Chain Reaction Generation Two Summary Chapters 76-96

Ahhhh!

What are you doing here?

What do you want?

....

Oh.

Really?

Well, if you insist:

Where were we?

Hm. That sentence looks cool.

w h e r e

w    e r e

w    e

Don't you agree? Great. Now I'm RHYMING! 

Oh yeah! Emily was just kidnapped.

So, we go back to just after Alex told the guys that he's figured out she's been kidnapped. The men all freak out until Alex pulls them together, reminding them that they're a cop, a spy, and a hacker. If they can't find her, no one can! (insert cheerleader chant here)

Ethan wants to call his cop buddies, but Alex doesn't want Franco to know that he was able to tap into his system. So, the Taylor men start giving tips on what to search next to find her. Alex gets to work. He finds someone carrying Emily into an alleyway, and he enhances the photo CSI-style. (omg have you seen the ridiculous stuff they do? I mean, I don't watch it because I'm always writing or working, but my coworkers have shown me hilarious clips!)

Graham and Alex are shocked to see Logan McKinney's face pop up, matching the photo enhancement. Just a reminder: Logan is Brielle's younger brother, the one born just before she ran away.

Funny thing here (well, I think it's funny): Ethan was calling Alex 'Uncle Alex' still, but that irritated Alex. He says, "I'm in love with your little sister, Ethan. Don't call me Uncle Alex." To which Graham calls him a freak; Alex says that must mean Emily was looking for a man like her father; and Ethan tells them both to shut it.

Just putting that ^^ in because Ethan really had no idea he even had an uncle. So it was like, 'speaking of uncles...' Yeah.

They find her.

The pistols are Graham's. (Well, except for the one that Jett is holding) Ethan is still reeling from the fact that his father was a spy and he never knew. For now, though, he has to put it behind him and focus on the task at hand, which is make sure that Jett doesn't shoot Alex for running over to Emily before they've fully apprehended Jett. Then, Jett drops the weapon, and Ethan starts arresting him.

Jett's all happy-like and thinking it's neat that he's being arrested by his grandson. Ethan's nonplussed by the whole thing, realizing crime is on both sides of his family (his mother's brother and father and the double-agent thing Graham is guilty of).

Alex takes Emily home. They never find Logan.

Next, someone else shows up at the hidey-hole...

Drake!

(DUN dun DAAAHN! music)

That's right, folks. He organized the whole thing. It was a setup so that he could come in and 'rescue' Emily from her kidnappers. He was looking forward to her waking up to find him taking care of her. He'd hoped she'd be so grateful that she'd give him another chance. Whoops. THAT DIDN'T WORK, did it, Drake? I almost feel sorry for him except for the fact that he is pissed. And I'm not talking drunk. Livid works too. It's a calm kind of livid as he stalks the one he holds partially responsible for his plan falling through. I mean, they were supposed to be able to fight off Alex if he tried anything, right? Neither Graham nor Ethan have the skills needed to scour anything internet or even intranet to find her. He never counted on the three of them working together. Still, right now, he blames Logan.

So, he shoots him.

I did the blood in that pic. Not bad, eh? I've never really done that before, certainly not to the level I did in Photoshop for this pic. I'm kinda proud of it. :) Don't get used to that; it's not really my thing.

Graham comes to Alex's house to check on Emily. Alex notices that he's grayed, drastically for just one afternoon. Emily is still asleep from the sedative Logan gave her, so the two men go downstairs to have a little 'chat.'

I love what Graham says here: "I never should've let you into my children's lives! All I wanted to do was make Brielle happy, and she was under the impression she needed your friendship. If I had to do it all over again, I'd break your face, tell you to plum off, and be done with you!"

Graham is heartbroken that his daughter loves Alex. He asks about his intentions. Alex says he wants to marry her. Another blow. Poor Graham to have his lifelong enemy possibly become his son-in-law because he knows it would be pointless to tell Emily she can't. He tells Alex that he never pictured him for a son-in-law. This makes Alex hopeful that the two of them can bury the hatchet and he has Graham's support. Graham tells him 'plum you,' that Emily has his support; he'll support whatever decision she makes.

Later, Emily wakes up.

She disoriented and acting loopy, but she's happy she's safe. Alex curses himself for thinking that she's so...fetching with her guard down like this. 'It has to be the dress,' he thinks. That dress is like his kryptonite. Emily says she understands that Violet was throwing herself at him, and she kisses him. Alex tries to hold back, not wanting to take advantage of her in this state, but she tells him to shut up and kiss her. They make out for a few hours, Alex not wanting to let himself take it further than that. Emily admits that she's jealous of Selena being pregnant with Alex's baby. 

This is some of my favorite dialogue ever (put in a kind of script format for space purposes)...

Alex: I want to marry you, Emily.

Emily: Yes.

Alex (confused): I mean, I want the whole picture, marriage, kids, happily ever after and so on.

Emily (dreamy eyes): Yes.

Alex (trying to hide how happy he is): And I'm not asking you until you're in your right mind.

Emily: I'll say yes then too.

:D Now writing that was one of the moments I live for. *happy sigh*

Let's see...

• My Finn gets pregnant by aliens
• Claire is spending more time at work, not telling Ethan what she's doing
• There's an alien abduction outbreak, and Malcolm Landgraab is happy about this

And Mikey ages up:

He looks like a brown-haired, blue-eyed Claire to me.

It's been a few days since Emily's rescue, and Alex takes her to dinner at his favorite swanky restaurant. Emily is very nervous because she guesses Alex is about to ask her to marry him. She waits all dinner with Alex kind of teasing her about being nervous. He doesn't ask her. Then, they go for a walk.

Poor Alex. The only time he's ever really done proposing right was with Laura. He almost screws up before asking Emily because he makes it sound like the beginning of a breakup speech. After calming the situation down, he asks Emily indirectly to marry him. Emily's confused. So, he makes it more obvious and asks her directly. That works for her. More lovey dovey mushy wuvvikins.

Bling!

Months go by, and they get a surprise visitor:

It's mommy dearest, the (in)famous Bella Goth herself. She's not really happy that it looks like Alex is satisfying his Brielle obsession with her daughter. Alex has to explain, again, that it's not about Brielle. Then, before she can say anything, he starts defending their age difference. Bella interrupts him and reminds her son that she and Mortimer had a twenty year age difference. Alex is like 'oh yeah.'

I made it that way because in my original game save, Mortimer aged to MA long before Bella did. It may even be that way when the game starts up. I don't know. I typically delete everyone before I really get started in a new save.

Bella decides Emily is okay. So, like any mother, she starts breaking out the baby pictures.

What? Huh? Who is that in the next pic?

Logan is alive. When Drake left him, Drake thought he was dead. He'd shot him in the chest after all. Nope.

Not dead yet.

He was found by someone...Addyson Metzger to be exact. Dunno if you remember, but Addy was one of Alex's lovers after Laura divorced him and before he proposed to Selena. She lives in a rat's nest of a studio apartment downtown, below street level and almost right on top of where Logan and Jett were hiding Emily. She didn't call the police, deciding to let fate decide his, um, fate. She figured he was a criminal and probably wouldn't want the police to get him anyway.

Logan doesn't trust her even if she saved his life. However, he's still too weak to dash out of the place. He also thinks Addy has...as he puts it... an enormous rack. They sit and talk, and he lies and tells her his name is Darren. There's a real lying thing with McKinneys. Remember when Brielle would sooner tell a lie than the truth? She gets it honest. Guess Logan does too.

Addy makes breakfast and then there's this whole funny scene when Logan thinks Addy wants woohoo as payment for saving his life. That ticks her off something fierce. He apologizes and plays the guitar for her. (Addy is an entertainer.) He heals and decides he needs to help out. But he has to change his appearance.

Blond.

Addy says he needs new clothes, so she gets some that she's stashed somewhere and gives them to him.

Do the clothes look familiar? They should. The clothes belonged to Alex. Seeing him in Alex's clothes makes Logan finally get what he wants: woohoo.

Then, I abandon them. I plan on them having at least one kid. Dunno what I'm going to make of that, but the possible plot element is there.

A few months pass, and it's wedding day! Alex didn't invite Drake to the wedding, but he shows up anyway, coming with Mr. Franco. Of course, he gets away from Alex to go find Emily.

He barely keeps his cool as he tries to convince Emily not to marry his father, that he loves her. She doesn't listen to him, so he tells her he'll be there for her if she should ever need him. He knows he'll regret not just carrying her off somewhere, but as per Mr. Franco's instructions, he doesn't do anything crazy.

Da dat da dah!

Wuv. Twue wuv. Mahwage ...

Graham has one final request, that they not name a son Alexander Goth, Jr. It's bad enough he has him for a son-in-law, but an Alex Goth grandson would be too much.

Honeymoon time. Alex goes over the top and buys the house they live in for their honeymoon. They're there for a month anyway.

Emily likes being married to the incredibly romantic Alexander Goth. Alex asks her if she wants to start trying for a baby right away or would she might waiting for a little while. He wants her all to himself for a while.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

I guess not 'meanwhile' because the next chapter backs up to just after the wedding before pushing ahead into the future so that I can get all the Drake stuff together. Well, not all. A good chunk of it. Needless to say, he's devastated.

He stays at the Franco mansion most of the time because it's easier with the crazier hours Donovan Franco keeps, and he's mentoring Drake.

Violet comes into the guest room he uses and seduces him. They become lovers.

Drake is grateful to Mr. Franco for everything he's taught him. However, he feels cheated and betrayed when Franco 'suggests' that Drake marry his niece.

Really betrayed. He decides he can't trust anyone. He realizes that Franco probably intended this all along. You see, Mortimer Goth was Franco's mentor, and he has a fixation with the Goth family. And ever since they arrived in Eden, he'd been looking for an opening. He thought he could get Violet to seduce Alex (and happen to go along with 'Drake's' plan), but that didn't work. Violet is a little older than Drake but not by much. Drake figures Franco wants another heir and would be happy to have Goth blood mixed with his niece's. So, he mentally prepares to murder both of them before they can probably attempt to murder him. For now, though, he acts the part of the gullible fool, letting Franco underestimate him.

Selena has the baby and texts Alex the next day tell him he has a daughter. She sends a pic, maybe thinking that will be enough. No way! Alex rushes over to see her. Selena says her name is Diamond.

Alex has to ask to hold the baby, and Selena acts like she's not thrilled he's holding her. He says Diamond is a good name for a Goth (even if he'd have preferred something from classic literature or the like), but Selena says she's Diamond Aguilar. Alex hides his anger at that.

They go and have a chat, and Selena says that she doesn't want Diamond around Alex because she might get some of the evil Goth gene if she hangs around Alex. Alex swears he'll fight for custody.

Meanwhile, Claire has been sticking her nose into a whole mess of trouble. She follows Malcolm Landgraab and two others into the basements of MorcuCorp and discovers that they've been doing experiments on sims when she'd thought they were doing it on aliens, which was bad enough. Nope, they'd passed that point and were trying their tests on abducted individuals. She watches as a man behind a glass wall goes rabid being turned into a tiger-sim. He bites one of the workers attending to him, and that worker starts showing signs of tiger-ness.

She gets spotted. Malcolm orders his bodyguard to 'take care of it.' The other woman with Malcolm happily says they may have a new test subject.

Frantic and scared, she tries to quietly call Ethan, but it goes to voicemail.

After running around the maze of buildings, the man finally finds her, saying his boss would 'like a word with her.' She pleads he should say he couldn't find her, to which he laughs.

He cuffs her, and Malcolm comes up. For personal reasons, Tony, the bodyguard-of-sorts, says he draws the line at killing otherwise-innocent women. He's not thrilled with this scenario either. Malcolm knows this, so he comes up to assist.

Background info: I wanted, with permission granted from Maladi, to make Tony as close as possible to the Tony in the Heffner legacy, picking an empty spot in the story when Tony disappears to go do random jobs--this being one of them--that he wound up hating because...

Malcolm shoots Claire in the back, right in her heart. She dies almost instantly.

Hours later, Ethan sees Claire called and left a message. The thing is, while trying to avoid capture, Claire never turned off the call, so the message plays out everything that happened. He hears some of the dialogue and then a gunshot. Then, he hears Tony's voice come on the phone saying Malcolm shot her. (Tony was pissed off enough to do that.)

Ethan goes crazy, screaming and scaring Mikey. He thinks it's Mikey screaming. Then, he just loses it.

Brielle and Graham help out the first week or so, but then Ethan manages to convince them he's fine enough to take care of the house and kids (he's obviously not working currently). He even calls off the nanny--forgot to mention that in the chapter, come to think of it. Thing is, he's not okay.

Mikey tries to fill in the blanks and care for the twins, but he's overwhelmed. He gets on the phone and calls Aunt Emily.

Emily and Alex tell Ethan that they're going to help him. (not ask) They stay for a long time--until the twins age to kids.

They age up, and Ethan decides he's ready to go back to work. Malcolm Landgraab still hasn't been caught, and he wants in on the case.

The chief tells him no. He's mad.

Then he gets a phone call to his personal cell phone from a mysterious stranger who says he knows where to find Malcolm.

But before we find out who that is (as if you can't guess), we detour back to Drake! :)

I love how he looks in this pic.

He and Violet discuss whether or not they should get married like her uncle wants them to.
Drake wonders how Violet feels about that, her knowing that he still loves Emily.

Violet reminds him of the benefits of having a hot wife.

They go upstairs and woohoo again. Then, figuring he may as well until he can think of a better plan to get Emily, he asks Violet to marry him.

He still will never trust the Francos. He guesses they want to kill him once a son is born.

Back to Ethan:

He meets with "John Doe" (whom he later figures out is Tony from the message--Malcolm had called him by name). Tony wants to barter a favor for the information where Malcolm is. He feels it would be beneficial to have an ally in the police department. Ethan doesn't trust him, but he's determined above anything else to catch Malcolm.

So, he agrees. Tony takes him to a back entrance to a hidey-hole in the woods. Malcolm has a subterranean hideout.

Seeing Malcolm, Ethan loses it.

Tony has his own reasons for leading Ethan to Malcolm, getting vicarious satisfaction from watching a widower beat the living crap out of his dead wife's murderer.

However, he's disappointed when Ethan doesn't kill him, but he left it to Ethan to decide. Ethan arrests and uses Tony's tie to restrain the bloody pulp that Malcolm is. Outside in the woods again, he lets Tony go.

When he walks into the police station with Malcolm, everyone is shocked. Ethan locks him up.

The chief is REALLY MAD because he'd told Ethan to stay off the case. This is the third time (at least) that Ethan's gone against orders and done whatever he pleased. He gets fired.

Alex wins partial custody of Diamond. They have alternating weeks.

Emily wants to get pregnant, but it's not happening yet for her. She starts getting depressed.

The two of them discuss how the house they're currently living in isn't right to raise a child, let alone two should Emily get pregnant.

So they get a new one.

Emily's depression gets worse as the months go by and she's still not pregnant. Alex finds her at random places in the house when he gets home.

Like today, when he walks in and sees she didn't even bother getting dressed after her shower and she has tear streaks on her face. She's sleeping in the room decorated for a boy. His heart goes out to her, and he walks over to work a little more on getting her pregnant, hoping that if she just relaxes that it'll happen.

It's Drake's wedding day. His parents come to the wedding, but the step-parents decide to stay at home (yes, this means Emily too). Alex and Laura haven't seen each other in years, and they have a very entertaining spat-fight, hurling thinly-veiled insults at one another before the butler can come in and tell them that they're ready to start the ceremony.

Drake marries Violet, and he's hiding how severely irritated he is that her plans are the ones that are working here. She wanted a Goth. Drake will do.

Emily finally gets pregnant, but the pregnancy is very hard on her.

I end generation 2 with a picture of Alex holding his newborn son, Alaric Goth. He's in a reflective mood, thinking about his life and how he's happy that it seems like he's finally found his happily ever after.

As I was writing this, I realized how much this is an Alexander Goth story. You know, when I started this, I planned on deleting all the original families. And I did. I just couldn't bring myself to delete the Goths. (like when I couldn't delete the Landgraabs when Graham and Brielle moved to "Eden") I'd let child Brielle form friendships on her own, like watching a wishacy and having almost no control over what the sims did. She made friends with quite a number of people, but Alex was one of them who came out ahead. It figures. I didn't want this to be a legacy with starter families because everyone has them. But I believe I've made this Alexander Goth my own. He's been around since the beginning, and I'll be 10 times sadder when he dies than I will with my founders. I guess he's a parallel founder.

Anyway, that's enough of me getting mushy/sentimental. Thank you for your continued interested in my little hobby.

Generation Three starts years after this with Ethan's daughter Charlotte. The other characters come around every once in a while, but Charlotte has quite an adventure!

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