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Daria’s Adult Career-09
Endings
New Year’s Eve 2003
Jane was more than a little nervous as evening approached. Holly and Janet were coming over to celebrate the end of the year and the start of the next. The two had been over several times since Jane’s visit in November and her moving to California earlier that month, and Holly and Fran had gone off together each time. While those two were taking care of any sexual tensions, Janet and DeeDee had refrained. For that matter, DeeDee and Jane had done very little since her arrival – DeeDee was both recovering from giving birth and was AJ’s primary caregiver, although Jane and Fran were rapidly catching up – even if Fran was still the most disgusted when changing diapers. Holly and Janet were both artists, getting well-connected in the general Bay area arts community, and they had introduced Jane to a good gallery in San Jose. With Jane’s digital gallery presence through her Baltimore gallery, she was being taken on for any California-oriented paintings, while her Baltimore gallery would still handle the rest of her production through at least the end of June, 2005.
The Christmas visitors had also both imposed and helped a lot. Helen, Quinn, and Stacy had been willing to help with the diapers, and everyone had been more than willing to hold and interact with AJ. Helen and Stacy had helped with the cleaning, and even though Jake had been forbidden to cook, he had helped most with the dishes, while Amy and Stacy helped in the kitchen. Amy was also happy to help with the grocery shopping – hauling groceries for eight adults was a chore. Amy would also be back the following weekend.
DeeDee was cooking for five tonight, a bit simpler, like but all of the dinners when the family had been there, this would be moderately elaborate. (Breakfasts and lunches had been simple; dinners, especially Christmas dinner, were not.) While Jane helped DeeDee with dinner (salad – three types of tomatoes, celery, carrots, parsnips, radish, mixed greens, and a creamy dressing – ham slices baked in milk [making a great gravy], baking powder biscuits, green beans, devilled eggs, a great Reisling from the Rheingau, and a cheese plate/charcuterie board instead of dessert), she pondered the forthcoming evening.
Janet and Holly had of course seen the video Jane, DeeDee and Fran had shot. Jane had given permission for her partners to show her potential lovers two different videos – DeeDee had shot a home video short of Jane perfecting her deepthroating, while Jane and Fran had taken turns the night before showing the other suckling DeeDee while using their fingers to get her off. Jane wondered how they would react.
More, the two couples were going be get together, and Jane was invited as well. She worried about how she would react to Janet and eventually Holly as bedpartners. She had had tween crushes on the actresses they somewhat resembled, especially Eve Plum, and found them both very attractive in the videos she had seen them in. She liked both of them as people, and respected both as artists.
She would soon find out how close she might end up with them. Janet would be a bit of a question mark for a while, as she had just learned the day before that she was pregnant. Janet had rolled her eyes when DeeDee had told her that she and Holly could take over AJ’s diaper duty to practice – Holly however had shuddered.
*
Friday, January 2, 2004
Jane woke up rather late, alone in the huge bed for the first time in some time. The other four had to leave early – DeeDee and Fran to work, to make sure there were no loose ends at work that had to be dealt with, Holly and Janet because Janet need to finish working with her gallery on the setup for an opening of her work on the 9th.
Jane stretched, wishing she could spend the day working on her own paintings as well, but she had other work to do, plus AJ would likely be awake soon. While DeeDee would mainly be working from home for the next five months, Jane had offered to fully watch AJ one day a week. She would take the baby grocery shopping that morning, and if she was lucky, she would get some painting done before her partners came home – plus Amy would be staying with them over the weekend as she attended a conference.
She had enjoyed the two previous nights – as well as the morning and afternoon of the previous day. While she had physically interacted more with Janet than with Holly, she had gotten along with both very well. Jane was already looking forward to the next weekend. She, DeeDee, and Janet were planning on a fun Friday evening dinner out while Fran and Holly minded AJ. The five would have a mutually fun Saturday afternoon, and then she, Fran, and Holly were planning on doing a little clubbing.
Jane wondered if she should send an anonymous thank you note to Upchuck – but decided against it, on the off chance he had not sent those videos the previous summer.
*
January 1, 2031
Darlene ‘DeeDee’ and Frances Brown sat on the balcony of their hotel overlooking the Hawaiian beach. Unusually, there was no third person – Jane wanted them to enjoy their 30th anniversary. The trio would celebrate their anniversary as a trio that summer. All three would turn 50 soon, and few would believe Fran or Jane were even in their mid-40s, fewer that DeeDee was even 40.
The couple finished their breakfast of eggs and spam (still popular in Hawai’i) and Fran poured them a second glass of sparkling Chardonnay. Both smiled as they clinked glasses.
Fran never did finish transitioning. However, after Jane had, against the odds since she was on the pill, gotten pregnant the spring of 2004, she had gotten a vasectomy. Jane’s son, Trent Nicholas, had grown up almost as close with Holly and Janet’s daughter Sharon Evelyn as he had with his half-sister AJ. Still, Trent and Sharon had started dating late in 8th grade, and had married when they had earned their BFAs in 2027. They had gone on to earn MFAs, and both were teaching at colleges around LA while trying to build up their reputations in the galleries.
While it had not really surprised anyone that the two children of artists might take after their parents, of the five only DeeDee was unsurprised by AJ’s interest in the sciences. While Trent and Sharon were smart as well as very talented, AJ was close to her mother’s high genius level. She graduated high school a year early, earned two BS degrees (geology, biology) in four, and had completed her MA and PhD in Paleontology in five years. She was an assistant professor at a university in North Carolina, and had married her college sweetheart, a pre-med student named George Brown, which caused a bit of teasing. He was getting ready to start practice at the university hospital associated with AJs’ campus.
Jane was at home in San Jose, happily painting; Quinn and Stacy worked with a non-profit in DC still trying to work on climate change and population control. Jane’s brother Trent had provided Stacy with a sperm donation, and their son Jacob was a sophomore at Lawndale State, hoping to follow Helen into the legal profession.
By now, of course, the older generations had largely passed on. Jake’s mother had gone first, in 2006, leaving everything to her son. Helen’s mother had died in 2009. She had largely lived off of the trusts of her husband and father had left. These were split between her three daughters, as she had no control of that. The real estate and other assets she had controlled had gone 30% to her daughter Rita, 25% to her granddaughter Erin, 10% each to Helen and Amy, while Quinn and Daria (she had refused to call her Darlene) split another 10%, the rest going to various groups she had belonged to.
Among the next generation, surprisingly it was Amy who died first, and youngest, in 2020 of cervical cancer. She had left all her investments to AJ, most of the rest of her estate to DeeDee, and token amounts to Helen, Rita, Quinn and her son, and Erin. Jake followed two years later, after his third heart attack, and Rita died a few weeks later from a stroke. Helen had retired in 2019, but was still going strong. Of DeeDee’s generation, Erin’s husband had died in a car accident caused by his drinking back in 2007.
Jane had attended her high school reunions, but never revealed to anyone DeeDee’s identity. Charles/Upchuck had been killed by the jealous husband of a woman he had been stalking when Upchuck was caught trying to plant cameras in their house – the husband got a long but suspended sentence.
DeeDee was happy with her life. While not ashamed by her porn career, she kept it well in the background of her writing career. Marie Morgan was as well-known an award-winning writer (for film as well as tv and novels) as any, but never attended award ceremonies, and kept a large but non-personal on-line presence. Her children (she and Jane both considered the other’s child as their own as well) and Sharon all knew of their parents’ porn careers. Still, all agreed that it was no one else’s business – if it came out, they would deal, if not that meant they wouldn’t have to bother about it.
DeeDee and Fran were now co-owners of the gaming company, which was still doing well. As she looked back over the previous 30+ years, Darlene, formerly Daria, decided that while she never would have chosen the life she led back before Tom came into her life, and would have been horrified by the prospect when she had lived in Highland, on the whole she had no regrets.
Endings
New Year’s Eve 2003
Jane was more than a little nervous as evening approached. Holly and Janet were coming over to celebrate the end of the year and the start of the next. The two had been over several times since Jane’s visit in November and her moving to California earlier that month, and Holly and Fran had gone off together each time. While those two were taking care of any sexual tensions, Janet and DeeDee had refrained. For that matter, DeeDee and Jane had done very little since her arrival – DeeDee was both recovering from giving birth and was AJ’s primary caregiver, although Jane and Fran were rapidly catching up – even if Fran was still the most disgusted when changing diapers. Holly and Janet were both artists, getting well-connected in the general Bay area arts community, and they had introduced Jane to a good gallery in San Jose. With Jane’s digital gallery presence through her Baltimore gallery, she was being taken on for any California-oriented paintings, while her Baltimore gallery would still handle the rest of her production through at least the end of June, 2005.
The Christmas visitors had also both imposed and helped a lot. Helen, Quinn, and Stacy had been willing to help with the diapers, and everyone had been more than willing to hold and interact with AJ. Helen and Stacy had helped with the cleaning, and even though Jake had been forbidden to cook, he had helped most with the dishes, while Amy and Stacy helped in the kitchen. Amy was also happy to help with the grocery shopping – hauling groceries for eight adults was a chore. Amy would also be back the following weekend.
DeeDee was cooking for five tonight, a bit simpler, like but all of the dinners when the family had been there, this would be moderately elaborate. (Breakfasts and lunches had been simple; dinners, especially Christmas dinner, were not.) While Jane helped DeeDee with dinner (salad – three types of tomatoes, celery, carrots, parsnips, radish, mixed greens, and a creamy dressing – ham slices baked in milk [making a great gravy], baking powder biscuits, green beans, devilled eggs, a great Reisling from the Rheingau, and a cheese plate/charcuterie board instead of dessert), she pondered the forthcoming evening.
Janet and Holly had of course seen the video Jane, DeeDee and Fran had shot. Jane had given permission for her partners to show her potential lovers two different videos – DeeDee had shot a home video short of Jane perfecting her deepthroating, while Jane and Fran had taken turns the night before showing the other suckling DeeDee while using their fingers to get her off. Jane wondered how they would react.
More, the two couples were going be get together, and Jane was invited as well. She worried about how she would react to Janet and eventually Holly as bedpartners. She had had tween crushes on the actresses they somewhat resembled, especially Eve Plum, and found them both very attractive in the videos she had seen them in. She liked both of them as people, and respected both as artists.
She would soon find out how close she might end up with them. Janet would be a bit of a question mark for a while, as she had just learned the day before that she was pregnant. Janet had rolled her eyes when DeeDee had told her that she and Holly could take over AJ’s diaper duty to practice – Holly however had shuddered.
*
Friday, January 2, 2004
Jane woke up rather late, alone in the huge bed for the first time in some time. The other four had to leave early – DeeDee and Fran to work, to make sure there were no loose ends at work that had to be dealt with, Holly and Janet because Janet need to finish working with her gallery on the setup for an opening of her work on the 9th.
Jane stretched, wishing she could spend the day working on her own paintings as well, but she had other work to do, plus AJ would likely be awake soon. While DeeDee would mainly be working from home for the next five months, Jane had offered to fully watch AJ one day a week. She would take the baby grocery shopping that morning, and if she was lucky, she would get some painting done before her partners came home – plus Amy would be staying with them over the weekend as she attended a conference.
She had enjoyed the two previous nights – as well as the morning and afternoon of the previous day. While she had physically interacted more with Janet than with Holly, she had gotten along with both very well. Jane was already looking forward to the next weekend. She, DeeDee, and Janet were planning on a fun Friday evening dinner out while Fran and Holly minded AJ. The five would have a mutually fun Saturday afternoon, and then she, Fran, and Holly were planning on doing a little clubbing.
Jane wondered if she should send an anonymous thank you note to Upchuck – but decided against it, on the off chance he had not sent those videos the previous summer.
*
January 1, 2031
Darlene ‘DeeDee’ and Frances Brown sat on the balcony of their hotel overlooking the Hawaiian beach. Unusually, there was no third person – Jane wanted them to enjoy their 30th anniversary. The trio would celebrate their anniversary as a trio that summer. All three would turn 50 soon, and few would believe Fran or Jane were even in their mid-40s, fewer that DeeDee was even 40.
The couple finished their breakfast of eggs and spam (still popular in Hawai’i) and Fran poured them a second glass of sparkling Chardonnay. Both smiled as they clinked glasses.
Fran never did finish transitioning. However, after Jane had, against the odds since she was on the pill, gotten pregnant the spring of 2004, she had gotten a vasectomy. Jane’s son, Trent Nicholas, had grown up almost as close with Holly and Janet’s daughter Sharon Evelyn as he had with his half-sister AJ. Still, Trent and Sharon had started dating late in 8th grade, and had married when they had earned their BFAs in 2027. They had gone on to earn MFAs, and both were teaching at colleges around LA while trying to build up their reputations in the galleries.
While it had not really surprised anyone that the two children of artists might take after their parents, of the five only DeeDee was unsurprised by AJ’s interest in the sciences. While Trent and Sharon were smart as well as very talented, AJ was close to her mother’s high genius level. She graduated high school a year early, earned two BS degrees (geology, biology) in four, and had completed her MA and PhD in Paleontology in five years. She was an assistant professor at a university in North Carolina, and had married her college sweetheart, a pre-med student named George Brown, which caused a bit of teasing. He was getting ready to start practice at the university hospital associated with AJs’ campus.
Jane was at home in San Jose, happily painting; Quinn and Stacy worked with a non-profit in DC still trying to work on climate change and population control. Jane’s brother Trent had provided Stacy with a sperm donation, and their son Jacob was a sophomore at Lawndale State, hoping to follow Helen into the legal profession.
By now, of course, the older generations had largely passed on. Jake’s mother had gone first, in 2006, leaving everything to her son. Helen’s mother had died in 2009. She had largely lived off of the trusts of her husband and father had left. These were split between her three daughters, as she had no control of that. The real estate and other assets she had controlled had gone 30% to her daughter Rita, 25% to her granddaughter Erin, 10% each to Helen and Amy, while Quinn and Daria (she had refused to call her Darlene) split another 10%, the rest going to various groups she had belonged to.
Among the next generation, surprisingly it was Amy who died first, and youngest, in 2020 of cervical cancer. She had left all her investments to AJ, most of the rest of her estate to DeeDee, and token amounts to Helen, Rita, Quinn and her son, and Erin. Jake followed two years later, after his third heart attack, and Rita died a few weeks later from a stroke. Helen had retired in 2019, but was still going strong. Of DeeDee’s generation, Erin’s husband had died in a car accident caused by his drinking back in 2007.
Jane had attended her high school reunions, but never revealed to anyone DeeDee’s identity. Charles/Upchuck had been killed by the jealous husband of a woman he had been stalking when Upchuck was caught trying to plant cameras in their house – the husband got a long but suspended sentence.
DeeDee was happy with her life. While not ashamed by her porn career, she kept it well in the background of her writing career. Marie Morgan was as well-known an award-winning writer (for film as well as tv and novels) as any, but never attended award ceremonies, and kept a large but non-personal on-line presence. Her children (she and Jane both considered the other’s child as their own as well) and Sharon all knew of their parents’ porn careers. Still, all agreed that it was no one else’s business – if it came out, they would deal, if not that meant they wouldn’t have to bother about it.
DeeDee and Fran were now co-owners of the gaming company, which was still doing well. As she looked back over the previous 30+ years, Darlene, formerly Daria, decided that while she never would have chosen the life she led back before Tom came into her life, and would have been horrified by the prospect when she had lived in Highland, on the whole she had no regrets.
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