The Gold Family

Gertrude Silver has six sons...her firstborn, Warren, was disowned after he left the military.  So here's the story of his new family.  It's tied to both the Silver and the Verde families.  Jacques Verde arrived in town after his sister told him about it.  She's the matriarch of the Gold family, Jacqueline.

Jacqueline Gold is Jacques Verde's younger twin sister.  She married a wealthy business man and gave him six children:  Giselle, Emil, Raoul, Lucille, Marie, and Henri.  When her husband died, he left behind millions, but because it was all tied up with his various companies, Jacqueline couldn't touch any of it.  As a result, she was basically penniless.  She had enough set aside to enable her to move, and with a satisfactory--if not comfortable--allowance from the companies, she was able to establish herself in a new town:  Old Town.

Since she, like her brother, possessed certain psychic abilities, she worked on developing them and was soon able to secure a position as an Exorcist.  With the sizeable steady income and the home renovations that it enabled, she was able to honestly tell her brother that Old Town was a good place to live, resulting in her brother following her soon thereafter.

Giselle and Henri, who stayed with their mother after their father's death, moved to Old Town with her.  There Giselle ran into Warren Silver, who had only recently left the military for a civilian lifestyle away from his father's domineering ways.  Literally ran into, since she crashed into him on her bicycle.  After a brief courtship, Warren married her and moved in with her family, taking her name to further differentiate himself from his family.

Giselle, who was a talented actress and singer, went into the entertainment business, waiting tables until her dreams came true:  she became a Broadway Star in short order.  The hours are long, but the pay is worth it.  Warren, despite his determination not to don another uniform, found himself enrolling at the police academy.  Through hard work and with his wife's support, he became Chief of Police.  Together they have one daughter, Elaine.

Henri, whether for lack of interest or effort, found no reason to leave and lives with his mother, his sister, and her family.  His hours are somewhat at odds with the rest of the household, so he hardly sees them--he works as a Fashion Columnist and barely has an hour to see his mother and niece in the afternoon when they return from work and school, and hardly ever wakes early enough to see them before the leave in the morning.  Neither Warren nor Giselle, nor even Jacqueline, knows whether Henri has any interest in women or men except to just be friends.  But since his pay is more than Jacqueline's, she has no problem with him staying by her side.  He is, after all, her baby boy.

All of Jacqueline's other children also live in town, but they have married into other families; both boys married into the same family, and both girls did likewise.  Emil and Raoul married the two oldest sisters of the Venii family, while Lucille and Marie married the oldest brothers of the Adonii family.  None of them have children (and won't, since there's no space in those households), so Elaine Gold's only cousins are in the Silver and Verde families.

The Golds also have two cats, strays that they adopted.  Spork and Fluffly are reasonably happy in their new homes.  I'm waiting to see if they'll have a kitten or not; if they don't, then maybe I'll give Henri a significant other--male or female remains to be seen.