3.06 Crocodile Rock

Lilli placed another call to 'Bob The Builders Sons' for a minor kitchen renovation. When the kitchen received its first major overhaul, three food replicators had been installed, with a fourth stored in the basement as a spare. With so many sprouts in the house, Lil decided the spare replicator needed to be installed, as well as a little more bench space. Natalie checked the older replicators, there was a large amount of spaghetti stored, as both her husband and her father were both mad keen spaghetti addicts.

Her father had even traveled to Germany to try spaghetti ice cream, which wasn't even made from spaghetti!
There was also more than forty servings of Mac'n'Cheese, as well as a large supply of salad. Nicholas and Eric both liked spaghetti, so keeping that was a no brainer. Lilly-Rose had bad reactions to meat, so the salad stayed. Nat called for Lilli. "Hey Lil, can you think of anyone that might want twenty servings of Mac'N'Cheese ?"

Over the next few days, Lil, Nat, and Eric when he had time, Cooked up the favorite meals of the children, and stored them away. Having so many people in the house made cooking on demand far to inconvenient.

Natalie double checked that each of the children and adults in the house had their favorite meals replicated.

• Key Lime Pie for Ceci
• Stir Fry for Chris
• Pumpkin Pie for Jen
• Mushroom Omelette For John
• Salads for Lilly-Rose
• Stu Surprise for Nathan
• Spaghetti for Nicky
• Sushi for Sophia
• More Spaghetti for Eric
• More Salads for Lil
• and Salmon for Herself 

She had tried adding Plasma Fruit Juice Boxes in the last slot for Angel, but the replicators reconstituted the juice onto a plate rather than in the box, and after a few clean ups Nat had given up. 

Lil fluttered through the kitchen enjoying her 'Double whipped cream and salad pastry', that she picked up from the 'Flying V' earlier. Eric was rounding up some of the children for the morning feeding frenzy, Lil shoved the remainder into her mouth as she prepared the breakfasts. 

 Nat and Eric's cubs started the day with their favorites for breakfast, and then random choice meals for the remainder of the day, she was worried they would become fussy eaters otherwise. Lilly-Rose usually only ate about half as much as any of the other children, so Eric scooped her out of the high chair and began the clean up task. After a quick snuggle he placed her on the floor, he had learned the folly of wearing his uniform during the frenzy weeks ago.

 "I might have to ask the Commander if I can borrow one of the industrial pressure washers we clean jets and tanks down with!", Eric grumbled to Lilli. "How could you possibly make this much mess with salad?", Eric asked Lilly-Rose. Lilly-Rose grinned at her father and responded "Yummy sayaaad!".

Natalie had avoided this particular frenzy, as she had gone into town to drum up work for her Psychic business. It wasn't that the Jettstar family needed more money. For Nat it was more about helping people make decisions for the future, or understanding their past. 

Natalie met Jane Mombasa down the street and before Nat had even touched her, got a glimpse of Jane's future. A few minutes into the conversation, Nat said "Hey, if for any reason Lol and her sister come to stay with you permanently, there's always baby sitting work for them with me.", trying not to give away what she had seen. Natalie was focusing on her visions to come when she called for them. Random visions coming unbidden was handy when she could interpret them, but she needed to work on visions on demand, so she said goodbye to Jane and moved on

Skye Renoso was having a personal dating dilemma, and asked if Nat's gift worked on ghosts.Natalie wasn't sure how to go about the task without a focus, or the ability to hold Skye's hand, or do the 'face hugger' thing. Natalie had to ask Skye some questions find out that Skye wanted to date a certain living person, but was nervous that the relationship wouldn't work out because of the age difference, and the fact that she was a ghost.

Natalie knew ghosts could solidify for short amounts of time with effort. Skye also seemed like the caring type, so Nat took everything she knew about Skye and concentrated. Rather than concentrate on a specific part of her gift, she tried to allow all aspects of her gift to come to bear. A faint image of Skye and a man getting married came into her head, then another of the couple and some young children, then another of the couple and older children.

The images were not clear enough to pluck details from, so Nat backed up her image with some scam style headology. "I see you at the isle in a veil and a long dress, I see children in your future, I see the family growing old together, everyone looks happy.", Nat told Skye. Skye listened enraptured. Natalie continued, "The image is faint, the path is not set, you will need to work to make this happen, and like any relationships there will be ups and downs on the road to hapiness."

She felt a little guilty having to resort to generics, but Skye was ecstatic with the outcome of the reading, "Its not like I lied to her or anything.' Nat thought to herself. 

Alonzo Machiarelli had witnessed Natalie's fortune telling and despite being a bit of a skeptic suggested Natalie try him. "Tell me my future, whats left of it!", Old Alonzo challenged. Natalie stepped up and did the classic face hugger move., "I see your pain, you should not snowboard, I see a funeral, I see spring flowers, You will be reunited with a loved one, I see you have many living loved ones, you will be greatly missed.", Natalie said quietly, slightly shocked by her vision.

"Yeah, good one!", chuckled Alonzo, who remained skeptical, "I'm going to get old and die soon, Like I needed a psychic for that one!". Natalie withdrew her hand and added "Having ' Of all the stupid things Iv'e done in my life, this one was the stupidest!' put on your tombstone isn't as funny as you think."

Alonzo stood shocked, he hadn't told anyone that.

Michal Manning Jnr. also asked Nat about his career choices. Nat slapped her hand over Michal face, and focused. "You are working at the hospital to please your parents. Your father has just retired after a long career in the fire brigade. You stay at the hospital because you feel you need to support your parents, but you would rather be a vet. You feel if you change careers your parents will not be able to cover the bills while you retrain.".

Nat stopped for a breath and withdrew her hand. Michal nodded his head in agreement with everything Lil had said. "You should change careers Michal", Natalie informed him, the amount of help your parents need won't change, but your happiness will, and things will work out for them if you stay cleaning bed pans, or do what you truly want to to do!"

Natalie ended the day with a few more street readings before heading home to dinner and a movie. The one thing she hadn't predicted that day was her husband being called back to base for an emergency meeting.
One of the investigators at work on Eric's last undercover mission had used to Eric's data to trace the path of stolen military data from the fort, through the fire station and to enemy hands.

Disappointed that Eric had to leave on another secret army meeting, Natalie took the opportunity to go for a quick swim instead. She swam a dozen laps before the evening feeding frenzy began.

Angel, who was rapidly getting over her 'Kiddyphobia' as she called it, began spending more time with the children, and less time locked away in the basement. She noticed that there where only seven children playing in the room and went to search for the missing one. She found Christopher in the bathroom, who had gone to the potty all by himself. She bravely poked a finger into the side of his nappy and held it open, half expecting to find a mess.

To celebrate his achievement, Angel tickled Christopher with 'The Monster Claw'. She had seen Eric and Natalie do this with the children, and it had always incited laughter. There was something about the way that Angel did it that left Chris uncertain at first.

The other children played happily, blissfully unaware of the monster attack happening only feet away,

even when Chris squiggled and squirmed, giggling in delight.

Lilly-Rose, having successfully ditched another onesie, toddled into the boys room

to see what all the noise was about.

Authors Notes.
Hey, I could complain how it takes me hours to set up any for any shot that involves Cas, but if you have read any of my previous notes, you will have heard it all before, so rather than rant and complain, I'm going to use these notes to tell you about one of those rare happy 'Shocked And Stunned' moments in Sims3.

In the dark ages, when sims3 first came out, I had the base game on PC Cd or DVD, then much later after disc damage, I played a jolly rodger version with pets for a little while befor moving on to other games. Then on to a steam version through family sharing, before being able to but my own steam version with all expansions.

The whole time I played Sims with pets, I had never been able to get a cat to catch a fish. I'd even spent a whole day on making ponds and shuffling spawners closer to the bank, etc. Eventually I gave up.

While playing for this chapter, I clicked on Skitty to send him across the road to get him out of the way for a screen shot. I somehow clicked 'hunt for fish' and ignored it, thinking doesn't matter if cats are bugged and' cant catch fish, as long as Skitty isn't mooning the camera, its all good!

So I'm pausing and unpausing, moving things around, selecting poses for the shot, when I get two popups.

Skittykitty has caught a 132Kg Dragonfish, Skittykitty has caught a 164 Kg Crocodile. YESS!!!!

HEADLINE: 4Kg housecat kicks the crap out of 164Kg croc! Thats my Skitty!