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Warning: Unrepentant incest ahead. Turn back now if you're looking for lovers who feel bad about what they're doing.
PTSD Warning: If you've buried somebody close to you recently, this story might mess with you a little.
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My phone buzzed (it was on vibrate because we're not supposed to have them out). Caller-ID showed that it was my mom. Despite the fact that we're not permitted to be on our phones unless we're on break, I decided that I'd better answer it.
"Hello?"
"We're at the hospital. Your father had a follow-up screening today. Henry, they've decided to admit him. The doctor told your father that - if he's lucky - he might have several weeks," mom said.
"Shit!" I gasped.
"His cancer has stopped responding to the treatments," she continued.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
I saw a couple heads pop up over the walls that separated my cubicle from all of the others in my work group and I lowered my voice.
"When you have a chance, he needs to talk to you. He's feeling well enough right now but ...," she warned.
"Yeah, okay. Shit! I'll drop by after work! I love you, mom."
"I love you, too, honey."
She closed the call.
Two of my coworkers crept over to check on me.
"Everything okay, Henry?" Norma asked.
"Dad had a chemo checkup at the hospital today," I told them. "They're keeping him there. Doctor says maybe weeks left."
"Shit!" Nancy gasped, her hands going to her mouth.
"Weren't your dad and mine classmates?" Norma asked. "Isn't he like 55?"
I nodded.
"My dad was just a couple years behind you guys'," Nancy stated.
"I told mom I'd run by after work," I said.
"Tell him we're praying for him," Nancy replied, patting my shoulder.
Norma nodded and said, "Yeah. He can beat this."
"I don't know," I said. "Mom said the cancer is not responding to the chemo."
Norma took my hand in hers and gave my fingers a squeeze.
"Thanks, you two," I said. "It means a lot."
They shuffled back to their cubes and I sat and stared at my monitor screen, dumbfounded.
At 22 years old, the last thing that I thought that I would be talking about was losing my dad. I was the happy accident of the household. My parents had thought that my sister (who was five years older than me) would be their only child. That was true until whatever birth-control method they were using failed.
The minutes crawled by. My lunch tasted like ashes. I ate it anyway. A few other coworkers stuck their heads in to offer their support. I wasn't mad at Norma and Nancy for sharing. We all kind of acted like family. If I'd wanted it to be a secret, I knew to keep it to myself. Nobody was mean about that kind of thing here - we just all pretty much knew everybody else's shit. Monday mornings around the coffee pot or the water cooler were spent catching everybody else up on what life was like outside of the office.
I could tell you whose kids were playing which sports, which of my fellow workers were dating, who they were seeing (and how serious it was), and who was probably headed for a divorce. The biggest gossip explosion we'd had in a while was when Janet quit suddenly and the word went around that Kyle had knocked her up. They'd dated a few times but I didn't think they were that serious. They probably weren't. I think they just got unlucky. Kyle had married her two weeks later in a civil ceremony. None of us felt slighted for not getting invited - but we didn't buy them anything either.
The afternoon finally ended, and I trudged off to the parking lot, drove to the hospital, parked in one of the visitor spaces, and headed for the main entrance. Inside, I walked straight towards the information desk.
Mom had given me the number for dad's room but I had visited this place along with my father several times when he was coming to see somebody from the church that was sick - and he'd taught me to always check with the desk.
Dad said that the hospital moved people around for lots of reasons but that you also needed to remember that most people who came in were also in "flux" (as he called it). He told me that you'd save yourself a long, pointless walk - if you just took five seconds to ask. Over the years, I had been amazed at the number of times that we'd turned around and gone home because somebody had been dismissed and nobody at the church had heard - or bothered to tell dad. The desk was the place to find that out as well.
The room number that the lady at the desk gave me was the same as what mom had told me - but I was still glad that I'd taken two seconds to check.
I tapped on the door and stepped into the room before waiting for a response.
Dad was looking a little grey. Shit! That's never good. My father was barely in his middle 50s. I wasn't ready for this yet.
Mom looked at dad and asked, "Do you want me to wait in the hall?"
"No, definitely not," he said, "but could you close the door?"
She nodded to him and stepped around the bed.
"Your sister will be driving up Friday night," mom told me, as she slipped past me to close the door, "probably staying through the weekend."
I nodded.
As mom moved through the room, dad talked.
"The doctor says I might have weeks," he said, "but I've got a load that I need to dump onto you and I need to do it while I'm lucid."
I nodded, not sure where he was going with this - and - quite honestly - shaking in my boots. He must have noticed.
"Sit on the arm of the chair, there," he said, pointing, "but I need you to see both of our eyes. What I have to tell you is quite serious and - honestly - you're probably not going to believe what I say - so I need you to see your mother's eyes to know that I'm not trying to pull some kind of cruel joke over on you."
Mom returned to his side and took his hand. I glanced at mom and back to dad and sat. I was really freaking out now.
"What I'm about to share is going to sound crazy but I've been thinking this over and there's really no way to ease you into it. I need to just rip the Band-Aid off so you have time to decide," he said. "Just hear me out."
I nodded, twisting my hands together in my lap.
"You won't remember Uncle Todd - my dad's brother," he said. "He died before I met your mother. He would have been your great uncle."
I nodded.
"As I said, he died a long time ago. Anyway - less than a month after he passed, my sister (your Aunt Jackie) came to me with an urgent request. She wanted me to have sex with her."
My eyes shot over to gauge mom's expression. She was watching her husband's face. She did not react to his admission. She obviously knew about this - somehow. She knew what Aunt Jackie had asked her brother to do.
"For whatever reason," dad continued, "my sister, Jackie, and my uncle, Todd, had been having sex for some time. I don't know how it started or how often they did it - or any other details about their relationship. She simply told me that he had been 'taking care of her' and that - since he wasn't around to do it anymore - she wanted me to take his place. She was highly agitated at the time. "
I nodded.
"She explained to me what she expected from me. She wanted me to sleep with her, bring her to orgasm, and then fill her with my seed. Three things: have sex and both of us climax - me inside of her - and her with me inside."
My eyes must have been huge.
Dad continued to gaze into my eyes and said, "I was 24 at the time and she was 19. Jackie was ... uh ... very persuasive. At first, I gave in to get her to be quiet and eventually go away but, several weeks later, she was back again. After the first few times, I started keeping track. My experience has been the same (with few exceptions) for the last 30-some years. Every 28 days, my sister would show up in my bedroom - needing me to 'take care of her'. If you paid attention in Health class, you'll know that the average woman's cycle is about every 28 days. My sister shows up, needing to be fucked, when she gets her period."
I raised my eyebrows at Dad's word choice. I couldn't believe that one of the elders of our church - my father - was using coarse language - in front of my mother - his wife - discussing having sex (incest) with his sister.
Dad was a paragon of our body of believers - respected and valued by all who knew him. His voice - this same voice I was hearing right now - was the same one that addressed the congregation - when it was dad's turn to make an announcement or do a reading.
This man - whom I thought I knew - whom I helped with countless errands and service projects over the years for the church - as well as civic organizations - with practical supportive tasks that helped and encouraged so many. He made it sound like - when he fucked his sister - he was just helping another desperate soul.
He continued, "When she shows up, she's as horny as the dickens - heated like a bitch hound - and very little will put her off. Jackie came to my room, we'd have sex, she'd calm down, and then she'd go back to her bed. As I say, this began before I met your mother."
He squeezed her hand, looked deeply into her eyes, and then looked back at me.
"When I knew I was serious about your mom, I told her," he said. "I thought it was only fair. I told her that she could watch the two of us and then decide on her future with me after that."
I glanced at mom and back to dad again.
He went on, "My sister didn't seem to care that your mother was watching. She cared about very little at all - as long as I fucked her, she climaxed, and I filled her cunt."