AN: This is pretty much a continuation, situation wise, of the last one...And this whole story bit is based off of an Italian 1990 comic, Ho Sposato Una Strega, or "I Married a Witch". Basically Bewitched but with the marriage gone sour because she was so not low key. I did the pain staking task of translating the whole thing with Google translate, someone needs to update its Italian, there were a few words in the comic that would not translate in the box, but I could find its translation other wise by just googling it. Funny thing is it only got printed once and it was done incorrectly with pages 21 and 22 being switched, and of course it never got reprinted or properly translated. It's only edition can be found in "Mickey Mouse" number 1785 of 11 February 1990.
Disclaimer: Manfred Mouse and Alfonzo T. Gato are the only two that are my characters, everyone else belongs to Disney. Also Samantha is the girl in the cover photo for this.
They had continued to look through the photo album of Mickey and his cousin Manfred's adventures, and at each set of pictures a story was in order, to explain how it came to be.
However, if Mickey's luck with the magazine wedding photo was only sort of bad because of how innocent the circumstances really were, then next photo of absolute question just earned his luck a trip to a really warm place within Hades' domain.
The photo in question that made Mickey's heart skip and not in a good way, that Minnie actually felt considering that she was still curled up against him, was of a blonde girl that Minnie didn't recognize, but since it was in a photo album of Mickey and Manfred's adventures she assumed right away that it was an old girlfriend of Manfred's. The only thing countering it was why it was in this album rather than one that Manfred had, and countering that was the fact that Manfred liked to tease Mickey about certain things and probably left it here as a boastful joke. The girl in the photo was awfully pretty so it really wouldn't surprise Minnie if the second part of the latter was the case. Still, her curiosity was piqued, and Mickey's grave was about to start the digging process.
"Who's this, Mickey? One of Manfred's girlfriends just to spite you?" Minnie asked innocently.
"That's Samantha." Mickey replied simply, not trusting his voice to provide a further explanation considering how fried his brain was at the flood of memories concerning the girl in the photo. Samantha was the only other girl in the world that he ever loved with all his heart, so much so that he almost… If only she would've just….
His mistake of not giving a further explanation already set Minnie on edge, if it really was one of Manfred's girlfriends then why was he hesitating on giving a little back story about her? Then he made the second mistake of gulping, like, really loudly. She knew then, that he was hiding something about this Samantha, and whatever it was, she just knew that she wasn't going to like it, especially since Mickey now shirked away from her touch at just knowing the explanation to come was bound to have physical consequences. Usually it might however, Minnie decided to keep an open mind about it though, they were married now, she had no reason to be jealous if Samantha wasn't Manfred's girlfriend and was actually Micke- It really was hard to fathom the idea of Mickey being with someone else, even for a little while, but she herself wasn't all that faithful back when they were dating at times either, Duke Height of Konseet was one of very few names that came to mind, but that was mostly because he was one of two of the more recent ones.
Still, Minnie sat up and looked him in the eye to ask as delicately as possible, "Mickey, who is she really? I…promise I won't be mad, no matter what she is to you."
Mickey chuckled darkly at that. "Yes ya will. She's one of the biggest secrets I've kept from ya, and that's fer a very good reason. Naturally, Manfred's the only other person in my life who even knows about her and even he smacked me upside the head because of the circumstances surrounding her."
Minnie raised her brow at that. Manfred had a tendency to black mail his cousin by revealing any dark secrets to her if Mickey did something extremely stupid that she needed to know about, and usually those dark secrets were just stories of more of Mickey's stupid decisions that he's made in his life. The fact that this was the first time that she's even heard of this girl, Samantha, was a little bit of a shock, but then maybe he forgot about this one.
"Mickey, we're married," She reminded him sternly. "I highly doubt I have anything to worry about."
Mickey sighed slightly in relief but more in exasperation through his nose. Minnie was right, she didn't have to worry too much. But still…he cringed at himself for how stupid he was back then, good golly Miss Molly he was dumb!
"Before I tell ya about her, I hafta tell ya about how it all started." He started cautiously.
Thus, slowly but surely he told her of how he was going to go away for a month to catch a dangerous bandit in a camper RV with the police Chief O'Hara and when he was dropped off at her place to tell her, she was mad as a hornet, since him going off on dangerous adventures, especially without her, were always a touchy subject and after said she didn't want to ever see him again, she cussed him out of her house and threw dishes at him. So there was the officially unofficial break-up of that time. He hopped back in the camper with O'Hara to go off to catch the bad guy, only to get the call that he was already arressted. So they turned back a little to drop the Chief off at the police station, and the Chief even lent the camper to Mickey so he could make it up to Minnie with a romantic getaway vacation in it. Fat chance of that, by the time Mickey got back to her house, she was gone. Apparently she went on a cruise around the world to forget about him, according to Clarabelle, who happened to pass by and was given a message from Minnie to throw dishes of her own at him and to make sure she aimed well.
So Mickey went on vacation by himself…with Pluto of course. He drove so much that he ended up getting lost in the rain and in traffic. He met Samantha then, as she was the only one walking out in the pouring rain so of course he gave her a ride, but then he needed gas for the camper, luckily Samantha knew the area well even though she claimed that she wasn't very popular in these parts. The gas station guy didn't take too kindly in knowing that Mickey was traveling with Samantha as soon as Mickey mentioned that she was his guide around the country side, the guy called her a witch, and of course Mickey defended her honor. The Mouse tied the guy in the gas pump but he himself came out with a shiner on his right eye. At least he had already paid for the gas.
Mickey then took Samantha home, to her home, he had to correct quickly to avoid certain…implications. In any case, he met her father and got some steak for his eye, and Samantha's father thanked him for defending Samantha and explained that the gas station guy isn't the only one to call Samantha a witch. Everyone in the region called her that, and called her father a wizard. According to Samantha's father the people blamed it on the gloomy looking house, which should have been the first sign of BS to Mickey, because the house looked wonderful and picturesque, why would people shun them for the way a house looks? In any case, Mickey only wanted to prove his point of how much he liked the house by asking to keep his camper here. Samantha's father was hesitant, but Samantha herself was all for it and offered to show him everything the region had to offer.
Since Mickey had a month to spend… That month was entirely spent with Samantha, and inevitably they had gotten extremely close. So close in fact that when it was about time for Mickey to head back home, he actually had no intention of going home alone…This of course was the very part he had been extremely hesitant to tell Minnie, since he knew her for much longer than he knew Samantha, and that was going to hurt, no matter how he worded it. He only knew Samantha for a month and they told each other everything, and already he wanted to marry her, and asked her father for her hand in marriage.
Her father was just as hesitant as when it came to letting Mickey stay, only more so for a reason that he had no choice but to finally reveal. Her father proved that Samantha hadn't told Mickey everything, well really there was only one thing left to tell, but it was a doozy. The rumors the people spread about her being a witch and her father being a wizard were actually true. They could use magic by simply snapping their fingers, but they only used their magic for mundane and practical things…mostly, but he'd get to that part soon. With a snap of the fingers, Samantha proved the existence of her magic by making an unplugged vacuum cleaner come to life and lifted a heavy chair, with Pluto on it, off of the floor. Mickey had fainted of course, but when he came to he got used to the idea and was more determined that their marriage could work since he was perfectly okay with it, as he honestly thought Samantha could renounce her magic. Samantha even promised as much for the sake of love. However, her father knew that she couldn't really do it, but granted them the blessing while secretly snapping his fingers for a very specific reason.
Mickey and Samantha didn't really get married, but they saw how their lives would play out in excruciating detail if they did. In the end Samantha couldn't stop using her magic, she couldn't cook for beans seeing as she managed to burn cake, so she used magic to compensate for that when Clarabelle wouldn't stop being so snooty about it. If there wasn't a parking spot, she'd move the tow away zone sign, some lady neighbor bragged about her roses and tulips, Samantha wilted them with a snap of her fingers. What should have really been the final two straws were the two distinct times Samantha wanted to keep Mickey around specifically. One day was a day that he had made plans to go play baseball with Goofy, but it was raining, one phone call from the Goof later proved that it was only raining on his house! The other instance that really should've put him on edge was the instance of Chief O' Hara asking for his help to capture Pete again, with permission from his "wife" to go of course, and though she said yes, she snapped her fingers, he saw it and scolded with just her name as the doorbell rang. Pete was at the door with the uncontrollable desire to turn himself in. She really crossed the line on that one, she took the fun out of hunting a criminal down by serving them on a silver platter, but he just couldn't stay mad at her. He understood the temptation, magic made things easy, and really one's own nature can't be changed, but of course Samantha had used her magic so much around town that the rumors spread like wild fire and everyone wanted her gone. Samantha wanted the people protesting gone, and that was when her father, who was 'visiting', undid his ruse. Everything went back to the way it was and Mickey and Samantha were never really married, it was all just a magical dimension that her father had created to show how everything would play out if they went through with it.
Mickey and Samantha both silently agreed that it was for the best that they didn't really get married, so Mickey packed up and left reluctantly, they'd never forget each other, but for a moment they didn't have anything to remember each other by, until Samantha poofed a picture of herself onto the dashboard of the camper for Mickey to keep, which now rests in this photo album…for some reason, he'd have to ask Manfred about that one, but knowing Manfred, he probably stuck it in there for safe keeping since Minnie normally wouldn't look in this particular photo album. In return, Mickey sent a letter with a picture of himself as soon as he got home. Meanwhile, Minnie was still on that cruise around the world so he was kind of justified for the whole thing, but still…He did wonder from time to time, if it still would've worked out, they were in a magical dimension of a future that didn't really happen, and she learned her lesson technically so she wouldn't've made the same mistakes, right? Probably not, hence how things are now…And still yet…
"One measly month and you almost married her?" Minnie said in more of a statement that a question because she could hardly believe it.
"I know, I know, definitely not one of my brightest ideas, even if her magic wasn't a factor, it probably would've been a really dumb decision in the long run. I mean look at her! If she didn't have any magic, she would've left me fer someone taller faster than I could even say 'magic'!" Mickey admitted sheepishly. Minnie rolled her eyes at him for that one bit of self-depreciation.
"Mickey if you honestly believe any girl in a relationship with you would really leave you for something as trifle as that, then we're going to have to have a really long heart to heart chat." To prove her point, she pressed herself fully against him, making sure that they could feel each other's heartbeat.
As shy as Mickey was about the sudden closeness and the true implications of what they were going to be doing later that she was really bringing to the table, he still had a counter to shoot back at her. "So says she who has kinda sorta left me a few times fer guys who were indeed taller than me. All of whom I can count on one hand!"
"Really?" Minnie tested teasingly. "Even with our mere four fingers as opposed to a human's five fingers?"
"Yep, four's all I need, so let me count the ways. Lessee, there's Mortimer, there was Mr. Slicker…"
"He doesn't count." Minnie interrupted him.
"Yes he does, when he asked ya who I was ta ya and guessed that I was yer brother, ya didn't deny it!" He stressed out the last two words and took inward glee at her shock, knowing that she didn't know that he knew about that. "I was just on the other side of the fence fer that conversation, Min. Now, moving on, there was the ever so conceited Duke Height of Konseet, and finally Alfonzo T. Gato who counts because he is a head taller than both of us."
"Yet, I'm still here with you and married to you despite all of them." She reminded him, and then had an afterthought. "You've been waiting to make that joke about Duke for a long time haven't you?"
"True, and I am grateful for it every day, as well as you taking me back after ya came home from that cruise. And yes, I was waiting fer the right moment ta make that joke." Mickey replied cheerfully. Then his smile fell when he remembered what started all of this as he glanced back at the photo album with Samantha's picture smiling right into the soft spot that loved her all those years ago. "So, uh, yer not mad about-?"
"Of course not, we all make mistakes Mickey and you already know about most of mine." She interrupted him again. Then she leaned in to whisper seductively into his ear. "Besides, you're all mine now." Then she got up and off of him and the couch but grabbed him by the collar of his shirt as she got up, he obediently followed. "I think now's a good time as any to have that heart to heart chat, preferably in our bed room." She told him as she led him up the stairs. He followed behind her more eagerly at the obvious implications.
"As ya wish, toots."
They didn't dare remind Manfred of Samantha's photo, otherwise he'd never let Mickey live it down for months. He could be worse than Clarabelle when it came to spreading gossip, more so since he usually had the extra juicy black mail to go with it.
Regardless, the moral of this story is, don't decide to marry someone after one mere month of knowing them, ya hacks!