5.05 Raining Cats and Dogs

"Thank you for coming Althea.", Kim greeted the Fae healer. "So she changed early, and now she is stuck eh? What news of Alice and Jack?", inquired Althea Wandsworth, asking about 'The Hollows' local cat burglars. Jack and Alice both suffered from kleptomania, but they mostly returned the things that they took within a few days. Kim had placed them under house arrest some time ago after Jack had lifted some items from a tourist. Kim felt jail time in their case wouldn't solve anything. Besides, every resident of 'The Hollows' knew if you couldn't find something, you'd just go ask Alice and Jack, and they would return it while apologizing profusely.

Kim told Althea what she knew. The Sim Nation Federal Police had alleged that both Jack and Alice had been coerced into assisting in a series of armed robberies in Lucky Palms, when Jack and Alice where unable to provide any valuable details on the crime organization behind the heists, the SNFP had decided to give them jail time. When the SNFP raided the Lightfoot household and taken her parents, little Delilah had had a panic attack and somehow accessed her changeling form, which was feline, and had been stuck in the shape of a kitten ever since.

"It is extremely rare that a changeling of any type be able to access their alterform before their late teenage or early adult years, but it is not entirely unheard of.", Althea explained to Kim.

Althea lead Kim to the kitchen and took gently took Delilah from Kim, Althea weighed her in one hand as she continued. "Changelings are magic resistant, so no amount of fairy dust can cure this, luckily I have another solution for causing a changeling to revert to their bipedal form which might surprise you."

"Chicken soup!", exclaimed Althea, as if it was the wonder cure for absolutely everything. "I will write down the exact recipe for you, and add an extra pinch of catnip to each bowl until it does the job", Althea explained, "Just an extra pinch for each meal, no more, we wouldn't want to over do it dear."

"You'll want to be feeding her five times a day, morning, midday, afternoon, evening, and before bed. If she is not back to her normal self in a week, call me.", said Althea as she scribbled the recipe on a notepad, and tore off the page for Kim.

Kim rang the office, "I'm taking a week's leave immediately, tell Dinah that she is in charge until I get back."  

Kim had all of the ingredients on hand, plus Althea's jar of dehydrated catnip, so she began making the first round of medicinal chicken soup for Delilah.

Edward was reading a book entitled 'Foreign Fish and Cheap Chips: a travelers guide to home style cooking abroad.' He took his eyes from the page to check his watch again. Another page, another time check. And again. 'Kim should have called by now, she always calls by now, it's the night before, Kim had never not called the night before. Had something bad happened to Kim?', Edward's freaking out spiraled.

'Why hasn't she called?, Why hasn't she called? Why hasn't she picked up the phone and called?', Edward panicked as his inner voice picked up speed. 'Why haven't YOU picked up the phone and called her?', a calmer version of his inner voice interrupted.

"Hello Kim, its Edward, I'm, uh, just wondering, what movie we are going to see tomorrow night?"

Kim had been so busy with Delilah that she had forgotten to call Edward to cancel their weekly movie meet. Kim explained briefly what was happening with her goddaughter Delilah and that unfortunately, she wasn't able to leave Delilah's side until things where better.

Jessica winced as the guitar made the kind of woeful sound that she associated with horror movie murderers the moment before they struck their victim. Jess was about to give up and go play Mia when she spotted Sally and another smaller wolf  trotting along the footpath.

"Hiya Jess, I didn't know you played.", Greeted Sally. "Play..  is a very generous term.", giggled Jessica, I just joined the music class at the end of the day, I haven't actually had a single lesson yet.", Jessica confessed.

"I could tutor you some, but I gotta run Evie home before it rains. Evie is the runt of the litter and like me, the only girl. Her brothers think it's hysterical to outpace her and leave the slowest pack member behind because, well, they are morons.", Sally vented. "By the way, this is my youngest sister, Evette, I taught her to play drums, she will be in your music class.", Sally added. "Hi Jess, nice to meet you", waved Evette.

"Sally, I was wondering, can I ask how come you and Eve can shift to wolf form? I thought Werewolves were like humans, that become half wolf?.", Jessica asked. "Because we are purebred, not mutts.", answered Eve immediately. "Evette Julia Rabiah Odile Longpaw!", growled Sally, "I WILL wash your mouth out with soap and water if I hear you use the 'M' word again!"

"According to our family tree, that goes back over a dozen generations, all of our descendants are wolfkin, when you take non wolfkin for a mate, it weakens the ability to transform all the way. Anyway, someone needs to get home and do their homework, and I need to look up which universities I want to apply for, so we'll catch you later", Sally grinned.

"See you tomorrow in music!", Eve said, as she followed her older sister into wolf form and scampered to catch up. 

Kim wiped the sleep from her eyes, she had been feeding Delilah the catnip chicken soup for four days without any sign of change, she glanced down to the couch where the kitten had curled up for a nap, before Kim had herself nodded off.

Although Delilah was still asleep, Althea's concoction was finally having an effect. There was change.

Delilah woke up with a stretch and a yawn.

"Aunty Kim!", Delilah cried.

"By the maker, I thought you were stuck in your alterform forever!", Kim said with relief,

"It's so good to have you back!".

Authors Note:

Delilah Lightfoot, Kims 'Goddaughter', is a changeling, not a Werecat. Unlike Were's, a changeling can take the form of any mammal, reptile, amphibian, or vertebrate. Unless a young changeling creates a strong attachment to a specific creature type, they will inherit their alterform from a parent. Changelings are only born from the union of two changelings, should a changeling mate with a non changeling, the offspring will always be born of the non changeling variety. Under normal circumstances a changeling will not have access to their alterform until late teens. Delilahs early transformation happened only because of the great stress Delilah was under when her parents were arrested, mixed with the fact that she comes from a strong line of feline alterform descendants.


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If Jessica is an only child of a single parent, why are their all of these extra children appearing?

I went from base game, SN & Pets to all expansions six months ago, there is still so much to explore. Until a few days ago, I had never had a sim 'Jam' with another sim, or tried forming a band. so I imagine in a future chapter of this generation, that we might see something like this...  Please ignore the fact that Delilah AND her alterform appear in the same picture...

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