The recent events of this summer almost bankrupted Fester and somewhat undermined his relationship with his niece, who was completely disappointed in love and especially in those who are chasing it. And Fester was doing exactly that, chasing the impossible when he allowed Debbie to manipulate him, and did not listen to any warnings provided by Gomez and Morticia. Of course, even they didn't realize that everything was that bad. They just suggested to take their time with the wedding and at least get to know each other a bit better.
Fester has always envied their wonderful harmony and undying passion, so in trying to find something like this, he did not realize that it might not be even necessary for him. After all, he's not Gomez but Fester. Fester was always more interested in the physical side of the issue, but when looking at such a lovely and romantically engrossed couple, even Fester had doubts about the rightness of his view.
Now there were no doubts, as there was not even half of his money in his accounts.
Wednesday was offended by everything that happened, including Fester's role in it.
Pugsley just shrugged his shoulders after everything that happened, looked reproachfully at his uncle from under his bangs and asked his sister not to conduct recreational galvanism on him anymore, which obviously indicated a certain trauma. Pugsley liked recreational electrocution and, most importantly, he liked his bonding time with his sister, filled with mutual torture. But he had never seen death so close before, and it was clear that he wasn't drawn to the electric chair, not yet. Wednesday had to do with waterboarding, unfortunately.
Though Fester understood that they were Addams, and the mental balance would be restored by the end of the summer. And there was nothing he could do - but still had to endure until the end of the summer.
Fester was going to return to his old occupation - adventures and the search for fun livelihood. The decision was dictated not only by the desire to change the scenery.
Every family dinner was like a pity party for Fester, because it didn't matter to the Addams that Debbie was a mentally unstable black widow. The Addams knew their history and their ancestors well. Debbie became an Addams not only on paper - Fester really loved her, and she seemed strange enough not to be afraid of the Addams, and at the same time seemed to be the complete opposite of his.
Even then, he should've thought about it and stop mistaking the screeching survival instincts and the excitement of impending danger for awakened romantic feelings. But for the Addams, those always went hand in hand, so he perceived most of the murder attempts from Debbie as following the Addams tradition. Until she tried to kill the others, he took it as a kind of a game.
The Thing then saved them all.
But in general, Fester preferred not to dwell on what he couldn't change, and that's why, instead of moaning and lamenting after his eternal love turned out to be not so eternal, he found a more effective way out. Fester wasn't a fool, and he understood that Debbie was using him, but love for the Addams was a curse for many generations - the result of a lot of blood mixing with a variety of people who were cursed or, well, blessed - it depends on who you're asking. Fester assumed that he got finally lucky and got an awakening of the same soul attribute that Gomez clearly had.
This, beloved by family tragicomedy and reality-based stories, is the curse of obsessive love, the manifestations of which made everyone around them either deeply envious or disgusted.
Any of the Addams had inactive attributes tied to the spiritual shell responsible for such "blessings", and each of the Addams knew about it simply because there was no other way to justify the amount of danger that the children of the family had to be exposed to on a permanent basis.
That is why Wednesday distinguished poisons by smell with an accuracy that only vampires who had lived quite a while in this world could boast of, could discern predatory intentions with her eyes closed, had the vitality and slightly accelerated regeneration characteristic of every Addams.
Morticia was still waiting for the awakening of the gift from the Frumps, but Fester was sure that even if the gift of the seer wouldn't be confirmed, Wednesday would never stop her recreational occult activities.
Witchcraft and the Addams had been inseparable for centuries, so it was more than obvious.
And it was precisely because of the surprise and confusion in the awakening of those soul attributes, Pugsley was always lucky not to die. He didn't gain the ability to breathe underwater, although there were sirens in the family, he did not awaken lightning, like Fester, or pyrokinesis, like Gomez.
He also did not have the unreasonable love for blood, which Wednesday suffered from til the age of six - the recipe for blood bars from distant relatives saved the situation. When the molars were out - started with the fangs - it became clear that vampirism was not transmitted after all, and the girl stopped asking Grandma Addams to make a supply of those treats. But Fester often caught Wednesday in the kitchen at the most inopportune time for cooking, so it's unlikely that she completely stopped snacking on them. She probably learned the recipe and made night raids to prepare strategic supplies for unforeseen situations.
Pugsley had almost no such traits, except, of course, vitality - and that his taste buds were slightly skewed, but this was the same both for Fester and Gomez.
Fester was three-quarters sure that the whole Debbie situation had unfolded that way because Debbie tried to kill Pugsley. Of course, there was no proof, but such a series of accidents usually suggested the influence of this extremely successful attribute on the survival of the nephew.
But no matter how much Fester wanted, Pugsley's luck extended only to threats on his life, and not to something smaller - for example, an attempt to earn Wednesday's forgiveness.
Fester was very unlucky in this - neither the new spear, nor the XVII century Morgenstern of historical importance, nor the cursed helmet from his personal collection worked - nothing helped.
Wednesday continued to ignore Fester's attempts to restore trust. Of course, he understood that sending her and Pugsley to scouts' camp was Debbie's idea, and he supported her like a proper fool in love.
Morticia and Gomez were upset that Wednesday seemed to have no friends at all, though even Pugsley was meeting up with a couple of like-minded people at the school robotics club. Fester didn't know that on the day preceding Debbie's advice to send the children to camp, Wednesday had a breakthrough with learning of that woman's previous victim. And the most shameful thing is that Wednesday used those people whose contacts he provided to her just in case when he was checking that school worker who turned out to be a pervert, or many other people who required the check.
Fester was this in love, yes.
And he didn't know how to apologize for this kind of thing - and it would've been fine if they were sent to a camp where there were at least some other Outcasts - perhaps it would've lead to something positively terrible, in a good way. But Debbie just poked her finger into the most prestigious camp, which, as it turned out, did not at all imply respect for the aesthetic values of the Addams. The kids were forced to sing and hug there, every time there was some kind of quarrel. It would seem that Wednesday could not have become even more homicidal, but stuff happened.
Unsurprisingly, the arsonists were never found.
In short, Fester Addams never managed to reconcile, but he assumed that he still had a couple of weeks before the end of the summer to fix this. And then suddenly Pugsley decided that he wanted to live with the werewolves in order to confirm that their spiritual attributes would definitely not awaken in him. Fester fully understood this desire and wanted a similar fate himself as a child - the Addams have always loved the Moon and attached no less importance to it than many famous packs of werewolves. But Wednesday didn't want Fester to go with them! And Pugsley supported her! And their excuse was that the werewolf he had challenged to a duel during the family celebration of Debbie's death was the one they were going to visit! Only a fool would take it on face value and not realize that this is just an attempt to get rid of him! Even the Thing understood it!
And the only thing Fester could do was watch helplessly as Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch left the Addams mansion in a hearse in order to go visit their werewolf relatives.
Of course, Fester was not fixated only on his problem with Wednesday, he understood that he was not the only reason for such an escape.
Firstly, the son of Debbie's previous victim, a somewhat awkward bespectacled boy named Joel Gliker, who actually helped to open his eyes on Debbie, tried to flirt with Wednesday, for lack of a better word. Secondly, this flirtation was encouraged by Gomez for some reason, because it seemed as if the boy was just exactly repeating Gomes's flirty lines to Wednesday. Fester could see it on her face - a frozen grimace of barely concealed disgust, mixed with confusion. If it had been anyone else, Fester would have enjoyed the torture, but it was his niece.
And no, he wasn't going to get involved in the Joel situation, because he was sincerely sure that Wednesday would manage on her own. That's why Tish or Gomez didn't interfere in this situation - they probably had the same opinion as Fester. Wednesday is able to stand up for herself and sort out her feelings without someone else's unsolicited advice.
Fester was going to find some very exotic pet for Wednesday, so that it could survive all the madness of belonging to the Addams, and at the same time be her new friend. Fester was ready to send to hell the ordinary people's bullshit and all this nonsense with friendships and relationships. As, in fact, Wednesday has been doing all this time. Fester suspected that Wednesday had previously seen him as someone like her, needing nothing but business transactions, but this stupid Debbie thing had changed her idea of Fester. Previously, in her eyes, only her parents could be such loving idiots.
Fester felt her deep disappointment in her uncle. He never previously talked much about his romantic desires for an obvious reason - after all, they were children. And without any details, Fester couldn't really tell any of his previous cases of relationship. The details, as is obvious, were almost always the category twenty-one plus.
So the idea of finding something exotic for Wednesday and at the same time saying - I'm still the same Uncle Fester, don't be so resentful - was the idea with potential.
And to realize this potential, he was going to turn to his not the most law-abiding buddies.
With this goal in mind, Fester switched from meaningless emotions to planning new ventures. Fester planned, however, usually only a couple of steps ahead - and then wherever the curve might take him.
But the first step was the most important thing - to not forget the Thing.