Griselda and Faragonda to wince slightly while Dragon raised an eyebrow.

"While for me, since I have all my organs according to Madam Cross, I've lost my memories and my sense of taste." Dragon said causing DuFour to nod in agreement, looking slightly relieved at hearing that Dragon had all of her organs intact.

"However that means that we are related somehow, since you've said repeatedly that it is a family curse." Dragon said causing DuFour to smile weakly as she nodded at that.

"What are you to me?" Dragon asked finally after staring silently at a rather nervous looking DuFour for a minute. The silver haired woman gave a weak smile and her eyes looked rather misty as her next words caused jaws to drop and everyone to change how they looked at the red clad woman.

"Well…can you give your mother at least one hug?"