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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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"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."

[ahhmahgawd]

"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?"

[ahhmahgawd]

"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.

[ahhmahgawd]

"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.

[ahhmahgawd]

Ow.

"Ah forgave him too, Ma." Sam pointed out. "We're all over it."

NOT MENTIONING THE FIGHT A FEW WEEKS AGO. NOPE.

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"Ah don't understand you kids just droppin' everythin' as soon as someone says sorry. How are you supposed to trust her after that? You know that's the key to a healthy relationship, Sammy. It's not just about your--" She muttered the words. "--hanky panky."

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"Mom, we've been datin' ever since Ah got ported here," Sam offered. "And it wasn't quick. Ah was mad at 'em both for a long time."

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"What do you even see in her, boy? She don't respect our family or way of life anymore than those other city folks."

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"Ah love her," Sam said quietly. And she loved him. They had their problems, yeah, but he did want to work through them.

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Well, she couldn't fault him for that. Lucinda had fallen in love once...twice. It never ended well for her, but for the time she had with her men, she was happy as she could be and she knew now never to take love for granted. She let Paige run off with Warren despite many of her mental protests and she would have been supportive of Jay and Julia if circumstances had not torn them apart. Lucinda didn't like Tabitha and what she did to hurt her boy and how she looked down on his family, but she couldn't deny someone that made her boy happy.

"Fool in love, Ah say," she sighed, patting Sam on the shoulder. "Alright, alright. But she's gotta come to dinner one of these days."

[ahhmahgawd]

"Alright, Ah'll make her." Sam smiled a little. He looked down at his watch, and shook his head. "Ah should head out, though. Ah like to fly a lil' before Ah go to work."

He hated Sunday shifts.

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"There's my boy, bein' all responsible." She smiled heartily at him. Lucinda will get over her judgments of Tabitha if she let her. "Grab some breakfast before you go out. You're as skinny as a rail."

[ahhmahgawd]

"Aw, ma," Sam rolled his eyes. "Ah'm fine."

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"Oh, shush. Ah can see your ribs pokin' outta your shirt."

[ahhmahgawd]

Sam looked down, the retard that he was. "You can't even!"

He sighed. "Fine, Ah'll eat somethin'."

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"Good. Ah want everyone plump an' rosy if Ah'm gonna be livin' in this house with y'all." She tsked.