1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

an/ar: i got the words maternal/paternal mixed up, emily is related to the addams through her dad, not her mom. *headdesk.*

the summer of 1992 found the addams/munster/wallace/alp/frump children doing a very great and many numerous things. now, i am going to be quite a fair bit lazy and not go into them in detail, but instead, i will just record the summer for you. now, i suppose i shall start around late july, and explain to you just how the individual addams cousins got to the mansion that summer.

you see, at the start of the summer, when twelve-years-old emily was first at the addams family mansion, she and her mother had stopped by to visit emily's fathers family before continuing on their way to their new town. again. after emily left, she duplicated herself, essentially splitting herself in half, her the good her, and the duplicate her evil half. the good her was trained by a neighbour, venus fang fang, who was the foremost spy trainer in the world. after emily joined with her evil self, however, and became the complete emily again, venus and the wallace family came to the agreement that it would be for the best if the wallace's left the town. they did, and by the end of july, emily's mom had left for another new town, leaving emily in the care of the addams. she left quite quickly after she saw her daughter and vendetta dissecting a boggart, for some reason . . .

vendetta frump was ten when her baba, (granny in bulgarian) granny frump, died. vendetta had been living with her baba after her parents had died in a boating accident when she was six, and after granny frump died, morticia became vendetta's guardian. it was little eddie, only a few months younger than vendetta, who came up with vendetta's first-ever nickname; venna. only family could call her that, however. vendetta had declared quite firmly that should anyone else attempt to call her by that name, they would find themselves in concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake. covering up evidence from things like that had been one of the many things that her father, a professional criminal, had taught her before his death. he had been a subtle man, but vendetta's mother, a trained since birth assassin, had taught vendetta other things. like making gum that you could chew, spit onto the floor, and then would blow up when it came into contact with any sort of shoe. it always had amazed vendetta how a simple mission to kill the other person could cause such a faithful marriage and a child.

eddie had been

ought over around the same time as vendetta, when granpa munster had declared that he would only go to see his sister if he could drag someone along with him. eddie drew the short straw, but he had stopped minding that after he and vendetta had scared a few townsfolk. they hadn't gotten mobbed yet, sadly, but you couldn't have everything in life. although, they weren't too sure on that. everyone had been quite pleased, after all, when great-aunt millie came to stay at the mansion for the summer. something about keeping emily from too much trouble. eddie had overheard her telling gomez, however, that it was more to make sure the girl didn't

ood even more than usual. what was wrong with

ooding? then again, it did get quite smelly when granpa started

ooding in his lab.

the alps arrived just before the addams twins did, and ellen had immediately grabbed emily from her attic room - it was decorated in a beautiful crumbling castle style this year, ellen made a note to set up a prank in it - and

ought her to the kids' lab to start working on making electronics work around magic. wednesday had written about a hunch that putting some sort of solvent on the inner parts of the electronics to make them resistant to the destruction that magic caused them might be the solution. ellen had a hunch that you needed to reinforce any plastic parts with some sort of paste. this had lead to a rather… loud argument that had only ended when emily threw some sort of tiny rocks at them that shut them up and freeze them in place long enough for her to grab their notes, scan them into her computer, and combine them in what would hopefully work as a sort of force field against magic. edgar had been working with grandmama and granpa for most of the summer, learning potions and such things from them. (and

eaking up more than a few fights . . . )

now then, i suppose that this author has told you enough of that, how about we get to the fun part: pranking everyones most darling dearest cousin snape?

of course, if you'd rather wait until the next chapter, that is perfectly understandable . . .

oh, so you do want to see them prank him? well . . . i suppose . . . let's see . . . july 15th was a good prank . . .

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"you! snivelling!

ats!" cousin severus screlled(a cross between a scream and a yell).

emily, edgar, and ellen all just laughed, while wednesday and harry looked at their cousin with innocent expressions. vendetta and eddie continued throwing bits of rock, grass, stick, what have you, at the greasy haired man.

"do you think we should tell him that it's just an illusion, and that he's only been there five minutes, not most of the night? or that he hasn't moved an inch?" eddie asked.

emily was the one to answer him first. her eyes never leaving the potions master, who was running the same course she had at venus fang fang's, or at least, who thought that he was, murmured, "oh, why ruin the fun?"

"flathering jimjars!"

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