The Science of a Legacy: Chapter 31 - Part One
Right, this might now go incredibly wrong!
Oh well, you guys all managed it so the least I can do it give it a go too :) Hands up if you miss storyteller mode and the exchange? *waves both paws around frantcially* Muuh. I had a fight with authorstream over the weekend for being all funny with me, so I've gone for the good old posty post method and though room consuming, I think I prefer it for me until the exchange comes back.
I'm terribly worried that even though I split it into two posting, I've still maganaged to get something wrong or loped stuff off, so please please tell me if I had. New method confusion for the lose.
But enjoy, enjoy :D
Hi-i! It feels a little silly doing an introduction after having one up but hi-i again and look I'm on 31 and whatnot. Last time college was finished for Generation Six, and they popped (literally) back to Strangetown for both planned and non-planned babies, and also surprise babies from dead Tricous. Poor old Tyler. Anway, THINGS! GO!
“Oh good goat ‘Rels, what happened to you? You’re all.. full of baby!”
“Mmm, and apparently I’m not the only one around here. What happened to you? And Sid! What’s he doing full of baby? And is Mum? .. But, oh Vox.. It’s been just awful.”
Cadence had managed to corner her eldest with a proposition while her other two children gabbled away, with Marella briefly filling her favourite brother in on what happened.
“Roight, seein’ as we is all full of babies now (which is abdosodunkly brillian’) I don’t fink there’s going t’be quoite enough room ‘ere for all of us and the sproglets. So.. It’s just as well we ‘ave two houses, isn’t it right Sidneyia?”
Sid sighed. He knew what his mother was implying, but he liked having the Blue House all to himself! But..
“Sure. Whatever.”
“Won’erful! Marellikins will come and live wiv you so you can look after her.”
“-But!”
“No. You lis’en ‘ere, your li’tle sister needs you and I know you don’t mind helpin’ really. It’ll be fun!”
“-But!”
They could understand the logic, but none of Cadence’s children were very happy about the arrangement. But she was right - there wasn’t enough room for Marella to stay. So after many hugs and poking of unexpected pregnant bellies she and Sid left for the old family home.
And later that night, Cadence’s point started to really hit home and bumps got bigger and babies got closer.
“Oh wow, this feels so bizarre. How are we going to cope with two at the same time? But good goat Mum was right, having four babies all here at once would just be impossible! I just hope ‘Rels is going to be ok over there.”
“BLEH! Not impossible, more fun swee’ie!”
Cadence had leapt excitedly into to room.
“’ave you gown and popped too baby? Innit AMZIN’?!”
“Aaargh, MOTHER! Please don’t do that..”
“Wha? I can’t ‘elp it I roight can’t! I is just so exci’ed, BLEH!” shrieked the happily pregnant vampire.
“Oh please to fishness, stop!”
“BLEH! BLEH BLEH BLEH!!”
“..I want to go to sleep at some point tonight if that’s at all possible Mum. I haven’t done this before remember!”
“Sorry choppit. I jus’ think it’s such a ‘appy time for us all I do.”
But not one to stay angry, Vauxia quickly gave his mother a big hug when he saw how sincere she was about her excitement. It might not be particularly shared by her children, but he did get that she really was happy about their current situation.
“There there, it’s fine. I know you’re excited, and I doubt you’re the only one. Just.. less blehs maybe in future yeah?” he pleaded.
“Oh, fumbledumpkins.”
But Vauxia was right, Cadence wasn’t the only one eagerly awaiting the next generation.
Gadus was cheerily pondering the situation and his almost-second chance over his ham(CHEESE)burger as he sat in the Tegenaria’s new dining room.
It’s funny he though, one day all these chairs are actually going to be filled.. I just hope I’m around enough long enough to meet them all. I don’t want to miss out on it all again!
- - - -
Down the road, more ham(CHEESE)burgers were being consumed.
“So er. Thanks for letting me stay here Sid.” Marella tried. “I kind of don’t have anywhere else to go.”
“Mmm, s’fine.”
“Good-o. What happened to you then? I kind of get Vox having to have babies one way or another, but what’s your deal?”
“Abduction, it was hardly my choice. I had to leave my position in Takemizu for it, I’m hardly thrilled by what’s happened but I don’t really have much of a choice. I was fine on my own anyway.”
“Oh silly, no you’re not. No one’s fine on their own! You didn’t have to be either! But like, you’ve still got me.. if you want.”
They sat in silence for a while.
“Oh alright Sid, look I don’t you don’t like me, but-“
“Don’t like you? What do you mean ‘don’t like you’? Of course I like you Marella, you’re my sister - but I hardly know you! You and Vox always had your ‘special little club’ I wasn’t allowed in when we were younger, and at LFT you spent the whole time with Evil Susan or our cousins.
And now we’re both on our own here in a situation neither of us want to be in, so we just have to get on with it.”
“It’s not my fault.” Marella said quietly. “You didn’t exactly want to be our friend.”
“Yes well, times have changed and all that. Let’s just try and make this work, ok? Vox has Mum and Dad to help but we don’t, so I think we’re just going to have to help each other and hope the world doesn’t explode.”
“Fine. .. Can I finish your burger?”
“No.”
- - - -
“Yes, thank you darling for the gift of eternal life - but I thought we agreed that I didn’t want it?”
“Ooow, but jus’ think! If we both live forever then we can ‘ave babies forever an’ EVER!! Innit a great idea?”
“Dearest, I think you’re getting a bit overexcited again.” Gadus sighed and patted his wife on the shoulder.
“Oow. Sorry.”
“What’s all the hissing about?” asked Vauxia. Cadence’s squeals had woken him up yet again.
“It’s a hiss of baby jooooy!” said Cadence as she started to wave her arms around yet again.
“Vamprocillin all round then?” laughed Gadus.
“..Yes?”
“BLEH!”
Gadus swiftly cured himself and returned with a bottle for Vox.
“That was speedy.” He said and started to drink. “You’ve moved the supply then?”
“Yes.” Gadus grinned. “It’s even in front of the bree now, she’s been doing this so often.”
“Urg, do you ever get used to this taste?” Vox grimaced as his skin flooded with colour again.
“Not really, but you get used to your mother. Anyway, I’m sure we can blame hormones or something in a typically manly fashion.”
“Mm, but I don’t seem to have the desire to turn my whole family into the living dead and I’m pregnant as well!”
“No, but you have been spending an ordinate amount of time in the garden.. Anyway - it can’t be much longer can it?” Gadus said happily and patted his son’s tummy.
“Oh good goat I hope not.”
“BLEEEEEEH!”
Turns out there wasn’t much time left at all! After her early evening of biting Cadence decided that tonight was as good a time as any to finally start the procession of many many children. Hooray!
The boys swiftly ran to her to continue with the tradition of making useless comments while she gave birth.
“I know I missed the last one, but has anything about this changed?” Gadus worried.
“Oooow, not overly fluffmop! Just... HISS.”
“That’s it love, you just keep on hissing.”
But so it was with a finally bleh and hiss that the rather late member of Generation Six made an appearance - Hallucigenia Tegenaria.
“What a roight noice little sporg of the girl kind! Naww, I loikes her I do. Well worf all the blehing, if I do say so myself.”
Yup, we have another girl. Hallie has brown hair and green like Vox and Marella, how charming. Now, I was kind of sort of desperate to name a child Hallucigenia just because.. it’s funny and I want to! Hallucigenia is another species known from Cambrian era fossils (as was my G6 theme) and is like a big sausage with spikes on one side and loads of legs on the other. When it was first described they got it upsidedown and didn’t realise for a good hundred years - d’oh. Go look for a picture, really.
“Well done boys, as much help as always - but look! We ‘as a nice lit’tle one now!” Cadence grinned as she cuddled the new born.
“I have another daughter?” Gadus was still a bit stunned by the whole business I think. “But that’s brilliant!”
“Haha, ‘Rels is going to be so pissed she’s not the baby girl anyway!” Vaxuia cheered as he said hello to his new little sister.
But the cheering quickly turned to shouting.
“OW! Why didn’t you warn me that this was actually painful, Mum?” he cringed. “You always said it was great!”
“Well, gettin’ the kidlet as a presen’ at the end is roihgt good, it is.”
“And your Mother says I’m no good at helping with these things.” Said Gadus. “I’ll just go and wait over here until you’re finished..”
And he wandered over to wait at the desk.
“Argh, you’re both useless!” Vauxia shouted.
“Oh. Wow.” He breathed when he was over, “That’s.. actually pretty cool.”
He gasped, looking at the tiny green baby he now had in his hands. Tiny boy to be accurate!
“I think Mum was right, in a way that was worth it! But hang on.
..Oh dear.”
“Look Dad, I appreciate all your waiting quietly, but I need you to hold this one for me for a minute.” He said and quickly tried to pass the baby boy to Gadus.
“What, already? That was quick. Hang on just a second, let me shut this down..”
“No, NOW!” Vox cried, and thrust the baby into Gadus’s lap. Luckily Gadus was a very good cuddler.
After a few more shouts, Vox was rather shocked to be holding yet another green baby in front of him. But this time it was a girl! Generation Seven is apparently growing fast. (Yaaay)
“Huh.”
“Is tha’ all yous got to say!? Tha’ well ain’t fair! ‘Ow come you gets a buy one gets one free and I don’? Where’s my ovver one!” moaned Cadence.
“No, it’s just I wasn’t expecting two! Oh look at her, she’s ever so pretty.. And surely you have enough children now Mum?”
“Never!”
“Oh I think these three will be quite enough for us all to get on with.” Said Gadus happily as he bounced the alien boy. Three babies! Well, that was certainly better than two he concluded - he was sure they could all manage.
So, the names of this little green twinlets? The boy is named Myotis, and the girl Pipistrelle. My mini-theme this time is bats! Myotis is the genus of mouse-eared bats and a cool word, and Pipistrelles are the most common bat in Britiain and my personal favourites. They’re so small they can fit n the end of your thumb, and weigh less than a pound coin! Aww, they’re great.
- - - -
“..and then ES just completely lost it, you know how she does, and chased the guy around waving her little stick thing for over an hour! He only got away by leaping into the pool, yeah we built a pool after you left, and so then she threw a thwap ball at his head and he had a lump the size of Ireland. It was awesome! Doncha think?” Marella was gabbling at the other Tegenaria family home.
“Moral of the story is don’t eat Evil Susans chilli then?” Sid smiled.
“Exactly! Cool, I feel much better now. It’s nice to have someone to tell these stories to and play games with. I mean, Tyler always used to be so..” Marella trailed off.
“But that’s in the past.” She said defiantly and brushed off any uncertainty from her face. “Anyway, I have a tiny mini baby to focus on! That should be.. fun?”
“Fun? You think this’ll be fun! Geez, I had to watch the both of you being born remember - and it does not look fun Marella! And we’re all on our own, how do you keep forgetting this?” Sid reminded her.
“Mum was on her own.” She pointed out.
“Yeah, but..”
“Oh stop whining! Babies! Fun, whooo! And the sooner we give birth the sooner we can all stop waddling about the place.”
“Now that I do like.”
“See? Look! There’s a plus side to everything. Because if I don’t get this baby out of me soon I’m going to-“
“Now see, we’re not nearly close enough yet for you to start finishing my sentences..” Marella sighed as her brother started to make the oh-so-pleasant sounds that every single Sims makes when they’re about the do a little plumbbob splitting.
..Except Sid’s was ever so slightly louder and shouter than usual, and Marella almost felt as though she should be covering the ears of her unborn child.
But Sidneyia finally calmed down and was left holding the third member of Generation Seven, another little boy - but this one named Ivan.
“Please please tell me that there’s more than one type of alien abductor out there little guy, because otherwise this is just going to be too creepy for words..”
Ivan could only scowl. Luckily it was a scowl with big purple eyes under a black brow, as opposite to the bright and utter redness of Myotis and Pipi and thus my family tree is saved from a very confusing branch twist of icky confusingness.
Sid already approved greatly of his son’s ability to scowl, and had barely time to pop him in his crib before..
“OH GREAT GOAT IN THE SKY OF BOWLING ALLYES!”
“Geez ‘Rels, do you have to be so loud? For once in your life could you just try and be a little bit quieter?”
“£$$%£”%@@@¬¬¬^^11 TO YOU SID! And quite possibly this child!”
“You sure about that?” Sid smiled as his sister swung her daughter into her arms.
He had to admit, now they were actually here, the children didn’t seem half bad at all! It was actually quite.. nice
Marella just quietly stared into her daughter’s eyes - eyes she’d been finding herself dearly missing over the past few months.
“Lacey.” She said quickly. “Her name shall be Lacey.”
“What do you think?” she asked.
“S’nice.” Sid replied. “But you should probably quit with the staring and start with the feeding.” He suggested, and went to check on Ivan, mainly to see whether his ear drums were still intact.
“Yeah.. yeah, I’ll get on to that..” Marella said dreamily, still taken quite a back.
Lacey may have only been a few minutes old, but her resemblance to Tyler was already undeniable. She had his eyes, his hair, his skin - everything.
“He’d have loved you, you know..” Marella said quietly to her. “See? He’d even be making that exact face you are right now! I’m very very glad you’re here, my little Lacey.”
- - - -
I like girls!
They like me!
They look so good in their seven jeans!
*DING DONG GENERAL DOORBELL NOISES*
“Dad?” he called. “DAD! Could you go get that?”
But after a while Vauxia realised that Gadus was probably off somewhere with Boris Johnson and conceded that he would actually have to post-pone his little singsong. After a quick debate over getting dressed (his fear of it being Evil Susan at the door won out) he grabbed some clothes and wandered down to see who it was.
“What the-?”
“What in the world..
DAD! You really need to get out here NOW!”
Despite his confusion, Vaxuia reached into the basket to pick up the small child - he looked like it needed a hug, and he kind of felt like he wanted to give it one.
“Oh great goat! What the fishness is that?!” cried Gadus as he stepped onto the porch. “Where did it come from? What’s it doing here?”
“I’m not quite sure.. I think it might be a girl though Dad, more than an It.”
“Oh right. Right.”
“Er. Do you want to take her for a minute? She’s quite squirmy.”
“Aww, there now little one, it’s alright!” Gadus said kindly as he took the baby, who settled down at once as he rocked her. “Well now, this is a surprise. We can’t just leave her outside like this now, can we?”
“We already have so many babies already, what’s one more?” Vox sighed. “It’s not like one became two became three has now become four is it?”
“Mm, quite, quite.” Said Gadus, clearly not really listening. “I wonder where she came from though?”
“I have no idea - why would someone give us a spare baby anyway? But.. I guess she belongs to us now?” Vox asked.
“We can’t leave her out here, I’d say she belongs with us now. What’s one more Tegenaria, eh? And who could not want this sweet little thing.. She’s adorable!”
“Well someone clearly didn’t.”
Vauxia jumped down the steps to have a look around, to see if there was any sign of who’d left them the child.
And quite to his surprise, he saw a figure slinking away slowly at the edge of the lot.
Immediately his heart sank.
“Oh Allison.. What have you done now?”
Sighing, he went inside to help his father set up yet another crib for the new addition.
After they’d put the little girl to sleep, the two of them surveyed the nursery. It was an understatement to say it was getting more than a little full these days.
“And half of them are green,” Gadus mused, “it’s extraordinary.”
“Extraordinarily FANTASTIC!” he cried, punching the air in delight. “WOOOOHOOOO!”
“There’s just so many of them..” Vox said quietly.
“This is brilliant!”
“Oh Dad, not so loud, I think I’m getting a headache.” Something feels.. weird.”
Slowly, he started to sway and fall to the ground.
“Oh er, are you quite alright Little V?” Gadus asked, finally noticing that something not quite right was going on.
“So.. many.. of them... SO MANY!”
“Yes, but that’s a good thing son.”
“MANY MANY BABIES.”
“Um.. I think we need Cadence.”
- - - -
“Alright! Where is she!?
Where is that useless drip bag of a best friend? WHERE IS-“
“..you.”
“WHOA! Evil Susan, what the heck happened to you?! You’re all.. green. And and.. whoa.”
“Oh so you noticed did you?” Evil Susan snapped, turning the growl at Marella.
“Well yeah, it’s kind of hard not to ES! Seriously girl, what happened to you?”
“You left, that’s what happened!” she snarled. “You LEFT, no warning, no ‘Oh ES may I?’ No - you just buggered off without any shred of warning!”
“I had to do something to pass the time ‘Rels, I sure as fishness wasn’t going to sit around wasting my time with those other bozos in the Greek House. Amy wasn’t even any fun to tease anymore, she just cried all the time and the damn Shrews had learnt to tuck their tails under.
Things happened ‘Rels. Things do, YOU just weren’t there to see them. I saved your useless life from those creepy dead-not-dead old fogies and then you just abandoned me.”
“NO ONE abandons Evil Susan! No one.”
“I didn’t abandon you!” Marella protested. “I was pregnant, I had to drop out of LFT - I didn’t have a choice! You knew that ES. And you saw what happened that day with Tyler and I couldn’t, I just couldn’t.. anymore..” she trailed off.
“Oh yes, that. So where is this spawn that made you take off? It can’t be that great, not when you could have stayed with me instead! ME! Evil Susan!”
Before Marella could even retort Evil Susan had already stomped off in search of her friend’s baby.
“So, we meet at last foul friend stealer.
Well you look awful for a start, and far too small.”
“See look? I can pick you up just like that - and what can you do about it eh? Nothing.”
Lacey stared in confusion at this strange green annoyed woman holding her. Not knowing what else to do, she started batting at the pretty sparklies this odd woman seemed to be emitting.
“Hey! Hey, who said you could do that?!” Evil Susan spluttered.
“She likes shiny things.” Marella smiled as she came in to reclaim her child. “She seems to like you too, actually.”
“Yes. Well. Be that as it may I’m not a fan of her. Or even shiny things for that matter!” said Evil Susan quickly, and hastily placed the baby back in the crib.
“Come ‘Rels, let us go away from this terrible place of children.” She continued, and pulled Marella from the room.
Just as the girls came back into the main hall, Sid flew through the door, shouting (as usual).
“’Rels! You’ll never guess what - they loved the abduction story, they just threw the promotion at me. BAM! They just-“ But when he saw who was in their hallway he stopped mid flow.
“Er, that’s great Sid.. Just, maybe not now k?”
“Oh this is going to be good!” cackled Evil Susan as their eyes met.
“You.. Don’t even let me get started on you!”
“Well I think you already have.” Sid snapped. “So, you’re back. Oh hurrah! What are you doing in my home anyway, don’t you have your own family to terrorise?”
“Yes, we’re all back too I hasten to add. Including Amy.”
“That’s not of your business. None at all!” Sid shouted quickly.
“Oh I think it is, I’ve had to listen to her ear-shattering sobs for the last year! And you know what? I blame you, it’s all your fault I had to put up with that. I’m Evil Susan! I do not approve of crying.”
“Oh how silly of me to forget. Anything you do approve of ‘Oh Evil One’?”
“Yes actually, you falling in a toilet.”
“Anyway!” she said, turning back to Marella, while Sid happily thought about times before he’d shared a room with Evil Susan.
“Amy’s back?” Marella asked.
“Oh yeah, she’s gone home to see her nephews before she works out what to do. You know, seeing how she doesn’t have a future anymore.” Evil Susan added with a glance over her shoulder. “And I, I must be going. To find some sensible people who aren’t full of whiney time-sapping babies!”
- - - -
Fly fly fly fly my pretties to PART TWO!
Oh well, you guys all managed it so the least I can do it give it a go too :) Hands up if you miss storyteller mode and the exchange? *waves both paws around frantcially* Muuh. I had a fight with authorstream over the weekend for being all funny with me, so I've gone for the good old posty post method and though room consuming, I think I prefer it for me until the exchange comes back.
I'm terribly worried that even though I split it into two posting, I've still maganaged to get something wrong or loped stuff off, so please please tell me if I had. New method confusion for the lose.
But enjoy, enjoy :D
Hi-i! It feels a little silly doing an introduction after having one up but hi-i again and look I'm on 31 and whatnot. Last time college was finished for Generation Six, and they popped (literally) back to Strangetown for both planned and non-planned babies, and also surprise babies from dead Tricous. Poor old Tyler. Anway, THINGS! GO!
“Oh good goat ‘Rels, what happened to you? You’re all.. full of baby!”
“Mmm, and apparently I’m not the only one around here. What happened to you? And Sid! What’s he doing full of baby? And is Mum? .. But, oh Vox.. It’s been just awful.”
Cadence had managed to corner her eldest with a proposition while her other two children gabbled away, with Marella briefly filling her favourite brother in on what happened.
“Roight, seein’ as we is all full of babies now (which is abdosodunkly brillian’) I don’t fink there’s going t’be quoite enough room ‘ere for all of us and the sproglets. So.. It’s just as well we ‘ave two houses, isn’t it right Sidneyia?”
Sid sighed. He knew what his mother was implying, but he liked having the Blue House all to himself! But..
“Sure. Whatever.”
“Won’erful! Marellikins will come and live wiv you so you can look after her.”
“-But!”
“No. You lis’en ‘ere, your li’tle sister needs you and I know you don’t mind helpin’ really. It’ll be fun!”
“-But!”
They could understand the logic, but none of Cadence’s children were very happy about the arrangement. But she was right - there wasn’t enough room for Marella to stay. So after many hugs and poking of unexpected pregnant bellies she and Sid left for the old family home.
And later that night, Cadence’s point started to really hit home and bumps got bigger and babies got closer.
“Oh wow, this feels so bizarre. How are we going to cope with two at the same time? But good goat Mum was right, having four babies all here at once would just be impossible! I just hope ‘Rels is going to be ok over there.”
“BLEH! Not impossible, more fun swee’ie!”
Cadence had leapt excitedly into to room.
“’ave you gown and popped too baby? Innit AMZIN’?!”
“Aaargh, MOTHER! Please don’t do that..”
“Wha? I can’t ‘elp it I roight can’t! I is just so exci’ed, BLEH!” shrieked the happily pregnant vampire.
“Oh please to fishness, stop!”
“BLEH! BLEH BLEH BLEH!!”
“..I want to go to sleep at some point tonight if that’s at all possible Mum. I haven’t done this before remember!”
“Sorry choppit. I jus’ think it’s such a ‘appy time for us all I do.”
But not one to stay angry, Vauxia quickly gave his mother a big hug when he saw how sincere she was about her excitement. It might not be particularly shared by her children, but he did get that she really was happy about their current situation.
“There there, it’s fine. I know you’re excited, and I doubt you’re the only one. Just.. less blehs maybe in future yeah?” he pleaded.
“Oh, fumbledumpkins.”
But Vauxia was right, Cadence wasn’t the only one eagerly awaiting the next generation.
Gadus was cheerily pondering the situation and his almost-second chance over his ham(CHEESE)burger as he sat in the Tegenaria’s new dining room.
It’s funny he though, one day all these chairs are actually going to be filled.. I just hope I’m around enough long enough to meet them all. I don’t want to miss out on it all again!
- - - -
Down the road, more ham(CHEESE)burgers were being consumed.
“So er. Thanks for letting me stay here Sid.” Marella tried. “I kind of don’t have anywhere else to go.”
“Mmm, s’fine.”
“Good-o. What happened to you then? I kind of get Vox having to have babies one way or another, but what’s your deal?”
“Abduction, it was hardly my choice. I had to leave my position in Takemizu for it, I’m hardly thrilled by what’s happened but I don’t really have much of a choice. I was fine on my own anyway.”
“Oh silly, no you’re not. No one’s fine on their own! You didn’t have to be either! But like, you’ve still got me.. if you want.”
They sat in silence for a while.
“Oh alright Sid, look I don’t you don’t like me, but-“
“Don’t like you? What do you mean ‘don’t like you’? Of course I like you Marella, you’re my sister - but I hardly know you! You and Vox always had your ‘special little club’ I wasn’t allowed in when we were younger, and at LFT you spent the whole time with Evil Susan or our cousins.
And now we’re both on our own here in a situation neither of us want to be in, so we just have to get on with it.”
“It’s not my fault.” Marella said quietly. “You didn’t exactly want to be our friend.”
“Yes well, times have changed and all that. Let’s just try and make this work, ok? Vox has Mum and Dad to help but we don’t, so I think we’re just going to have to help each other and hope the world doesn’t explode.”
“Fine. .. Can I finish your burger?”
“No.”
- - - -
“Yes, thank you darling for the gift of eternal life - but I thought we agreed that I didn’t want it?”
“Ooow, but jus’ think! If we both live forever then we can ‘ave babies forever an’ EVER!! Innit a great idea?”
“Dearest, I think you’re getting a bit overexcited again.” Gadus sighed and patted his wife on the shoulder.
“Oow. Sorry.”
“What’s all the hissing about?” asked Vauxia. Cadence’s squeals had woken him up yet again.
“It’s a hiss of baby jooooy!” said Cadence as she started to wave her arms around yet again.
“Vamprocillin all round then?” laughed Gadus.
“..Yes?”
“BLEH!”
Gadus swiftly cured himself and returned with a bottle for Vox.
“That was speedy.” He said and started to drink. “You’ve moved the supply then?”
“Yes.” Gadus grinned. “It’s even in front of the bree now, she’s been doing this so often.”
“Urg, do you ever get used to this taste?” Vox grimaced as his skin flooded with colour again.
“Not really, but you get used to your mother. Anyway, I’m sure we can blame hormones or something in a typically manly fashion.”
“Mm, but I don’t seem to have the desire to turn my whole family into the living dead and I’m pregnant as well!”
“No, but you have been spending an ordinate amount of time in the garden.. Anyway - it can’t be much longer can it?” Gadus said happily and patted his son’s tummy.
“Oh good goat I hope not.”
“BLEEEEEEH!”
Turns out there wasn’t much time left at all! After her early evening of biting Cadence decided that tonight was as good a time as any to finally start the procession of many many children. Hooray!
The boys swiftly ran to her to continue with the tradition of making useless comments while she gave birth.
“I know I missed the last one, but has anything about this changed?” Gadus worried.
“Oooow, not overly fluffmop! Just... HISS.”
“That’s it love, you just keep on hissing.”
But so it was with a finally bleh and hiss that the rather late member of Generation Six made an appearance - Hallucigenia Tegenaria.
“What a roight noice little sporg of the girl kind! Naww, I loikes her I do. Well worf all the blehing, if I do say so myself.”
Yup, we have another girl. Hallie has brown hair and green like Vox and Marella, how charming. Now, I was kind of sort of desperate to name a child Hallucigenia just because.. it’s funny and I want to! Hallucigenia is another species known from Cambrian era fossils (as was my G6 theme) and is like a big sausage with spikes on one side and loads of legs on the other. When it was first described they got it upsidedown and didn’t realise for a good hundred years - d’oh. Go look for a picture, really.
“Well done boys, as much help as always - but look! We ‘as a nice lit’tle one now!” Cadence grinned as she cuddled the new born.
“I have another daughter?” Gadus was still a bit stunned by the whole business I think. “But that’s brilliant!”
“Haha, ‘Rels is going to be so pissed she’s not the baby girl anyway!” Vaxuia cheered as he said hello to his new little sister.
But the cheering quickly turned to shouting.
“OW! Why didn’t you warn me that this was actually painful, Mum?” he cringed. “You always said it was great!”
“Well, gettin’ the kidlet as a presen’ at the end is roihgt good, it is.”
“And your Mother says I’m no good at helping with these things.” Said Gadus. “I’ll just go and wait over here until you’re finished..”
And he wandered over to wait at the desk.
“Argh, you’re both useless!” Vauxia shouted.
“Oh. Wow.” He breathed when he was over, “That’s.. actually pretty cool.”
He gasped, looking at the tiny green baby he now had in his hands. Tiny boy to be accurate!
“I think Mum was right, in a way that was worth it! But hang on.
..Oh dear.”
“Look Dad, I appreciate all your waiting quietly, but I need you to hold this one for me for a minute.” He said and quickly tried to pass the baby boy to Gadus.
“What, already? That was quick. Hang on just a second, let me shut this down..”
“No, NOW!” Vox cried, and thrust the baby into Gadus’s lap. Luckily Gadus was a very good cuddler.
After a few more shouts, Vox was rather shocked to be holding yet another green baby in front of him. But this time it was a girl! Generation Seven is apparently growing fast. (Yaaay)
“Huh.”
“Is tha’ all yous got to say!? Tha’ well ain’t fair! ‘Ow come you gets a buy one gets one free and I don’? Where’s my ovver one!” moaned Cadence.
“No, it’s just I wasn’t expecting two! Oh look at her, she’s ever so pretty.. And surely you have enough children now Mum?”
“Never!”
“Oh I think these three will be quite enough for us all to get on with.” Said Gadus happily as he bounced the alien boy. Three babies! Well, that was certainly better than two he concluded - he was sure they could all manage.
So, the names of this little green twinlets? The boy is named Myotis, and the girl Pipistrelle. My mini-theme this time is bats! Myotis is the genus of mouse-eared bats and a cool word, and Pipistrelles are the most common bat in Britiain and my personal favourites. They’re so small they can fit n the end of your thumb, and weigh less than a pound coin! Aww, they’re great.
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“..and then ES just completely lost it, you know how she does, and chased the guy around waving her little stick thing for over an hour! He only got away by leaping into the pool, yeah we built a pool after you left, and so then she threw a thwap ball at his head and he had a lump the size of Ireland. It was awesome! Doncha think?” Marella was gabbling at the other Tegenaria family home.
“Moral of the story is don’t eat Evil Susans chilli then?” Sid smiled.
“Exactly! Cool, I feel much better now. It’s nice to have someone to tell these stories to and play games with. I mean, Tyler always used to be so..” Marella trailed off.
“But that’s in the past.” She said defiantly and brushed off any uncertainty from her face. “Anyway, I have a tiny mini baby to focus on! That should be.. fun?”
“Fun? You think this’ll be fun! Geez, I had to watch the both of you being born remember - and it does not look fun Marella! And we’re all on our own, how do you keep forgetting this?” Sid reminded her.
“Mum was on her own.” She pointed out.
“Yeah, but..”
“Oh stop whining! Babies! Fun, whooo! And the sooner we give birth the sooner we can all stop waddling about the place.”
“Now that I do like.”
“See? Look! There’s a plus side to everything. Because if I don’t get this baby out of me soon I’m going to-“
“Now see, we’re not nearly close enough yet for you to start finishing my sentences..” Marella sighed as her brother started to make the oh-so-pleasant sounds that every single Sims makes when they’re about the do a little plumbbob splitting.
..Except Sid’s was ever so slightly louder and shouter than usual, and Marella almost felt as though she should be covering the ears of her unborn child.
But Sidneyia finally calmed down and was left holding the third member of Generation Seven, another little boy - but this one named Ivan.
“Please please tell me that there’s more than one type of alien abductor out there little guy, because otherwise this is just going to be too creepy for words..”
Ivan could only scowl. Luckily it was a scowl with big purple eyes under a black brow, as opposite to the bright and utter redness of Myotis and Pipi and thus my family tree is saved from a very confusing branch twist of icky confusingness.
Sid already approved greatly of his son’s ability to scowl, and had barely time to pop him in his crib before..
“OH GREAT GOAT IN THE SKY OF BOWLING ALLYES!”
“Geez ‘Rels, do you have to be so loud? For once in your life could you just try and be a little bit quieter?”
“£$$%£”%@@@¬¬¬^^11 TO YOU SID! And quite possibly this child!”
“You sure about that?” Sid smiled as his sister swung her daughter into her arms.
He had to admit, now they were actually here, the children didn’t seem half bad at all! It was actually quite.. nice
Marella just quietly stared into her daughter’s eyes - eyes she’d been finding herself dearly missing over the past few months.
“Lacey.” She said quickly. “Her name shall be Lacey.”
“What do you think?” she asked.
“S’nice.” Sid replied. “But you should probably quit with the staring and start with the feeding.” He suggested, and went to check on Ivan, mainly to see whether his ear drums were still intact.
“Yeah.. yeah, I’ll get on to that..” Marella said dreamily, still taken quite a back.
Lacey may have only been a few minutes old, but her resemblance to Tyler was already undeniable. She had his eyes, his hair, his skin - everything.
“He’d have loved you, you know..” Marella said quietly to her. “See? He’d even be making that exact face you are right now! I’m very very glad you’re here, my little Lacey.”
- - - -
I like girls!
They like me!
They look so good in their seven jeans!
*DING DONG GENERAL DOORBELL NOISES*
“Dad?” he called. “DAD! Could you go get that?”
But after a while Vauxia realised that Gadus was probably off somewhere with Boris Johnson and conceded that he would actually have to post-pone his little singsong. After a quick debate over getting dressed (his fear of it being Evil Susan at the door won out) he grabbed some clothes and wandered down to see who it was.
“What the-?”
“What in the world..
DAD! You really need to get out here NOW!”
Despite his confusion, Vaxuia reached into the basket to pick up the small child - he looked like it needed a hug, and he kind of felt like he wanted to give it one.
“Oh great goat! What the fishness is that?!” cried Gadus as he stepped onto the porch. “Where did it come from? What’s it doing here?”
“I’m not quite sure.. I think it might be a girl though Dad, more than an It.”
“Oh right. Right.”
“Er. Do you want to take her for a minute? She’s quite squirmy.”
“Aww, there now little one, it’s alright!” Gadus said kindly as he took the baby, who settled down at once as he rocked her. “Well now, this is a surprise. We can’t just leave her outside like this now, can we?”
“We already have so many babies already, what’s one more?” Vox sighed. “It’s not like one became two became three has now become four is it?”
“Mm, quite, quite.” Said Gadus, clearly not really listening. “I wonder where she came from though?”
“I have no idea - why would someone give us a spare baby anyway? But.. I guess she belongs to us now?” Vox asked.
“We can’t leave her out here, I’d say she belongs with us now. What’s one more Tegenaria, eh? And who could not want this sweet little thing.. She’s adorable!”
“Well someone clearly didn’t.”
Vauxia jumped down the steps to have a look around, to see if there was any sign of who’d left them the child.
And quite to his surprise, he saw a figure slinking away slowly at the edge of the lot.
Immediately his heart sank.
“Oh Allison.. What have you done now?”
Sighing, he went inside to help his father set up yet another crib for the new addition.
After they’d put the little girl to sleep, the two of them surveyed the nursery. It was an understatement to say it was getting more than a little full these days.
“And half of them are green,” Gadus mused, “it’s extraordinary.”
“Extraordinarily FANTASTIC!” he cried, punching the air in delight. “WOOOOHOOOO!”
“There’s just so many of them..” Vox said quietly.
“This is brilliant!”
“Oh Dad, not so loud, I think I’m getting a headache.” Something feels.. weird.”
Slowly, he started to sway and fall to the ground.
“Oh er, are you quite alright Little V?” Gadus asked, finally noticing that something not quite right was going on.
“So.. many.. of them... SO MANY!”
“Yes, but that’s a good thing son.”
“MANY MANY BABIES.”
“Um.. I think we need Cadence.”
- - - -
“Alright! Where is she!?
Where is that useless drip bag of a best friend? WHERE IS-“
“..you.”
“WHOA! Evil Susan, what the heck happened to you?! You’re all.. green. And and.. whoa.”
“Oh so you noticed did you?” Evil Susan snapped, turning the growl at Marella.
“Well yeah, it’s kind of hard not to ES! Seriously girl, what happened to you?”
“You left, that’s what happened!” she snarled. “You LEFT, no warning, no ‘Oh ES may I?’ No - you just buggered off without any shred of warning!”
“I had to do something to pass the time ‘Rels, I sure as fishness wasn’t going to sit around wasting my time with those other bozos in the Greek House. Amy wasn’t even any fun to tease anymore, she just cried all the time and the damn Shrews had learnt to tuck their tails under.
Things happened ‘Rels. Things do, YOU just weren’t there to see them. I saved your useless life from those creepy dead-not-dead old fogies and then you just abandoned me.”
“NO ONE abandons Evil Susan! No one.”
“I didn’t abandon you!” Marella protested. “I was pregnant, I had to drop out of LFT - I didn’t have a choice! You knew that ES. And you saw what happened that day with Tyler and I couldn’t, I just couldn’t.. anymore..” she trailed off.
“Oh yes, that. So where is this spawn that made you take off? It can’t be that great, not when you could have stayed with me instead! ME! Evil Susan!”
Before Marella could even retort Evil Susan had already stomped off in search of her friend’s baby.
“So, we meet at last foul friend stealer.
Well you look awful for a start, and far too small.”
“See look? I can pick you up just like that - and what can you do about it eh? Nothing.”
Lacey stared in confusion at this strange green annoyed woman holding her. Not knowing what else to do, she started batting at the pretty sparklies this odd woman seemed to be emitting.
“Hey! Hey, who said you could do that?!” Evil Susan spluttered.
“She likes shiny things.” Marella smiled as she came in to reclaim her child. “She seems to like you too, actually.”
“Yes. Well. Be that as it may I’m not a fan of her. Or even shiny things for that matter!” said Evil Susan quickly, and hastily placed the baby back in the crib.
“Come ‘Rels, let us go away from this terrible place of children.” She continued, and pulled Marella from the room.
Just as the girls came back into the main hall, Sid flew through the door, shouting (as usual).
“’Rels! You’ll never guess what - they loved the abduction story, they just threw the promotion at me. BAM! They just-“ But when he saw who was in their hallway he stopped mid flow.
“Er, that’s great Sid.. Just, maybe not now k?”
“Oh this is going to be good!” cackled Evil Susan as their eyes met.
“You.. Don’t even let me get started on you!”
“Well I think you already have.” Sid snapped. “So, you’re back. Oh hurrah! What are you doing in my home anyway, don’t you have your own family to terrorise?”
“Yes, we’re all back too I hasten to add. Including Amy.”
“That’s not of your business. None at all!” Sid shouted quickly.
“Oh I think it is, I’ve had to listen to her ear-shattering sobs for the last year! And you know what? I blame you, it’s all your fault I had to put up with that. I’m Evil Susan! I do not approve of crying.”
“Oh how silly of me to forget. Anything you do approve of ‘Oh Evil One’?”
“Yes actually, you falling in a toilet.”
“Anyway!” she said, turning back to Marella, while Sid happily thought about times before he’d shared a room with Evil Susan.
“Amy’s back?” Marella asked.
“Oh yeah, she’s gone home to see her nephews before she works out what to do. You know, seeing how she doesn’t have a future anymore.” Evil Susan added with a glance over her shoulder. “And I, I must be going. To find some sensible people who aren’t full of whiney time-sapping babies!”
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Fly fly fly fly my pretties to PART TWO!