jfingers wrote:I agree about Maggie. She was always my favorite. Such a lusty babe just enjoying the hell out of being massively pregnant. I was looking forward to watching her swell into immobility with Bill's encouragement, of course. I'm sure she would not have been supportive of Bill's desire to reduce his sexual appetite. Oh, well...
Peggy said she is due any day, but that doesn't mean she can't go overdue. Maybe she and Bill will get together again before she delivers. She, more than anyone else in the story, can always get a rise out of Bill. Can you imagine her reaction if Bill hasn't recovered from Daniels' injection?
As for the rest, I'll be happy to see what GeForce comes up with.
It's funny. Given the scope of Daniels' meddling (groundwater!), Bill's report will set off a bombshell in Washington. Fertile Valley will be the first Super Fund site that everybody WANTS to get into.
Next chapter is the end so everyone goes into labor. They are currently eight months now and next chap will be nine. Skimming the original chapters Im not quite sure how far along they are but Im going to assume Jenny Lee conceived at most a month after Peggy. The first / thirteenth chapter had Bill impregnating Jenny Lee then the second / fourteenth had Peggy revealing her pregnancy. They might be due around the same time but Im assuming she was already pregnant and just then took the pregnancy test. Maggie is clearly nine months when Peggy is eight months. Claire is three months.
Claire - 3 months
Jenny Lee - 7 months?
Peggy - 8 months
Maggie - 9 months
This is a quick guess but I could always be wrong. If this is correct we might see Jenny Lee next chapter if only because shed be about eight months then and it would be a perfect time to catch up with her. Im not GeForce but my assumption is that the Epilogue will show a heavily pregnant Claire. Why? I dont think were going to leave her at four months and that be that. We already know that Peggy will be wrapped up in this next chapter but Im just wondering about the rest.
This isnt my story but Ive been thinking about various different ways it can go.
Nine Months could start off with everyone having issues going into labor. Unbeknownst to Bill and Maggie the fertility drugs also helped the ladies have a fairly smooth birth which is why they continued to have children. Now that they are no longer on the drugs yes they are still getting huge but the birth is complicated so at that point Peggy has to find something to induce labor. This would be something no one would see coming. Bill has not had sex since the incident where he got the injection. Maybe Peggy would send Bill out for castor oil or something. Bill could detail how she has worked out and the like because most everyone loves pregnant dancing and that would be a wonderful opportunity to describe how huge she has gotten as she tries to fit into spandex. This would also be a wonderful opportunity to add possible growth spurts. Real pregnant women have growth spurts at around thirty-six weeks. So maybe shes working out and has a growth spurt ripping her spandex and Bill goes out to buy a new outfit? Of course she could work out naked but its really just an excuse to get Bill out of the house because she has a surprise for him when he returns.
Continuing with that angle Bill goes to the store and there he finds Jenny Lee, now eight months and ridiculously large, lactating everywhere. She might be working or she might be buying clothing. Of course they have sex. This would be a great time to reveal that Bill is still having side effects from the injection as that ends her arc.
Bill returns to see Maggie, mind-blowingly pregnant and overdue, feeling up his wife. A reason for her being overdue could be that just as Peggy got Maggie to help Bill out she also told Maggie to stop messing with the food and Maggie is eating like them now. She also finds herself having issues with labor despite being so huge and yes she is loving every bit of it. Of course the no-sex rule is out the window at that point as Bill walks in and both of them want him. Bill would want it as well but maybe he would challenge them saying he enjoyed the game last time and hed have sex with the first one to make him climax. Remember at the end of the last competition Maggie and Peggie said they had to do it again? Here we go with a labor induction on the line. This is when both Maggie and Peggy find out about what happened to him and the side effects of that injection. Of course in the end theyd both be induced by Bill but thatd be a beautiful way to end their arcs.
That could end Nine Months and finish their arcs. The chapter might end with them giving birth and leaving the Valley and Epilogue could begin with Bill returning for one last project. It has been many months since then and everyone is mostly cured of the effects of the Valley. He returns and the first person he bumps into is a massively pregnant Claire, ready for him to induce her labor. The next person he bumps into is Maggie, heavily pregnant once more but now she too can spray milk like Peggy due to having just given birth. Maybe the two of them would compete for Bill? What can I say? I like competitions.
These are just guesses. Im not the writer but I think something along those lines wouldnt be a bad way to start the chapters and end the character arcs.