Oblivious to the TV

Scene from: Sodality: Adaptation

Made with: The Sims 3: Into the Future

Background / previously on

It was starting to make sense to Candi now: she needed to be right in the fray of the frontlines of the battle to stop the Hebbleskins from destroying Houston, the hotbed center of Toklisanan resistance.    Every tragedy in her life thus far, was just a way to get her to that point.  It hadn't even been a month, since she looked like this.  (Warning: Violence/Gore/Nudity)

Indeed, Remotach was nothing short of a miracle in Zeran tech development, allowing her to remote-control and re-attach her body and head back together after being captured and beheaded behind enemy lines.  Good thing they didn't think to include a guard in the back of the truck they were delivering her in!  It allowed her to also rescue a friend of hers, who was also using Remotach pills.

After a week with the Navyrope Society to recuperate from their near-death trauma, Candi and Dolly were sent to Harris County in protective custody, on orders from Darius Philippine of SCALLOP.  Their papers were inspected, to validate their Toklisanan citizenship.  Afterward, the girls needed to collect the large sum of money that awaited them down there - and to get themselves established in their new homes and lives.

They knew they were destined to be a team to find a way to help build Wilbur Brocklyn's Sodality church - and build a Sodality of Gerosha team to combat all the evil in their world.  However, none of that would mean anything, if they couldn't get their personal lives in order.  Dolly ran into some resistance on her end, as her in-laws didn't believe her marriage to Jeraime was valid.  Disputes about the will, especially regarding his disappearance, would prove one of many legal hurdles for Dolly to overcome if she were to take her place as the heir of Malestrom Industries.

Candi had another problem: with no word to the contrary, and the battle chaos before her capture offering her only reasons to fear the worst, Candi was all but convinced that Donte had been killed.  She was supposed to get therapy to get her sexual urges back to normal, back under control.  But nobody was willing to finish what they started with her, nor take her needs seriously.  If she checked herself into rehab, she'd be no good to the team.  But was she any good to the team now?

Without her quasi-husband, Candi hoped that having her head chopped off and re-attached would reset her priorities so she'd want to be a more godly woman.  Instead, her fleshly desires were kicked into overdrive like never before!  Men started looking like targets, though she feared drawing the wrong attention to herself.  She knew this was not healthy; this as not what human sexuality was meant for.  But the desire would not shut up!  She feared it numbing her to any reality but itself. 

There was only one other way around going to rehab: she needed to find a man, and fast!  But what if Donte were still alive, somehow?  She didn't want to dishonor him, even in memory, by throwing away everything they had ever believed in, just to squander herself on an endless slew of mindless casual encounters.  Sessions with Wilbur were to begin in a month.  Could she wait that long?  Her soul needed to be fed ASAP, or she feared going wild!

As if being a nympho on a new college campus, trying to get settled into a new country, and trying to get over the death of nearly everyone she'd ever loved, and needing to prepare herself to battle her enemies to the death as Ciem in spite all the distractions didn't leave Candi feeling isolated enough; she suddenly had a new enemy to deal with: La Scarabachonda! 

This ruthless drug queen terrorizing Houston would have been a bad apple of a woman on her own, and a good testing ground for Candi to re-acclimate herself to being Ciem again.  But it got worse: Julia Milagro just so happened to look an awful lot like Candi!  And given Candi's low self-esteem and tendency to dress in swag like never before, the two girls never before looked more similar!

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Candi and Dolly knew about Darius' tendencies to abuse the Kirby Act to lock up Phexos and Meethexos alike based on arbitrary grounds - or manipulate other agencies into doing it for him.  The two used some of Candi's money to set up a fund specifically for bailing each other out, should an arbitrary lockup occur.  However, Candi had no idea that she would get arrested on her way to class, simply for resembling Julia Milagro too greatly!  She begged the officers to check her ID, but they were too gung-ho about capturing the thug to care to verify. 

Upon arriving at Harris County, Candi was immediately put into the bail/bond scheduling.  She didn't have her card handy for the joint account, because she didn't imagine she'd need a get-out-of-jail-albeit-not-exactly-for-free card on that specific day.  She was hoping she could put her absurd juvie past behind her, and be a normal college student for just one day!  No such luck!

She didn't have $2,000 in cash on her, so she was informed that she'd have to "wait for the file to be looked at."  In other words, it took three days before anyone even looked at her file to notice her confiscated wallet and ID and determine that she was, in fact, Candi Levens - NOT Julia Milagro!  No bail, no release - even though she was caught whilst not even doing anything!

She couldn't even tell if being kept away from the male inmates was a boon or a punishment anymore.  Sure, they would never satisfy that hole in her that only Donte could; but she was feeling enough like a beggar to consider pleasuring one.  She couldn't believe she'd ever allowed herself to become this desperate, and prayed that her mind could right itself in time.  She knew intellectually and spiritually it was a good thing; yet her addiction screamed at her that she was being cruelly denied.  She knew the guilt and shame that would follow if she'd indulged, especially with that crowd; but she really just wanted to at the very least make out with someone!  And she had no desire to become a lesbian whatsoever! 

Candi (thinking to self): "This must be what the 2nd circle of Hell feels like!  And it's my own fault too!"

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The TV in the hallway end was turned up reasonably loud.  Candi's head pounding and her ocular sinuses agonizing as she continued to suffer from sexual withdrawal, she was well aware that the other prisoners were beginning to stare at her.

Amber: "You okay, hun?  I've seen that look before.  Your man a Walkaway Joe?  You kill him for it?"

Candi: "He was shot by the Hebbleskins, and disappeared in the battle.  It was a massacre.  I barely survived to make it here.  And now, these chump-panzees think I'm Julia Milagro!  If they would have just checked my frickin' ID, instead of trying to extort me for money, then I might not be here!  I told them I'm Candi Levens, over and over!  Begged them to check!  Nope, they put me down as La Scarabachonda!  Whoever she is!  I don't usually turn French, that's my sister, but whoever this Julia is, f* that bitch!  Seriously!!!"

Tina: "Out of the fire and right into the frying pan!  You have some luck!"

Candi: "Don't get me started!  Border patrol didn't believe I was who I was either at first.  They tried to have me killed just fleeing Ameristan!"

Amber: "The whole world seems to want you dead.  Except me.  Care to elaborate?"

Candi: "My mother was Shalia Flippo, a co-founder of Gerosha."

Tina: "Daaayuuummmm!!!"

Amber: "I've heard about the legendary Flippo family, sworn enemies with the Hebbleskins.  So you're a surviving Flippo?"

Candi: "If this can be called survival.  I'm happy she didn't live long enough to see me like this!  I was considering going to rehab, so I stop wanting to rip my eyes out if I can't be with a man any given second!"

Amber: "Telltale nympho."

Candi: "With an instinctive knowledge of God.  But my impulses have led me quite a bit astray.  Like to think he'll still find me, before I really screw things up!"

Amber: "I could tell by the lack of dilation that your withdrawal was not heroin."

Candi: "I don't fail at life that hard!  I'm not that much of a fiend!"

Tina: "Well, you better get comfy if you want rehab.  Nobody does much anything better here, I can tell!  And you're looking like you were about to find a casual hookup.  Even I know that's wrong!"

Amber: "Kids were done early.  Had to run across town.  Took my chances at the red light.  Hubby forgot to get the tag renewed on his car.  Tire blew after I made it across the intersection, and I careened into a parked car."

Tina: "I had a little crack.  Just a little.  Can't cope since my man left.  I know it ain't much, but you can still quick-fix yourself with your hand."

Candi: "Not here!  I don't want an audience to see that!"

Amber: "True.  Point is, you're the least pathetic of all of us here.  Even if your luck doesn't show it.  I admire that.  Just don't piss off the guards, and you'll be out in a few days, with or without bail."

Candi: "Until they abduct me again for an even stupider reason.  Or SCALLOP does.  Or the Hebbleskins kill me for real next time.  Same thing, every other year or so!  Where does it end?"

Amber: "Someone needs counseling."

Candi: "I'm not looking for a hotel room discount."

Tina (bursting out laughing): "Ah!  That's a cute one!  I...I...I totally got that one!"

Catalina Bures (in background, other cell): "Meow!  Meow J-kitties!  That tuna's mine!  I'm making me some pumpkin pie around lunch time!"

Candi (enraged): "This ain't a drive-thru, Curious George!  Go bust through another wall!  Oh yeah!!!!  Keep pushing, I'll have you singin' drunken lullabies!!!"

The entire block suddenly fell silent. 

Candi: "And for the record, I'm part centipede.  You can thank the green men for that.  You think you're soooo scary, picking on all these bad drivers!  The Kirby Act declares me a constant weapon violator, because I was engineered to BE the weapon! 

And the TV is now showing the real La Scarabachonda blowing up a car dealership, and these idiots STILL wanna pick on me!  Process is a bear! 

But let me make one thing clear: Indiana gave me two pennies and some floss as a kid.  If you think I'm Nemo, you're in the wrong aquarium!"

Candi had only turned 20 a short time ago.  Yet, in that instant, she controlled the entire block.  But for how long, and to what end? 

The guard nearby suddenly looked up, and noticed that Candi's doppelganger was in fact on TV.  It wasn't either Miriam or Marina doing those things; it was Julia.

CO Jeffrey: "Am I seeing double?"

Candi: "Yeah, I get that a lot."