Chapter 12: Questions

Wednesday, December 20th, Night
Dave called in to the office that night and left a message for Susan delegating all of the tasks he had scheduled for the next day and the day after to some of his senior associates giving himself a five day holiday weekend. He then called and talked to Jennifer, his sister.

"Hello."

It was a female voice but Dave was instantly sure it wasn't Jennifer.

"Is this Megan or Molly?" Dave asked.

"This is Molly, Uncle Dave. Just a minute, I'll get Mom." He heard her set the phone down and yell for her mother. "Mom, telephone. It's Uncle Dave."

David could hear Jennifer say something back but it was too soft to make out exactly. A moment later, Jennifer picked up an extension and hollered that she had it. A second after that he heard the click as, presumably, Molly hung up the phone.

"Hey, little brother. Is this the call where you tell me you're coming to visit?"

"What choice do I have? All the women in my life are conspiring against me to make sure I do."

"I knew there was a reason I loved those girls of yours. Are they there?"

"Sitting across the table from me."

"I'm proud of you, Dave. You finally got a backbone again. So, when will you be here?"

"Well, I just got off the phone with my office. I delegated all my work away so I'm yours for the next five days if you want me. We were thinking of coming over early tomorrow afternoon for the twins birthday. Is there going to be a party?"

"Emily reminded you that it was their birthday, didn't she?"

"No!" Dave said, smiling at the three women sitting around the table.

"Oh, so it was Hayley."

Dave closed his eyes and shook his head. "Have you no faith in me? Do you really believe I'd forget my own nieces' birthdays?"

"David, you forgot my sixteenth birthday party and you were involved in planning it. Hayley reminded you, didn't she?"

Dave surrendered. "Yes," he said rather grumpy.

"So, will you and the girls be staying here through Christmas? Please, David? I really don't want it to be just me and the girls again."

"Hold on." Dave put the phone down and covered the mouthpiece. "She wants us to stay there until Christmas."

Emily and Hayley looked at each other, smiled and then shouted "Yes!" at the same time.

"Olivia?"

"David, I have never met your sister. I have no way of knowing whether I will enjoy myself there anymore than I know whether I will enjoy my Christmas here. I leave it up to you."

"Better get used to it, Daddy," Emily said with a smirk.

Dave stuck his tongue out at Emily and then put the phone back to his ear. "Alright, we'll stay."

"Yes!" Jennifer shouted.

"Hey, Jenn, You okay?"

There was a long pause. "Yes, darling brother, just a little down in the dumps right now. Once you all get here, I'll be just fine."

"Okay. See you tomorrow then. Oh, and Jen?"

"Yeah?"

"There'll be four of us."

"Who's the fourth?"

"A friend of mine. Her name's Olivia. She's staying with me for a while."

"Where did you meet her, and why haven't I heard about her before?"

"Because until yesterday, I hadn't met her. We've been talking on-line for the last few months. She left her job up in Boston and came down here looking for a new job. When she mentioned she would be in the area, I asked if she wanted to meet. We hit it off so I asked if she wanted to stay here. Save some money and such."

"Uh huh."

"Gimmee a break, Jenn."

"Of course you can bring her, Dave. I am the last person in the world who would want someone left alone on Christmas."

"Thank you. See you tomorrow." They hung up and Dave looked around the room. "Well, that seemed to work."

"Told you so," Hayley said.

The four settled in for a quiet night at home. When Emily and Hayley were ready for bed, Emily came over and asked where she should sleep.

"In your bed."

Emily smiled, kissed his cheek, and said "I knew you couldn't do it. Not with Hayley around."

She turned and headed for the bedroom.

"Hey, Em," Dave called out before she disappeared down the hall. He waited for her to turn back before speaking again. "I don't wanna hear about you trying to convince Hayley to do what you did. If I find out you're pressuring or trying to convince her, I'll spank you and send you back to your mother."

Emily smiled. "I would never do that, Daddy."

She turned and went down the hall to the bedroom she shared with Hayley leaving Dave and Olivia alone in the living room.

Olivia and Dave slept together that night, and Olivia slept naked.

"It's how I always sleep," she told him when he asked about it. There was a quick kiss and a lot of snuggling together but no sex. Dave was sure he'd hear about that in the morning from Emily.

Thursday December 21. Early Afternoon
Dave was surprised they had gotten out of the apartment so early. By noon, everyone was packed and ready to head to Jenn's house. They loaded all the luggage into the car and then sat down and ate lunch together. By one-thirty in the afternoon, the four were in Olivia's rental car, a four-door sedan, and on their way across town.

While Dave lived in old town, right in the heart of the city, Jennifer's house was on the outskirts of the city, out in what Dave called the boonies.

Dave viewed his sister as somewhat of a tragic figure. She was two years older than him and was definitely the smarter of the two. She had finished high school with a 3.8 GPA and had easily gone on to college. At college she had met an unusual young man with the unusual name of Dimitri Santiago, a first generation American who's father was Bolivian and who's mother was Greek. Jennifer and Dimitri fell madly in love and married two months after finishing college, both with degrees in business. Both also already had jobs to go to. Dimitri took over as the head of the American branch of his parents import/export business while Jennifer went to work for Dave's uncle doing the exact job that Dave now held.

At the time, Dave was two years out of high school, already married to Rebecca, and they were only months from finding out that they were pregnant with Emily. Dave was working his way up through the company starting in the warehouse.

Within a year of their marriage, Dimitri was diagnosed with some degenerative brain disease that David could never remember the name of and was told he had maybe two years to live. Within months Jennifer was pregnant, desperate to hold onto some piece of her beloved Dimitri. Molly and Megan were the result, and Dimitri died a few days after their first birthday.

Dimitri's parent's had bought him the house where Jennifer now lived when he finished college. He and Jennifer had lived there from the day they got married. Upon his death, Jennifer inherited a small fortune, somewhere around three million dollars between his trust fund and his life insurance policy and was told that the house was hers by her in-laws. At first, Jennifer wanted to sell the house only to find out Dimitri's parents would have been devastated if she had sold or rented out their gift to their late son. Jennifer was all but forced to remain in the house where Dimitri died.

Jennifer had dated some over the last fifteen years but none of the men had ever matched up to Dimitri. About five years before, Jennifer had all but stopped dating and settled into life, alone, with her two wonderful daughters who were now about to celebrate their sixteenth birthday.

Dave was driving the car. Olivia was in the passenger seat beside him with Emily and Hayley in the backseat. It seemed to Dave that Hayley had been waiting for a captive audience. As soon as they were in the car and on the road, she sat forward in her seat, wrapped her arms around his head rest to hold herself up, and started the grand inquisition of Olivia. It seemed that Hayley wanted to know all about SLuT9 and SLuT10.

"Daddy told me that SLuT10 doesn't have the nasty side affects of SLuT9. Is that true?"

"I have no idea, Hayley. I've never used it nor seen it used. Theoretically though, no, it shouldn't."

"Does it still make the woman horny?"

"According to the information Dr. Casey sent me, Dr. Casey is the man who invented it, no, it doesn't."

"It doesn't," Dave added and immediately regretted it.

"You've used it, Daddy?" Hayley asked.

Dave nodded.

"On who?"

"Mishy. Do we have to talk about this?"

But now Emily was interested as well.

"Why did you use it on Mishy?"

"I wanted to find out what was going on inside her head but she wouldn't open up. So I gave her some SLuT10 and told her to answer all my questions fully and completely."

"At least she wasn't horny the entire time you were interrogating her," Emily said softly.

Olivia chuckled at the comment. Hayley looked from her sister to Olivia to Dave, obviously confused. She apparently decided right then was not the time to inquire further on that topic and went on asking about SluT10.

"So, SLuT10 is nothing more or less than total mind control?"

Olivia shifted in her seat, turning sideways so she could see Hayley better. "Basically, yes. With the level of control the formula gives the user, there's really no need for it to make the woman horny. If the user wants to have sex, he can just order her to have sex with him."