1.11 Faster Pussycat

Lilli sat in the kitchen, eating a late night salad, she had been missing her Venice terribly in the last few days, and had constantly been dreaming of her and Venice having their own child. She loved Marcus like her own son, but Lilli's body kept suggesting how lovely it would be to have her own.

She decided to keep these thoughts to herself, it would need an extra person in the relationship, a male. Lilli had no aversions to males in the past, but the thought of an extra person in their relationship made her skin crawl. If they adopted, or sought out a male to impregnate one them, it would not be a child that both Lilli and Venice had created. No, it was just not to be. Lilli needed a distraction. Like her insane mother threatening to send an assassin after her wasn't distracting enough.       

Casey had been spending her every available moment at the Jettstar property. Venice, Lilli, and especially Marcus had a way of making her feel... less hateful of herself. Venice hated her skin, so pale, like a vampire, plastered with freckles. She had unmanageable hair, too dark a shade of red, she was flat chested compared to either of her sisters, her ears stuck out and where too pointy.

Casey hated her thin stick legs, she was taller than normal, she... she had to stop hating herself, Morgana the mage-witch had told her that 'Marcus loved her unconditionally, and accepted who and what she was, and that Casey would feel unworthy of that love, until she could love and accept herself.'

Casey wanted to be worthy, more than anything. She focused on what she hated most about herself.
She ran through the list of what she felt were her shortcomings, being a werewolf, she realized. Being a werewolf and at the mercy of the moon. She could change at will, she had been hunting a few times with her mother and her sisters, the change felt like a slow, painful process, as her body wrenched and remolded her body.

'If I had more control over it, and could do it faster, and when I wanted, maybe I could eventually halt the process all together!, Casey deduced. Casey, morphed from human to wolf and back, then again, and again. It hurt the same each time, but she was human when she chose to be, and wolf when she chose to be, she was in control. A slight feeling of euphoria flowed through her, she was in control of this, it wasn't just something that happened to her, she made it happen!

Casey took a deep breath, she was going to practice this like a gym workout, 10 repetitions, several times a day, she looked down at the pile of fur she had shed. 

Casey crept across the road to the park, she squinted in the darkness to make sure she was alone. She hated it when the moon forced her to wolf out in front of people, despite the fact that her clothes stretched when she changed, she always felt like she was naked. The very first time the moon had forced her to shift, she had been wearing a tight fitting denim skirt and jacket, both with press studs. Her increase in size had left her running among the trees in her underwear. She chose her clothes for stretchiness now and refused to wear skirts or dresses ever again.

She took a deep breath, and triggered the transformation.

Casey's senses sharpened, she could see more clearly in the low light, her hearing improved easily tenfold, and her sense of smell.. "I'm sorry little rabbit, but I'm suddenly hungreee!" She growled.




Lilli was upstairs exercising when her phone rang, she flitted off the running machine, pushing the off button with one hand, and her mobile phone with the other. Venice was coming home later today, and Lilli was excited. "Venice!, sweetheart!, when will you be home?", Lilli asked impatiently. "In about three minutes, Ive missed you Lil!", Venice responded. Lil was on the stairs in a flash, and bolted for the front door.

Lilly and Venice greeted each other like they had been apart for an eternity, which is exactly what it had felt like for each of them. Gypsy, Bull and Dozer waited patiently to greet Venice.

The couple spent the next two days locked in their room, only coming out occasionally for food, and once for an extra can of whipped cream.





Serena called Venice a few days after that, saying that she needed to talk. Venice invited her over, Serena had been her first good friend when she moved to Elba, it would be great to catch up.

"Here is the the thing.", Serena said, after they had been talking and drinking for a while, "Since my daughter Casey started dating your son Marcus, she has gone from a C- average to A+, and has even been on the honor roll, and you know as werewolves, we have a riff-raff reputation to uphold.", Serena joked..


"But seriously, she has more self-confidence, and I've never seen her happier, the few times she us at home for anything other than sleep. Marcus is really good for her. She is finally coming out of her shell!"

"The thing is, last night when I went to check on the girls, Casey was still awake, sitting up in her bed, twisting an engagement ring on her finger!", Serena burst out. "Casey said that Marcus had proposed to her two days ago, and she never told me, or even her sisters, and wouldn't say anything else about it, I'm worried this is going to fast!"

Venice didn't know how to respond so she went for, "This is news to me too!". Serena added "Casey has always been the most anxious, hesitant and insecure of my girls, and I don't want to see either of the kids get hurt."

Venice promised to talk to Casey and Marcus, and fill her in on the details.

Chapter Notes.

Both Lilly and Venice have been rolling continuous 'have a child / have a child with' rolls for days.
As you can see, Casey got her pale freckly skin from her mother, but hates it because both her sisters have a tanned freckleless skin. Serena was, in a pre LRC life, a vampy vampire, I werewolfed her, and gave her 3 daughters to raise, so Marcus would have someone in the game to talk too as a child.
I didn't actually plan on Marcus hooking up with any of them, but the game kept putting Casey and Marcus together, through school.

The title Faster Pussycat is a reference to the band formed in the mid 80's, who named themselves after a movie from '65. I had intended for the story to involve Bull and Dozer and some kittens, as both pups kept rolling 'play with another pet'. I had the scene all written in my head, but not on paper.
The idea got lost somewhere, only the title remains :(

1.10 Paranoia

Lilli desperately missed Venice while she was tour, but Venice called her every day, and they talked for as long as the world tour schedule would permit. It was a very busy time in Elba as well, Lilly Wong-Lum had passed away suddenly, this had left Lawrence and his twin Ernest, in the care of step-father they hardly knew.

Ernest had begun dating Casey's sister Alycia, and the other sister, Bernadette was seeing some kid named Martin who lived outside the town limits. While Casey spent almost all her spare time at the Jettstar household, Lilli had hardly seen the other two.

And Lilli had the itchy feeling that she was being watched, on more than one occasion. Lilli hadn't mentioned that to Venice over the phone, it was probably because there was no moon, which always darkened her mood.

Gladys had called, she couldn't convince any of her children to return to Elba to take over the junkyard, and asked Lilli if she wanted to lockup the junkyard until she returned in a month. Lilli told Gladys that she enjoyed talking to the townsfolk, and the trading and repairs every Friday, so the agreement for Lilli to look after the junkyard stayed in place.


Bernadette dropped in a few days later to ask Casey for some advice about the end of term school dance, Marcus was invited to the conversation, and Bernadette was on her best behavior, a pleasant night was had by the small group

Marcus asked Casey if she wanted to go to the school dance. Casey's response was "How about we stay here and eat slugs instead?". Marcus replied "Really?, that bad?". Casey explained to Marcus, that she would want to punch half the kids at the dance in the face for being mean to her in the past, and that she hadn't worn a dress or skirt since she was child, and wasn't going to get back into the habit.


Lilli was getting ready to close the junkyard for the day, when she got that someone is watching you feeling. She had a few large boxes of books that she had taken home last Friday to sort in the car. The boxes had been sorted into some sort of order now. Mechanical manuals in the first box, Historical books in the second, everything else in the third. Lilly carried the boxes into the office, pulled the door closed and locked it.

She sat on the chair beside the office to catch her breath, she never used Horace rocking chair, she felt it was disrespectful.

A tall handsome fairy appeared from behind the office, his hair was the same color as Lil's, his eyes the same, yet it still took her a few moments to recognize him.
 "Jasper, I hardly recognize you, you have grown so tall, are you well? why are you here, have you been disowned as well?", Lilly poured out. "Greetings to you big sister, yes it has been some time, yes I am well, no I haven't been disowned yet, If mother knew I was here to warn you, I would be charged with treason, did I answer them all?" responded Jasper.

 Jasper explained that since she had left, he had gone from fourteenth in line, to ninth. Amaranth, had been bitten in her bedchamber by a poisonous snake, and Evanthe had drown in her bath, he suspected Valerian had a hand in both. Mother who had become increasingly paranoid, had disowned Alder, Aster and Heather in the space of a week. Mother had been ill for a few days, and suspected one of her disowned children, had summoned a Black Valkyrie.

"You were the only person to ever show me kindness Lilliana, without expecting anything in return. You also saved me when Sorrel pushed me off the bridge to drown me. Should the Valkyries end the other three, I would feel no regret, but if they took you before I could repay my debt to you Lilliana, I would be most annoyed."

Lilliana remembered that little Jasper had always insisted on settling debts, and eye for an eye. Jasper explained that he had easily found Lilliana, from the location information that was part of her wedding record in the great tomes of lineage. He had somehow convinced the keeper of that particular tome to 'lose' the page until a new King or Queen sat apon the throne.  

It would make it so very much harder for anyone else to find her without that information, and that it would be wisest to  move, and keep moving. He also told her that his debt was more than fairly settled, and that their paths would most likely not cross again.

As soon as Jasper left, Lil pulled out her mobile phone and dialed Gladys. Gladys was on friendly terms with almost every resident of Elba and Lilli asked  who the most powerful witch in town was, as she was in need of strong protection magic. Lilli had to reveal her ties to the royal fae lineage, and what sort of trouble she was in to need such help.

Gladys asked her to hold for a few minutes, she might have something better. Gladys told Lilli to expect a visit tomorrow days from a very colorful lass by the name of Morgana.

The next day when Lilliana answered the ringing of the doorbell, she knew immediately that it was Morganna. Other than spectacularly cheerful clothing, and the gigantic shock of blue an purple hair, Lilliana could actually taste the power surrounding this girl, It tasted of both witch and fairy magic, it carried the flavor of earth, fire, water and air, all at once.

"I came as soon as could, your highness..", Morgana bowed as she spoke. Lilli interupted "Don't, just.. please don't, Lilli is fine.". Morgana straightened, "Yes M'lady...Yes Lilli."   

 

Lilli invited Morgana inside, and asked why Gladys had sent her, instead of a local witch.
Morgana explained that her mother was both a fairy and a witch, and that her father was a pure blood mage. Mages were very similar in appearance and physiology to humans. Morgana the explained that half breed offspring of mages, if they inherit any power, it was usually less than twenty five percent of the parent's maximum potential had. She was an extremely unusual child, as she had not only received mage powers twice the strength of her fathers, but her mothers witch skills as well.

Lilli gave Morgana the complete details of what she needed and why. Morgana quickly wrote a list of components she would need to place both wards and traps on the lot and began to inspect the house and lot. Lilli ventured into the garden to retrieve the life fruit, and the death flower, marking those off the list, she created the fairy dust herself, and returned to Morgana after gathering the remaining items on the list. Morgana was examining the paintings on the deck. "This one, I think is highly appropriate.", she told Lilli.

Lilli gave the ingredients to Morgana, save the dust. She knelt on the decking beside Morgana as instructed, and created a soothing aura. Morgana swelled with power, absorbing Lilli's aura into herself as she cast. Lilli struggled to stay upright, and then when she thought she could take no more, the spell was complete.

Morgana gave Lilli back the now enchanted necklace. The mage explained "The wards are cast, surrounding the entire lot, should any fairy, maligned intent or not, enter the lot, you will feel a slight tingle from the pendant. Should that fairy bear any ill-will toward any member of the family, the tingle will be intense, and the trap triggered."

 Morgana went on to explain the effects of the trap, and how to deal with any fairy caught in it. "I suggest if you have a large safe or somewhere else to store the painting, do do, the spell will crumble if the painting is damaged, or removed from the lot. Only the necklace alarm will work however, anywhere within the town limits, the other functions I explained to you are also limited to the lot."


Morgana stayed for dinner, the only payment that she would accept. When Lilli and Marcus took the dishes upstairs, Morgana leaned forward across the desk and asked, "I can taste your self-loathing from here, why do you hate yourself so, little one?", shocked by the question, Casey growled "What? What are you talking about!", not sure if she was irritated because it was such a rude and unexpected question, or because it was true.

"Is it the darker side of your nature, your wolf blood that you fear?", Morgana continued, as if the first question hadn't affected Casey. Casey snapped "I hate it, I hate it, I never asked to be.. a cursed werewolf!", surprised that she had finally shared her feelings about it. "You have no idea how it feels to be a freak."

"I burned our family home to the ground at age four, at five I put my mentor into hospital for a month, because I did't want to do my lessons. At six my family happily handed me to over the mage council, because the were terrified of my power that I had no control over." Morgana told Casey "I know well enough what it is to be a freak."

"Why are you telling me this?, demanded Casey growing angry at the mage. "The human boy, he loves you unconditionally, and accepts who and what you are.", Morgana explained.

"I know!", Casey said quietly. Morgana added, "And you will always feel like a worthless, unimportant freak, until you can do the same.",  "I know!" Casey repeated. "It took me many years to realize this and be at peace with myself, I'm hoping to save you some time.", Morgana explained as she rose from the table.

After the dishes had been taken care of Marcus took Casey across the road to teach her how to fish, Marcus was surprised to find Casey was a natural, and even though he had been fishing on several occasions, she was already catching more fish than he. Casey blushed when Marcus told her that she was really good at fishing. "Are you sure you haven't done this before You're really good at it!", he said. Casey responded, "No this is my first time fishing, except when I went hunting with Berny and Alycia, we tried to catch them with our teeth.. ", instantly regretting mentioned the pack hunting trip.

"It's like most things, you will get better at with practice, and its nice to see you can spend time with those two without you all trying to kill each other!". Casey smiled, it was one of the few good memories of her sisters since aging up.

 When they crossed the road back to the house, Casey was carry three times as many fish as Marcus, "See!" said Marcus, "I knew you would be good at this!", Casey's face lit up with a smile, that remained until she fell asleep.

 "Marcus?, sweetheart, darling, my paramour, my knight in shining armor..", Casey continued until she was out of suitable phrases. "Marcus, can you help with my homework, so we can talk about the end of term dance?"

 "So you are serious?, you want me to take you to the dance?" Marcus asked again. "Yes!", replied slightly annoyed at him asking the question. "But don't think you'll see me in some girly designer dress!", Casey retorted. "But its a formal event!, Marcus stated. "It will be a non event, if I can't get my head around these questions!" Casey said grumpily.

 

The school dance finally arrived, Marcus and Casey arrived half way through, to find almost all their school companions there, except Lawrence. Lawrence was in his second dance with the third single girl, when he tripped and sprained his ankle so badly, that he was taken to hospital. Oy was only a four hour event, as the Llamas were playing against the home town Eels at Elba stadium late afternoon.

Casey wanted to leave after the first dance because she felt everyone was watching them, but Marcus convinced her to stay. "Of course they are all looking! The most handsome boy in the whole school is here dancing, with the most beautiful woman in the whole world, and not only the most beautiful, but the only one clever and creative enough to design and make her own outfit for the dance!". Casey positively glowed in the deluge of compliments.

At last, there where no interruptions, and they enjoyed their first passionate kiss

The kiss didn't make it into the top five, most pure, most passionate kisses ever, but they were both quite pleased with it, and besides, they had plenty of time to practice and perfect it.

Chapter Notes:

Old Boney was teaching Bull to play dead...when suddenly....

 

I didn't know this could happen, because i usually have life span maxed.

Every one at the house came to mourn Boney, except Bull, who waited for an appropriate moment to Hi-five the reaper.

Needless to say, I ended up not being able to dismiss or re summon bones, nor could I delete her cabinet while it was still in use. So I saved the game, the next day I was able to delete the cabinet.

1.9 By The Light Of the Silvery Moon.

Marcus took Casey by the hand and led her away from the staring eyes. "Yes!", Casey whispered, as they entered the main foyer. They stepped outside and into the aggressively building wind, stopping at the top of the large stone stairs, in the shadows of a large support column . Marcus placed his hands around her shoulders, she placed hers around the small of his back. The strong wind caught Casey's dark red hair, and flipped it around her shoulders, her fringe, normally kept tidily tucked behind her ears, danced teasingly across her face. 

Casey stuck out her bottom lip, but no amount of huffing and puffing would stop her hair from covering her face. Marcus finally removed his hands from around her shoulders, and guided her wayward fringe gently into place behind her slightly pointed ears, which he had honestly never noticed before.

He placed his hands behind her shoulders again, very slowly closing the distance between their bodies, sensing the precious moment about to be, she tilted her head down, and close her eyes. He stretched his head back, so that their lips might meet, instead of her mouth to the bridge of his nose, as she was quite a few inches above standard teen sim height.

The sound of the roaring wind faded, the silence only interrupted by the loud beating of their hearts, as both Marcus and Casey leaned into the romantic kiss, that would be the first for both of them.

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.” Thought Marcus, another quote from his favorite movie, and this was pretty much what he was expecting from his first romantic kiss with Casey. What he wasn't expecting was Bernie and Alycia to crash into them, before their lips had even touched, nearly knocking him down the stairs. Only two handfuls of handrail stopped him from falling.

"We wondered you went to!", giggled Alycia. "Apparently somebody misplaced some stink bombs behind some of the stinkier artworks, darlings!", announced Bernadette in a pseudo posh voice.

Selena and Samuel appeared in the doorway moments later, Selena's eyes flashing with suspicion that one or more of her daughters had caused the exodus that was now happening at the museum. "Good night Marcus. Ladies, bid Marcus farewell for the evening, it is time for the three of you to go home and reflect on tonight's entertainment.", Selene announced clearly. Clearly indicating that one or more of said ladies was in for a tongue lashing.

Knowing it achieved nothing to argue with the executioner, "Good night Marcus.", The sisters mumbled in unison, one of the sisters blushed as she said it, the other two were too busy looking at their feet to notice.   

 

  

The next day Marcus saw Alycia at the Radio Station, she had a mad black shiner. "That's not about the stink bombs I hope?", Marcus asked. "No", Alycia replied, sounding much more subdued than usual.
"Its about Burn and I teasing Case about never ever being kissed, I pushed and pushed her for a reaction until I got one." 

Marcus was waiting here with Dozy and Bull. Venice had a short radio interview about her upcoming 'Whirlwind' World Tour, and then they were going to walk the dogs home. He could hear parts of the interview on the stations internal speakers. '14 gigs, 14 countries, 14 days, Venice Jettstar and 'Simphony of Destruction' enthused the DJ. '15 gigs' announced Venice, 'The day we get back we will throw another concert at Elba Stadium, a free gig for Elba residence only'.

'You heard it here folks exclusively on E.L.B.A. Radio, live from the elbow room, directly from the International Rock Goddess herself, Venice Jettstar, a free gig for Elba residence only! I'm your host, Mike Graffin!'

'Lets get these dogs home, I'd kill for a coffee' said Venice after leaving the station. "Coming over Alycia?". "No thanks Venice, Berny is on her way over there at the moment, and we are not talking at the present."

As they rounded the fishing pond in the lot opposite the house, Marcus noticed Bob had been round and extended the garage, a bigger garage could really only mean one thing...

"Seriously! Where did you dig up a 69 Dodge Charger in mint condition?" Marcus gasped, You're awesome!. Venice interrupted Marcus gushing for a moment, "You need to thank Lilli as well, Mummy's rock stardom, paid the bill, but Mumtoo's elbow grease did all the tracking through her collector and junkyard connections!"

"And now for the rules." Venice warned. "I will pay for the insurance, and the regular maintenance, you pay for the repairs and the traffic infringements out of your pocket money!"

"Mum, I don't get regular pocket money though!", Marcus stated. Venice smiled, "Yes, exactly my point!"

"I know you aced your advanced driving test, in a Yomoshoto Evasion, but the last rule is you take me out for a couple of hours driving, so that I know this girl won't be too much to handle. Agreed?" Venice stated. 

"I can't agree to the last rule mum, I promised Casey that she would be first passenger when I got my car." Marcus countered. "Why would you do that?" inquired Venice. "Because I was trying to ask her out on date, and I promised her that the first passenger in my car, would be my first date! I promised!"

"Okay," compromised Venice, "you take the car out tomorrow, no passengers, I will follow you in my car for four hours of driving, but no night drives or wet weather in the first month."

"Deal!", Marcus enthused as Venice threw him the keys.

"Seriously Bernie, you gotta go wolfstylin' to do homework? I know Alyce does it to get people to react, but why you?" Marcus asked as Bernadette wolf faced for the third time in ten minutes. "I cant help it!", she wailed, "I'm super sensitive to the full moon". Marcus looked out of the large panel windows, it wasn't even fully dark yet.

Later that night, Marcus took the scooter out of the garage, patting his car and telling it, "it's you're turn tomorrow!" He rode over to the Errant-Jonas household to see Casey. He dropped his jacket over the tank, and hung the helmet over the mirror before bounding up the stairs two at a time like a jackrabbit.

Serena opened the door and welcomed him, "Aly and Bern are out hunting, but Case is still home."
"Muuum!", Casey howled, "Don't let him in, I'm hideous!". "Nonsense! both of your faces are beautiful!" Serena growled.

"Really? You are hideous?" Marcus asked playfully. "Like, more hideous than the time you shared most of your ice cream with gypsy, but kept the last bit for yourself?" No reply. Marcus tried again, "Like more hideous, than the first sleepover at my house were you kept dipping your toothbrush in the toilet to brush your teeth, because you couldn't reach the sink?" Again, silence.

"Casey, are you more hideous than the time you thought your mother had forgotten your birthday and you tried to make a birthday cake from boogers?", Serena shrugged her shoulders, but Marcus had one more.

"Casey, are you more hideous than the time you told me you could eat way more slugs than me, and I ate six before I realized you were faking eating them?", Marcus pleaded.

"Yes! No! I don't know!", Casey yowled.

Marcus moved closer to the archway that separated the combined girls bedroom/ lounge room from the kitchen, he could see her eyes shining in the inky darkness where she was sitting in the back corner. "You can't possibly more hideous than the taste of six of Lilli's snail eating garden slugs." Marcus cajoled.

"Im not so sure!" Casey said a little less sulkily, "Ill go home and ask Lilli for some for you to try if you like!"

"Look Case, my car has finally been delivered, and Ive come to ask you out on our first date, for tomorrow, during the day." said Marcus, which received a nod of approval from Serena. "And I, wait you never told me you grew such a big pair of horns, they ARE hideous, Oh never mind, I think that is the coat rack!"

"Look Casey, I'm not going to ask a pitch black room to go on a date with me, for my first ever real date, what if Crazy Ivan is in there, napping on the couch.", Marcus continued.  I'd be traumatized for life if I had to tell my grandchildren, that on my first date, I had to hold hands with a mad homeless guy who offers people rat burgers for pocket change!", he improvised. Marcus was sure he heard a quiet giggle.

"I'm going to go outside where its normal dark, not inky dark, and if you want to go on a date with me, as much as I want to with you, you come tell me.", and he walked outside and sat on the steps in the dark

Serena was starting to lose patience, "Look Casey, if you are going to make him sit outside in the cold for an hour or two, let me know, bugs are coming through the open door, and are swimming in my dinner!", she tried to keep her voice level and not growl. Casey got up and went to the front door, and slunk out into the shadows.

Her hair was all pulled up on top of her head, he didn't particularly like the style, but he didn't mention it., In the low light, he could see her nose was all swollen and reshaped, her lower jaw jutted forward and her ears had stretched to longer points. He thought her human face was much prettier than her wolf face, but it was hardly hideous.

"You know Case, I think your wolf face, is much prettier than either of your sisters, and while your mum has really, really nice fur, I think your wolf face is nicer than hers too." Marcus complimented.

"I was really worried you might runaway screaming.", Casey said. "C'mon Case, you know my athletic skill, maybe I could walk away fast screaming?", Marcus suggested. Casey took his hand and led Marcus back inside. Marcus requested the pleasure of her company to attend a function at the Jettstar backyard and swimming pool facility, as his mother had him on driving limitations because she was worried that her son might drive himself off a cliff at high speed.

Casey graciously accepted the offer to attend such a grand gala, that offered favored swing sets, and the possibility of a dip. A hand shake of agreement to have her collected at ten AM sharp, as the first passenger in the newly acquired chariot, turned into a hug, with some cheek rubbing, was shaping up to be their first kiss.

Marcus would much rather kiss her human face, but knew if she tried to kiss him tonight, he couldn't back out, her fragile self esteem wouldn't be able to deal with it. She was hesitant because of her lower fangs, but Marcus considered  if he puckered up real tight, he could get his lips to hers between the fangs, he pressed gently against her back, and leaned forward for their second attempt at their first kiss, when Alycia and Bernadette come bouncing into the house.  

The next morning Marcus set off to collect his date in his pride and joy, while Venice followed in her Chev. Marcus drove sedately and sensibly, knowing full well how much muscle this car had if he asked it.

The date started of well, a light salad lunch, although without spaghetti, a shirt burst on the swings, followed by a ride on the old spring unicorn and jet cycle, this was as much fun as ever, but much harder to do with your knees up under your chin. The event was then moved to the spa, with the electronic orchestra romantically plating a combination of Custom and Darkwave.

 
Casey was even smiling occasionally, and then Marcus said "If we could stay in here all day and not have to get out, I think we'd be happy puppies."

"Seriously? Happy PUPPY?", she growled. Casey used both hands to shove a wall of water in Marcus face, and climbed out.

"Casey! C'mon, you know I wasn't being mean to you, It's just a dumb phrase Law and I use!"
"Case, have I ever said a mean word to you? Even after I ate a slug salad, Please Casey!"

"I'm so sorry Marcus.", Casey sulked, "Animal names just trigger me. I never wanted to be a werewolf, I just wanted to be normal. You were about the only kid that didn't taunt me with them, even my sisters did, just to upset me."

Casey knew in her heart that Marcus would never do anything intentionally to hurt or upset her, but her head often got in the way. Casey bent forward to kiss Marcus as a token of appreciation for his constant kindness. Whats the phrase? Third times a charm!

A small black shadow deer bounced across the lot, bumping into the couple, thus foiling a third attempt at creating one of the top 5 most pure, most passionate kisses in history.

Casey growled something that would definitely obliterate my attempts to keep this a 98% or greater PG13 or similar rating, morphed into wolf form, and chased the deer halfway across Elba before giving up.








Lilli came to bed at the end of the day, to find Venice sitting up in bed semi catatonic, "You Okay V?", Lil asked worried.
Venice thought about it for a moment, before formulating an answer. "Since I started on this path, I've never had to spend more than 48 hours away from you and Marcus, this tour is two weeks, and I am really going to miss you."

"Is that all?", asked Lil, "You see, I was worried that after two weeks of playing the best music, in the greatest venues, in the most exotic places in the world you might not want to come back, so I've prepared something special for you, to remind you what's waiting for you when you return.     

Lilliana slipped her clothes off, and let them fall slowly to the floor. She stood at the foot of the bed completely naked, slipped two ice cubes into her mouth, put the glass on the side bench, lifted the covers at the foot of the bed and ever, ever, so slowly worked her way up her lovers body, by the time Lilli's head appeared on the pillow next to Venice, the ice cubes had well and truly vanished.

Venice Jettstar and the Simphony of Destruction

GLOBAL PHENOMENON!

Chapter Notes:

Chapter 1.8, has become chapter 1.8, 1.9. 1.10, and possibly 1.11 ....
 There have been a few 'Events' happen that I consider important to the founding generation story, that Ive left out for the moment, especially in 1.5
I've been looking for the right time to insert them somewhere, but each chapter feels like its full, and there's no neat space to slide in old news, and make it feel current, with out distracting from the current chapters as they are being written.


Also I get to the point in a chapter where I feel I've said too much, I could write pages ten times the length, but I have all day and night to write, and I expect readers have to snatch moments of spare time to read my rambles.

Readers, please feel free to add in comments that you prefer more or less words, longer or shorter chapters, or that you like it as is.