(Aka Emily's Killing Time, Part 2 of 2)
Copyright 2016, 2021 Lisa Summers
All characters depicted in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All characters in this story are aged 18 or older. This story depicts extreme savagery, depravity and eroticism - the reader is warned!
Sometimes Evil doesn't get punished.
Sometimes Evil takes over the world.
And FIT is oh, so Good at being Evil!
Chapter 1
(5 weeks before the events of Part 1)
"It's really great to see you again, Emily," said the black-haired woman to the thirty something woman sitting across from her. The happiness in her voice was clear. If you disregarded the crow's feet at the corner of her eyes, the darker shade of her short cut hair, and her decidedly less expensive, though still tasteful outfit, she could be Emily Adams' sister.
Which, of course, she was.
"Anna, it's been too long," Emily said to her sister, Anna Belton, older than her by two years. "I hope that we can let bygones be bygones."
Anna looked thoughtful. "Why did we ignore each other for so long?" she asked rhetorically. "A stolen boyfriend, wasn't it?"
Emily blushed. "Yes...and I was a boy chasing idiot and too young."
"And then he turned out to be gay, anyway," she finished, smiling. Afraid yet to laugh - the wound might still hurt her sister.
"And thank you for that," Anna replied ruefully. "Or I might have married that moron."
Emily did laugh this time. "Should I take credit for the good man you did marry?" she asked teasingly now. "David is a very considerate husband, I hear...as well as very sexy."
"Don't push your luck, Sis," Anna answered her, but softening her words with her own smile. "Besides, you did very well for yourself - James is an amazing success."
"Well, I apologize, and I hope that we can be sisters again, good sisters. I missed you, I really did," Emily said truthfully.
"Me too," Anna responded simply, reaching across the sun dappled restaurant table to pat her sister's hand. "Now, what else shall we talk about?" she laughed.
"Well, what have you been up to?" asked Emily. "I've been reading all about you in the papers - County Attorney, and they say that you'll be Florida's next Attorney General! It's so exciting! You've got to update me, please."
"Before that happens, we should have something to drink. Do you know what you want?" Anna looked at her younger sister.
"Oh, you could order for me," Emily said offhandedly.
Anna skimmed over the restaurant's drink menu. "Something light, I think," she murmured to herself.
"One Shaken Lemonade for my sister and one Volstead for me," Anna then said to the waitress, a cute college student. The girl hurried off, and Anna looked at Emily.
"I thought an uncomplicated drink might be a good choice for you, since I haven't kept up with you very well. I'll have to become reacquainted with your tastes in alcohol - I would imagine no more Boone's Farm?" Both women laughed.
"These vodka drinks ought to go well on a warm day like this," Anna finished.
"Please, let's drink to new beginnings," Emily replied. Her mood had been considerably lightened by their rapprochement. Since their parents had died, and with no other siblings, the two were all that was left of the Miller family line - Miller being their maiden name.
A few minutes later, the server brought the drinks and set them before each woman. After clinking their glasses together, each sister took a sip.
"That's a funny after taste," Emily remarked. "I thought it would just be lemonade and vodka...what else is in it?"
"I don't know," Anna replied. "Let me ask the server." When the girl approached the table, Anna asked her what was in the Lemonade. The girl departed, and then returned.
"The bartender says that it's pretty basic - lemon, sugar, water and vodka. Oh, and syrup made from rosemary leaves." She looked enquiringly at both women.
"Is there something wrong? I could replace your drink, or bring you something else..."
"No, it's fine," Emily said. "Thank you." The girl left to attend to other tables.
"What's the matter, Em?" asked Anna.
"Well, it's just...oh, never mind, it's nothing."
"Oh, well now you have to tell me," Anna said, unsure if a smile or a distressed look was appropriate, so instead she just placed her hand on her sister's.
"You were gone away to school, so you didn't hear about it, but Mom made chicken with rosemary one time, and I had an allergic reaction. It turned out that I'm allergic to rosemary."
"Oh!" responded Anna, now certain that distressed was the best choice. "I'm so sorry, I didn't know."
"How could you know?" Emily responded, smiling. "About either thing - my allergy or what was in the drink. Who puts rosemary in a drink?"
"Apparently Buzutto's Cafe," said Anna wryly. "Let me order something else - and we can ask what's in it, since they might have a rosemary fetish here."
"No, it's fine," Emily replied, afraid that the whole thing was getting out of hand.
"Well, how about we just switch drinks then?" suggested Anna. "I only took one sip of the Volstead, it's definitely just vodka and strawberries. And you can't possibly get any cooties that you don't already have, seeing as you're my sister."
"Well, okay, that would be fine," Emily said, "you're sure it's not too much trouble?"
Anna shook her head, and they simultaneously switched drinks from one side to the other, with all the finesse and polish of Soviet and American spymasters trading captured spies on a deserted street in postwar Berlin.
They returned to their long-delayed conversation and catching up on events, and couldn't possibly see the alarmed look on the face of the female server.
Chapter 2
(5 weeks before the events of Part 1)
"One more time, Cherry," the older woman said to the server, now seated in an uncomfortable chair in a darkened room, several hours after the two sisters' reunion and miles away.
"I served the Volstead to the target. It had been reinforced with a super potent dose of the virus, enough to convert her within a day. Her companion, her sister I think, had a Lemonade drink that was definitely not treated with the virus."
"Why would it be?" asked the older woman rhetorically. "We have no use for her."
"Yes, well, they asked what was in the Lemonade and I found out, and then told them. For some reason, that didn't sit well with them but they refused my offer to replace the drink."
"And?" asked the older woman impatiently.
"And I went back to my other tables and when I looked back a few minutes later, they'd switched drinks and the target was drinking the Lemonade-"
"Which would not turn her into one of us, while her sister was drinking the Volstead..." the older woman mused.
"...which would definitely turn her into a FIT woman," the cute college girl confirmed.