Stephanie's Musings

Welcome to the first installment of the Doohickey Legacy! The Doohickey Legacy is brought to you by pixel_trade 's GUCCI Challenge. 
 

Maudlin Doohickey by brilliantcat  is the founder for the challenege and is a Knowledge/Grilled Cheese Sim.




Maudlin Doohickey gazed at the small house she had just purchased. It was a bit unorthodox looking, but it was all hers! After five years of struggling to save up enough money to purchase her own home, the news of this house’s sale came at just the right time! Maudlin had just been let go from her job at the anchovy canning plant and had been worried that she might have to dip into her savings in order to pay her rent. Now, that wouldn’t happen



Despite the security of owning her own home, Maudling knew that she would have to get out there and find a job. There were, after all, still bills to be paid and food to be purchased! Although she came up against dead end after dead end, Maudling knew that if she just kept looking and kept building up her skills, she would eventually prevail.

 

It was about that time that she met Van! She had stepped outside to collect the mail and there he was! His name was Van Leif and he was the most handsome hunk of Sim-flesh that Maudlin had ever seen!


She struck up a conversation and soon discovered that he was a family-oriented Sim who worked as a security guard at one of Downtown’s largest law firms, Cheatem, Cheatem, and Sharkey! That conversation led to the strongest friendship that Maudlin had ever had…but she wanted more.

 

 

One day she plucked up her nerve and confessed to Van her true feelings. When he responded by telling her how much he loved her she threw herself into his arms! After that they spent even more time together…and when they weren’t together they were on the phone until well into the evening.

 

Maudlin finally realized that Van was never going to ask her to marry…so she took matters into her own hands! After a sumptuous meal that she spent 3 hours preparing, Maudlin got down on her knees and popped the question!

 

They were married a few days later in a private wedding ceremony. Although the ceremony was small, Maudlin and Van were very happy together in their new life!

 

The first few weeks were a blur of romance and fun, but they soon hit a rough patch… toothpaste caps, messy beds, and other small details combined to cause friction as they adjusted to the reality of married life. Despite all of these minor problems, Van was still as lusty in the bedroom as ever! Maudlin enjoyed their playtime, but she was curious about Van’s overt enthusiasm. After a long discussion one night, Van revealed his secret desire to have a large family!

 

Several months later, Maudlin came down with a severe case of the flu. Most of her mornings were spent hanging over the toilet bowl, and the rest of the day she slept. Despite her hope that the bug would pass quickly so she could resume job hunting, the illness clung tenaciously to her. One day she realized, with a start, that she was three weeks late! A quick trip to the doctor revealed the truth…she was pregnant! Maudlin and Van were thrilled and began shopping for baby things!

 

Not long after Maudlin’s condition was discovered, Van decided that he needed to get serious about building up his skills. After all, with a little one on the way a promotion could provide a much needed boost to their income! That night he decided to stargaze for a while. As he peered through the telescope he saw an unusual shape flying through the sky. Backing away, he cleaned the lenses and looked again, expecting the shape to have disappeared. He was shocked when a second look revealed an alien spacecraft hovering in the night sky! Just as Van was about to go wake up Maudlin, the craft disappeared. Van looked around, trying to find the thing again, but was disappointed. He backed off and turned to go back inside when he was blinded by a beam of light and felt his body being sucked up into the craft that was hovering overhead!

 

Several hours later, Van woke up on the sidewalk in front of his house. His entire body screamed out as he struggled to his feet wondering what on earth had happened. Then flashes of memories began running through his head. A long, thin needle…scalpels slicing at his flesh…being restrained as a large, alien creature examined him… Van shuddered and turned to run inside…away from the memories…when the last flashback hit him… Darkness…cold metal on his wrists and ankles…alien words…the feel of the creature’s cold skin…pain…blinding, agonizing pain as something was shoved inside his rectum… Van screamed…a high, endless scream… Maudlin woke and ran downstairs to find Van lying in a heap on the sidewalk. She got him up to bed.

 

 

When he woke up the next morning, Van remembered nothing from the night before. The trauma had been so intense that his mind had walled off his memories of the experience.

The months passed and Maudlin became bigger and bigger as she progressed toward the due date. Van had been struck with what the doctor called “sympathy pains” and had been just as miserable as Maudlin. He had even begun gaining weight and devoutly hoped that he would return to normal once Maudlin gave birth. He was away at work when the blessed event finally happened. Maudlin was in the bathroom when the pains began, and her labor was so swift that she didn’t have time to call the doctor until it was all over.

 

Dallas Doohickey weighed 7lbs 9oz and was as healthy a baby boy as Maudlin and Van could hope for!

 

Phoenix Doohickey weighed 7lbs 6oz and was just as healthy as his twin brother!

 

The twins kept Maudlin hopping! Van tried to help out when he could, but he was still feeling terrible from the sympathy pains…either that or he had a touch of flu. One night he woke up in the middle of the night and got up to go to the bathroom. He stood and was immediately overcome with the most intense pain he had ever experienced!

His screams woke Maudlin who came rushing over to see what the problem was. Blood ran down Van’s legs and soaked his pajamas. Maudlin tried to ask him what was wrong when a wave of pain hit him and he collapsed in the floor. As he lay there the convulsions hit and he could feel the pain twist and jerk his body. Suddenly, the suppressed memories from his abduction flooded his mind and, as yet another lance of pain pierced him, Van screamed! A ripping sound filled the room, and a small, blood covered creature burst from Van’s rectum.

Maudlin bent over the creature and saw that it was a baby. A green-skinned, black-eyed baby to be sure, but still a baby. As Van lay on the floor, shuddering, Maudlin took the child, cleaned it up, and laid it in the nursery. Then she returned to Van.

 

Just as Maudlin knelt down to help Van up, the pains returned. Although Van was sure that there could not have been anything more painful than what he had just experienced, he was quickly proven wrong. A small head pushed its way through his torn and bleeding anus, but the child’s shoulders became stuck. As wave after wave of pain swept through Van’s body, Maudlin reached down and began working the child out.

Finally, the baby was out of his body, and Maudlin called the doctor to come help. Van’s anus required 45 stitches, and the doctor gave him a prescription for stool softeners to make the pain easier to handle. (Maudlin had been worried about the doctor’s reaction, but he claimed to have seen cases like this all the time while working in Strangetown.)

Van was still in shock, and refused to even look at the children. When the doctor asked him to fill out the birth certificates, he named the boy Thingamabob and the girl Whatchamacallit.

Maudlin was soon grateful for her lack of job. Four small infants were difficult in the best of circumstances, and these were not. Van was withdrawn and moody…never even looking at Dallas or Phoenix, let alone Bob and ChaCha. She struggled through the days as best she could, but soon she realized that she was pregnant again. Thinking back, Maudlin knew that she must have gotten pregnant right before Bob and ChaCha were born.

She worried how to break the news to Van. He was so closed up inside himself, that she knew he would not welcome the news as he had the last time. In fact, Maudlin as terrified that he would be too overwhelmed and would leave her once he found out! She continued on, knowing that she would have to tell him, but never quite figuring out how.

Van Leif courtesy of mjo5oh .