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"Cock-a-doodle-doo."!.
The crowing of the cock just before dawn had woken up the whole Quacktown countryside, and in particular to the farm of Nonna Papera, the great dean of the town and a great reference point for all the farmers and locals, even the mayor, since over time he had assumed the role of confidant of all the inhabitants, therefore not only of his family ... and in fact in the house, for those days he hosted all of his closest family members, that is the nephews Donald Drake and his wife Arianne Drake (Konnery as a maiden), their adopted children Huey, Dewey and Louie (and grandchildren of grandmother Duck, of course) and their natural son Kenny Drake, about a year old ... not only, but at the request of the Drake spouses Arianne's mother ( and Donald's mother-in-law) Josephine Lagardere had also been invited, who wanted so much to get to know her "colleague" and at the same time observe the most characteristic places other than Switzerland, her country of residence ... and in the same time tr enjoy every possible moment with the grandchildren.
He was stretching his muscles in the upstairs room before hugging his wife tightly and kissing her gently on her neck as he smoothed her raven hair. Instead she turned to rest her head on her chest along with a delicate hand to cuddle him. "Hello, love ... have you rested well, my little one?" Donald said, always very thoughtful of him. Needless to say, from the moment they got married, their union had grown happier, stronger and more indissoluble, all the more so after adopting Donny's grandchildren and having a child of their own (first for a newly born couple. Disney) ... not only that, but by now they were considered a respectable couple in the family (also thanks to the creation of a charity, the DK FOUNDATION which dealt with solidarity) and within their secret agency, the NAG ( New AGency), thanks to which, with many other colleagues, they were always vigilant about all the intrigues and plots that could throw the world into chaos ... in particular thanks to an institution financed in secret by governments around the planet, the Foundation, with which they collaborated, which kept something that was better not to know, all de-classified to SCP, or Secret Control Project.
"Hey, hello, love ... my hero ..." Arianne replied kissing him on the neck and then on her beak (tongues intertwined). "I always rest well if you are next to me ..." she murmured, who had found her perfect soulmate in Donald. Even our sailor, since he was together with the former mercenary, who he himself had helped with patience and love to bring her out of a horrendous and tormented past, caused by bad friendships, problems in the family and an evil and violent ex-boyfriend, from when he was recruited by the old espionage agency and made the acquaintance of her, his life had undergone a radical change, but because it was his own will that led him to achieve too many things remained only illusions ... and all thanks to the great maturity that his wife had shown him the first few times, as well as many other feelings, such as respect, patience, gratitude ... and love ... the same that, for noble causes, had paradoxically divided them and then reunited them with great effort, amply repaid by the happiness they felt every time when they were together ... and the job had been a perfect glue, as they were now a steady couple in life, married, with a fabulous home, well llissimi children (actually Donald's grandchildren, adopted by the Drake Couple), with an ever-present family and a normal life after all ... apart from the missions that occasionally gave that liveliness and vitality that made their union even more strong ... and then, the best part of their existence ... they had discovered a steel bond when they MADE LOVE! Even if this time it was better not to be heard ... because they were guests of the grandmother and because the walls were not so thick or the rooms so far apart so as not to notice the ''room gymnastics '' ...
“What do we do today, DD? Barn, vegetable field or ... ”but Donald put a finger on her delicate beak. “Anything will be fine… as long as you don't end up in the pigsty! Those pigs are waiting for me to come near me every time to play a joke ... " he said between amused and angry (not that he didn't like it but he didn't do it on purpose, it was bad luck) ... Arianne took his cheeks with the hands. “Ah, ah! You're always a fool ... that's why I'm fine with you ... you allow me to laugh ... ah! Ah! " she teased him tenderly. An attitude that Donald Duck had given a deep sense of happiness, knowing that he gave his wife a smile even in the simplest and paradoxically most naïve, or most bungling ways, without needing to be judged, not like his ex, who did not lose. never a chance to belittle him ... but now that he was no longer with her, his mind was free, while his heart was locked up by Arianne Drake (Kay K as a secret agent) ... a heart that now he was stronger and more in love than he was before ... just like Arianne, whose heart, since it was definitively conquered by her man (sorry, by HIS duck) had never been so full of happiness, sweetness and serenity , especially since they got married and had ... ”Eeehh! Eehhh! " had started to say in fits and starts Kenny, whose crib was beside the parents' bed. "Even the little one has woken up, dear ..." said Arianne, who took her little son to hold him in her arms and bring him close to his father, he too ready for cuddles ... "I hope you slept well, because I wasn't used to grandma's bed anymore ... ”Donny said. "If you want, next time I'll bring a mattress from home ..." her husband would say while he played with Kenny's little hands. “But go! You don't have to worry about that, I told you that I was fine ... sure, maybe the bed wasn't really soft, but I rested well anyway ... and then you are always there to act as my pillow ... " she said flirtatious leaning on her chest, with her son in front of her, who was slowly crawling towards his mother, while Donald was holding them in his strong arms ... if he wasn't the luckiest duck in the world at the time ... he gave a gentle kiss on Arianne's hair and then on her baby's.
"Mom! Daddy! Grandma Duck and Grandma Jo are waiting for us for breakfast! ”. It was the three adopted children who had woken them up definitively, and in fact they could already smell the aroma of coffee, hot milk and a new cake prepared by Grandma Duck (with lemon and cream, it seems) ... Josephine who was preparing the pancakes and the picture was perfect ... "And oh well, Ari, now let's get up ..." Donald Duck said, as he went to the toilet to wash his face. “What do you say, baby? Do we get dressed too? " Arianne would say, as she gently placed Kenny on a chair next to the bathroom to check that he didn't hurt himself. She joined Donald Duck.
"You know, you were right ... it's not like having everything within reach ..." she said.
"Just think, I also grew up there ... but after all, the simplicity of everything is always the best, don't you think?" the companion answered.
"Yes, in fact ... as a child I lived in the pastures of the Swiss valleys, but I never had the chance to ... work in the field, let's say ..." he said as he twisted his limbs. "So let's wake up ... SCIAFF!" she would say slyly as she threw some water in his face. She remained a few seconds without speaking ... but it was only the prelude to ... "So you want war, huh? Okay ... ”and she immediately answered her with a throw of a cold towel. “Ah! How unfair! Now you ... ”and it was the beginning of the“ water war ”, while in the meantime they were having fun like two children, giggling under Kenny's cheered and smiling gaze.
"So in Switzerland you deal with ..." Grandma Duck asked her. "I manage the accounts and commercial operations of various companies, especially IT, and my life is always absorbed in some way ... maybe a few days in the countryside it took me to restore myself a little ..." was Josephine's response , who admired Grandma Duck's farm with great serenity. She saw in her the portrait of Arianne: they took off only a few years but they looked like two drops of water, and even in her character they resembled each other so much. "You know, Jo, since Arianne has been with my nephew, he has changed a lot ... in character, in personality, maybe even in her voice ... it's as if he found in her ..." ".. . her soul of her twin of her! That's right, Elvira ... ”was Jo's prompt reply. "Please, call me Grandma Duck ... Elvira makes me feel too old ... and then they all know me like that, by this name ..." the grandmother asked her kindly. "Oh well, what do you prefer then, Grandma ... anyway, my daughter is really fine with him too ... unfortunately life hasn't always smiled at her ... since ... since when my husband Abel was arrested for still obscure facts, for bad friendships and choices that didn't pay off ... but Donald Duck was really his salvation ... I can't remember how long I haven't seen her smile and be so positive about the future, even more so since she got married and adopted Huey, Dewey and Louie and ... she had a beautiful baby ... ”she said with a slight emotion. Grandma Duck also knew that her new granddaughter had had a difficult past, as an unscrupulous mercenary (even if she had never committed horrendous deeds), and that meeting with Donald somehow had changed her ... and if she had told of his life without neglecting the details it was because he did not want to have secrets with her, also due to the presence of her boyfriend, who wanted her grandmother to accept her without hesitation ... instead grandmother Duck, after having carefully listened to her conscience , had decided that he would not only accept her, but also love her ... more like a daughter than a granddaughter ... because she had seen how much she and her proximity to Donald had generated a change that can be said to be epochal, since no one in the family he had never managed to scratch him from his defects ... but simply because Arianne knew how to use the weapons of simplicity, understanding, patience ... and true, pure, sincere love ... something that Daisy did not always succeed to do - And in fact, her breakup with Donny had been traumatic for everyone (for her in particular) before they came to terms with it - but in the end being together had made them a happy couple, very happy indeed. Both ducks observed the husband and wife while they were tending the sheep and in particular Billy, the goat mascot of the farm. Grandma Duck smiled lightly.
"You're right, Josephine ... if I think bad luck has always targeted him ..." she said sadly.
"Arianne mentioned something to me ... sure that his life too ..."
"You talk about your daughter, but Donald, well ... I raised him and partly his uncle Scrooge, since his parents died when he was not yet six years old ... then his twin sister Della disappeared without leaving traces, but leaving him his children as a gift ... which fortunately are now the children of Donald and Arianne ... not to mention that the uncle was not very convinced of his relationship with Ari ... but in the end he accepted too ... yet he never lost heart ... and it really took your daughter to give him a new chance ... also because he would never marry or start a family ... " finished the grandmother while her eyes were bright.
Josephine remained silent: she would never have thought that her son-in-law had been through so much, and yet ... "I will always argue that Arianne's real luck ... she found in him the true will to live, even if I he says he likes idleness ... but it doesn't matter ... I could never have a better son-in-law than him, grandmother ... ”Jo said sincerely, holding her arm.
Grandma Duck thanked. "I couldn't have a granddaughter like Arianne, one more in our big family ... and I'll tell you, after a difficult start, now she is really loved by everyone, she thinks, even by Daisy, who seems to have accepted their story ... indeed, it was she who convinced them to get married, and it was unusual ... "
"Why unusual, Grandma Duck?" Josephine asked.
"Because, in a moment of clarity, I think ... he had decided that Donald deserved to be really happy, with Arianne ... by now it was all over with Daisy, but neither of them wanted to formalize the end of their relationship ... and in the end it's also my fault ... for not having done enough for the two of them ... ”he said with feeble words.
And like her daughter to her husband, she too Josephine tried to console her as she could.
"But now they are paradoxically fine as, let's say ... well, in friendship ... I just find it a bit difficult to get used to it, Jo ..." she said still slightly shaken.
"What matters to all of us is that the two of them (and pointed to Donald and Arianne) are well together and are in love ... if they want, they can overcome any obstacle without problems ..." she told her more convinced.
Grandma Duck was too, ever since her grandson introduced her to her new girlfriend at her time. Just as she, along with Jo, she knew that they had a secret agency that opposed the criminal organizations of the world. And they could count on them for secrecy ... that too meant trust.
"You're right, Josephine ... the important thing is that they love each other as we see them now ... that's the only thing that counts, and my nephew deserves ALL HAPPINESS, as does Arianne ... and our nephew Kenny too ..." the grandmother told her.
"And, if that's okay with you ... call me Jo ... in friendship ..." Kay's mother asked.
Grandma Duck nodded and smiled.
"Hey, grandma!" Three voices brought her back to reality ... Huey, Dewey and Louie were coming towards them with Donald and Arianne, hand in hand and with Kenny in her mother's arms. "Which one, guys?" asked the owner of the farm.
"Yeah, you're right, now we have two of grandmothers ... it will be a little hard to get used to ..." Dewey said. "Well, we meant Grandma Duck ... it seems Patty doesn't want to have her breasts squeezed for milk ..." added Qui.
"I understand, apparently Ciccio is still lazing around ... come with me, Jo ... do you know how to collect milk from a cow?" the grandmother asked her.
"Actually ... yes, it is true that I know some farms in the Swiss pastures, but ... I don't remember ..." she apologized.
"So better this way ... it's very simple, perhaps the easiest job in this world ... and Patty is always very calm ..." he reassured her about any unexpected events.
"Then Kenny and the boys are waiting for you for lunch ..." Donald said.
"After all, your grandchildren just want your company ... you are two special grandmothers ..." Arianne added, while their son said "bye, bye" with his tiny hand. Grandma Duck and Grandma Jo smiled back.
After plowing the carrot and courgette fields, as well as arranging the cows in the barn and feeding the chickens, the Drake Couple with their children had a good refreshment with a slice of cake (this time prepared by Josephine, the which she had followed step by step her grandmother's instructions and recipes) and a glass of hot milk, at least what was left of it before Ciccio, grandma's assistant factor, brushed it all off.
“Congratulations to the cook! Indeed, TO THE COOKS! " Qua said while she asked for an encore. "I didn't know you cooked so well, Jo ..." Donald said with a beak full of cake. "DD is right, mom ... tell me, Grandma Duck taught you that?" Arianne asked with some insight.
"Well, I only have to learn from her ... today I milked some milk from the cows, sowed in the fields and hoed the earth ... it's strange, I haven't felt this way for a long time ..." Jo said with a satisfied air.
"The effort is then rewarded by seeing that you have done an exceptional job ... after all it didn't take much ..." said grandmother Duck, who had found another duck with whom to exchange opinions and thoughts (even if she was on the other side part of the ocean) "Ari, love ... I have to take you to a place ..." Donald Duck said. "And meanwhile Kenny is taking yogurt with the grandmothers ..." she added.
"Ok, Donald ... where are you taking me, is it far away?" Arianne asked, knowing the answer.
"You follow me and don't say anything ..." he told her softly as he took her hand.
Both grandmother Duck and Josephine observed them happy, for the fact that they had found each other and had started to live again by creating their own family. "So Kenny, now Grandma gives you a tasty strawberry yogurt ..." Grandma Duck said, followed by Grandma Jo. "And then a beautiful story for our grandson ..." "Eeeh ... eehhh ..." Donald's son and Arianne repeated to indefinite sounds ... all while Qui, Quo and Qua were watching the scene between the amused and the thoughtful.
They climbed the barn to the top, where the straw was most accumulated, while from an opening the sun was emitting the rays of the late afternoon that cut the air and entered the upper part ... going up a ladder, Donald brought his partner to see what appeared to be a bucolic image.
“What do you say, my love? Do you like this place? " Donald asked a little anxiously.
“Oh, Donald, it's ... it's a show! From here you can see the whole valley and the fields ... and it fills my soul ... ”Arianne said as she looked at him. Donny himself was always entranced by the appearance of her wife whose jet-black bob hair partially covered her waning star ... seemed to create a kind of divine halo behind her. "You are like an angel, my sweet Arianne ..." he whispered to her as he touched her side ... there was little to do, she hypnotized him too easily.
"But you are my hero, my ONLY and UNIQUE hero ..." she replied as she flung herself into his arms, with Donald only slightly surprised, who caught her before gently falling onto the haystack.
"Here on the farm I'm really good, after all ... even if there is always work to be done ..." Kay K told him, stroking her face. He responded with a gentle touch on his cheeks and beak. “Well, that's it, after all I'm used to it ... maybe that's why I'm also a bit lazy, too much work on the farm ... Eh! Eh! " he told her laughing.
Arianne punched him in the shoulder. "Did you just say a little?" Donald was surprised, but then, from her serious expression, her life partner switched to a quick smile before kissing him. "You are not lazy ... otherwise you would not have done what we did ... house, family, children, work ... missions ... how many manage to reconcile all this?" she asked him curiously as she rested her head on her chest. Donald stroked her black hair while she closed her eyes savoring those endless moments and listening to his heartbeat.
"I succeed because I have an out of the ordinary girl next to me, whom fate allowed me to conquer - even if it was you who conquered me - and then to marry ... and to always love and protect from everything ..." he said holding her close.
Arianne replied by pressing her breasts to his pectorals and taking her face in her hands to observe him better. Donald's eyes also met those of his wife ... before slowly approaching his beak to his and kissing each other violently intertwining tongues, rolling on the hay for several minutes ... before returning to the opening and observing the sun that it was almost sunset, with the last rays now dying. "I love you, Arianne, my sunshine of life ..." said Donald, who had buried his beak inside Arianne's bra, plunging into her warm breasts, while she kissed him on his head, rubbing on him. "I love you more, my beautiful Donald ... You are my angel, my heavenly soul ... I live off you and our children ..." she murmured to him as two tears fell from the fawn's irises. .
It seemed that the star in the sky was delaying the descent to the horizon, as if it wanted to stop with his rays to kiss the most beautiful and strongest couple of the Drake / McDuck family.