Counsel Me
Prompt: Birth
"What?" Xanxus growled into the phone.
On the other end, Enma greeted, "Hello."
"I'm hanging up if you don't cut to the chase."
Enma laughed. "I wouldn't expect anything else from you. Dino and I are getting together to get drunk. Do you want to come?"
An eyebrow arched, "No Vongola trash?"
"Ah..." Enma's voice was softer then he said, "No. Tsuna's in Japan for mothers day."
Xanxus thought about his own mother, leaving him with his father.
Than about his father's wife.
She had been a beautiful, strong, and kind woman. She had always been confident that Timeto would never cheat on her, despite his flirting, and despite him being proof of it, she had treated Xanxus like a fourth son instantly (he had realized, of course, that she had probably known Timeto wasn't his real father). She had kissed his scrapped knees better if he and Federico played too rough, taught him how to dance when he was ten, and cried when he left for boarding school.
She'd died when he was frozen.
A heartattack had taken her in the middle of the night.
All of the maids agreed that she'd given up on life after Federico's death and her heart had responded to that. Sme whispered she couldn't stand her husband's bastard beng aliv, frozen but still there, when her sons were all dead. Others murmured that she couldn't take the thought of never hearing any of her four sons laugh again.
"Fuck. I definitely need a drink." Xanxus shifted the phone onto his shoulder, wondering if it was better to drink Vodka or Tequila in the car on the way over. "Is our little dead mother's club meeting in your territory or Cavallones?"