crack_van | Family by PallaPlease (G)

Fandom: THE MUMMY
Pairing: gen
Length: 4,600 words
Author on LJ:

mekosuchinae
Author Website: PallaPlease @ ff.net, fic tags list
Why this must be read: Alex thinks about his family on a dark and stormy night, when he and Jonathan are home alone and kinda scared about it. Downright adorable, sweet and well written. Love the relationship between Alex and Jonathan, and Alex's perceptions of his parents. They're just such an awesome family, gah. And Jonathan will always be like twelve years old lol.

"She wanted me to have something I could do when I had to stay in camp and tried solitaire, which is ab-so-lute-ly mind-numbing. I was bored out of my head!" Old indignation surfaced in the seven-year old's face, and Jonathan snorted, clearly recalling his own encounters with the demon of solitaire, maybe from the mystic days before Mum had met Dad. "So she taught me poker and gin rummy and canasta, which Dad said were only good if you could win the pants off some bloke's ass." He immediately cringed, expecting mother or father to descend on his being with reprimands and painfully disappointed looks exaggerated for effect; fortunately, he only had Jonathan. "So Dad showed me how to glare people down, just like he can, and," his pale granite gaze, blue flecked with grey like his father's, switched to the slant-eyed man, "I learned how to cheat watching you, Uncle Jon."

Family