Cold Vengeance

It had been six months since Stephanie Conner jumped each time she heard the rifles fire at the grave when they lowered James Sr. into the ground. The honor guard presented her with a folded flag.

"On behalf of the President of the United States," the soldier said. "The United States Army, and a grateful Nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your husband's honorable and faithful service."

She received the flag on a rainy Sunday and didn't want to release it for hours. There were several friends and family members willing to stay with her but all she wanted to do was lay in bed and feel her feels.

A few days later she received a letter from the Department of Defense but didn't open it for several weeks, when she finally brought herself to open the letter and found a check for one million dollars. The check cleared and she invested half in her dental clinic and half in her family, her daughter Erin, her son James Jr., and herself. That, she felt, is what James Sr. would have wanted.

She went to the first meeting of the grief counselling group and wasn't sure if she should bring anything. She stopped off at a local bakery and bought a few dozen pastries and brought them along. When she got to the meeting at five forty-five she brought the cardboard container with a clear cellophane window that contained assorted pastries in and sat them down on a table in the back of the room.

"Usually first timers don't even engage much less bring food." A voice said.

Stephanie jumped and the pastries jostled inside the box.

"Good thing I didn't bring cupcakes then." Stephanie said offering up the box of jostled pastries.

"I'm Sorry, my name is David Parker." He said offering his hand.

"Good thing because if these were cupcakes and I had spent hours making them well, I would have a reason to be angry but since they are only scones there is no loss." Stephanie said not offering her name.

"Hum, they look like biscuits to me." David said.

"The lady at the bakery told... I see what you did there. My name is Stephanie" Stephanie said.

"What did I do? Make someone reluctant come forward? Don't worry this is what I do. Oh hey look other folks are coming in now." David said pivoting.

Other participants in the group started filtering in.

The chairs were arranged in a circle. Stephanie suspected that this formation would allow for optimum gut spillage. This formation is not how she would do it but it's how they do it in the movies. It takes up far too much room.

Stephanie found a seat within the circle and sat down. Others sat down as well until there were two chairs empty one next to Stephanie and one opposite the circle from her.

David walked into the center of the circle. Stephanie rolled her eyes. David Introduced himself as a board certified psychiatrist from California who recently moved to Denver and wanted to get to know the community by starting up a free grief counselling in this neighborhood. He told the group of twenty five that showed up was actually almost more chairs than the amount of chairs in the room. So good for them but sorry for their loss.

"What?" She thought. "Is this this guy for real?"

"Let's Jump right in shall we who would like to start?" David asked.

Stephanie raised her hand first.

"Ah Stephanie, She and I met only this evening. She brought the bisc... er scones. Has everyone tried one. She was told they were heavenly."

The group mumbled. Some gave a thumbs up.

"Thanks. Anyway, hello, my name is Stephanie Conner I am a Dentist here in Denver. My husband was a Lieutenant in a Special Operations Unit that was deployed to South America on a training mission. According to the official report that I was given he was killed on an exercise while on that mission six months ago."

The woman sitting next to Stephanie look at her with knowing eyes and squeezed her hand.

"We are truly sorry for your loss but thank you for sharing your story with us." David said.

"What have you been doing in the six months since the news?" David asked.

All eyes turned to Stephanie.

"Well for the first week, I suppose, I wanted to kill myself. Then who would raise my kids?"

There were different reactions throughout the group, some shock, some agreement, but all were listening intently, even David.

"I have two children a seven year old girl and a five year old boy. If I would have left them alone in this world willingly I don't think they would have ever been able to forgive me. If I didn't have them I don't know where I would be. I forced myself to keep breathing because of them. Was it hard to do? Yes it was the most difficult time in my life, but with my kids in mind I got through. I still have rough days but they are becoming fewer each week." Stephanie wiped a tear.

David handed her a box of tissue.

"I know this may seem invasive but I want to do a trust building exr...." David said to the group.

"But since then," Stephanie continued. "I have got up every day fed myself and the kids, put the gun some place safe that the kids don't know about. Invested the insurance money in my practice and continued breathing. Then I wake up the next day."

There was a pause in the room.

"I want each of you to build your trust with your fellow group members by bringing a picture of your family with you next week." David said. "It can be of your dog, your cat, your dead significant other, or whomever is important in your life right now. Just to show to the group who has brought you through your tough time, if that time has come for you, of course, it may help those of you who have not reached that point yet. I still want to hear from someone else in the group. Anyone else?"

The YMCA closed at nine P. M. and the group lasted until almost eight forty-five. All of Stephanie's scones were eaten which told her that next week she needed to bring something else to eat.

"Thank you so much for sharing your story Stephanie." Betty told her. "There have been many days I have wanted to sit in the bath tub and drink a bottle of wine and slit my wrists, but I keep thinking of my kids and I don't want them to find me like that."

"Betty hang on to that." Stephanie said "If that is what it takes to keep you breathing do it, tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself to take another breath. Believe it or not, your kids, in the real world, they are the ones that need you as much as you need them."

"Maybe you should be hosting this this class." Betty said.

"Nah, I'm a dentist, but I watch a TV show about a psychiatrist." Stephanie said.

"Yes that's like telling a diesel mechanic he would be a good farmer. Sure, he knows how to get a tractor working and all. But can he grow corn?" David asked with his hands raised in the 'I don't know' gesture.

"Are you referring to me or are you speaking about yourself?" Stephanie said. "Could you go ahead and tell me the board you are certified through?"

"I'll be happy to bring that information next week." David said.

"Why don't you two get room?" Bob said as he left the room.

The room was empty except for David and Stephanie.

"I do have a confession to make though" David said.

"What is the vile thing you need to confess?" Stephanie asked. "Are you a serial killer taking a break between killings?"

David put a hand on each of Stephanie's shoulders. He had a puzzled look on his face for a second.

"I actually am not Board certified, I'm not even a psychiatrist I'm just a bar room therapist that people like to tell their problems to then I take outside and slice them into pieces." David confessed. "There I confessed. Man that takes a load off. Whew!"

David danced around almost like he was doing the waltz with no one. He looked as though he just lifted a weight off of himself and he was a thousand pounds lighter.

Stephanie looked at him with her jaw slack. "You do what?"

David snapped out of his stupor and realized what he had said. "I mean figuratively, of course, we chop up the things in their lives which are bad for them and I help them process their bad emotions so that they can constructively process everything to their benefit."

"It still sounds like bullshit to me." Stephanie said.

"Ok give me three weeks, I come see you at your house. Once a wee..."David said

"I don't know about coming to my house and all." Stephanie said.

"What do you have to loose. If after three weeks you don't like what I'm doing for you just tell me to fuck off and I'm gone no problem." David said.

"That's it just a few house calls and nothing else. Right?" Stephanie said.

David put his hands behind his back and nodded his head once and said "Nope, definitely not. I am going to need that address though. I'm going to start calling you Big Booty Judy I hope you don't mind. If you do that's just too bad I'm going to call you that anyway."

Stephanie Debated on giving him a fake address but she suspected that he would track her down until he actually found where she either worked or lived. She gave him her address. David started coming over the next day. David was an obedient puppy for the first three weeks as agreed on after the agreed on time frame he began to come over unannounced and always uninvited.

A few months of David coming to her house he came over unexpected and just walked on in with a bottle of wine in his hand.

"Hey Erin Hey James let's play hide and seek. You two find a really good hiding spot and I'll come find you."

The kids ran off while David began counting while he was looking for a bottle opener. Stephanie pointed in another direction and David went to that drawer like he should have looked there first. while still counting he made the drinking sign and she pointed in another cabinet and he went to that cabinet got two wine glasses poured wine all while still counting.

"Come find us already." Erin said from another room.

David gave the one minute sign and walked down the hall and made the scary monster growl and both Erin and James screamed and giggled but remained in the dark hallway a little too long just as Stephanie got up to go get them they tore out of the hall way giggling and screaming tearing past her hiding behind her legs.

"Come here to me, let me eat you. I love to eat little children." David said in a spooky voice.

"Hey easy on the 'eat little children' stuff. You don't have to worry about nightmares while I do." Stephanie scolded.

"Awe it's just harmless games." David said waving that away. "I have news."

"Ok, I may regret this. What's your news?" Stephanie said.

David went back to the counter where the glasses were and palmed some powder with his back to Stephanie then grabbed her glass and handed it to her swirling it around.

She took the glass put it to her lips and sniffed it, didn't smell anything then acted like she took a sip and watched his reaction. He watched very closely to her as she licked her lips.

"That is some tasty wine." She said.

"Really, I was hoping you liked it."He said.

"I dying to hear your news." She said.

"My news? Oh, my news. I got a job. A legit real life straight up J. O. B." David said.

"Oh really doing what?"

"I got a job as a janitor at the kids' school. That way I can keep an eye on them every day." David said.

After thirty minutes or so when she didn't pass out he went to the counter took her glass of wine and drank it and promptly passed out.

Stephanie saw him pass out and immediately drug him out to her SUV and heaved him into the back of it.

"Mommy what happened to Uncle David?" James asked.

"Who?" Stephanie asked "Oh, Uncle David and I Play this trick all the time. See he goes to sleep and I go hide him in a far off spot to see how long it takes him to get back."

She drove as far north as she could and dumped him out by an overpass then sped off. She went to the closest Home Depot she could find and bought two dead bolts, one for the front door and one for the back door. Promptly went home and installed them.

The next day she went to the police and reported David then gave them the glass he drugged. They told her it was a popular date rape drug and he was probably intending on having his way with her after she was knocked out.

She asked what she could do about it and they told her nothing since he actually took the drug himself. So in essence she would be the perpetrator in this scenario, not him. She thanked them for their time and left the station.

A few days later David showed up at Stephanie's house missing teeth and limping badly.

"Holy Shit David what happened to you?" Stephanie asked

"The other day when you dropped me at the oberpass." He said through missing teeth. " I was beat up pretty badly by some dug dewers."

Most things with David were fishy so this was not any different.

"I tell you what I'll do for you. I'll get you fitted for a newest of falsies that just fit over your teeth you have and are like real teeth. You will be able to chew and eat and everything you do now." She said.

"Por Pre?" He asked.

"What? Yes David, for free." She Said.

"Do you have some place to go?" She asked.

"No, I got put out of my apartment. No job. No rent Money."

"Mother fuck, alright. Here is the deal. You must get a real job. You can't lay up here and be a nanny. You can stay in the apartment above the garage until you get on your feet. but when you get a paying gig you owe rent."

"Got it. Job. Rent. Ouch." David said.

"Now go clean yourself up you look like shit." Stephanie demanded and handed him the key for the garage apartment "David."

"Yes, thank you. Stephanie?" David asked.

"If you fucking make me regret this." Stephanie said through gritted teeth "It won't end pretty for either of us."

"I wouldn't have it any other way Stephanie." David said with a slight smirk.

For the first few years David did as promised. He got a job at Home Depot and he started paying rent. Stephanie didn't care about the amount of rent he paid, she only expected him to pay twenty percent of what he earned for the apartment. She was the one in reality getting robbed not David but it wasn't about the money.

Sure they may have had a bit of a rough start but things smoothed out after they got an understanding. In some way it was good to have a male around to help steer James in the right direction. Try as she might there were certain conversations that Stephanie would not be able to have with James without it being terribly awkward.

David started camping in the back yard with the kids. Nothing overnight just looking at constellations on moonless nights. Some nights were better than others but with the street lights and light pollution it was difficult to see.

"I'm going to start a new bonding time." David said. "I'm going to take the kids on a camping trip."

"Good luck with that." Stephanie said "I don't think the kids have ever been on a camping trip in their lives."

"Nothing wrong with trying new things. Right?" David asked. "Besides, I have a few old Scout tricks that will make the time fly by. Almost like they weren't even camping at all."

"Wait, were you even a boy scout?" Stephanie asked. "Why don't you camp in the back yard like always."

"In the middle of Denver?" David asked. "You can't see for shit in the city, with all the light pollution and everything. Nah, I think I'll take them to Winter Park It's the perfect place for their first time."

"I'm thinking I would like to start this weekend." David said.

"This weekend?" Stephanie asked. "I have a dental convention in Boulder this weekend. Can we do it another weekend when I can go?"

"This is going to be something we do every weekend." David Said. "Well in the summer anyway."

"Sure." Stephanie said. "They could use an outing. I'll go next time."

"Yeah." David said kissing Stephanie on the forehead. "You can go next time."

Stephanie called the kids in the living room for a meeting. David had presentation prepared that made camping in Winter Park in early summer seem like a trip to Disneyland. The kids were on board.

"Perfect." David said clapping his hands together. "Let's go buy some camping supplies."

They all piled into the SUV.

"First thing first." David said. "Everybody buckle your seat belt. That means you too Mom."

Embarrassed Stephanie buckled her seat belt and backed out of the driveway. The Gold star flag that hung from the front porch gently flapped as if James SR was waving to his family as they left.

They drove into the parking lot of the Cabela's thirty minutes later.

"Ok, we're here let's go get some gear." David said. "We need a tent, some sleeping bags, a stove..."

"Easy now Davie Crocket." Stephanie said. "Let's get then used to camping away from home before we get in the deep end."

"You're right." David said. "I should get them used to it before I go all in."

Stephanie decided that they all should have separate tents and got one for Erin and James. David found an inflatable queen size mattress with a stand, a folding couch, a set of two way radios, and a wood burning stove.

"It looks like you are really planning on going all out with all that stuff." Stephanie said.

"Yes, you never know what situation you might find yourself in, it is always good to be prepared. I'm going to be the coordinator of all things camping after all." Davis said.

"You don't expect me to buy that stuff do you?" Stephanie asked.

"You don't mind? It is for the kids and all. Besides I'm a little short this week after paying rent and all."

"Well if I've got to buy it then get the wood burning stove and that big inflatable glamping tent." Stephanie said.

She put the tents that she had picked out for the kids back, got the inflatable tent, the wood burning stove, a set of cast iron pots, and a set of led lanterns. David tried but failed to talk her into getting a portable generator as well.

Stephanie wasn't able to go on the first camping trip but she was able to go on a few of the others until she got busy with opening another dental office and needed to focus more energy toward that. For several months she wasn't able to go in the camping trips like she was in the earlier days. She began to notice more and more camping supplies star showing up at inside the garage. Davis bought himself a whisper quiet generator and she noticed a few other assorted pieces of inflatable furniture.

Then she saw a green footlocker with a stainless steel circular lock on the front. The footlocker had a black square spray painted on top with the stenciled words David's Shit in white letters. To Stephanie, it seemed like whatever was inside that box must be important to David for him to lock with something like that.

Ten Years Later

With one final pelvic thrust David tightened his grip like a vise on Erin's waist and emptied his balls into her. She could feel him throb several times inside her and that made her body shake while her pussy erupted in an orgasm only David could provide.

"Hey, what you say we all three go camping this weekend you James and me?" David asked. "It'll be like old times."

Erin looked at him with confusion.

"Buzz", her cell phone buzzed on the nightstand.

Both Erin and David looked over at the phone on the nightstand.

"Buzz"

"Don't answer it. Let it go to voicemail." David said.

"Buzz"

"What if it's really important?" Erin asked.

Erin reached out and picked her phone up and saw MOM, the she turned it toward David and shrugged. David slowly lost his erection which plopped out of her pussy with a very wet "slosh" sound. He released her ass and sat back on his heels with his hands propped on his thighs.

"Hey, Mom." Erin said into the phone, trying not to sound breathless.

"Hey, what are you doing right now?"

"I was riding the Peloton." Giving a wink to David. "Almost ten miles this time, I had the resistance turned up and its kicking my butt."

David slid off the bed feeling defeated and picked his jeans up from the pile on the floor and sat on the edge of the bed pulling them on.

"Have you seen your brother?" her mom asked. "I've been looking for him for the past few hours and his phone doesn't have the location finder activated."

David stood and pulled his jeans over his bare ass and zipped them.

"No, can't say that I have." Erin said looking at David's half naked body. "I spoke to him earlier thought and he told me he was going to his friend Kevin's house to play Call of Duty or something."

"Yeah, well, I don't have Kevin's number." Erin's mom said "If you hear from your brother just tell him I called and I need him to get in touch with me."

"Ok, sure." Erin said. "Is everything ok?"

"He told me he was going to do something for me then he stood me up."

Erin made a clicking sound with her tongue. "When is he going to learn not to stand you up?"

"I don't know but I'm going to make sure he needs to consider the consequences before he does it again." Stephanie said.

David had put his socks on and was looking for his tee shirt when Erin hung up the phone. She slinked to the side of the bed where he was digging for his shirt. She saw that there was about a two inch strip of his butt crack sticking out, which she stuck her finger in and giggled.

"Hey, weirdo. That feels creepy." He said

"You looking for this?" Erin asked holding his waded up shirt.

"Ah yes there it is, give it here." He said. "Where was it?"

"It got shoved under the pillow." She said. "If you want it you are going to have to come get it." She said playfully.

"Huh, I wonder how that happened." He said knowing well that he was in a huge hurry trying to get undressed so he could get balls deep in Erin.

She had a way of making all the males she knew fall over their dicks to try to get the chance to fuck her. She only had eyes for David and had for several years now. She took the wadded up shirt and wiped her cum filled pussy with it and threw it at his face.

"A little something to remember me by." Erin said.

"There is no way I would ever forget you." David said. "Now I get to wear you like a badge."

What David didn't know is each time he fucked Erin she didn't shower until hours later. She loved having his scent be all around her. She didn't care though she could hardly wait until they were together always.

"I have to go, as much as I hate to I've got to go." He told her.

"There's no one else but the one, right?" she confirmed.

"No, baby just the one." He told her.

"Good, because I can share you with her but no one else, ever." She said. "Now go before I change my mind."

David went over to kiss her and she turned her face away. "I don't deserve you, but I'm glad I have you."

"You're right you don't deserve me" Erin said

David left her apartment and walked down the steps. He looked up to the top of the stairs and saw her looking out the window at him. He winked at her, turned, and walked home.

Erin had been conditioned, for lack of a better term, to only have eyes for David. All of the years he had spent perfecting drugging and controlling Erin, James, and occasionally Stephanie. He always brought a camera he has stolen from a wedding videographer he 'met' in Texas one winter.

The things he made them do to one another was always enjoyable and he would watch the recordings so he could perfect his techniques. He particularly enjoyed the times Stephanie was on the camping trips. He would drug everyone, including himself. He and Stephanie would take turns having sex with the kids, him willingly, but occasionally he would have to get rough with Stephanie to get her to comply. He didn't like to do that too often because she would always have to miss a few days of work to let the soreness go away. He labeled these tapes as "Family Bonding" and kept them locked away in a footlocker.

The footlocker was something he had stolen from an old veteran who he 'met' one winter. David stole some money from the veteran, went to a hardware store, bought some flat black along with some white spray paint, and sprayed black paint over the veteran's identity then he stenciled 'David's Shit' on the spot he covered. In reality nothing on the chest belonged to David, it all belonged to his victims.

Five Years Later

"James baby, you know when you come over here we can play video games too." Kevin said.

James was naked in Kevin's bedroom looking for his clothes while Kevin was still naked in his bed.

"No, man I like spending time with you and you can almost suck dick as good as I can. It's fine I've just had lots more practice probably than you." James told him with a wink. "Anyway if I don't get back home and do some shit for my mom before our trip tomorrow she will shit a brick."

James took the pipe that Kevin had just loaded with an especially good weed strain called Unicorn Poop and smoked on it.

"There now I smell like weed and not sex." he said blowing the smoke into Kevin's face. "I'll see you when we get back from my dad's grave in a couple of days I already know I'm going to need to some sexual healing.

James finished dressing and walked down the block to his house.

Stephanie, was sitting at the dining table smoking a cigarette when her son James walked through the door.

"Where have you been all day, sweetie?" She asked. "And why did you not answer my call?"

"I was at Kevin's playing call of duty all day, and it's only like two in the afternoon. My phone died and I left my charger here at home up in my room." He said. "He has the best set-up for gaming. It's a room that has theater sound and a sixty-five inch screen that just places you right inside the game."

"Sixty-five inches yeah that's nice. Did you forget about the trip we are taking in the morning?" Stephanie asked. "I know we take the same trip every year but this year it's special, I promise."

"Shit, I am sorry mom I just zoned out at Kevin's house. Sorry." He said.

She smashed out her cigarette in an ashtray full of cigarettes. "You know we have so much to do before we can leave in the morning."

You need to take the SUV to the tire shop and get that bad tire replaced, then I need you to get the oil changed, have it washed and get it cleaned out too." Stephanie started.

I want you to get four days' worth of clothes out and I will pack your bag. You know what, never mind I will have your sister get it. I need you to go take care of the car.

"I'm all over it. by the way, Kevin smokes weed and I feel like I stink like Unicorn Poop. Let me take a shower." he said grabbing the keys.

"Unicorn Poop? What is that? You know what never mind I probably don't want to know anyway. Take a shower when you get back." She told him. "You'll have plenty of time later."

James shrugged and walked out to the garage. Erin was walking down the steps from her apartment above the garage.

"Hey, Mom's in a pissy mood, just giving you a heads up." he told her.

"What's new she is always in a mood when you spend all day at Kevin's" She told him.

"I told her that Kevin smokes weed and I needed to take a shower to get the weed smell of me. She told me to go fuck myself. "

"No I didn't James." His mom yelled from kitchen window. "I told you that you have plenty time later."

"It's the same thing." He said back to her.

"Is it though?" Erin asked. "Go do what she told you. You fucking drama queen. Do you need a tampon?"

"You kiss Mom with that mouth?" He asked. "What's got your panties in a bunch?"

"You do because you spent all day over at pot head Kevin's house." She scolded "Now I've got to do your shit and mine too. All while you go do what you should have done hours ago. Now get your ass moving and you smell like weed you pot head."

"That's it, get him girl." Her mom said softly from the kitchen window.

He pinched his shirt at the collar and lifted it up to his nose and sniffed and shrugged. He jumped in the SUV and left to do his overdue errands.

"You think were too hard on him?" Stephanie asked. "Do you think he is high?"

"Nah I think he may suck Kevin's dick, but not weed." Erin Joked.

"Erin!" Samantha scolded "Come to think of it Kevin does kind of look like he probably gets paid for sex. Doesn't he?"

"If that's true then James probably into Kevin pretty deep, pun intended, with all the time he spends over there." Erin said.

FIFTEEN YEARS EARLIER

Stephanie suspected something was happening between David and Erin early on. There was often an excuse that he gave to keep her from going on the camping trips such as the kids needed to practice a something or other they were planning for her or he would conveniently need to help Erin move something around in her room at odd times. One night after such a time. Everyone was in the living room watching a movie. Erin was in the Recliner, David was on the couch with Stephanie's feet in his lap. James had just left to go to Kevin's.

Swoop... David's phone sounded the familiar text message alert.

A text from the sender Sweet Tits. "Hey I'm thinking of you."

David typed. "I'm wearing your scent. You need to make this a cologne, you'd make millions."

David took a deep inhale of his shirt.

Swoop..."And let someone else wear what is only yours... no way they could afford it."

David typed. "Fair enough... just keep it exclusive."

Swoop..."See you tonight?"

David typed. "Wish I could, I have plans with HER"

Swoop..."Cancel them..."

Stephanie had her feet in his lap and could feel him get an erection. At first she thought he wanted sex from her. She felt a little flattered but she looked over at him and noticed him on his phone. Then she notice Erin on her phone smiling. She was instantly filled with dread. She had to do something.

Swoop... New sender Big Booty Judy "I'm gonna need you to give me that attention you're giving her."

David typed. "I'm going try to put some nut in your cookie tonight. Maybe even a nut in your brownie. I'm definitely going put a dick in your mouth."

Swoop..."You kiss your mother with that mouth?"

David typed. " no, but I might eat your ass with it tho, who knows."

Swoop..."You so nasty... LOL"

David typed. "Nastier the better."

Whatever he and Erin were talking about was not healthy if they were actually talking. She just needed proof.

Later that night after she had sex with David she tried to dig through his phone but he had it locked with a code. She didn't want to be suspicious that she was digging so she sent him a text and when his flip phone received the message she quickly dug through his phone and mentally jotted down the messages to Erin, who he called Sweet Tits. She began to seethe with anger. She knew she had to bide her time because if there was something going on between them she needed more proof than a few text messages.

David could clearly see Stephanie looking through his phone in the reflection of the panes of the French door.

David sighed deeply and gritted his teeth. "Damn it. That meddling cunt. I am going to have to move my timeline up now. Fuck! I was having so much fun. Play time is over bitch, it's about to get real."

David reached over in the dark and purposefully knocked over a ceramic collectable figurine and it shattered at it hit the floor Stopping Stephanie in her tracks. She placed the phone down looked toward him and asked "David, is everything alright?"

"Yes I'm fine." David said. "It looks like I may have destroyed one of you precious figurines though, sorry. Ouch, shit! I stepped on a shard of it and I think it cut me pretty bad."

"Well, let me see." Stephanie said clicking on a lamp. "Oh my!"

David had sliced his foot open on a sliver of broken glass and was bleeding profusely

The doctor in Stephanie took over and got her first aid kit. This first aid kit was far better than most first aid kits most people have. Stephanie had a duffle bag that could do about any procedure except an organ transplant. She removed the shard of glass stitched him up and wrapped his foot.

A FEW MONTHS LATER

"Hey mom, what's for dinner? I'm starving." James asked.

"Whatever you cook." Stephanie said. "You are plenty old enough to cook for the women in this family."

"I get to choose?" James asked.

"Yes but don't you dare say takeout." Stephanie said. "That would be too easy, besides we are going on a trip and all we will be eating then is take out. I taught both of you how to cook. It's time you earned your keep, kid."

"Okay then, since I get to choose." James said as he clapped his hands together. "Homemade hamburgers and gravy cheese fries."

"I want mine medium with mayo on the side and a gerkin." Stephanie said

Erin walked by James and slapped him on his butt. "Hey there cutie make my hamburger well done with cheese and a pickle spear on a toasted bun."

"Mom... she hit my bootie." James said. "And she said she wanted to spear my pickle."

"Erin, don't sexually harass the help." Stephanie said.

"I don't like this restaurant after all, can we go someplace else? Where the help is cuter?" Erin asked.

"Sorry, the only restaurant in town." James said in the sleaziest voice he could muster. "Don't worry I'm going take good care of you missy."

"Eew... that was too much." Stephanie said.

James finished prepping for the burgers and fries and while Erin and Stephanie finished packing the bags and cleaning house. He cooked and slapped the counter where the women were sitting.

"Ding... order up! I got a dried up ole hag who had too much sun and yellah underwear with a dick on the side." James called out as he gave Erin her burger.

"Eew what does that even mean?... but it looks good." as she bit into the pickle.

"Ding... I got a hot piece of ass on the rag with a cum shot from a small cock."

"Ooh, Just the way I like it." Stephanie said patting her hands together and bouncing.

"Ding... Soup sandwich and bad diarrhea." As he put his hamburger steak with gravy and gravy cheese fries on the counter.

James sat between Erin and Stephanie and they all chatted through dinner. They finished dinner and James cleaned the dishes.

"Okay kids we have a long ride to Denver tomorrow." Stephanie said. "I need everyone to get a good night's sleep so we can take turns driving."

James took a shower while Erin went up to her apartment above the garage and Stephanie laid down with her lamp on reading something on her phone.

Swoop... Super Dick. "Hey, you up?"

Stephanie typed. "Laying here with no panties in a silk nighty."

Swoop..."Nice mental image. I need to get me some of that."

Stephanie typed "If you're quiet you can cum see for yourself."

Swoop..."I can't wait to eat that ass. Been wanting it all day."

Stephanie typed "what are you waiting for this ass won't eat itself."

Swoop..."I'll be there soon."

David had arrived thirty minutes later. He let himself into the house with the hidden key. Tonight would be the night that he would move up his time table. This time it would be a little sloppy but he had invested too much time in this group to just kill them and watch the effects on the news. He had to see this to the bitter end, because of that fucking cunt Stephanie. He was about to take out some stresses on this bitch.

He had gotten naked and was knelt beside her bed watching her sleep. He slipped a syringe under the pillow. He touched her silky smooth leg which awakened her.

"I thought you were going to stiff me." She whispered with a beautiful smile.

"I would never do that but I will do something else. He held her hand as she stood. "Let's get this cumbersome jumpsuit off so you can show me how flexible you are."

He slid the silk nightgown up over her head and let it fall to the floor. David put his whole mouth over her erect nipple and began to gently suckle it. The lamp made a puddle of light that shined only from her knees down and onto her sexy painted toes. She exhaled lightly and the sound of her breathing turned him on more. He laid her back on the bed and caressed her naked body. the light from the bedside lamp shined on her naked body and he could clearly see her nipples now.

"My nipples hurt they are so hard." She purred. "Do you think you could put your mouth on them?"

He took them in his mouth again and she sucked in a sharp breath of air.

"You didn't like that at all, did you?" David asked.

"Oh no, I think you need to try it again." She said in a sexy whisper.

He put his entire mouth on her other nipple and suckled it like he did the other one and she gasped again. A few minutes of that and she began to arch her back and move her hips back and forth. He kissed a trail from one nipple to the other and then down to her navel and back to the other nipple. He stood up and walked to the end of the bed, knelt down and grabbed her ankles and slowly slid her down the bed until he could feel the heat from her mound. Stephanie raised her knees and spread her legs wide exposing the beautiful pink glistening pussy lips that he so desperately wanted to kiss

"Not yet, you're not ready." He whispered as he blew gently on her pussy.

"If I'm not ready now then I don't know when I will be." she said.

David flipped her over grabbed a pillow and placed it under her hips so that her ass was elevated ever so slightly.

"Let me show you." David said.

He started at the top of her ass crack and flicked his tongue in it and gently blew. He did this all the way down to her anus and he lapped it until she began to moan into the pillow that she was face down into. He could hear muffled moan each time he lapped inside her anus. He slid her down further until her knees were on the floor and her face was in the pillow that had previously been under her hips. It was damp from her pussy which turned her on even more. He could easily lick both her pussy and her anus. He pressed his nose into her anus and licked her pussy while her moans were getting louder.

"That's it, now you're getting ready." David said.

He ate her pussy from behind until she was so wet she had made a damp spot on the edge of the bed. After she began to rock her ass into his nose he could tell she was more than ready to fuck. He slid inside her from behind while she as laying over the edge of the bed. David pounded her from behind and she begged him not to stop until she grabbed fistfuls of sheets and began convulsing.

"I... am... cumming... so... good..." she said as her body jolted with each word.

David touched her anus with his thumb and she pushed into it. He applied gentle pressure slowly until his thumb was all the way in her ass and he cupped her pussy with his fingers. He began to pump her ass, she moaned with each thrust of his hand. He slowly puled pulled his thump out of her ass and moved his cock closer to her ass. David guided himself slowly inside her while he had one hand on himself and the other hand on her side to steady her. As her ass adjusted to him being inside she began to press against him until her movement were actually the thrusting and not David's hips. David removed his hand from himself and placed it on her other side gently guiding her thrusts while building his own orgasm. David continued this until she felt his grip tighten and he began to thrust into her.

"Oh fuck here it comes." David said.

Stephanie began to quicken her thrusts as well until she felt him explode in her ass. He throbbed inside her several times until she felt the stiffness of his cock become limp and he slowly pulled out of her.

"Are you okay?" Stephanie asked him. "You seem like you got excited before you pumped me full."

"Yes, I'm sorry about that I got a little carried away." David said. "I'll do better next time."

"Don't get me wrong you did very well this time. I've got no complaints." Stephanie said. "I do have one request though. Please stop fucking Er..."

David reached under the pillow and grabbed the syringe and expertly injected Stephanie in the carotid artery.

"Shh, don't fight it." David said. "You can't anyway and if you survive you won't remember a thing. Why did you have to be so fucking nosey? I must say out of all of my conquests and there have been many, you and your family has been the most real. Now I must do what must be done and you can't get in the way, I'm sorry Stephanie. Oh, I've invited parents to spectate before. But hey have never had the stomach to see things to the end. Unfortunately, Stephanie there must always be an end. Now close your eyes and let me do my work. Don't worry though I won' leave you. I'll always be watching you and you can always hit me up. Because you are my Big Booty Judy after all."

David got up from Stephanie's bed and didn't bother trying to remove any DNA evidence. There was too much he had spent months with this this family. He had been intimate with each and every member. James was the most fun because he was male and David was pretty sure he had turned him gay. Davis took great pride in that too, because the turning him part was as unsettling to him as it was fulfilling. David needed to visit the kitchen and get the sharpest knife he could find. Now he needed to check on James.

David entered James' room and dispatched him very quickly. He felt that the knife to the heart was the best way and James didn't scream or fight at all. Then David took his time and carefully separated each limb at the joint. the head was the hardest to separate as it always was. After David was finished he masturbated over James as a final farewell.

David entered Erin's above garage apartment covered in James' blood and attacked Erin. He slit her throat with the same knife he dispatched James with. He didn't cut her to pieces though. He enjoyed having sex with her far too much. David had multiple orgasms on and inside Erin's corpse until he was unable to perform any longer.

"I'm slightly embarrassed Erin." David said to her lifeless body. "This has never happened before. I mean it has several times before, just not with you. I'm sorry I had to do this so early. I was actually planning on doing this a few months from now. Yes, of course, while everyone watched."

After David finished with Erin he walked back to Stephanie's bedroom covered in James' and Erin's blood. Stephanie was still unconscious so David decided to help her out. He picked up her phone and called nine-one-one.

"Nine-one-one. What's your emergency?" The operator asked.

"Yes, I'd like to report a murder. Well two murders, and there will probably be a third if you don't wake her up in time." David said.

"Sir, can you tell me more?" The operator asked.

"Well, if the police are on their way I don't have a lot of time to go into it but I will say this: The young man is upstairs in his room. He's just in pieces over the whole thing. The girl is above the garage in her apartment with her throat slit." David said calmly.

"How do you know this sir?" The operator asked.

"I know because I killed them both of course." David taunted. "I apologize for the hastiness of this one but I had to rush. I'm usually much more patient. I wasn't able to spend much time with these two, there was a complication. That's ok though I managed to get it done. I just feel like I'm forgetting something. You do need to hurry thought because there will be a third if you don't wake her up in time. Oh, the address is twenty-two fifteen west sixty second place. It's the corner lot."

David clicked the phone off and tossed it back on the bed. He went to the bathroom and clicked the light on. He hardly recognized himself covered in all the blood.

"Oh my, looks like I have some blood on me." David said to himself in the mirror.

David got into the shower and hastily rinsed the blood off of his body and out of his hair. Then dried off and walked back into Stephanie's room and began to get dressed. As he was putting on his shoes he could hear the ambulance and police in the distance.

"Looks like I may have to leave a few things." David said. "Don't worry I'll be back and get them though. I'm just not sure when."

SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER

Stephanie didn't have a memory of finding James dismembered in his bed. She also didn't remember Erin's slit throat and abused corpse. She was still naked and drugged lying in her bed when the authorities found her and them. The police took samples from her, Erin, and James. They found that there was a common DNA on each of them that they tied to several killings across the country. She had a mental breakdown and had to stop practicing dentistry. It was months before she could walk in her house and not scream her kid's names and beg their forgiveness.

What Stephanie did remember is what she would have liked to happen: When daylight came Stephanie surprisingly felt well rested. She woke, showered and began packing the SUV. The morning was cool and crisp and Stephanie was drinking on her third cup of coffee. Erin came down from the apartment above the garage just as Stephanie was closing the rear hatch on her SUV.

"Hey sleepyhead." Stephanie told Erin.

Erin yawned and stretched "Hey, ooh coffee, I need to get me some of that."

"It's in the pot in the kitchen help yourself." Stephanie said.

Erin was pouring a cup of coffee when James came down stairs.

James took a deep breath, "That coffee smells so good."

James poured a cup and sat at the bar they were sitting at the previous night eating.

"I don't see how you two do it." James said sipping the hot coffee.

"Do what drink coffee?" Erin asked.

"What? No, I mean get up at the crack of dawn and act as though you have been up for hours." James replied.

"Practice, little brother, practice. You should try it some time." Erin said over the top of her steaming hot coffee mug.

Stephanie came in form the garage. "Everybody ready? We are burning daylight. I plan to be five hundred miles closer to our destination by nightfall. We have reservations along the way."

"While you were outside we decided that I will ride up front with you and I'll take over when you get tired, you can then swap to the back and James can sit up front with me we can rotate again that way everyone can get some rest" Erin said.

"You two came up with that plan all by yourselves?" Stephanie asked

"It was mostly me while James volunteered to sleep first." Erin told her.

"That's my girl, always looking out for us." Stephanie said. "James, you need to stop hanging out with that pot head from next door its beginning to rub off."

"Shows you what you know." James said "Kevin suffers from something called wasting syndrome."

"What? That guy weighs like one hundred eighty pounds." Erin said. "That diagnosis is for a cancer patient or somebody who is dying."

"I'm not his doctor I'm just telling you what he told me." James said. "Besides what do you care? You want to get a script too?

"No, I just think he wants an excuse to sit around in his boxers and play video games all day." Stephanie said.

"You two seem a little uptight you want me to go get some weed from him to calm the two of you down." James asked.

"No, I'm sure you have some on you right now." Erin said with one eyebrow raised.

James shrugged and finished his coffee. "Well I'm going to be out in the car when you two get off your high horse and want to get on the road."

James walked out to the garage while Erin and Stephanie were still sitting drinking their coffee.

"He must be mad because we're telling him about his boyfriend." Erin said.

"Smoking too much pot will do that to you." Stephanie said as she finished off her coffee.

"I'm going to go get a hit off of it before he smokes it all up." Erin said walking out to the garage.

Stephanie shook her head as Erin walked out to the garage. Stephanie washed the three cups and put them in the drying rack. She finished up a few last minute things, set the alarm and walked out to the garage. Sure enough Erin and James were standing inside a cloud and the garage smelled like grape scented weed.

"Good thing I'm driving first because right now, you two couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper sack." Stephanie.

"Hey man, she said sack." James giggled.

"Yeah she said wet sack." Erin giggled.

Stephanie rolled her eyes, "If you two want to stand around and get high, go ahead. I will leave your asses."

They all got in the car, Stephanie as driver, Erin in the passenger seat, and James behind Stephanie. Stephanie started the SUV and backed out of the garage, turned around and pulled out of the driveway onto the street.

Stephanie spent the months after the murders between a state of shock and an unimaginable rage that she had actually invited that serial killer into her home. It physically sickened her that she had encouraged him to spend time with her children. Stephanie would never forgiver herself for that.

The police would occasionally visit her to do a wellness check. Each officer would find her in the same place doing the same thing. She would be sitting in the dark, at the kitchen table smoking, with an ashtray full of cigarette butts.

Every wellness check was always the same until one day it wasn't. Stephanie served twelve years in prison for it. It was time she was glad to serve because the five years she spent waiting for him to return to the scene of the crime was torture. The video camera evidence of what he did with the children was something she kept a copy of. She had to turn everything in the footlocker over to the police but she kept a few things because she knew this sick mother fucker would want his trophies and would be back to get them one day. Stephanie wanted to make sure this guy got what he was coming for.

One evening Stephanie was patiently waiting in the dark, like so many nights before, at the table with a locker box stuffed with a black and silver tripod and a collection of DVD's that Stephanie made herself watch repeatedly so that when the time came she could exact her revenge for her children in the proper way.

Stephanie heard the screen door when it opened, she heard footsteps. She had gotten up and crept to the knife rack and grabbed the same knife David used to kill her children. Her eyes were fully adjusted to the dark so she could perfectly tell it was her target. She was no longer a dentist but she had a syringe of solution that would incapacitate David immediately. Stephanie stepped up to him and plunged the needle in him more expertly than he did in her.

"You are probably wondering what I gave you." Stephanie said. "I gave you Halcion. You'll be sedated but don't worry you will be very much awake for the procedure. Or at least for most of it anyway. I went to medical school so I am far more familiar with anatomy than you are so I'll tell you what I'll start small and I'll teach you a few things along the way. Oh and I suppose you notice this knife. It's the same knife you used to murder my children. I will have to fight the urge very badly to make this quick."

Stephanie turned the dining room light switch on and the brightness of the recessed lighting in the dining room made her and David blink. She pushed the dining table out of the way and moved his limp body under the bright dining room light.

"Well fuck, looks like we got some work to do." Stephanie said. "Okay first thing I'm going to need to do is adjust that mirror over there so you can see where you fucked up and I will not."

She tilted the dressing mirror so that he could see his entire body in the length of the mirror.

"Can you see fuck head?" Stephanie asked "Oh yeah you can't speak because I put that shit in your neck. Oh well it looks like you can see well enough, were burning daylight. First thing I need to do is get you in the mood. Oh don't worry I don't mean that shit. I mean the most unpleasant way possible. I'm going to inject silicone directly into your cock. I don't have a cock of my own but I'm pretty sure this is going to hurt like a mother fucker."

Stephanie opened the large first aid kit she used to remove the glass from David's foot once before.

"First things first, let's get you naked. I'm going to do it the easy way though, well because I don't give a fuck." She said.

She took a pair of bandage cutters out and cut his clothes off and went to a drawer in the cabinets and got a tube of silicone and brought it back to where he was laying. She reached in the first aid kit, grabbed a pair of rubber gloves, and dramatically put them on. Then she grabbed a long syringe that like you inject a turkey with and drew it full of silicone, screwed in the needle, squirted out the air, an stuck it in the base of his dick above his balls and just filled them up, then she drew up another syringe full of silicone and began injecting it all along the shaft of his penis.

"Yeah, like I said earlier, I don't have a cock but if I did I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that shit to it. Does it hurt? Yeah I don't give a fuck. I can fix it though, don't worry."

Stephanie took the knife that David used to kill Erin and James and sliced off David's cock in one swift motion.

"Mother fucker! I bet that hurt. I'm sure it'll leave a mark too. Oh look it looks like you are pissing yourself from where you once had a dick. Either that or you're bleeding to death it's hard to tell with all the blood. Oh well, you just can't make some people happy. Now that's taken care of let's move to other areas."

She carved him up like a Christmas turkey and he finally blead out she finished him off for certain by slitting his throat like he did Erin.

After she killed him she sat looking at his lifeless body hoping that she would somehow feel better but she didn't. She stood up grabbed her cell and dialed nine-one-one.

"Nine-one-one, what's your emergency?" The operator asked.

"My name is Stephanie Conner I Live at twenty-two fifteen west sixty second place. I have just murdered David Parker. Please send the coroner and the police." Stephanie said

"Okay Ms. Conner how do you know he is dead?" The operator asked.

"I am a doctor." Stephanie said "I'll be in the dining room with the body when the police arrive and I will go willingly."

She clicked the phone off sat back in the chair she had been sitting in for five years and lit a cigarette.

Stephanie was arrested and eventually put on trial for murder. The evidence she had in the chest would have been enough to give David the death penalty. What the authorities didn't know was the videos that had Erin and James being victimized by Stephanie and David existed. Stephanie had removed them years earlier and put them in a storage unit. A storage unit she put everything she wanted to keep when she put the house up for sale while she was out of jail on bond awaiting trial.

Stephanie knew she was going to plead guilty for the charges against her. She just wasn't going to admit that she planned every aspect of how she was going to give David what he deserved. She planned what she was going to do to him every day from the time she buried her kids to the time he walked back in five years later. All the way down to the fact that the details needed to seem like they were spur of the moment and not meticulously planned to the last detail.

Twelve years in prison was her penitence. The price she was paying for allowing this murderer into her family.

She remained a controlling member of Conner Dentistry although she was no longer able to practice because she lost her medical license but she was still considered a controlling shareholder of the twenty five location firm throughout Denver.

Stephanie served her twelve year sentence as a model inmate. She never got in trouble, she never got in a fight, she never got caught with contraband, and she never had a visit. When it was getting close to the time for Stephanie to get out of prison her case manager asked her where she wanted a bus ticket to. Stephanie walked over to a map of the United States that the case manager had on her wall and closed her eyes and touched a spot on the map.

"Baxter Springs, Kansas. You have people there?" The case manager asked.

"No and that's the point." Stephanie said.

The bus dropped Stephanie off on Main Street ironically in front of the real estate office. Stephanie walked in the office and the bell over the door clanged.

"Can I help you?" The real estate agent said.

"I'm new in town and I'm looking for something specific." Stephanie said. "If we can't find it let's build it."

Stephanie had built an exact replica of the house she lived in with Erin and James because money was no object and this house was theirs not hers they grew up in it. She just lived in it with her memories for several years.

Stephanie traveled back to Denver and emptied out the storage unit, loaded it in a u haul truck and moved it back to her house in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

TWENTY YEARS LATER

Stephanie Lived in the house she built in Kansas for twenty years. Every day she would spend the day with her kids. Reliving only fond memories. Every year on the anniversary of James Sr. death she would drive to the grave in Denver and lay flowers. She packed the SUV with all the essentials and the locker box with the white stenciled letters 'David's Shit' on top. She walked through the house and visited each room even rooms she only stopped in the doorway of for the past twenty years.

She went up to the apartment above the garage and talked with her daughter for a while. She also stopped and spoke with James as she struggled with the locker box putting it in the SUV. She finished her cup of coffee, washed the cup, and tidied a few things. She told the kids to load up and backed out of the garage.

They left from their hometown of Baxter Springs, Kansas shortly after nine in the morning and Stephanie drove west toward Denver, Colorado. A few hours into the drive she stopped at a roadside diner outside Wichita.

"Ok you two let's stop here for some Lunch and then back on the road." Stephanie said.

"Awesome, I could use something to eat." James said.

"Where's the rest room?" Asked Erin.

They all walked in the diner and the bell above the door clanged as Stephanie opened it. The diner looked like a converted Rail car with booths all along the front and a long counter in front of the grill with a few patrons that looked up when the bell clanged and went back to their meals.

"Hey y'all" A woman with a thick southern accent said. "I'm Annette y'all's waitress just seat yourself and I'll come take your order in a second."

Annette had a pot of coffee in her hand and was refilling a burley looking guy with a black leather vest that had a huge skull on fire stitched to the back with the words Commanderos above the image and Wichita, Kansas below it.

"You need anything else Cliff?" She asked the biker.

"No, ma'am just the check please." Cliff the biker said politely.

Stephanie was expecting him to swat Annette on the behind as she walked away but he didn't. Cliff just looked at the ticket, fished out a wad of cash from his pocket, peeled of a few bills, and walked out to his bike. The windows rattled when Cliff cranked up his motorcycle and drove away.

Annette came to their table just as Erin walked back and slid in the booth next to James.

"Hey, what can I get for y'all?" Annette asked.

"What's good?" Stephanie asked.

"Honey everything's good, but folks seem to love the pecan pie." She said " Ya see, what Jimmy does, he's the cook and all, He puts it on the grill with butter on top of it, then he does this thing with some ice and metal cover. Anyway it makes that piece of pecan pie delightful."

"Okay give us three slices of pie and some sweet tea." Stephanie said.

Annette brought tea and sat it down in front of Stephanie.

"Y'all enjoy the show." She said.

They watched as Jimmy took a slice from a pie under a glass dome. Then slid that piece onto a spatula on the grill. Next he took a clean coffee cup from a tray next to the coffee pot, scooped up a cup full of ice and dumped it in a metal food cover, next he flipped the metal cover on top of the piece of pie, and steam just boiled from underneath the lid. When the steam stopped coming out he put an oven mit and flipped the lid off the pie, scooped up the spatula it was on and slid it on a saucer. He prepared two additional pieces the same way.

Jimmy rung a small bell. "Order up table five."

Annette scooped up the order and dropped it off at the table. "Here ya go sugar, Y'all enjoy."

They ate the slices of pie and Stephanie ordered two burgers and a hamburger steak to go.

"Yall ordered desert to eat and burgers to go, ain't nothing wrong with switching things up is there sugar?" Annette asked.

Erin and James walked outside while Stephanie got the order and payed the bill.

"Mom seems a little off today." Erin said. "I think we need to cheer her up some."

"She seems normal to me." James said. "You how she gets on every time we make this trip."

"I know, I can't help but think I'm to blame somehow." Erin said.

"Yeah, me too. Why do you think I try to sleep or stay high?" James said. "It's just too difficult to try to deal with."

"I keep wishing that if I would have never moved above the garage..." Erin trailed off.

"That was not your fault, sis." James reassured. "That shit would have happened anyway. Some things just can't be avoided."

"I'm sure I could have done something. For you at least." Erin offered.

"It was either you or me, and I prefer it turned like it did." James said

Stephanie came out of the diner with the food. "You know guys I'm not that tired, I'll just go ahead and drive there's no need to switch drivers."

"Are you sure? I don't mind driving." Erin Said.

"That's sweet honey, but I have it from here." Stephanie said.

They all piled into the car and left the roadside diner. Stephanie drove for six more hours stopping for the occasional restroom break or fuel. The closer they all got to Denver the more somber the mood became inside the car.

"I'm not feeling so well." Erin said.

"Me either." James said.

"Let's just go home." Erin said.

"We can't go home sweetie." Stephanie said.

Stephanie pulled to the spot she was looking for and put the SUV in park.

"What do you mean we can't go home?" Erin asked becoming frantic.

"Yeah mom, what do you mean?" James asked

She looked out the windshield at the grave stones in front of her.

"There really hasn't been a home in quite a while, now has there?" Stephanie asked to nobody.

Stephanie tapped a button on the dash by her knee and the rear hatch began to slowly open.

Stephanie wiped a single tear from her cheek and got out of the SUV, walked to the open hatch and pulled out a large box, sat it down, and opened it. Inside the box were newspaper clippings. One headline read: Brother and Sister Targeted and Killed by Suspected Serial Killer from Florida. Respected Dentist found Guilty of Slaying Suspected Serial Killer and received twelve years.

There were several DVD's with the words Camping trips nineteen ninety through ninety ninety-three written in Black marker. Another DVD with the words water sports night in the same handwriting. Prison release papers, two boxed burgers, a boxed hamburger steak and finally something wrapped in a cloth.

She pulled the item wrapped in cloth out of the box. She walked to the graves with the three boxes, and placed the item wrapped in cloth on top of the headstone. On the three gravestones were the names: James Conner Sr., Beloved father and husband born November 18, 1962 Died December 16, 1988, Erin Conner Taken From us Far too Soon Born March 17, 1981 Died August 27, 2003, James Conner Jr. Born June 15, 1983 Died August 27, 2003 No Words Can Express the Loss.

Stephanie kissed her fingers and touched each headstone, with tears streaming down her cheeks. She left the meals next to each headstone.

"Here was our last meal together, I really enjoyed the pecan pie." Stephanie said. "I have to go now, maybe we'll see each other again someday. Stephanie walked back to the SUV, sat behind the wheel, and then opened the cloth to reveal a pistol. Then in one quick movement she chambered a round put the muzzle under her chin and pulled the trigger. Her lifeless body slumped forward blowing the horn.

Wichita NEWS at 5

"There was a house fire in Baxter Springs, Kansas yesterday. Authorities say that due to a gas leak a lit candle in the house's attached apartment above the garage caused the house to explode. Luckily there was no one home when this happened, and in other news there was an apparent suicide in a Colorado cemetery this morning. Authorities are investigating this mysterious occurrence because the person who committed suicide owned the house that exploded. Up next, Sports."