I'm sorry it has taken me so long to finish this story.
I had some health issues followed by a serious case of writer's block.
If any of you are reading this story for the first time, it will really help you understand the characters and the story line if you read the other five chapters first.
Kassandra, Chapter Six, Love Is All We Need
After all that has happened, it is our love that wins out in the end.
After I had soaked for a half hour in a hot Epsom salts bath that Traci had prepared for me, I started to feel human again. I decided it was a combination of all of the hiking, sleeping on the cold ground in the woods, and the thousand plus miles I had driven that had weakened me to the point where fucking a sixty year-old sexual dynamo had finally done me in. Traci joined me in the tub when she noticed me showing signs of life, and she started fondling Toddy. When he got fully erect, she said, "Thank God Todd, you really had me worried."
I smiled and said, "I was as worried too little sister. I was beginning to think that Mary had put something in my food to mess with my libido. Now I realize that driving over a thousand miles, sleeping outdoors on the cold ground, and walking nearly fifty miles over a week weakened me to the point where the sex I had with Mary wiped me out."
We got out of the tub because the water had become tepid, dried each other, Traci asked, "Todd, have you peed since you got home?" When I said I hadn't but had to, she said, "Hold it, please," and left the room.
She came back a few minutes later with an empty juice bottle. She handed it to me and said, "Filler up Todd." I did as she asked because I really had to pee bad, and when I handed it back to her she said, "I met a guy on campus while you were gone who works in the organic chemistry lab. He was really hitting on me hard and said he would do anything for me I wanted. I have had a funny feeling about Mary, since Kassandra told us that Boris and Natasha were 'in the clear', so I'm going to have him test your urine to see if she was trying to drug you."
Then we went to the kitchenette where we ate the dinner she had waiting in the warm oven for us until I was able to eat. As we ate, she shared all the recent gossip she had heard on campus while I was gone. She finished by telling me that Chloe had a virgin waiting for me to deflower, and that we would be having 'dinner' with her on Wednesday evening.
After we ate, Traci and I went to bed together and made gentle love until we fell asleep in each other's arms. When I awoke, I realized that Toddy felt rejuvenated, and when I drove him into Traci's vagina, she said, "Now that's what I've been waiting for since you left, Big Brother!"
When I unloaded into my sister's vagina during her second orgasm, I felt invigorated, and was relieved that my exhaustion from the previous day was short lived. This scare made me realize that what happened the day before was a wake-up call that I needed to stop abusing my body and start taking better care of myself.
After breakfast we went our separate ways, Traci to her nude modeling, and me to my classes and labs. By the end of the day I had processed my most recent transparencies, made the final selections of the ones I would use, and printed the images I needed for both of my projects.
I went to the coffeehouse where Traci, Debbie, and Lisa were waiting for me. When I sat down next to Traci, she handed me an envelope and whispered, "Todd, Mary tried to poison you."
I opened the envelope and saw sheet of paper with from the DePaul University Physical Chemistry Laboratory letterhead. On the page were a list of substances and numbers. Most of it looked like gibberish to me but a few of the words, like 'Lead' and 'Arsenic' caught my eye. I folded the paper and put it back in the envelope. Then I whispered in my sister's ear "I need to show this to Kassandra." My sister nodded in agreement, and I excused myself to go to the bathroom.
Once inside, I called Kassandra, and when she answered on the third ring, I said, "Something has come up. Can I see you right away?" When she said she was home and to come right up, I thanked her and disconnected the call.
When I got back to the table, I apologized to the ladies and told them that something had come up, and I had to take care of it. I left the Coffeehouse and went directly to Kassandra's apartment. I knocked on the door, and when Kassandra opened it, I rushed past her and she closed the door behind me.
She looked at me and said, "Todd, what's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost."
I handed her the envelope, and as she read what was on it, she turned ashen. She took my hand and said, "What is this Todd, and where did you get it?"
I gave her the Cliff's Notes version of my trip until I arrived at Mary's house. Then I told her about Mary being alone in the house and described in intimate detail everything we did together as well as what she fed me. I told her how tired I was when I got home and how Toddy seemed to be less responsive than normal.
I told her about Traci making me pee in a bottle, and that she had it analyzed at DePaul's chemistry lab by a friend of hers.
Kassandra said, "Todd, my understanding of poisons is minimal, but a few items on this list look like some of those the East Germans used to use. I need to make a phone call."
She picked up her phone and dialed. When the person on the other end of the phone answered she started talking in that strange language I had heard her use before. The conversation soon turned heated, and finally she yelled into the phone in English, "YOU STUPID FUCKERS, YOU ALMOST KILLED TODD!"