The Spider Who Loved Her

The Spider Who Loved Her

By TK Wilson

Chapter one

The Girl

Susan could smell bacon cooking as she stretched and yawned. She always thought it was so cute when they cooked breakfast, but way too domesticated for her liking. She wrapped the sheet around her and headed to the shower. As she dressed, she hid her panties under his pillow. They always appreciated the souvenir. Well, at least. no one ever tried to return them. Of course, very rarely did she see any of them again either. She giggled at that thought and headed downstairs. "Good morning, Rob" she greeted her father's best friend and business partner. "Robert" he said "And good morning to you too, Suzy!" He knew she hated that form of her name! "Not funny, Robert!" she huffed, as she poured a cup of coffee. Do you have anything to sweeten this with? "YOU!" he teased as he snuck up behind her and kissed her on the back of her neck. She jumped and spilled coffee everywhere. "Oops, sorry. I'll clean that up." he said as he grabbed paper towels and did just that. She sat her cup in the sink and said, "I have somewhere I need to be anyway. I'll just grab something on the way." "Oh, don't be angry." He said. "Not angry, at all. No worries, at all" she replied. "I just have a busy day and I wasn't going to take your cup with me. I don't know what I was thinking." "Will I see you tonight?" he asked. "I don't think that would be a good idea. You know my father would NEVER approve! Let's just be glad we got to enjoy each others company and keep it friendly." Susan said. "Can we talk about that? You know I have loved you from afar and now I would like to see what it could be. You know that I would treat you like a queen and that Jim would see that and be glad that you finally settled down and were taken care of." said Robert. "I don't have time for this right now. Can I call you later next week? Please, don't say anything to daddy about this....PLEASE!" she pleaded. "OK, OK. But if I don't hear from you by next Friday, I will come looking for you. Please, don't make me have to do that." Robert agreed. As Susan left his penthouse, she wondered how she was ever going to get out of this mess. She knew when she left the party with Robert, that it wasn't a good decision, but she had always enjoyed his humor and charm. Why not see how he was in the sack? She definitely had NO complaints there, but there was no way her father would approve. Of course, her father never approved of anything she did. That was usually why she did it!

Jim Stanton was a straight forward business man and a strict father. He married his high school sweetheart, Doris and they had only one daughter....Susan. Doris became very sick when Susan was 17. Susan was at her every beck and call until a brain tumor took her twelve days after her 57th birthday when Susan was only 19. She was an adult and her poor father had no control over her when she began her wild child phase after losing her mother. He tried to talk to her and tried to set her up with well to do men who might slow down her pace. But none of them were her type. The only reason she had gone home with Robert was to spite her father. She knew that he would never be able to keep that kind of secret from her father for very long.

TWO

Susan had met a man a few years ago that did peak her interest. His name was Thomas, but everyone called him Tom. Thomas Jordan was far from well to do! Thomas Jordan was a Bad Boy from the other side of the tracks. But he wasn't like most bad boys Susan had met. Of course, she did usually seek out the bad boys, because she knew they would infuriate her father most. Even though, Tom had a few of those traits, he was a teddy bear and gentleman in his heart and soul. He never called Susan his bitch, old lady, or boo like the other bad boys did. He always called her "love". He always treated her with respect, even though he was fully aware that she wasn't always very respectful. He knew that she wasn't a faithful, one-man woman and she had on occasion been disrespectful to him. But, he also knew that the times she was disrespectful, she was only feeling extra bad about her own situation and trying to push him away. Tom knew how Susan truly felt about him and that she would always be back in time. And he knew that he was her safe haven when things went all wrong for her.

Tom was her "somewhere she needed to be", that she told Robert about. She felt guilty for the first time in her life, for using soft-hearted Robert as a pawn in her rebellion of her father. She needed comfort. Tom was just finishing his morning workout when Susan knocked on the door.

Tom walked to the door toweling the sweat from his brow and completely energized from his workout. He saw his unexpected visitor and his passions overtook him. He grabbed Susan around the waist and drew her into his meager apartment and into the deep kiss that she so loved. He lifted her off of her feet and carried her to his bed, kissing her the whole way. He gently lays her on the bed and flips her over to unzip her dress and release the confines of her bra, kissing every inch of skin that he exposes. She helps by pulling her arms out of the sleeves and he says, "No, no, let ME do that!!!" He flips her back over and takes off her shoes, puts her stocking feet on his shoulders and lifts her hips off of the bed. In one movement she was naked! He had grabbed the bra, dress and stockings and threw them across the room. She immediately needed him all over her at once, but he always took things slow after he got her complete attention, like he had just done. He kissed her deeply as he rubbed the erection that had occurred from acquiring his prey. He slowly pulled it away and began kissing the rest of the beautiful, soft body that he had exposed. Susan had always had a voluptuous, curvy body that men adored. And she had always used that to her advantage in her quest for men. Tom stopped at the wetness that was building between her legs. He quickly tasted her and then grabbed one bare foot and, again, put it on his shoulder. The other he took into his big hand and begin licking and sucking her toes. Looking into her eyes with the passion he had for only her. He nibbled down to her ankle and kissed the silver ankle bracelet that he had given her for her birthday. "Thank you again for that" Susan said softly and tweaked his ear with her other toes. He shot down to the crook of her knee of her other leg with his tongue as he dropped the other foot to the floor. As he kissed and licked the back of her knee, he dropped to his knees. He draped her knees over his shoulders and savored her female scent and taste with a hungry passion. As Susan built to climax, he reached up with his long arms and fingers and found the hard nipples that only he could give her. It was something that she had never learned to fake, like a few of the orgasms she had had to fake with a few other men. As Tom tweaked them, it pushed Susan over the edge of no return. She knew that she would have many more climaxes before he was through with her.

Susan was always right about Tom and his passion. He had given her too many climaxes to keep track of. They cuddled and kissed and napped until noon. She had to leave to run some errands before going to the another stupid charity event that her father and Robert were hosting that evening. She never took a date to anything, but always seemed to leave with one. She kissed Tom deeply and hugged him tight before she left, not knowing that it would be the last time she would see him.

After Susan left, Tom went to the shower. As he turned the water off, he felt a strange sensation, like he wasn't alone. As he pulled the shower curtain back, all he saw was black and felt a bite and he was paralyzed. When he came to, he couldn't move, because he was wrapped in a very strong and very sticky material. Then he realized he wasn't numb anymore as the spider began to eat his toe. He lost consciousness from the pain when it got to about his knee. The spider had eaten the last bite of him less than an hour later.

THREE

As Susan entered the ballroom, she saw her father and Robert across the room in deep conversation. She moved closer to try to eavesdrop and find out about what. It seemed very serious. Just as she got close enough to hear, her father saw her and called her over. He hugged her and kissed her forehead. "Stunning as always!" he exclaimed. "Don't you agree, Robert?" "Of course, I agree" he answered " The spitting image of her beautiful mother!"

Just then one of the handsome, young executives from her father's business walked up behind Susan and wrapped his arm around her waist. "May I have this dance, beautiful?" he asked. "You don't mind if I steal her away for a moment, do you Jim?" Susan looked at her father for his approval and he nodded his head to give it.

As they walked to the dance floor he introduced himself. "My name is Richard and I have seen you around a lot, just never got the chance to speak to you. Would you like to go out sometime?" Susan answered with a giggle, "I will give you my number after our dance, as long as you don't step on my toes." As they danced, she was very impressed with the way he led her around the floor. She knew that she would probably leave the party with him tonight after a little game of cat and mouse.

There were several men trying to get her attention that night, but she had kept her eye on Richard. He had taken her phone number, but didn't ask her for any more dances. He had actually asked Robert's daughter, Stephanie to dance most of the rest of the night. Richard's brother, Kevin, asked her to dance and while Richard was watching, she whispered into Kevin's ear. "Let's get out of this boring place!", grabbed his hand and off they walked. When they got his car brought around, they got in and she kissed him hard. She turned and saw that Richard had followed and watched them drive away.

When Susan sneaked out of Kevin's apartment early the next morning, she left her red lacy panties behind and a note that read, "Thanks for an awesome night."

Before Kevin even woke, he was bitten by the spider and experienced the same fate as poor Tom.

Susan got home and was watching the morning news. She saw the story about the missing man, Thomas Jordan. His sister had reported him missing that morning when he didn't show up for their normal Saturday breakfast date. How could that be? She had just been with him Yesterday afternoon! She wondered if he had met with foul play. She hoped they would find him soon.

FOUR

Susan went to Stanton Industries to visit her father and have lunch. He gave her a very strange look as she sat down and asked, "What is going on between you and Robert?" "What do you mean, daddy? Robert is your friend, not mine", she answered. "He was just here and when I asked if he had seen you leave the party last night, he got all red-faced and huffed away." "That is odd. I left early with Richard Black's brother, Kevin, We had a couple drinks and then I went home." She hoped that made her father forget about Robert's moodiness about her. She would have to figure out a way to squelch that problem.

As she was getting in her car, Robert confronted her and asked her what she thought she was doing. "I just had lunch with daddy. What is your problem? He was very curious about you and I because of the reaction you gave him before I got here." She scolded him, "What were you thinking? He would never approve of us seeing each other! Do you really want to lose your position with the company?" Robert was furious! "What do you mean by that? Do you really think you are going to brush me aside like so many men that you deal with? Soon they will be dropping like flies, and then who will you crawl to?" Susan was shocked by his tone and his words. What did he mean by that? "Robert, I will NOT be threatened by you like this. If you don't settle down and just leave me alone, I will find a way to make you wish you had!" She slammed her car door and drove away.

Robert went to his lab and mulled that situation over.

Chapter two

The Spider

Most would wonder how a spider could attack a grown man, wrap him in a web and eat him in an hour. This, my friend was no ordinary spider. This was a Sydney Funnel Web Spider! The Sydney Funnel Web Spider is from the Southeast coast of Australia. They are normally large in size, with a body up to 2 inches long. Even at that size their bites can kill adults in 24 hours. BUT this particular spider was NOT normal size. You see, it had hitched a ride in Susan's luggage last year when she was coming home from vacation. Her father sent a car to pick her up from the airport and he crawled out of Susan's luggage and stayed in the car when she got out. The car went back to her father's business. Stanton Industries happened to have a very secret laboratory in it and our little spider friend happened upon it. There are some very interesting experiments going on there. One, in particular, was what made this spider what he is today. A MONSTER of a spider! At least, 10 times bigger and one who thought like a human instead of a spider. He had then fallen in love with the human female who had rescued him from that boring regular old spider life in Australia and had given him the opportunity to become the wonderful creation he was today. Her name, of course, was Susan Stanton!

The spider knew she could never truly love him, but his love for her was so true, that he began to get rid of the men who had no real love for her. That way she would finally realize that Robert was the man for her. The spider had seen the two of them together and the way Robert looked at her, was the way he also looked at her. He knew that he could be happy if a man like that was the one taking care of her. And so, every night he would get into her car as she left from visiting her father, and before she would leave the man's home, he would enter it and take care of him.

TWO

Little did anyone know (even the poor spider), Robert was at the heart of it all! He had befriended Jim Stanton many years ago in college. He had come from a middle class family and had gotten into college on a scholarship, something that he was very tight-lipped about. He was a Science major and had always been interested in the macabre and strange. When he and Jim created Stanton & Webb, in the beginning, they had equal rights to everything! But years later, Robert let Jim buy him out because he needed money to pay gambling debts, but in the agreement Robert had to go to rehab (paid for by the company) and the name of the company was changed to Stanton Industries. Even though Robert's name was removed from the business, he made sure that he got complete control over the scientific labs and that Jim Stanton never asked questions about anything that the labs did.

One of the projects that Robert was most passionate about was the teleportation device that was based on what he had read in "The Fly". Along with the teleportation that was safer, so that what happened in that book would never be possible & he wanted a machine that made what happened to be more than possible! He wanted to be able to make an insect into a human or make a human into an insect! He had worked his whole life perfecting these devices and when he happened upon the already huge spider that Susan accidentally brought home, he was elated! He could now do some REAL work!

THREE

The next day he had started looking for the man that he would turn into the spider, so that his newly attained spider could think and act like a man. He wanted a smart man, but also one that would be easy to brain wash. He also needed to have no attachments, so that no one would miss him when he disappeared. Where could he find an assortment of men with those qualities? The rehab center that he & Jim had built after he got out of rehab, of course. He was always taking a liking to and mentoring various people who passed through there. So that part was easy enough. He went and started talking to some of the new patients there. They would be the easiest to brain wash, because they were desperate and looking for guidance. His plan was to brainwash the person and then switch them with the spider. Then he had developed a growth injection, that he planned to use on that changed spider to make it big enough to carry out what he had planned.

FOUR

You see, Robert had been in love with Susan Stanton since he first met her, but he knew how improper that was, so he always kept his distance. He loved her more as she cared for her mother. He waited ,until she was 21 and could make an adult decision to love him too, to try to get close to her . He would always engage her in conversation and try his best to show off the attributes that he felt would attract her, but all she had ever seen was "her dad's oldest and dearest friend". That drove Robert mad with want & passion for her and he HAD to have her. In his mind, he had NO idea how that would happen until he began concocting this plan. And what a mad plan it was! Don't you agree?

Chapter three

The Arrest

When Kevin's cleaning lady arrived Sunday afternoon, his car was in the garage, but he never appeared as she called to him. She went about the business of cleaning the apartment and continued to find things that showed that he should be there somewhere......keys, wallet, phone, etc., by the door. When she got to his bedroom, she wasn't sure what to make of the "scene". The note that Susan had left on the pillow had a small spot of blood on it and so did the other pillow. And Susan's red lacy panties peeked from under the pillow. There was a strange sticky substance in the shape of a body, where Kevin would have slept. But no sign of Kevin. She called Kevin's brother, Richard, because she had always cleaned for their family. She explained to him her concerns and he rushed over. He had brought their father, Joe, with him, because he happened to be the best detective around. Joe could tell immediately that something very strange had happened to Kevin and that the first person he wanted to talk to was Susan. He had the homicide team come to collect all the evidence as he went in search of Miss Stanton. He found her having lunch at the country club with her father and his business partner, Robert Webb. Joe asked if he could sit and chat for a moment. They agreed and Joe asked Susan, "Do you know my son, Kevin Black?" "Of course", said Susan, "I also know Richard. Richard works with my father at his business. Why do you ask?" "Well, he is missing and you were apparently the last to see him according to the note you left on the pillow", Joe stated. "WHAT?!?! How can that be? He was asleep when I left him!! I SWEAR!!!" "Was he bleeding?", Joe asked. "NO!" Susan almost screamed and people began to look and whisper. "Well, we would like to ask you some more questions down at the station. As soon as possible." Joe was looking at her father now. "She might want to bring a good lawyer along". "Absolutely" Said Jim. "We will be there by 4."

After the detective left, Susan's father was very concerned and asked her, "What happened to this young man, Susan?" She was crying hysterically, "I swear, Daddy, he was breathing deeply and fast asleep when I left! I have NO idea what could have happened!!!" All of the sudden, Susan had a horrible thought! "Daddy, I was watching the news Saturday and another friend of mine is missing. He closed the door behind me Friday afternoon as I left his house. But he never made it to breakfast with his sister the next morning." Robert piped up. "Left his house Friday afternoon, but...." And stopped before he blurted out their secret. Susan looked at him and her father asked, "What are you 2 not telling me?" "It's nothing, Daddy" Susan brushed the subject off as she stood and told her father that she was going to run home and shower. He said he would call the lawyer and that they would pick her up in front of her building at 3:30 sharp!

After Susan got out of the shower, she decided she wouldn't put on any make-up because she wanted to look as down to Earth and non-threatening as she really was. She didn't want to look too comfortable in sweats, but she wasn't planning to use any sex appeal like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct either. Her mother had loved that movie and they watched it together a few times while she was sick. So, she donned a pretty blue t-shirt to match her eyes and a pair of blue jeans with sneakers. Your girl next door, she thought, no reason to consider her the reason Kevin had disappeared. And even though they hadn't connect her with Tom, she was sure they would at some point. She was very worried about what on Earth could have possibly happened to these men.

She was standing in front of her building when the car carrying her father, his high priced lawyer and Robert pulled up. "I really don't think there was any reason for you to be here, Robert" she whispered in his ear and she made her way in to the back seat between he and her father. "We are dropping Robert off on the way to check a couple details of some business he is working on." Her father said, as if he had heard her.

TWO

Susan was seated in the interrogation room, between her father and their lawyer. Across from her sat Joe Black between his 2 colleagues, Sgt. Ian Russell and Detective David Lynch. They began by asking what time she had left Kevin's apartment. "It was early. The sun hadn't even come up. I woke and wanted some coffee, but didn't want to wake him because he was sleeping peacefully. Maybe 5 o'clock or so." "The maid arrived just after seven." Said Detective Lynch, "What could have happened in that 2 hour frame?" "I don't know," Susan cried, "I wasn't there! What do you think happened?" Everyone looked around at each other with no clue amongst the 6 of them.....yet. The door opened a crack and Sgt. Russell was called outside for a few moments. When he returned, he whispered with Detectives Lynch and Black and the 3 men looked extremely confused. Finally, Joe Black asks, "Do you own a tarantula, Miss Stanton?" "WHAT?!? I am extremely afraid of even the smallest of spiders!!! Why would you ask me that??" "Well, it seems that the blood that was found was Kevin's, but it was mixed with a venom from a tarantula that is only found in Australia." They all looked at each other with confusion, curiosity, and amazement. After a long silence, Joe Black asked, "Have you ever been to Australia, Miss Stanton?" "A year or more ago, I went there on vacation, but I did NOT bring home any spiders!!!" "Well, that's all the questions we have for you right now. But don't go anywhere until the investigation is over." Said Sgt Russell.

The next day, the 3 officers were going thru the evidence and Detective Black noticed what the report said about the level of venom to blood in the sample. "What the fu.......?!?" he turned white and looked at his friends and said, "There is NO WAY any regular spider could leave that much venom....Just no way!!!" The report showed a level that would have killed a man in less than an hour!

THREE

That evening Detective Joe Black got home from work, finding his wife drunk and mad at him for not finding her son. As he is trying to calm her, he catches a story on the news about another man about the same age as his son that has gone missing in the last couple days also. His ears perk up and he grabs a pen and paper to write the guys name and info down. He sets it aside and takes his wife to bed. He will deal with that tomorrow.

Thomas Jordon missing since Saturday morning also.

First thing he did the next morning was check this guy's background. He was from the other side of the tracks. What could he have to do with his son disappearing on that same day? His gut told him that there was a connection.

When the guys came in, he told them his suspicions. They started by contacting the family of the young man to see what they could find out. When Tom's sister was contacted, she agreed to let them look around his apartment, even though there had been some officers that had looked around to try to find out where he had gone. They had found towels and things in the bathroom, showing he had taken a shower, but the rest of the apartment looked like that was where his day had ended. His wallet, keys, and phone were by the door. His car was in the parking lot. He had just disappeared into thin air. No blood, NO CLUES! Then, Joe saw a very strange thing..... panties. very expensive panties for the likes of this guy. Under the pillow, just like at his son's home.....

FOUR

The knock on her door at 7am was not expected, at all. Susan thought she was dreaming, but the urgency and force of the knock, made her realize she was awake and that she better hurry or her door was coming down!

She flung the door open, thinking it was her father upset about some silly thing she had done. Instead, Joe Black and friends were there and asked if they could come in. She opened the door wider and wrapped her coverup around her tighter and she said, "I guess... do I need to call my father or lawyer?" "By the end of our talk, you just might.", Joe stated. She showed them to her living room and had them sit, and asked if she could, at least, get dressed. "I hope we can trust you to do that." he said and allowed her to leave the room. When she got back, after quickly just grabbing the sweat suit that she had lounged around in the night before, they fell silent. "OK, So what exactly brings you out so early to talk to me about?" Susan asked. "We would like to know if you know a man named, Thomas Jordon?" The look on Susan's face told him before she could even form an answer in her brain. She never had been a good liar...."no poker face on this girl", she used to say when caught in one. She could see that he had already read her, so she began, "Why do you ask? We have been friends for a little while." She really thought that she should call her father, at least, before she said anything else. Sgt. Russell pulled an evidence bag from the folder he was carrying and in this bag Susan recognized the panties she had left at Tom's house that Friday afternoon. She had actually never left any at his house before, but that morning, after she left the pair at Robert's, she had stopped at home on the way to Tom's and had taken a shower and decided on a very special pair to leave with Tom when she left. How could she have been SO stupid?!? "I nnneedd to call my ffffather please" she said and passed out.

When Susan came to, she was on the couch with a cold rag from her kitchen on her forehead. "We've called your father, Miss Stanton. We didn't mean to have this effect on you. Please, accept our deepest apologies." said Detective Lynch.

Her father arrived with her lawyer and they were angry! "Why would you even let these men in without me here?" her father chastised her. "I'm sorry, daddy." and Susan began to cry. Sgt. Russell showed the lawyer and Mr. Stanton the evidence they had showed Susan and told them what they suspected...that Susan had something to do with two men's disappearances and that they needed some answers from her. "Miss Stanton needs some time to compose herself and I need to find out what is going on here." The lawyer stated. "I will take the responsibility of getting her to the station by this evening. Does that suit you, Mr. Black?" "Yes, sir", he answered. "We will see you then."

FIVE

After they left, Susan's father turned on her and screamed. "What in the hell do you have to say for yourself, young lady?!?" Susan continued to cry. "Crying is NOT going to get you out of this one, Susan! This is serious business! Dry the tears and compose yourself while I go make us some coffee. I feel like we are going to have a LONG day ahead of us!" The lawyer followed him into the kitchen, as Susan got her wits about her. What could have happened to these two men, she wondered. She KNEW they were both alive and probably still each had fairly elevated pulses, she smiled. Oh My God, what is wrong with me? Something has had to have happened to these men and she was thinking of their last moments together!

When her father came in with his cup of coffee and hers, she smelled a bit of whiskey. "Just enough to calm our nerves", her father said. "Now, do you have your thoughts together?" her father asked as he stared her down. "Not with you looking at me like I MUST be guilty of something!" She cried. He settled into the big chair and sighed, "Fine, I will not pass any judgement. Tell us how you know these two men." Susan cleared her throat, took a long, slow drink of the hot coffee, laced with whiskey, and breathed deep as it warmed her going all the way down. "Well, I went home with Richard Black's brother, Kevin, the night of the charity ball. I did it to make Richard jealous, because he had only asked me to dance one dance and had danced with Stephanie, Robert's daughter the rest of the night and I was upset. I woke the next morning and felt bad for using Kevin like that, so I sneaked out before he woke up. But I SWEAR he was breathing deep and fast asleep when I left!"

"OK, so what about this Thomas Jordan that they were taking about this morning, Susan. Who is he and where do you know him from? Isn't he Will Jordan's son? The man that I had to fire for stealing from me? Didn't they live over on the other side of town, in the ghetto?" Jim Stanton was using his accusatory tone again and Susan looked down in shame. "Yes, daddy. He was VERY nice to me! He treated me with more respect than any man I have ever known!" Susan spoke up loud and proud of Tom. "He kissed me goodbye at his door when I was leaving to get ready for that stupid charity ball. I had put a very special pair of panties under his pillow to remind him of me later!" Susan's father blushed in embarrassment and anger. He was silent for a while, contemplating his next question. "Susan, did you kill these men? Or do you know ANYTHING about what happened to them?" "NO!" she screamed and began to cry again. "I wish I did so I could stop all of this now!"

When they arrived at the station, the men were waiting for her with an arrest warrant and she was led away in handcuffs. The lawyer told her not to say anything to anybody until he could file papers and get her released on bond, so they could resolve all of this confusion.

Chapter four

The Investigation

Susan was released on bond the next morning. "I never want to spend one more second in that horrible place. It is more than just a punishment, it was an eye opener and I have to begin a campaign to clean that place up! From the racially prejudiced staff to the roach infestation and everything in between! As soon as we find out what happened to Tom & Kevin!!" She told her father and asked for his help in both situations. Stanton Industries had their noses in MANY businesses, so she was sure to get things done! Way more than the police department could and faster too. Jim began making phone calls to Private Investigators and Politicians to start at both ends and work toward the middle on both issues. He got his best P.I's for Susan, and they started digging into both men's lives. The only thing they could find that the men had in common was Susan. So they began to look into who Susan had seen recently. They asked her for a list, but she wasn't much help....she didn't even ask names sometimes. There was only one man that she named that could not be accounted for. She had picked up a guy named Ken Taylor, in a downtown bar, two weeks ago. He was a very nice guy and bought her drinks and complimented her for a couple hours. They went to a very nice upscale apartment and she left her panties, as usual. She remembered that the whole night, it had felt like someone was watching her, but she just felt she was nervous because it somewhere she hadn't been before. The P.I found that Ken had not made it to the destination that he had told Susan he was leaving for the next day. No one had checked into where he was, because he wasn't the most responsible of people. So, the P.I found a family member to give him access to his apartment. It was just as the other 2 apartments. Everything in it's place like the owner of the apartment should be here somewhere too.

They went back to Susan and made her think very hard, was there any men in the last month that she hadn't mentioned. She gave them 2 names, one from the week before and one from the week after Ken. Neither man could be accounted for. Apartments were found to be in the same state, but no men around. There was a big difference in the apartment of the man, Joe Scott. Everything was there, but it was scattered everywhere. There was definitely a struggle. With a struggle, there is usually much more evidence to find. They had read the police reports so far, so they were NOT going to leave this for the police to bumble up, so they got their best scientific heads to help. One who happened to be very close to the situation, Stephanie Webb, she had studied science to be able to help her dad in the labs, but he always refused to let her. No one knew she was close, not even her, until she was the one who happened to collect and find the identity of a fingerprint. HER FATHER'S! Why would her dad's fingerprint be in this scattered mess? She kept the info to herself for the time being. They also found a very strange substance in the kitchen that couldn't be determined without very extensive testing, And there was a knife there that had blood, that was sent for testing also. Unlike the other apartments, the bed was made and his bags were by the door. They didn't find panties.

TWO

Stephanie couldn't tell her new boyfriend, Kevin, what she had found. They were looking for his brother too. Please, don't let my father be mixed up in this, she thought. She went to see him, just for the comfort he always made her feel. She had also decided that she was ready to give herself to him. He had been very patient with her and she was in need of the passion to take her mind away for a bit! As soon as he opened the door she was passionately kissing him as she pushed inside and closed the door behind her. As she released him, she saw his father and colleagues over his shoulder. Kevin winked at her, "they were just leaving!" "Oh, hello, Mr. Black and crew. Pardon my entrance." she said, embarrassed, "I assumed Kevin was alone." "Stephanie, I hear you work with the guys nosing around our case." Black said. "I have been asked to consult, but trust me, if I hear anything you will be informed asap!" she replied" They shook hands and the men left. "Whew! That was a surprise" Stephanie and Kevin said at almost the exact second the door closed behind them. They wrapped their arms around each other and walked to the couch. Her mood had been dowsed and that would have to wait for another time.

"So, what is going on that you are working on my dad's case, for Susan's dad?" accused Kevin. "It's not like that, at all. I am employed by my father's science department and they asked for a few of us to check out a few things." She hated lying to him, but she would clear it up with him before they went any further with their "relationship". "We haven't found anything concrete yet" They decided to go to dinner and the whole thing was dropped, for now...

THREE

The next morning when Stephanie got to the lab, her father was there. It had been a while since he had done that. "Have you really been asked by Jim's P.J's to help with the investigation into those missing young men?" he asked her. "Well, I have been asked to analyze some of the evidence that they collect." She lied so that he wouldn't question any further, "Why do you ask?". "Well, I would prefer you to distance yourself from it, because of the possible connection with Susan. I surely don't want to think she is guilty of anything, but if she is, I don't want you to be the one that finds that kind of evidence. It might raise another stink between Jim and I." That was a strange thing coming from her father. He was the one who always preached truth and justice for everyone. Plus, her finding his fingerprint, made it obvious to her why he didn't want her involved. "I have already accepted the job, dad. Don't you want the truth to be known, no matter what?" "Of course, I do! I just don't want you, Jim nor Susan to get hurt" he left, trying to figure out what to do next.

Robert had been in the apartment of the first young man, because, Webby, (that was his pet name for his creation) knew how to do what nature intended....killing and eating prey. But, in his new environment, he had to be taught what his new prey was. Webby was a very fast, ambitious learner and apparently very hungry! Robert was very surprised when Webby ate the young man in record time...thirty minutes. Of course, Susan's pick that night didn't have enough meat on his bones either. Robert went through his memory to try to remember if he had made any mistakes and just prayed that he hadn't.

FOUR

When Robert entered the lab, Webby was waiting for him like a big pet, wondering what his master wanted to do next. Robert told him, "I have one more night planned, Webby, and Susan will be mine forever!" That made Webby happy.

Chapter 5

The Conclusion

Susan woke with a start. She was sure she heard something. She listened carefully and decided that it must have been a dream. She got up and started coffee, then took a shower while it finished.

Stephanie was across town doing the same thing.

They bumped in to each other as both entered Stanton Industries. "Hello, Stephanie" Susan said snobbishly. "I hear you are dating Richard Black and that you are also helping in the investigation of the disappearance of his brother, Kevin." "Strange how you say that like you don't know either of them," accused Stephanie. "How are you not more worried about him or any of the other men who are missing?" "I am VERY worried about these 2 men, but I didn't do anything to cause their disappearance. I am more worried about proving that and keeping my freedom! The night I spent in jail has given me a new outlook and purpose. I am also going to clean up my act and work on myself, instead of the way I have been living since mom died." "I am VERY glad to hear that and I'm sure your father is too." said Stephanie with a smile that showed Susan that she was sincere. " We should hang out some, since our fathers have been such good friends for so long." Susan said. That truly surprised Stephanie, because Susan had never hidden her dislike for Stephanie and her father since her dad went to rehab and all of that ordeal. "I would like that, Susan. But we should wait until this mess is over so that we don't look like we're in cahoots" "Yes. I agree!" she responded. "Have a great day!" "You too", said Stephanie as she walked away quickly, trying to make heads or tails of that encounter. Susan HAD to be trying to get an inside scoop or something.

When Stephanie got to the lab, she first went and got the fingerprint that she had lifted. And ran it in the database once more to be sure. And it was definitely her father's. She did a background search on the guy whose apartment it came from and there was NO way her dad was friends with this guy. She sat down and started checking the other prints found. Most were the victims prints, but 2 others weren't. Both turned out to be Susan Stanton! How could Susan and her father's prints be in the same place? A place where a young man had gone missing!?

Stephanie walked up the hall to see what Jack had found with his stuff. "Hey, Jack! I just finished with finger prints. Need any help on your end?" Well," started Jack, with a very confused look on his face. "These samples come up with the strangest results. Most of what was collected came from a spider, but it had to have been a HUGE spider with the size of the hair and the toxicity of the venom found in the blood sample from the young man. Also the other blood in the kitchen was from a Atrax robustus more commonly called the Sydney Funnel-web Spider. They are the most deadly spider in the world, but are only found in Australia and Wales." Stephanie asked, "How big can these spiders get?" "VERY LARGE" Jack answered, "For a spider. But THIS spider had to be the size of a man, according to the length of this hair." He held it up. It was a very stiff hair and was almost as long as his arm! "What in the world is that?!?" She asked. "This is the hair from the spider i mentioned. Even on the biggest spider recorded, they are no longer than my little finger. But every test I've run and under the microscope, that is the only thing it can be, the hair from the back of a Sydney Funnel-web Spider. "I just can't figure it out. First, how would it have gotten here and how would it be this big?!?" "Very curious", Stephanie said as she left the room. "I'll be back", she called back to Jack.

She went straight to her father's lab, which she had never done. "Daddy", she called as she walked in. There seemed to be no one there. Then her father came from another room, which he locked as he left it. He was a little flustered and Stephanie asked what the room was. "A very special experiment that I've been working on. I plan to unveil it very soon! I think it will shock every one, including you." he told her. His mood seemed very giddy, almost mad, which scared Stephanie very much. "Have you ever been to Australia or Wales?" she asked him. "NO", he said abruptly, "You would know if I had. Why do you ask?" "Just curious" she said. "Have you ever known anyone in the Greenbrier Apartments on the other side of town?" That shook him to his core and Stephanie could tell it. "Never mind, dad" she said as she walked toward the door. " I will see you la....." But her father had knocked her out with chloroform and dragged her to the room where Webby was kept. When she woke, she had been strapped by her arms and legs to a chair and was gagged. She looked around and to her right she saw a terrifying sight...a human sized black spider!!

TWO

Susan decided to stay in tonight, but she was scared to be alone, so she invited her dear friend, Joe over. Joe was a drag queen whose stage name was Lady Shudderly. She always said that she could make men and women shudder when they saw her. Joe wasn't gay, but he loved dressing as a woman and even borrowed clothes from Susan sometimes. They had been friends since Susan's very first Drag show. She was so amazed, by how awesome all of the performers looked, that she talked her way backstage to meet them all. She and Joe hit it off instantly, but they were never romantically involved. Only best friends. Susan gave him advice on how women thought, so he could use it in his love life and in her performance too. They decided to pop some corn and watch horror movies. Little did they know that they would be in one before the clock struck midnight. But, I'm getting ahead of myself...sorry.

THREE

Back at Stanton Industries labs, Richard was apologizing to his daughter for keeping her tied up and gagged. "I must get Susan as mine, dear. You know that I have loved her from afar for many years." Stephanie shook her head. She thought he had a little crush on her (thought it was disgusting), but never thought it would drive him to something like this! She struggled to break free, only to realize that she was bound with spider web. Her father released Webby and Stephanie thought that he was going to let the spider eat her. "Oh, don't worry, dear. His first meal was female and the hormones didn't agree with him at all. Your nagging mother's hormones never agreed with me either." She then realized what had happened to her mother almost a year ago and began to cry uncontrollably. Robert wiped her tears and begged her to understand that they were both better off without her mother's nagging, drinking and abusive ways. "I promise to release you as soon as I have Susan and we will fly away where no one knows us and we will be a very happy family for the rest of my days here." said her father. Stephanie knew he was delusional, if that's the way he thought this plan of his would work out. She looked at him, begging with her eyes for release, but he never looked at her again. He took the spider by the hand and lead him out, He locked the door behind him and as soon as he did, she began the task of breaking free from this web, so that she could warn Susan, call police or something.

FOUR

The noise that Susan had heard earlier in the day, while she was alone, was Robert unlocking the window that he and Webby were crawling into her apartment through. Susan and Joe were watching the "Saw" series of movies and were entrenched in number III when Joe felt the bite and Susan was Chloroformed by Robert at the same time. Webby went about the task of wrapping Joe in his web and Robert lightly tied Susan to a chair. They wouldn't be staying long. When Susan came to, there was a scarf or something tied in her mouth so she couldn't speak, but she could see Joe across the room wound in spiderweb and a black spider as big as a man sitting next to him on the couch. Joe was still out from the heavy venom. Webby knew just how much to give them to wake them up before they started turning into liquid on the inside for him to feast upon. Susan struggled and Robert realized she was awake. He came into Susan's view, "Hello, Beautiful", he said "I am so glad you are awake to watched what happened to ALL of your fuck buddies! None of them loved you nor respected you the way that I do!! And they deserved to die and disappear just like this one will!" Susan shook her headed hard, begging Robert with her eyes to please let her talk to him. Robert threatened her, "If you scream, it will be the last sound you ever make", as he held a knife and made a gesture as if he were cutting his own tongue out. She shook her head in agreement and he slowly untied the scarf slowly, so that he could quickly re-tie it if he needed to. " Please, Robert", she started quietly, "I have never made love to him, like you and I did, nor have I even fucked him like I did those others! He is my only true friend! PLEASE, SPARE HIM!" she screamed! Robert quickly re-tied the scarf and slapped Susan. He fell to his knees in front of her and begged for forgiveness for slapping her. "I will never hurt you again! But how can I trust that you are telling the truth, after you screaming like you did? Well, it truly doesn't matter. Joe is now in the middle of this because of you and that will punish you for your screaming, but Webby needs to eat again before we leave to go to the island that I bought. There he will have to forage for smaller prey until I can get you, Stephanie and I settled enough to bring him another man." Susan's eyes got huge and she began to cry and plead for him to stop what he was doing in every way she could figure out how.

Just then the door burst open with Joe Black at the front, followed by Jim Stanton and Stephanie Webb. Joe grabbed Robert, put him in handcuffs and began to read him his rights. Jim ran to Susan's side and untied the scarf from her mouth and Stephanie threw a net over the spider and sedated him with a syringe labeled "Webby's" that she had found in her father's lab. By then the medics had gotten there and Susan let them know that her friend, Joe had been bitten by the spider. They put Joe on the gurney and began to give him something to counteract the venom until they could find out exact what he needed. Stephanie told them it was a Sydney Funnel Web Spider, so they called ahead so that the hospital could get as much as we had in the entire US until they could get more from Australia. Poor Joe would survive, they all hoped, but he had a LONG road ahead of him!

EPILOGUE

Well, poor webby was taken to a lab and dissected for research, so he will eat no more men.

Richard Webb was sent to the Institute for the Criminal Insane and studied for research and died during an electric shock therapy.

Stephanie broke up with Kevin after she met Joe and helped him recuperate, they were married & lived happily after.

Susan? Well, of course, she is still leaving panties all over town! BUT she is also doing much to clean up the prison system!