Folie Γ Deux
Episode 4: Mania
By Senor Smut
In voiceover against a dark screen, we hear the voice of a young man sounding strong, confident, and cheerful. "It was like we'd been swimming against a strong current. No matter how hard we swam, we couldn't do more than keep ourselves in place. But then it was like we turned around and put the current at our back. We went from zero to a hundred in one afternoon."
We now see the speaker, a handsome man in his early 20s with dark hair and almost classic good looks, with high cheekbones, a sculpted jaw and dimpled chin, and shockingly pale blue eyes.
"After the party, we couldn't deny what we wanted anymore," he goes on. "It was too much. Too much amazing sex, too much emotion, too much excitement, too much love. We started falling for each other hard and neither one of us wanted to put on the brakes."
His name is given in subtitle as
Mike Larsen.
We now see a title card in white letters against a black background:
Folie Γ Deux
Episode 4: Mania
After a few moments, the title card is replaced by one reading:
July 4
We now see a beautiful woman in her early 40s. Although her face bears definite resemblance to Mike's in structure, there are marked differences as well. Her eyes are very dark and her mouth is sensuously wide and generous. Most dramatic, of course, is the ungovernable mass of blonde locks that tumbles to just past her shoulders. She wears a pale green satin blouse and a different shade of lipstick than the had in the previous episode, showing this to likely be a different day than before. She smiles dazzlingly.
A subtitle informs us she is
Emily Larsen.
"Walking back into that party with my son's semen leaking slowly from my body was so exciting it made me dizzy," she tells us. "I couldn't have gotten the smile off of my face if I had tried. I felt young and giddy and invincible."
"What was it like to come face-to-face with your husband after having sex with Mike a few minutes before?" asks an off-screen man with a slight English accent - the interviewer from the second episode is back.
Emily opens her mouth, pauses a moment, and then says, "I know I ought to tell you I felt dreadful having cuckolded my husband with our own son. That would, of course, be the proper thing say. But in truth, I didn't feel the slightest bit bad. I was euphoric. I looked into Bob's face, gave him a bright smile, and felt my heart hammering with joy. I couldn't possibly have been any happier."
"No guilt at all?"
"None. Does that sound awful? It simply didn't seem to me to have anything whatever to do with Bob. To be perfectly blunt, through disuse my husband had forfeited all claim to my body. Mike had planted his flag when he planted himself inside me. I was married to Bob and I loved him dearly, but it had been a platonic marriage for a very long time. I was my son's woman now."
Emily is replaced by Mike, and for the rest of the video we see only one person on screen at any time.
"I reeked of sex, just stunk of it," Mike chuckles, "so I sprinted right to the lake and just dove right in, splashing around and yelling and making sure everybody knew I was there. And I was having an absolute blast. I felt like I was on top of the world, you know?"
"And did you feel guilt about betraying your father?" the interviewer asks.
Mike shakes his head. "'Betraying?' I didn't think of it like that anymore. I mean I had until then, but now? Now it was just me and mom, that was all. Me and mom, right? Just that filled me up. I didn't have room for anything else then. When I was out in the lake with the girls there, all I was thinking about was what we'd just done together and what I was going to do to her when I got the chance again. Guilt wasn't on my radar."
Emily again. "Perhaps I was simply alert to it, but the smell of sex on my body seemed unmistakable, so, a few minutes after I returned to the party, I contrived to spill a rather pungent chili down my front. It was less embarrassing to sport a stain than to have people wonder whom I had been mating with. It did have the side effect of ruining my daughter's shirt, however."
Now we see a young woman who looks like an early-20s version of Emily herself, except that her hair is dyed a shockingly bright red, her nose is bandaged, and both her eyes are blackened; a careful observer might note that her black eyes look a little better than they did in the previous episode.
Her subtitle reveals her to be named
Olivia Larsen.
"I'd made that leap when I saw mom, that leap that made me think she and Mike were having sex," she tells the camera, her tone slightly nasal from her broken nose but still discernibly amused. "It freaked me out and was kinda gross, but what made me mad was that she stained the shirt I'd lent her. I mean, all her shirts were these hideous baggy monstrosities and she'd wanted to look sexier, so I let her use the shirt, and that's how she treated it? I liked that shirt!"
"As the party concluded," the interviewer asks, "how were you dealing with the conclusion that your mother and brother were having sex?"
"Well at this point it wasn't a
conclusion,
it was a
conjecture,
" she corrects him. "But it made sense of a lot of things that didn't make sense any other way. Their big blowup on the trip, their tension since, the walk of shame when mom came back to the party - it all fit, and I could understand how it happened because mom and dad weren't really...well, there wasn't a lot of emotional heat there, it was like they were together by inertia more than anything else. I knew in my bones I was on the right track, but it was a lot to accept. So no, it wasn't a conclusion."
"Then how were you dealing with your
conjecture?
" The interviewer sounds mildly irked at being corrected.
"Like a ping-pong ball!" Olivia laughs. "One side was denial and the other was the proverbial light bulb over my head and I was getting knocked back and forth! But besides complete denial, the main thought was what was gonna happen when dad found out. Because it's not like you can live in a house together every day and keep something like that secret. Dad's a smart guy, I knew he'd tumble to it sooner or later, probably sooner. And he's, like, mild-mannered and nice and everything, but discovering
that
was definitely gonna blow some gaskets."
Olivia is replaced by a handsome man in his mid-40s, a touch of gray in his dark hair. His eyes are the same whitish-blue as Nate's.
The subtitle reads
Bob Larsen.
"In retrospect, I suppose it was really the party where I might have started drawing some conclusions," he says. "Not about Emily and Mike, but at least about Emily's fidelity. She vanished for quite a while and then returned looking very...satisfied. Happy. Afterglowing, if I'd have just realized it. But there had never been any question of infidelity on either of our parts, and sex was rarely even mentioned. It didn't seem like something I had to worry about. And with Mike? No, that was something where I'd need direct evidence before I could even conceive of it."
Back to Emily as the interviewer asks, "You weren't using birth control?"
"No, I can't use most forms of birth control," she tells us, "and honestly there had been no need for many years."
"Your son had ejaculated inside of you," the interviewer goes on. "Were you concerned about pregnancy?"
"No, not as much as I ought to have been. That way was possibly my most fertile day, and Mike certainly was a virile young man who produced...a great many chances at fertilization, shall we say? But I was caught in the need for and rapturous joy of our coupling. Becoming pregnant by my own son wasn't something I could consider while the aftereffects of my orgasms were still rippling through my body and his semen was still leaking into my panties."
"But you had to know it was a possibility."
"Of course I did. I was a 38-year-old married woman with two children. I was fully aware of the process of human reproduction. At that moment, however, I was not considering it."