February 2026:
Dewey and Anna Richard are 30, Piper is 6 months
It was too quiet as Anna worked on planning her class curriculum for the next week. Quiet had become a rarity in the apartment over the last six months.
Ever since that day Dewey had given birth to his daughter Piper.
Though the quiet between Anna and Dewey had certainly increased since then. Things were still okay between them. The idea of divorce hadn’t crossed Anna’s mind. She still loved Dewey with every beat of her heart.
But she hadn’t figured out yet how she should feel about the baby and everything. Her husband was taken up in an alien spacecraft one night while walking back from the convenience store on the corner–he’d gone out to get her some ice cream. So in actuality, the fact that he then gave birth to a living, breathing, crying baby only a few months later was all her fault. If she hadn’t wanted that ice cream on that particular night, none of this would have happened. They’d still be your perfectly normal, average couple.
It wasn’t that Piper was a bad baby. She was actually really good. And cute. Sometimes Anna couldn’t resist holding her close to smell that baby smell. And imagine that this was her baby too.
“I just always thought I’d be the one giving birth to our children, you know?” Anna said when she met up with Madison for coffee one afternoon. “What am I supposed to think about my husband having a baby that’s not even mine?”
“I don’t know,” Madison said honestly. “Maybe the two of you just need to talk about it.”
“We have talked about it.”
“I mean, really talk about it. I know you, Anna, and I know you’ll avoid serious discussions to keep the peace. Yell and let it out if you need to.”
So that was what Anna intended to do when Dewey came home that night. Talk.
But he talked first. “Anna, I know things have been weird between us, ever since…you know. I don’t know why it happened, why they chose me. And honestly, sometimes even I’m not sure how I should feel about Piper. But she’s here and she’s a part of me and I love her. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still love you as much as I did that day I asked to borrow your pen in tenth grade English class.”
Anna laughed. “We didn’t even know each other back then.”
“I knew that I couldn’t live without you,” Dewey told her.
Anna sighed as her smile faded. “I love you too, Dewey. And I don’t hate Piper. It’s just weird. I need more time to adjust to everything.”
“I know,” Dewey said. “I’ll give you all the time you need.”
Piper began to fuss in Anna’s arms. “Let me get her to bed,” Anna said.
After a diaper change, a bottle, and gentle rocking, Piper was asleep and in her crib in the little room that had been meant for their future first child. Piper was it, Anna realized. If she had Dewey, she got Piper too. She couldn’t ask him to give up the child he’d had, even if it had come from some nameless alien creature somewhere out there in the galaxy.
She found Dewey on the couch in the living room. She sat down next to him, cuddling close.
“Dewey?”
“Yeah?”
“I think I’m adjusted now. Can we make up for lost time?”
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Dewey got a surprise abduction and then a surprise baby with it!
That’s a lot to adjust to! I’m glad for Piper and Dewey’s sake, as well as Anna’s that she was able to accept this unexpected situation.
It is a big surprise and adjustment for them. But Anna still loves Dewey very much, so I can see them working through this and figuring out how to keep going together! 🙂
Anna has always been so sweet. I think from the perspective of this child at least, there’s really no better family for this to have happened to. I can imagine other women would not adjust to their husband having a baby without them quite so well! I’m glad she’s seeing Piper almost as her own now – she’s probably going to feel different enough growing up. 🙂
I love Anna and Dewey together, and I can see them as being so supportive of each other that they’d figure out a way to adjust to this new life. I can imagine Anna being a good mom to Piper and loving and supporting her as she grows up! 🙂
Well, I can’t say that I blame Anna for having a hard time accepting things here! It is entirely out of the realm of normal, though not unheard of in Pine Hollow. 😉 I’m glad that she is accepting Piper, I would hate for her to grow up not feeling the love of both her parents (the ones that raise her anyway, as I doubt her alien parent is going to make their presence known). She is rather adorable, and they make a cute family.
First of all, I am so happy to see you blogging about these sims again, even though I am totally late to notice you started this back up again!
Anyway, whoa! What a shocker for these two. Man, those alien abductions. I downloaded a mod to stop them completely in my game just for this exact reason, lol! It’s just so much to ask an unsuspecting family to take on.
But I’m glad to see that they’re going to be able to overcome it. They were always the cutest couple and I’d hate to see them fall apart over something that neither of them chose. I hope Anna comes to think of Piper as her own, even she’s not biologically. It’s pretty safe to say that Anna will be the only mother Piper will ever know.