Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Mg* ped 1st cons rom inc preg anal oral mc ScFi Author: YAWN - Yet Another Writing Newbie. Copyright 2010-2011 YAWN Electronic distribution permission granted to asstr.org. Permission for any other use must be obtained by contacting the author via asstr.org. If you can't tell this is fiction from the copyright date and the story dates, you're either not old enough or not smart enough to be reading it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, 1 September 2015 05:35 I'm awake before the alarm clock? Guess I also needed that early bedtime. If the girls can't have their 'other stuff', I'll ease the food list a little this morning - two pancakes for each of them to go with eggs or oatmeal. Will the smell wake the... "I smell pancakes!" "Good morning, Sarah. I wondered if the smell would work as an alarm clo... "I smell pancakes!" "Good morning, Rose. Looks like the smell is work... "I smell pancakes!" "Good morning, Molly. Do I have two who want eggs and one who wants oatmeal?" "Eggs." "Eggs." "Eggs." "Is being pregnant affecting your food choices, Rose?" "Yes, Papa - but no pickles." "Then eggs for four and each of you has two pancakes. Do you have any tasks today?" "I check the tanks when I get to class, Poppy." "We tell about our skills and I offer to 'read' those who haven't yet found their skill or skills, Daddy. Do I also 'read' Sarah for a second skill?" "If Sarah is willing to be your guinea pig." "I am, Poppy." "We ask Alex how she found out she has medical skills, Papa." "Very good, girls. You three were so tired last night I wasn't sure you would remember what we talked about." "You also told us no 'other stuff' until we get enough sleep and rest time to match what we do during the day. And you said something about fitting Sheila in the sleep rotation. If we're not getting 'other stuff', will she?" "Very good synopsis of what I said, Honey. Ensuring that you three have enough rest takes precedence over everything else. I know how much you enjoy 'other stuff' - I do too - but taking care of you and your babies is more important. Sheila is also pregnant, so the same rules apply - sleep comes before fun." """We love you too!""" "Each of you did research on school bells last night. I'm your source for the things I know. The resources in the library should also be identified. You were very tired last night - did you remember to cite the sources you used?" """No!""" "Finish eating, brush your teeth, get dressed and you may have enough time to complete your homework." """OK.""" The extra sleep was good for them - they are "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" this morning. I'll continue to watch them for "run down" in the evening. And 10 minutes later they've finished the references. I'm enjoying being a parent! George Wilson, Special Forces jack-of-all-fighting-trades is enjoying caring for 3 little girls - the soldiers who experienced my kick-butt training would never believe it. "Ready, girls?" """Yes.""" "Both tanks are at 20C, Poppy." "Thank you, Sarah." "Good morning, Mr. Wilson." "Good morning, Alex. Would you be willing to share how you discovered your medical skills with the class today?" "Yes sir. I thought you might be asking us what our skills are." "You thought correctly, smart girl." "My Daddy calls me 'smart girl' too. Do you really think I'm smart?" "Smarter than you can imagine, Alex." Ding! Ding! "Did everyone do their research last night?" "Here's mine." "Mine too." "My Daddy told me that they used an animal's horn in the school my Grandpa attended." "I'll read all of these later. I'm sure that there are things I'll want to share with the class. This morning I want each of you to tell me what your inherited skill or skills might be. I know that all the skills don't show up at the same time, so you may not have discovered yours yet. For example, Beth has great telekinesis, but it didn't show itself until a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't discovered your skill or skills, Molly can 'read' you to find your skills if you want to know now. It's also OK if you choose to wait until your skill or skills show themselves. I'll have Molly demonstrate on Sarah because we think Sarah may have more than the communications and mind control that she has demonstrated." "You did the long explanation again!" "This group seems to like long explanations." "We do!" "Molly, are you ready?" "Yes. Ready, Sarah?" "Go ahead." "I see communications and mind control - but we already know about those. There's something else that's not quite as strong. It's not exactly the same as I saw in Alex and Carlotta, so maybe you're a different kind of doctor." "Read me too, Molly." "OK, Rose. I see the communications and mind control and there's medical that's just like what I saw in Alex." "Alex, how did you determine that you had medical skills?" "When my Mommy got pregnant with Carlotta, I knew it before she did and I knew the baby was a girl." "That sounds like me!" "Yes, Rose, it does. You knew that you were pregnant in less than 12 hours." "She's pregnant? It doesn't show." "It's only been 2 days, Alex." "Then she must be medical like me." "Other girls, if you know your skill, please tell us when and how you discovered that skill. If you don't know, you may ask Molly to 'read' you or you may choose to wait until your skill appears. We also know that eye color is an indicator of your primary skill - our TK girls have blue-green eyes and our pilots have blue-gray eyes." "Do me, Mr. Wilson." "OK, LeiLyn. Molly, see if you can 'read' LeiLyn." "Since you have blue-green eyes, I expect to find TK as your primary skill. You may have others. Alex told me that the 'reading' tickles a little but it's not otherwise scary." "You do long explanations like Mr. Wilson does." "I learned it from him." "LeiLyn, I see TK and some communications. Do your eyes have gold flecks in them?" "Yes." "Then you are a captain of flyers." "But I've never moved anything with my mind." "We need to give you the basic lessons in TK. Mr. Wilson, can we do the 'teddy bear' lesson today?" "Yes, Molly. After lunch, you may use the table in the back of the room to show LeiLyn how you started with TK." "We do such interesting things. School really is fun this year." "Glad you think so, Linda. Girls, I'd like to finish talking about your skills before lunch today." Today has been interesting and we're not halfway through it yet. I'm having fun at school! "You sure do have a big smile, Mr. Wilson. What's so funny?" "Nothing funny, Lacey. I'm very happy that we all seem to be having fun as we learn." "You're having fun?" "Yes, Lacey. Sometimes grownups have fun too." "Mr. Wilson?" "Yes, Abigail?" "Where do these skills that you are talking about come from? Before I got here, I never knew anyone who can do the things you've talked about and when I told my Daddy that there were pregnant girls in first grade he punished me for lying." "Who is your Daddy, Abigail?" "Ed White - he worked at the city water thingy." "Let me explain some things about the Survival Buildings. Most of the people here were selected a long time ago. Since you and your Daddy weren't part of that group, he doesn't know about these things." "Does that mean I could start making babies too?" "How old are you, Abigail?" "I'll be 9 next month." "Being old enough or ready to make babies is something your Daddy and I must discuss and the doctors here must examine you to see if your body is ready for those changes. You give him this card when you get back to quarters today and tell him it's very important that he call me." "Mr. Wilson, what's it like outside? We don't have any windows to look out of, we're not allowed to go outside, and there's nothing about what's happened outside on the house TV/message system." "That's a good question, Sheila. You know that Yellowstone erupted in a big way, but did you know that it erupted twice? There were two big earthquakes along the San Andreas fault in California which triggered the Yellowstone eruptions. Those quakes triggered earthquakes in some of the other faults in the western half of the US. They also triggered eruptions in volcanoes in Washington State - Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and Mount St. Helens. Because the Yellowstone eruptions were so large, the volcanoes in Washington won't have much effect on the atmosphere, although they did spew lava, rock and ash over a large portion of the state. There was at least one volcano in South America that erupted - it's called Puyehue and is in southern Chile." "You did the long explanation again!" "And I have some more explanation for you. I'll take you up to the situation room where we can use the cameras around the building to see what it looks like here and I may be able to get satellite images of the US so you can see what the volcanoes look like. You may find that there have been some changes." Out to the elevator, up to the room, in with my RFID tag - I won't let the other kids know that the Ninja Mind Warriors also have access here. "I'll raise the shrouds on a couple of the cameras so you can see what's outside here." "It's dark out there. Shouldn't it be light in the morning?" "That's one of the effects of having the ash and dust in the air - it blocks much of the sunlight. Remember that the lack of sunlight is one of the things that stops crops from growing. This image is the US from a satellite." "Where's California?" "Keep looking left, Molly." "It's an island?" "Part of it is now. The earthquakes were so strong that much of California broke off from the rest of the US and is now a large island." "Florida looks funny." "You're right, Lily. When California fell into the ocean, it created a huge tidal wave that washed away most of the buildings in the Hawaiian Islands and did major damage within 50 miles of the coast of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, as well as Mexico, much of South America, and most of the countries in Asia that border the Pacific Ocean. Some of that tidal wave wrapped around South America and hit the East Coast of the US and the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana is mostly under water and many of the cities on the East Coast were washed away." "Then only the people in the Survival Buildings are safe?" "Yes, Su. Except for a few places where people found cave systems with running water and they were able to grow mushrooms for food, we're the only survivors." "How did we know to build these places?" "There were people like my brother Daniel who studied the earthquake fault lines and the actions of the volcanoes and understood that something big was coming and that it would be a TEOTWAWKI event." "TEOTWAWKI?" "I know what that means!" "Go ahead, Molly." "TEOTWAWKI is an acronym for The End Of The World As We Knew It. The world we knew had sunshine and flowers and birds and playing outside and going to the beach - and we don't have any of those things anymore." "That's right. The world you knew just a month ago had all the things Molly mentioned. From these images, you can see that some of them won't exist again for a long, long time." "How long, Mr. Wilson?" "Maybe 20 or 30 years, Linda." "We'll be stuck in here that long?" "Unless something changes. One of the girls here mentioned controlling the weather." "That was me, Mr. Wilson." "Can you tell us about it, Lily?" "My Dad told me that our family has always had nice weather for parties and family events, the ball games we went to were never rained out, and we always had enough rain for the grass and flowers in our yard. I thought about it really hard one day and I made it rain on the swimming pool next door. Then I made it rain just in the kiddie pool in our yard. If I practice and if I have a lot of help, I might be able to control bigger areas." "School really is fun! Nobody told me we could do stuff like this." "Not everyone can do these things, Elizabeth. Lily is the only one here and I only know of one other girl - she's in Germany." "That means we all have to work together to get things done, doesn't it?" "Yes, Beth. No one person is able to do all the things that will need to be done to make Earth habitable again - or to build and fly a spaceship that we could use to go find a planet that doesn't have the problems Earth has." "Are there other planets like Earth, Mr. Wilson?" "Can you answer that, Sheila?" "Lacey, Earth was just one of the planets that was discovered when our home planet was about to be destroyed. The galaxy map shows about 100 planets that are the right size and temperature, and have water. There may be more but they had to hurry and evacuate our planet before the asteroid hit it." "Do the grownups know all this?" "Most of them do. Your parents wouldn't have told you unless you asked because they want you to feel safe and to be a kid for as long as possible. The adults know that you will have to grow up faster than any other group of kids in history. If your skills are not yet being used, they will be soon. Most of you will have the responsibilities of an adult by the time you're 12 years old - some of you much sooner." "Another long explanation. You must really think we're smart." "I do. I also think my smart girls might be ready for lunch." "We are." "Let me put the covers down over the cameras and we'll go eat." This morning went fast and they've been exposed to some of the worst of the damage. None of the pictures were close enough to show crushed houses and the ash covers the bodies of people and animals. That part can wait 'til much later. They may be writing 'A History of the End of the World' in a few years. There will be paper copies because ink and paper typically outlast electronic storage media - and the equipment to play it back on. How many 8 inch floppy disk drives are available today? "Mr. Wilson?" "Yes, Sheila?" "Yesterday, I forgot to ask if I could eat supper with Molly and Sarah and Rose. Can I start tonight?" +@And do 'other stuff'? "Your mother will have to know that you plan to eat with us." +I'll check to see how tired you are before you get any 'other stuff'. Molly, Sarah, and Rose are getting bedtime kisses and backrubs because they were so tired last night. That may be all you get. "OK." "Mr. Wilson?" "Yes, Linda?" "Do you remember what I asked you Sunday?" "Yes. You need your mother's permission. She can call me later today and we'll set up a time." +I'll check you to see how tired you are before any baby-making. Molly, Sarah, and Rose are getting bedtime kisses and backrubs because they were so tired last night. That may be all you get. Sheila wants to eat supper with us; if she's as tired as the other girls that's all she'll get. +[That was like a whisper. Did anyone else hear you? +Molly, Sarah, Rose, Lily, and Sheila. They're all family and hear me even when I 'whisper'. "OK." "George." "Yes, Ed?" "Oregon has lost fiber connectivity. They used a satellite phone to let us know that they are OK. Their seismic sensors indicated an earthquake along a fault line that wasn't on any map. It is now. The people and the facility are OK but communications are limited - the ash and dust are rapidly getting too thick for the satellite phone." "I think we'll still have communications. Molly, can you contact the Molly in Oregon? "I'll try." +Molly in Oregon, this is Molly in Durham. +$Hi, Molly in Durham. This is Molly in Oregon. +My Daddy told me that other communications are out to your site. Are you OK otherwise? +$We are. I'll tell my Daddy that we can still talk. Hi, Mr. Wilson, Sarah, Rose, Lily, Sheila. +Hi, Molly. If you know we're all here, then we may not have video but we have good communications. Have you tried sending pictures? +$Yes, I can send pictures. I'm going to try to send you live images. The last time I tried I only did about 20 seconds because I get tired real quick. Here it comes. She can do it! The girls here need to learn how. We also need to find any Wilson family members at other sites and have them try to contact Molly in Oregon. We may still be able to maintain communications. +$That's it - I'm tired. +Thank you, Molly. My girls also 'saw' what you sent. Can you teach them how to do that? +$Yes. Maybe after school today? +You 'call' us when you're ready. +$OK. "Ed, I just 'saw' live video from the Oregon Survival Building." "How?" "My girls and I can send pictures. Molly in Oregon has developed a way to send live images. She can only manage it for 20 or 30 seconds at a time because of the effort required, but it works. She'll teach my girls after school today. They can then teach at least the girls of Wilson descent at other sites where we still have electronic communications - that will be more believable as a starting place. I don't know if other families can do this." "Another reason I'm glad you're in charge of this project, even if we didn't know about that ability when the assignment was made." "Sarah, would you and Rose watch the other girls check the temperature and other parameters of the hydroponics tanks? As there are two tanks, half the girls can go to each tank. Molly, you take LeiLyn to the table in the back. There's a teddy bear there that she can practice lifting." """Yes, Mr. Wilson.""" "How do they talk at the same time?" "Emily, they're family and they spend a lot of time together. Lily stayed with us before her Dad was flown here from England; she was talking with them the second day she was there. I'm not sure how it works, but perhaps family members do subconscious communications." "You did another long explanation. Aren't you afraid we'll get lost in it?" "None of you have gotten lost yet, have you?" "No. Are we really smarter than other kids?" "Much smarter, Emily. That's one reason I agreed to teach this class - I enjoy being with you smart kids and watching your minds stretch around new ideas and concepts." "WOW!" "What's your 'Wow!' about, Molly?" "LeiLyn lifted the teddy bear and said 'That was easy.' then she lifted the table - level and without any wobble!" "That's proof of your TK ability, LeiLyn. Remember to tell your father what you did today so he won't be surprised when you lift things in your quarters. Did Molly tell you how important it is to concentrate on the thing you're lifting even if there are distractions?" "She did, Mr. Wilson. She told me about falling on her butt when she lost concentration while she was in the air." "Did she also tell you how to lift yourself, which is the first step in 'flying'? Since you're now at my eye level, it appears that she did." "This is fun. How high could I go if I was outside?" "If you were outside in clean air, we don't know what the limit is - at least until you get so high you run out of air to breathe. Remember that Beth moved the escape pod that Lily's Dad travelled in and it was thousands of feet in the air." "Could I use a big bag to collect the junk that's in the air and make it cleaner?" "That's an interesting idea, LeiLyn. What do you other girls think of her idea?" "With all the wind, the bag needs to be cloth that can let the wind out but keep the ash inside." "The bag would get heavier when it got a lot of stuff in it. We need to work out how much she can lift and what size bag would hold that much weight." "Do we have any stuff to make the bag out of? And thread to sew the bag together. And a sewing machine that could work with thick cloth and big thread." "Where do we dump the stuff that's collected? If we can dump it out, we can use the bag more than once." "Very good discussion, smart girls. Linda, Beth, Lacey, LeiLyn, and Lily. I want you to research the materials on the warehouse floors. I'll have the access permissions on the terminals in your quarters upgraded to see that database. I want you to work out a possible design of the bag - what shape and size, how you hold it open to collect ash, how you close it to contain the ash while it's taken to the dump site, and what would be an acceptable place to dump the ash. I want you to report back to the class on Monday. If there is someone you think can help you, contact me and I'll arrange for that person to work with you." "Wow! We do get to do fun stuff!" "It's an interesting project, Linda, but it may not be so much fun when you're researching what fabrics we have and which ones might work. Some of that will probably be boring." "But we get to work on something that might help clean the air. That means we can play outside sooner!" "I can't promise that the idea will work." "We know. That's why we're doing research and not starting to build a bag." "Very good, Lily." Ding! Ding! "Is school over already?" "Look at the clock, Su." "It doesn't seem like we've been here that long." "Then school must have been interesting today." "It was." Thanks and hugs again today - even if I just assigned what once would have been a nearly impossible engineering task to a bunch of kids between 6 and 8! These girls are smarter than I'll ever be - I just have more experience to work from. I'm glad I was persuaded to take this class. "Molly, Sarah, Rose. Remember that Molly in Oregon will be contacting us later today to teach you how to send live images. Her school day ends in about 3 hours, so you have some free time until then. Dr. Chambers wants to see Molly every day after school so we'll stop by her office now. Would you like to go swimming after that?" """Yes!""" "Come on back Molly and bring your Daddy with you." "You girls stay here." ""OK."" "Up on the table, Molly, and let me freeze your tummy again." "OK, Dr. Chambers." "You see very perky today, Molly." "Daddy made us go to bed early last night with just a goodnight kiss and a backrub." "He seems to have known what you needed. That's a good thing, as your babies are growing much faster than we expected. We may be doing the C-section in 3 or 4 weeks." "I thought you said 3 months!" "That was a month ago, Molly. You've taught us a lot about how babies grow in our genetically modified girls. We'll be better able to plan for the other pregnant girls because of you. It's very important that you see me every day after school. If anything seems unusual over the weekend, have your Daddy call me immediately." "OK." "Willa, Beth mentioned her cousin Kate several weeks ago - something about her being 10 years old and pregnant?" "Interesting that you should ask about her today. She's one of Colonel Mason's granddaughters and was always very physically affectionate with him. Because she seemed smarter and much more mature than the others, he explained the Repopulate Project to her some time ago and she asked to be part of it. That wouldn't normally have been justification for a girl to enter, but we're talking about a just-turned-8 kid who was in the 7th grade. The genetic changes were more difficult for her because she was on the edge of puberty but she stayed with it. She was the first pregnant girl in the project - at age 9, not 10. Someone outside the project noticed that she was pregnant and abducted her into foster care. As no one there had any idea that she could deliver in 4 months or so, she received poor care for the days it took to get her back. Kate survived but her baby did not, so the abductor was charged with kidnapping and manslaughter. Kate's still in the project, living with her father, Mark Mason, in Montana. She wanted to try again, but we've been very cautious with her. Molly's simultaneous pregnancies have shown us that these girls are very resilient, so yesterday I gave Kate the go-ahead to start trying again - this time with her father instead of her grandfather. Another note on that family - Jane is pregnant. She had the same symptoms as Molly and Sarah so Captain McGregor brought her in this morning." "George, I have a question that I'm not sure how to ask. Would you consider taking in another girl - but one without any of the speedups? One who probably has no alien ancestry?" "Why are you asking, Willa?" "One of the people from the city water plant died of a heart attack today. Totally unexpected as he was only 35 and appeared to be in excellent health. We intercepted his daughter before she got home from school. She had one of your cards and said she was supposed to give it to her Daddy. She said it was so she could start making babies like the other girls in her class." "Abigail with reddish-blond hair?" "Yes." "'Making babies' was one of her questions today at school, but I only told her I needed to explain to her father how things work here. Does she have any other family? Is one of the other workers a friend of her father?" "No other family. None of the others wants to take in a girl." "I have to explain this to the girls and see what they want to do. I think they'll probably want to at least try to care for another girl with no family - Molly has already done that several times." "But those girls were family, albeit distant family. What will they think about including 'just another kid' - and one that's older than they are?" "Molly, Sarah, Rose. We need to talk." "I vote yes, Daddy." "Me too, Poppy." "Me three, Papa." "But I haven't told you what I wanted to talk about." "We already know. When you're concerned about someone, you broadcast it to all of us - maybe like us girls talking at the same time?" "Do you all understand that it will be much harder for Abigail to adapt to our family and its relationships than it was for any of you? Do you also understand that if she chooses to have the genetic speedups you will be helping take care of her while she recovers from the treatments? Do you also understand that she may have no 'alien' powers and that you will be responsible for protecting her when needed?" """Yes, yes, and yes.""" "Can you accept the fact that she's not family and may not get along with any of you?" "Can we get a bigger apartment so each of us can have her own room, Daddy? Then whoever gets along can spend time together but all of us only have to be together at school or at meals." "Sarah, Rose. What do you think of Molly's idea?" "I like it Poppy." "Me too, Papa." "Then we should go talk to Abigail." "Mr. Wilson? Why are you here?" "Dr. Chambers told me that you need someone to take care of you. My girls want you to be part of our family." "Really? You'll be my new family?" "Yes, Abigail." "Can you call me Abby? That's what my Daddy called me." "OK, Abby. I don't think you're ready to call someone else 'Daddy', so would you like to call me Uncle George?" "Even at school?" "No, at school I'm Mr. Wilson, even to my daughters." "OK, Uncle George. Can we go home now?" "Is there anything you want from the apartment you and your Daddy stayed in?" "My clothes and yellow blanket and my bear." "Molly, Sarah, Rose. We'll go help Abby move. Since she'll will need some serious comforting for a few weeks, especially at night, you'll each be sleeping in your own bed and we need to put the sleep rotation on hold. That also means that Sheila and Linda won't be staying with us for a while; I'll explain to them later. If all of you get along with Abby, I'll arrange for us to move to a larger apartment on Saturday. Any questions?" "Uncle George, I know you do long explanations at school, but do you always do them?" "Whenever I think it's appropriate." +She got all of it, Daddy. She's as smart as we are. +Yes, Honey, she may very well be. That explanation was also a test of her mental abilities. I'll do some other testing later. +.Does that mean she might have other mental powers? +No, Sweetie, only that she's smart enough to follow a long explanation. Other powers we'll have to test. Did you check the color of her eyes? +:Blue, Papa. I didn't look close enough to see if there are gold flecks. +Thank you, little Thinker. She also has blond hair, which often goes along with blue eyes in the general population. +:She might not be an alien? +That's entirely possible, Honey - she might just be a smart human. +You're silly, Daddy. +I know; I get it from my daughters. "Girls, do you want to fix something special for supper to celebrate having Abby as part of our family?" "We get to cook, Uncle George?" "Yes, Abby, the girls get to help cook. They aren't allowed to to do things where they might get hurt, so I put things in and out of the oven and do most of the cooking in skillets. They get to choose the foods we fix and they do most of the off-the-stove food preparation." "Another long explanation, I'm gonna like being here!" "Can we fix chicken echiladas, Poppy?" "Yes, with the restriction of having the proper balance in your meal to match the pregnant girl food list." "They're all pregnant?" "Yes, Abby, all three of them." "Can you make a baby in me, too?" "That depends on your body, Abby. You've not had the genetic speedups that the other girls have had. We can see if your body is ready to try baby-making things, but you won't get pregnant for a long time. Unless you choose to have those changes made, you probably won't get pregnant until you're 13 or 14." "Can we try tonight so I can learn what it feels like to make a baby?" "Girls, OK if I do what Abby asks?" "Yes, Daddy. She needs some very special care." "Yes, Poppy." "Yes, Papa." "Daddy, if you have 6 girls - me, Sarah, Rose, Abby, Sheila, and Linda - does that mean there'll be a Monday girl and a Tuesday girl and so forth?" "Yes, Honey, just as you described it when you were asking about Beth and Jane a couple of weeks ago. One girl each night and I sleep by myself on Sunday. You girls want to fix supper now?" """Yes.""" "Where are the tortillas, Uncle George?" "Can I explain, Daddy?" "Go ahead, Molly." "Tortillas are a form of bread but bread doesn't last very long, so there is no bread in the store here. The ingredients to make bread keep for a long time and we can get those ingredients in the store. So we have the stuff to make tortillas." "You do long explanations, too!" "I learned it from Daddy." "Uncle George, what makes these enchiladas taste so good?" "Things that we fix in the way we like best almost always taste better than someone else's cooking. Maybe having so many people around you who care about you also helps?" "I think you're right, Uncle George." "Bath time. Do you want to bathe yourselves or have me help?" """Join us in the shower?""" "Can you get in the tub with me?" "The shower girls first because that won't take very long. Each of you choose jammies or a gown for tonight and clothes for school tomorrow. Abby can lay out her clothes on my bed. The rest of you in your own rooms." +No 'other stuff' tonight, Daddy? +No, just a shower and a back rub. Abby hasn't yet come to terms with her Daddy being dead, so I expect she'll be almost as upset tonight as Sarah was after she killed that soldier. +I think you're right, Daddy. I was very upset every night for a week after my first Daddy died and I still had Mommy to care for me. Abby doesn't have any family here. +Very good analysis, Honey. """Carry us to bed?""" "One at a time, girls. I don't have enough arms to carry all three of you. Molly?" "You gonna drop me on the bed this time?" "No, I won't drop my pregnanat daughters. You can have a quick back rub and a good night kiss." "Goodnight, Daddy." "Sarah?" "It's not as much fun if you don't drop us." "That may be true, but it's safer for the babies." "Goodnight, Poppy." "Rose?" "I like the drop too." "In 4 months or so, you can get the drop again - if you don't get pregnant too quick." "Goodnight, Papa." "My turn now?" "Yes, Abby. Is the water OK?" "Just right. How did you know?" "It's what the other girls tell me is just right. Wait and let me get in first." "Why?" "So you can lie down on me and we can explore your body. If you want to try making a baby, your baby making parts must be big enough to start trying." "Baby making parts? Isn't that just my kitty?" "Is this your 'kitty'?" "That's what my Daddy called it. And it likes to be rubbed just like a kitten does." "Here's a mirror. You hold it so you can see the parts i'm touching. These are the lips of your vagina; that's the opening where babies are made and where babies get out of your body when they're ready to be born. When I spread the lips, the little tube at the top is where you pee. The hole down here is the actual entrance to your body. There's a little piece of skin behind that hole that's called your hymen." "Hymen? Is that what Daddy called my 'cherry'? He said it would bleed red like a cherry when he popped it with his finger - and it did. It hurt too, but the kissy-face made it better." "How much kissy-face have you done?" "We kissed with wet lips and rubbed tongues together. Daddy said he'd let me suck his tongue when I was bigger." "Did he tell you that these things were 'family private' and that you shouldn't tell anyone else?" "He said I couldn't tell as long as he was alive - but he's dead now. WAH! I MISS MY DADDEE!" "Sit up and I'll hug you and rub your back." "I feel safe but I'm getting sleep..." Another wet and unconscious little girl. Dry her. Dry me. Carry her to my bed. She only has underwear out, no gown or jammies. If that's how she wants to sleep, that's what I'll do. Alarm set for another day of school. Hope she makes it through the night, but the odds aren't very good...