The house guests have left and Maxwell is asking Bjorn about the events that have just occurred.
"Argh, what am I going to do to come back from this? Mackay got really pissed."
Bjorn muses, "I don't know... I think you can fix it all pretty easily."
Maxwell frets, "But we never fight, not like this, he's convinced I've been lying to him."
Bjorn replies, "Maybe not lying, possibly being deceptive? But Mackay is not unreasonable."
"Remember all the drama I've been through recently? I found things improved a lot for me after I started talking to people instead of sulking."
Bjorn concludes, "Speaking of which I'm going to be out this evening... You can talk to him about it alone tonight, you'll see."
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Our Windenberg native sim travels to the Shrieking Llama Bar.
"So nice to see you Clara, thank you for coming."
She exhales loudly, "Why did I say yes to coming here? I knew it was a mistake."
He doesn't let her reluctance phase him, "Well I really appreciate you agreeing to meet me, mistake or not. Since you're here why don't we get a drink inside?" - "I guess so." Clara shrugs.
Bjorn declares, "Fantastic, I promise you will not regret it."
They sit down with a barley bale. Clara eyes him, "Okay you've got me here, so what do you want?"
Bjorn beams, "Well I thought we could talk together one on one, I meant it when I said I wanted to stay friends." - "Huh." She responds and drums her fingers.
Clara then smiles sarcastically, "It's REALLY big of you to offer your friendship, after you had an affair and left your wife and family. So gracious."
He persists, "Listen Clara, I've thought a lot about what is right. After we split I wanted to fight you for full custody of the kids, to make you into the enemy, but I realised that it isn't fair to them. Their home is with you, trying to take them away would only hurt everyone."
"You what?" She starts. Bjorn interrupts, "I think you will agree that what's best for Elsa and Sophia is to be with you, and I still want to be in their lives. For my part, I want to try to be as civil and amicable in this divorce as possible. That would be easier if we could try to be friends."
Clara winces, "Eurgh you're so... frustrating. You always did make it hard to be genuinely angry with you."
"It will take some time." She stands up, right as a meeting of The Good Timers starts.
Tyrian struts over, "Salute to our grand eminence of games! And will this vision of beauty be joining us?"
Clara blushes, "That's uh, very sweet young man, but I don't touch the stuff."
"Hrmm... My proposition has been rejected, no matter." Tyrian's eyes narrow.
He turns to the other members, "What say the rest of you to revelry? Who wants to challenge me to a game of the llama waker?"
As the bar becomes more crowded Bjorn stands to join his club members. Before leaving he looks back to Clara and raises his glass "That's me then, thanks again for being open to talking with me today." She smiles and raises her glass too, "Cheers. It was marginally less unbearable than I thought."
She mocks, "But don't let me keep you, you must go, your 'people' need their 'king!" - "Yes, very funny." He wryly grins.
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Back at the apartment Mackay and Maxwell are sitting outside eating dinner under the night sky.
Mackay is the first to broach the subject. "About earlier today.... The reason I got upset was because finding out that way really hurt."
"I felt like I was blindsided by the people closest to me. I know I seem confident about things,"
"But it made me feel like you don't take our relationship seriously. Like you don't really... love me."
His husband frowns, "Please don't think that..."
Mackay continues, "Look, I'm not gonna say I don't understand why you hid this from me."
"Last time when we talked about this, I wasn't really... receptive to your feelings."
Maxwell elaborates, "Ya think? I heard you loud and clear, if I wanted to stay with you there were gonna be no damn babies."
Then he shrugs, "Mack, I changed my whole life plan, doesn't that show you how much I want to stay with you?"
"Well, eh-yeah I said that, but I was in my twenties, you can't blame me." Mackay replies candidly.
"Plus people with kids are really fucking weird." He adds.
Maxwell laughs and says, "But here we are after all this time, even though it's such a big world and who knows what might've happened along the way. But we're stable and getting old... together."
"So are we doing this or what?" Max asks.
"Maxwell Simms, I think I can raise our child."
"What, REALLY?!" He responds excitedly.
Flexing Mackay replies, "Yeah let's do it. It's time this stallion was put to stud."
For a moment they look out over the city in silence.
"Well! I guess I better put a baby in you." Mackay teases.
"What? Uh.... I mean.... Right now?" Maxwell says in shock.
"Of course, don't make me wait for it." He kisses him slowly, parting his lips with his mouth.
"Stand against the wall." Mackay orders.
"Now face me."
"And 1... 2... 3... Hup!" - "Woaah!" Maxwell reacts gleefully.
Burying his face in his shoulder, he enjoys the feeling of being held by strong arms.
Mackay rests Maxwell's back against the plexiglass window...
And begins to thrust into him.
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"You look like you're doing better." Comments Bjorn over fruit salad. "Yep! SO much better!"
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❤️ I won't lie, the "plexiglass" isn't my favourite part of that sex scene, but without it some asshole would be all, "Is that glass strong enough to support their weight?"
IMPORTANT: Did you know Tyrian is a character adoption? You can track his parallel universe story in Protected: Grauerwolfe. For those who love legacy challenges!
Sex animation/object credit to Amra72, Azmodan22, Lupobianco, ooOLaLa, Zorak, R-Lo, Mike24, Noir and Dark Sims, and Motherlodesims.
