i keep thinking of the scenario if electrician were to run into ppl of her past like izzy from new years⊠i like imagine her going â bunny itâs been so long you look better then ever â and electrician is like đ do i know you..? due to their gaps in memory (iâm also interested how much their memory will affect them as the story progresses, i myself suffer from the issue and being young itâs kinda scary sometimes đ)
This ask made me write something! This is set pre-RTC in the earlier days of MCâs sobriety. Theyâve just moved to New Ebott here.Â
Read it on AO3 or read it below!
Licence
Youâre leaving the DMV, of all the fucking places, when it happens.Â
Most people hate the DMV but you had practically skipped into the place for your eleven am appointment, overcome with joy at the thought of getting your driverâs licence back. The public transportation in New Ebott is great and your ass looks amazing after all the cycling youâve been doing when the weather is nice, but thereâs something about the independence of a car that youâve missed. With your licence back, your employment prospects wonât be limited to the boundaries of public transport and your stamina when pedalling.Â
With your licence back, youâll be able to go to school.Â
Thatâs the thing youâre most excited about. School. College. University. Whatever. You just want to learn something, to use the brain that youâve let go to shit. You donât even care what - at this point, with your dismal record and embarrassing results from high school, youâll take what you can get.Â
Youâve wasted enough of your life and you donât want to squander a second more.Â
After tucking your brand new licence safely in your back pocket, you leave the DMV, still smiling, and make your way to the bus stop. Youâll miss catching it; all the drivers are lovely and itâs nice to be driven around the city, like your own personal tour.Â
Youâve got time to kill until the bus arrives, so you open your phone and start scrolling through hundreds of second hand car listings.Â
Youâre not picky; you have a tight budget and will probably hit your fair share of curbs in it anyway, but itâs nice to look at the fancier ones and dream. A convertible sounds nice; thereâs a bright red one for sale, way outside of your budget. You imagine the wind in your hair, the sheer cool factor of rolling down the street with the top down. Oh, or maybe a motorbike; you had loved your stupid, ugly little scooter, and a motorbike would be even better. And youâd get to wear all the sexy leather gear. Double win.Â
âOh my stars, do my eyes deceive me?â
The cold hand of panic twists through your ribcage and wraps around your heart, fingers taking hold and squeezing.Â
You know that voice.Â
You turn around.
On the sidewalk are two people staring at you with equally ecstatic expressions and you only recognise one of them.Â
Izzy looks⊠well, she looks good, you suppose, clothes fashionable and scales polished to a sheen, though you can see a few of them are missing. The spines on her head are droopy, a little paler in colour than what you remember, and thereâs a beadiness to her eyes that you never noticed before.Â
You havenât seen her in months but from how unfamiliar she looks, it feels more like years.Â
âDamn, youâre looking good!â says the man you donât recognise.Â
And you know that you knew this person once, can hear the echo of his voice through the fog of your memory, even recognise his hands for the way theyâd felt on your skin, but thereâs something missing, something your stupid, ruined, useless brain is unable to grasp.
âHey,â you say, affecting your brightest party-girl smile. âLong time no see.â
âFucking hell, no shit!â the man laughs. Heâs handsome, tall and very blond. âHowâve you been? You look so different.â
With each month you add to your sobriety, youâre told that with increasing frequency. You donât really see it yourself - you feel like the exact same person most of the time. Worse, even. Youâre horrible to be around when youâre in pain.Â
âGood, really good,â you say. âHow have ââ
âDude, I thought you were dead!â Izzy crows, looking delighted. âYou just disappeared, like that.â She snaps her fingers, a jarring scrape of scale-on-claw.Â
âYeah, we all thought that Jesse threw the bunny out with the bath water,â the man says. His tone is light, like itâs a fucking joke or something.Â
This person is a stranger to you. You couldnât even guess his name if you tried. And yet he knows about that â
You tense. Pull a smile to your face. Do your best to shake off the phantom feeling of ice crystallising on the tip of your nose. âNah, Iâm not that easy to get rid of.â
And he laughs and so does Izzy and you laugh too, even though it feels like glass in your throat, because what else can you do?
âWell, Iâm glad,â says Izzy and then she sweeps you up into a hug. She smells like old perfume clinging to unwashed clothes and you can feel a faint tremble in her hands as they grip your back.Â
You hug back, even though you suddenly feel strange and unwieldy, like your arms arenât your own.Â
I want to go home, you think. Another thing youâd be able to do if you just had a fucking car and hadnât lost your fucking licence in the first place.Â
Izzy pulls back but then the man swoops in to take her place. Youâre pressed to the line of his body, and though youâve probably seen it naked, touched it all over, the feel of it is foreign to you.Â
You let go first.Â
âWhatâre you doing in New Ebott, anyway?â Izzy asks.Â
âJust passing through,â you lie, because fuck if youâre letting her know that you live here now. âWhat about you guys?â
âSame thing,â Izzy says. âWeâre crashing with Palyso at the moment, remember him?â
Nope.Â
âOh, yeah, totally.â
âYeah, good guy, really funny. Hey, heâs actually having a party tonight, you should come! Just like old times.â The stranger waggles his eyebrows at you.Â
You donât need to remember the specifics to work out what he means.Â
âYeah, come with us,â Izzy begs. âEveryoneâll be so happy to see you. Iâll make it worth your while, I promise.â
The itch youâre not allowed to scratch burns. Itâd be so easy, so fucking easy, to say yes. Whatâs one night? You donât even need to use; who says you canât have fun sober?
The word yes sits in your mouth like a hot coal and then the memory of water, cracking with thin shards of ice, washes over it.Â
The desire is gutted out. Not even smoke remains.Â
âIâll sit this one out,â you say.Â
âAw, câmon, bunny! Youâve gottaââ
The sound of an engine rumbles behind you and your soul sings with relief.Â
Thank you, timely public transportation of New Ebott.Â
âThis is me,â you say, hoping you sound apologetic. âIt was nice seeing you guys!â
You donât wait for a reply, practically flinging yourself onto the bus. The driver gives you a concerned look - youâre a regular and most of them know you by name - but you just give her a reassuring grin, because youâre fine. Youâre fine. Youâre completely, one hundred per cent fine.Â
You take a seat near the front and stare down at your hands. You think of the way Izzy's shook. The way yours had once. The way they donât anymore. You hadnât noticed that until now.Â
God fucking damnit.Â
Stupid, unwarranted tears prickle hot at your eyes and worse, thereâs something sharp poking you in the butt.Â
Fearing that youâve sat in something thatâll rip a hole in your pants - wouldnât that be your fucking luck - you lift your hips and grope blindly at your ass.Â
Oh, right.Â
You forgot that you wedged it in your pocket after leaving the DMV.Â
You look down at your brand new licence, turning the shiny plastic card around in your hands. Your own face stares back up at you.Â
You dig around in your purse and from the very bottom, unearth the remains of your old licence, kept purely for sentimental reasons. Itâs cut clean down the middle, made unusable the moment youâd lost it, but the image of your face is still intact.Â
You compare the two, side-by-side. In the new one, your face is fuller and your skin smoother. Your lips have colour to them and your eyes are bright and awake, the whites white rather than bloodshot yellow.Â
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With this mod installed, Sims will no longer be able to jump in a car and drive somewhere (community lot, work, school, date, etc), they either need a driving licence or take a taxi.
There are three ways for a Sim to obtain a driving licence a) be given one by the player, b) be given one via "grandfather rights" or c) pass a driving test.
"Grandfather Rights" is a term for granting people privileges based on their prior experience - in this case the granting of a licence because the Sim or family already has a car.
Before taking a driving test, the Sim must learn to drive. Â A Sim can either learn with an adult/elder family member who can drive, or they can book lessons with a driving instructor.
Optionally, a Sim needs to study for and pass their theory exam before they can take their test.
When a Sim has practised enough and feels confident, they may take their driving test - either by asking a family member to accompany them to the test centre or by making a phone booking.
Optionally, Sims will gain memories for passing/failing their driving exam/test.
There are many other options for the mod, please read the web page carefully before installing the various .package files that comprise this mod.