"So let me get this straight. A bunch of chemicals get dumped on your head, your powers activate and grab not one, not two, but three women, and you never think to try to find out what happened?"
Derrick watched his sister as she paced back and forth in front of him, clearly irritated by everything. Pacing was a habit of hers. Anytime she needed to organize her thoughts she'd just start pacing around, arguing with herself or anyone else around her as she pieced together all the pieces of whatever logic puzzle was troubling her at the time.
Not that this was necessarily a bad thing. It seemed to do wonders for her personally and for anyone else, it gave them a great excuse to look at her figure without her noticing.
If it was safe to say that Derrick took after his father in the looks department, then you could easily say that Karen took after their mom. She'd inherited mom's tall statuesque features, with curves that even her currently conservative outfit couldn't hide. Not that anything short of a winter parka could have hid her breasts with how they stood out. The only real difference between them, apart from age of course, was that Karen's hair color was a light auburn as opposed to mom's slightly darker brown hair.
Derrick was of course aware of her attractiveness. When he was just hitting puberty he'd even tried to spy on her changing a time or two. He'd never succeeded and by this point he'd matured to the point that he wouldn't even think of trying anymore (although the fact that he currently had three gorgeous women who would gladly given him a stripshow and display every part of their body based on the mere idea that he would be interested might have something to do with that). Instead he preferred to concentrate on exactly why she was upset with him.
"But we do know what happened," he said in a desperate bid to defend himself.
Karen simply rolled her eyes at him before responding. "Do you know why people think vaccines cause autism? It's because most children don't show signs of autism right at birth. It takes time for the signs to slowly develop to the point where the parents will notice it and that time just happens to overlap with when kids start to get vaccinated."
"So once the signs start showing up, parents to look to find something to blame for what happened, and notice that their darling little Timmy started to show signs of autism just after getting vaccinated, so therefore that must have been the cause, not that he was just born with it, because that would somehow make it THEIR fault, as though they had any control over it either."
"Your point is?" Derrick asked.
"The point is correlation isn't causation! Sure, there's a good chance that those chemicals caused your power to activate, but it's also possible that your powers are a mutation from the original set, not to mention it could be related to the shock of them pouring that stuff on you, or even some combination of factors. We don't know,"
At this point could easily figure out what it was she wanted. "You want to run tests, don't you?"
"Derrick, this is something completely unheard of. We need to know what this is doing to all of you."
"Dad doesn't seem to think this is a good idea."
"Dad doesn't have a doctorate."
She had him there. "All right, but on one condition. We keep this to ourselves."
Karen gave him a wry grin before responding with, "Deal."
With that settled Karen headed into the kitchen. Derrick followed her only to see her raiding the refrigerator for something to eat. He was a bit surprised at first, before kicking himself for the shock. He knew his sister pretty well and this was exactly like her. She didn't waste time lingering on things, just moving on to the next priority on her list, which in this case happened to be hunger."
Things weren't quite so easy for Derrick though. "So, what tests are we running tomorrow?"
"None," she answered matter of factly as she pulled out some day-old meatloaf.
"None!?"
Karen turned to face Derrick again. "Derrick, I don't start my residency until next week. Even then it's going to take some time since I have to make sure I've earned their trust before I can try to sneak you into the place."
"So what am I supposed to do in the meantime?"
"Hey you're the guy with the harem. You figure it out."
Realizing that he wasn't going to get anything else out of Karen, Derrick just groaned and turned to leave. As he was reaching the door however Karen called out to him. He turned around just in time to see a small object being thrown at him. "Almost forgot. Amanda had a little surprise for you."
Derrick caught the item and held it up to see that it was a pregnancy test. And it was positive. The next thing he heard was the cries of his slaves as they rushed over to grab him as his legs had suddenly turned to jello.
A SHORT WHILE LATER...
"Honestly, with the amount of sex we've been having, it would have been more surprising if we hadn't gotten pregnant."