Chapter 5

Rudy's exhortation for them to give Dee a moment got the kids moving, albeit slowly, as they forced their frozen muscles to respond to the situation. Silently Molly helped Chance up and pulled him toward the open yard beyond. Megan too pulled at Bobby's sleeve and he moved, his eyes still unfocused as he remembered what his beautiful aunt looked like splayed naked on the ground.

"They're gone." said Rudy, kneeling on one knee and rubbing his buttock with one hand.

Dee peeked between her fingers. "Oh Rudy, what have we done?"

"We did what we needed to do." he said. "It can't be undone. Let's just deal with it."

Dee sat up and took her clothing as Rudy handed it to her. She looked down and saw the streak of his cum across her abdomen and wiped at it with two fingers absently. Just as absently she stuck the fingers in her mouth and cleaned them off. "What are we going to say to them?" she asked, pulling on her jeans.

"Let's just play it by ear." suggested Rudy, getting dressed.

Outside the four teens were talking animatedly.

"I can't BELIEVE that!" said Molly, panting for reasons she didn't understand.

"Me either!" said Bobby.

"Well I know how they felt." said Megan, uncharacteristically. "You do too Bobby, if you just think about it."

"Yeah," said Bobby, but our dad with their mom?"

Megan approached it pragmatically. She had the beginnings of an idea. "Look, we know how doing the horses can make you feel, right?"

Bobby nodded while Molly and Chance stood there listening.

"So they got horny, just like WE did." she said. "And THEY did something they weren't supposed to do... just like WE did." she said.

"Yeah." said Bobby, who hadn't caught on yet.

Megan turned to Molly and Chance. "And you guys too!" she said excitedly. "You guys have been doing it too, right?"

Chance looked at her warily. "Yeah, but what does that have to do with..."

"They can't yell at us for doing it. Don't you see? THEY'RE doing it too! So they can't complain about US doing it!" she finished excitedly.

Molly's face was ashen. "You mean TELL them?!" she asked in a horrified voice.

"YES!" squealed Megan. "Don't you see? They can't say anything because we CAUGHT them!"

"Blackmail them?!" asked Chance, his face looking sour.

"Well... no... that's not what I meant." said Megan, realizing how it must have sounded. "I mean they'll understand WHY somebody would WANT to do that... and they won't be able to tell us WE shouldn't, because THEY did too." She didn't sound so sure of herself any more.

"That's crazy." said Bobby.

"I agree with him." said Molly.

"They don't know about mom and dad." said Chance to Molly. Bobby and Megan looked at him confused."

"Oh." said Molly, her hand covering her mouth. "That's right... they DON'T know!"

"Know what?" asked Bobby and Megan together.

Chance thought for a minute. Since he had had time to think his anger had melted away. He knew how hard it was for him to stay away from Molly, and how much Molly enjoyed what they did. He hadn't thought about what it must be like for his mother, not being able to do things with her own husband that every wife wanted... and needed... to do. He thought about that now.

"Dad got hurt - kicked by a horse - and he can't... they can't... they can't have sex any more."

"Oh my gosh." said Megan in a hushed voice. "When?"

"It's been years... since I was little." said Molly, also suddenly thinking about what it would be like to go without sex for years.

"So... we really can't blame them for what happened." said Bobby.

"Yeah," said Molly, "but I don't think we should tell them about us."

"Here they come." said Chance.

Rudy walked out first. Dee was behind him, unconsciously trying to hide behind his bulk. It was bright enough in the sunlight that Rudy couldn't really see yet and his eyes squinted almost closed. He walked up to the four shapes he could see and stopped. He hadn't the faintest idea what to say.

"Look..." he started. But then he had nothing to follow it with.

"It's OK Daddy." said Megan. She wasn't so sure any more about telling the adults what had happened. "We understand." She hoped that would be enough.

"What?" asked Rudy, unprepared for that kind of response.

"We understand how you can get... carried away. Working with the horses and all." she tried expanding. Her father still looked confused. She should have let it drop there, but she felt compelled, somehow, to make him understand that they really DID know how working with the horses made someone feel. "I mean Bobby and I got all excited too."

Had Bobby not been there, or had Rudy's eyes not have become accustomed to the light, the words alone might have slipped past him. He was, after all, in an emotional turmoil. But when his daughter said that, and he looked at his son, and his son not only turned red, but couldn't meet his eyes, Rudy instinctively understood that something had happened between the two. He couldn't wrap his mind around that enough to get any images, but it was obvious they'd done... something.

"What did you do?" the father in him had to ask.

Fear clutched at Megan's heart. "We just understand." she said feebly.

Molly didn't feel guilty at all about what she and Chance had been doing for years. She loved her brother and if forced to, would run away with him. But she did feel a little guilty about encouraging her cousins to do the same thing. Seeing her cousin under the gun she felt compelled to defend her.

"Chance and I understand too." she stuck her chin out.

Dee had been listening with half an ear, since listening to them talk was easier than trying to think of what she could say to her son and daughter about what they'd seen. Molly's tone made her motherly instincts perk up, though. She stepped around Rudy.

"What do you mean you understand too?" she demanded. "You two haven't even worked with the horses."

Chance felt the same way about Molly as she felt about him, so he tried to defend HER.

"I helped Dad a couple of times." he said.

"And I saw what you showed us about prepping." said Molly, her chin still stuck out. She was in offensive mode now and spoke without thinking. "And Megan and Bobby told us what happened to them. It's only natural to get excited!"

"And what... exactly... did Bobby and Megan tell you?" asked Rudy, his voice flat.

Megan couldn't take it. "YOU guys did it!" she yelled. "And WE FELT THE SAME WAY! WE COULDN'T HELP IT!"

Rudy got plenty of mental images now. They flooded his mind, though mostly they consisted of Megan's face on Dee's body. He took a step backward at the thought.

"You're not telling me that you and Bobby..." he said weakly.

Megan was aghast at what she'd admitted, even though she'd thought about doing that very thing not so long ago. "Daddy... please... it was so... " she turned to her aunt, her hand reaching out. "Tell him Aunt Dee... you know what it's like."

Dee's mind was reeling too. Something told her this was a pivotal point for all of them. There was already enough tension in the air. She thought the cooling off period Rudy had given her should be extended.

"OK, look, lets just all go up to the house." she said. "And get something to drink and sit down and discuss this. OK?"

She reached out and took the sleeve of Rudy's shirt and pulled gently. "Come on Rudy, let's go up to the house. Come on kids. We'll talk about this there." Her voice had taken on a soothing tone as she unconsciously tried to lessen the tension in the air.

They all trooped up to the house and into the kitchen. Chance went and got another chair, since the kitchen table only had five around it. Dee got glasses for tea while everyone else sat down. When she had served them all, she sat too.

"OK" she said, not touching her own drink. "I think we all have some talking to do."

Rudy, unsure of his own feelings at the moment, just sat mute.'

Dee tried to break the ice. "Rudy and I got carried away. We admit that. We shouldn't have done what we did. But we did and we can't undo that." She didn't think it was necessary to tell the kids about that morning. "I still love Tom and Rudy still loves Cathy. It's... possible... that Cathy knew this might happen."

"What?" asked Bobby.

"Tom and I haven't been able to... be... um man and wife for a while. There was an accident.

"We know that" said Bobby. When his Aunt Dee looked surprised he added "Chance and Molly told us."

"And just how did that come up in conversation?" Dee asked, an edge to her voice.

"After we caught... after we saw you." said Bobby.

"Oh." Dee felt a little better that her kids hadn't just blabbed about it.

"We understand that." said Molly, still trying to minimize the discussion. "We don't blame you."

All the other teens nodded in agreement.

"So... what's all this other stuff about?" asked Dee. "About you and Megan" she said to Bobby. "And you two." she looked at her own children.

Both girls turned red. Bobby fidgeted.

Chance sighed. "OK, well... a while back... I guess maybe Molly and I got curious or something." He stopped, looking at Molly for help. She was looking at the table.

"And?" prompted his mother.

"We sort of did some things. You know, because it was nice and it felt good."

"And because we love each other." Molly said tightly.

Chance looked stricken. "Yes!" he said. His hand reached for Molly's. "I should have said that."

"You love each other." said Dee.

Molly looked up. Her jaw started to jut again. "Yes, Mother, we love each other."

Dee sat back in her chair. "More than... most... brothers and sisters... love each other?"

"Yes." said Molly, still tightly.

"Oh my." said Dee.

Rudy couldn't keep quiet any more.

"And you two?" he asked his children.

"It just happened since we've been here." said Megan, looking beseechingly at her father. "We've liked kissing for a long time... and I teased Bobby a lot. But when we were doing the horses we just got carried away I guess."