The next day was filled with the reassembling of the family's new house. Lupa was having fun watching the robots assemble. She feels like a captain as she told the robots where to put things. She knows they didn't need to be told what to do but it was fun. She was surprise when one came up to her.
"madam we have a problem. The sewage water and electricity hook up where does that come from." Said the robot
"Um I will go ask dad or Lisa." Said Lupa running off.
She found the former in the hallway looking in a mirror. She shot figure guns at her self. She has gotten her half moon spectacles. She then danced a little she then blows a kiss at the mirror. She then puts up peace signs and looks around seeing Lupa.
"Lupa! Oh how long have you been there." Said Lisa
" since finger guns." Said Lupa with a chuckle
"Oh did you need something?" Asked Lisa trying to change the subject and back into a mid-Atlantic accent.
" where you going to do a Ahegao?" Said Lupa bluntly
"No, maybe? I don't know what that is. darling" said Lisa
"look it up sometime. But I need to ask you about hook ups for power water Internet all that stuff. The robots want to know." Said Lupa with a smirk
"oh I we'll go inform them immediately" Said Lisa
Lupa go upstairs to see how her parents are doing packing. They ware in Lucy's office. They have decided to do some cleaning. And they have been debating moving their offices into the new building.
"I think we should move one two tombstone into the bed room." Said lucy holding a Long box.
"Ya probably a good idea. We should probably get a display case For it." Said Lincoln
"Oh hello Lupa" Said lucy
" so what's in the box?" Said Lupa curiously
"one two tombstone my shot gun." Said Lucy
"You have a gun mom?" Asked Lupa
"She has a very fancy gun." Said Lincoln
"Do you want to tell the story or should I." Said lucy
"I will start sense I challenged you. But I'm getting ahead of myself" Said Lincoln he then cleared his voice "So me and Lucy were doing research into the Victorian 1880s era. I was working on a Time traveling story for a comic and luce was working on a Jack the ripper vampire story. We found out at the same time Jack the Ripper was terrifying London the wild west was still wild. So I challenged her to make a Western. And if it was to get published we would use the money for The first return check to buy a shotgun. We were having lots of trouble with groundhogs. Lucy." Said Lincoln
" So I wrote a macabre Western story about a woman hunting a vampire. That vampire was a former lover turn crazed monster of the night. Well it got published and it gathered a popularity I was not expecting. Well I ended up spending a lot of money on a double barrel shotgun. It is named after the heroines weapon in the story. I did not picture it being this elegant." Said Lucy opening the box with a flourish.
Lupa was very surprised. It was a double barrel side-by-side. Covered with Silver inlay engraving of Goth things. Little spiders bats, skulls and gallows The main engraving was two gravestones. Said tombstones had the Roman numerals one and two on them. A dark wood but stock and front grip finished the gun.
" Lucy got pretty good with it. Those varmints got lucky that Lisa made a machine that drives them off" Said Lincoln obviously proud of his wife.
"maybe it's time to learn to shoot my honeybee." Said Lucy
"I can finish up the cleaning Lucy. As much as I love going down memory lane with you it is still a detour." Said Lincoln and she kisses him.
"hopefully I found a hobby with our precious Lupa." Said Lucy to Lincoln
"Dad isn't going to come." Said Lupa
"He not a fan of recoil. And tombstone kicks Like a hanged man." Said Lucy
It was true they really didn't have many mother daughter activities. Lots of family activities. They have there shared goth style but away from Lincoln they didn't do much. Lucy got the shotgun shells, hearing protection and empty tin cans. Then mother and daughter go to the woodlands by there home.
"I will first show you how to shoot then I will teach you. You want to brace yourself. And when you look down the barrel you want to leave both eyes open unless your doing very precise shooting. This one just has to golden beads at the end. Place them on what you want to destroy. Never pointed it at anything you don't want to have destroyed. Now I want you to take one of those cans and throw it up and out as far as you can. Put on your healing protection it will be quite loud" Said Lucy
Lupa picks up a can and throws it up and out. Lucy depresses the trigger. And the can goes flying up more. She hits it again but it goes off at a different angle.
" I used to be better, but it has been a while. Now it's your turn we Will start with a can on the ground. " Said Lucy placing said can on a log
She adjusted her daughters posture. " ready, aim,fire" Said Lucy
And the can goes flying.
" The recoil wasn't as bad as you made it out to be mom." Said Lupa
" that was just birdshot. you haven't tried double OO buckshot or Magnum. Magnum rounds are not historically accurate I got no end of complaints using it in a cowboy story." Said Lucy
" I thought you only wrote about kinky vampires and gruesome murders. You only really let me read your books of poems." Said Lupa
"There was plenty of gruesome murders in cowboy times. I can give you some of my cowboy books your father loves them I can also give you some of my murder stories. i'm not so sure about the kinky vampire novels. At least not mine you probably will see too much of your parents in them." Said Lucy
Lupa looks a little disgusted at her mom and Lucy smirks. The two continued shooting for several hours until they shot every single shotgun cartridge. A scientist deals with a construction issue.
" do you want us to re-install these items into the wall they are not structurally required." Said a robot
Lisa looked through these items. A collection of animal bones and lost toys Old pin nubs. One of the bones gave her pause. It was a human metacarpal bone. She looked through the pile and found more human bones. They were old 1890s Lisa surmised but still an unsettling find. Probably not for Lucy and maybe Lincoln. She has thoroughly corrupted him. And they'll daughter probably wouldn't care either. She admitted to her self didn't either. She has done so many experiments nothing unsettled her. And it never did she had been called a mad scientist. She wanted to change before she killed that mob boss. She didn't feel guilty about it. She then heard a raspy voice.
"Hello my fellow maid. you have found my bones." Lisa spun around looking for Lucy or Luan or anyone else. But there was no one.
" tonight in your dreams let's talk keep my bone with you." Said the voice
She put the bone in her pocket. Maybe it was one of her relatives pranks but maybe it wasn't. Dreaming about a ghost would be better than the nightmares that she's been having.
Lucy and Lupa walk back in to the lighthouse. To find Lincoln sobbing. They rush up to him and give him hugs.
"what's wrong my beloved." Said Lucy
He pointed feebly at the table. Lupa picks a photograph 12 faces look out. She recognized her dad and mom and three ants she knew but that was only five faces. I name was written along the bottom and it confused her, the louds. They were the Lament.
"The family. I was important and loved by all of them at one point. we haven't seen them in so long" Said Lincoln
"I know it but, I love you. More deeply and in more ways than any of them. And we have three of them with us now." Said Lucy
" I know I know it just hit me. Lupa won't know them. Our perfect little girl. She probably has cousins she, we will never know." Said Lincoln
" C'est la vie. What's done is done we are lovers we have a daughter. A new life and a new name." Said Lucy
"I know. We have our little honeybee." Said Lincoln picking her up.
" our little sailor." Said Lucy
" our little pirate" Said Lincoln
" our perfect little sin child." Said Lucy
" our Lupa. I think it was worth it." Said Lincoln
"Mommy daddy you are embarrassing me" Said Lupa in response they kiss her cheeks.
"oh and I also found this" Said Lincoln taking out a pink book. Lucy quickly grabbed it and hid it behind her self.
" don't show this to our daughter it's um hard-core porn The really weird Japanese stuff." Said Lucy
" it's called hentai and no it's not that, Lucy." Said Lincoln
" Drop it. Lincoln, and I will wear that thing tonight. And yes I will do the dance." Said Lucy
"Ok Lucy I will hold you to that." Said Lincoln
Lupa didn't want to know what her parents were going to do.
Lincoln thought onesie cuddle time and Lucy would do that cute anime dance.
"I want to get Lupa a gun. So we don't have to take turns shooting." Said Lucy
"I want a Walter p-38 in 9mm. With Bakelite handles and hammer action." Said Lupa very quickly
" isn't that Lupin's the third pistol." Said Lincoln remembering that from an anime trivia book he got Lupa A while back.
"Yes I cross reference the specs from moms murder reference shelf." Said Lupa
"Good girl doing your research. But pistols are very different. But I have been thinking about getting a single action revolver. Those were a staple in the old west and with Victorian detectives. " Said Lucy
" I think the local pawnshop has things like that." Said Lincoln
"We will go tomorrow and see want the purveyor has. We Will also obtain shotgun shells we only have two left" Said Lucy
" we had three boxes." Said Lincoln
Lupa and Lucy look at each other and smile.