Hi Mum, it's Sammy clone 36 (Part 12)

When I last wrote, Susie and I were getting much better acquainted.

Much better acquainted indeed.

 Later Susie asked if I'd be hers forever. I said yes. She offered me a drink to celebrate.

When I next could think clearly, I was locked in her basement.

I found the missing men.

Antonio, Ollie, Christian, Wyatt and Jeb are all here. Unless I get incredibly lucky, I'll be joining them some time. As far as I can make out, once a baby is born, daddy hasn't much longer to live.

It's a comfortable prison. Nice furniture, plenty to do and company as well.
There are five children, one child from each of the men.

Anna is Antonio's daughter. She asked me why I didn't tell her I was the new daddy. If only I'd known what happens to new daddy, I would have only entered this house with police and Geralt.

Orson is Ollie's son.

Christopher is Christian's son.

Wendy is Wyatt's daughter and the baby

Jeremy is Jeb's son. The older ones go upstairs during the day or to school if it is school day. The toddlers and baby stay here.

I think Susie has come to count on her men taking care of the kids. She didn't ask me to but I find myself changing diapers and handing them bottles when I notice they need them. Poor little mites, how confusing it must be to keep getting new daddies on a regular basis.

There are two separate rooms down here. This is the kids room, with a lot of cradles and some beds for the older kids.

The room next to this is mine. A bed, a stereo, a fireplace, a treadmill. It would be cosy if it were for the depressing idea that I'm likely to die here.

When I first realised that I had been trapped, I shouted for a good five minutes. After that, I was getting hoarse and that all I'd managed to do was get the toddlers and baby screaming. I should have known it wouldn't work, I had no clue that there were 2 toddlers and a baby in this house. The basement is far enough below the main house to prevent noise from getting out.

Some nights, we also have the ghosts come out to visit.

I saw Christian first.

 Wyatt came out a different night.

 Orson chatted to his dad Ollie one night.

 A few days later and Jeb plus

Antonio were both on the prowl.

Anna and Orson decided to decorate the area around the urns. I would have thought it slightly bad taste but it is their dads in those urns. They have a right to decide how to decorate it.

Then came the fateful night when Susie told me she was expecting a baby. This is supposed to be joyous news; new life, my own baby. However, it puts a time limit on how much longer I can expect to survive.

 Anna and Orson have tried their hand at bake sales.

 It's not going to earn tons of money but they have both sold their wares to the neighbors.

 Me, I keep occupied with some of the items around here. When none of the kids need me, that is. I put them first.

[sigh] I hope the next new daddy does the same. I hate to think that my baby might be neglected.

 Christopher had his birthday recently. He's growing up to be quite the handsome chap.

I've tried everything I could think of to persuade Susie to let me out. From shouting at her to making out with her. Unfortunately, she seems to be insane, that I might not like being in a small box forever hasn't really registered.

 Anna had another birthday.

And so did Jeremy.

I'm feeling weak these days. It's been awhile since Susie brought any food down.  I can't exercise, I can't draw, I can't concentrate on anything.

Sarah Pierce. My daughter.

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Note attached to Sam's last letter -

From Geralt of Riva

I am sorry that I arrived just a few hours too late to save Sam. No one had useful information in town. I examined the local swamps for monsters with no results.

In the end, to find the culprit, I had to follow ghosts home to their graves. It took a long time to find a ghost from this house, eventually I followed an electrocuted ghost here. By that time, Sammy was gone.

There had been a raging fire in his room, he managed to extinguish that.

 Then he collapsed of starvation and the Reaper came for him.

 By the time I arrived, Susie was chatting it up with the Grim Reaper.

She even flirted with him. Of course, she should know him well from the number of urns she's collected.

 After the reaper was gone, I took Susie away to the police. She tried her best to flirt with me, and she tried a drugged drink as well but neither was effective.

For the moment, I'm the guardian of the children. The city is trying to pressure the Science Lab into resurrecting the fathers. The lab has presented a bill of 600,000 to the city for the job of resurrecting the men. If this fails, Anna is the only one old enough to avoid child services. The rest will be taken away for adoption. I hope the city can come to some arrangement, I have other work to do.

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