#Magda racosi

[collinsportmaine]

The Collinsport Coven circa 1897. Its members included Valerie (Angelique) Collins, Magda Racosi, Laura Collins and Charity Trask in her persona of Pansy Faye.

This time of year, the witch also sell holiday cookie to fund the monthly coven activities.

[wholockedcumberwumber]

Welcome to the Shadows ~ Part 4

Authors Note 1: Face Claim for Manech Langonnet II is Gulliver McGrath From the 2012 Dark Shadows Movie

Author’s Note 2:  I began this in June 2017 and had writer's block, in regards to my fanfics, for a few months, then I kept getting distracted. as always the date i tag them with is when is when i finished them

Author’s Note 3: the blog for the fic i started this tory as companion to has been deactivated

Part One  Part Two Part Three

He kissed her nose when he saw her crying again. ever since she had been Told Queenie was going to be staying at the Cortez she had been having nightmares. Well, Premonitions and she was afraid to tell Queenie or Cordelia that she knew it meant If Queenie went to that hotel she would never come back.

“You’ve been having this dream every night for almost two weeks. Why don't you just tell her?”

“I can’t. The Romanshel that camp out near Collinsport told me you are not supposed to tell someone when they’re going to die. But I really like Queenie and if she goes to the Hotel Cortez she won’t come back.”

“Explain to me what Ramnshel are again.”

“Until recently they are what people called Gypsies. The Collins family has a connection to The Romanshel who camp in Collinsport,” she said

“We both have the day off today. How about we go for a drive.” he smiled at her. it was hard to believe it had been two years since they had started working for Cordelia Foxx. “It’s been three years since the first time you came into one of the support group meetings at Tulane.”

“Really.” she follows him out to his car.hthey needed to get out of the City for a few hours and he was taking her to a county fair to unwind and also she wasn't expecting. What was going to Happen? He had been planning this for few months. Kyle was not 100% sure about most things in his life but he was sure he wanted Lucy to become Lucy Spencer.

a short time later he was looking at the sky as they sat on the hood of his car “Do you ever think of marriage?”  h placed a ring box shaped like Cinderella’s coach on her lap 

And she Opened it and next to the ring was an engraved sign that said will you marry me?

she looked at him “Yes Kyle.” she smiled at him “I love You Kyle.”  he slides off the hood of his car and gets a blanket out of the trunk and spreads it on the ground.

After they were done making out for a while they hear rustling and look up to see a 13-year-old boy looking at them “This kid has been following me around.”

Lucy “he’s not Dangerous His name is Manech Langonnet II. This means my friend the Romanshell are in the area.” later that evening at their house 

Manech “Magda told me I could stay with you if I wanted to.” 

Lucy looked at Kyle “Go find yourself something to Eat Manech. I need to talk to Kyle.” she watched the boy go into the kitchen “He has precognition like some of the others in Collins bloodline, i didn’t even tell him where the Kitchen is.”

“Your family is very complex. Explain how a kid with a French name is a Collins.”

“his Great-grandmother Anastasia Was the cousin of my grandfather Jacob. She rumored to have had an affair with James Patrick march the man who Built the Hotel Cortez.”

“You were named after this woman?” 

“no i was named after the daughter of the first Quentin Collins who was born somewhere between 1810 and 1813.” she smiled “But I digress. So Manech is my fourth cousin and it was the Racosi Family who brought my mother and me to New Orleans.” 

Kyle “He can stay in your old room. it is fine with me.”  Kyle said with a smile “He is family.” 

“Hopefully the Racosi stopped doing arranged marriages like other tribes do. because he’s about the age to be introduced to the one they want him to marry.”

around 2am when Lucy was having a hard time sleeping “Lu, you should be sleeping.”

“so should you Manech you are ten years younger than i am.”

“Point taken.” he makes two glasses of chocolate milk. “Magda sensed that you were being plagued by visions.”

“just a single one,” she tells Manech about the dream she's been having

“So what you need is a way to help Queenie without directly telling her that going to this place will result in her death.” he sighed “Wait a minute. I recall Correctly Magda has a friend who lives nearby the Hotel Cortez. Who runs a bed and breakfast.”

The Next Morning... “Miss Cordelia, May i speak to you in Private?” Lucy said “I don’t think you should book Queenie at the Hotel Cortez. it is a Spirit Cage. the only way to guarantee that she won’t die and is to somehow manage to free the souls trapped there so they don’t desire to murder people.” 

Cordelia looked at her “Stop Talking, Miss Collins. Two things. Congratulations on your engagement.” she smiled “your empathy is your downfall, Lucy. You are worried Queenie will be angry or that something bad will happen if you tell her she’s in danger.” she paused and looked down “How do you know about this Hotel you’ve never been to California.” 

The young woman looked at the Supreme “Because I'm friends with a group of Romanshel, and they go to LA once a year.” she looked at her “Thank you. on both accounts I know I've been overthinking this i am just worried of how she will react because Queenie is  bit intimidating at times.”  she smiled as Cordelia placed her hand on top of her own “Am I member of the Coven?”

“Technically Yes. You were technically member when you arrived in New Orleans you just needed to come into your powers and accept what has happened to you.” she paused “You’re just fortunate My mother didn't know you were a witch or you would have likely met the same fate as a few of the members who arrived at the same time as Misty, Zoe, and Queenie.”

“I am going to go look for Queenie.” when she wanders around the house she finds Lee Dancing with Queenie to Hip Hop music.

“Lee. when did you get here? I will talk to you Later brother.”

“You forget little Sister since the powers come from our family i have them too.” Lucy looked at him and he steps forward and catches her as she faints “Grandmother was the same way she would avoid telling people vision and when someone else beat her to it she would faint.”

As Lucy slowly woke up Queenie Looked at her “Listen, girl,  I never will judge you for something you can’t control.”

“I know Queenie but the Coven is the first time I've ever had friends i am afraid of losing anyone.” she looked at her Friend 

“Nice ring. Congrats on your engagement.” Queenie said 

“Kyle said it made him think of me when he saw it. it is Star Sapphire.” she said, “I admire you I wish I felt like someone people noticed me when i came into a room.”

“That is not why you are here. You are honest and you managed to make friends. Lu, we all have baggage.” Queenie said, “Your brother is hilarious you never mentioned having a gay brother?”

“You didn’t ask.” she said, “I don’t mean to sound like a smart ass but there is no way to just casually mention I have a half brother who was raised as my cousin because his mother was my Uncle’s Wife.” she sighed and looked down at her hands “Don't stay at the Hotel Cortez. If you go there you will die.” Lucy said looking at Queenie. “Manech is a direct blood descendant of one of the few people to make it out of the Cortez alive in the 1930s. My Namesake Anastasia Collins stayed there after she left her husband.  James Patrick March is a murderer who was killed in his hotel and ow he resides there and murders people who enter that hotel never come out. Ther only reason Ana was able to Leave was that James showed his little bit of Humanity towards her.” 

Queenie looked at her “Lulu, you have an unusual family but in the short time, I’ve known you. You’ve only been known to be honest.”  she rubbed her chin “But who should i stay with?”

“Kyle and I have a friend who lives in Hollywood. who looks a lot like Kyle. His name is Rory Monahan. The head of the costume department at the studio he works for is an exiled Member of the Racosi tribe. the same that has been raising Manech. You can stay with her.”

“They most hold you in high regard if you are the first person they sent Manech too.”

Lucy would only succeed at delaying the deaths of people around her. 

But ofr now they were happy.

The End

[collinsportmaine]

“Dark Shadows” continually tried to top itself. After a vampire and time travel it attempted a story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Then it kicked off a ghost story based on “The Turning of the Screw” with a new Collins ancestor in the role of Peter Quint.

The character was played by David Selby as Quentin Collins, and for the first few months on screen, he was the strong silent type (the character didn’t speak). To answer the mystery of Quentin, the show engineered time travel excursion to 1897.

There, we met Magda Racosi, a fortune teller living on the Collins estate. At first she was a friend of Quentin, but when she discovered he had killed her sister (Jenny his wife) she placed a curse on Quentin and his male heirs - the curse of the werewolf. Unfortunately she didn’t learn that Jenny had given birth to Quentin’s twins - meaning she curse her own family line.

Magda was played by Grayson Hall with relish - dressed in flamboyant clothing, a curly wig and a thick layer of grease paint.

The second half of the time spend in 1897 involved Quentin trying to remove the curse. Enter Count Petofi. He was a mysterious man with coke bottle thick glasses who also had trouble with gypsies himself. Using dark magic, earlier he had given a painter the ability to bring what he painted to life. When he arranged for the painter to do Quentin’s portrait, it created a similar effect as the picture of Dorian Gray - the werewolf curse would only appear on Quentin’s portrait not him.

The painting effectively made Quentin immortal, and Count Petofi had an ulterior motive. He planted to transfer his mind into Quentin’s body, making himself immortal. He almost succeeded to!

But Quentin lived to survive another day… decades actually. When the show returned to the present time, Quentin was there not having aged a day.

Count Petofi was a terrific and memorable role played by Thayer David. David usually played the staid Professor Stokes (a like of Van Helsing substitute).