Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Laurel K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher,
J.K. Rowling, and Berkley Publishing Company. Nothing is mine, this is
just a parody and for entertainment purposes only.
Rating: Don't know Yet
Early Saturday morning Richard and I arrived at Myerton Tennessee. We
flew in to a small airport where Verne and his lupa Roxanne was
waiting. Jamil and Shang-Da was brought with us, by Richard's orders.
Shang-Da whined all the way from St. Louis, until Jamil put him out of
his misery, by knocking him out. Richard had called ahead to let his
mom know that we were coming for a visit. Richard's mom was happy to have
us all for Christmas and couldn't wait to meet me. I wished the
feelings was mutual because to tell you the truth, I was scared
shitless. Nathaniel and Zane, along with Cherry had let me in on a
little bit about his family. After hearing what they knew, I became
extremely frightened. I so didn't want to go and meet her now. Call me
chicken, but thats just how I felt. Richard had a hard time getting me
on the plane. He nearly had to pick me up and carry me onto the plane.
We stepped off the plane into a small private airport, where there was
at least two vans waiting to take us and our luggage to the cabins we
were staying in.
Verne was a tall and well built man. He had a beard, hair down to his
shoulders. Both had grey strecked into them, while lines formed around
his eyes. He looked to be in his middle fifties, with a slight tan. He
was wearing faded blue jeans, a black tight fitting t-shirt, black
boots, and a black leather trench coat. He seemed nicer then his lupa,
because even though she might looked at least thirty-years younger
then Verne. She looked meaner and tougher. She was the same size as
Anita, with blue tinted bangs. Roxanne was wearing an identical outfit
to Verne's. Richard greeted Verne with the proper greeting of wolves
when in public. A hug, with the guys, a hug and kiss on the cheek with
the women.
"Hey Verne. It's good to see you again," he said, then releasing him.
"It's good to see you again as well Richard," replied Verne.
Richard hugged Roxanne next and stated, "Roxanne, always a pleasure to
see you. Your still look as lovely as ever."
With this she smile at him, but looked straight at me, when they
pulled away from each other. "Thank you Richard, and it's good to see
you again, but I have to ask, whose the new girl," she asked.
Richard glanced behind him to me, then reached out for me. I took his
hand and he pulled me to his side. "Verne, Roxanne, this is Alex.
My new lupa and the love of my life," he said, then kissed my forehead
in front of them. I returned the affection and knew everything will be
all right. He then pushed me forward and I greeted them both. Verne
was first, who hugged me and kissed me on the side of the cheek. "It's
a pleasure to finally meet you Alexl," he said.
"Same here," was all I could say.
Roxanne was next, she looked me up and down with questioning eyes. I
just glanced at her with a smile, trying not to let me emotions show.
Finally she must of liked what she saw and smelt, for she grabbed me
and pulled me into an unsuspecting huge. "It's good to meet you
Alex. I've heard so much about you and know we are going to be such
good friends. We have a lot in common you know," she replied.
I hugged her back and answered, "It's good to meet you to. Being
friends is good, and know I didn't know we had alot in commen."
She pulled away, smiled at me and stated, "Well we do and will your
hear we can get to know one another better. I hope you are planning on
staying for awhile."
Richard took the time to chime in, "We are planning on staying until
after Christmas, unless something comes up with the pack, that Sylvia
can't handle."
Roxanne was nearly overjoyed, "Oh that's just terrific. I can't wait
to drag you shopping Alex."
I looked at her, just smiled, and said, "Me neither." Oh joy.
By that time Shang-Da, Jamil along with Verne's two enforcers had our
bags packed into one of the vans. We got into the other one and
started off. Roxanne and Verne talked all the way to the cabins, while
the rest of us just listened. We arrived at the Blue Moon Cabins in an
hour. Verne showed us to our lovely home away from home, while the
Jamil and Shang-Da grabbed the luggage. It was my first meeting with
Verne and Roxanne, so I was a little nervous at first, but they made
me feel welcome. We got settled in and was out the door around 10 to
go see Richard's family. We borrowed a van from Verne and was taking
all back roads to her house. His mom must have been waiting for us,
cause as soon as we pulled up an hour later, she came out the front
door. Richard and I got out first, the the two enforcers.
Richard's mom ran directly to him, to greet him with a huge. "Oh
Richard it's so good to see you again. I've missed you so," she
commented, while holding him tight.
"It's good to see you to mom," he answered, giving her a kiss and a hug.
She released him, then stepped back at him. "You're looking better and
better everytime I see you. So handsome, bet you have to bet the
ladies off with a stick," she asked.
I was so hard trying not to laugh at that one, but it came out anyway
as a snort. She looked my way and I punched Jamil who was standing the
closet to me, making it look like he did it. He glared at me for it
and I dared him with my eyes to say anything. He backed off as
Richard's mother walked up to me. "So your Alexandra," she said glancing
at me, then taking in what I was wearing. I was wearing everything
green except my knee high, three inch healed boots, which was the flat
heals and not spiked ones. They were black and so was my leather
trench coat. It was a western duster type coat. I had on a hunter
green velvet ankle lenght skirt and a hunter green casmere sweater. My
hair was done up in my wrap around tails, with two strands falling
down around my face. All my jewerly was done in gold and emerals, a
gift from my father, for my birthday. He sent them to me through the
mail, so he wouldn't get me into trouble with Jean-Claude for being in
the city. My make-up was light and perfect. Can't wear to much because
I'm allergic to the fish oil in it.
I just smiled and said, "Yes Mam."
She smiled at me and hugged me, "It's good to finally meet you dear.
I've been wondering when my son will bring you around. He talks about
you all the time."
As I hugged her back, I glared at Richard, who was smiling from ear to
ear, and wonder how many people he talks to about me all the time.
"It's nice to finally meet you to Mrs. Zeeman," I replied.
Charlotte Zeeman pulled away and glanced over at her son. "I like this
one, she's got manners," she said, while grabbing a hold of my arm and
pulling me toward the house. Richard followed with Jamil and Shang-Da,
who both were snorting with laughter at Charlotte's reactiong to me.
Richard's mom was very sweet and she's the nicest person you ever want
to meet. But if you cross her or make her mad, you better watch out.
She reminded me of my own mom, whose been dead almost two years now.
She was the same height and built as my mom was. Only difference she
has a little bit more grey in her hair then my mom did.
I was introduced to his younger brother Daniel who is a riot. Then I
was introduced to Gleen and his wife. Then Aaron, whose a widower and
finally I meet his sister Beverly, who was the oldest and her family.
I felt uneasy, while greeting them. I don't know why but it felt like
there had been some sort of argument in here, before we arrived. For
the two boys were to scared to say anything. They kept looking at
their mother like two dogs who've been hit or something. Richard's
brothers got up and left, dragged him and the inforcers with them out
to find a Christmas tree. I was left me with his mom, sister, and
sister-in-law. Richard was grinning from ear to ear, when they left. I
had this feeling I wasn't going to like what is about to happen.
Charlotte grabbed her coat, purse, and said, "Come on Alexandra, we're
going shopping while the boys are off getting the tree."
Then she grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out the door to her car.
I didn't get a chance to say anything before she did so. It didn't
bother me that I was going to spend time with Richard's mother. What
bothered me was that it was our first meeting together and it scared
me, specially when Beverly Richard's sister asked Gleen's wife about
how long she'd think I'd last.
Charlotte chattered all the way to town and I just listened to her,
only answering Yes Mam or No Mam, when needed. The other two were in
the back seat making faces and glancing at each other. At one point it
looked almost like they made a bet in the backseat, while Charlotte
was distracted talking to me. It took us an hour to get to town and to
the shopping mall. Once inside, I tried my best to keep all my
comments to myself and tried to be polite. I found myself going to the
bathroom every five minutes just to get a break from the bickering
that was going on between Charlotte, her daughter, and
daughter-in-law. They constantly argued over
the silliest things and I thought my head was going to explode, but I
kept up the happy new person. I kept my mouth shut, unless I was
talkin to. See my mom did teach me some manners after all. It's like
being the Gambler. You got to know when to hold em and know when to
fold them.
I spent most of my morning trying to dodge them, picking up gifts for
Richard. I even went to town and spend some money for Jamil and
Shang-Da as well. Finally they caught up with me, in a nature shop and
I pretended that I was looking for them, got lost, and saw this shop
and had to come into it, forgetting the time. I was saying all this
with a smile as well. Charlotte was cheerful as ever and said, "Not to
worry. It happens to the best of us."
I saw Beverly and Gleen's wife roll their eyes and had to turn to keep
from laughing at them. We finished our shopping with Charlotte holding
onto me for dear life, not wanting me to get lost again and was out of
the mall by two o'clock. We got back home around three, to find the
boys were not back yet. I put the packages I bought into the van and
decided to wrap them later after we get back to the cabin, when the
guys were asleep. Charlotte started dinner and I voleentered to help
her. The other two wasn't going to interfere with my decision, they
said, "More power to you."
I walked into the kitchen behind Charlotte. Hearing on the way in from
Gleen's wife, "I don't think she'll make it threw dinner."
"I don't think she will either," said Beverly.
I groaned and wondered what their problem was. Did they not think I
could actually like Richard's mom. I mean after all she's a duplicate
of what my mom was. Charlotte glanced at me as I entered, smiled and
said, "Your a sweet and nice girl Alexandra. I'm glad to see Richard
settling down with a women like you."
And all the while I was thinking, 'Oh if you only knew me well, you
wouldn't be saying that if you knew the truth about me.' But I smiled
and just
kept my comments to myself. We had the dinner finished and the table
set by the time the guys arrived back with the biggest Christmas
tree I ever saw. We sat down and ate dinner, which consist of fried
chicken, mast potatoes, green beans, gravy, and fresh bread, before we
started on the decorations. We talked and was having a good time until
Charlotte asked about my family, "So Alexandra, tell me about your
family. What do they do and what are they like."
Richard and I just stared at each other across the table at each
other. I shoved bread in my mouth, while all eyes were on me. Richard
did his best to try and change the subject, but one look from his
mother shut him up. She glanced over at me with a smile and I
swallowed my bread. "I really don't like talking about my family. This
is really not a good time of year for me," I stated. stretching the
truth just a tad bit.
She understood then and her voice lowered into a sad monologue as she
said, "I'm terribly sorry Alexandra. I didn't realize all your family
was dead."
I turned red and kicked Jamil under the table when he snorted at the
family was dead comment. Richard nearly choked on his beer at his
mom's comment, which got him a glare from his mother. "Richard Alaric
Zeeman, how many times have I told you to drink that stuff slowly.
You're going to choke to death one of these days," she said, going
over and patting him on the back.
I shoved more bread in my mouth, watching as Richard tried to breath
and smile at me at the same time. I just shrugged and shoved more
bread into my mouth. As soon as Richard was back to normal again,
Charlotte turned her atteantion back to me. "I'm really sorry for your
lose dear and it will never be brought up again. Only happy thoughts
at this time of year. If I had only known earlier that your family was
dead. I wouldn't have asked. I hope you forgive me," she stated quite
nicely.
I swallowed and anwered, "It's ok, not alot of people know about my
family." and all the time I was thinking to myself, 'Oh you don't know
how dead they really are.'
We spent the rest of the evening and up until midnight with his
family. Decorating the house, the tree, while singing Christmas
Carols. Daniel was changing the versions, which caused a rour of
laughter from everybody, except his mother. She glared at him and
threathend to beat him senceless if he didn't stop. By that time we
said our good-bye's and left, I was so tired and needed a soft bed.
Richard and I talked on the way home. He was asking me what I thought
of his mother and I answered with a half a sleep answer. Richard
finally gave up, when he realized that the females in his family wore
me out today and left it alone. Richard pulled up to the cabins about
around one and cut the engine. He got out and came around to my side,
pulling me out and into his arms. He gave Jamil and Shange-Da a
stricked order to leave us for the night. They went to their own
cabin, while we were entereing ours. No soon as we got into the cabin,
Richard became a little horn dog for the rest of the evening. That
woke me up fast and I was so enjoying his attention. Which was nice,
because it was something we both needed. We feel asleep in each
other's arms to a cd of love song's.