"I hope you two remember which piece goes to which helicopter," I said as I ran my eyes across the parts scattered all over the garage.

"I can tell the difference," Holly said walking up to me while wiping her hands on the borrowed white coveralls she had on. They were already streaked with oil, grease, and grime on them, so a little more didn't matter.

What did matter was the fact she had a smile on her face, and when she reached me, she wrapped her arms around me and gave me a nice kiss.

"I take it you feel better?" I said feeling the warm feeling she was emitting.

"I always feel better after working on Beany, and Randy is a good listener. I'll get over ya," she said. Then with a grin, she added "And then we'll see who's the miserable one."

"Where is Randy?" I asked, not sensing him in the garage.

"He went to get us something to eat," she said. "Aren't you hungry?"

"Yeah. But I wanted to see if you would like to eat with me and meet Joey and my mom."

"What about Tammy?" she said with the last remains of her smile fading.

"She's with my dad still. Don't give me that look. If you want her to be her old self again, you're going to have to let my dad do what he thinks best. I trust him," I said, not really sure if I meant it.

"All right. But if I go eat with you, what about Randy? Can he eat with us too?"

"Sure, if he wants," I said reaching out to find his mind. "Uhm, Holly.. He kinda got side-tracked by one of his, er, roommates. I don't think he's gonna be making it to dinner."

"Oh.. That's okay. He said he might be a while before he came back because of something he had to do first. Just let him know I'm going to go eat with you, okay?"

"Okay. Done. Uhm, you do have your clothes on under that, don't you?"

"Yes, of course I do," she said while struggling to undo the fasteners on her overalls. By the time she had taken her protective clothing off, I had finished walking around the garage inspecting the pairs of parts from the twin helicopters.

While Holly still was feeling a bit hurt, she didn't let it show as we made our way to the dining room. We were about half way there when our conversation hit a quiet spot, and for a few minutes we walked in silence.

I couldn't prevent my empathic senses from feeling every emotion running through her. All of a sudden I felt the need to hug her, an instinct of some kind telling me it would be the best answer to her problems, or at least help her for the moment.

She resisted me initially, complaining she was hungry and wanted to eat. But once I had my arms around her, she took a deep breath, moved into the hug and let me hold her while I kissed the side of her head and told her how special she was to my life.

We only spent about ten minutes leaning against the wall before we broke apart and continued on our way. We were still holding hands when we arrived at the dinning room. I only remember that fact because when she saw the image of my mom made out of light on the wall, Holly nearly ripped my arm out pulling me towards her and asking if I saw it.

Once Holly got over her shock, introductions were made and we sat down to eat. Joey and my mom had already started, and I had a distinct feeling Holly was rather upset that every one was dressed. Or not upset, just disappointed. She was getting used to experiencing new things, and sitting down at the dinner table with a bunch of nudes would have definitely fit in that category.

Dinner wasn't all that fun for me. Every time I talked to Joey or Holly, I found the other's mind wandering from not finding the conversation interesting. My mom helped out a lot, but it felt so strange going back and forth like that, unable to find some common ground.

The three of us were heading for the TV room to watch a movie when Holly asked about Tammy again.

"Tammy? Tammy who?" Joey said without any real interest.

"Tim's dad is trying to turn her back to normal after some guy made her his toy," Holly answered before I could. "Hey, wait a second. I thought it was his sister you were looking for. Why didn't you tell..."

She didn't finish her question when she noticed my pained expression, and just as it clicked in Joey's head, Holly realized she shouldn't have said it.

"What does she mean you're looking for my sister?" Joey said with heavy emotion. "Sarah's dead, isn't she?"

"Joey, we don't know anything for sure yet," I said as I avoided his eyes. "Just don't worry about it until you're back to nor.."

"Fuck normal! Is Sarah dead or not?! Tell me!" Joey demanded as his desperation and hope fought for control.

"We don't know! Okay? We think she's still alive, but we don't know! Shit, Joey. You're not ready for this yet. You're shaking all over and..." I said as he started to wobble.

Holly and I tried to get him to sit down, but he wouldn't have any part of it. Some how he managed to stay on his feet long enough to reach the TV room, then all three of us collapsed on the sofa.

Despite my better judgment, Joey dragged the whole story out of the two of us. But after a while, I realized perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing. Joey started feeling like his old self to me. His attention was focused on the possibility that his sister was alive instead of the disturbing urges and memories that kept popping into his head. The death of his sister had been the first tragic event of his life, and his feelings about it ran much deeper than the things Steven had done to him.

By the time Joey was satisfied that we had told him everything we knew, Holly was struggling to stay awake, and I was kind of tired myself.

"Am I sleeping here tonight?" Holly asked after a yawn.

"Where else would you sleep?" I said, laying my head against hers.

"At home, Remember? What is it, a half an hour drive to the park?"

"From here its more like an hour and a half, and your parent's place is almost two hours. I didn't think you'd want to leave without Tammy anyway."

"Oh, I'm not planning on it," she said yawning again. "I'm just trying to get you to tell me where my room is without having to ask you, that's all."

"Ah," I said grinning. "Well, that depends on whether or not you want to sleep alone or not."

"I'm so tired I don't think it will matter. Let's try separate beds tonight so we both can get some sleep."

"Okay," I said, not wanting to push the issue.

Joey didn't even seem to notice when we got up and told him good night. I could feel his mind struggling to recall everything he could about his sister, and found he had made fairly good progress there. I was about to ask him if he had heard us, but decided otherwise and left quietly with Holly to show her to a guest room.

After a gentle good night kiss with Holly, I walked back to my room alone, recalling the day's events with a sense of detachment.

I was surprised to find Joey waiting for me in my room, but didn't have to ask what was on his mind. Despite the fact that both of us were tired, we spent half the night just talking in bed, Joey having found he could force his memories to come back if he tried to think about them.

I must have drifted off while he was concentrating at one point, and woke to the familiar feeling of a twin's mouth on my hard cock. Joey was getting some of the same, but after the girls had brought us off, Joey and I both rolled onto our stomachs and went right back to sleep. We had learned a long time ago that was the only way to stop the twins from forcing us to get up when they wanted to, er, play.

"Hey, sleepy head," Holly's voice said several hours later and disrupting a dream that I instantly forgot what it had been about.

"Hey, yourself," I said automatically. I opened my eyes and looked at her a moment, then I had to rub my eyes before taking another look. "Uhm, why you naked?" I blundered out.

"I had a dream last night," she said, crawling in between me and the stirring Joey.

"A dream?" I said suspiciously.

"Don't worry.. I'm pretty sure it was my own dream and not someone else's," she said cuddling up to me under the sheet. "I have a favor to ask you that you will probably think I'm nuts to ask. But I've thought about it for a couple of hours..."

"What is it?" I said softly as she stroked my chest.

"Tammy dared me to let you make me your slave for a day. I'm not willing to go for a whole day like that, but for a couple of hours wouldn't..."

"A slave?" I said sitting up. "Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure," she said making me lay back down and climbing on top of me. "Tammy dared me, and it bothers me that she felt I would never go for it. You know I'm a dare devil, but Tammy's the one who always tried to play it safe. But now.."

"Come on. You're not really letting her dare you into doing this, are you?"

"No, of course not. It's just I don't understand her anymore. Your dad brought her to my room this morning really early. He said she's as normal as she's going to be. You were right about her. She's not a slave anymore, but she still wants to do it all the time."

"I'm sorry Holly. I hoped I was wrong. But you don't really believe you becoming a slave for an hour or two is going to fix her problems, do you?"

"No, but... I want to help her, Tim. She's my best friend, and has been nearly all my life. I thought of killing myself when she stole Justin away from me. Then he dumped her, and we made up because of it. But ever since she went away to college, I've felt like there was a wall between us. Now that I know what the wall is, I can't think of any other way to get past it. Tim... She was talking about becoming a prostitute... I can't let that happen. But I have to understand what she went through to help her get back to normal. You'd do it for Joey, wouldn't you?"

"Yeah, I guess I would," I said, looking Joey in the eyes for more than a moment. "But Holly.. I can't do it to you, not even to help Tammy. I'm not sure if this was a one time thing or not, but.. When I tried to do it with Tammy yesterday, I felt how.. corrupted she was."

"Corrupted?" Joey and Holly said at the same time.

"Okay, not corrupted, but.. I don't know how else to describe it. She felt like she wasn't really alive.. no, that's not it either.. All I know is she felt WRONG to me. Unnatural. It scared the hell out of me," I said fighting the creepy crawly feeling I had. "That's why my mom came to find me, yesterday," I added to Joey.

Holly and I argued for several minutes, Joey wisely deciding to stay out of it and left to go eat breakfast.

Holly can be as stubborn as a mule, but in this instance I was more stubborn. I cheated in a sense by recreating how it felt and sharing it with her, but I have to give her credit. It didn't upset her like I thought it should have. In fact, I think what made her give up was seeing how rattled I was afterwards.

Neither of us was in the mood to take advantage of us being in bed alone and already nude. And I could tell she wasn't comfortable about her nudity, especially when we crossed the hall to see Tammy.

Tammy was sound asleep on top of the covers nude, an erotic yet innocent sight to behold.

"The one thing I hate about going nude is you can't hide it when you get wood," I said to Holly after she gave me a look of frustration.

"I think she and your dad were up all night," Holly said in a hushed voice. "I'd hate to wake her."

"Then don't," I said sitting down on the edge of the bed next to Tammy. "She looks so peaceful like this," I whispered as I stroked her soft cheek gently.

Holly got down on her knees and laid her chin on the edge of the bed closest to Tammy's face. I felt the same feelings of worry and hope coming from Holly as I had been feeling for Joey and Suzi for the past month. I stopped caressing Tammy's cheek and for a few minutes and simply let my feelings for Holly build as I watched her.

At some point she noticed my stare and glanced up only to be captured in an empathic linking that I wasn't trying to form. She rose while I bent over, and in moments we were in each others arms locked in a heartfelt kiss.

After several minutes of kissing and rubbing, Holly forced me on my back which resulted in waking Tammy since she was immediately behind me.

My first thought was that the fun was over and prepared to sit back up, but after Tammy's legs got out of the way, I found Holly's mouth on my right nipple, and moments later Tammy's on my left.

My legs were still hanging over the edge of the bed, so once I got over the small shock that Holly was letting Tammy join in, I managed to wiggle out from under them long enough to get on the bed properly.

The two girls had just finished whispering something when I looked over at them, and so I expected something interesting to happen. To my surprise, Holly got off the bed and bent over to give me a kiss on the forehead, then grabbed some clothes and hit the shower.

My attention immediately focused on Tammy who was licking her way up my left leg.

"I have... a score to... settle with... you.." Tammy said huskily between licks. "You made me... miserable... while I... was your... fuck slave... and wouldn't... use me..."

With that she sucked both of my balls into her mouth and made me wiggle with a mixture of pleasure and discomfort.

When her mouth finally released my family jewels, I was sweating all over and very nearly out of breath. I was just starting to gather my wits when her tongue ran across my crack, shattering any trace of organized thoughts in my mind.

But then she began to use her mouth and tongue on my dick, I managed to regroup. I decided I wasn't going to be the guinea pig for her sexual liberation, and quickly figured out how to turn the tables on her.

Tammy started to get desperate when she sensed my arousal was declining, and was going to try something else when I sat up and ran my magic fingers across her back and down to her hanging tits.

Her mouth swallowed my cock and attempted to fight fire with fire, but each time I ran my magic touch across her back and tits, she lost momentum and finally let my hardon fall heavily from her gasping mouth.

I easily had Tammy limply crawl on top of me as I laid down, and once I was comfortable, I realized how tired Tammy was from the night with my dad. I switched my magic touch from being sexually pleasurable to a more soothing pleasure, and enjoyed luring her to sleep on top of me while my hardon finally gave up and relaxed.

I had just started to fall asleep myself when my stomach grumbled loudly and woke her up.

"I can't believe you were able to do that," she said sleepily and moving up to my face.

"What? Put you to sleep?"

"No. Stop me from having sex with you. I just don't understand you. Every guy I dated in high school tried to start something with me, but I didn't want to do anything sexual back then. Now that I want to, you don't, even though you do with Holly. Don't you like how I look?"

"It's not like that, believe me. I do want to, but... It just isn't for the right reasons I guess. God, you are beautiful. Your body is perfect, your face doesn't have a pimple, and you smell wonderful. But I guess that isn't enough for me anymore."

"I still don't understand," she said sliding down a bit to rest her head on my chest. "Maybe that's why.. never mind."

"Aren't you going to try and get me hard again or something?" I asked as I started stroking her long hair from her head to her shoulders.

"I'm too tired to try. Besides, your dad said if you didn't give me what I wanted, I could just ask him. At least HE likes me."

"I like you too. And Holly loves you like a sister, even though she'd never say so out loud. I think your ex-master confused you into thinking to like someone means you wanna have sex with them. You know that's not really true though, don't you?"

"I guess," she said softly. "But I like having sex with people. It feels so much more real. The more sex I had with someone, the closer I felt to them. That's why I wanted Holly so bad."

"Tammy, can I ask you a really personal question? I promise I won't tell anyone."

"Only if I can ask you one afterwards," she replied with a small shiver.

"Okay. That's fair enough," I said laying the arm I had been stroking her hair with over her shoulders.

I took a moment to reach down with my other hand to pull the sheet up over our legs and lower backs, then rested that hand below the first one and gave the top of her head a little kiss.

"I've been wondering.. If you were so close to Holly, why did you steal Justin away from her?"

She sighed, and I felt her struggle internally about telling me the truth or not.

"I was... jealous, okay?" she finally blurted out.

"Well, that part was obvious. But jealous of whom? I mean, for someone as good looking as you are, Justin sure lost interest in you awfully fast. You never really was interested in him, were you?"

Tammy didn't move, but I could feel her emotions cascading inside her. I knew I was right, but wanted her to admit it to herself. I hoped it would help her realize a nonsexual relationship was just as good and strong as a sexual one. Better even.

"She thought he was everything. I tried so hard to tell her how big of a jerk he was, but she wouldn't listen. Even when I found out he was still fucking that slut behind her back, she ignored me and told me I was just trying to steal him from her. So I did, and I had to lose my virginity in order to get her back as my friend.

"It was supposed to be our summer together. We planned all year to spend it together and doing whatever we wanted before I went away to school. Then HE ruined it. He was such an asshole. I had to get him away from her.."

Tammy sniffed a few times, then looked up at me and said, "Is that good enough for you?"

"Yeah," I said, kissing her on the forehead. "That was more than enough. Your turn."

She laid her head back the way it was before and took a nice deep breath that she let out as a sigh.

"When we were in the motel room, and Holly was about to come out from her shower, why did you give me that kiss after I stopped licking you?"

"Huh? Uhm, I don't know. It just felt like the right thing to do. Did you like it?"

"I guess," she said disappointed. "I mean, I had wanted a tongue fuck kiss."

"But something about it made you ask. What was it?"

"It's nothing really. Its just that I had never had someone kiss me like that without trying to start something. You're just not like the other guys. I'm trying to figure you out."

"Tammy, could I try kissing you again?"

"Why? You want to see if it feels different?"

"Not exactly. I just want to kiss you. I like you."

"I'll kiss you, but you're just doing it to make me feel...mmmm," she said as I pulled her up to my lips and began ravaging her mouth with my tongue.

She responded as I expected, and soon we were fucking each others mouths like two animals. It only took a few minutes before we had to break apart to catch our breath, and while we panted, I calmed my excitement down and started trying to catch her eyes with mine.

"That was more like it," she said before trying to get my hardon back by rubbing her wet crotch over it.

"Tammy, I want to give you another kiss first," I said, pulling her arms out from under her and, with a little help from my telepathy, held her crotch still.

We struggled for nearly two minutes before she gave up in a huff and stopped trying to invade my mouth with her tongue. I think it must have taken me another good five minutes before she finally relaxed and let herself enjoy my gentle kisses and rubbing.

When she started to respond with the same gentle loving kisses, I knew I had accomplished what I had set out to do. So when her lips returned to mine after taking a small breather, I parted them and waited to see what she would try. I was disappointed in her when her tongue slipped through, but I found I had judged her too soon when all she did was wiggle her tongue like she was teasing me, then continued her slow and steady tongue-less kissing.

I instantly returned to mine, and didn't stop until she did.

"Well?" I said after she had moved back down so her head was back on my chest.

"Well, what?" she said, giving my chest a kiss.

"Which kind of kissing did you like better? The tongue fucking kind? Or the other."

"The tongue fucking kind," she said incidentally.

"Oh," I said, not hiding my disappointment.

"Gotcha," she said looking up at me smiling.

"You witch," I said with a laugh. "You're as bad as Holly."

At the mention of Holly's name, Tammy suddenly became uncomfortable.

"What's the matter?" I asked, kissing her head again.

"I just forgot, that's all."

"Forgot what?"

"Forgot you were already taken. By Holly."

"Tammy, I'm not taken by Holly. I love her, but... Ah hell. I love a lot a people. And I've made love to many of them too. I guess what I'm trying to say is, just because Holly and I love each other doesn't mean I have to stop loving her to love you. I think Holly knows that now. Otherwise, why would she leave you here with me?"

"So she could ask your dad to make her his slave for a couple of hours," she said softly.

"She WHAT!" I said, reaching out to find Holly's mind.

"Thank God," I sighed moments later. "My dad wouldn't do it. I guess I've been wrong about him in the past."

"Tim.. I think I am falling in love for you, but I don't want to. Like you said, I've never found someone on my own to love. You're not going to give Holly up for me, and I don't want you to, but in the end that's the only thing I'd be happy with. So.. I know this sounds kind of rude, but.. unless you want to fuck me, go away, please? Right now all I think I can handle is having mindless sex with guys, not falling in love with them."

"Uhm.. Okay, if that's really how you feel," I said bewildered.

My stomach made another loud growl which prompted her to roll of me and curl up under the sheet like she was going to go to sleep. I knew she was right, but at the same time I felt it would be wrong not to share my feelings with her. So I crawled over to her and said to her face, "I love you too, Tammy. If you can't handle that, I'm sorry. Tonight, I'm going to come in here and make love to you. And then I'm going to go and do the same to Holly. I don't have to play by your rules, understand? I can love as many people as I want, and you can only stop me from sharing it with you, not having it for you."

And with that I kissed her cheek and left to go eat.