Ellie
It was my birthday. Finally! My eighteenth birthday, a day that I had been waiting almost three years for with the worst kind of anticipation! I snuck into my mom and dad's bedroom that morning, dressed in nothing but a long t-shirt, and quietly made my way over to Dad's side of the bed. Both he and Mom were sound asleep. It was only 7 AM, a Saturday, so they would normally wake up at around 9 on a weekend morning, but I just couldn't wait. I was absolutely bursting with excitement! I leaned over Dad's sleeping head and blew gently on his ear. It was a small, soft puff of air, but enough to make him stir to semi-wakefulness. When he blinked his eyes open and focused on me, I flashed him the biggest smile I could muster and whispered, "Guess what day it is, Daddy."
In his sleep-hazed state, all he could do was mutter, "Ellie? What times is it, sweetheart?"
I choked down a giggle and said quietly, "It's THAT time, Daddy! Today's the day!" He knit his eyebrows at me in confusion, so I let him off the hook. "It's Breeding Day!"
Dad's eyes widened at that and he started to sit up. "What?! Ellie! That was... I didn't... I'm-"
Mom, who had been turned over in her sleep and facing away from us, grumbled, "Oh, for fuck's sake, Hank, we made her a promise. And who are WE to say no? She wants your baby. Give her one!" Then she finally rolled over and looked at me. "Are you SURE you want this, Ellie? I mean, are you really, REALLY sure?"
I looked back at my mother with every bit of seriousness that I knew how to project and nodded. "I do, Mom. I've wanted it ever since you told me you and Dad were actually brother and sister. I'm 18 now and I want nothing more in life than to have my father's baby!" And, just to be a little extra cheeky, I added, "If only you'd given me a brother... we wouldn't be having this conversation. And you DID promise!"
"But that was three years ago, sweetheart!" Dad protested, "I figured you'd forgotten all about that by now!"
I shook my head emphatically. "Nope! Not only did I NOT forget it, it's been the only thing that's kept me going all this time, Dad. Never had a boyfriend, never been kissed, never even been TOUCHED by another man. Because I was saving myself for you." Then I demurred. "I did break my hymen, though. Sorry, Mom. I used your vibrator last year. But I SWEAR that I cleaned it and put it RIGHT back!"
My mother sighed. "What's done is done, I guess. Wish you'd approached me about it, though."
I shrugged it off. "I CAN take care of myself sometimes, Mom."
"Lord knows that's true," Mom said with mild annoyance. "Listen, sweetie, I know that you're eager to do this, but can you at least let us get up and have some coffee first?"
I looked between them for a moment and then nodded. "All right. I guess I can wait a little bit longer. Plus, I'd like Dad to be fully awake for this. I mean, it's not every day you intentionally try to get your daughter pregnant."
Dad slapped a hand over his eyes and muttered, "Dear God, what have we created?"
I bent down and kissed my father on the lips (lightly! I promised myself I wouldn't do any of the heavy stuff until The Big Moment!) and replied, "Nothing that you won't create again, Daddy." Then I bounced out of their room to let them wake up completely and start their day. Besides, I decided that I wanted to dress extra-sexy for Dad, to get him in the mood for breeding me. I could hardly wait!
Hank
As my wife got up out of bed, I continued to lay there, letting my thoughts work themselves into something like a working pattern. Technically, yes, we HAD promised Ellie that, when she was old enough, I would make her a mother just like HER mother. At the time, I figured it was just some passing thing. I mean, we'd just told her the truth about ourselves, that Mary and I were twins, brother and sister, and that Ellie was the product of our incestuous affair. Our story wasn't like it always ends in those trashy erotic stories where everyone in the family ends up fucking each other senseless and they all live happily ever after. Far from it.
When Mary and I realized our love for each other, it wasn't something that would've been well-received by our own parents. If they'd found out, they would've disowned us and never spoken to us for the rest of their lives. Hell, they might've even had us arrested. Not that Mom and Dad were prudes- quite the opposite, actually!- but they also took a dim view of incest and aberrant sexual practices like S&M, roleplay and other things some couples did to spice up their sex lives. Mom and Dad were, I'm happy to say, very pleased with each other and didn't feel a need to "spice things up." They were open enough about sex in general, and even sometimes gave up some small details about their own passions, but they were about as far from sexual deviants as two people could possibly get. Finding out that their twin son and daughter had become madly in love with each other would've just torn their world apart. So, as gently and carefully as we could, Mary and I found ways to get out of the house on our own with plans to meet up later so that we could be together without worrying about Mom and Dad finding out about us. I left first and Mary left a few months later. The story was that I'd found a job in Chicago and found one for Mary, too. I offered to let her stay with me until she could afford to get a place of her own. It was all very innocent, a brother looking out for his sister, and our parents ate it up. All in all, our plan worked. We were happy together and managed to keep the truth from our parents.
But it all became a moot point about a year after we left. Mom and Dad died in a car crash. They were together and it was instantaneous, or so the doctors told us, but the end result was the same: all that Mary and I had left was each other. And then, a few months after the funeral, Mary and I decided to take our lives together to the next level and make a child together. It wasn't a sudden or ill-informed decision, either. We talked about it for a long time before deciding that it was what we both wanted, to live as man and wife and start a family of our own. With the inheritance, we managed to make some slight alterations to our identities and ended up getting legally married, with no one the wiser. We've been together the whole time, through thick and thin, as we had been since birth. When Ellie, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, was nosing around in the attic, she came across one of our old family albums. Which meant that she saw pictures of her mother and father as children, as brother and sister. THAT discussion didn't take hours, it took weeks. And by the end of it, Ellie had come to terms with the reality of the situation. She wasn't some freak and we weren't, either. We were just two people deeply in love with a beautiful daughter who just so happened to be fraternal twins.
And by the time she finally did come to grips with the situation, with the complete and unvarnished truth, she said that she wished she could be like Mary. She wished she could be as happy and as in love and as strong. "And, Dad," she went on to say in a rare moment of eloquence and maturity, "you're an amazing father. I wish you could be the father of my children the way that you were to Mom."
Which lead to a completely DIFFERENT conversation that also lasted weeks until we finally promised her that we'd fulfill her wish if she still wanted it when she turned 18. God help me, we even made jokes about it, calling it her "Breeding Day" rather than her birthday.
And, so, here we are, two years later. I had all but forgotten that promise we'd made to her. I really did figure that she'd outgrow it and chalk it up to one of those things a young teen says without really thinking it through. For me, it was an easy promise to make because I didn't really believe that I'd be held to it. Mary thought so, too, and it never came up in family conversation again.
But, clearly, Ellie had other plans.
Mary
Poor Hank. I hate to put one over on him like this, but I couldn't just say no to our daughter. And, after all, a promise is a promise. And of all the people in the world we couldn't break promises to, our daughter topped the list. A few weeks ago Ellie had cornered me about it. Hank was at work, so it was just between us girls. She said that her Breeding Day was on the horizon and she wanted to make sure I really was okay with it. It took me a few seconds to figure out what she meant before I remembered the promise we'd made to her two years earlier. She was done with high school and about to become a legal adult. We weren't hurting for money in the slightest, so there wasn't any real pressure for her to go to college just yet. If she wanted to become a mother, and she seemed desperately set on going down that road, there really wouldn't be anything I could do to stop her. If Hank and I resolved to break our promise to her, she'd just go out and find some guy to knock her up and be done with it. One way or another, she was going to be with child as soon as she could. All things considered, I'd rather she get pregnant by her father than some boy who might run out on her. At least I know that Hank is responsible and loves his daughter enough to stand by her, no matter what.