This is the twelfth installment of my story about a family with an interesting dynamic. Once again, danger and controversy rear their ugly heads, but will all end well?
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The Professor's Women
Chapter Twelve: Hypocrites, Zealots, and New Friends
The professor arrived at work later than usual that day, and coincidentally walked into the building with his second in command, Archie Barton. They chatted on their way up the stairway, and as they paused outside Archie's office door, Jackson said, "Tell your sister thank you. Her information was very helpful. It didn't answer all of my questions, but now I know where to look for the answers I need."
Archie said, "Be careful boss, those people can be dangerous when they are cornered."
Jackson smiled and nodded as the two men shook hands before they parted. Leslie was waiting for him when he walked into the big office at the end of the hall, and handed him a large legal size envelope with a return address he recognized, Cambridge, MA. It had been delivered just before his arrival. He opened the envelope and found a letter from his former professor, Dr. Norman Peale, and four additional sheets of paper with genealogical information.
The letter said:
'Dear Dr. Powell,
First of all, let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on your recent promotion. I have always known that you were one of my most gifted students, and I was disappointed when you were not offered a fellowship here, twenty-five years ago. However, Dr. Willoughby was an old friend, and I was pleased when he took you under his wing.
I have been informed that you are investigating a subject that I have been researching for the last thirty-five years. With this letter, I have included items from my personal files about the lineage of the two families that you are interested in, with additional information that is not in the LDS's files in Utah.
I will be in Chicago this coming weekend, and would be happy to meet with you to discuss some other details, in person, that I cannot write down, because I have not been able to verify my sources. If we meet in person, at the office of your attorney Saul Kaufman, on Saturday at noon, I think I will be able to give you information that will clear up this matter completely.
Thank You Old Friend,
Norman Peale, Phd.'
He walked over to his assistant's desk, leaned in close to her, and whispered in her ear asking, "Leslie, do you know anyone who could take some blood samples for me, on the sly?"
She looked at him strangely, and answered him, "Yes, why?"
He smiled, and in a normal voice, said, "I'll tell you later.
At just before lunch, Jackson said, "Leslie, I'm taking you to lunch, let's go."
They both walked out of the office and headed downstairs together, and when they were outside and away from other people, Jackson explained why he was so mysterious earlier, saying, "Leslie, I've become involved in another controversy that involves people I care deeply about. I cannot not tell you anymore about who they are or why I am doing this, at this time, but I need to have someone take blood samples from them for DNA testing."
Leslie smiled at him and said, "Jackson, Brenda is a licensed RN, and could do it for you, but if what you need is a basic DNA test, all you need is a cheek swab, and she can get kits for those from the lab where she works. Do you need to have the lab work done as well?"
Jackson answered, "Yes, but only if you can have it done discretely. I cannot allow anyone to find out what I am doing this for."
Leslie said, "OK Jackson, let me see what I can do, and I'll get back to you tomorrow," and they continued walking until they entered the student center a few minutes later.
After lunch, Jackson didn't mention their conversation, but that evening when Leslie asked Brenda if she could acquire DNA test kits from her lab, and have then processed discretely. Her partner said she could and asked, "Is this for Jackson?"
When Leslie said it was, Brenda said, "Considering all of the good things he has done for so many deserving people, he must have a good reason for asking you darling. I would do almost anything for that wonderful man and his beautiful cock! I will bring home some kits tomorrow, but it will take a week for them to be processed, so I hope he's not in a hurry."
After dinner, the two ladies got their big double-headed dildo out of the drawer, and spent the night pretending they were sleeping with Jackson as they made love to each other. Although both ladies were tired and sore when they woke up in the morning, they took the toy with them into the shower, and pretended that Jackson had joined them in their morning ritual.
That day, Leslie told Jackson that Brenda was bringing the tests home with her. She said, "Jackson, we could come over to your house this evening and collect the samples then if you could have the subjects there, and we could get them processed that much sooner."
Jackson said, "Good Idea, see you guys at six." Then he picked up the phone and called Jake to invite him to dinner. When Jake walked into the Powell home later that evening, he was surprised to see Leslie and Brenda there. When Brenda asked him if she could swab his cheek for a friend of hers, he asked her, "Why?"
She told him her friend was conducting a research project for his Doctorial Thesis about the migration of various ethnicities across North America, and needed a varied sampling of different familial groups.
He agreed, and she swabbed him, having already swabbed everyone in the house, even though Jackson had told her privately that she only needed samples from Audrey and Jake. This bit of subterfuge helped Jackson keep his motives a secret from the young couple.
The next morning, Leslie told Jackson that Brenda had taken a personal day to drive to Peoria and Springfield. She was using two different labs, so as to not bring attention to her actions. Jackson understood, and thanked his friend and assistant.
Saturday morning, Jackson and Kathy walked to the nearby Amtrak station, for what she had told everyone was a shopping trip to the Chicago Loop. They took a cab to State Street, had coffee and pastries at a small bistro, and did some window shopping until it was time for their meeting with Jackson's former professor at Saul's office.
Dr. Peale and Saul were waiting for Jackson and Kathy when they arrived, and after exchanging pleasantries, they got down to business. Dr. Peale confirmed what Jackson had surmised from the genetic charts that he had received from the LDS's archives. The records Dr. Peal had amassed over the years appeared to show that Audrey and Jake were more closely related than Jackson had originally thought because of their physical similarities.
The older professor continued, "The first time that their familial lines had crossed was in the late nineteenth century in western Pennsylvania. It appeared that a brother had impregnated his sister and she had given birth to fraternal twins, a redheaded boy and girl. The couple's parents took the children and split them up, sending them to families two states apart. A generation later, two descendants of this incestuous union met and married, and also produced redheaded fraternal twins. Because so much time and distance had passed, no one but the Church Elders noticed, and nothing was done about it."
Dr. Peale continued, "These are the only examples of their two familial lines have crossed that I have been able to verify, but I believe that it has happened four more times. Although I am not certain of this, I believe that Audrey's father was a close relative to Jake's father."
He finished, "Jackson and Kathy, if these two young people marry and produce children, I believe this will be the seventh time that this has happened, and although I do not see any adverse genealogical related birth defects, the chances of them having redheaded, green eyed fraternal twins is an almost certainty."
Jackson told his professor that they had taken cheek swabs of the couple, and were having them processed covertly by two different labs in two different cities.
Dr. Peal smiled and said, "Jackson, as always, you are one step ahead of me. I was just going to ask if you could do something like that. When you get the results, send a copy to Saul and he will get them to me so I can add them to my files. This could be the final piece of this puzzle."
Jackson looked at Saul and said, "Well, cousin, this explains Bartholomew's reaction during our meeting, doesn't it. This is our chance to finally have the upper hand in this gambit!"
Saul smiled, and handed Dr. Peale a copy of the transcript of the tape recording of the meeting he and Jackson had with the lawyer for the ACCA in Chicago.