“ AH HA ! GREAT GRANDMOTHER GISABELLA ADDAMS THE FOURTH , ” gomez said delighted , glancing up at the ancient rotten portrait of his great-grandmother ( or was it his great-great grandmother ? or was it his great-great-great grandmother four times removed ? ) her beady eyes were STARING down at them both . lifting the cigar piece from his mouth , he then gestured up towards the face . “ yes , she does that . she tends to follow people around the room . && if she didn’t like you , she’d BEAT you with a stick . it was her last request to have her eyes put in the portrait . her son --- my grandfather ---- ( or is it great-grandfather ? ) did an EXCELLENT job , don’t you think ? too bad she can’t still chase us with her broom . ”
he sighed wistfully , && shook his head . “ she was an old rascal , i tell you , ” a quirk of his eyebrow before he then gestured . “ what do you think gisabella ? shall we UNEARTH you for hallows eve ? it’s been a while eh ? ” he smiled .
There’s a beat as Char tilts her head, squints intensely at the portrait for a minute or so. Yup. Those are definitely some real human eyeballs. How hadn’t she noticed that? And why is she more concerned about that than the fact that they’re even there in the first place?
Probably because everything else about Gomez and his family is already so god damn weird, in the best way possible. It’s a pleasant change to not automatically be the oddest person in the room, even if it’s still a close-run thing.
“I don’t know, if anyone was going to figure out how to chase people with a broom from beyond the grave, I’m pretty sure it would be an Addams,” she says eventually, before offering a grin. “What you don’t have some kind of rota to figure out who gets dug up every year? You shock me.”