Chapter 4 : Lone Wolf
Although Wolfgang told his mother of everything that happened in France, glossing over his culpability, he did not show her his werewolf form right away. She was already asleep the night before when he got the urge to transform and went out to hunt.
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He stayed in werewolf form and when he woke up the next morning he noticed one of his new disgusting habits. He didn't seem to be able to control it.
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When he showed her how he looked he joked about how good looking he was. She in turn joked about her non-existent gamer skills. They got along famously.
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His mother had been spending a lot of time on her laptop lately but mostly to write her novel that was loosely based on her girlhood memories.
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When his mother got invited to a spooky day party Wolfgang decided to go in his werewolf form. Maybe they would think it was part of his costume and he could see how people reacted to him. Riding in the limo that his work had provided since his promotion to CEO reminded his mother of growing up with 2 chauffeurs and 3 double garages full of cars.
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At the party Wolf met the host and the teen daughter of the house. They seemed to respond to him normally.
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Afterward he and his mother decided to go to the spooky day festival at the park where Wolf met several sims. They even participated in a pie eating contest.
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Wolf noticed that he was starting to feel aggressive, wanting to establish himself as the alpha male, wanting to claim the women and fight the men. The more he felt that aggression the more he could smell their fear or excitement or both. He started to realize the subtlety of this curse. There was no external enemy to fight, only himself. He had allowed his aggressive side to take over even before the curse, which now only emphasized that imbalance.
Wolf decided until he had gotten rid of this curse he would not form any romantic connections. But since he was feeling frisky he decided to visit the professional ladies. As he was about to make an assignation at the day spa the full moon initiated his transformation and they wanted nothing to do with him.
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He went to work the next few days and got another promotion but he noticed his aggression was even more prominent. He didn't like how he was becoming. It scared him. The more he felt attraction to a female or aggression toward a male the harder it was for him to keep from turning into his wolf form. He wanted his humanity back. He needed to do something. He would look for a cure but in the meantime he would stay away from people as much as possible.
The first thing he did was quit his job but that didn't quite stop him from thinking up ways to make money. He could always become partners in various businesses.
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Maybe Berthe was right he needed to be more considerate. Maybe that would cure him. He decided to do unselfish acts for his mother.
He made sure to make the beds so she wouldn't need to climb the stairs.
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He bought her a fixer upper car just like the one she had fond memories of from her girlhood.
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He fixed her computer when she wore it out writing her novel, Driving with Duckies.
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He had a greenhouse built so she could have roses even in winter. Her favorite flower. (That didn't quite work out.)
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But were they really unselfish? Wasn't he doing them for his benefit too - to try to cure his curse. Maybe the more he practiced putting others before himself the more it would become second nature until he would be behaving altruistically solely for their benefit.
Wolfgang decided to be proactive in finding a cure so he traveled to Moonlight Falls. He had heard rumors so decided there would be his best bet in finding a cure. He talked to the proprietor of the local alchemy shop who was very knowledgeable. She had a cure but it didn't work on him. When she heard all the details of his curse she told him that it was a special version of the werewolf curse that required true love to be cured. She had heard of a case where the cursed werewolf could cure himself when his fiance asked him to. Wolf was quite discouraged to hear this.
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While in Moonlight Falls Wolfgang met several werewolves who belonged to a pack. They seemed to accept him, although there might be a problem with one married couple, but Wolfgang was not sure if he could subordinate himself to their established alpha. And if he could fit in would he then become so comfortable with his circumstances that he would stop trying to regain his human nature?
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Resigned to being a lone wolf with no pack mates Wolfgang returned to Laguna Coast. His mother seemed like his best chance to keep him trying. One consolation was his music.
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One night late his mother got a call from her old girlhood friend, Margaret, asking for a favor. It seemed her daughter, Kathy, had just graduated from college and gotten a job right here in Laguna Coast. Margaret wanted Elizabeth to let Kathy stay with her until she could get established on her own. Elizabeth said she would check with her son but was sure that her goddaughter could stay there permanently if she wanted.
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When his mother told him the next morning Wolf moved permanently up to the third floor leaving his second floor bedroom for their guest.
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At first Wolf was a little disgruntled that that family was still imposing on his. He remembered Kathy as a plain, boring teen that he met at his grandmother's and grandfather's funerals. (His grandfather had died within weeks of his beloved wife's death.) He couldn't understand how that family had gotten their hooks into his to the extent that all three generations of the women had been left substantial provisions in his grandparents' wills.
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As Wolfgang thought about it longer maybe he could use this development to his advantage. Kathy's obvious desire for wealth and her plain looks would make her an easy conquest. All he had to do was get her to fall in love with him, agree to marry him and have her ask him to give up his werewolf ways.
