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Finley | Year 1 | Autumn

He let the gravity beam pull him up. But this time, he was surprised to see four smiling, green faces to greet him. They put him under again, but when he awoke, they served him a cake with a little baby alien painted on it in frosting and presented him with all the supplies he’d need to raise their offspring.

Alien Technician #1: I believe your species call this a “baby shower.” I do not understand, we are not cleaning the baby in running water, but nevertheless, I wish for my offspring to have a good life - and I was under the impression that the General would choose a suitable host and father for them. Why he chose you remains to be seen - but I do wish you do a good job with my young.

Reese nodded and leapt from the spaceship to the street below.

Alien Technician #2: Be careful! Don’t hurt my embryos!!

Reese: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOUR EMBRYOS?!

Alien Technician #2: FLY AWAY, QUICKLY, FLY, FLY!!!

Reese picked up a rock and threw it at the retreating spaceship, but it was no use. He sighed and hung his head.

Well, he thought to himself, how bad could three possibly be?

He wrapped his arms around himself and shivered as he felt the winter chill overtake him. He brought the furniture inside and laid his weary head down to rest. It would probably be the last good sleep he’d get in a long time.

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Spade | Year 1 | Autumn

In case you forgot Barton is a witch (like i do constantly because his cauldron and stuff went poof when he married Harley)

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Finley | Year 1 | Autumn

A Fortune sim in a desolate, jobless community has very few prospects. Reese took to panhandling in desperation. But with such a small population - only 8 sims live in this town - there was little spare change thrown his way. 

In fact, he managed to collect no spare change at all.

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Finley | Year 1 | Autumn

Luckily, the alien(s) inside Reese were not chest-bursters.

And, unfortunately for Reese’s parenting level and singleness... there were two of them. 

As Reese held the second of his new children aloft to study it, he felt a sort of instant fondness for the little creatures. They were helpless little infants - and they looked just like humans, save their green skin and black-hole eyes.

And in that moment, he felt a father’s love for the first time.

There were two children, twins, a boy and a girl - he named the girl Astra, and the boy Cosmo, in homage to their space-dwelling parentage. He set Astra, the secondborn, on the floor and frowned. He didn’t have any furniture for his children, and he had $56 dollars to his name! Where could he possibly get some help?

He turned towards the street, where he heard a familiar, dreadful whirring sound. He sighed and stepped toward the spacecraft, surrendering himself voluntarily.

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Finley | Year 1 | Autumn

As Reese looked up in horror, the huge, hulking machine’s doors slid open, casting a bright blue glow over the street below, right where he was standing. He screamed - surely a neighbor would hear his distress?? A few lights turned on in the Spade house, but the lane remained eerily silent, aside from the technologic whirring that was coming from this - alien? - vessel.

His stomach sank as he felt a slight tug, pulling him towards the saucer. He resisted, gripping the telescope for dear life - but the tugging grew stronger, and he couldn’t hold on any longer! He was pulled up and into the flying object, and, right before he lost consciousness, he confirmed that it was, indeed, an alien spaceship.

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Finley | Year 1 | Autumn

Greenmere’s newest resident, Reese Finley, is excited to try out this nice telescope that the military General was so excited to gift him shortly before his journey here!

He doesn’t really know why the General was so giddy about it, giggling like a schoolgirl - it was just a telescope...

[The Finley household rolled an ROS - Alien Attack!:  Get abducted 3 times this round.]

[I have modified my ROS slightly and removed this particular disaster from the options, but I’d already played it by that point (because I was so damn excited about it).]

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Spade | Year 1 | Autumn

Yes, I realize these pictures are all actually of Neo but pretend they’re not, dammit. 

And so, as Autumn was pushed out by the bitter Winter winds, this newly-expanded family hunkered down and bundled up together. 

Harley was already eagerly anticipating returning to work. Barton, unfortunately, was starting to lose faith in his Family aspiration. He had changed too many damn diapers; if he had to change another one, he was going to lose it! A

As Harley returned to work and Barton took some of his new vacation time, his relationship with his wife started to sour. He didn’t want to even look at her most days when she came home. 

Even though he loved his children, he didn’t want to deal with them anymore - at least not on his own! 

But we’ll have to see what happened with that when we return to the Spades in Winter.

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Spade | Year 1 | Autumn

Both of the Spades are learning and growing, coincidentally at the same time as their little one grows.