(Note: After a year of taking a pause and doing other things than writing my legacy I finally decided I wanted to give this one another chance. After all, I did work hard on it and it would be sad just to let it rot away. However, I also decided to start with Generation 2 from scratch. Chapter one might be a bit confusing as well but an explanation to everything will come as time passes.)

The sound of my footfalls echoed through the corridor as I walked, sliding my tanned hand along the wall. Dried tears shimmered on my cheeks and a lump was forming in my throat.  My raven black hair was cut short- I liked it better that way and so did he. I wrapped my slender arms tightly around myself and shivered. I felt so guilty- why did I feel so guilty? I had done nothing wrong by refusing his proposal, had I? I didn’t want to leave him, I loved him but I simply couldn’t stay with him, I couldn’t do this anymore!

The fancy corridor ended and I entered the pallor, glancing around and sighing softly. The butler was standing by the door with my bags, gazing at me with a strange expression. I avoided her disapproving eyes and strode over to her, grabbing hold of the handles of my bags.

“Thank you,” I murmured and she nodded, still giving me that strange look. I had to thank her; she had after all helped me pack my things, although she did freak me out with that expression. It was like she had eaten lemons whole or something. Seriously, she had nothing to do with my decisions anyways! It annoyed me that she had to show an opinion about it. She nodded her head at my words by remained silent. I cleared my throat and looked at her carefully, “Farew-“before I could finish she interrupted me.

“I have ordered a taxi, it should be here any moment, miss Moon,” she said, sounding very formal. I sighed and nodded my head, tightening my grip of my bags. She opened the door for me and I stepped outside as I mentally kicked the butler. She had never liked me and I knew that. I had never liked her either, for that matter, but we hadn’t really showed it like this until now. I even tried to be nice to her right before I was going to leave forever! It was a big mistake.

The cold night air was like a hard slap as I felt it chill my skin. What a contrast to the comfy warmth inside. Shortly after I’d stepped out the lights of the cap broke the darkness, shining straight into my eyes. Quickly I looked away, cringing ever so slightly. It stopped and I carried my bags over to it, a little annoyed by having been blinded by the cabs spotlights. However, every little thing would have annoyed me right then. I was just so broken. The driver came out and helped me put my bags in the car. When we were done I entered, sitting down in the backseat.

“Where do you want to go?” The driver asked, watching me from the driver’s seat. I sighed and looked down. “Sunset Valley, please,” I murmured quietly, shutting my eyes as I rested my head against the window. Tears threatened in my eyes and I did my best to refrain from crying again. The driver nodded and then we were on our way. The whole time I remained silent and distantly stared out the window.

As soon as we reached Sunset Valley my mood lightened slightly. It almost felt as good as bad being back in my home town. The good thing was that I had indeed missed it these last three years. The bad thing was that mother wouldn’t be here as I wished she would, she would be as gone as she had been for so long now. Dad would of course still be here and the same did go for Clair and Eunice, right? Although seeing them again made me nervous and filled my stomach with butterflies and my mind with guilt it would feel good as well. I’d missed my family so much.

The again, how could I face them after what I’d done? How could I look those I loved in the eyes when I was guilty to my own mother’s death? How could I expect them to take me back when I’d been gone for so long and hadn’t even called or written them letters? How could I ask them not to hate me when I’d show no interest in them for over three years? The answer was simple: I couldn’t go back. I was on my own. My stomach knotted itself at the thought and I felt sick. Suddenly the car pulled over and the driver looked at me through the mirror.

“You alright?” She asked, raising an eyebrow, “you look as though you have seen a ghost or something.” I paused and looked at her carefully, biting my lip before I nodded my head and pulled myself together.

“I’m fine,” I said softly, forcing a smile. The driver didn’t look convinced but said nothing more. I just sat there, wondering why she didn’t start the car again.

“We’re there,” she said and I turned to me again. I blinked and glanced out, my blue eyes widening. She was right; we were there.

“Oh,” was all I was able to mutter as I numbly opened the door and got out, glancing around. He got out as well and took out my baggage. I smiled a weak thanks and she smiled back at me before looking concerned again.

“Sure you’ll be alright, girl?” she asked, frowning slightly. I nodded my head again.

“No need to worry, I’ll be fine,” I said softly and smiled at her a little, this time it was more of a real smile than last time, although there was no happiness in it.

“Okay, I trust your word then,” she said before getting back into the cap.

Sighing softly I watched him drive away. I slowly glanced around, looking nervous. I picked up my bags and then started walking down the street, still feeling numb. It felt strange being back here, like I had anticipated it would. My old home wasn’t far away but I was walking so slowly, it took a while to get there. All the time I debated it I should just turn around and walk away or if I should carry on walking. In the end I decided to go there anyways, despite how I felt and what I thought. If I knew my family right they would just be happy to see me again, right? They wouldn’t hate me like I did myself, right? I hoped I was right because if I wasn’t I didn’t know what I would do.

It almost felt like I would explode of the tension as I walked up to the door and lifted my hand to knock on it. I hesitated briefly before finally lowering it and ringing the bell instead. There was a pause and then footsteps could be heard from the inside. I took a deep breath and prepared myself for anything which could possibly go wrong.

I looked shocked as a woman I had never seen before ever in my life opened the door and looked at me. Why was she here? Why weren’t my sisters or dad opening the door? Had he remarried? Or maybe she was a friend or Clair’s or Eunice’s? As all kinds of theories rushed through my mind and I just looked at her in shock. She tilted her head and raised an eyebrow at me.

“Is there anything I can help you with?” she asked slowly and I snapped out of my panic attack. I looked down and scuffed my feet before looking back at her and opening my mouth to speak. At first no word came out but then I finally mustered so say something.

“W-well, I’m looking for anyone from the Moon family,” I stuttered out, looking at her carefully. She frowned.

“Moon? I don’t know any Moon, I’m sorry,” she said, “you must be at the wrong place,” she smiled and was just about the shut the door and when a voice came from the inside.

“Kerry, wasn’t the family we bought this house called Moon in last time?” a man appeared behind the woman and she opened the door fully again. My face lit up. So they had sold the house, now I got it. I smiled at him weakly.

“You don’t happen to know where they live now, do you?” I asked softly, my expression changing in disappointment as he shook his head.

“No, I’m sorry, I don’t,” he said, “but I’m sure you’ll find a way to find out, you can borrow our computer, if you want to and use the Internet?” he suggested. I smiled a little and nodded my head.

“I’d like to do that, thank you,” I said softly and stepped inside.

Strangely enough I didn’t find dad’s address when I tried to look him up. Or well, I did find the one to this house but nothing else. However, I found Eunice address. It seemed like she had moved out. That would have to do. I thanked the family and then left their home, starting towards Eunice house.

When she opened the door I first didn’t recognize her as my sister. I was shocked to see what had become of her. She had always been a troublesome type but not the rock Gothic one. She looked like she didn’t recognize me at first either but then she realized who I was and to my horror her expression darkened, anger and sorrow flicking through her purple eyes.

“Oh, it’s you,” she said, not sounding very happy to see me.

The temple of time

I woke up feeling dizzy and confused. Why did this woman contact me? And who was she? and was I really supposed to go trough the same process with this woman as with mother? And why did always everything have to be so mysterious? The last question I had in my mind annoyed me the most. My life felt more like a dream then clear realty. At this time I didn’t even think of the woman’s warning and went on with our plans as if nothing had happened.

We had been in Twinbrook for almost nine days and it was time to take a look at the temple. When we sat in the cab I was nervous and looked excited at all my children. I noticed Mays worried expression. I was just about to ask her what was wrong when she turned her head towards me and whispered ”I don’t know mom so don’t ask me”. When I then looked at Clair she just shook her head. ”She really doesn’t know what’s bothering her but something it is,” Clair said looking a bit worried, too.

It was almost dark when we arrived and by now everyone in this family was a bit nervous. Was I really going to succeed this time? I really hoped so. I had waited for so long and this time I felt that it was going to work, I just knew it.

Without a word Eunice went to the door and tried to open it but it didn’t budge a bit. ”Wait I may be able to do this” May said and went to her sister. Then she bent down to the ground and touched it with her left hand. When she got up again she opened the door without problem. We went into the chamber.

I looked around the chamber. In the middle of the of the room there was a stone lying on on a stone table. It sparkled beautifully. ”The stone” Eunice said pointing at it. ”The stone is the power source I’ve been feeling,” She continued. Clair nodded in agreement. ”It is exactly as he said” May mumbled. I don’t think I was supposed to hear it but I did.

”Mom I know what to do” May said looking straight at me. ”You do?” I asked. She nodded. ”Then tell me!”

”I don’t know. It is risky”, She said not blinking once. ”I know”, I answered. Then I looked at my family. ”But I think it will work”

”If this is what you really want then I will help you as best I can” Leighton said with a loving smile.

”Then tell me May”, I said looking at her. ”You have to use your powers. When you touch the stone think really hard on the past and on the day you want to travel to and…” She didn’t seem to want to say the last thing, but to my surprise she continued with a lower and unsteadier voice. ”…and then it is supposed to work”. She ended the sentence.

”We have to wait until the full moon’s light hits the stone which is going to happen tonight. We have to lighten those candles too”, Clair continued for May looking annoyed at her. I saw her say something but didn’t hear what it was. Apparently May did because her reaction was to look down at her feet in shame.

I looked at the ceiling but then a question hit me. ”How is the moon’s light supposed to hit the stone when there is no gap in the sealing?” I asked May. ”There is a statue in the other room. ”You are supposed to place it at its feet and then it will be possible.” She said with a lot happier voice.

”There is still an hour before the moon will be above the temple” Eunice pointed out. ”Well then we will have to wait” I answered and smiled at her.

I am now sitting here at the entrance with May and I have talked to her. She will carry on my tradition of keeping a diary about our family legacy, if things go wrong. Let’s hope for the best!

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Tripp to Twinbrook

Clair and Eunice had told me they had gone to Twinbrook for their field trip. When I heard them say Twinbrook, it brought back a flood of childhood memories. I spent the whole night after our conversation in front of the computer, searching for information about the temple of time. Twinbrook was pretty far away, so I wanted to make sure it was worth our wile to go there. I didn’t find much at first, but then I found an interesting website. It was about a book that had been found there once. Parts of the book were transcribed onto the website. I read it all, intrigued.

And indeed, there where things about time travel written. There wasn’t much about it, and the information was pretty well hidden, but I found it. It might be possible that this would led me in the right direction, so it was worth a try.

Suddenly I heard a scream from the girls bedroom! It could only have been May because Clair was with her boyfriend and Eunice was still at school, doing some extra work. I got up as fast as I could and ran to the door. But when I tried to open the door, it was locked.

It was silent, there was not sound coming from the room. I knocked at the door but no one answered. Awful toughts about things that could had happened to her ran through my mind. I was really worried.

Just as I turned around to go around the house, the door opened and May’s head peeked out.
”What do you want mom?” she asked.
”I – I heard you scream so I came to look for you.” I answered. ‘
‘It was a… it was a spider.” she said.
I didn’t believe her. She wasn’t afraid of spiders.
”Just go!” May said and the closed the door. I knew that I would get to know what had happened sooner or later with the help of Clair. Even then, the truth might never come out.

One month later where we standing in front of the cab with all our things packed. We had rented a small house in Twinbrook for one week. The whole family was going on this vacation.

Twenty minutes later, we were on board the train on the way to Twinbrook. It would be a long time before we arrived so I decided to take a nap. May and Clair where reading and Eunice was trying to calm Leighton down. He was getting ill from the train.

When I woke up, the train had just stopped at the station. We took a cab to the little house we rented. It was really small and cozy.

The girls shared one room, and Leighton and I shared the other room.We decided to wait a while before going to the temple, so that we could do something together on our family vacation.

The first day after we arrived, we went to the library to make Clair happy. She said that Twinbrook’s library was one of the biggest in Simland. I didn’t find anything interesting but Clair seemed to find a lot of books that she liked and Leighton found some books that he wanted to borrow. May said that it was boring there and that she hadn’t found the book she had been looking for. Eunice was outside, talking with her boyfriend on her cellphone.

The day was coming to an end and we were all standing outside of the library waiting for May. We were standing there at least twenty minutes until she came, and when I asked her where she had been she didn’t answer.

The next day, upon a suggestion of May’s, we went to the theater and watched a movie. Afterwards Leighton decided that we should go out to eat. It was a nice evening, and it was wonderful to spend so much time with the family.

Eunice wanted to go to the Twinbrook art museum, so that was the activity the next day. She and Clair were fascinated by all the beautiful paintings that were there. May was especially captivated by one painting in particular. She just stood there and watched it for a long time. When I walked over to her and asked what she thought about it she just answered ”It feels like me” Then she turned around and walked away. She seemed to be deep in thought.

On the fourth day of our vacation, Leighton went out fishing with May, and Clair insisted on staying in bed all day reading. Eunice and I spent the morning at the spa. It was really nice, and we had a tasty lunch afterwards.

For the next couple of days we just stayed in the cottage and relaxed. Or rather, Eunice, Leighton, and I relaxed. May and Clair spent their time at the local pool, and Eunice joined them when they went shopping the day after.

When I went to bed at the end of the sixth day of our vacation, I was unusually tired. But before I could give it an other thought, I fell asleep… .

…”Don’t go to the temple’,’ the woman spoke. ”Don’t try to travel in time like I did. See where it led? Now I’m trapped and can never return to my time. I can never die and I can never appear in one time for longer then a month before I get painfully dragged somewhere else. One wrong step and you end up like me!” The woman’s eyes began to tear up. “Don’t even try it. Even if there’s a chance that everything will turn out well, it is still a big risk.”

‘If you fail, will you never be able to turn your life back to what it once was.”

I suddenly noticed that I was standing where she was, and I was seeing it with my own eyes. This wasn’t another future sight – this was something else. I was wearing only a long white dress, and my hair wasn’t tied back in a knot like it usually was.

”Think of your children,” the woman said. Then she turned, and out of nowhere, a strange looking horse appeared. She mounted the horse, and rode away. ”Wait!” I said, trying to stop her. But it was too late. She was already gone.

Dreams and Radios

”You…You how dare you to show up here”. The woman yelled at the boy standing in front of her. ”It is already as bad as it is”, she said. ”I came came here to take her with me”, the boy said looking at the girl that sat on the sofa in the background.”Don’t you even dare to touch my daughter” the woman said with gritted teeth. ”How can you be so rude to your own country and to your own son”, the boy answered. ”This country? No this world is lost and you are not my son. Not anymore!” The woman was almost whispering. ”Not since you betrayed our whole family”.”The only thing I did was to give this good for nothing family some pride but you blew it. All my hard work for nothing. If you just had given her to them when they asked you to”, The boy yelled. ”Do you even know what they wanted to do with her?”, she asked. The boy looked curios at his mother. ”I don’t care!! You still blew it!” The boy looked furies again. ”Oh so you don’t care about what happens to your sister” she said angrily. ”I’m a warier I don’t care about others than those I’m loyal to” He snapped back. ”You should be loyal to your family not to some power-mad Idiots.” Now he looked really angry. ”How do you dare to speak like that about them you filthy quagle you…””STOP IT” the girl screamed so energetic that I thought my head would explode. The lights in the room turned dark and both looked at her. ”Please stop”, it the girl said again but this time with a normal voice. ”I can’t stand it! Please, stop it”.”P…Please please”, she said sobbing.”Oh honey… don’t cry”, her mother said hugging her daughter. ”He won’t hurt anyone I promise”.”Oh! So you think I wouldn’t” the boy said smirking. ”No, you wouldn’t! listen to your mother at least once and get away from here and never come back” She said angrily. ”We’ll see about that”, he said. He looked as if he was about to make a decision.The light turned on.  ”Not hurting anyone” He said loathing. The little girl covered her eyes with her hands and soon I knew why.With a scream the woman dropped dead on the floor. ”So come with me little sister” the boy said laughing. ”Come, come, come, come, come”. He said. ”No!” The girl was shaking her head. ”What no?!” The boy asked furiously. ”No”, she said again but this time louder. ”I won’t come with you”. Her eyes were swollen and watery. ”You will come, no matter if you like it or not” he said getting even angrier. There was an other scream and the last thing I saw was the girl running out of the room and the boy unconscious on the floor…I woke up from the sound of May’s voice. ”Danny! What are we supposed to do now?” There was panic in May’s voice. ”When Eunice sees this… will it be the end for me?” It sounded as if May was answering someone. I went down to the kitchen.When I came in I found May standing in front of Eunice’s radio. It was surrounded by water. ”what happened? and why are you up in the middle of the night?” I asked. ”I…I was going to get something to…to dri…drink for me and Danny but then he accidentally tripped over the radio and when I tried to catch it … I dropped my…my glass and… now it’s broken.” Tears were running down her cheek. ”Danny, your doll?” I asked surprised. May just nodded. ”Why would he need something to drink? He is just a doll!” ”No he is real”, May replied sobbing. ”You know what? I’ll fix this!” I hugged her. ”Now cheer up and go to bed May.” ”Yes, mom, and… I love you” She gave me a big hug. Then she went back to bed.The first thing in the morning, before anyone had woken up, I went to the store. There I bought a new radio for Eunice. On the way home couldn’t I stop thinking about the dream I had the night before. The little girl seemed somehow familiar but I didn’t exactly know where I had seen her.When I got home I prepared breakfast. It was Friday. ”Mom? I would like to do something nice tomorrow! ” May said while she ate her waffles.”That is a good idea” Leighton replied looking at me with the same face May did. ”Yes, we could if Eunice and Clair want to go to”, I finally said looking at them. ”That would be grate” Eunice and Clair shouted at the same time. ”We could go to the pool and…””…and have a picnic” May finished the sentence excitedly. “Okay! Then we will have a picnic at the pool” I said smiling brightly.

Copycat

Nine months later I gave birth to May. During my pregnancy I had tried to figure out my mother’s riddle: ”To find the portal of time you have to find the power of love and trust. Only then you access the key. But beware! One wrong step and you pay a terrible prize. It only works when the moon meets the sun”.Leighton loved to be with May as much as he did with Clair and Eunice. Clair had always a worried expression when Eunice was holding her. May didn’t seem to mind at all when Eunice accidentally drained a little power from her.One day we received a box. We were curious and opened it right away. In the box we found a letter displaying the sun and a strange looking doll. It scared me a little, but before I could trash it Clair stopped me. We read the letter which told us that the doll was a gift for May. Eunice liked the idea and felt that we should keep it for May.Mays first birthday came. Leighton taught her to walk and I taught her to talk. There was only one thing that worried me. Sometimes May seemed to be in such a pain.May loved to play with the doll. She called it Danny, one of the first words she could speak and I didn’t know where she got it from.  One morning when she seemed to be in such a pain I couldn’t stand it anymore. I told Leighton that we should take her to a doctor.”There Isn’t anything wrong with her”, Dr. Johnson said. “She is a healthy girl.” May looked at us from the toy box she was playing in and giggled.  “Nothing wrong, nothing wrong”, she said happily. ”Maybe I am just paranoid”. I said. ”Maybe that” Dr. Johnson said smiling. Somehow I felt that there was something wrong with the doctor. I felt I couldn’t trust him. He went on talking: ”If she shows more of those signs that worry you, you are welcome to come back.” Again his smile gave me the creeps. ” Thank you, Doctor”, I said getting up. On our way out of the hospital Leighton pulled me close to him and whispered: ”I swear that I saw something red flicker in his eyes when you looked at May. There is something wrong with that guy”, he said.  ”I feel it too”, I answered. We walked home.May never let go of that doll.  She loved that doll and kept it close wherever she walked. Sometimes I even could hear her to talk to it. One evening when I came downstairs I saw Clair playing with her. There was nothing unusual with it, but  suddenly she accidentally hit the floor with her hand and cracked it… just a tiny little bit, but still… the floor cracked. Clair and Eunice celebrated their 13th birthday. ”Seriously! It seems that you gave birth to them just yesterday and today they have become teenagers”, Leighton said smiling bright.Time went on and even when they were teens did they did everything together.

Clair was the best in her class but I was worried about Eunice’s grades. She had her problems with the teachers and I knew those problems were connected to her power. The teaches sometimes felt afraid of her and her classmates called her “freak”. She didn’t mean to drain them. Those things happened accidentally when she got upset.The twins really loved their little sister. For some reason they used to call her copycat. I didn’t know why, but understood that Clair was to one who started it.