Chapter Twenty-Four: Mommy, Daddy

Hello, and welcome back to the Hadley Legacy. When we last left off, Katyrzena had given birth to her last two children, and was feeling overwhelmed by motherhood.

Katyrzena was going to run away, but she couldn't do it. Instead she found herself getting a job at the police station, where she'd always dreamed she could work as a forensic specialist.

Katyrzena was back in time to see Alexis become a child, and Nicole become a toddler.

Alexis became an adorable, girly-girl child.

And Nicole borrowed from Gwen's old hair style with the braids.

After the birthday celebrations, Gwendolyn pulled Alexis aside.
"I know you're young, honey, but I'm not going to be around much longer. I'm still the matriarch of this family, and I just wanted to let you know, I want you to be the heiress."
"Why's that, great-grandma?"

"She wants to pick a new heiress quick," Roxanne shot at them as she walked past, "so there can't be a fight over it after she dies."
"I'm afraid that's true," Gwendolyn confessed. "You're the heiress, Alexis, don't let anyone try to take that away from you."

Later, when they had some time alone, Gweny pulled Roxy aside.
"Listen," she said, "you try any more stunts to become the heiress, you're out of here. I've let you stay, but if you hurt these little girls you're out. Got it?"
"Yes ma'am," Roxy said, rolling her eyes.

Meanwhile, Katyrzena sat staring at her cornflakes. Her grandmother had picked the heiress for her. What little power she should have had as heiress had been taken away. Nothing was in her control any more.
Kat got up and headed into the bathroom, leaving behind her uneaten meal.

She changed the one thing she could: her hair. She chopped it off, and used a little dye left over from her mother's own dying experiments, and emerged with a new look and a new outlook on life. She'd decided that she didn't have to be a perfect little housewife to be a good mother or heiress. She was just going to be herself.

Katyrzena wasn't the only one unhappy with her hair. Roxy found irrefutable proof she was getting older as some gray hair started coming in.

Chelle, meanwhile, had been promoted to the top of her career. She performed a few experiments on stuff, but I soon got annoyed with all the noise it was making and all the random sparkles, and undid her experiments.

And experiments can cause fires. Which are, you know, bad.