Don arrived at Chez Llama at 6:30, just like Thorne had asked him too. He felt weird going there, but of course, Thorne couldn’t know that he’d been there with Dash not that long ago, so Thorne didn’t realize it would be awkward for Don.
But Thorne looked so happy to see him that he felt a bit better right away.
“Don! You’re here!” Thorne sounded so delighted.
A quick kiss would have to do, but it really wasn’t enough. Thorne had been gone for three days, and they’d missed each other.
“I hate it when you’re gone,” Don said. ”It doesn’t feel right.”
“I know, Bud,” Thorne said. “It doesn’t feel right to me either.” He agonized over what he had to tell Don tonight. He didn’t want Don to cry, which was why he’d made him meet him in public. Don was still “Don” enough to not cry in public. He’d cried in front of Katrina and himself, Thorne, but he wouldn’t here.
While Thorne and Don waited for the Hostess to go seat some other guests, my sweethearts, Ian and Lawrence, came in. I love watching them when I’m not playing them The hostess looked at Lawrence the way almost all women do, like he’s an adorable little muffin, lol
When she returned Don went to request a table
Spoiler – Just Ian and Lawrence sweetness – lol
Lawrence is not usually this out of control. Ian is amused, lol.
The hostess called for Thorne and Don. They followed her.
Holy …. he’s gorgeous, Thorne said to himself.
And I think he loves me, was his next thought.
“I really miss you when you aren’t here,” Don said. “Whatever is wrong with me gets much worse, and I’m never sure what to do with myself. Usually I’d just go out and party, but I don’t want to do that now.”
“Don,” Thorne said, “You’ll be ok. I’ll always come back. We can find things for you do during the times that I’m gone.”
Oh man, Thorne thought, I’m going to be gone for so long… What can I find for him to do?
“Like what?” Don asked.
“I’ll think of something." Thorne said, knowing full well that Don had no interests besides seducing people.
“Don,” Thorne said, “I actually met you here tonight, because I need to tell you something.”
“What?” Don asked him. Thorne breaking up with him didn’t enter Don’s head. No one ever broke up with him. It was always the other way around. But he did wonder why Thorne looked like that.
“I have to leave again soon,” Thorne said. “And I’ll be gone for a while. I’ll be gone for 18 days. But that’s not that bad. It’s not even 3 weeks.”
“Why?” Don asked. “I don’t like that.”
“I know you don’t Bab.. Buddy,” Thorne said. Whew! Thorne thought. Caught myself. Don’t call him Baby … don’t freak him out. “It’s just a tiny concert tour,” Thorne said. “Out east, all the big cities.”
“Take me with you,” Don said.
“I would Don, but you’re sick. I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but you need to rest. I’ll never get any rest, I'm constantly running around when I'm on tour. You need your own bed, you need to sleep. You need to go to a doctor,” Thorne said. “Why won’t you go to a doctor? I keep asking you to go see a doctor.”
“I don’t have medical insurance,” Don answered. “And I don’t have a doctor.”
Awww sh * t, Thorne thought, yeah, the reality of life with no job. “Oh,” Thorne said.
I’ll have to fix that, he thought to himself. I need him to go see a doctor. “How are you feeling now?” he asked Don.
“I guess I feel ok, I’m not nauseous,” Don answered. “But I feel all empty. When are you leaving?”
“Friday,” Thorne answered, bracing himself for the fallout.
“Friday?” Don responded in a panic. “That’s too soon. You can’t leave Friday. When will you be with me? I want you with me.”
Spoiler just for funzies
There are also these awesome pictures of Bjorn being Bjorn-like, I guess.
He came in, and requested a table for himself. No one else ever came in to join him.
Then he proceeded to go over and watch Lawrence play the piano.
Lawrence doesn’t know how to play the piano …….
But he does know that other men looking at him is scary.
So where is Ian in Lawrence’s hour of need?
Enthusing about the outdoors with Don! Of course!
But it was ok, apparently Bjorn worked his charisma magic on Lawrence too, because Lawrence was fine with him after a few minutes.
But it was all extremely odd. Why was he there? Where was Clara? Or Elsa? He’s always with them. But ok Bjorn, just come to Chez Llama to stand there and chat up Lawrence while he plays the piano … badly.
Sheesh
Continuing...
Thorne was able to be with Don again a couple more times before he left that Friday.
Don was desperate to be with Thorne as much as possible.
The thought of 18 days without him was horrible.
But Thorne assured him that it would be fine.
“Don, it will pass so fast, it’ll be like I was never gone, ok? And you have a job too. You’re going to go to the doctor, and get well so that you can come with me next time.”
“What if I don’t get better?” Don asked him. “What if I can’t?”
“You’ll get better, I promise,” Thorne told him.
“What if it’s going to take a long time to get better?” Don asked him. “Will you still leave me behind all the time?”
“If it’s going to take a while, I will take you to Hawaii to get better, ok?” Thorne said.
“Really? Do you mean that? Or are you just saying it?” Don asked him.
“I mean it Don, every word.”
“You have my credit card," Thorne said. "Use it for the doctor, and anything they say you need. Use it to order food, whatever you want, have it delivered. Buy yourself a game system, a bigger tv, anything you want. Just wait for me here at Malcolm's house. Ok? Don’t go to anyone else Don. You belong to me now. Don’t forget that.”
“I won’t forget,” Don assured him. “I’ll wait for you here.”
“I’ll know if you don’t.” Thorne said. “You realize that, right?”
“Yeah, a 'course I do,” Don answered. “I’ll be here.”
It was a shame losing both of my sims on the same day ,especially with the vampire sim, she was in my first gen playing the sims 4, she had her children before becoming a vampire, I think the upset of one of her descendants dying made her forget she had the thin skinned weakness maxed out, she must of ran out the house when he died, I saved the game as it is even though sometimes I'm like ooh no, me personally like the unexpected to happen in the game and keep it that way for storytelling to myself @Becka28
I used to live by this guy who was yelling about my roommates dog who was upset about something they really think yelling at a startled dog will calm them down meh.
Oh my, that's so horrible! That poor dog
I'm glad they made a group of friends and I love her accent her little ones are too cute.
the picture of poor dead Stanley was heartbreaking - I hate losing pets in game.
I hate it too, but realistically they weren't able to take good care of him anymore, so... guess it's better this way?
The picture of Peter comforting Steve was really sweet - especially when I think back to young not speaking Peter they adopted and how gentle they were with him - no matter what happens, Steve and Tony did a wonderful Job with Peter and giving him a good start.
Yep, no matter what happened between them, they still managed to raise Peter into a kind, empathic and well-rounded human being. Even how he never doubts that Tony is a good person says a lot.
You are a toddler cuteness creating wizard.
Aw thanks CC skin details truly do magic to littleones!
Love the new neighbours - and when I heard Katrina had a scottish accent I had to go back and re-read her dialogue in my mind with a nice strong accent. I have my theories about who her children's fatheris - could he be a premade from GF?
Weeell... You know I'm still not sure whether I want to include him in the story or not. If I do, I want a little suspense involved, so I'll stay silent for now.
Thank you! Today is quite an important day in the world of fame. Tony Stark, one of the most famous TV actors ever is about to place the Celebrity Tile!
We are LIVE at Starlight Boulevard! People came from Oasis Springs, San Myshuno and even Windenburg to celebrate their favourite celebrity's success!
Even Judith Ward made an appearance!
And look at all of the paparazzis - they just can't stop taking shots!
Currently Tony is giving out autographs and selfies to his fans - how generous!
Looks like it's finally time...
And the crowd goes wild!
Tony seems to be incredibly proud with himself. And honestly - no one can even blame the guy. This is truly what means to be successful!
In an hour Tony is heading out to a conference, then an interview, then another fan meet - we seriously don't know how he manages to have so much energy in him! A few fans were even worried that so much pressure may effect his mental health but Nick Fury, Tony's agent and manager, confirmed that everything is fine...
More under the cut:
"Just turn of the telly, will you? It'll only make you feel worse."
Steve sighed.
"He just... carries on. No change whatsoever. Not even a glimpse."
"Evil, remember? Dinnae you ever forget that! Gobsmacking how many people actually do!"
"Easy for you to say. You haven't spent the best years of your life with him."
"Oi! The only difference between your ex and my ex is that your's more famous than mine!"
"Suppose you're right. I just don't know how to get him out of my mind."
"Well that's what I'm here for, aye?"
"Aye..."
"Look Steve. You're trying too hard to forget everything. But you cannae just get rid of those memories, you have to replace them with new ones! It's always easier to replace a bad habit with a good habit then just getting rid the bad habit!"
"Positive reinforcement... I guess that could work. But how?"
"NO!" suddenly yelled Jamie, making everyone jump. "Don't touch Petred!"
"Petred? I'm trying to get rid of the cobwebs!" responded Peter.
"Yeeah, that's Petred's home and you better not touch that!"
"Why would you ever name a spider Petred- You know I'm actually terrified of spiders to I'd rather not know."
"Because he's our PET and I'm going to pain him RED!" eagerly shouted Lindsey.
"Lindsey, that's my red marker, you can't have it..."
"We're still going to paint him red."
"Yeah. Because he'll look prettier."
"Okay guys, a dog is way better as a pet. Like way better. You should look into that."
"Nope."
"Spiders are cool."
"Dogs drool, spiders rule!"
"Especially red spiders."
"Especially Petred."
"U-huh."
"Fineee, you win... you're all in paint, did you know that?"
"We were just rebranding our wall," Lindsey smiled. "Can you pull me up? I want to say hi to Petred!"
"I really don't understand how can you not be terrified of that thing," Peter squirmed.
"Helloooo Petred! We're gonna paint you red one day!"
"We can paint Peter red for now!" excitedly suggested Jamie.
"Paaa!"
"He can't hear you, he's too busy talking to Momma!" Lindsey giggled.
"Pa! Oh whatever. I'm taking that marker."
"Nooo!"
"Hey- don't run outside! Urrrgh Jamie!"
"I think of him everyday," Steve sighed softly. "I can't help it. And seeing him so happy... It hurts. It's like I'm expecting him to come back... Is that weird?"
"Oh, you're such a puppy still waiting for him after all this time," cooed Katrina.
"Yeah. I get referred to that a lot," muttered Steve. "I hate it you know. It's like people just see me as a cute little pet that matches with a purse rather than a human being. "Oooh, look at Steve! He's such a cute little puppy, so naive and harmless! He knows nothing about the world, he's just Starks accessory! Look how he wags his tail every time Tony gives him a scratch behind the ear!" You know whenever something goes wrong everyone expects me to just suck it up. Because it's not like I understand anything or have feelings... I'm just Tony's loyal puppy, I can deal with anything, right? And when I try to do something about it, no one even takes me seriously! They just- they just laugh! Because it's so cute and funny when a puppy growls! And Tony..." Steve felt his voice break a little. "Tony laughs with them."
"Oh, I didnae mean it in that way..." Katrina laughed. "Look, I'm just saying that you're clingy."
"I know..." Steve mumbled. "I need to move on but it's just so hard... it's like they're right, you know? I really am nothing but Tony Stark's accessory. I'll never get over him."
Katrina sighed.
"Look. If he happened to suddenly waltz in and try to make up, would you go with him?"
"No..." Steve paused. It was almost easy how he said that.
"No!" he firmly repeated. "I wouldn't! Because I want the old Tony, the one who's long gone, will never come back, and probably wasn't even there in the first place... I mean when I really think about that happening, I realise I wouldn't!"
"Not even that part of you that wanted to be with him no matter what?" winked Katrina.
"Not even that part... huh," Steve smiled. "I really don't want to go back anymore."
"See? We're making progress!"
"Guess we are."
"Dinnae think that man can rule your life, Steve. You'll win this fight."
"Thanks Kat."
"Aye, that's what I'm here for."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go scrub these two cheeky little rascals before they colour the whole room. Look at your skirt, Jamie! You really don't make Momma's life any easier, do you!"
"Hey Kat, you do know there's a laundromat in the garage, right?"
"Aye, but with my situation every simoleon counts so I'd rather do it the old-fashioned way."
"I could pay for you if you want."
"You'd- You'd do that?"
"Yeah, sure thing. I could use our laundry detergents too - they're a bit higher quality. Anything that helps."
Katrina smiled.
"I swear, that bloody man of yours doesnae know what he's lost."
"Oi, Peter, be a good laddie and throw out the trash while you're out, will you?"
"Sure thing, Jamie's and Lindsey's mom! Pa, could we talk outside?.."
"Of course..."
"Well, what is it?"
"I want to give Jamie and Lindsey my toys," excitedly said Peter. "Do you think they'd like that?"
"Wow... really?" Steve was genuinely surprised. Peter was generally quite possessive about his things. He was ready to pack his whole room when they were leaving and it took some time for him to realise that the furniture is just too large to fit in the suitcase.
"Yeah, totally. I mean, I'm not a kid anymore, I don't play with that stuff, it just lies around... But I bet Lindsey and Jamie would love them! They... they really don't have any good toys, Pa. And they need it way more than I do."
"Huh. Your growing as a person, Peter."
"I'm really proud of you."
"Thanks, Pa..."
"So that's the stuff that kinda just hangs around for decor, I don't think you're supposed to play with it although that never stopped me... ooh, and that's my boombox! It has a few CD's with kids music if you're into that kind of thing."
"Those are actually rare collectibles that cost a fortune and technically should be placed behind glass... But I mean it's totally fine if you want to throw them around. I did that all the time as a kid!"
"I want the hamster! "I'm gonna call it Mittens!"
"We finally meet, Mister Robotic Twin Of Doom 2000..."
"Is the white teddy also for us?"
"Actually a seal but sure..."
"WOOPIE! I have a white teddy now! Just like Mellissa from across the road!"
"And I can have the elephant?"
"Guys. This is all for you."
"Ooooooh Mellissa is going to flip, right Jamie?"
"I'm glad you guys like them."
"Are you kidding? We LOVE em!" yelled Jamie.
"Thank you thank you thank you for all the toys! I've gotta say thank you a million times so can I just hug you instead?"
Lindsey loves hugs.
Jamie still doesn't.
"But I thought we're friends now!"
"Not that good of friends!"
"I really cannae thank you enough for this!" gushed Katrina. "Cannae even remember the time I last got them new toys - I think it was when Jamie threw a wobbly in the supermarket but that was nearly a year ago..."
"Oh, I had nothing to do with any of this, it was Peter's idea. I was surprised myself!"
"Well he's a wonderful lad."
"Yep," Steve smiled. "That he is."
"Best. Day. EVA!" shouted Jamie. Funnily enough, it felt that way for all of them. Certainly the best day ever.
@Becka28 Yeah, I wish aliens, mermaids and plantsim had skill/perk trees like vamps and casters
Can you believe a few months ago I wrote somewhere out there on forums that I'm not particularly interested in occult sims
@Koteyka - you got me! I thought I had got through a whole update without crying but the last 3 shots got me. Wasn't expecting them
Jessica called Diego and asked him to meet her at the Magnolia Parade bakery. Judging by his expression Diego really, really, really likes cupcakes and they make him very excited.
It didn’t take long for the paparazzi to track Jessica down.
She bribed him a large amount of money to go away.
Diego was charming and tried to cheer her up.
how the date went....
But a server and a fan insisted on crashing their privacy.
A romantic walk in the park became a mob of screaming fans and several more paparazzos yelling for their attention.
Jessica couldn’t take it any more and started yelling at everyone to leave her alone.
Suddenly, she looked up and realised Diego had left the park and was heading home. She ran after him calling his name.
“Please don’t go” she begged.
“Are you ashamed of me?” asked Diego. “You just don’t seem happy to be seen out with me..”
Jessica was horrified that this is what he thought.
Jessica told Diego that Bjorn had resented her fame and sharing her with the world. “He blamed me for weakening our marriage, he said I wanted the fame more than the family more than him. I am sure if I had caught him out in his affair he would have made that all because I was famous too” she explained. Diego couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Jessica continued “I don’t want you to leave me or resent me because of my fame or who the world thinks I am.”
She nervously waited for him to tell her every painful thing Bjorn had ever said was true. But he laughed and said “we really misunderstood each other didn’t we. I never want you to change for me or stop doing the job you love. I am so proud of your fame - I love being with you.”
They went back to Diego’s. Jessica hadn’t felt this happy or loved for a long time. “Will you be my boyfriend?” she asked. He had said yes almost before she finished her question.
Oh my poor heart – I can’t work out which one’s reaction is cuter.
Time passed and the family settled back into familiar routines.
Jessica Spent time with Edvin Ollie
And Abilene, explaining about Diego as well as helping them understand how to deal with all the rumours in the press. Viktor seemed to want to spend time alone so she gave him space, despite a lurking worry in her heart.
She still got wound up herself, by some of the more outrageous stories in the press.
Eventually, Jessica got Griffin and some of Bjorn’s friends to explain to the children that they had 2 more siblings. She wanted them to know but did not want to meet them herself or know who their mother was.
An invitation to their brothers birthday was passed on to Edvin Ollie. The kids sat down to discuss whether they should go over a game of cards.
Edvin, Abilene and Viktor were interested to meet their new siblings but Lyra was confused and sad.
Edvin and Cassandra seem to have worked out the nonflirty thing.
Lyra is embarrassed by all the kissing. Abilene got a broken heart thought bubble when they kissed. Apparently according to her moodlets she is jealous because she has no one of her own to love. Poor Abilene – you have just become a teen – give me a chance to find you someone.
Edward's birthday
Jade was sad and nervous about having invited Edward’s brothers and sisters. She hoped she hadn’t made a mistake.
Kendrick was there to support her.
Lyra was not expecting to have a good time.
Paris (the other half sibling but with Paolo as her dad) developed an instant girlie crush when she saw Edvin Ollie. She followed him everywhere he went.
Tiffani made sure Paris didn’t get all the attention after all he was her brother – not Paris’s.
Edward aged up and looks just like a blonde Viktor as a child.
Tiasha’s 2nd little girl Lucia also aged up – love the new toddler hair. She can look like her mummy.
Abilene saw someone who she wouldn’t mind loving. But spent most of the party chatting with Edward who seemed to love her.
Lyra was happy when it was time to leave.
Abilene was feeling confused about how she felt about her father and this entire situation.
But then she answered a whole pile of Tiffani’s questions and realised her life had been pretty good and she was glad she came and now had a bigger family.
(Viktor hung out with Tiasha and Tyrell all night and never spoke to his siblings at all.)
More Jessica and Diego
Jessica wanted to spend some uninterrupted time with Diego. So they came to the park with her in her disguise.
They enjoyed the chance to speak without people constantly interrupting them.
Jessica mentored Diego on his fishing skills.
She is supposedly talking about fishing but from the look on Diego’s face I sense a double entendre – an entendre about this big.
Jessica has written some love poetry for Diego. I think it was pretty hot stuff judging by his reaction.
Chapter 10. THiS miGhT HURt a LiTTle. This was hard to write. It really was.
Recap: Damian Ember the Morgyn Ember CAS clone moved into an apartment with Cassandra Goth, then they moved to a better apartment, stole the Vatores, turned them human, shipped them to college, and then stole Morgyn. Morgyn turned Caleb into a spellcaster, Lilith doesn't get off the treadmill long enough to be a proper MC, and then Vladislaus called in the cavalry named Sarnai and things are going quite sour quite fast. Cassandra and Damian are married, have a daughter named Esmeralda, Esme for short, and Morgyn and Caleb are dating.
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He couldn’t keep this up. The more time went on, the more Damian was sure of it. It was so hard to tell what was him, and what wasn’t. He didn’t trust his own thoughts and instincts. He didn’t know what to do, because if this… whatever she was in his head was strong enough to mess him up, and she wasn’t even here, then what could she do to the rest of his family?
Damian didn’t want to find out the hard way. It broke his heart to see the hurt in Cassandra’s eyes when she looked at him now. But he didn’t know what else to do. It was hard enough to fight off the whatever she was. Mostly it left him tired and irritable, and apparently prone to snapping. Damian tried not to think anything she might find useful, but he didn’t know what she was after, either.
Maybe Morgyn had a good solution – no. Damian had spent his entire life protecting Morgyn, it wasn’t going to turn into Morgyn having to protect him suddenly. That wasn’t how this was supposed to go, and it’d been Damian protecting Morgyn for so long, he didn’t know how else to function.
There was the distant, vague idea of leaving, but someone would follow, no doubt, and Damian wasn’t sure if that was his idea or hers. That was hard to say. Damian wasn’t anyone special, why would someone go after him, anyway? Well, unless the one they were after wasn’t Damian, but was Cassandra or Morgyn. Cassandra was the current eldest child of the Goth family and the one that stood to inherit the Goth fortune someday. And Morgyn was one of the most powerful spellcasters in spellcaster history.
Except, both Cassandra and Morgyn had a weakness, and it happened they had the same one.
You must stop fighting us, the feminine voice hissed in his head. Damian visibly winced, raising a hand to his head, as whoever that was exerted stronger control over him. Though he was fighting her, he was steadily losing it anyway. She was winning, and he knew it. She took over for longer now than she had at first. It was, maybe, only a matter of time until he was a danger to them. Because Caleb might’ve threatened to snap his neck, but Damian didn’t really believe he could do it, because Caleb might pretend otherwise, but he loved him, too.
As always it did, their struggle lasted only a short moment. One second Damian was cringing in pain, and the next, he stood up straight, and turned to the side. No one else was here.
Good. Sarnai just needed to keep breaking this one down, and she’d have her worm in the Goth residence, just like she got her worms in the Magic Realm. All was going according to plan. Now she just had to execute the next part, and with any luck, she’d be able to practically hand the Magic Realm’s keys to Vladislaus.
Of course, this would inevitably start a vampire-spellcaster war. Sarnai looked forward to it.
The anger hadn’t gone away.
None of them had said anything about the weird way Damian was acting that morning, simply all sat down at the table for breakfast, minus Cassandra and Damian, and then sat in silence until Damian once again snapped at Cassandra. And that time, they got into an honest to Watcher argument, loud enough everyone downstairs heard every word.
All three of them silently exchanged glances across the table. Lilith got up and went downstairs. Morgyn got up and teleported somewhere. And Caleb went to the balcony to beat the stuffing out of something that was unfortunately not Damian’s face.
And that… whatever it was Caleb was sensing. It was difficult to say what it was, because Caleb wasn’t a vampire anymore. His senses weren’t the same, but there was a slight tingle of an energy he’d been around before. That energy made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and it was very annoying not to be able to pinpoint what it was.
Caleb heard a door slam. He stopped, glancing at the window that looked into the entry. Damian marched out of the apartment and into the elevator, also slamming the front door on the way out. A head tilt, and Caleb noticed Cassandra by the stairs. She looked upset, but he didn’t expect anything else, and then she went upstairs. What are you doing, Damian?
“You’ve been out here all day,” Lilith said, sitting down on one of the couches on the balcony. Caleb looked annoyed, still, but he sat down too.
“Yeah,” he said. “It was a better idea than beating the stuffing out of Damian.”
They both went quiet, listening to the gentle, cool breeze outside. It was winter now, and it’d been snowing here and there, but Caleb wasn’t too bothered by the chill. Apparently, neither was Lilith.
“It’s always about something stupid,” Lilith said.
“Yeah, it is,” Caleb agreed. “Cassandra hardly talks that much, and now that Damian keeps snapping at her for talking, she’s doing it less and less.”
Lilith nodded. “Yeah. … do you sense it too?” she asked.
“That thing that I’m pretty sure I’ve sensed before but can’t pin down?” Caleb asked. “Nah, wouldn’t know what you mean.”
Lilith gave him a put-upon look. “I think there’s something magically wrong with him, Caleb.”
“How convenient,” Caleb answered wryly.
“I wouldn’t call this convenient,” Lilith said.
“I’m just saying I’m getting a little tired of listening to him basically abuse my best friend and I’m not feeling terribly giddy at the idea of an excuse for her to keep putting up with it.”
Lilith sighed, tilting her head. “I know,” she said. “But you know how much he means to her. And if this was Morgyn, you’d be doing the same dang thing.”
Despite the infuriated look Caleb gave her, Lilith was unperturbed, and Caleb knew she was right. Eventually, he loosed a huff, and looked toward the windows. “Fine,” he said. “What now?”
“We need to figure out who it is,” Lilith said, “and whether we’re dealing with a spellcaster or a vampire.”
Right, yeah. Vampires were capable of pulling something like this off. But Caleb had to wonder why. Vampires and spellcasters generally kept to themselves, and didn’t cross one another’s paths very often. Even when they did, vampires respected spellcasters were dangerous, and vice versa, and everyone went on their way.
Well, Caleb still had vampiric friends. He could ask one or two. When he wasn’t still so angry, maybe he would. It was not always a good idea to show up unannounced on a vampire’s doorstep ticked as all heck.
Unfortunately, Cassandra had been in such a bad mood recently, she’d not been coming down to make breakfast and the like. Caleb decided to try his hand at it, and so far he hadn’t managed to blow anything up. That was a nice start.
He was still angry, and maybe he would be for a while, except now what he was angry with had shifted. Whatever was messing with Damian was messing with a sacred union. Cassandra and Damian were meant to be together, Caleb believed that, they completed one another in ways Caleb hadn’t seen very often in the last few hundred years of living.
He shook his head to himself. He heard a slight tap sound behind him. “Nice curves back there,” came Morgyn’s voice.
Caleb laughed slightly. “I mean, it’s taken about three hundred years to get them like that, you’re dang right nice curves back there.”
Morgyn didn’t bother resisting the eye roll, leaned over around Caleb to kiss his cheek, and then moved back.
“Are you okay?” Caleb asked quietly.
Morgyn’s green gaze fell to the floor. “No,” was the quiet answer. “Simeon stopped answering me. I called this morning, but it went straight to voicemail. And Damian’s losing his mind.”
“I was talking to Lilith yesterday,” Caleb said, “and we both sense the same thing.”
“What is it?” Morgyn asked.
“Neither of us has any idea right now, sorry. We’re going to try and figure it out though. Hey, I know this is hard, but as long as Damian is here, he’s not Watcher only knows where, and we can figure this out. …. even if we do have to lock him in his room and hope he doesn’t remember he can teleport back out.”
Morgyn smiled slightly, but then looked a little upset. Caleb almost regretted making the joke, because it was looking more and more like a potential reality, and nobody wanted to do that to their sibling.
“What is this…”
She wasn’t aware anyone in this house had a child. For the most part, Sarnai had been too busy fighting through Damian’s mental walls. He was a tougher spellcaster than she gave him credit for, for sure, but all things broke with enough force applied to them after all. And now she could see things better.
She tried to come up with a name, but Damian was blocking it out. No matter. The child would tell her what its name was, eventually. Stay away from her. We’d love to see you try and stop us. LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE!
The force of the mental snarl was so strong, it physically knocked the wind out of Sarnai, and threw her out of his head instantly.
“Please stop, stop it, go away…”
It was getting harder to fight her off, and Damian could feel his sense of self slipping away. It was terrifying in a way that nothing had ever been before, a kind of fear that was indescribable. He thought he’d heard Cassandra talking to him a moment ago, but whatever she said was drowned out by whatever he was saying. At this point, he didn’t even know what words were coming out of his mouth.
It didn’t matter. He had to focus all of his energy on fighting her off. She’d gotten so close to his daughter. She was trying to get back into his head, but he was fighting her. It was enough. This was enough, he couldn’t let her win again, it was hurting Cassandra, it was threatening Esmeralda, she was probably after Morgyn…
“They’re mine,” he muttered. “Mine, you can’t have them, my reasons to live, mine…”
Footsteps sounded. Damian didn’t flinch, but then hands reached for him.
“DON’T!” he shrieked, shoving himself against the wall. “Don’t, she’s here, she’s still here, don’t touch me.” His breathing was rapid and frantic, and the blond withdrew, kneeling down instead. Morgyn, of course.
“Who’s she?” Morgyn asked.
“I don’t- I don’t know,” Damian answered, panting and wincing in pain. “I wouldn’t tell you even if I did. Stay away from me, don’t touch me, you stay over there, not you, I hate you, get away from me!” There was a short pause, and then Damian started crying. “No, wait, I didn’t mean it, I’m sorry, Morgyn I’m sorry, please, please don’t leave me, don’t leave me alone again, I don’t want to be alone again, please.”
“Shhh, shh,” Morgyn said, scooting across the floor and taking Damian’s hands. “No, Damian no, listen to me, I’m never going to leave you again, I promise. I’m not going anywhere. Everything’ll be okay. I need you to tell me who she is.”
“I don’t know, honest, I don’t know, I’m sorry, I’m sorry I’m so useless, I’m sorry, she’s after you, she wants to take you away from me again, don’t go, please don’t go, please stay.”
It hurt. Morgyn spluttered slightly, but shoved it back down at the last second. Now wasn’t the time to get emotional, one of them should be stable. “I won’t,” Morgyn said, pulling Damian over and holding him. “It’s okay. I won’t go.”
“I’ll kill her,” Damian snarled, and sparks alighted at his hands.
“No!” Morgyn started, reaching down and suppressing Damian’s magic. “Damian no, don’t use your magic, not right now, you can’t control it! We’ll figure it out, I promise, but I need you to calm down for me.”
“I can’t, I can’t, it hurts, Morgyn it hurts so much, I can’t breathe, please, help me, please make it stop, I can’t…” It was almost endless, and it hurt to listen to, as Damian fell into Morgyn’s lap and cried.
What was there to even do? He said ‘she’ was here, what did that – no, Morgyn knew what that meant, mind manipulation no doubt. There were spells that did it, though that was forbidden magic. Not that it being forbidden magic really stopped anyone from doing it. Maybe that was what the Realm was screaming about. The Vortex was formed because of forbidden magic. It’d be forbidden magic that hurt it and the crystal core that sustained it.
Not now. Right now, Damian needed Morgyn, and for once, Morgyn was here. It felt like Damian was always saving Morgyn from something, giving up something for Morgyn. Very gently, Morgyn rested one hand on Damian’s hair, sparks and tendrils of magical light swirling around the raven strands. There were wards, but, Morgyn knew it wasn’t a permanent solution. The spells wouldn’t last forever, but they’d give Damian a little rest.
Damian squeaked in pain, but then heaved a sigh, almost immediately relaxing. His breathing slowed, evened back out. Gently, Morgyn pet his hair. Damian had been through too much, why was he living through this, too?
“Is that better?” Morgyn asked, very quietly.
“Yeah…” Damian answered, just as quiet. “I have a migraine.”
“I bet you do. I’ll make te -“
“No,” Damian squeaked, almost panicking again. “Please don’t go.”
“Okay,” Morgyn answered, immediately. “I’ll stay.”
For once, Morgyn wasn’t running away, not this time.
白雪夏夜我不停歇
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
@Koteyka
Peter's face about that spider lemme tell ya, gives me life.
The best update that's coming is Nick getting slammed with a meteor, right? xD
@Becka28
Awwww Diego and Jessica are cute and I'm glad their relationship is going well.
Awkward family meetings are awkward :x
@AlwaysAsking
Thorne and Don's relationship is honestly toxic af but still ridiculously fascinating and I should be annoyed this is interesting but here we are.
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白雪夏夜我不停歇
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Shine's at it again, working at the robotics workstation:
No electrocutions this time around:
Time to get the mail!
Off to class!
After that, she and Roddy went over to the Britechester campus:
Shine set off for class:
And Roddy changes into his masculine athletic outfit:
Cue entrance of the gladiators!
After a sim hour and 25 sim minutes, Shine's class has finished!
'Time go go home, sweetie!' Shine said, calling over Roddy:
'Ok mummy!' Roddy replied, cheerfully. The pair hopped on a canal boat and set off to Brindleton Bay.
Gardening, Archaeology and Homework
Most unfitting music to be listening to whilst typing this out: Sabre Dance.
Shine and Roddy arrived back at Dianthus Hall. Benjamin had some plants to tend to:
Since it was thundering it down, he decided to teleport in:
Since Benjamin doesn't have a sprinkler set up in the greenhouse, he has to go to each raised bed and water it:
Whilst Benjamin was doing that, Shine did some archaeology:
And some Robotics:
And some Homework:
Sims 4 Family: Benjamin, Shine, Princess Roddy, Sophia and Hamish Furystrykar and Shelly Heart. Princess Roddy is my avatar, and he's a boy!
@AlwaysAsking I can't believe this clingy thing giving Thorne those baby calf looks is Don Lothario! LOL, what have you done, Thorne?
Lawrence is cute, Lawrence trying to play piano is the cutest
@Koteyka Awww, so generous of Peter to give away his toys
OOOh, I wanted to save Steve and Peter, now I want to save Tony.
There's a lot of saving needed
@Becka28 "Judging by his expression Diego really, really, really likes cupcakes" - this cracked me up so much!
I'm so happy for Jessica
It's lovely that the kids hold a family council about important things like meeting your illegitimate siblings
@Keidra That's devastating.
Love how Damian's defenses flare up when it's about his baby!
But he's going through hell, poor thing...
I had another wedding, tho it looked more like funeral, because... vampires (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ)
So, it's Ezra and Bianca, all the Vatores and Morgyn, because I have a hyperfixation (hello darkness, my old friend...)
Pretty bride.
Ezra with his parents.
Ezra's sisters and brother-in-law Alexander.
Wanda and Vlad.
Constantine Vatore with his granduncle.
And one beautiful Sage.
And then an uninvited guest appeared...
"Nice, all the Vatores together having a lovely party I'm about to ruin..."
"Oh, and they are serving some fancy food tonight. How about I take a bite?"
Sage-rage mode on.
And that's that.
Creep dead, problem solved, party saved.
No drama.
I know I'm boring
As you can see by my avi, Madison got a total makeover! No, she didn't divorce Jack. He has sadly passed away. I have the Life Tragedies Mod and it struck my save, so I'm rolling with it. Grayson Caldwell is Madison's new boyfriend. He'll adopt both her sons after they get married.
Here are Madison's sons!
Ryan
Liam
Madison was pregnant with Liam when Jack died. She was actually already in her last trimester.
Origin ID HillyPlays P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
I recently got Discover University and I started a new save to check it out. So far, I'm loving it.
Meet Blake Edwards! He's going to be attending the University of Britechester and he's going to be studying Computer Science. He'll be living on campus and having 9 roommates.
He meets one of his roommates named Christian. He found out that Christian will be studying Communications and will be sleeping in the same room as him.
After getting settled in, he went to Darby's Den to hang out. Frankie, who is also one of his roommates, decided to tag along with him. Frankie is studying Drama.
These two went ahead and fished.
Frankie got a fish, but Blake had no luck.
Day 1 of the Term
First day of classes! Blake will be taking two classes this term: Programming 101 and Gourmet Cooking: Tapas Touch. The only class he's attending in Day 1 is his gourmet cooking elective class.
After class, he came back and saw a note left by one of his roommates, which wasn't a good one. That made him so mad.
That note was left by Alex Moyer, a premade Sim from the tutorial. I found out that she will be studying Villiany, which could explain the bad note she left.
Later that night, Frankie introduced Anthony to Blake. Anthony is also studying Computer Science.
Anthony: Since we're studying the same major, want to be study partners?
Blake: Sure, man!
I got Blake some University apparel and I went into CAS and created another outfit sporting them. After he took his shower, he changed into that outfit. He decided to join some of his roommates who are watching a movie.
Before he went to bed, he had some Lobster Thermidor as a late night snack.
Day 2 of the Term
Blake woke up and worked on his term paper for his gourmet cooking class before he headed off to his programming class.
After his programming class, he ran into Morgyn Ember, who is also Blake's roommate and he's studying Communications.
Day 3 of the Term
Blake had a busy day working on his paper and attending his gourmet cooking class.
That night, Blake went to talk with Christian about his day.
Things were going as planned until this guy named Erion came in. Shockingly, I learned that he's studying the same major as Blake, BUT he's attending Foxbury Institute.
Erion: Foxbury Institute Rules! University of Britechester sucks!
Blake: Dude! University of Britechester is the best university! How dare you!
Erion: LOL! Look at him getting triggered!
Blake: Just get out of here please! Foxbury peeps are not welcome here.
Day 4 of the Term
Blake saw the school mascot, Darby the Dragon, and gave it a high five.
He's done with his coursework for his gourmet cooking class, so he went to Darby's Den to prepare for his final exam in his programming class.
Day 5 of the Term
There was a UBrite Spirit Corps event happening, so Blake and Frankie attended the event and played some ping pong.
Blake won the game!
After the event, the two went to watch an E-Sports Game Competition.
Once that was over, Frankie hugged Blake, thanking him for a great day.
Blake then told Frankie that he's glad that Frankie's one of his roommates.
@ryttu3k , heh, I really loved the faces and animations Björn did when close to either Clara or Ted , the mafia was only thing came to my mind at the moment Thank you about Uku and Inna @sarabeth2984 , I was wrong, he had only 22 kids in the end , hih. The reason I love desert worlds is totally opposite than yours I live no near of desert, and up here in north I have long, snowy and cold winters, at least in game "I" can live in hot desert @Nushnushganay , Glad I was able to help I love that mod! Thanks about your comment about Inna and Ukupanipo @Alwaysasking , Nope, not at home. Some job related things made us stay up here another week, but we are getting to south for christmas, gladly
You will see whta happens to Wolfgang, when I get my hands to that save again :P
Ukupanipo and Inna pictures aren't at Ted's save. I started new save (originally for testing,for a reason I explain below) to kill time, as I have to be here for another week, I may as well play during it So it was a first set of marriages what happened in fresh save, maybe the occult combo was ment to be
So , here it goes, in a nutshell:
I use "save as" all the time, I keep 5-10 closest saves as backups, delete rest. I seem to have corrupted my save at some point, as when ever Ted or Tessa (or anyone) tries to visit several communitylots, I get an error popup with series of numbers and game jumps to start menu. All lots were original lots, most not even edited by myself at any way. I didn't realise it before day after yesterday.
I tried with or without CC/mods, still getting it. I started totally fresh save, all those lots are fully functional, vanilla and not in that new save. So must be corrupted save. I rolled back to the last save file I had, same problem
Reason I haven't notice earlyer was because I have being playing Tessa, and she has only visited in couple of communitylots, unlike Ted who used to use many of them. All gyms give error, almost all commlots at winderburg, all but one restaurant.. so and so.. I had no interest of digging at recycle bin for earlyer saves, as I have no idea how far I would have to go, and this is anyway just a testing save anyway.
These are the remaining unposted pics of Ted (I cut down over 100 pictures, no energy to organize them all, just "highlights"), and few about Tessa, and I loaded CAS for some of Ted's kids and aged them to teens to get a view how they might of looked after growing up.
Last pics about Ted and conclusion.
Fifth apartment for Ted, again minor wall/floortile tweaks.
He did maxed both, cooking and gourmet cooking! Yay!
Only one lady was welcomed anymore.
He kept painting, he skipped all the festivals too (too embarasshed about the last one!).
He had a new gym club, this time with vampires again included. The glider in his thought bubble when checking out Vlad1's buttons! (Diego had a makeover too)
And then, continuing from my post back, about Bella's makeover at romance fest. No captions needed
Bella, do not wonder about the size of the diamond, it is real! You do not know it yet, but you are gonna marry a man who has double the money your first husband has!
The end.
Tessa and Wolfgang, what a "couple"??
Her very first visit to library to gain logic..
I wish I knew simlish , so I would know what she said to him to make him so angry I only did friendly introducion, rest was autonomuous.
Looks like he won the battle...
Tessa: "Naah, I just let him believe he won.. jerk.."
Next time she chosed different place for playing, did not helped.
Gladly Ted with his sons came to interrupt!
Tessa: "Oh this is yummy!"
Vlad1: "What? That is water. Do you even have age for this place? Based of your hair you don't."
Aaand that relationship did not started well either!
Back in the library.. oh comon, do not show up EVERYWHERE she goes, Wolfgang!
Yeah yeah..
Dominic: "Those young people.."
This time a new chess partner..
But not necessary the better, lol!
Wolfgang called , that "We didnt start well, maybe we could try to talk"-or something message and invited her to dine.
Lily started to chat with them from the next table.
Tessa: "Wolfgang, that is not polite!"
Aand here we go again!
You guys, just shut up and eat! Maybe don't drink, I have no idea what that green thing is...
I made her to apologize...
.. but this was how the evening ended.
Nice afternoon coffee with Markus.. someone is watching..
Max and Tessa became friends after fishing the whole afternoon!
Once again playing chess with Björn (and talking about frogs!)
Okay you are really starting to freak her out
Couple random pictures:
Tessa was leaving, I managed to take this one, right after I unpaused, Björn left and had again one of his looks at Ted
Lol, tense :P
Some of the kids.
Not in age order, also some kids who I haven't yet shown as todds, 7 missing (they were still babies in the save I took these from) + couple extras.
(Almost unedited, they are how they were when I aged them up. I did only gave females some flashes, but no makeup.)
Damon with Bella
Stefan with Bella
Sam with Jesminder
Condrad with Moira (oh boy it was tempting to change the hair, lol!)
Bluebell with Miko
Ella with Babs
Tiina with Babs
Ron with Alice
Oscar with Alice
Michael with Siobhan
Lawrence with Siobhan (you can tell they are twins, lol)
Simon with Nancy
Victor with Eliza
Mickey with Clara
Aada with Clara
And:
Cat , Babs with Geoffrey
Katerina , Vlad1 with Kat (NOT showing her sideprofile, lol)
Elena , Caleb with Miss
My love, my love, my fearless love, I will not say goodbye..
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
@Becka28 yeah he could use a few more slaps or something I'd say ha, he does have a good use she can't move on without venting a little and he made it so easy maybe she should take up boxing. I'll enjoy the ride wherever they are headed.
Next page ah! Finally, I still haven't forgiven Bjorn but the way it comes together it's like he needed to be a roadmap to here so she could have that past to really enjoy her future. them, still that's the worst, the not only is your dad gone but now you need to know he had more family situation. Let Diego hold on tight to Jess and never let her go so he can show her what she really deserves in life. @Gosh seeing Don so out of sorts in this one makes me feel bad for the guy, once his hormone issues are over I wonder how much of the Don will be left. Nice seeing Ian and Lawerence again, it got me thinking of how things would be if they just had a typical couple day and went with a double date, would they find themselves superior or would they see the unhealthy parts of the relationship seeing another pair interact. I don't know I'm conflicted because I love them but Don needs help and Thorne shouldn't be leaving him alone for that long I wonder what's going to happen to him while Thorne is away. @Koteyka yeah it was the worse but what can you do such is life some people are just bad just to be bad not everyone is understanding and the worst neighbors bring out the worst in their 'victims'. I love their relationship has to be said again, you of course already know I'm hoping for a chance to talk with Nick out of the way, but at the same time I think that this is also something he needs. He needs to loosen some of his clingy ways but also hold on to what he feels is good. I feel like the way things are now he shouldn't just go back to him, I'm just looking for a time when he's strong enough to hear that he should have at least they are safe. Though seeing poor Tony like that I wonder what state of mind he'll be in if that ever happened.
mmkay awesomes out I'm gonna have to start to get choosier with posts I feel my net is gonna slow down again soon, we're planning on getting internet but the time for that is not now so on to my nonsense.
Having a very vocal conversation...about what who knows, quite a bit of cuddly with Izzy and his...'friend' she doesn't mind she wonders how her people go without this. What was the point of having a child you may not even see, just to say you had a child, if anyone was going to have a part of her they were getting her all. That person she wanted to be Izzy but then she wasn't completely taken by all the attention and sweet words. She still had to tell him the truth about her, Izzy was fairly clueless but in his defense she was good at hiding it, he savored his time with her more and more every day he just wished she'd stop running off when things warmed up as for their cat, she doesn't care how things goes she's happy sleeping in the closet and that's all she needs.
He's really, really not happy about this.
"Hey dad what's for..."
Demi snorted as his father groaned.
"Who are you and what have you done with dad?"
"Very funny...the agency sent this over..and it's the worst."
"Why can't you wear your regular clothes? I thought celebrities are supposed to stand out?"
"Something about doing something different..next they'll have me tanning, let's just have a normal morning before you go..."
With Demi off to school Nef only had a moment to himself before he had to go to work, while Venessa was on break she was excited to see Nef she wondered what role he had.
He cheered up a bit seeing her by the director, a familiar face the more he walked by even with his face covered the more his nerves spiked he didn't know how to interact with people anymore. What was he thinking this was clearly too much, swallowing his nerves before they got the better of him he quickly got to her before she left, not even questioning if she could hear him under the heavy costume.
"You look beautiful like that." he said, immediately annoyed, if his voice echoed in the top he had no clue what she heard.
She giggled.
"Thanks...er..bunny thing."
He sighed.
"It's me Venessa, Nef."
the slight movement as she realized who he was went unnoticed she thought the costume was cute, and oddly enough so was he, she couldn't help but think either she never knew her type or she needed to get out more. Though he wasn't a bad guy so she was leaning toward the first one...after all how many guys, or people in general look like he does?
"Oh Nef..I was wondering who they got for that, I swear they are always losing actors and need fill ins, but that's how we get our foot in the door, I'm so happy you got in."
He smiled slightly watching his breathing someone familiar always helped, and he still didn't sense in malice from her so that helped she was so sweet. The director interrupting them reminded him he needed a little more than hair and makeup and a costume to hide in.
After choking in the end...that head needed more air holes, he was glad it was over.
Diego gave Dion a message telling her where to meet him, though a well known celebrity critic was a decent spot he wanted to show her how else he retained his fame. He purposely didn't mention the little situation, he didn't want her to dwell on it he,as a rule, wasn't a particularly lonely person he could be fine in a crowd of any size or all by his lonesome. Still her company got him thinking she didn't harm him he didn't want her going anywhere or behaving as if they couldn't be friends.
"Dion glad you got here."
"Of course." she said absently she felt she was being ridiculous at that point since he didn't say anything but she couldn't help it, she wanted to hear it was no big deal whether she needed to or not didn't matter.
"We're going to mingle, after an outfit change, I need to stop by the gallery and after I'm treating you to dinner, how's that sound."
she gave him a look, thinking maybe that was his way of dropping it all together.
"I uh...sure boss whatever you say."
"I'm still Diego."
"In public?"
He chuckled, she had a lot to learn about working with him.
"Always."
Diego saw her relax at the party and more throughout the night he was relieved, he figured while the gallery was a bit empty, with sims busy mostly in other places, I also saw Nef there heh, they could relax a bit further. Bubbles left one as airy as they looked.
"Having a good time tonight?" he asked.
She nodded coughing up the spicy liquid...whatever.
"I'm surprised...you like this..."
He chuckled.
"It's all part of the party lifestyle...on paper i'm not that interesting so I need to stand out in other ways, I'm thinking we'll head home after this, if you'll agree to help me out. Breathe easy...if you have anything to drink it'll get worse until you're used to it the bubbles get trapped and they are a lot more solid than you would think." he said coughing up a few.
"S..sure." she said as he cleared his throat, after a moment the air passed and she was just left with a pleasant taste in her mouth, sweet.
"What do you need me to do?"
"I'm still taking you out, but I'd like it if I didn't bring my assistant, I just want to be seen with a woman as gorgeous as you are."
She blushed though went back to her nerves.
"Is this about..the kitchen."
He shook his head.
"No this is about my future, no matter how many women I work with the paparazzi still find me, fans still send letters begging to know about a man in my life that doesn't exist. My image needs an update, just laugh at nonsense I say and flutter your eyelids...the public is an easy beast to control." She gave him a look Diego clearly had more than one side, she looked down, she did like him but the fact that he really liked women she thought about how things could end up.
"And it's...just a game for the cameras?"
"That's all I won't say you're my girlfriend or anything so you are free to date if you meet anyone, I just need them to see me just enjoying myself with you...and this is not enough."
"Okay...sure." she could play, no matter how she felt about it she would really hate to lose her job because she declined, he didn't suggest that no but her mind was going a mile a minute thinking of what he could say and she was worried.
He smiled.
"Great, thank you you won't regret it, you may just have to get a new job as a new celebrity beauty after this."
She wondered if she would even want that.
I split it up just incase but we're still with Diego and Dion
The paparazzi really ate it up and though she had been nervous it ended up being the easiest thing she could do, they just chatted, enjoyed one another's company, it wasn't till a hug slipped to a kiss that she was reminded it was just a game. One she wasn't looking forward to playing long she wondered what sort of woman he wanted actual memories like this with.
"That's probably enough" she said softly.
"Mmhmm"
The next morning he was glad to see people were talking about his mystery woman he was curious just how long they would keep it up.
Random nonstory bits
Lilith saw her brother seemed fine, which meant he was still agitated and now he wasn't leaving the house at all, she also hadn't heard from Morgyn who was usually so friendly. She decided to drop by and visit but found he wasn't home, only L was, she used to wonder about their relationship until Morgyn said she was something of a mother to him. Still she knew the older woman could be be bossy and controlling it didn't seem right to her.
"Don't you knock?"
"Sorry I was expecting Morgyn."
"As you can see he's not here, so you can go back the way you came." with a flick of her powers Lilith was out and the door was locked.
She was not amused, and L wasn't particularly happy to see her doing just fine out in the sunlight how was she going to keep Morgyn distracted if they were fine like that? She thought he deserved better than them and Lilith thought they just needed a change of scenery she guessed she would have to get Morgyn to her place that woman was too powerful for her own good...and Lilith hated her hair.
I actually love L's second outfit...just saying.
Lastly even though I cheated to freeze fame, Venessa started out with a bad day losing a celebrity star, and then Milo was sick, at least she got to end it just enjoying a chat with Nef. She didn't know why she bothered when she could just go to his house but she didn't want to appear desperate and she wasn't sure which was worse. Not that it mattered but then everyone seems a little particular these days.
And there we go.
Reddestiny921 on the gallery...still not sure if I capitalized the second d..lol
All the sims err'day
@AlwaysAsking
I usually keep toddlers away from babies because they tend to get upset about meeting the new sibling, but I forgot to lock the door that one time and toddlers with maxed movement skill climb the stairs really fast. Luckily Leo was happy about having a new sister.
It was high time for Kurt to regain his immortality, because I fear that otherwise Marisol would´ve taken it into her own hands, whether or not he was willing. Immortality remains a touchy subject for her - even after all this time, she resents Marcus for choosing to die as a human over his children, she would rather have Kurt hate her than lose him too. Marisol loves her stepsiblings, but at the same time it´s hard for her to be constantly reminded that her parents are dead, it´s one of the reasons why she was eager to move out as soon as she became a young adult.
I am currently in a process of putting everyone and everything back to where they should be (Thank god for MCCC, because otherwise I´d have blisters on my fingers from the amount of cheating careers and relationships that I am doing). In addition of my beloved played sims, I grabbed some others from that save for townies, because I liked their looks and personalities (And I am constantly running out of eligible male sims. Everyone and their grandmother keeps giving birth to girls, but hardly anyone has boys. Not all of my girls want to date other girls, some want to date boys too. And some boys want to date other boys.)
@ryttu3k
I have another mini-Morgyn in my other save, courtesy of Antoniette, only with red eyes (the poor kid had the misfortune of inheriting his evil grandma´s red eyes over his daddy´s green or mama´s purple eyes. Hopefully it doesn´t mean that he is gonna grow up to be as evil as her).
I´ve had a sim fail a potion once, but never twice in a row, I was worried that Morgyn was going to hive himself a heart attack from sheer frustration.
Herding sims is harder than herding cats. I usually make a group when I want to keep them at the same place at the same time, but even then someone is quaranteed to misbehave. Hence why I hardly ever bother with posed pics anymore with more than two sims at time.
@Morkovka
Most of my teens seem to hate school, because they keep coming home in all kinds of horrible moods, whether it is enraged, mortified or very sad. But it was the first time they bit anyone, normally they just yell, break dollhouses and are generally a pain in the backside. I don´t know if it´s related to the mods I use, but I have noticed a slight increase of uncontrollable drinking lately.
I wish we had the potion of plentiful needs in real life. It´s a lifesaver, because my teens keep coming home from school hungry, dirty, tired and their fun deep in red, it´s nearly impossible to take care of everything in the natural way.
Congrats for another beautiful and sucessful wedding!
Meet my latest Sim, Lyra 'Silvertongue' Belacqua, protagonist of the His Dark Materials trilogy!
Using her book appearance of messy blonde hair, but borrowing her red motif from the show, with the exception of the blue formal dress (blame Mrs Coulter for that one), the athletic outfit (couldn't resist the reference), and the cold weather outfit (it had bears And in fairness, she does wear green in The Subtle Knife!). She has the Self-Assured trait and, so far, the active aspiration. Also featuring Pan as an Arctic fox! (I love his sweet li'l ermine form, but the fox form was much easier.) Not quite sure what I'll do with her - she's a spellcaster but can't use magic yet, clearly can't live on her own, but I don't want to inflict her actual parents on her. I'm thinking I might make a Lee Scoresby to adopt her? (And... somehow make Hester.) Definitely going to be making Will and Elaine, though! And I'd love Iorek but how.
@Morkovka makes sense! I just have this great image of like... a phoenix popping up out of nowhere while Simeon is teaching and just blurting out, "L pranked the toilets and there's water everywhere please help" or something XD
Poor Chloe, being Father Winter's kid is pretty cool! Hope she has fun as a plantsim!
Ooh, everyone at the wedding looks lovely! And Miss Hell has turned into a crisp, which is always a happy ending in my books!
@RedDestiny92 L has the Mean trait, IIRC? So makes sense! And yeah, I ended up adding everyone into one group and did 'Sit Together', then tried to get them all talking to each other and just... hoped they didn't get up, haha.
I feel bad for Dion. The whole... just being used for image thing.
@Keidra you know, that makes sense. And nice ...Oh god I see that warning. Okay I'm good I'm goin' in.
Poor Damian :-\ Seriously, he really needs to tell someone before someone gets hurt! Okay, good, telling Morgyn is good, it's a start. He needs to let himself be looked after for once. Yup, you were right, that hurt ;_; But at least Morgyn knows now!
@Becka28 oh same, but Don deserved it by casually violating Jessica's consent and boundaries. She had already said no!
Jessica and Diego are so sweet together Party looks like it went okay for the most part. Wow, Diego's face in that last shot! XD
@AlwaysAsking aww, Ian and Lawrence are sweet. Man I feel so bad for Don now. He's been seriously out-manipulated. "You belong to me now" and "I'll know if you don't" are such red flags!
@Koteyka XD That's like me with Jamie. He's my baby and is immortal (seriously - flagged him with MCCC XD) and will do everything in the game eventually.
Tony looks so stressed actually placing the tile At least there are adorable twin shenanigans! Peter is such a good... I was going to say 'such a good kid', but no, he's such a good young man now Oh, that last shot hurts my heart
@DeafSimmer oof, good luck, Tyler! Still, going in alone proooobably wasn't the best idea...
@Ellupelluellu oh man, I'm so sorry! What will you do next?
@AngeliqueAdelaide and this is why I have emotional deaths turned off XD Yeah, ended up doing the group method, and even then I resorted to using the pose player XD
@Becka28 - Thanks
Me neither, but it's funny when your prank gets backfired.
@ryttu3k - Lyra looks so adorable! :
I'm currently working on the new backstories for the Antoine's and Jonathan's family, the Ackerman's.
The sprites were annoying at first, but now they're ok.
I was going to ignore that whim, but I love to start a lil' drama, which led to this...
Christian came back from soccer practice with an injured arm, ouch.
Jonathan had a deviant plan on him.
Without a word, Jonathan showed his affection to his husband. Before things were about to get heat up...
"I know what you did to Caleb earlier, and I'm not happy about it."
"Babe, it's just a joke."
"Yeah, but it still ticks me off whenever you do plum like that!"
Jonathan was about to leave, but was stopped by Christian.
"Hear me out, Jon."
"I don't want to talk right now."
"Babe..." He reached out to caress his cheek, but Jonathan turned away from him. "Don't give me the silent treatment."
"Back off, you son of a -"
Christian pinned Jonathan to the door and gave him a stern look.
"What's gotten into you? I'm not the type of person who goes around screwing around like a pluming player! I love you and only you, not anyone else!"
Jonathan didn't say a word as he listened and thought back that maybe he overreacted, but it still upset him.
"Come on, babe, you know I would choose you over Caleb. Where's that sweet smile I love so much?"
"If you really do love me, how about you show me?"
"You just read my mind."
Due to Christian's injured arm, they skipped out the woohoo and enjoyed each other's company.
After the Ulrike wedding disaster I pretty much gave up on Sara and Jaxon. Here is possibly the very last story I'll tell of them:
Sara and Joaquin argued all night long. Sara left to spend the night with her Partihaus friends. She woo-hooed with Jade and Marcus while she was there. She took a pregnancy test and she was pregnant! She had woo-hooed with Joaquin at their wedding before Ulrike destroyed their marriage though. She was positive the baby was Marcus's since she had taken one before they woo-hooed and it wasn't positive. She came home acting like it was his baby and all was forgiven. Soon, Sara sent Joaquin to go get Ulrike lure her into a pool, and put walls around it. Joaquin really liked Ulrike but he had to listen to Sara.... or else... So thats pretty much where I left off. Sara murders Ulrike and she becomes one of those crazy 40 year old woman on The Real Housewives Of Windenburg.
Anyways,
I was bored and had no story ideas so I finally worked up the nerve to try the story/quiz thing. I frantically pushed buttons as fast as I could until I got my guy... He was a extremely arrogant, materialistic, muscular actor. I never did play as a male actor before (I'm not sexist, lol) so it was new. When I got him to the gym I saw Kayla Flemming. She was perfect for him. A beautiful, gym-obsessed, famous girl. The relationship was complicated. Flirty, Professional, Friendly, Mean. I thought it was cute that every romantic interaction the boy did was glitched so it looked like he was nervous and he stuttered a bit. I can't remember his name so let us call him Josher. I'm now trying for that soulmate aspiration!! (They are so cute!)
@AlwaysAsking I know you like my posts sometimes so if you want I can tag you to let you know when I post.
I play on PS4! Otaku here! From the lands of Canada 🇨🇦
Haha, you clicked, now you have to read all my Sword Art Online fan fiction!
I appreciate the welcomes and glad to share my story again. Speaking of sharing, wow, does this thread move fast.
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Ball-goers came and went, but the Prince and Cinderella stayed the longest on the dancefloor. Completely enthralled by one another.
Seeing them together made the stepsisters green with jealousy. Especially since they couldn't do anything except look on.
"Just look at her, Anastasia."
"Totally hogging up the Prince's time. I think I'm gonna barf."
Anastasia just sighed.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue or somethin'?"
"No, it's jus-"
To Anastasia, Cinderella looked like the happiest woman in the world. Like all the difficulties they put her through were for naught.
"Arghh! I'm so mad right now! Don't talk to me Drizella!"
Although their dance together was over the ball sure wasn't. The handsome fellow wanted to spend more time with her and invited Cinderella to a more secluded area. How could she decline?
It was then she noticed her stepsisters off to the side, grumbling to themselves.
They looked so miserable Cindy couldn't help but feel sorry for them. Well, just a little bit sorry.
As the Prince and Cinderella walked passed them Anastasia took the chance to take a dig.
"Don't flatter yourself, princess."
"This will be the last time you'll ever feel so special. I'll make sure of it!"
Cindy wondered if the handsome nobleman paid notice to Anastasia's threat.
It didn't seemed like it so neither would she.
Although...
It'll be hard to erase those hateful glares from her memory.
*:.｡."It's great being ((Queen Bee))!".｡.:*
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✧ :-"As long as I continue to believe then one day my ((dreams)) really will come true."✧ :-
Okay so this just happened, I'm playing my game in my main save and I'm currently in Morgyn's household. Caleb is over at the moment visiting. So Corin, Morgyn and Caleb are having a conversation and then Corin and Morgyn randomly decide to start woohooing right there, in front of Caleb. Not only did Caleb stay and watch, but he started cheering them on...
I'm not sure but I kind of feel like the game might be hinting to me to make them poly, because, well, WHY ELSE ARE YOU CHEERING THEM ON CALEB, DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE JUST BEING A GOOD FRIEND!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
@queenvortex808 I am really glad I don't live in Windenburg - it is too flirty, partner swappy and murdery in everyones game! I feel a little sorry for Ulrike but Joaquin deserved the wife he ended up with by not standing up for whats right. I like the actor career but I haven't done it with a male sim either. Nor have I ever played with Kayla so that game sounds very interesting.
@TheLastStar sims want what sims want - who are we to stop them LOL
@HopeyStarr I am glad that her sisters thought she looked like the happiest woman in the world - she certainly deserves to be that.
@DarkAngel1994 aww Jonathon and Christian are so beautiful. I am glad that Jonathon's mood didn't last too ong. Sim jealousy is a terrible thing. Was it hard to send your married couple to uni together? I am thinking of letting Edvin Ollie and Cassandra marry but I don't want it to mess up their uni experience.
@ryttu3k I like your Lyra. I forgot to say how much I liked your Darling makeover too. Diego gives jessica some intense looks -it was all he had in the past (when she turned down his flirts) and he has perfected them over time.
@Ellupelluellu Ted and Bella always seemed great together so i like the way it ended. Wolfgang is always his own worst enemy. If you are nice to him he can't help being horrible back but gets jealous just like he is over Tessa. They seem like they would be such a good couple if he could just ... be someone else (LOL) - well at least calm down for 5 seconds. I always wonder what Bjorn actually does as a secret agent - it astounds me how much he earns for hanging out in the gym and playing chess every hour of the night and day. I can't believe all tyhe simnation criminals hang out in parks and gyms. I tried to pick which one of the children I loved but it was too hard as they are all so attractive (actually Babs and Geoffrey's daughter is maybe just my favourite but not by much.) I love how you made over Max - I almost didn't recognise him.
@Morkovka Ezra's wedding was so so wonderful - putting that candle decoration out and getting them all lined up beautifully must have taken longer than the wedding gameplay but it was so worth it for the screen shots. The bride was beautiful and the groom is one of my favourite sims on the thread at present. Why is Morgan so gorgeous -its just not fair to every other sim. I love the close up angry shot (as well as the wedding photo.) PS glad you liked my really likes cupcakes joke - plum paparazzi and public killing the mood.
@AlwaysAsking I totally missed your post because it just wouldn't show up on my phone - everyone was mentioning it and I was looking for it and going crazy. Thankfully I am on my laptop and there it is. I would have died if I couldn't see more Lawrence and Ian. I love how flirty Lawrence was looking. They are so sweet autonomously. I am still feeling sorry for Don (despite myself and the fact I set him up for the good slapping from Jess). Thorne has some very interesting looks - I didn't think anyone could be more leery than Don but Thorne tops him. Though I couldn't help laughing at how he looked when he came out of the wardrobe - Don obviously still has things to teach Thorne. I don't like how threatening Thorne was at the end. I am glad Dash is well out of it because Thorne looks like he may be willing to do almost anything and that wouldn't have been good for Dash. Bjorn being Bjorn was amusing. He is such a weird sim but thats why I like him.'Did I tell you Clara has already destroyed her marriage to the lovely sim I paired her with. I found him crying at the romance festival Max was at - Clara was on a date with another woman kissing and throwing petals etc. I feel sorry for my lovely sim - he is a nice guy and didn't deserve that.
Edvin Ollie and Cassandra
Even unflirty girls love getting a rose.
Cassandra won Foos ball
Discussing wedding plans in a secluded corner.
And a quick makeout in the wardrobe
Jessica and Diego
Diego discovered there was a secret celebrity cottage in the Forgotten Grotto - for meet ups away from prying eyes. He invited Jessica for dinner.
She couldn't believe such a place existed and is doubly impressed at his cooking.
He also impresses her with his dance moves.
But then remembers he can finally twirl Jessica to his hearts content.
Jessica is amused that he thought this move was necessary.
Plum, she has to go to work. He works 9am - 5pm and she works 7pm until 11pm - they never have much time together. Especially as she has children to care for and spend time with too.
A new teen in town.
A new teen has joined the teen club Abilene and Viktor belong to.
Abilene feels it is love at first sight. Can you guess who he is? He is a child of 2 premades. His eyes and forehead are his mothers and mouth and chin his fathers.
She settles right in to getting flirty.
It was love at first sight for someone else as well (poor Viktor the game has killed his father, made Lucas munch dump him, involved him in some very weird relationship with Max, forced him to have surprise half siblings and now curses him with a crush on his sister's crush).
who is this young Adonis who is about to cause some heartache just by existing.
Frankie Pancakes
AWARD time again
Jessica was feeling confident enough to begin dressing up again for the awards.
Thorne calls out to her and against her better judgement she chats with him.
This just encourages Thorne to get overexcited and hit on her. He reminds her they have always had electricity - hadn't she felt it when they were together (the only thing she felt was that he needs to learn about personal space and she wished the electricity between them was a tazer).
Plus she has had enough cheating married men for several lifetimes.
Thankfully her global celebrity status is too much for him and he hits the ground.
Jessica really slays a crowd.
Both jessica and I love that the bar serves caviar while the awards are in progress. She put two at a time in her mouth!
Jessica had a sudden overwhelming desire to share some of her thoughts ad feelings with Bjorn.
And then it hit her that he was gone forever.
Romance festival - more than a little sugary
Diego called her and asked her to the romance festival - she came prepared with her disguise (and the only decent outfit Izzy recommended to her.)
Jessica isn't the only in demand celebrity in this relationship - he loves posing for pictures.
Jessica shows Diego just how proud she is of him.
They are just too cute together.
Excuse you Joaquin - you are creeping on your step mother-in-law and her boyfriend.
They go back to Diego's apartment and Jessica gives out some heavy hints about where she'd like the evening to go.
After all those times of being knocked back, he is being very generous about letting her take the lead - so she bluntly lets him know what she'd like - he is very excited to comply. (I had given her several new night things but I am impressed she automatically chose this one)
He lets her know he had a fabulous time.
After breakfast Jessica decided that she needed to get autonomous in the shower.
I forgot Jessica had a tramp stamp from her young days as a sim.
Poor Diego - I hope she doesn't wear him out!
AT least she can express herself in other ways while he sleeps.
I know! I was so tempted to give him an inner dialogue but I figured his eyes say enough.
Thank you.
Okay. This is it. This is legit the best update so far. I had it planned for literally forever. I spent ages playing it, editing it and writing it down because I wanted everything to be perfect. This update is my baby and I love it.
I'm taking a break tomorrow, so see you all on Friday.
"Dude, just look at the sky! Not a cloud in sight. I swear the weather here is just..."
"The best you've ever seen, right? Well of course it is! Everything is better in Sulani!"
"Haha, nice try... You won't lure me into staying."
"You fool! What's keeping you in that stuffy world of machines and smog?"
"Look, I'm glad you enjoy it here. You literally got obsessed with this place as soon as we got here for the first time..."
"I have never been happier than here, my friend! Sulani is where my heart belongs!"
"Yeah, yeah, I get that. This is certainly the place for you! Especially given the stuff you did in high school..."
"We shall never speak of those years again! We spit on those wasted years!"
"I just... I just prefer to live in a more civilised place, that's all."
"But you belong here too, Tony! You belong in the world of freedom!"
"Appreciate your concern, Thor, but I'm quite happy living in Del Sol Valley. Creature of comfort, you see," Tony smiled.
Thor sighed.
"Okay, where do you want to do next, my friend?" he asked. "What sort of quest shall we conquer next?"
"Well I was thinking maybe-"
"Well hello there!" Tony suddenly stopped.
"Hey!" a young and looking pretty shy man approached him and Thor. "Do you guys know which way is Ohan'ali Town? I'm kinda lost..."
More under the cut:
"Oh no, that's very unfortunate!" Tony twisted his face in a terrifying grimace. "You are miles and miles away from Ohan'ali Town, it'll take you days if not weeks to get there! Unless if you dare to cross the ocean - then it will take only a couple of hours."
"Okay, cool. So which direction do I have to swim?.."
"Oh my god..." Tony couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, I'm only joking. It's to your left. Just keep to that pathway and you'll get there. You really should install a GPS into your phone though."
"Geepee... what? Install?.."
"Yeah, the thingy that shows you where you are... you really don't know what I'm talking about, do you."
"Oh you know, I was frozen for seventy years so I'm not really good with the cool new stuff."
"You WHAT?"
"Hey, I'm only joking," the guy laughed. "I mean I was in a coma but that was for seven months or something, nothing too horrible... I'm just from a little town near Windenburg, and people... people are pretty old-fashioned there. When I turned twenty one I figured I should see something besides the farm and decided to travel around, see the world, all that stuff. So I sold my house, got some tickets and here I am - in the real world!"
"And how's it going?"
"Mindblowing! All of these cars, lights, tiny phones you can carry in your pocket... the last thing was like wow. I knew it existed but only in theory, you know? Also coloured TV's - pretty dang cool! But uh... apparently a few thousand simoleons isn't enough for travelling, so now I'm stuck here till I earn enough money to get a ticket back home."
"Wow. Sorry it had to end that way," said Tony, genuinely feeling bad for the kid.
"It's not that bad. The weather's great and the people are wonderful. I love it here!"
"I'm Steve, by the way. Steve Rogers."
"Tony. Tony Stark."
"That's my house there, by the way."
"You can stop by sometimes if you want."
"Well, it was nice meeting you," Steve smiled. "I better get going though. Thanks again and bye!"
He left. Tony couldn't take his eyes off him.
"That boy has never held a cellphone in his hands," he said pensively. "He's so.. so..."
"Precious and pure. Sulani will protect him at all costs and never let go," sighed Thor. "Question is - will you?"
"What?"
"Let go?"
"You think I should go after him, huh."
"I can see the spark in your eyes, my friend."
"Thor, I don't believe in love at first sight," Tony scoffed. "And I can't love anyone, I've got too much of a busy lifestyle. But I must admit he looks like a nice person... certainly would like to get to know him better... and his hand felt so soft..."
Tony sighed.
"He has no idea who I am, Thor" he said slowly. "Do you know how amazing that feels? Everyone knows who I am but he... he doesn't... Oh screw it."
"Hey Steve! Steve, wait up! Hey, did you notice we're wearing the same sandals?.. Pretty cool, huh..."
Thor smiled.
"Never underestimate the power of true, my friend," he said quietly.
"Yeah, you definitely lost this splash fight," Steve laughed. "That's three times in a row."
"You don't happen to be a merman, do you?" Tony winked.
"Not that I know of..."
"Well you'd make a fine merman."
"Oh please!" jokingly said Steve, but Tony could clearly see that he blushed a little.
"Hey, I know what I'm talking about!"
"What, are you a merman? Because you certainly don't swim as good as one..."
Tony smiled. He recently starred in a movie featuring mermaids. Obviously, he wasn't going to tell Steve that.
"You... you really don't know me?" he carefully asked instead. Once again, just to make sure. Just to once again feel the joy and happiness over talking to someone who didn't give a darn about his fame level. Besides his little buddy Thor, of course.
"No, why would I know you?"
Oh yes. There they are, the words that sounded like heaven. Tony was ready to listen to them over and over again.
"Seriously, why do you keep asking..."
"Oh, no reason. Anyway, you said something about me not being a good swimmer? Race me to the beach and then we'll see who's good at what!"
"Oh, you're on, you're so on!"
"I'll even give you a head start..."
"Gotcha!" Steve jumped at Tony as soon as he got to the shallow area. "Told you I could catch you with a head start!"
"See?" Tony grinned. "Merman."
"Oh Thor don't!-"
"Both of you lovebirdies will thank me for that later," muttered Thor.
"There - now I got you. Who's the winner now, huh?.."
"Tony, my friend! How come you are not enjoying the party?" Thor said, approaching Tony. Tony smiled a bit.
"Oh, I'm enjoying it alright. Really enjoying."
"Lovely view you got there, my friend."
"The "view" finally earned enough money for a ticket home, Thor. This is the "view's" last day here."
"And so is yours, mm?"
"Suppose so..."
"Funny how I was only planning to visit for a week but a whole month passed and I didn't even notice."
"Mhmm."
"I'm not in love, Thor."
"Mhmm."
"I'm not!"
"Tony, my dear friend, you can deny your feelings and let him go to stay in misery, or you can stop acting like a big old fool and go talk to the boy!"
"Hey! I'm not old," said Tony, glad he could jump on a different topic.
"Old enough to be doing my homework in the past," grinned Thor.
"Oh shut up."
"Then stop wasting time and go get him!"
Tony sighed.
"Thor... I mean, what if he rejects me?" he mumbled. "This is his last night here - I wouldn't even be able to make up... and I'm- I'm not in love," he quickly added. "I can't be in love. I never loved."
"Your eyes say differently."
"I'm wearing sunglasses."
"If you so deny that you're in love, why haven't you given him money for the ticket yourself? You can afford it!" Thor winked.
"I can't... I can't afford to love, Thor..." muttered Tony. "Besides, I'll have to tell him what I do, who I am... I don't want him to see me as everyone else does..."
"NONSENSE! He would never see you as everyone else because he already seen the real you! And the boy clearly loves you Tony, he's just too shy to make the first move! Follow your heart and it shall lead you to your destiny! And right now your heart is saying that your destiny is who? Him! So go to him, my friend, and quit all of this nonsense blabbering!"
"Alright," Tony smiled. "We'll have a chat, nothing more. And for the record - I'm doing this because you insist. Only because you insist."
He knew that wasn't true. So did Thor, who only grinned.
"Hey- Hey Steve!"
Steve immediately turned.
"You know when I heard party I didn't think everyone would be so... casual," he said, sounding very confused.
"Oh my..." once again, Tony was almost on his knees in laugher. "Stevey, a party doesn't always have to mean something formal!"
"Well don't laugh!" Steve smiled bitterly. "You're pretty formal too!"
"I'm always formal on parties, it's my thing. But Stevey... you..." Tony burst into laughter again. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry."
"Could I perhaps make up by inviting you to a dance?"
"S-sure..."
"Oh Thor just go!-"
"Thank me later, you wonderful fools."
"You know, it's uh... it's pretty crowded here... If you want to go to my place- I mean I said you can come and you never showed up, so um... besides, it's your last night-"
"Sure," Steve smiled. "Why not?.."
"So you're an only child, huh. You know for some reason I thought you'd have a bunch of siblings."
"it's a common misconception when it comes to countryside families," Steve smiled. "My parents only wanted one child, so did their parents. It was basically me and a ton of adults in a little house. Two grandmas, two grandpas, Mom and Dad. I was like everyone's favourite pet. I don't think even a hour could pass without someone kissing or hugging me. Especially when I learned to walk and started helping around the house. Terrifying, but fun!"
"What about you?"
"Well... My parents had a lot of work, I didn't see them much. But they had high expectations on me, to which I never was able to live up. Especially regarding my father. He was... strict. Thanks to him I liked school, unlike most kids."
"Wow," Steve gently placed his hand on Tony's knee, making his heart miss a beat. "I'm really sorry to hear that..."
"Eh, it's no big deal. Him and Mom are long gone anyway. I'm family-free! What about yours - still living on that farm, wondering where'd you disappear?"
"My grans and gramps passes away when I was fifteen. My parents... Car crash. All three of us in a coma. Seven months later I woke up and they... they didn't."
"Oh my, I'm so, so sorry-"
"Don't be," calmly said Steve. Tony couldn't help but notice he still kept his hand on his knee. "I grieved, I wept, I moved on. Had a whole farm thrown at me. Sold it. Left to see the world. Then... well, you know the rest."
"Alright... so... how about your love life? Got a girlfriend, boyfriend?.."
Steve sighed and rolled over to the other side of the bed.
"I had a boyfriend." he said quietly. "It was... nice. At first. Then it got bad really quickly. I think the problem was that I took our relationship very seriously and he... he didn't. It was just a fun time for him. I started speaking up, he started pushing me down, it got a little- um- violent... then I found out he was cheating on me the whole time. And when I- when I tried to talk to him about it he just- he just laughed and told me to stop making such a big deal out of it. And I tried, but then it happened again... and again... and then he left me."
"Woah. That's intense. Sorry I brought that up..."
"It's fine."
"Are you- are you okay?"
"I figured it's my fault anyway," Steve said softly. "I was too clingy. I should've just left him the first time he cheated on me... then it wouldn't hurt so much. But it was like- every single time I was ready to leave him, he made things a little better. Just a little. And that was enough for me. I kept hoping things would get better, that he'd- he'd stop flirting with other guys... girls... but he knew I wouldn't leave him, so he didn't bother changing. He told me that it's not a big deal, that love doesn't last, that everyone cheats anyway. But then he- he just threw me out, you know? Like a broken toy. In a big city. That's when I headed here."
"Steve. It was definitely not your fault. Don't ever think that."
"You're such a wonderful guy and what that terrible excuse for a person did to you... It's on him. Not you. You're- You're the kindest, sweetest and nicest guy I ever met. You deserve the best kind of love ever."
Steve smiled a bit.
"Thanks. I guess I'm just a bit old-fashioned to expect someone to spend their whole life with me. The world... it doesn't work that way anymore, does it. I mean, I'm not sure it ever did. My parents only stayed together because that was expected. So did their parents."
"No, no it does," quickly reassured him Tony. "I guess it's just all about taking your time and meeting the right person..."
"Mh... Guess so."
"So, Steve Rogers. What's your idea of the right person?" Tony asked, trying to sound as jokingly as possible. Steve smiled wider.
"I don't know... Just someone nice."
"That's too vague. Come, have you never Imagined how your perfect life would look?"
"I don't want anything too creative. Just a house, a guy, maybe a few pets - I love animals you know... And kids! Definitely, I want kids. A boy and a girl..."
Tony smiled, realising he'll never be Steve's type. Ever.
"What's your idea of the perfect person then?"
"That's a secret."
"Well come on, I told you mine!"
"Well uh... blonde... kind... sweet... lives in the ocean literally 24/7..."
And how does Thor join the picture..?"
"Thor?" Tony laughed.
"Yeah, you guys seem close."
"Thor was the annoying kid next door my Mom would make me babysit because his parents would pay her! He's actually Theodore, by the way. I was in eighth grade, he was in first... I did his homework for him so he got all A's for school. Didn't want him getting in trouble - I thought all parents were like Father. Didn't help his social life, but then again, Thor was always a bit of a weirdo so he preferred to talk to animals instead..."
"Did he have awesome hair as a kid too?"
"Are you hitting on my baby Theo? Seriously, baby Theo is off-limits, you hurt him in any way and you'll have to deal with me!"
Steve smiled.
"He just has awesome hair, that's all. I actually thought you two-"
"Us? No, no way. He just likes hugs. He'd use to sneak up and jump on my back before he was so bulked up."
"So... you've got no one too."
"Nope."
"So uh... you want to go out for a coffee then?"
Tony immediately got up.
"Wow... that's quick."
"Sorry... to soon? I just thought-"
"Look," Tony sighed, desperately trying to come up with words. "I like you. I mean... I really like you..."
"So what's the problem then?"
"Problem is that you wouldn't like me," quietly said Tony. He got up, ready to leave.
"But Tony... I do like you. I think- I think I actually love you-"
"Don't," Tony weakly whispered. "Don't because... God, I love you too, I love you so much I think I'm going mad..."
"Oh thank god you feel it too," Steve sighed with relief. "I thought I was the one doing mad, but it's like... it's like we're..."
"Like we're meant to be."
"Exactly!"
"No. No, bad idea. Not going to happen."
"But why? Tony, I love you... so much..."
"Stevey just leave it..."
"No," firmly said Steve. "I love you."
"There's something I haven't told you about myself - a lot of things, actually. I'm... not just any guy," Tony sighed. "I'm a very famous actor. That territory comes with tons of work, coming home late, interviews and meetups with fans. And you're- you're a family person. You want a quiet, normal life with kids... I can't give you that."
Steve slowly let go of Tony's hand and backed away a bit. Tony shut his eyes. He knew Steve would walk away eventually.
"That's why you kept asking if I know you..." Steve said slowly. "You... you kept that as a secret from me. Why?"
Tony sighed.
"Didn't want you to see me as everyone else I guess. It was relieving... finding someone who doesn't know. When people talk to me, they either talk to my money, either talk to my characters. They don't talk directly to the real me. You did."
"But I'm not like that, Tony! I can't believe you thought I'd do that..."
"Sorry. I should've told you from the start... but see, we can't be together. We're from different worlds."
"Maybe we're supposed to be the bridge between those worlds," whispered Steve.
"You're twenty one, you've got your whole life ahead of you," weakly muttered Tony. "I'm in my mid-thirties. I've seen stuff, done stuff..."
"Who cares about age anymore!?"
"You want kids. I'll never be a good dad... Never had the right example."
"I don't believe that."
"Well you should!"
"I've never met anyone like you. There's just something... something... I can't explain it. It's so crazy. But if this isn't true love, then... what is, Tony?"
"I don't know. God, I don't know..."
Steve slowly wrapped his arms around Tony.
"It's like every moment of my life lead to this... here... I don't think I'll be able to ever live without you."
"I know," softly said Tony. "I feel it too... And I feel like I'd do anything to be with you, I'd quit my job, I..."
"I just... I didn't think I could ever fall in love with anyone agin. And compared to this love... whatever I had before, it seems so cheap, so fake..."
"But this... this is real, Tony. The respect and love you give me... it's all real. And I honestly don't care what you think of yourself because I can clearly see that you are the most gorgeous, wonderful, amazing person ever and I- I just want to-"
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Index to other chapters
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17397341/#Comment_17397341
Chapter 20 In which Don says some magic words
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17383549/#Comment_17383549
Chapter 19 In which Don leaves
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17374861/#Comment_17374861
Chapter 18 In which Thorne takes Don to Hawaii and then Really messes up
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17370055/#Comment_17370055
Chapter 17 In which Thorne is home and Hawaii is discussed
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17362895/#Comment_17362895
Chapter 16B In which Dash and Diego go to the Romance Festival
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17393044/#Comment_17393044
Chapter 16A In which Diego really messes up
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17377978/#Comment_17377978
Chapter 15 In which Thorne leaves Town and returns to hear big news
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17357228/#Comment_17357228
Chapter 14 In which we continue Diego and Dash and Diego’s story - Taking it slow
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17348854/#Comment_17348854
Chapter 13 In which Don is sad to hear Thorne is going away
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17344835/#Comment_17344835
Chapter 12 In which Thorne is thrilled that his plan for Don is working
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17343055/#Comment_17343055
Chapter 11 In which we begin Diego Lobo’s storyline
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17340514/#Comment_17340514
Chapter 10 In which Thorne does a favor for Don
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17338796/#Comment_17338796
Chapter 9 In which Don is in terrible distress, and Katrina Caliente tries to help him
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17336707/#Comment_17336707
Chapter 8 In which Dash unknowingly causes a great deal of drama
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17335918/#Comment_17335918
Chapter 7 In which Don begins to worry about Dash, and Thorne “Don-naps Don for a weekend
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17335495/#Comment_17335495
Chapter 6 In which Thorne tries to steal Don from Dash, including a stressful trip to a restaurant.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17334448/#Comment_17334448
Chapter 5 In which Thorne finally “gets together” with Thorne
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17331811/#Comment_17331811
Chapter 4 In which Don appeases Dash, and Thorne spies one last time
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17328246/#Comment_17328246
Chapter 3 In which Don jeopardizes his “relationship“ with Dash
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17326248/#Comment_17326248
Chapter 2 In which Don declares that “Deep Water is Still”
https://forums.iii//forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17316673/#Comment_17316673
Chapter 1 In which Thorne meets Don and observes “The Master”
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17316673/#Comment_17316673
Don arrived at Chez Llama at 6:30, just like Thorne had asked him too. He felt weird going there, but of course, Thorne couldn’t know that he’d been there with Dash not that long ago, so Thorne didn’t realize it would be awkward for Don.
But Thorne looked so happy to see him that he felt a bit better right away.
“Don! You’re here!” Thorne sounded so delighted.
A quick kiss would have to do, but it really wasn’t enough. Thorne had been gone for three days, and they’d missed each other.
“I hate it when you’re gone,” Don said. ”It doesn’t feel right.”
“I know, Bud,” Thorne said. “It doesn’t feel right to me either.” He agonized over what he had to tell Don tonight. He didn’t want Don to cry, which was why he’d made him meet him in public. Don was still “Don” enough to not cry in public. He’d cried in front of Katrina and himself, Thorne, but he wouldn’t here.
While Thorne and Don waited for the Hostess to go seat some other guests, my sweethearts, Ian and Lawrence, came in. I love watching them when I’m not playing them
When she returned Don went to request a table
Spoiler – Just Ian and Lawrence sweetness – lol
Lawrence is not usually this out of control. Ian is amused, lol.
The hostess called for Thorne and Don. They followed her.
Holy …. he’s gorgeous, Thorne said to himself.
And I think he loves me, was his next thought.
“I really miss you when you aren’t here,” Don said. “Whatever is wrong with me gets much worse, and I’m never sure what to do with myself. Usually I’d just go out and party, but I don’t want to do that now.”
“Don,” Thorne said, “You’ll be ok. I’ll always come back. We can find things for you do during the times that I’m gone.”
Oh man, Thorne thought, I’m going to be gone for so long… What can I find for him to do?
“Like what?” Don asked.
“I’ll think of something." Thorne said, knowing full well that Don had no interests besides seducing people.
“Don,” Thorne said, “I actually met you here tonight, because I need to tell you something.”
“What?” Don asked him. Thorne breaking up with him didn’t enter Don’s head. No one ever broke up with him. It was always the other way around. But he did wonder why Thorne looked like that.
“I have to leave again soon,” Thorne said. “And I’ll be gone for a while. I’ll be gone for 18 days. But that’s not that bad. It’s not even 3 weeks.”
“Why?” Don asked. “I don’t like that.”
“I know you don’t Bab.. Buddy,” Thorne said. Whew! Thorne thought. Caught myself. Don’t call him Baby … don’t freak him out. “It’s just a tiny concert tour,” Thorne said. “Out east, all the big cities.”
“Take me with you,” Don said.
“I would Don, but you’re sick. I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but you need to rest. I’ll never get any rest, I'm constantly running around when I'm on tour. You need your own bed, you need to sleep. You need to go to a doctor,” Thorne said. “Why won’t you go to a doctor? I keep asking you to go see a doctor.”
“I don’t have medical insurance,” Don answered. “And I don’t have a doctor.”
Awww sh * t, Thorne thought, yeah, the reality of life with no job. “Oh,” Thorne said.
I’ll have to fix that, he thought to himself. I need him to go see a doctor. “How are you feeling now?” he asked Don.
“I guess I feel ok, I’m not nauseous,” Don answered. “But I feel all empty. When are you leaving?”
“Friday,” Thorne answered, bracing himself for the fallout.
“Friday?” Don responded in a panic. “That’s too soon. You can’t leave Friday. When will you be with me? I want you with me.”
Spoiler just for funzies
He came in, and requested a table for himself. No one else ever came in to join him.
Then he proceeded to go over and watch Lawrence play the piano.
Lawrence doesn’t know how to play the piano …….
But he does know that other men looking at him is scary.
So where is Ian in Lawrence’s hour of need?
Enthusing about the outdoors with Don! Of course!
But it was ok, apparently Bjorn worked his charisma magic on Lawrence too, because Lawrence was fine with him after a few minutes.
But it was all extremely odd. Why was he there? Where was Clara? Or Elsa? He’s always with them. But ok Bjorn, just come to Chez Llama to stand there and chat up Lawrence while he plays the piano … badly.
Sheesh
Continuing...
Thorne was able to be with Don again a couple more times before he left that Friday.
Don was desperate to be with Thorne as much as possible.
The thought of 18 days without him was horrible.
But Thorne assured him that it would be fine.
“Don, it will pass so fast, it’ll be like I was never gone, ok? And you have a job too. You’re going to go to the doctor, and get well so that you can come with me next time.”
“What if I don’t get better?” Don asked him. “What if I can’t?”
“You’ll get better, I promise,” Thorne told him.
“What if it’s going to take a long time to get better?” Don asked him. “Will you still leave me behind all the time?”
“If it’s going to take a while, I will take you to Hawaii to get better, ok?” Thorne said.
“Really? Do you mean that? Or are you just saying it?” Don asked him.
“I mean it Don, every word.”
“You have my credit card," Thorne said. "Use it for the doctor, and anything they say you need. Use it to order food, whatever you want, have it delivered. Buy yourself a game system, a bigger tv, anything you want. Just wait for me here at Malcolm's house. Ok? Don’t go to anyone else Don. You belong to me now. Don’t forget that.”
“I won’t forget,” Don assured him. “I’ll wait for you here.”
“I’ll know if you don’t.” Thorne said. “You realize that, right?”
“Yeah, a 'course I do,” Don answered. “I’ll be here.”
He better be ....
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@ryttu3k Stanley will always stay in our hearts.
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@RedDestiny92 Oh my, that's so horrible! That poor dog
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@Becka28 I hate it too, but realistically they weren't able to take good care of him anymore, so... guess it's better this way?
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Today is quite an important day in the world of fame. Tony Stark, one of the most famous TV actors ever is about to place the Celebrity Tile!
We are LIVE at Starlight Boulevard! People came from Oasis Springs, San Myshuno and even Windenburg to celebrate their favourite celebrity's success!
Even Judith Ward made an appearance!
And look at all of the paparazzis - they just can't stop taking shots!
Currently Tony is giving out autographs and selfies to his fans - how generous!
Looks like it's finally time...
And the crowd goes wild!
Tony seems to be incredibly proud with himself. And honestly - no one can even blame the guy. This is truly what means to be successful!
In an hour Tony is heading out to a conference, then an interview, then another fan meet - we seriously don't know how he manages to have so much energy in him! A few fans were even worried that so much pressure may effect his mental health but Nick Fury, Tony's agent and manager, confirmed that everything is fine...
More under the cut:
Steve sighed.
"He just... carries on. No change whatsoever. Not even a glimpse."
"Evil, remember? Dinnae you ever forget that! Gobsmacking how many people actually do!"
"Easy for you to say. You haven't spent the best years of your life with him."
"Oi! The only difference between your ex and my ex is that your's more famous than mine!"
"Suppose you're right. I just don't know how to get him out of my mind."
"Well that's what I'm here for, aye?"
"Aye..."
"Look Steve. You're trying too hard to forget everything. But you cannae just get rid of those memories, you have to replace them with new ones! It's always easier to replace a bad habit with a good habit then just getting rid the bad habit!"
"Positive reinforcement... I guess that could work. But how?"
"NO!" suddenly yelled Jamie, making everyone jump. "Don't touch Petred!"
"Petred? I'm trying to get rid of the cobwebs!" responded Peter.
"Yeeah, that's Petred's home and you better not touch that!"
"Why would you ever name a spider Petred- You know I'm actually terrified of spiders to I'd rather not know."
"Because he's our PET and I'm going to pain him RED!" eagerly shouted Lindsey.
"Lindsey, that's my red marker, you can't have it..."
"We're still going to paint him red."
"Yeah. Because he'll look prettier."
"Okay guys, a dog is way better as a pet. Like way better. You should look into that."
"Nope."
"Spiders are cool."
"Dogs drool, spiders rule!"
"Especially red spiders."
"Especially Petred."
"U-huh."
"Fineee, you win... you're all in paint, did you know that?"
"We were just rebranding our wall," Lindsey smiled. "Can you pull me up? I want to say hi to Petred!"
"I really don't understand how can you not be terrified of that thing," Peter squirmed.
"Helloooo Petred! We're gonna paint you red one day!"
"We can paint Peter red for now!" excitedly suggested Jamie.
"Paaa!"
"He can't hear you, he's too busy talking to Momma!" Lindsey giggled.
"Pa! Oh whatever. I'm taking that marker."
"Nooo!"
"Hey- don't run outside! Urrrgh Jamie!"
"I think of him everyday," Steve sighed softly. "I can't help it. And seeing him so happy... It hurts. It's like I'm expecting him to come back... Is that weird?"
"Oh, you're such a puppy still waiting for him after all this time," cooed Katrina.
"Yeah. I get referred to that a lot," muttered Steve. "I hate it you know. It's like people just see me as a cute little pet that matches with a purse rather than a human being. "Oooh, look at Steve! He's such a cute little puppy, so naive and harmless! He knows nothing about the world, he's just Starks accessory! Look how he wags his tail every time Tony gives him a scratch behind the ear!" You know whenever something goes wrong everyone expects me to just suck it up. Because it's not like I understand anything or have feelings... I'm just Tony's loyal puppy, I can deal with anything, right? And when I try to do something about it, no one even takes me seriously! They just- they just laugh! Because it's so cute and funny when a puppy growls! And Tony..." Steve felt his voice break a little. "Tony laughs with them."
"Oh, I didnae mean it in that way..." Katrina laughed. "Look, I'm just saying that you're clingy."
"I know..." Steve mumbled. "I need to move on but it's just so hard... it's like they're right, you know? I really am nothing but Tony Stark's accessory. I'll never get over him."
Katrina sighed.
"Look. If he happened to suddenly waltz in and try to make up, would you go with him?"
"No..." Steve paused. It was almost easy how he said that.
"No!" he firmly repeated. "I wouldn't! Because I want the old Tony, the one who's long gone, will never come back, and probably wasn't even there in the first place... I mean when I really think about that happening, I realise I wouldn't!"
"Not even that part of you that wanted to be with him no matter what?" winked Katrina.
"Not even that part... huh," Steve smiled. "I really don't want to go back anymore."
"See? We're making progress!"
"Guess we are."
"Dinnae think that man can rule your life, Steve. You'll win this fight."
"Thanks Kat."
"Aye, that's what I'm here for."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go scrub these two cheeky little rascals before they colour the whole room. Look at your skirt, Jamie! You really don't make Momma's life any easier, do you!"
"Hey Kat, you do know there's a laundromat in the garage, right?"
"Aye, but with my situation every simoleon counts so I'd rather do it the old-fashioned way."
"I could pay for you if you want."
"You'd- You'd do that?"
"Yeah, sure thing. I could use our laundry detergents too - they're a bit higher quality. Anything that helps."
Katrina smiled.
"I swear, that bloody man of yours doesnae know what he's lost."
"Oi, Peter, be a good laddie and throw out the trash while you're out, will you?"
"Sure thing, Jamie's and Lindsey's mom! Pa, could we talk outside?.."
"Of course..."
"Well, what is it?"
"I want to give Jamie and Lindsey my toys," excitedly said Peter. "Do you think they'd like that?"
"Wow... really?" Steve was genuinely surprised. Peter was generally quite possessive about his things. He was ready to pack his whole room when they were leaving and it took some time for him to realise that the furniture is just too large to fit in the suitcase.
"Yeah, totally. I mean, I'm not a kid anymore, I don't play with that stuff, it just lies around... But I bet Lindsey and Jamie would love them! They... they really don't have any good toys, Pa. And they need it way more than I do."
"Huh. Your growing as a person, Peter."
"I'm really proud of you."
"Thanks, Pa..."
"So that's the stuff that kinda just hangs around for decor, I don't think you're supposed to play with it although that never stopped me... ooh, and that's my boombox! It has a few CD's with kids music if you're into that kind of thing."
"Those are actually rare collectibles that cost a fortune and technically should be placed behind glass... But I mean it's totally fine if you want to throw them around. I did that all the time as a kid!"
"I want the hamster! "I'm gonna call it Mittens!"
"We finally meet, Mister Robotic Twin Of Doom 2000..."
"Is the white teddy also for us?"
"Actually a seal but sure..."
"WOOPIE! I have a white teddy now! Just like Mellissa from across the road!"
"And I can have the elephant?"
"Guys. This is all for you."
"Ooooooh Mellissa is going to flip, right Jamie?"
"I'm glad you guys like them."
"Are you kidding? We LOVE em!" yelled Jamie.
"Thank you thank you thank you for all the toys! I've gotta say thank you a million times so can I just hug you instead?"
Lindsey loves hugs.
Jamie still doesn't.
"But I thought we're friends now!"
"Not that good of friends!"
"I really cannae thank you enough for this!" gushed Katrina. "Cannae even remember the time I last got them new toys - I think it was when Jamie threw a wobbly in the supermarket but that was nearly a year ago..."
"Oh, I had nothing to do with any of this, it was Peter's idea. I was surprised myself!"
"Well he's a wonderful lad."
"Yep," Steve smiled. "That he is."
"Best. Day. EVA!" shouted Jamie. Funnily enough, it felt that way for all of them. Certainly the best day ever.
The next update is going to be the best one yet. Just sayin'.
Can you believe a few months ago I wrote somewhere out there on forums that I'm not particularly interested in occult sims
Jessica called Diego and asked him to meet her at the Magnolia Parade bakery. Judging by his expression Diego really, really, really likes cupcakes and they make him very excited.
It didn’t take long for the paparazzi to track Jessica down.
She bribed him a large amount of money to go away.
Diego was charming and tried to cheer her up.
how the date went....
A romantic walk in the park became a mob of screaming fans and several more paparazzos yelling for their attention.
Jessica couldn’t take it any more and started yelling at everyone to leave her alone.
Suddenly, she looked up and realised Diego had left the park and was heading home. She ran after him calling his name.
“Please don’t go” she begged.
“Are you ashamed of me?” asked Diego. “You just don’t seem happy to be seen out with me..”
Jessica was horrified that this is what he thought.
Jessica told Diego that Bjorn had resented her fame and sharing her with the world. “He blamed me for weakening our marriage, he said I wanted the fame more than the family more than him. I am sure if I had caught him out in his affair he would have made that all because I was famous too” she explained. Diego couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Jessica continued “I don’t want you to leave me or resent me because of my fame or who the world thinks I am.”
She nervously waited for him to tell her every painful thing Bjorn had ever said was true. But he laughed and said “we really misunderstood each other didn’t we. I never want you to change for me or stop doing the job you love. I am so proud of your fame - I love being with you.”
They went back to Diego’s. Jessica hadn’t felt this happy or loved for a long time. “Will you be my boyfriend?” she asked. He had said yes almost before she finished her question.
Oh my poor heart – I can’t work out which one’s reaction is cuter.
Time passed and the family settled back into familiar routines.
Jessica Spent time with Edvin Ollie
And Abilene, explaining about Diego as well as helping them understand how to deal with all the rumours in the press. Viktor seemed to want to spend time alone so she gave him space, despite a lurking worry in her heart.
She still got wound up herself, by some of the more outrageous stories in the press.
Eventually, Jessica got Griffin and some of Bjorn’s friends to explain to the children that they had 2 more siblings. She wanted them to know but did not want to meet them herself or know who their mother was.
An invitation to their brothers birthday was passed on to Edvin Ollie. The kids sat down to discuss whether they should go over a game of cards.
Edvin, Abilene and Viktor were interested to meet their new siblings but Lyra was confused and sad.
Edvin and Cassandra seem to have worked out the nonflirty thing.
Lyra is embarrassed by all the kissing. Abilene got a broken heart thought bubble when they kissed. Apparently according to her moodlets she is jealous because she has no one of her own to love. Poor Abilene – you have just become a teen – give me a chance to find you someone.
Edward's birthday
Kendrick was there to support her.
Lyra was not expecting to have a good time.
Paris (the other half sibling but with Paolo as her dad) developed an instant girlie crush when she saw Edvin Ollie. She followed him everywhere he went.
Tiffani made sure Paris didn’t get all the attention after all he was her brother – not Paris’s.
Edward aged up and looks just like a blonde Viktor as a child.
Tiasha’s 2nd little girl Lucia also aged up – love the new toddler hair. She can look like her mummy.
Abilene saw someone who she wouldn’t mind loving. But spent most of the party chatting with Edward who seemed to love her.
Lyra was happy when it was time to leave.
Abilene was feeling confused about how she felt about her father and this entire situation.
But then she answered a whole pile of Tiffani’s questions and realised her life had been pretty good and she was glad she came and now had a bigger family.
(Viktor hung out with Tiasha and Tyrell all night and never spoke to his siblings at all.)
More Jessica and Diego
They enjoyed the chance to speak without people constantly interrupting them.
Jessica mentored Diego on his fishing skills.
She is supposedly talking about fishing but from the look on Diego’s face I sense a double entendre – an entendre about this big.
Jessica has written some love poetry for Diego. I think it was pretty hot stuff judging by his reaction.
Recap: Damian Ember the Morgyn Ember CAS clone moved into an apartment with Cassandra Goth, then they moved to a better apartment, stole the Vatores, turned them human, shipped them to college, and then stole Morgyn. Morgyn turned Caleb into a spellcaster, Lilith doesn't get off the treadmill long enough to be a proper MC, and then Vladislaus called in the cavalry named Sarnai and things are going quite sour quite fast. Cassandra and Damian are married, have a daughter named Esmeralda, Esme for short, and Morgyn and Caleb are dating.
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He couldn’t keep this up. The more time went on, the more Damian was sure of it. It was so hard to tell what was him, and what wasn’t. He didn’t trust his own thoughts and instincts. He didn’t know what to do, because if this… whatever she was in his head was strong enough to mess him up, and she wasn’t even here, then what could she do to the rest of his family?
Damian didn’t want to find out the hard way. It broke his heart to see the hurt in Cassandra’s eyes when she looked at him now. But he didn’t know what else to do. It was hard enough to fight off the whatever she was. Mostly it left him tired and irritable, and apparently prone to snapping. Damian tried not to think anything she might find useful, but he didn’t know what she was after, either.
Maybe Morgyn had a good solution – no. Damian had spent his entire life protecting Morgyn, it wasn’t going to turn into Morgyn having to protect him suddenly. That wasn’t how this was supposed to go, and it’d been Damian protecting Morgyn for so long, he didn’t know how else to function.
There was the distant, vague idea of leaving, but someone would follow, no doubt, and Damian wasn’t sure if that was his idea or hers. That was hard to say. Damian wasn’t anyone special, why would someone go after him, anyway? Well, unless the one they were after wasn’t Damian, but was Cassandra or Morgyn. Cassandra was the current eldest child of the Goth family and the one that stood to inherit the Goth fortune someday. And Morgyn was one of the most powerful spellcasters in spellcaster history.
Except, both Cassandra and Morgyn had a weakness, and it happened they had the same one.
You must stop fighting us, the feminine voice hissed in his head. Damian visibly winced, raising a hand to his head, as whoever that was exerted stronger control over him. Though he was fighting her, he was steadily losing it anyway. She was winning, and he knew it. She took over for longer now than she had at first. It was, maybe, only a matter of time until he was a danger to them. Because Caleb might’ve threatened to snap his neck, but Damian didn’t really believe he could do it, because Caleb might pretend otherwise, but he loved him, too.
As always it did, their struggle lasted only a short moment. One second Damian was cringing in pain, and the next, he stood up straight, and turned to the side. No one else was here.
Good. Sarnai just needed to keep breaking this one down, and she’d have her worm in the Goth residence, just like she got her worms in the Magic Realm. All was going according to plan. Now she just had to execute the next part, and with any luck, she’d be able to practically hand the Magic Realm’s keys to Vladislaus.
Of course, this would inevitably start a vampire-spellcaster war. Sarnai looked forward to it.
The anger hadn’t gone away.
None of them had said anything about the weird way Damian was acting that morning, simply all sat down at the table for breakfast, minus Cassandra and Damian, and then sat in silence until Damian once again snapped at Cassandra. And that time, they got into an honest to Watcher argument, loud enough everyone downstairs heard every word.
All three of them silently exchanged glances across the table. Lilith got up and went downstairs. Morgyn got up and teleported somewhere. And Caleb went to the balcony to beat the stuffing out of something that was unfortunately not Damian’s face.
And that… whatever it was Caleb was sensing. It was difficult to say what it was, because Caleb wasn’t a vampire anymore. His senses weren’t the same, but there was a slight tingle of an energy he’d been around before. That energy made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and it was very annoying not to be able to pinpoint what it was.
Caleb heard a door slam. He stopped, glancing at the window that looked into the entry. Damian marched out of the apartment and into the elevator, also slamming the front door on the way out. A head tilt, and Caleb noticed Cassandra by the stairs. She looked upset, but he didn’t expect anything else, and then she went upstairs.
What are you doing, Damian?
“You’ve been out here all day,” Lilith said, sitting down on one of the couches on the balcony. Caleb looked annoyed, still, but he sat down too.
“Yeah,” he said. “It was a better idea than beating the stuffing out of Damian.”
They both went quiet, listening to the gentle, cool breeze outside. It was winter now, and it’d been snowing here and there, but Caleb wasn’t too bothered by the chill. Apparently, neither was Lilith.
“It’s always about something stupid,” Lilith said.
“Yeah, it is,” Caleb agreed. “Cassandra hardly talks that much, and now that Damian keeps snapping at her for talking, she’s doing it less and less.”
Lilith nodded. “Yeah. … do you sense it too?” she asked.
“That thing that I’m pretty sure I’ve sensed before but can’t pin down?” Caleb asked. “Nah, wouldn’t know what you mean.”
Lilith gave him a put-upon look. “I think there’s something magically wrong with him, Caleb.”
“How convenient,” Caleb answered wryly.
“I wouldn’t call this convenient,” Lilith said.
“I’m just saying I’m getting a little tired of listening to him basically abuse my best friend and I’m not feeling terribly giddy at the idea of an excuse for her to keep putting up with it.”
Lilith sighed, tilting her head. “I know,” she said. “But you know how much he means to her. And if this was Morgyn, you’d be doing the same dang thing.”
Despite the infuriated look Caleb gave her, Lilith was unperturbed, and Caleb knew she was right. Eventually, he loosed a huff, and looked toward the windows. “Fine,” he said. “What now?”
“We need to figure out who it is,” Lilith said, “and whether we’re dealing with a spellcaster or a vampire.”
Right, yeah. Vampires were capable of pulling something like this off. But Caleb had to wonder why. Vampires and spellcasters generally kept to themselves, and didn’t cross one another’s paths very often. Even when they did, vampires respected spellcasters were dangerous, and vice versa, and everyone went on their way.
Well, Caleb still had vampiric friends. He could ask one or two. When he wasn’t still so angry, maybe he would. It was not always a good idea to show up unannounced on a vampire’s doorstep ticked as all heck.
Unfortunately, Cassandra had been in such a bad mood recently, she’d not been coming down to make breakfast and the like. Caleb decided to try his hand at it, and so far he hadn’t managed to blow anything up. That was a nice start.
He was still angry, and maybe he would be for a while, except now what he was angry with had shifted. Whatever was messing with Damian was messing with a sacred union. Cassandra and Damian were meant to be together, Caleb believed that, they completed one another in ways Caleb hadn’t seen very often in the last few hundred years of living.
He shook his head to himself. He heard a slight tap sound behind him. “Nice curves back there,” came Morgyn’s voice.
Caleb laughed slightly. “I mean, it’s taken about three hundred years to get them like that, you’re dang right nice curves back there.”
Morgyn didn’t bother resisting the eye roll, leaned over around Caleb to kiss his cheek, and then moved back.
“Are you okay?” Caleb asked quietly.
Morgyn’s green gaze fell to the floor. “No,” was the quiet answer. “Simeon stopped answering me. I called this morning, but it went straight to voicemail. And Damian’s losing his mind.”
“I was talking to Lilith yesterday,” Caleb said, “and we both sense the same thing.”
“What is it?” Morgyn asked.
“Neither of us has any idea right now, sorry. We’re going to try and figure it out though. Hey, I know this is hard, but as long as Damian is here, he’s not Watcher only knows where, and we can figure this out. …. even if we do have to lock him in his room and hope he doesn’t remember he can teleport back out.”
Morgyn smiled slightly, but then looked a little upset. Caleb almost regretted making the joke, because it was looking more and more like a potential reality, and nobody wanted to do that to their sibling.
“What is this…”
She wasn’t aware anyone in this house had a child. For the most part, Sarnai had been too busy fighting through Damian’s mental walls. He was a tougher spellcaster than she gave him credit for, for sure, but all things broke with enough force applied to them after all. And now she could see things better.
She tried to come up with a name, but Damian was blocking it out. No matter. The child would tell her what its name was, eventually.
Stay away from her.
We’d love to see you try and stop us.
LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE!
The force of the mental snarl was so strong, it physically knocked the wind out of Sarnai, and threw her out of his head instantly.
“Please stop, stop it, go away…”
It was getting harder to fight her off, and Damian could feel his sense of self slipping away. It was terrifying in a way that nothing had ever been before, a kind of fear that was indescribable. He thought he’d heard Cassandra talking to him a moment ago, but whatever she said was drowned out by whatever he was saying. At this point, he didn’t even know what words were coming out of his mouth.
It didn’t matter. He had to focus all of his energy on fighting her off. She’d gotten so close to his daughter. She was trying to get back into his head, but he was fighting her. It was enough. This was enough, he couldn’t let her win again, it was hurting Cassandra, it was threatening Esmeralda, she was probably after Morgyn…
“They’re mine,” he muttered. “Mine, you can’t have them, my reasons to live, mine…”
Footsteps sounded. Damian didn’t flinch, but then hands reached for him.
“DON’T!” he shrieked, shoving himself against the wall. “Don’t, she’s here, she’s still here, don’t touch me.” His breathing was rapid and frantic, and the blond withdrew, kneeling down instead. Morgyn, of course.
“Who’s she?” Morgyn asked.
“I don’t- I don’t know,” Damian answered, panting and wincing in pain. “I wouldn’t tell you even if I did. Stay away from me, don’t touch me, you stay over there, not you, I hate you, get away from me!” There was a short pause, and then Damian started crying. “No, wait, I didn’t mean it, I’m sorry, Morgyn I’m sorry, please, please don’t leave me, don’t leave me alone again, I don’t want to be alone again, please.”
“Shhh, shh,” Morgyn said, scooting across the floor and taking Damian’s hands. “No, Damian no, listen to me, I’m never going to leave you again, I promise. I’m not going anywhere. Everything’ll be okay. I need you to tell me who she is.”
“I don’t know, honest, I don’t know, I’m sorry, I’m sorry I’m so useless, I’m sorry, she’s after you, she wants to take you away from me again, don’t go, please don’t go, please stay.”
It hurt. Morgyn spluttered slightly, but shoved it back down at the last second. Now wasn’t the time to get emotional, one of them should be stable. “I won’t,” Morgyn said, pulling Damian over and holding him. “It’s okay. I won’t go.”
“I’ll kill her,” Damian snarled, and sparks alighted at his hands.
“No!” Morgyn started, reaching down and suppressing Damian’s magic. “Damian no, don’t use your magic, not right now, you can’t control it! We’ll figure it out, I promise, but I need you to calm down for me.”
“I can’t, I can’t, it hurts, Morgyn it hurts so much, I can’t breathe, please, help me, please make it stop, I can’t…” It was almost endless, and it hurt to listen to, as Damian fell into Morgyn’s lap and cried.
What was there to even do? He said ‘she’ was here, what did that – no, Morgyn knew what that meant, mind manipulation no doubt. There were spells that did it, though that was forbidden magic. Not that it being forbidden magic really stopped anyone from doing it. Maybe that was what the Realm was screaming about. The Vortex was formed because of forbidden magic. It’d be forbidden magic that hurt it and the crystal core that sustained it.
Not now. Right now, Damian needed Morgyn, and for once, Morgyn was here. It felt like Damian was always saving Morgyn from something, giving up something for Morgyn. Very gently, Morgyn rested one hand on Damian’s hair, sparks and tendrils of magical light swirling around the raven strands. There were wards, but, Morgyn knew it wasn’t a permanent solution. The spells wouldn’t last forever, but they’d give Damian a little rest.
Damian squeaked in pain, but then heaved a sigh, almost immediately relaxing. His breathing slowed, evened back out. Gently, Morgyn pet his hair. Damian had been through too much, why was he living through this, too?
“Is that better?” Morgyn asked, very quietly.
“Yeah…” Damian answered, just as quiet. “I have a migraine.”
“I bet you do. I’ll make te -“
“No,” Damian squeaked, almost panicking again. “Please don’t go.”
“Okay,” Morgyn answered, immediately. “I’ll stay.”
For once, Morgyn wasn’t running away, not this time.
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Stop player on player violence.
Peter's face about that spider lemme tell ya, gives me life.
The best update that's coming is Nick getting slammed with a meteor, right? xD
@Becka28
Awwww Diego and Jessica are cute and I'm glad their relationship is going well.
Awkward family meetings are awkward :x
@AlwaysAsking
Thorne and Don's relationship is honestly toxic af but still ridiculously fascinating and I should be annoyed this is interesting but here we are.
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Stop player on player violence.
No electrocutions this time around:
Time to get the mail!
Shine set off for class:
And Roddy changes into his masculine athletic outfit:
Cue entrance of the gladiators!
After a sim hour and 25 sim minutes, Shine's class has finished!
'Time go go home, sweetie!' Shine said, calling over Roddy:
'Ok mummy!' Roddy replied, cheerfully. The pair hopped on a canal boat and set off to Brindleton Bay.
Since it was thundering it down, he decided to teleport in:
Since Benjamin doesn't have a sprinkler set up in the greenhouse, he has to go to each raised bed and water it:
Whilst Benjamin was doing that, Shine did some archaeology:
And some Robotics:
And some Homework:
Lawrence is cute, Lawrence trying to play piano is the cutest
@Koteyka Awww, so generous of Peter to give away his toys
OOOh, I wanted to save Steve and Peter, now I want to save Tony.
There's a lot of saving needed
@Becka28 "Judging by his expression Diego really, really, really likes cupcakes" - this cracked me up so much!
I'm so happy for Jessica
It's lovely that the kids hold a family council about important things like meeting your illegitimate siblings
@Keidra That's devastating.
Love how Damian's defenses flare up when it's about his baby!
But he's going through hell, poor thing...
So, it's Ezra and Bianca, all the Vatores and Morgyn, because I have a hyperfixation (hello darkness, my old friend...)
Pretty bride.
Ezra with his parents.
Ezra's sisters and brother-in-law Alexander.
Wanda and Vlad.
Constantine Vatore with his granduncle.
And one beautiful Sage.
And then an uninvited guest appeared...
"Nice, all the Vatores together having a lovely party I'm about to ruin..."
"Oh, and they are serving some fancy food tonight. How about I take a bite?"
Sage-rage mode on.
And that's that.
Creep dead, problem solved, party saved.
No drama.
I know I'm boring
Here are Madison's sons!
Madison was pregnant with Liam when Jack died. She was actually already in her last trimester.
HillyPlays
P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
I recently got Discover University and I started a new save to check it out. So far, I'm loving it.
Meet Blake Edwards! He's going to be attending the University of Britechester and he's going to be studying Computer Science. He'll be living on campus and having 9 roommates.
He meets one of his roommates named Christian. He found out that Christian will be studying Communications and will be sleeping in the same room as him.
After getting settled in, he went to Darby's Den to hang out. Frankie, who is also one of his roommates, decided to tag along with him. Frankie is studying Drama.
These two went ahead and fished.
Frankie got a fish, but Blake had no luck.
Day 1 of the Term
First day of classes! Blake will be taking two classes this term: Programming 101 and Gourmet Cooking: Tapas Touch. The only class he's attending in Day 1 is his gourmet cooking elective class.
After class, he came back and saw a note left by one of his roommates, which wasn't a good one. That made him so mad.
That note was left by Alex Moyer, a premade Sim from the tutorial. I found out that she will be studying Villiany, which could explain the bad note she left.
Later that night, Frankie introduced Anthony to Blake. Anthony is also studying Computer Science.
Anthony: Since we're studying the same major, want to be study partners?
Blake: Sure, man!
I got Blake some University apparel and I went into CAS and created another outfit sporting them. After he took his shower, he changed into that outfit. He decided to join some of his roommates who are watching a movie.
Before he went to bed, he had some Lobster Thermidor as a late night snack.
Day 2 of the Term
After his programming class, he ran into Morgyn Ember, who is also Blake's roommate and he's studying Communications.
Day 3 of the Term
That night, Blake went to talk with Christian about his day.
Things were going as planned until this guy named Erion came in. Shockingly, I learned that he's studying the same major as Blake, BUT he's attending Foxbury Institute.
Erion: Foxbury Institute Rules! University of Britechester sucks!
Blake: Dude! University of Britechester is the best university! How dare you!
Erion: LOL! Look at him getting triggered!
Blake: Just get out of here please! Foxbury peeps are not welcome here.
Day 4 of the Term
Blake saw the school mascot, Darby the Dragon, and gave it a high five.
He's done with his coursework for his gourmet cooking class, so he went to Darby's Den to prepare for his final exam in his programming class.
Day 5 of the Term
Blake won the game!
After the event, the two went to watch an E-Sports Game Competition.
Once that was over, Frankie hugged Blake, thanking him for a great day.
Blake then told Frankie that he's glad that Frankie's one of his roommates.
@ryttu3k , heh, I really loved the faces and animations Björn did when close to either Clara or Ted , the mafia was only thing came to my mind at the moment
@sarabeth2984 , I was wrong, he had only 22 kids in the end , hih. The reason I love desert worlds is totally opposite than yours
@Nushnushganay , Glad I was able to help
@Alwaysasking , Nope, not at home. Some job related things made us stay up here another week, but we are getting to south for christmas, gladly
You will see whta happens to Wolfgang, when I get my hands to that save again :P
Ukupanipo and Inna pictures aren't at Ted's save. I started new save (originally for testing,for a reason I explain below) to kill time, as I have to be here for another week, I may as well play during it
So , here it goes, in a nutshell:
I use "save as" all the time, I keep 5-10 closest saves as backups, delete rest. I seem to have corrupted my save at some point, as when ever Ted or Tessa (or anyone) tries to visit several communitylots, I get an error popup with series of numbers and game jumps to start menu. All lots were original lots, most not even edited by myself at any way. I didn't realise it before day after yesterday.
I tried with or without CC/mods, still getting it. I started totally fresh save, all those lots are fully functional, vanilla and not in that new save. So must be corrupted save. I rolled back to the last save file I had, same problem
Reason I haven't notice earlyer was because I have being playing Tessa, and she has only visited in couple of communitylots, unlike Ted who used to use many of them. All gyms give error, almost all commlots at winderburg, all but one restaurant.. so and so.. I had no interest of digging at recycle bin for earlyer saves, as I have no idea how far I would have to go, and this is anyway just a testing save anyway.
These are the remaining unposted pics of Ted (I cut down over 100 pictures, no energy to organize them all, just "highlights"), and few about Tessa, and I loaded CAS for some of Ted's kids and aged them to teens to get a view how they might of looked after growing up.
Last pics about Ted and conclusion.
Fifth apartment for Ted, again minor wall/floortile tweaks.
He did maxed both, cooking and gourmet cooking! Yay!
Only one lady was welcomed anymore.
He kept painting, he skipped all the festivals too (too embarasshed about the last one!).
He had a new gym club, this time with vampires again included. The glider in his thought bubble when checking out Vlad1's buttons! (Diego had a makeover too)
And then, continuing from my post back, about Bella's makeover at romance fest. No captions needed
Bella, do not wonder about the size of the diamond, it is real! You do not know it yet, but you are gonna marry a man who has double the money your first husband has!
The end.
Tessa and Wolfgang, what a "couple"??
Her very first visit to library to gain logic..
I wish I knew simlish , so I would know what she said to him to make him so angry
Looks like he won the battle...
Tessa: "Naah, I just let him believe he won.. jerk.."
Next time she chosed different place for playing, did not helped.
Gladly Ted with his sons came to interrupt!
Tessa: "Oh this is yummy!"
Vlad1: "What? That is water. Do you even have age for this place? Based of your hair you don't."
Aaand that relationship did not started well either!
Back in the library.. oh comon, do not show up EVERYWHERE she goes, Wolfgang!
Yeah yeah..
Dominic: "Those young people.."
This time a new chess partner..
But not necessary the better, lol!
Wolfgang called , that "We didnt start well, maybe we could try to talk"-or something message and invited her to dine.
Lily started to chat with them from the next table.
Tessa: "Wolfgang, that is not polite!"
Aand here we go again!
You guys, just shut up and eat! Maybe don't drink, I have no idea what that green thing is...
I made her to apologize...
.. but this was how the evening ended.
Nice afternoon coffee with Markus.. someone is watching..
Max and Tessa became friends after fishing the whole afternoon!
Once again playing chess with Björn (and talking about frogs!)
Okay you are really starting to freak her out
Couple random pictures:
Tessa was leaving, I managed to take this one, right after I unpaused, Björn left and had again one of his looks at Ted
Lol, tense :P
Some of the kids.
(Almost unedited, they are how they were when I aged them up. I did only gave females some flashes, but no makeup.)
Damon with Bella
Stefan with Bella
Sam with Jesminder
Condrad with Moira (oh boy it was tempting to change the hair, lol!)
Bluebell with Miko
Ella with Babs
Tiina with Babs
Ron with Alice
Oscar with Alice
Michael with Siobhan
Lawrence with Siobhan (you can tell they are twins, lol)
Simon with Nancy
Victor with Eliza
Mickey with Clara
Aada with Clara
And:
Cat , Babs with Geoffrey
Katerina , Vlad1 with Kat (NOT showing her sideprofile, lol)
Elena , Caleb with Miss
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Next page ah! Finally, I still haven't forgiven Bjorn but the way it comes together it's like he needed to be a roadmap to here so she could have that past to really enjoy her future.
@Gosh seeing Don so out of sorts in this one makes me feel bad for the guy, once his hormone issues are over I wonder how much of the Don will be left. Nice seeing Ian and Lawerence again, it got me thinking of how things would be if they just had a typical couple day and went with a double date, would they find themselves superior or would they see the unhealthy parts of the relationship seeing another pair interact. I don't know I'm conflicted because I love them but Don needs help and Thorne shouldn't be leaving him alone for that long I wonder what's going to happen to him while Thorne is away.
@Koteyka yeah it was the worse but what can you do such is life some people are just bad just to be bad not everyone is understanding and the worst neighbors bring out the worst in their 'victims'. I love their relationship has to be said again, you of course already know I'm hoping for a chance to talk with Nick out of the way, but at the same time I think that this is also something he needs. He needs to loosen some of his clingy ways but also hold on to what he feels is good. I feel like the way things are now he shouldn't just go back to him, I'm just looking for a time when he's strong enough to hear that he should have at least they are safe. Though seeing poor Tony like that I wonder what state of mind he'll be in if that ever happened.
mmkay awesomes out I'm gonna have to start to get choosier with posts I feel my net is gonna slow down again soon, we're planning on getting internet but the time for that is not now so on to my nonsense.
Having a very vocal conversation...about what who knows, quite a bit of cuddly with Izzy and his...'friend' she doesn't mind she wonders how her people go without this. What was the point of having a child you may not even see, just to say you had a child, if anyone was going to have a part of her they were getting her all. That person she wanted to be Izzy but then she wasn't completely taken by all the attention and sweet words. She still had to tell him the truth about her, Izzy was fairly clueless but in his defense she was good at hiding it, he savored his time with her more and more every day he just wished she'd stop running off when things warmed up as for their cat, she doesn't care how things goes she's happy sleeping in the closet and that's all she needs.
He's really, really not happy about this.
"Hey dad what's for..."
Demi snorted as his father groaned.
"Who are you and what have you done with dad?"
"Very funny...the agency sent this over..and it's the worst."
"Why can't you wear your regular clothes? I thought celebrities are supposed to stand out?"
"Something about doing something different..next they'll have me tanning, let's just have a normal morning before you go..."
With Demi off to school Nef only had a moment to himself before he had to go to work, while Venessa was on break she was excited to see Nef she wondered what role he had.
He cheered up a bit seeing her by the director, a familiar face the more he walked by even with his face covered the more his nerves spiked he didn't know how to interact with people anymore. What was he thinking this was clearly too much, swallowing his nerves before they got the better of him he quickly got to her before she left, not even questioning if she could hear him under the heavy costume.
"You look beautiful like that." he said, immediately annoyed, if his voice echoed in the top he had no clue what she heard.
She giggled.
"Thanks...er..bunny thing."
He sighed.
"It's me Venessa, Nef."
the slight movement as she realized who he was went unnoticed she thought the costume was cute, and oddly enough so was he, she couldn't help but think either she never knew her type or she needed to get out more. Though he wasn't a bad guy so she was leaning toward the first one...after all how many guys, or people in general look like he does?
"Oh Nef..I was wondering who they got for that, I swear they are always losing actors and need fill ins, but that's how we get our foot in the door, I'm so happy you got in."
He smiled slightly watching his breathing someone familiar always helped, and he still didn't sense in malice from her so that helped she was so sweet. The director interrupting them reminded him he needed a little more than hair and makeup and a costume to hide in.
After choking in the end...that head needed more air holes, he was glad it was over.
Diego gave Dion a message telling her where to meet him, though a well known celebrity critic was a decent spot he wanted to show her how else he retained his fame. He purposely didn't mention the little situation, he didn't want her to dwell on it he,as a rule, wasn't a particularly lonely person he could be fine in a crowd of any size or all by his lonesome. Still her company got him thinking she didn't harm him he didn't want her going anywhere or behaving as if they couldn't be friends.
"Dion glad you got here."
"Of course." she said absently she felt she was being ridiculous at that point since he didn't say anything but she couldn't help it, she wanted to hear it was no big deal whether she needed to or not didn't matter.
"We're going to mingle, after an outfit change, I need to stop by the gallery and after I'm treating you to dinner, how's that sound."
she gave him a look, thinking maybe that was his way of dropping it all together.
"I uh...sure boss whatever you say."
"I'm still Diego."
"In public?"
He chuckled, she had a lot to learn about working with him.
"Always."
Diego saw her relax at the party and more throughout the night he was relieved, he figured while the gallery was a bit empty, with sims busy mostly in other places, I also saw Nef there heh, they could relax a bit further. Bubbles left one as airy as they looked.
"Having a good time tonight?" he asked.
She nodded coughing up the spicy liquid...whatever.
"I'm surprised...you like this..."
He chuckled.
"It's all part of the party lifestyle...on paper i'm not that interesting so I need to stand out in other ways, I'm thinking we'll head home after this, if you'll agree to help me out. Breathe easy...if you have anything to drink it'll get worse until you're used to it the bubbles get trapped and they are a lot more solid than you would think." he said coughing up a few.
"S..sure." she said as he cleared his throat, after a moment the air passed and she was just left with a pleasant taste in her mouth, sweet.
"What do you need me to do?"
"I'm still taking you out, but I'd like it if I didn't bring my assistant, I just want to be seen with a woman as gorgeous as you are."
She blushed though went back to her nerves.
"Is this about..the kitchen."
He shook his head.
"No this is about my future, no matter how many women I work with the paparazzi still find me, fans still send letters begging to know about a man in my life that doesn't exist. My image needs an update, just laugh at nonsense I say and flutter your eyelids...the public is an easy beast to control." She gave him a look Diego clearly had more than one side, she looked down, she did like him but the fact that he really liked women she thought about how things could end up.
"And it's...just a game for the cameras?"
"That's all I won't say you're my girlfriend or anything so you are free to date if you meet anyone, I just need them to see me just enjoying myself with you...and this is not enough."
"Okay...sure." she could play, no matter how she felt about it she would really hate to lose her job because she declined, he didn't suggest that no but her mind was going a mile a minute thinking of what he could say and she was worried.
He smiled.
"Great, thank you you won't regret it, you may just have to get a new job as a new celebrity beauty after this."
She wondered if she would even want that.
The paparazzi really ate it up and though she had been nervous it ended up being the easiest thing she could do, they just chatted, enjoyed one another's company, it wasn't till a hug slipped to a kiss that she was reminded it was just a game. One she wasn't looking forward to playing long she wondered what sort of woman he wanted actual memories like this with.
"That's probably enough" she said softly.
"Mmhmm"
The next morning he was glad to see people were talking about his mystery woman he was curious just how long they would keep it up.
Random nonstory bits
Lilith saw her brother seemed fine, which meant he was still agitated and now he wasn't leaving the house at all, she also hadn't heard from Morgyn who was usually so friendly. She decided to drop by and visit but found he wasn't home, only L was, she used to wonder about their relationship until Morgyn said she was something of a mother to him. Still she knew the older woman could be be bossy and controlling it didn't seem right to her.
"Don't you knock?"
"Sorry I was expecting Morgyn."
"As you can see he's not here, so you can go back the way you came." with a flick of her powers Lilith was out and the door was locked.
She was not amused, and L wasn't particularly happy to see her doing just fine out in the sunlight how was she going to keep Morgyn distracted if they were fine like that? She thought he deserved better than them and Lilith thought they just needed a change of scenery she guessed she would have to get Morgyn to her place that woman was too powerful for her own good...and Lilith hated her hair.
I actually love L's second outfit...just saying.
Lastly even though I cheated to freeze fame, Venessa started out with a bad day losing a celebrity star, and then Milo was sick, at least she got to end it just enjoying a chat with Nef. She didn't know why she bothered when she could just go to his house but she didn't want to appear desperate and she wasn't sure which was worse. Not that it mattered but then everyone seems a little particular these days.
And there we go.
All the sims err'day
I usually keep toddlers away from babies because they tend to get upset about meeting the new sibling, but I forgot to lock the door that one time and toddlers with maxed movement skill climb the stairs really fast. Luckily Leo was happy about having a new sister.
It was high time for Kurt to regain his immortality, because I fear that otherwise Marisol would´ve taken it into her own hands, whether or not he was willing. Immortality remains a touchy subject for her - even after all this time, she resents Marcus for choosing to die as a human over his children, she would rather have Kurt hate her than lose him too. Marisol loves her stepsiblings, but at the same time it´s hard for her to be constantly reminded that her parents are dead, it´s one of the reasons why she was eager to move out as soon as she became a young adult.
I am currently in a process of putting everyone and everything back to where they should be (Thank god for MCCC, because otherwise I´d have blisters on my fingers from the amount of cheating careers and relationships that I am doing). In addition of my beloved played sims, I grabbed some others from that save for townies, because I liked their looks and personalities (And I am constantly running out of eligible male sims. Everyone and their grandmother keeps giving birth to girls, but hardly anyone has boys. Not all of my girls want to date other girls, some want to date boys too. And some boys want to date other boys.)
@ryttu3k
I have another mini-Morgyn in my other save, courtesy of Antoniette, only with red eyes (the poor kid had the misfortune of inheriting his evil grandma´s red eyes over his daddy´s green or mama´s purple eyes. Hopefully it doesn´t mean that he is gonna grow up to be as evil as her).
I´ve had a sim fail a potion once, but never twice in a row, I was worried that Morgyn was going to hive himself a heart attack from sheer frustration.
Herding sims is harder than herding cats. I usually make a group when I want to keep them at the same place at the same time, but even then someone is quaranteed to misbehave. Hence why I hardly ever bother with posed pics anymore with more than two sims at time.
@Morkovka
Most of my teens seem to hate school, because they keep coming home in all kinds of horrible moods, whether it is enraged, mortified or very sad. But it was the first time they bit anyone, normally they just yell, break dollhouses and are generally a pain in the backside. I don´t know if it´s related to the mods I use, but I have noticed a slight increase of uncontrollable drinking lately.
I wish we had the potion of plentiful needs in real life. It´s a lifesaver, because my teens keep coming home from school hungry, dirty, tired and their fun deep in red, it´s nearly impossible to take care of everything in the natural way.
Congrats for another beautiful and sucessful wedding!
Using her book appearance of messy blonde hair, but borrowing her red motif from the show, with the exception of the blue formal dress (blame Mrs Coulter for that one), the athletic outfit (couldn't resist the reference), and the cold weather outfit (it had bears
@Morkovka makes sense! I just have this great image of like... a phoenix popping up out of nowhere while Simeon is teaching and just blurting out, "L pranked the toilets and there's water everywhere please help" or something XD
Poor Chloe, being Father Winter's kid is pretty cool! Hope she has fun as a plantsim!
Ooh, everyone at the wedding looks lovely! And Miss Hell has turned into a crisp, which is always a happy ending in my books!
@TheShineyEmerald oh neat, good luck with it!
@RedDestiny92 L has the Mean trait, IIRC? So makes sense! And yeah, I ended up adding everyone into one group and did 'Sit Together', then tried to get them all talking to each other and just... hoped they didn't get up, haha.
I feel bad for Dion. The whole... just being used for image thing.
@Keidra you know, that makes sense. And nice
Poor Damian :-\ Seriously, he really needs to tell someone before someone gets hurt! Okay, good, telling Morgyn is good, it's a start. He needs to let himself be looked after for once. Yup, you were right, that hurt ;_; But at least Morgyn knows now!
@Becka28 oh same, but Don deserved it by casually violating Jessica's consent and boundaries. She had already said no!
Jessica and Diego are so sweet together
@AlwaysAsking aww, Ian and Lawrence are sweet. Man I feel so bad for Don now. He's been seriously out-manipulated. "You belong to me now" and "I'll know if you don't" are such red flags!
@Koteyka XD That's like me with Jamie. He's my baby and is immortal (seriously - flagged him with MCCC XD) and will do everything in the game eventually.
Tony looks so stressed actually placing the tile
@DeafSimmer oof, good luck, Tyler! Still, going in alone proooobably wasn't the best idea...
@Ellupelluellu oh man, I'm so sorry! What will you do next?
@AngeliqueAdelaide and this is why I have emotional deaths turned off XD Yeah, ended up doing the group method, and even then I resorted to using the pose player XD
@Becka28 - Thanks
Me neither, but it's funny when your prank gets backfired.
@ryttu3k - Lyra looks so adorable!
I'm currently working on the new backstories for the Antoine's and Jonathan's family, the Ackerman's.
The sprites were annoying at first, but now they're ok.
I was going to ignore that whim, but I love to start a lil' drama, which led to this...
Jonathan had a deviant plan on him.
Without a word, Jonathan showed his affection to his husband. Before things were about to get heat up...
"I know what you did to Caleb earlier, and I'm not happy about it."
"Babe, it's just a joke."
"Yeah, but it still ticks me off whenever you do plum like that!"
Jonathan was about to leave, but was stopped by Christian.
"Hear me out, Jon."
"I don't want to talk right now."
"Babe..." He reached out to caress his cheek, but Jonathan turned away from him. "Don't give me the silent treatment."
"Back off, you son of a -"
Christian pinned Jonathan to the door and gave him a stern look.
"What's gotten into you? I'm not the type of person who goes around screwing around like a pluming player! I love you and only you, not anyone else!"
Jonathan didn't say a word as he listened and thought back that maybe he overreacted, but it still upset him.
"Come on, babe, you know I would choose you over Caleb. Where's that sweet smile I love so much?"
"If you really do love me, how about you show me?"
"You just read my mind."
Due to Christian's injured arm, they skipped out the woohoo and enjoyed each other's company.
Sara and Joaquin argued all night long. Sara left to spend the night with her Partihaus friends. She woo-hooed with Jade and Marcus while she was there. She took a pregnancy test and she was pregnant! She had woo-hooed with Joaquin at their wedding before Ulrike destroyed their marriage though. She was positive the baby was Marcus's since she had taken one before they woo-hooed and it wasn't positive. She came home acting like it was his baby and all was forgiven. Soon, Sara sent Joaquin to go get Ulrike lure her into a pool, and put walls around it. Joaquin really liked Ulrike but he had to listen to Sara.... or else... So thats pretty much where I left off. Sara murders Ulrike and she becomes one of those crazy 40 year old woman on The Real Housewives Of Windenburg.
Anyways,
I was bored and had no story ideas so I finally worked up the nerve to try the story/quiz thing. I frantically pushed buttons as fast as I could until I got my guy... He was a extremely arrogant, materialistic, muscular actor. I never did play as a male actor before (I'm not sexist, lol) so it was new. When I got him to the gym I saw Kayla Flemming. She was perfect for him. A beautiful, gym-obsessed, famous girl. The relationship was complicated. Flirty, Professional, Friendly, Mean. I thought it was cute that every romantic interaction the boy did was glitched so it looked like he was nervous and he stuttered a bit. I can't remember his name so let us call him Josher. I'm now trying for that soulmate aspiration!! (They are so cute!)
@AlwaysAsking I know you like my posts sometimes so if you want I can tag you to let you know when I post.
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Ball-goers came and went, but the Prince and Cinderella stayed the longest on the dancefloor. Completely enthralled by one another.
Seeing them together made the stepsisters green with jealousy. Especially since they couldn't do anything except look on.
"Just look at her, Anastasia."
"Totally hogging up the Prince's time. I think I'm gonna barf."
Anastasia just sighed.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue or somethin'?"
"No, it's jus-"
"Arghh! I'm so mad right now! Don't talk to me Drizella!"
Although their dance together was over the ball sure wasn't. The handsome fellow wanted to spend more time with her and invited Cinderella to a more secluded area. How could she decline?
It was then she noticed her stepsisters off to the side, grumbling to themselves.
They looked so miserable Cindy couldn't help but feel sorry for them. Well, just a little bit sorry.
As the Prince and Cinderella walked passed them Anastasia took the chance to take a dig.
"Don't flatter yourself, princess."
"This will be the last time you'll ever feel so special. I'll make sure of it!"
Cindy wondered if the handsome nobleman paid notice to Anastasia's threat.
It didn't seemed like it so neither would she.
Although...
It'll be hard to erase those hateful glares from her memory.
*:.｡."It's great being ((Queen Bee))!".｡.:*
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✧ :-"As long as I continue to believe then one day my ((dreams)) really will come true."✧ :-
I'm not sure but I kind of feel like the game might be hinting to me to make them poly, because, well, WHY ELSE ARE YOU CHEERING THEM ON CALEB, DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE JUST BEING A GOOD FRIEND!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
@TheLastStar sims want what sims want - who are we to stop them LOL
@HopeyStarr I am glad that her sisters thought she looked like the happiest woman in the world - she certainly deserves to be that.
@DarkAngel1994 aww Jonathon and Christian are so beautiful. I am glad that Jonathon's mood didn't last too ong. Sim jealousy is a terrible thing. Was it hard to send your married couple to uni together? I am thinking of letting Edvin Ollie and Cassandra marry but I don't want it to mess up their uni experience.
@ryttu3k I like your Lyra. I forgot to say how much I liked your Darling makeover too. Diego gives jessica some intense looks -it was all he had in the past (when she turned down his flirts) and he has perfected them over time.
@Ellupelluellu Ted and Bella always seemed great together so i like the way it ended. Wolfgang is always his own worst enemy. If you are nice to him he can't help being horrible back but gets jealous just like he is over Tessa. They seem like they would be such a good couple if he could just ... be someone else (LOL) - well at least calm down for 5 seconds. I always wonder what Bjorn actually does as a secret agent - it astounds me how much he earns for hanging out in the gym and playing chess every hour of the night and day. I can't believe all tyhe simnation criminals hang out in parks and gyms. I tried to pick which one of the children I loved but it was too hard as they are all so attractive (actually Babs and Geoffrey's daughter is maybe just my favourite but not by much.) I love how you made over Max - I almost didn't recognise him.
@Morkovka Ezra's wedding was so so wonderful - putting that candle decoration out and getting them all lined up beautifully must have taken longer than the wedding gameplay but it was so worth it for the screen shots. The bride was beautiful and the groom is one of my favourite sims on the thread at present. Why is Morgan so gorgeous -its just not fair to every other sim. I love the close up angry shot (as well as the wedding photo.) PS glad you liked my really likes cupcakes joke - plum paparazzi and public killing the mood.
@AlwaysAsking I totally missed your post because it just wouldn't show up on my phone - everyone was mentioning it and I was looking for it and going crazy. Thankfully I am on my laptop and there it is. I would have died if I couldn't see more Lawrence and Ian. I love how flirty Lawrence was looking. They are so sweet autonomously. I am still feeling sorry for Don (despite myself and the fact I set him up for the good slapping from Jess). Thorne has some very interesting looks - I didn't think anyone could be more leery than Don but Thorne tops him. Though I couldn't help laughing at how he looked when he came out of the wardrobe - Don obviously still has things to teach Thorne. I don't like how threatening Thorne was at the end. I am glad Dash is well out of it because Thorne looks like he may be willing to do almost anything and that wouldn't have been good for Dash. Bjorn being Bjorn was amusing. He is such a weird sim but thats why I like him.'Did I tell you Clara has already destroyed her marriage to the lovely sim I paired her with. I found him crying at the romance festival Max was at - Clara was on a date with another woman kissing and throwing petals etc. I feel sorry for my lovely sim - he is a nice guy and didn't deserve that.
Edvin Ollie and Cassandra
Even unflirty girls love getting a rose.
Cassandra won Foos ball
Discussing wedding plans in a secluded corner.
And a quick makeout in the wardrobe
Jessica and Diego
She couldn't believe such a place existed and is doubly impressed at his cooking.
He also impresses her with his dance moves.
But then remembers he can finally twirl Jessica to his hearts content.
Jessica is amused that he thought this move was necessary.
Plum, she has to go to work. He works 9am - 5pm and she works 7pm until 11pm - they never have much time together. Especially as she has children to care for and spend time with too.
A new teen in town.
Abilene feels it is love at first sight. Can you guess who he is? He is a child of 2 premades. His eyes and forehead are his mothers and mouth and chin his fathers.
She settles right in to getting flirty.
It was love at first sight for someone else as well (poor Viktor the game has killed his father, made Lucas munch dump him, involved him in some very weird relationship with Max, forced him to have surprise half siblings and now curses him with a crush on his sister's crush).
who is this young Adonis who is about to cause some heartache just by existing.
AWARD time again
Thorne calls out to her and against her better judgement she chats with him.
This just encourages Thorne to get overexcited and hit on her. He reminds her they have always had electricity - hadn't she felt it when they were together (the only thing she felt was that he needs to learn about personal space and she wished the electricity between them was a tazer).
Plus she has had enough cheating married men for several lifetimes.
Thankfully her global celebrity status is too much for him and he hits the ground.
Jessica really slays a crowd.
Both jessica and I love that the bar serves caviar while the awards are in progress. She put two at a time in her mouth!
Jessica had a sudden overwhelming desire to share some of her thoughts ad feelings with Bjorn.
And then it hit her that he was gone forever.
Jessica isn't the only in demand celebrity in this relationship - he loves posing for pictures.
Jessica shows Diego just how proud she is of him.
They are just too cute together.
Excuse you Joaquin - you are creeping on your step mother-in-law and her boyfriend.
They go back to Diego's apartment and Jessica gives out some heavy hints about where she'd like the evening to go.
After all those times of being knocked back, he is being very generous about letting her take the lead - so she bluntly lets him know what she'd like - he is very excited to comply. (I had given her several new night things but I am impressed she automatically chose this one)
He lets her know he had a fabulous time.
After breakfast Jessica decided that she needed to get autonomous in the shower.
I forgot Jessica had a tramp stamp from her young days as a sim.
Poor Diego - I hope she doesn't wear him out!
AT least she can express herself in other ways while he sleeps.
Thank you!
@Keidra Lol! Unfortunately no, but I promise it's good
Thank you!
@Morkovka A lot of saving needed indeed... poor Tony all alone
Thank you!
@RedDestiny92 thank you so much!
@ryttu3k I know! I was so tempted to give him an inner dialogue but I figured his eyes say enough.
Thank you.
Okay. This is it. This is legit the best update so far. I had it planned for literally forever. I spent ages playing it, editing it and writing it down because I wanted everything to be perfect. This update is my baby and I love it.
I'm taking a break tomorrow, so see you all on Friday.
"Dude, just look at the sky! Not a cloud in sight. I swear the weather here is just..."
"The best you've ever seen, right? Well of course it is! Everything is better in Sulani!"
"Haha, nice try... You won't lure me into staying."
"You fool! What's keeping you in that stuffy world of machines and smog?"
"Look, I'm glad you enjoy it here. You literally got obsessed with this place as soon as we got here for the first time..."
"I have never been happier than here, my friend! Sulani is where my heart belongs!"
"Yeah, yeah, I get that. This is certainly the place for you! Especially given the stuff you did in high school..."
"We shall never speak of those years again! We spit on those wasted years!"
"I just... I just prefer to live in a more civilised place, that's all."
"But you belong here too, Tony! You belong in the world of freedom!"
"Appreciate your concern, Thor, but I'm quite happy living in Del Sol Valley. Creature of comfort, you see," Tony smiled.
Thor sighed.
"Okay, where do you want to do next, my friend?" he asked. "What sort of quest shall we conquer next?"
"Well I was thinking maybe-"
"Well hello there!" Tony suddenly stopped.
"Hey!" a young and looking pretty shy man approached him and Thor. "Do you guys know which way is Ohan'ali Town? I'm kinda lost..."
More under the cut:
"Okay, cool. So which direction do I have to swim?.."
"Oh my god..." Tony couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, I'm only joking. It's to your left. Just keep to that pathway and you'll get there. You really should install a GPS into your phone though."
"Geepee... what? Install?.."
"Yeah, the thingy that shows you where you are... you really don't know what I'm talking about, do you."
"Oh you know, I was frozen for seventy years so I'm not really good with the cool new stuff."
"You WHAT?"
"Hey, I'm only joking," the guy laughed. "I mean I was in a coma but that was for seven months or something, nothing too horrible... I'm just from a little town near Windenburg, and people... people are pretty old-fashioned there. When I turned twenty one I figured I should see something besides the farm and decided to travel around, see the world, all that stuff. So I sold my house, got some tickets and here I am - in the real world!"
"And how's it going?"
"Mindblowing! All of these cars, lights, tiny phones you can carry in your pocket... the last thing was like wow. I knew it existed but only in theory, you know? Also coloured TV's - pretty dang cool! But uh... apparently a few thousand simoleons isn't enough for travelling, so now I'm stuck here till I earn enough money to get a ticket back home."
"Wow. Sorry it had to end that way," said Tony, genuinely feeling bad for the kid.
"It's not that bad. The weather's great and the people are wonderful. I love it here!"
"I'm Steve, by the way. Steve Rogers."
"Tony. Tony Stark."
"That's my house there, by the way."
"You can stop by sometimes if you want."
"Well, it was nice meeting you," Steve smiled. "I better get going though. Thanks again and bye!"
He left. Tony couldn't take his eyes off him.
"That boy has never held a cellphone in his hands," he said pensively. "He's so.. so..."
"Precious and pure. Sulani will protect him at all costs and never let go," sighed Thor. "Question is - will you?"
"What?"
"Let go?"
"You think I should go after him, huh."
"I can see the spark in your eyes, my friend."
"Thor, I don't believe in love at first sight," Tony scoffed. "And I can't love anyone, I've got too much of a busy lifestyle. But I must admit he looks like a nice person... certainly would like to get to know him better... and his hand felt so soft..."
Tony sighed.
"He has no idea who I am, Thor" he said slowly. "Do you know how amazing that feels? Everyone knows who I am but he... he doesn't... Oh screw it."
"Hey Steve! Steve, wait up! Hey, did you notice we're wearing the same sandals?.. Pretty cool, huh..."
Thor smiled.
"Never underestimate the power of true, my friend," he said quietly.
"Yeah, you definitely lost this splash fight," Steve laughed. "That's three times in a row."
"You don't happen to be a merman, do you?" Tony winked.
"Not that I know of..."
"Well you'd make a fine merman."
"Oh please!" jokingly said Steve, but Tony could clearly see that he blushed a little.
"Hey, I know what I'm talking about!"
"What, are you a merman? Because you certainly don't swim as good as one..."
Tony smiled. He recently starred in a movie featuring mermaids. Obviously, he wasn't going to tell Steve that.
"You... you really don't know me?" he carefully asked instead. Once again, just to make sure. Just to once again feel the joy and happiness over talking to someone who didn't give a darn about his fame level. Besides his little buddy Thor, of course.
"No, why would I know you?"
Oh yes. There they are, the words that sounded like heaven. Tony was ready to listen to them over and over again.
"Seriously, why do you keep asking..."
"Oh, no reason. Anyway, you said something about me not being a good swimmer? Race me to the beach and then we'll see who's good at what!"
"Oh, you're on, you're so on!"
"I'll even give you a head start..."
"Gotcha!" Steve jumped at Tony as soon as he got to the shallow area. "Told you I could catch you with a head start!"
"See?" Tony grinned. "Merman."
"Oh Thor don't!-"
"Both of you lovebirdies will thank me for that later," muttered Thor.
"There - now I got you. Who's the winner now, huh?.."
"Tony, my friend! How come you are not enjoying the party?" Thor said, approaching Tony. Tony smiled a bit.
"Oh, I'm enjoying it alright. Really enjoying."
"Lovely view you got there, my friend."
"The "view" finally earned enough money for a ticket home, Thor. This is the "view's" last day here."
"And so is yours, mm?"
"Suppose so..."
"Funny how I was only planning to visit for a week but a whole month passed and I didn't even notice."
"Mhmm."
"I'm not in love, Thor."
"Mhmm."
"I'm not!"
"Tony, my dear friend, you can deny your feelings and let him go to stay in misery, or you can stop acting like a big old fool and go talk to the boy!"
"Hey! I'm not old," said Tony, glad he could jump on a different topic.
"Old enough to be doing my homework in the past," grinned Thor.
"Oh shut up."
"Then stop wasting time and go get him!"
Tony sighed.
"Thor... I mean, what if he rejects me?" he mumbled. "This is his last night here - I wouldn't even be able to make up... and I'm- I'm not in love," he quickly added. "I can't be in love. I never loved."
"Your eyes say differently."
"I'm wearing sunglasses."
"If you so deny that you're in love, why haven't you given him money for the ticket yourself? You can afford it!" Thor winked.
"I can't... I can't afford to love, Thor..." muttered Tony. "Besides, I'll have to tell him what I do, who I am... I don't want him to see me as everyone else does..."
"NONSENSE! He would never see you as everyone else because he already seen the real you! And the boy clearly loves you Tony, he's just too shy to make the first move! Follow your heart and it shall lead you to your destiny! And right now your heart is saying that your destiny is who? Him! So go to him, my friend, and quit all of this nonsense blabbering!"
"Alright," Tony smiled. "We'll have a chat, nothing more. And for the record - I'm doing this because you insist. Only because you insist."
He knew that wasn't true. So did Thor, who only grinned.
"Hey- Hey Steve!"
Steve immediately turned.
"You know when I heard party I didn't think everyone would be so... casual," he said, sounding very confused.
"Oh my..." once again, Tony was almost on his knees in laugher. "Stevey, a party doesn't always have to mean something formal!"
"Well don't laugh!" Steve smiled bitterly. "You're pretty formal too!"
"I'm always formal on parties, it's my thing. But Stevey... you..." Tony burst into laughter again. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry."
"Could I perhaps make up by inviting you to a dance?"
"S-sure..."
"Oh Thor just go!-"
"Thank me later, you wonderful fools."
"You know, it's uh... it's pretty crowded here... If you want to go to my place- I mean I said you can come and you never showed up, so um... besides, it's your last night-"
"Sure," Steve smiled. "Why not?.."
"So you're an only child, huh. You know for some reason I thought you'd have a bunch of siblings."
"it's a common misconception when it comes to countryside families," Steve smiled. "My parents only wanted one child, so did their parents. It was basically me and a ton of adults in a little house. Two grandmas, two grandpas, Mom and Dad. I was like everyone's favourite pet. I don't think even a hour could pass without someone kissing or hugging me. Especially when I learned to walk and started helping around the house. Terrifying, but fun!"
"What about you?"
"Well... My parents had a lot of work, I didn't see them much. But they had high expectations on me, to which I never was able to live up. Especially regarding my father. He was... strict. Thanks to him I liked school, unlike most kids."
"Wow," Steve gently placed his hand on Tony's knee, making his heart miss a beat. "I'm really sorry to hear that..."
"Eh, it's no big deal. Him and Mom are long gone anyway. I'm family-free! What about yours - still living on that farm, wondering where'd you disappear?"
"My grans and gramps passes away when I was fifteen. My parents... Car crash. All three of us in a coma. Seven months later I woke up and they... they didn't."
"Oh my, I'm so, so sorry-"
"Don't be," calmly said Steve. Tony couldn't help but notice he still kept his hand on his knee. "I grieved, I wept, I moved on. Had a whole farm thrown at me. Sold it. Left to see the world. Then... well, you know the rest."
"Alright... so... how about your love life? Got a girlfriend, boyfriend?.."
Steve sighed and rolled over to the other side of the bed.
"I had a boyfriend." he said quietly. "It was... nice. At first. Then it got bad really quickly. I think the problem was that I took our relationship very seriously and he... he didn't. It was just a fun time for him. I started speaking up, he started pushing me down, it got a little- um- violent... then I found out he was cheating on me the whole time. And when I- when I tried to talk to him about it he just- he just laughed and told me to stop making such a big deal out of it. And I tried, but then it happened again... and again... and then he left me."
"Woah. That's intense. Sorry I brought that up..."
"It's fine."
"Are you- are you okay?"
"I figured it's my fault anyway," Steve said softly. "I was too clingy. I should've just left him the first time he cheated on me... then it wouldn't hurt so much. But it was like- every single time I was ready to leave him, he made things a little better. Just a little. And that was enough for me. I kept hoping things would get better, that he'd- he'd stop flirting with other guys... girls... but he knew I wouldn't leave him, so he didn't bother changing. He told me that it's not a big deal, that love doesn't last, that everyone cheats anyway. But then he- he just threw me out, you know? Like a broken toy. In a big city. That's when I headed here."
"Steve. It was definitely not your fault. Don't ever think that."
"You're such a wonderful guy and what that terrible excuse for a person did to you... It's on him. Not you. You're- You're the kindest, sweetest and nicest guy I ever met. You deserve the best kind of love ever."
Steve smiled a bit.
"Thanks. I guess I'm just a bit old-fashioned to expect someone to spend their whole life with me. The world... it doesn't work that way anymore, does it. I mean, I'm not sure it ever did. My parents only stayed together because that was expected. So did their parents."
"No, no it does," quickly reassured him Tony. "I guess it's just all about taking your time and meeting the right person..."
"Mh... Guess so."
"So, Steve Rogers. What's your idea of the right person?" Tony asked, trying to sound as jokingly as possible. Steve smiled wider.
"I don't know... Just someone nice."
"That's too vague. Come, have you never Imagined how your perfect life would look?"
"I don't want anything too creative. Just a house, a guy, maybe a few pets - I love animals you know... And kids! Definitely, I want kids. A boy and a girl..."
Tony smiled, realising he'll never be Steve's type. Ever.
"What's your idea of the perfect person then?"
"That's a secret."
"Well come on, I told you mine!"
"Well uh... blonde... kind... sweet... lives in the ocean literally 24/7..."
And how does Thor join the picture..?"
"Thor?" Tony laughed.
"Yeah, you guys seem close."
"Thor was the annoying kid next door my Mom would make me babysit because his parents would pay her! He's actually Theodore, by the way. I was in eighth grade, he was in first... I did his homework for him so he got all A's for school. Didn't want him getting in trouble - I thought all parents were like Father. Didn't help his social life, but then again, Thor was always a bit of a weirdo so he preferred to talk to animals instead..."
"Did he have awesome hair as a kid too?"
"Are you hitting on my baby Theo? Seriously, baby Theo is off-limits, you hurt him in any way and you'll have to deal with me!"
Steve smiled.
"He just has awesome hair, that's all. I actually thought you two-"
"Us? No, no way. He just likes hugs. He'd use to sneak up and jump on my back before he was so bulked up."
"So... you've got no one too."
"Nope."
"So uh... you want to go out for a coffee then?"
Tony immediately got up.
"Wow... that's quick."
"Sorry... to soon? I just thought-"
"Look," Tony sighed, desperately trying to come up with words. "I like you. I mean... I really like you..."
"So what's the problem then?"
"Problem is that you wouldn't like me," quietly said Tony. He got up, ready to leave.
"But Tony... I do like you. I think- I think I actually love you-"
"Don't," Tony weakly whispered. "Don't because... God, I love you too, I love you so much I think I'm going mad..."
"Oh thank god you feel it too," Steve sighed with relief. "I thought I was the one doing mad, but it's like... it's like we're..."
"Like we're meant to be."
"Exactly!"
"No. No, bad idea. Not going to happen."
"But why? Tony, I love you... so much..."
"Stevey just leave it..."
"No," firmly said Steve. "I love you."
"There's something I haven't told you about myself - a lot of things, actually. I'm... not just any guy," Tony sighed. "I'm a very famous actor. That territory comes with tons of work, coming home late, interviews and meetups with fans. And you're- you're a family person. You want a quiet, normal life with kids... I can't give you that."
Steve slowly let go of Tony's hand and backed away a bit. Tony shut his eyes. He knew Steve would walk away eventually.
"That's why you kept asking if I know you..." Steve said slowly. "You... you kept that as a secret from me. Why?"
Tony sighed.
"Didn't want you to see me as everyone else I guess. It was relieving... finding someone who doesn't know. When people talk to me, they either talk to my money, either talk to my characters. They don't talk directly to the real me. You did."
"But I'm not like that, Tony! I can't believe you thought I'd do that..."
"Sorry. I should've told you from the start... but see, we can't be together. We're from different worlds."
"Maybe we're supposed to be the bridge between those worlds," whispered Steve.
"You're twenty one, you've got your whole life ahead of you," weakly muttered Tony. "I'm in my mid-thirties. I've seen stuff, done stuff..."
"Who cares about age anymore!?"
"You want kids. I'll never be a good dad... Never had the right example."
"I don't believe that."
"Well you should!"
"I've never met anyone like you. There's just something... something... I can't explain it. It's so crazy. But if this isn't true love, then... what is, Tony?"
"I don't know. God, I don't know..."
Steve slowly wrapped his arms around Tony.
"It's like every moment of my life lead to this... here... I don't think I'll be able to ever live without you."
"I know," softly said Tony. "I feel it too... And I feel like I'd do anything to be with you, I'd quit my job, I..."
"I just... I didn't think I could ever fall in love with anyone agin. And compared to this love... whatever I had before, it seems so cheap, so fake..."
"But this... this is real, Tony. The respect and love you give me... it's all real. And I honestly don't care what you think of yourself because I can clearly see that you are the most gorgeous, wonderful, amazing person ever and I- I just want to-"