just got to raise a little hell

“you know you didn’t have to come with me to this right?” mack beamed up at her husband from where he still towered over her as she stood having her final adjustments before her dress was shipped out to new york to wait for her and the met. waiting with her couldn’t have been kill’s favorite past time and yet he always did it anyway, without question he was always here. “it’s going to be a wild weekend, the boys are staying with nancy, but we’re going to play happy families with everyone and wait to see if my brother shows up are you ready for it?” 

“I might kill our mother.” With Jonathan gone it had become increasingly obvious just how much of their mothers attention that the male had been taking from each of the girls. “No wonder J had a breakdown, she’s insane, do you know how many times she has called me this week alone?”  And Kenzie had answered each time too, she was a good daughter and she’d never forgive herself if something serious had happened to her. “Fifty-seven, fifty seven times Jord and she needed something for real on about three of those calls.” If Mack hadn’t been scattered with greys before she was now. “I can’t cope with being the family mess, I wasn’t built for it she knows that.”

“So you like, stream games and people just pay to watch you?” There was no judgement in the Kennedys tone, she had made her entire living off people being so nosy they would watch a show about her families life, she was just curious as to what other things out there people were willing to pay for. This lifestyle had taught her that it was just about anything. “Do they get to play with you? My boys are just starting to ask for games, well Elijah, I never know what’s five year old friendly.”

life without johnny had proven - weird. kathy was on some sort of mission to make sure that her kids were still in line, that they wouldn’t all follow the same path. that she was going to have some semblance of control in their lives. with rumbling around issy already mackenzie felt the pressure on her shoulders, she was the most stable, she could take it the most, she had a husband at home to step up and watch the kids for a second whilst she stepped out and entertained the world in a way that would keep kathy sedated for a while. walking through the entrance doors she smirked ever so slightly as the crowds parted, how staged did kathy make this shit. pausing as the other stepped aside for her mackenzie offered a small shake of her head. “don’t mind me, it’s all paid for, we can head in together.” 

“legally speaking no, but you know in ever contract you sign she get’s a percentage cut right?” it was the same story for all of them but at some point the older siblings had all started to actually look at the paper work that their mother had them sign and unless her mother deserved the cut, mackenzie had long since removed that clause. until recently, and stupidly so, she had assumed johnny and their mother had actually spoken about this type of stuff and he’d had some clue about what happened around him but she was clearly wrong about that and it was worse than she’d thought. “because eventually a thirty year age gap becomes to much, they should all be like pierce brosnan and just love your age appropriate wife.” moving to start cooking some actual food for everyone that would seemingly be staying with her for the night at least mackenzie sighed back at her brother. the male could sulk all that he wanted but if he didn’t ask for help she wasn’t sure how she was supposed to know what he needed. did that make her a bad sister. “i’m raising my kids to be happy humans, that’s all i want for them.” they’d already have more money than they knew what to do with, now they just needed happy too. 

“okay fine, just remember you can always come to me if you need something.” she didn’t want her sister to think that there had to be something wrong for mackenzie to care so she didn’t push it any further. she just wanted her to know that she was always a shoulder for her to lean on if she ever needed it. their family was insane and overbearing but she loved each one of them whole heartedly and there wasn’t a think she wouldn’t do for them. “so if you’re not on the verge of a breakdown yourself, tell me what the hell you have been up to squish.” 

“oh no it’s not that.” kenzie beams as she looked back at the retired pro, a small smirk on her lips. “i just do all the cooking in my house as a good mother, it’s nice to have someone catering for me for a change and i think you should be doing all the work.” you didn’t grow up the daughter of johnny senior and now grow up with a low of football, and it was amusing to watch someone work up close after watching them on the field for so long. “you sure you know what you’re doing?” 

“right, course she did.” officially maybe, but mackenzie wondered what cut of johnny’s deal had landed that fat cheque into their mothers accounts to make sure that she was able to earn the money for such lavish gifts. sure, kathy kennedy was a brand all of her own, she had built up each of her children into unstoppable forces but for a long time she had been the only brain in the operation, the sole beneficiary for so many jobs they all took and whilst all above board, it was shady as hell the way she had managed to keep her fingers in each of their pots. “please don’t be like leo, how many times do i have to tell you their reaches a point that just becomes law suits and character defamation.” not something that she wanted her brother to have to deal with, not with how much he already seemed to have on his plate. even if it was his own doing half the time that didn’t mean that kenzie wanted him to suffer entirely. “of course we have people to manage the banks but do you think we’d be as stable as we are if someone didn’t keep an eye on things, we’ve got so much money we wouldn’t notice if any went missing for a while if we didn’t watch it properly.” lord knows they could afford to lose some but that was besides the point. “no i’m a mom, you like elijah and emmett want to eat caviar? have some chips like a normal person johnny.” 

“maybe there was enough of us before her that we managed to soak up all of kathys wrath.” though recently it seemed apparent that johnny took the hit where most of them got off lightly. how she was going to get him out of that when eh didn’t seem to want to be helped she didn’t know but she’d find away. “you going to start with mom and have that conversation? that’s where we’re going to have to start if you want to make a change, we’ll need to change the direction of the whole show.”