Chapter 10 Zenith and Nadir

At #1 Heritage Trail - main legacy house (continued from chapter 5)

Hester Genester(gen 1- romance) was 80 now and still going strong. She seemed obsessed with acquiring new lovers. She hoped to have 20 before her time was up and to go out in a 'blaze of glory'. Perhaps she wanted lots of mourners for her funeral? The latest additions to her stable were three handsome young gigolos in their early 20's.

Jamnagar Pander


Travancor Pander

Uh oh, isn't this Spring's boyfriend, Bordeau Pander?

Well, Hester didn't know that Spring was seeing him as Spring hadn't mentioned her involvement with Bordeau to her grandmother. And Hester didn't discuss her boyfriends with her family either.

Hester also hit on every male service person who came to the door. Her seductive powers were legend in Heritage despite her advanced age. Other women asked themselves what it was that Hester had that could still attract young men at her age. Hester of course knew that the secret was her alien pheromones. She should definitely have been a birth queen, but she no longer regretted not having achieved that position. Her life had been wonderful right where she was now.

Grandson Kester (gen 3- knowledge-age 26) had not been back to his telescope since his abduction. He had been too busy coping with the mysterious changes occurring in his body. A lengthy discussion with his alien grandmother eased his mind about what was going to happen to him but the process seemed to take forever. He developed a whole new respect for women who undergo pregnancy repeatedly. It seemed an awfully long wait. Kaylynn had given birth to Brewster several hours after he was returned by the aliens yet the time for Brewster's first birthday arrived with Kester still getting bigger.
With all the tension surrounding his condition they did not manage to have a big party for Brewster but only a small celebration with just the immediate family.

Kester brings Brewster to his cake as Prester watches.


Time for transition as Kaylynn watches. Doesn't she look excited?

Brewster didn't mind though, he completed his transition in high spirits and ready to tackle the world. He had Kester's red hair and Kaylynn's light skin and green eyes and was a pretty baby, looking a lot like his dad and older brother did as toddlers.


Finally, the morning after Brewster's party, Kester's time arrived. He had slept late and was awakened by extremely painful sensations in his abdomen that quickly brought him out of bed yelling.


His screams brought his grandmother running to his side and she assisted him through the strange process of alien birth. His memory of it was quite blurry afterward but it seemed both similar yet somehow different from normal sim birth. At last it was over and he held a baby girl in his arms.
He was in awe of her appearance. She was so incredibly alien. It wasn't just the green skin, llama lip and nearly absent nose. Not even the huge black eyes. After all, his grandmother, mother, aunts and uncle all had at least some of those features. No, with this baby it was her expression that made her seem as though she were still not of this world.

A gift from the heavens

In tribute to her appearance and her origin, he christened her Celestial and introduced her to her great-grandmother.


Finally Kaylynn managed to drag herself into the room to see what all the shouting was about. Hester handed her the baby.


Kaylynn glanced at her briefly and handed her back to Kester....


Then stood watching with her usual droopy, hangdog attitude while Kester and Hester enthused over the ugly little thing.

Celestial absorbs the homage as her due.

Kaylynn (family age 43) desperately wanted another baby herself, and that ugly, green alien did not qualify. (Kester had been doing his best to give her one, even during the advanced stages of his pregnancy. With all his time off for maternity leave any hour of day or night was available. One day the maid, Hailey Tellerman, walked into their bedroom, not realizing they were busy.

She didn't seem to appreciate the romance.

But no conception had occurred. ( Kaylynn cooperated but didn't seem to have much interest in the process.) Kaylynn was not sure WHY she wanted another baby, she had not really had any interest in the ones she already bore. Once they were separated from her body they didn't seem like her children any more and she cared for them only out of duty. She felt so alienated from everything in her life, she didn't seem to have any interest in anything. She did try getting a job but had no interest in that either and planned to quit as soon as her vacation time was used up. The only thing that Kaylynn did enjoy these days was taking long walks.


Every evening as soon as it was dark, sometimes earlier, she slipped out of the house and walked for miles. She had begun walking all the way to Trash Town on the other side of Heritage. Here she had gotten acquainted with the Hookers and Panders who had romance as a career. Here, for a little while each evening at their parties, she felt alive.

Kaylynn especially liked talking with Cassius Pander

She hadn't yet broken her marriage vows but she had thought about it. She was so thrilled and happy when she married Kester, sure that he was the fulfillment of her lifelong dreams.

Answer to a maiden's prayer
(I had to put this in here just because he looks so darn handsome in this pic.)

She didn't know what happened, it just all went flat after Prester's birth and nothing had been the same since. Perhaps it was the still constant feeling of disapproval from Hester. Older family members had never approved of her. Both because she was the maid and because she was so much older than Kester. But Hester had no business disapproving on that score with her many involvements with men no older than Kester. Kaylynn didn't know how to resolve her problems so just kept going on the way she was.

Prester (gen 4)was 10 years old now. He was the fair haired child in the family and not just because he was blond. His great-grandmother and father doted on him and he visited with both his grandparents regularly. Prester's favorite game was golf and he practiced putting every day. He was an extremely charismatic young man as well as a handsome one. He would undoubtedly cut a swath among the girls when he reached his teens no matter what his aspiration became. He loved learning but he loved having lots of friends too so his future was still very much up in the air.


Will Hester ever quit chasing men? Will Kaylynn's wanderings lead her into trouble? Will Celestial fulfill the promise Kester thinks he sees in her?

Stay tuned for the next chapter of All My SimChildren.

next episode: Marriage and Seduction