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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 64, 7/7)
« Reply #300 on: July 08, 2014, 02:14:02 AM »
Wow!  Oh my... Daddy's there... Me thinks this might not bode well XD

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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 64, 7/7)
« Reply #301 on: July 08, 2014, 03:55:36 PM »
This is going to be another cliffhanger, isn't it? ;D Ah, I just can't wait to find out what will happen to the Waverlys next, in any part of their story.



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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 64, 7/7)
« Reply #302 on: July 08, 2014, 04:17:47 PM »
Ooo, Olive is gorgeous. I am intrigued.
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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 65, 7/10)
« Reply #303 on: July 10, 2014, 11:53:48 PM »
Wow!  Oh my... Daddy's there... Me thinks this might not bode well XD

Nothing bodes well when he's there! Not even for me; that guy is a menace.

This is going to be another cliffhanger, isn't it? ;D Ah, I just can't wait to find out what will happen to the Waverlys next, in any part of their story.

Nah, I think it's obvious what happens next. At least with her dad. We've met him, and I hope I conveyed well in earlier chapters that he misbehaves.

Ooo, Olive is gorgeous. I am intrigued.

She was quite the stunner, thanks to those obvious Rotter genes. You'll see more of her in a few generations. Or sometime else. I'm still trying to figure that out. :P



Chapter 65: Philip Makes Three





He orders his coffee with a bit of cream and amaretto-flavored syrup, just as he did back in Twinbrook. He will likely cry about how he took a later train and missed a party, when he could have arrived a day earlier and made a fool of himself even earlier.

“Jellybean, why the grumpy face?” he asks, “I know we’ve had our rough patches, but I thought we patched those over.”

“We didn’t. You’re still kind of scum.”

“Is this about Katherine?”

“It’s about a lot of things.”

“One breakfast blend with cream and amaretto for…Phil?” the barista asks, pushing a full paper cup closer to dad. Steam escapes from the lid.

He holds it up to his mouth, gingerly taking the first sip. Dark grey clouds gather as he settles in to the city. “Dang, worth it for the coffee alone! I better get a taste of the parties too, and everything tastes better illegal, right, Jo? Are we still calling each other twins, or did you write a different story?”



“I honestly can’t give a crap anymore, Phil.” I put my elbows on the tables and lean over, ready to vomit my morning latte on the counter, if I need to.

“No formal titles, gotcha,” he says.

“It’s for his troubles,” I tell the barista, waving a one-simoleon bill in front of her, “I apologize. Don’t say a word about him to anyone else.”

“Uh, okay? Thanks for the tip.”

I get out of my seat, and the coffee hasn’t absorbed all of my dad’s attention.

“Jo, can’t you stay and split a danish with me? I haven’t eaten all day and the train food makes Lily’s old cooking taste good,” he says, when I’m three steps down the stairs. “Can’t we just hash some things out?” When I’m one floor below him and pushing open the glass door. Agnes has already headed home, but the last thing I need is dad following my lover and I back to the flat.

There has to be a sanctuary among these skyscrapers. Urban parks, the cemetery, a pond, of course! It’s over the bridge and a few blocks down. Walking distance.

How did I walk in heels so well back in Twinbrook? My pumps were glued to my feet, whether I got married or shopped for groceries. But now, less than a mile and my ankles nearly give in after crossing the bridge.

I digress. Dad, Phil, whatever I’m supposed to call him now will find a morning after-party or an attractive date of either gender long before h finds a pond.

The ground is wet with rainwater and lingering morning dew, and some of it dampens the inside of my open-toe shoes. Storm clouds shield me from the sun. The occasional car hums by, and a local species of frog awaken whatever is underneath the water with its shrill call, but all is quiet. Dad is missing. All is quiet. Praise the lord.

After five minutes in my thoughts, the outside of me is dripping with rainwater. My hair curls in the light rain, and the rapid patter of cowboy boots approaches. They squish and splash in the trimmed, soaked grass and in every puddle, which, for dad, will drive him absolutely crazy tonight when he discovers the mud stains.



“Phil,” I groan.

“Look, I want nothing more than to be with my wonderful daughter,” he says, “I can say that. We’re alone. My boss won’t think I’m going soft or anything.”



“That’s not what happened.” I get up to face him, crossing my arms.

“Fine, I angered a hornet back in the Valley.”

“Literally, or?”

“In the figurative sense. You see, I met that Alto guy who lives on the hill, and it was unemotional physical attraction at first sight.”

“Oh, god,” I say, groaning again, feeling parts of my mocha latte bubble up for the second or third time today. “Please tell me that you left it at admiration.”



“Nope! I did what I’m best at. And the woohoo it resulted in rocked.”



“Why do I even bother?” I ask, holding my head in frustration.

“And okay, I maybe sent someone on your tail. No regrets on the woohoo bit, but maybe I should warn you about the other thing.”



“No, no, no, let me get this straight, Philip. You did nasty things with some fat, middle-aged VP, he sent one of his cronies at your daughter, right into a city where they likely have some rivals, and we might be dead by the end of the week for all we know. You say that’s worth it?!”

“Well, yeah. Nick Alto makes for a good fling.”

“We took care of the crony. She’s toast. But this is serious. I might have put someone in grave danger.” If they get word of Moira’s work with Ms. Candy, that is. And yet, I would be okay with seeing her harmed. She said to kill her if she sided with an arranged marriage, and little does Moira know, she did. “Okay, okay, why did you follow me?”

“I need you in my life, jellybean,” he says.

“Doesn’t mum have a tour stop in Sunset Valley?” I ask. “I think she’d be happier to see you than I am.”

“Mum is the problem.”

“You’re not saying-“

“I’m part of your club now. Still part of the ‘Gay and Bi Immortals United’ club too, but you gotta welcome me into the other one.”

“Not the Divorce Club.” He then flashes two bare ring fingers at my face.

“Surprise, Jojo,” he says, weakly, “It wasn’t an impulse decision either. We had a long talk, and a lot of fighting and one hospital visit for me, but we decided that it’s best to go our separate ways. And you’re an adult anyways. We’re not heading into a custody battle.”

“You’re tiny. Why don’t I just stuff you into a box and send you back where you belong?” I grumble.

“Please, deliveries to Hell are tough and not worth the shipping costs,” he says, rolling his eyes, “And it’s not like you, you can be so morally opposed to divorce, now can you?”

“Fine, you win.”

Two minutes pass, and dad is stuck in a weak, warm smile. Perhaps we’ll survive the night at this rate, as long as someone doesn’t get to us first.



“So,” he says, “What did you find?”

“Annette herself, that’s what. She beat up that Alto for me. I’ll say my farewells, I guess,” I reply, “Well, it’s Annette’s doppelganger. Can’t decide who I hate more. But this double is a young widow, a single mum, she has a lawyer for a sister, and if I’m guessing this right, a mum named Tegan. She even said where she lives right now.”

“Was her Tegan widowed early too?” dad asks, with a chuckle, “We gotta see how well the Tegans’ stories match up.”

“Rude thing to say about Gram.”

“Well, hey, it’s all better for her now. Let’s laugh about it now that we can.”

I yawn in his face, albeit out of instinct. I really have been up all night, haven’t I? I could fall asleep here, and I can, as it’s just rain, and any mud-stains are just another job for Arthur. Speaking of Arthur, shouldn’t I take dad to him for a new wardrobe? That shaggy green monster needs it, lest he embarrass me. It can happen, right?

But that can wait. I rest on the damp grass, face-up, faking sleep that never comes. All that does come is the rush of pre-sleep thoughts, of the main piano melody of “Pyramid Song” by Radiohead playing on repeat and a budding solution to global poverty. I stay in that haze for a few hours, until Roaring Heights starts to darken even more as the day wears on.



I hanged my head down, defeated. "But why an arranged marriage? I don't even want one without you guys in the mix."

”Yeah, arranged marriages suck, but we have to do what we have to do,” Annette says, “You’re marrying Simon whether you like it or not. Because, get what? That’s all the sweet kid wants from you.”


“Oh, you didn’t,” I mumble, rubbing my eyes.

“What?” dad asks. He kept vigil over me the entire time, playing FoldIt on mobile and fidgeting with simulated proteins until his battery ran out, “I behaved.”

“Surprisingly. Ugh, she told me where she lives, this morning. Right above the dry cleaners’. We’re going there.”

“Wait, is this about Annette? That kind-of Annette you described? Really, what?”

“Exactly about her.”



I remember where the stairs are. I run past Arthur as he scrubs down the counter, stopping right before one of the rooms of clothes. “Moira lives upstairs, doesn’t she?” I ask him.

“Yeah. Did she invite you? I know she’s been lonely. Well, maybe she told you that already.” He wags his wet sponge around for effect. “She’s at the end of the hall.”

“Sure, sure.”

I’m halfway up the stairs when I vaguely hear Arthur say, “Aha! You look like a male Jo. Nice.

Fine, dad, you’re divorced now. I don’t care what Arthur thinks of you.



There must be a buzzer system and Arthur must have his finger on it, because the door opens with the effort needed to turn a knob, even though the entire place looks deserted, and clean. Perhaps due to Arthur’s influence, the carpets are the deepest blue and stain-free, and the light-colored furniture doesn’t even sag, nor does it have a wrinkle, which is pretty remarkable for a drunkard and her young child. Small palm-plants and cacti sit on end-tables near the windows, the dishes are all clean and in cabinets under the counters, I assume.

The kitchen has an old, gas-range stove, and with a can of hairspray, I could set the whole place on fire. No, too dramatic, I’ll leave that for dad. Yes, I could gas the entire building. I could condemn Moira out of her apartment, as the real Annette went missing a long time ago. I could pretend to get my revenge on Annette by harming a young, suffering bodyguard and thief.



I turn on the gas. I really could, couldn’t I? The flame underneath the burner burns blue and natural gas from the line escapes. I could just leave this on. Out of boredom, I grab a strand of spaghetti from a drawer. They burn when they come in contact with a burner, whether electric or gas, and I hold it under one flame until the tip smolders black and orange. I always thought that looked cool.

No, no, I can’t do this. A smoldering piece of pasta smokes up the place a tiny bit, and it will take all night to gas just the kitchen place at this rate. I can’t do something so illegal. I can’t go further, not without awakening watcher-knows-what fury. I turn off the range. I throw the spaghetti to the ground and prepare to stamp it out.



And I swear that it wasn’t actually on fire. The floor ignited before I could smother it with my shoe into the tiles. There aren’t any alarms in the building—they’re rare in this analog hell—so I scream as loudly as I can so Arthur or dad can give me a hand.



As it turned out, I would have harmed someone if I went even further. Bridget’s high-pitched screams make me turn around, even though I panic as loudly as she does instead of grabbing water, baking soda, or anything to save Moira’s floors and Arthur’s building.



If there is one plus, it’s the sort of rush that dad needs, right on top of his makeover.

But, just in time, Arthur bolts up the stairs and nearly tears the door from its frame by running into it with his 210 or so pounds of mass, with a heavy fire extinguisher.



“The electrician just won’t put in smoke detectors. I’m going to have to get Tank on that. He’s good at convincing.” I think he just talks to hide his nervousness now. Is he nervous? He is a lot more competent with fire.



“Did you do this, Jo?” he asks, while blasting his extinguisher in the direction of the oven.

“If I pay you enough, does it mean I didn’t?” I ask, rushed as I continue to panic over the slowing flames.

When the last spark is smothered and out, he gives his answer. “It’s that I’m here for. Now pay me to clean these floors too. You’re lucky it’s just charred ceramic. Do you wanna face Moira? I don’t think so. 700 simoleons.”



While Arthur does his unexpected night duty, I try to comfort Bridget. “It was a mistake. I thought your mummy was home, and I tried to cook to surprise her…”



Bridget isn’t buying it.

“If I add a little more to his check, our uncle Arthur will make you forget this anyways. Look, I can play piano! It’s been a while, but I still remember one song my mum taught me.”

“Okay,” Bridget says flatly.



I hit the first notes and ease into the chord progression. If there was one song to remember for Roaring Heights, it was this one, with slight jazz notes and a heaping helping of lounge influencing its smooth piano melody. Granted, I don’t have a bassist to accompany me, so I do my best to replicate the line on the low keys of the piano.

It’s also been a while since I’ve sang, perhaps the last time being karaoke with my then-husband. But I exhale and decompress when the time comes. Bridget already is tapping her feet to this.

Come and share
This painting with me…




Not even one verse in, and Bridget won’t have a story about the wannabe-arsonist to tell Moira, but she might have something nice to say about my musical talent.

…I wonder,
Do I love you,
Or the thought of you?

Slow, love, slow-oh-ooooh
Only the weak
Are not lonely.


I cut out the saxophone bit and the lingering last chorus, but it leaves about three minutes of my rusty piano-work and hoarse voice, and it also leaves a sleepy Bridget, who heads the bed once I’m done.

“Where is Moira, anyways?” I ask Arthur, after he puts away his mop.

“Out at work. Well, her real job. Thievery. Apparently it’s a jewelry store. I’m cleaning up for her after that too.”

“She’ll be out late?”

“You’re on your own after this,” he says, lowering his brow.

“No, I understand.” I open each door in the hall once Arthur leaves. Bathroom, another bathroom, Bridget’s room, and Moira’s is the last one I open, or I gather it’s hers. Dark brown and black accents color the area, and a single bookshelf sits between two windows, with a row of white photo albums calling my name.



I start with the earliest. The first pages are full of birth dates and death dates, all the way back to Dragon Valley. A copy of the citizenship papers for one Aislin McGrail. Photos of her, and her wavy, bobbed cinnamon-brown hair, starfruit-yellow skin, and light-colored freckles as even as the seeds on a strawberry. Her children, green and sunshiny Tegan. A scowling, yellow older sister named Maeve, who appeared in neither the marriage nor death records.

Those two girls grew up, and Tegan got one special photoshoot of her own.



She held hands with her husband at their wedding, at the community garden a street away. I slip the photo out of its sleeve to read the back, in case someone made noted. Scrawled in messy cursive, 13/5/30. Joseph and Tegan.

Joseph, huh?

You’re naming it Lamia?” Annette asked, shocked, “Why not a nice traditional name, like Joseph?”

“It’s a girl, nan,” Phil said, rolling his eyes, “Lamia was a female demon.”

“We don’t need another demon in the family. And Josephine. It’s a girls’ name. I rest my case.”


So much for Annette’s unknown past. She dropped those hints and scattered them around Twinbrook, even if his name and mine didn’t send me on a chase when she retold the story.

And do I really want to harm her, or her doppelganger? I hate Annette, and I love her, with all of that ambivalence. As for Moira, I hope she’s none the wiser, or that Arthur is as good of a storyteller as I am. I never thought that I’d say this, but I need her. Even if she is just as a way to unravel the past and make some peace with the family.



Word Count for this chapter: 2,776
Word Count so far: 108,242

So if I haven't mentioned the name of Jo's dad yet in the story, it's Philip, or Phil for short. The spelling is something I'm a bit particular about; he's named after someone I knew who spelled it with one l. Not that I'll edit the posts of anyone who spells it as "Phillip," but I thought that I should justify using the less-common spelling.

The song Jo plays is "Slow Love Slow" by Nightwish. Give it a listen, because the atmosphere screams "ROARING HEIGHTS!!" (granted, the rest of their material isn't much like that at all).

Let's just say that Phil's job during the dynasty was supplemented by a lot of special relationships with his co-workers. Hence him and Mr. Alto. He probably thought it was like romancing anyone else in the industry of evil, but alas, the Altos are a bad force to deal with. Phil actually did like women too. A lot! He was a flirty menace who didn't discriminate.

I also realize that it seems a little suspect that the characters know about the Altos but never bring up the Rackets. While I plan to reveal this in the story too, the justification is that I never saw the Rackets as powerful outside of Twinbrook. The Altos have outside connections (huge amounts of power in business and politics) that the Rackets don't.

I hopefully won't refer to Eileen and Moira/Annette's mum too much by her first name from now on. I think "Mrs. Stoneham" will do whenever she comes up.
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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 65, 7/10)
« Reply #304 on: July 11, 2014, 12:16:37 AM »
This backstory becomes more and more intriguing. I'm starting to formulate theories as to how it all ties together...

But holy cow, Phil--you must be crazy to start things with Nick Alto! Crazy and hilarious all at once.

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Re: Eight Ways to Live Forever: The Waverly Immortal Dynasty (Ch. 65, 7/10)
« Reply #305 on: July 12, 2014, 03:49:27 PM »
The backstory to this dynasty is just amazing and complex. I, for one, have no idea how it's all goes together but I'm looking forward to finding out!

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« Reply #306 on: July 12, 2014, 06:42:29 PM »
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So if I haven't mentioned the name of Jo's dad yet in the story, it's Philip, or Phil for short. The spelling is something I'm a bit particular about; he's named after someone I knew who spelled it with one l. Not that I'll edit the posts of anyone who spells it as "Phillip," but I thought that I should justify using the less-common spelling.

Is this one of those transatlantic things?  To me, the single l is by far the commoner spelling.  My brother-in-law, who has two l's (possibly a juice-related incident on the part of my father-in-law - accounts differ  ;) ) constantly gets his name mis-spelled.



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« Reply #307 on: July 12, 2014, 10:29:04 PM »
This backstory becomes more and more intriguing. I'm starting to formulate theories as to how it all ties together...

But holy cow, Phil--you must be crazy to start things with Nick Alto! Crazy and hilarious all at once.

Hey, if you want to make your theories public, please do so! It's not like I'll answer (insert evil laugh here), but I know I've done well as a writer when fan-theories come into the picture. ;)

The disturbing thing about Phil and Nick that I didn't think about when shooting those pictures (a long, long time ago) was that Nick looks disturbingly like the Rackets. You know, Phil's distant ancestors. Incest! Also something that Phil was fine with in the dynasty. More on that later.

The backstory to this dynasty is just amazing and complex. I, for one, have no idea how it's all goes together but I'm looking forward to finding out!

Then you'll have a good time finding it out!

The facial expressions in this chapter are priceless! Like everyone else, I can't wait to see how these stories will tie into each other.

I ended up with a bunch of very expressive sims, though the "Bronson-esque" ones (Tegan, Phil, and Jo) really did have the best expressions.

Is this one of those transatlantic things?  To me, the single l is by far the commoner spelling.  My brother-in-law, who has two l's (possibly a juice-related incident on the part of my father-in-law - accounts differ  ;) ) constantly gets his name mis-spelled.

It might be. The Philip I knew was American, but he's the only person I've known who spelled it that way.

Also, in spite of me lifting some names from people I knew in real life (Philip, Josephine, Jamie, and a few characters to be introduced later), any other resemblance to real-life people is entirely coincidental.



Chapter 66: Guardian Angel



It started with Bronson replacing the right speaker on the stereo, as Annette drunkenly stumbled into it a few nights prior and damaged it, causing the sound to be laced with static that wasn’t just from Bronson’s lo-fi black metal collection. After doing an hour of chin-ups, Bronson, covered in salty sweat, grabbed his toolkit and attacked the bad speaker to install a new one. Okay, after giving Tegan a bottle too. Fixing electronics with a hungry toddler was impossible.

He unplugged the cables, and accidentally broke one of them, which didn’t matter for an old speaker. Then he got a sweaty finger near a live wire. It crackled and sent a jolt through him, starting at his arm and spreading everywhere in an instant. When it reached his heart, he clutched his chest before falling to the ground in a loud, sickening thud. When that happened, Tegan was finished with her bottle, and she obliviously crawled over the dollhouse while her father was dying on the floor.

The entire household rushed to his help, but before Lily could dial the number for an ambulance or attempt to haul Bronson’s limp body into one of the family vehicles and bolt for the hospital, a cloud of black smoke choked up the room. Bronson was doomed. As Franco and Annette exchanged worried looks and Julian’s knees started to buckle at the robed man appear, Lily stood over the body of her husband with her mouth agape. How could that happen? He was an engineer, surely he unplugged the stereo system beforehand, right?



His spirit floated over towards the Reaper, nervous. The light spots where his eyes once were stood open wide. Grim held on to his scythe firmly, ready to stamp it on the ground for emphasis, but the some sweet babble caught his attention instead. He looked down.



Sure enough, Tegan was absolutely unphased by the incident, and playfully attacked a doll’s head instead between her fangs.

“Is…is that your daughter?” Grim asked Bronson.

“Yes, that’s mine,” Bronson replied, shaken, “She’s my darling little angel.”

“And I bet she would be very sad if you passed away so soon?”

“Probably.”

Lily leaned over to her grandmother as she watched from near the stereo. “What, why is he asking about Tegan?” she whispered to Annette, “Does he usually do this?”

“Nope. Not at all. That man is going all guilt-trip on us!”



“You idiot!” Grim pointed a bony finger at Bronson, “You forgot to unplug the speaker and sentenced yourself to certain death, right in front of your only daughter?”

“Look, it was a mistake, I’ll own up to it, rea-”



“No, Bronson, this is a little different. I have a little bit of a rotting, black heart under this robe. It pains me to do this,” Grim said, holding what would be his head in his skeletal hand, “You are pardoned. Do not be such an idiot next time, because this is your last chance.”



With those words, Grim stamped his scythe on the ground with all of his force, enough to scramble Bronson’s spirit enough to return his physical body to him, violet gym clothes and all. Tegan still wasn’t done with her dolls, and didn’t stop to notice that her dad was back, and wobbling as he got used to his solid legs again. Lily cried at the sight of him in the flesh again. Her father and her grandmother smiled and headed to the breakfast nook from a distance.



Julian, well, the whole spectacle ended up being too much for him.



“Come here, peapod,” Bronson muttered, scooping up Tegan just as she put her dolls down, “You did a good thing for me today. Yes you did.”

The shock of it all tired Bronson, and he headed upstairs after a dinner of a portabella and goat cheese omelet, his favorite. He was in his boxers when Lily took her place at the bed, in her pajamas but clearly too awake to even close her eyes and pretend to sleep.

“Babe, not tonight,” he said, “I’m too tired for that.”

“I’m not looking for woohoo,” she said, “Remember the other night, when I said ‘remind me to kill you later?’ You know, after you laughed at me?”

“Yeah-“

“I am so, so sorry,” she said, “I don’t want you gone. I can’t say ever or else Gram will kick me out, but I want you here for a long time.”

“It’s not like I took that seriously, but I accept.” He gave Lily a peck on the cheek, “Now let your very alive husband sleep.”

“Good-night, Bronson-bear.”

“Have fun sculpting, Lilypad.”



So the worst day for a while was over. Lily did not become the dynasty’s first young widow, and Tegan didn’t have to work hard to keep her kind heart and morals. That came later for her. But could they see it then? Not really. After one ice sculpture, Lily was too tired to do much else other than join her husband for an early night, and maybe some morning woohoo when they were rested and refreshed.

Some good came from Bronson’s near-death experience. The two men of the house started to care about their illegitimate children. What a surprise!

As the frost returned to the grass in Twinbrook and its trees turned brown and golden in the autumn cold, another festival set up camp in the center of town, and kids begged their parents to blow some money on overpriced fair food and games. Not that it was a worry for the Waverlys or its housemates.



With a stack of simoleons on hand at all times, Julian was ecstatic when his truly illegitimate son, Francisco wanted to reconnect with his dad and bob for apples with him. While Julian didn’t appreciate the nighttime scheduling and hanging around an empty fairground at night, he did appreciate Francisco’s jokes.



Well, getting beat at apple bobbing wasn’t great for Julian.

The day before, Franco got the call that Jane and Shanna, the Knack twins, passed away together, within hours of each other. He frantically tried to reach his children to give his condolences, though mean Ann-Marie cussed him out over the phone for being an absentee father, and Benjamin was busy with the arrangements. Colleen, a twin to AnnMarie and a daughter of—Jane? Or was it Shanna?—had enough time to visit him at the pool on a 40-degree autumn night.

“Listen, I’m sorry about your mum and your auntie,” Franco said, in a stone-faced calm.

“It is pretty sad,” Colleen sighed, “But we’re getting through it. Like, Ann-Marie is just kind of mean no matter what, and Benjamin doesn’t hate you. Really.”

“I didn’t think he did. How’s uncle Dustin doing? Still going strong?”



“Oh joy, I get to spread juicy gossip!” Colleen laughed. “Well, you know he and your cousin Emma were together?”

“Yeah.”





“Well, Elizabeth Whelohff tempted him out of that. I don’t think he’s grieving.”

“I never thought the old man had it in him,” Franco said, “Ah well. Tell him I send my regards anyways.”



And that same night, Hephaestus stepped out for a congratulatory midnight snack from the diner, cooked by Annette without any revenge spit wads or fiber powder mixed in. After his plates were cleared and the waiter was tipped, he ran into Charla Carlton, his cousin, Hannah’s niece, Shark’s granddaughter…Jeffrey Castor’s half-sister? Apparently his old man needed some revenge for his ex-wife doing the same. Regardless, Hephaestus and Charla were school-buddies and good friends even after their finals were completed.

“So I really want to go to France,” he said, “There’s a burial ground there.”

“Is it the kind you’ve always wanted to see?” Charla asked. While she didn’t share her cousin’s delusions, she always entertained him about them. “You know, the ones with a lot of reported activity?”

“It isn’t of the usual kind. It’s more like a haunted mansion. Most people can’t see what I see, but heck, it’s a gift and I’m keeping it.”

“Sure, sure. See you at graduation tomorrow.”

Hephaestus’ graduation was held in the finest auditorium that City Hall offered to the school district. Everyone, even Annette and Bronson, dressed their best for the event. Lily bought herself a new dress to celebrate losing the nooboo weight/not freaking out over her first grey hair, and everyone arrived at the event with dignity.



Until the two old men decided that it was time to compare their smartphones.

Other than that, the ceremony went without chaos. Annette didn’t drink the night before and had no rude remarks about the graduates or her two grandkids that were walking across the stage. Bronson followed her, as his brush with death quieted him down for quite a while. Hephaestus, the Valedictorian, spoke only of vague inner demons during his graduation speech.

When the family stepped outside of the ceremony, Lily had a few other ideas.



Now, Hephaestus still acted like a good, sane graduate after exiting the ceremony. He threw his diploma in the air and wore a huge smile he deserved, as valedictorian. He ignored cousin Felix’s grumbling over getting snubbed for valedictorian (he wasn’t salutorian either; that went to his sister, Nellie) and didn’t pick any fights.



Lily snuck around the entrance to City Hall, though, in plain sight of Julian. “What are you doing, flower?” he asked, “There are better ways to give Heph a surprise gift.”



She turned away and chuckled at her real ability to surprise. She turned on her megaphone. It screeched, alerting Julian of Lily’s real motivations.

“WAKE UP SUNSHINE! PROTEST HERE IN HALF AN HOUR!”



“Goodness, Lily, right here?” he asked, gasping for breath and clutching his heart in hopes of encouraging it not to give out from the surprise, “Right now? It’s your stepbrother’s graduation. Save it for tomorrow.”



Too late.

“You with me, ladies and germs?” she asked her gathering crowd, “I need to give my little stepbrother a gift today.”



“Acceptance and autonomy for the mentally ill! I won’t let my brother go through anything unless he wants to.”



Most of the crowd turned out to be Hephaestus’ blood family, where most of them had some interest in his mental well-being, and found his untreated status combined with his family’s exorbitant wealth baffling. Everyone but Felix and Hephaestus cheered, though the latter kept his composure through it, while Felix stood behind Lily and tried to look bored.



The topic excited the rest of them, yes, as Selene gasped out of sheer joy. Perhaps Twinbrook didn’t need convincing after all; Lily just happened to notice the principle giving Hephaestus a strange look as she handed him the diploma.

Hephaestus approached Lily that night before they both retired for bed. He wasn’t angry, but not smiling either. While she sat down at one high table for a plate of midnight sushi, he took a seat next to her.

“Lily, I appreciate what you did, but I’m not ill,” he said, “Maybe different? But my mind is right.”

“Keep telling yourself that,” she said, before popping another piece into her mouth, “You know you’re not normal, right?”

“Dad says I’m healthy!”

“Dad doesn’t know crap about the brain, Heph. Now one of the medics that works with Bronson does, and I asked them one day, and they said that you’re a textbook case of Stash Psychosis. There’s nothing wrong with that, and you deserve support for it.”

“I’m perfectly fine,” he said, cross.

The next morning, Franco apologized on behalf of Lily and gave his stepson a hug. “I know she’s well-intentioned, but I think you’re pretty fine, my boy.”

“Thanks Franco. I should get started with some sculpting, though. Julian’s looking for a new student.”

“Believe me, you have plenty of time to do that.” Franco slipped a piece of cardstock into one of Hephaestus’ beltloops. “Congrats on finishing school.”

When Franco retired to his art studio, Hephaestus freed the cardstock and realized that they were plane tickets instead. Air France. Left two days from then. Perhaps he was in contact with Charla and got gift advice from her.

As it turned out, both Franco and Julian tagged along too, to give Hephaestus a well-rounded art class, and to enjoy the French countryside they loved so much. Just the three of them.





All while Lily was saddled with the dirty work!



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Bronson was Unlucky. I forgot to mention that, didn't I?

I don't change traits (he was a Mean-Spirited, Inappropriate Slob, and removing those would come first to most players as opposed to making him luckier), and most of Bronson's work with handiness carried no risk of killing him. But he had a wish to fix the stereo after it broke, I spaced out, and then had a minor heart attack until I remembered "oh right, unlucky."

This was his only death scare. We're not looking at Emmett Classic 2.0 here. :P

Other notes:

- Elizabeth Whelohff is the daughter of Rosy and Wei Keane. Rosy was a widowed fairy, so I made the most of her! More on her children later.

- Dustin Knack, ugh. He had good traits and better genes (seriously, he got the best of Julienne and DeAndre), but he lived to 118. Screw that. At the time of the events in this chapter, he was merely somewhere in his 90's.

- Charla Carlton is obviously not Robert Carlton's daughter. She's Jeffrey's (I got very bored waiting for him to die). For the sake of the story, it made more sense to make her Robert's daughter instead, because he was a long-lived fairy divorcé.

- I never showed the Knack sisters (Dustin's younger sisters), though the two of them were more-or-less clones of Julienne. That's the image you need. I only mention them because Franco's kids with them make cameos and I need to explain all the random rainbow kids around town, don't I? :P
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« Reply #308 on: July 12, 2014, 10:30:17 PM »
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Ack, no! Bronson! <whimper> No...Tegan can't lose her daddy that early! That's just not right. :(

Ahem...regaining composure...

Normally I'm not a fan of full beards, but Heph seems to make it work. I love that line about the metal detectors going haywire. :P And Tegan is a doll! I love how the porcelain color pattern of her clothing works with her skin.

It wouldn't have been right. Thank goodness he got out of that one!

Hephaestus has a full beard partly for his aesthetic, and partly because Hannah's jaw looks a little too girly on men without some scruff. :P I'm a huge fan of the blue-and-white color scheme and I was so happy to get a girl who liked blue so I could make it happen!

Oh no! Not Bronson!

I know! Why couldn't it have been a pesky pollinator instead? (A lot of mine were very pesky)

Wait, no!  It CAN'T be!  Please tell me he has the unlucky trait... please?  Don't make me beg...

He has the Unlucky trait. ;)

I vote Tegan for the most adorable Waverly/Curious toddler!

Poor Lily. She didn't have it easy to begin with and now this...

Then you'll love Phil and Jo as toddlers! Tegan was cute, but those two were clones of her and just plain adorable as tots:



Are you joking? He can't die already! He's much too young! We're meant to have him for many years yet! Why? I know this one's not your fault or anything, but Bronson has been my favourite spouse yet and he and Lily were so happy, and he's so young. It's not right   :'(

I'm happy to hear that you love Bronson! Come to think of it, he was the best-behaved and most normal Waverly spouse. I don't know if he was my favorite or not, but he rocked. Especially considering that he wasn't even my top choice until Lily went gaga for him.

I'd hate myself so much if he actually died young.

Please post soon. You left us with Bronson curled up on the floor. I can't stand it!

Gotta keep the anticipation up somehow. ;) Now the next question is what cliffhanger will I do next?!
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« Reply #309 on: July 12, 2014, 11:22:17 PM »
Trip, dear.  I love you dearly, you know that... but you are evil XD  You like to toy with our hearts and seriously mess with our emotions lol!  Wow, Phil and Jo are freakin' ADORABLE!  So glad that Bronson had the unlucky trait.  Remember my first Sim with unlucky and how I HOWLED when I heard the music... on his wedding day!  It was almost traumatizing lol XD

I giggled a bit too much when Grim looked like he was facepalming when Bronson forgot to turn off the speaker XD

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That Unlucky trait has saved my butt more times than I care to count. Excellent way to incorporate it into the story! You are a master of cliffhangers. ;)

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Oh my, that was lucky! Or I guess that should be unlucky? Anyway, Jo and Phil have got to be the cutest toddlers ever. They are absolutely adorable!

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« Reply #312 on: July 13, 2014, 03:24:55 PM »
Glad to know Bronson made i through! And to see those adorable toddlers. So cute! :D
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« Reply #313 on: July 15, 2014, 01:23:14 PM »
I would have updated last night, but I instead fell asleep at 8:30 and slept through the night. It felt good!

Trip, dear.  I love you dearly, you know that... but you are evil XD  You like to toy with our hearts and seriously mess with our emotions lol!  Wow, Phil and Jo are freakin' ADORABLE!  So glad that Bronson had the unlucky trait.  Remember my first Sim with unlucky and how I HOWLED when I heard the music... on his wedding day!  It was almost traumatizing lol XD

I giggled a bit too much when Grim looked like he was facepalming when Bronson forgot to turn off the speaker XD

I really had to keep myself from laughing when Grim facepalmed. Come on, Bronson! Unplugging stuff is so basic.

That Unlucky trait has saved my butt more times than I care to count. Excellent way to incorporate it into the story! You are a master of cliffhangers. ;)

This was actually the first time it saved me. Not that I would mind having a mortal out of the house (in a logistical sense), but I was glad to have Bronson around for a little longer.

Phil and Jo are just as adorable as Tegan! Jo's eye color and hair color look exceptionally cool with her green complexion.

Yeah, she really lucked out with coloring! I didn't have to change it (Phil got a permanent dye job as a toddler; no spoilers here, but he came out with black hair like Tegan and I was beyond bored with that hair color).

Oh my, that was lucky! Or I guess that should be unlucky? Anyway, Jo and Phil have got to be the cutest toddlers ever. They are absolutely adorable!

I keep looking back at their toddler pics and think "wow, how did I get that?" But those two have nothing on the last two generations. ;)

Glad to know Bronson made i through! And to see those adorable toddlers. So cute! :D
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Chapter 67: French Kiss



Julian slept for the entire flight, which put his back in a very bad place when he woke up, but Franco and Hephaestus had the sense to save themselves from the pain and stay awake. They half-watched the in-flight movie together, and stayed awake thanks to a few cups of mediocre airline coffee.

The airplane started to descend over France at sunrise, when the dry grass of the gentle hills was painted gold. Franco checked two seats over to make sure that sleepy Julian was still strapped in. He and Hephaestus buckled their seatbelts and braced themselves for the landing.

Over the roar of the airplane’s engine, Hephaestus said “I do like art, Franco, but it’s a shame that it’s all we’re doing here.”

“What? You think I’m too stuffy to let you explore the countryside?” Franco asked.

“Well, yes.”

“This is your gift. Heck, I’m only having you sculpt because you like it, and Lily would get pretty lonely in the studio without you. Other than that? Grab a Kenspa and do what you want.”

“Sweet! Um, do you know anything about the Celtic Burial Grounds? Will they make my sense go wacky?” Hephaestus asked. Franco resisted saying the response of “I don’t think you need much to go wacky.”

“Oh, that place. I trekked the catacombs there when your mum and I were young. I didn’t notice anything, but who knows what you’ll pick up?”

“All right. That place is on the top of my list.”



But, to the family’s relief, the first thing Hephaestus wanted to do was indeed sculpting. His inner mind was quiet and nothing rumbled under his naked feet, due to the sunlight driving his inner demons away (or someone slipped an anti-psychotic in his coffee). He joined Lily in the studio beforehand, albeit as a clay and wood carver that all of the sculptors started as, and she made sure that he could maneuver a chainsaw in a way that wouldn’t sever limbs or go flying into the drywall instead.



As much as Franco enjoyed his painting, something painful existed behind him, while the other two men sculpted.

The lawn was littered with plant carcasses, dry and brown, with their fruit shriveled up on the vine. Hannah planted that garden back when she was young, to distract herself while Franco and Pansy were still in love. The family didn’t hire a housekeeper, so the plants died of neglect. To be dark about it, they were at least as dead as Hannah.



Franco scooped up what was once a proud work of his wife, and disposed of it with a single tear in his eye.

Annette wasn’t keen on travel, so they went without her, which the three of them collectively regretted when their stomachs growled and their fridge was empty. None of them could operate a microwave without nuking half of the village, let alone make a meal that wouldn’t give all of them food poisoning. To the café it was.



“Oh, come on!” Julian cried, “I actually know what I want to order. Why do you guys go first in line?”

“First come, first serve,” Franco said, closing his eyes and turning away from the entitled plebe who tried to cut him in line.



But for Franco, his stepson was the first to arrive at the register, and he wasn’t going back on his rule, no matter how much he needed something to eat, and how it took him a minute tops to decide on bouillabaisse, while Hephaestus still wavered between frogs’ legs and an odd French take on shawarma (the crazy things they sold!). Or he was distracted.



The chunky, bereted cashier tapped her foot as Hephaestus looked at the menu again and again, and breathed a sigh of relief when he said “frogs’ legs.” As for Hephaestus, he tried small talk too. “You live in the village?” he asked her, “My stepdad has a pretty sweet cottage near the river.”

“Monsieur, this is a professional environment.”



Hephaestus inhaled his frogs’ legs, while the other two men slowly ate their meals. At first, Julian mumbled about how good the food was, and Franco grumbled about how they could have done it better. After the topics of food, the weather, and children were exhausted, Franco asked a difficult question: “Now what about marrying Lita? You guys have been together since high school.”



“In my own time, Franco. I just need to iron out the details! Geez.”

“Fine, be that way. Where did Heph go off to?”



Repairing a bad sink? Fine. A good service for the establishment.



Still hitting on the cashier? Not so much.

“I do not know what you mean,” she said, in regards to Hephaestus raving on and on about the burial grounds, “They are a historical artifact.”

“What?!” he said, gesturing wildly, “They are haunted and special. And, in fact, I’ll take you there if you like! We can set up a tent and everything.”



She failed to say much other than “POLICE!” at an ear-piercing falsetto, a word that turned out be a cognate between their languages. But by the time the French police arrived, Hephaestus and company fled the scene.

Franco spent half the car ride home tensed up over the wheel, not speaking to Hephaestus as he analyzed how to approach the situation. His delusions, he couldn’t help those. His bad start with the ladies? He couldn’t help his inexperience unless he tried, and he tried!

“Look, Heph, you just have to be a little less direct with women,” he said, “I spent decades going very light on your mother in the romance department, and look where it got me?” He then thought his past through.

“Actually, never mind,” Franco continued, “Keep doing what you do. Someone will find it charming. And if they don’t, they’re not worth your time.”



Hephaestus hung around the nectary, after having enough nectar tasting sessions to get him buzzed enough to loosen up. Keep doing what he did. So he got the maplewood wand out from his belt-loop and put on a sparkly spectacle for the women of the nectary. The nectar merchant smiled, but pretended to pay no attention to the magic man in lilac.



As for Ms. Lefebvre, she found herself on the end of his good luck charm, awash in tingly sparkles and rainbows, and the confidence needed to win that bet she had with her mother.

“I am engaged, sorry,” she said, with a sniffle.

“Doesn’t mean a thing to me,” Hephaestus said, with a wink.

“I love him very much.”

“Is he blond and handsome?” he asked, fidgeting with a strand of his own blond hair.

“Yes.”

Well, another failure. There was always the girl in the purple halter top and the beret, who surveyed the shelves for the oldest, strongest nectar to make her both classy and drunk. Perhaps he would see her around again.



Meanwhile, Julian ordered five stone blocks for Hephaestus, so the women of France would have to wait for their lilac lunatic to return to the world beyond the garden. Perhaps one of them would appreciate a stone fountain.



Or metalworking, from a guy named after the Greek god of it?



But would he get a woman with burn marks on his butt?

When Hephaestus asked one of the elders about further advice with women and where the aloe vera lotion was, they were both busy. Franco painted, after his mother called him and ordered “step up your game! I don’t think we’ll find another painter like you.”



Julian went to a nearby pond to lure in frogs, also on the orders of Annette. She promised to make plates of delicious, self-preserving frogs’ legs with his catch.



Regardless of what damage his rear received, Hephaestus caught his next French target at the nectary again, still in her halter top and miniskirt. She called herself Bianca Morel, and while Hephaestus admittedly would have preferred her with some meat on her bones, she listened dutifully to his ramblings about the spiritual world, and had the prettiest brown eyes on that side of the world (surely brown-eyed Lily and Tegan would take offense if he was more broad with his compliment).



He invited her home, and finally landed himself a lady.



The next morning, he celebrated as if he was a university student after three red Solo cups full of juice from the keg. Plus, if Bianca could possibly appreciate his skinny nakedness, why wouldn’t anyone? Until Julian threw a bathrobe over Hephaestus and demanded that he save his university-esque shenanigans for when he was actually there.



For most of the trip, Hephaestus was hard at work on all of his passions. He sculpted, sure, but inventing captivated his attention too, and his stepfather’s painting looked like it would be fun to try. Against the backdrop of France, he worked on fine details and the mechanics of his widgets. Finally, he tired of craning his neck over the workbench all day, and set aside a night for himself. He took the family’s Kenspa and zoomed into the hills.

The night in France was much darker than the nights in Twinbrook, with hues of ink-black as opposed to midnight blue, and a clear, starry sky uninhibited by the streetlights and fog back home. Even with the stars and a clear crescent moon, the dark night obscured a lot of the details. Hephaestus strained to make out the forms of the stone monuments at the burial ground when he arrived.

Hephaestus cautiously walked the grounds barefoot, wigging his toes in the long, dry grass and nearly jumping up when he felt a tremor underneath. At points, his calloused feet felt like they were on pins and needles, which, according to him, was clear proof of paranormal activity (according to everyone else, he had a minor problem with tactile hallucinations).

“Hit the jackpot,” he mumbled, quiet enough so not to disrupt what he searched for.

The place was still dark, but he spotted a firepit when he got close enough to it. Someone, perhaps a camper with the wrong ideas of where to spend the night, set it up beforehand. While Hephaestus had no reason to carry around matches or a Bic lighter wherever he went, he lit the remaining wood in the pit up with a magical fire blast.

As a slight breeze rustled the bushes and trees, it carried a voice with it. Just to Hephaestus, though. However, for him, it was a bitter laugh combined with a “come on, why?” Amongst many garbled messages, that one stuck out.



“Why? Why what?!” he said, pointing a finger to the world, “I’m doing just fine.”

A lot of the voices shut up and went to sleep for the night, leaving Hephaestus mostly uninterrupted and still curious about the true meaning of the burial grounds. By the light of the fire, he tried to read the inscriptions on the stones, only to realize that he never learned the language or its alphabet. So much for that trip.

Hephaestus put out the fire and left the site for the night.

He walked around the hills for the rest of the night, and he eventually turned towards the riverbanks and walked the perimeter of the river that ran through the town. Or he started to. After Julian made no less than half a dozen frantic phone calls to the local police and nearly passed out due to worrying about the whereabouts of his sculpting student, Hephaestus was found asleep in some long grass, and alive, of course.

“Crazy night last night?” Franco asked him.

“You might interpret it as that.”



Perhaps some good luck came out of it. Perhaps something about luck was engraved in the stones at the burial grounds. Hephaestus got lucky. The night before their flight home left, he and Bianca decided to have, well, a powerful good-bye.

The three men arrived home to a white Twinbrook, in the middle of October. It wasn’t enough to delay their flight, but the snow still fell by the time they arrived home.

"You have fun?" Annette asked a jet-lagged Franco when he came in the door. She stood in the nursery, after a quiet, long nap in the rocking chair.

"We got here in time for the worst," Franco said, noting how far the white powder buried their grass, "Yes, it was fun. Very serene. Hephaestus found himself a lady too. Her name's Bianca."

"What, you really want him to date?" she asked. Hephaestus was frolicking in the new snow outside as they spoke. "It's a good time to talk about this. Now I've been proven wrong before, but I'm feeling pretty good about this one. What if our Heph was to date his adorable step-niece instead?"

"I would take a note from you and vomit in his food for revenge. And Lily would too."

“Aw, now why would you do that? I’d love to have the crazy and cute one as an in-law.”

“He needs someone his own age-”

Franco was cut off by the door opening, squeaking due to hinges on need of oiling (after more than a century, they needed it). Hephaestus stepped in, barefoot and with a few snowflakes still clinging to his long locks of hair.

"Man, I love the snow, but just before Spooky Day? That's bizarre," he said, "Is that little peapod awake yet?"

Annette lowered her voice to a strained whisper. "Look at it this way. You'll get a little immortal piece a Hannah out of the deal."



“Miss me yet?” Hephaestus asked Tegan, lifting her up, “Life’s kinda boring without you.”

“You win,” Franco said.



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« Reply #314 on: July 15, 2014, 01:37:14 PM »
*squeals* Oh my, that last picture, with Heph and Tegan... it is too adorable for words!  Just soooo cute!

 

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