Mommy Dearest Chapter 1

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Title: Mommy Dearest

 

Author: Solarbaby (Tara)

 

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything but the plot.

 

Words: 1,309

 

Summary: Casey’s mother comes for a visit.

 

Spoilers: For A Taste of Poison.

 

Notes: The idea for this basically came from when Theo had said, ‘Casey already has one mommy. He doesn’t need two.’ That combined with the thought, ‘Boy, he really bounced back fast from that poison he was injected with. Hmm…’. Plus, I thought that Casey could fight extremely well for someone who had been at the Pai Zhuq Academy for only one week. After two tossed drafts and three different ideas, this is what appeared. I’m not sure about the characterization for Casey’s mother in this, I didn’t really remember that much about her.

 

This is dedicated to my co-workers, who didn’t call me an idiot (to my face) when I said that our manager was our Zordon and even kinda looked like him. Also to my manager (the theater’s large, bald, head in a tube) and my supervisor (who, though he denied it feverously, is our red ranger). This is the same group who didn’t laugh at me while I took several of my breaks (all 15 minutes of it) to work on this story.

 

Though I do think that they laugh about me watching power rangers behind my back. Oh well, ignorance is bliss.

 

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Chapter 1

 

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

-Agatha Christie

 

Casey knew something was wrong the moment he entered the loft. The air around him crackled with a dark power giving him pause. From behind him there came a rustling sound and recognized who it was immediately.

 

“Hello Mother.”

 

He turned and watched as she lifted herself off of RJ’s chair. His mentor would have thrown a fit he ever found out that someone had been in his chair, especially if he found out who it was. She was silent as she reached his side. It occurred to him then that his mother hadn’t even been trying to hide herself.

 

“You know I could have easily been one of the others.”

 

She smirked. “I guess they would have been in for quite a surprise, wouldn’t they?”

 

Casey sighed and then shook his head, chuckling. “Mom, what am I going to do with you?”

 

Scorpina placed her hands on her hips, the assassin giving her son a stern look. “You can start by explaining what exactly it is that you think you’re doing here.”

 

“I would think that it’s obvious.” He replied. Thank god he had declined that invitation to go out and eat with the others, something about team bonding Lily had said. Arriving back here to with the others to find his mother stretched out on RJ’s chair would have brought some questions that he wasn’t sure he would have been able to answer.

 

“Becoming a power ranger! Have you completely taken leave your senses?!” Scorpina looked furious. “When your sister told me, I couldn’t even believe it. To think that my only son was going against everything that I had ever taught him was inconceivable.”

 

Casey looked as though he wanted to say something, but the look on his mother’s face warned him that it would be for the best to wait her rant out.

 

“First Astronema became Karone, then your Empress Rita went off and became Mystic Mother, now you… Who else is going to go and become good?!” She spat out the word as if it was something vial. “And you not only became good, but a ranger as well!”

 

“I can’t believe that Sorani told you.”

 

“What?”

 

“Sorani?” Casey repeated. “That was who had told you, right? I knew I shouldn’t have said anything to her. She couldn’t keep a secret if her life depended on it”

 

Scorpina shook her head, shooting him an incredulous look. “No, it wasn’t your little sister. It was Dallina.” A dark look crossed her face as Casey schooled his face from shock to indifference. “Are you telling me that Sorani knew of this madness as well?”

 

“…no.” He was well aware of how insincere that sounded. But he was still trying to process what she had told him. Dallina told her? His big sister was usually the only person that he could trust to keep a secret. She must have been really worried if she had gone to his mother. To face Scorpina with this information was almost suicidal.

 

“I’ll have a talk with her when we return home.” Scorpina bit out through clinched teeth. “I blame it on your father! It was his human blood in you that put this concept into your head!” The air got heavier as her anger grew and her hands flew through the hair as she tried to make her point. “I didn’t say anything when you decided to go to that human training academy, did I? No. I was content with the fact that you were finally taking an interest in expanding your fighting abilities, even if it was from that Mao human.”

 

 “Dad was human.” The words were out of his mouth before he could stop them. Casey flinched as he realized just what he had said. His mother’s hate for humans, his father especially, was legendary.

 

“And you saw how well that worked out for him.” She sneered, hatred for her once mate staining her face. “Your father was human and it was the reason he fell was weakness. Because he was weak.” He barely stopped himself from flinching once again at the murderous look on her face. Luckily, Casey managed to keep his face schooled to indifference. If she even began to believe that he was becoming that… that… weak, things would become even worse. “You are not human. You are better.”

 

A hand with a set of very wicked looking fingernails waved too close to his face for comfort.  He was very aware of just how much poison was hidden in those nails and, while it wouldn’t kill him, one accidental nick would hurt like hell. It was probably his immunity to the venom that killed off whatever amount Stingerella had injected him with fairly quickly, now that he thought about it.

 

When she saw Casey take a cautious step back, Scorpina realized that her normally unflappable self had been sent into a towering rage. Her children were the only things that could ever get under her skin like this. Erratic breathing slowed down and the air lightened considerable.

 

Moments passed as Casey let out a breath he didn’t realize that he was holding. He gave her time to calm down before he spoke again. “You don’t get it mom. I’m happy here.”

 

She stared, disbelieving.

 

“I am, really. I have friends and a life and, while you may not understand this, I do like being good.” He continued.

 

Scorpina looked at her son, really looked at him for the first time since she arrived. Despite the misgivings she had, he did seem content where he was. That was more than she could say about back home. There he had seemed restless, always getting into trouble. She gave a defeated sigh and reached up to brush a hand through his hair.  “This is just a phase, Casey. You’ll grow out of it eventually.”

 

“Mom…” His words were stopped as she placed her hand over his mouth.

 

“I won’t force you home, though it was my original intention in coming here.” She said, surprising her son. “Just as long as you come back when you’ve worked…” Her words trailed off as she picked the next ones carefully, “whatever this is out of your system.” A small smile crossed her face, before it turned deadly serious. “Do you really think that they’ll accept you when they find out?”

 

“They’re not going to find out.” He snapped back.

 

Ah, young naivety. “You know they will. What will happen when your nature gets the best of you? Or maybe it’ll be something as simple as you finding yourself under ultraviolet light at some point in time? How will you explain away the fact that your skin glows to them?”

 

“This is new day, mom.” Casey’s voice was almost pleading. “We were in that stone for god knows how many thousands of years. This world is not like it used to be. The old ways are gone now.”

 

Her eyes were hard and cold as ice. Painful memories of the past washed over her. “Human’s don’t change, Casey. They never will.”  

 

“My friend’s are different.”

 

“I thought your father was different as well. You were far too young to remember, but he was the one called Straga out on us. We became hunted and slaughtered. He, himself, killed my sister, your aunt.” Scorpina’s gaze softened when she looked at him. “You look like him, you know.”

 

“And Sorani and Dallina are your spitting image. But you can’t condemn all of human kind because of what our father did.”

 

She shook her head at him. “Watch me.” This was getting them nowhere. “You are young still, yet. I just pray you won’t find out that you were wrong the hard way.” Scorpina brushed his cheek one more time before backing away.

 

“Mom--.”

 

“I’ll be watching.”

 

Then, in a flash, she was gone.