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WHO: Lucinda Guthrie, X-Men faculty, students, and visitors.
WHERE: Kitchen & dining room.
WHEN: Early morning.
WARNINGS:
SUMMARY: Mrs. Guthrie has been offered a room and use of facilities in the Xavier Institute. She's been sending her kids here for years, but this is the first time she's actually lived under their roof. She decides, clearly, she should introduce herself with a hearty Southern breakfast.
FORMAT: Anything.

She had been here for something like two nights which was long enough to convince her that maybe this wasn't a cruel dream or hallucination. Joshua felt real. Samuel felt real. Paige felt real. Her three oldest were here and relatively safe and alive. Most of the X-Men she heard about were here too which was mildly comforting. Though Lucinda would be lying if she didn't miss her younger children. Everyone was reassuring her they were safe back home and that dulled down her worries a tad, but it didn't stop the heartache at missing taking care and seeing her babies everyday.

She woke up early unable to fall back asleep. The bed was new and foreign to her. The clothes were strange. Her whole environment was another world entirely to her. Lucinda sighed and pulled a bathrobe tightly around her body. She pulled on some slippers and tip toed down the stairs as to not to disturb the heightened senses of some of the housemates. She found the kitchen after a little difficulty and began searching the fridge and cub boards for pans, eggs, bacon, toast, butter--the works.

If anything, she could at least surprise everyone with breakfast and make it feel a little bit more like Kentucky.

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"Paige has family here--Lord knows, we don't know how much more time Jay's got before the porter lady gets him poppin' out of here. She should be spendin' time with us together as a family before that." LUCINDA WAS NOT HAPPY.

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"Mom, Ah swear she spends a lotta time with Jay," Sam defended. More than he did, oops.

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"An' what about you?" She dropped her knife and potato on the counter and turned on her heel, hands on her hips.

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"Jay and Ah--uh," Sam rubbed the back of his neck. "We see each other. Ah watch out for him."

He called me this one time when I was drunk?

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"And what, Samuel?" She 1/3'd named him. "What else you two got goin' on, because Ah'm mighty curious what went on when Ah wasn't around. A year is a long time to be away from home."

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"Jay hasn't been here that long, just me. Jay's been here...Lord, a couple months now. Just since September." Sam replied. "Uh, it's just been normal stuff."

Sam was a lying liar who LIED.

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Oh, no. Lucinda shot her hand forward and pinched Sam's ear. "Samuel Zachery Guthrie, don't be fibbin' to your momma. Spit it out."

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"Oww! Maaaaa," Sam actually whined. "Well, there was the time Jay and Ah hung out 'cause Desire made Bobby intah Magnum, then Jay followed us around and we stole Warren's car, then Jay had blond hair. We've been gettin' along!"

SORT OF.

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Lucinda gasped and accidentally tugged harder on Sam's ear. "Joshua dyed his hair?! Why on Earth--he's got such beautiful hair on his head as it is! Did you talk him into it, Sammy? Now Ah try to be open with you kids. Ah really liked that one girl in that rock n' roll band an' don't think Ah didn't know what kinda places you were goin' with her, but Ah swear you never got piercings or dyed your hair an' the like. Who's Jay tryin' to impress now?"

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"Uh, Ah dunno. He dyed it back," Sam pointed out with a shrug. "Ah dunno. But we hung out. We're doin' good."

SAM IS VERY GLAD MA NEVER SAW THE STUFF HE WORE FOR LILA.

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"An' Ah thought Ah only dyed my hair." She let go of Sammy and self-consciously ran her fingers through her grays. "As long as you're bein' a good brother, Ah can't complain, but Ah really wish Paige would come by more. It would really calm my heart."

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"Ah try, Mom. You know Ah try. Jay's a little difficult sometimes, but Ah do try." Sam explained. LORD. "Ah got her a cellphone. Ah can give you the number, if you want."

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"Cell phones?" She sighed, turning away from her boy. Lucinda massaged her temples. This place was already stressing her out. "Ah don't know how Ah'm gonna get used to this place, Sammy. Ah gotta be frank, Ah've never been a city girl."

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"Ah know," Sam sighed, raking a hand through his hair. "And mom, Ah gotta tell you. This place gets really weird sometimes. Just so you know."

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"Ah know the city is weird, Sam. Ah read the newspapers." She frowned deeply. "All those gangs an' shootings an' drugs. Ah let you kids go follow your dreams, but this city life--it just don't settle right with me."

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"Uh, no." Sam frowned. "That uh--ain't what Ah mean. Look, weird things happen and you should just stay away from the Network and not talk to some of the weirdos this place had."

IF DEADPOOL EVER TALKED TO HIS MOM, HEADS WOULD ROLL.

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Huh, what.

"Are you hidin' somethin' from me?"

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"Ah toldja this city is weird. Sometimes everyone just bursts into song and then other times people turn into a different gender, and sometimes people do just what they feel like and it's mighty weird, Ma."

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"Well, Ah wouldn't mind the singin' if it was good singin' an' if a man wants to be a woman well that's his business, ain't it?" Lucinda looked over her shoulder at Samuel, brows furrowing. "Sammy, Ah expect you to be more open minded about those folk."

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"No, mom. You don't understand. Just randomly, people have turned into men or women. Mah girlfriend was a guy for three days, then she changed back to a girl. That's the kinda stuff that happens in the city."

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"You got a new girl?"

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"Uh," Sam stared a little bit. Well, he hadn't actually told her that, had he? "Ah'm datin' Tabby again."

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"SAMUEL ZACHERY GUTHRIE WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU HOP BACK ON THAT SADDLE AFTER SHE BROKE YOUR DARN HEART!!" Lucinda bellowed, full naming him for the second time this morning. She smacked him upside the head. Maybe that will knock some sense into him.

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"Ow!" Sam rubbed his head. With the way his mom was going, he'd need to wear a dang helmet. "We worked through it, Mom. Ah forgave her."

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"She kissed another boy an' you're friend at that! There's no forgivin' for that tramp." She shook her finger in Samuel's face. Sometimes, Lucinda just couldn't keep her trap shut especially concerning girls that just weren't good enough for Sam anymore. Tabby was never and never will be Guthrie material.