"About this laundry service? Who do I see about Macey's things and how long takes? I'm washing everything she came with and letting her put on the new stuff."

"Dry line? A pair of jeans can take 2 days to dry and that's on a hot sunny day. OK, I'll get the things she's wearing washed but her other things will need to wait." He says to Hikaru. He then sits on the large bed going through the bags, calling for Macey, "Macey, come here."
 
Macey walks over to him. He pulls out the bikini top from the bag, putting it up against her chest, "That looks like it should fit you." before he folds it on his lap. He then takes the bikini panty from the bag, placing it against her waist, "Yeah, it should fit."
 
He then turns to Hikaru as he pulls out the shampoos and looks them over, "You need to use the bathroom before you go with Jeanette and the others?"

Fernando tells Macey to go into the bathroom and change into her bikini and wait for him there. As she changes, he gets her new clothes ready for her to put on, laying them on his bed. He then quickly changes into his Speedo bathing suit and looks at the shampoo bottle.
 
"Dr. Brown Coal Tar Lice and Parasite Killer shampoo" one bottle says on its label, the other says "Desonex Extra Strength with 5-Percent Salicylic Acid." Though the Coal Tar would work, it needs to be used several times before Macey can be considered as "cured." Though Desonex is an Anti-Dandruf Shampoo, Salicyclic Acid in Desonex is toxic at high concentrations; but at 5 percent, it makes a great lice, flea and tick killer that needs to be used once in most cases. He searches for the lice comb, and takes it to the bathroom door.
 
"Macey, you ready in there?" He knocks on the door.
 
"Yeah." She tells him as the door opens slightly.
 
Fernando walks inside, seeing that Macey had put on the bikini inside out. He puts the shampoo and comb down on the shower stall floor and then closing the toilet cover to sit on it.
 
"You never had a bathing suit before?" He asks as he takes her by the waist and guides her towards him.
 
Macey does not answer, because she might have but it has ties to her mom's whore house, which she is trying to forget.
 
He helps her takes off the bikini parts, flipping them right side out and helps her put them back on, "They go on like this."
 
She looks at him with a half hearted smile.
 
"Something wrong?" He asks.
 
"No. Not really." She answers.
 
"What do you mean, not really?" He asks.
 
"Didn't you like what you seen? I mean, my titties and pussy?" She asks.
 
Though Fernando seen her body and how it is developing, he did not have any sexual interest in it, "Look, girl. I'm pretty sure that you would love me to take you to bed or bend you over here and do you lovely. Yes, you have a fine body that is developing into the woman you will be one day. But I am your father. We can have moment of being close and loving as father and daughter should. But that is as far as it goes." He takes her by the waist and turns her around to the shower stall, smacking her rear end to get her attention, "Now get in there and wash up."
 
"Ow!" Macey jumps towards the shower stall. She turns to face him for a moment as she rubs her back side before stepping into the shower stall.
 
Fernando gets up and takes the comb and shampoo from within and puts them to the side. He turns on the water, making sure that it was just beyond warm but not to hot to be uncomfortable. Finding a wrapped bar of soap, he opens the package. Nothing fancy about it, no perfume or added coloring, just a basic bar of soap. He steps into the shower stall with Macey, handing her the bar of soap.
 
"Here. Lather up, and soap up your hair to get it good and wet." He tells her.
 
But Macey's mind was on the large formed bulge in his Speedos bathing suit. Fernando reaches to the shower head and turns it to get her hair and face, making her jump, "Hey!"
 
"Get the sex out of your mind, girl." He tells her, turning her around, taking her hand the bar of soap and rubs it on her belly.
 
It takes a while for her to follow the program, but eventually the grey lather they were making from her hair and body turns white. She is as squeaky clean as one can possible get under the circumstances. He takes the comb and holds it in his teeth as he pulls her against him away from the water fall and begins to pour the shampoo into her hair. he grinds his fingers as deep as they can go to her scalp, lathering up the shampoo into a dense foam. The Salicylic Acid does its job quickly as dead and dying lice falls off her hair, and rinse off her body. Rinsing out her hair, he applies more shampoo and lathers it up more than the one before, more dead and dying lice fall off with the falling foam of lathered up toxic shampoo. He takes comb to her hair and scrapes off the dead lice eggs from her hair and scalp, trying to be easy on Macey as to not hurt her, but it is necessary to get out all of the infectious crap from her hair.
 
Another 20 minutes of this with two more applications of the shampoo, Macey is as decontaminated as Fernando thought possible as verified by his inspection and the comb coming out clean with each stroke of her hair. He tells her to step out and take a towel to dry herself with. As she does, Fernando washes himself down with a bit of shampoo and soap to make sure he was clean of any possible contamination. Turning of the shower, he steps out of the shower stall and takes another towel to wipe himself dry with. He folds up the towel and puts it on the toilet cover
 
"You go out and put on the clothes on the bed I have for you. I have to clean up here for Hikaru before I get dressed." As he sits on the towel covered toilet.
 
Macey just stands there for the moment.
 
"Something wrong?" He asks.
 
"I don't know." She says.
 
He takes her by the waist and pulls her to him until their bodies touched and she can feel her groin against his. He tells her, "How about saying 'Thank you'?"
 
"Uhm.... thank you... ah... err... daddy." She tells him.
 
"Any time." He tells her.
 
She just looks into his eyes, trying to figure out many things going on in her confused little mind.
 
He tells her, "Go... Get... Dressed."
 
She slowly nods at him for a moment. But she continues to stand there looking at him.
 
"Macey..." he calls to her.
 
She suddenly leans over to him and plants her lips against his in a very clumsy but experienced kiss, holding it there for a few seconds before breaking away and running into the main room.
 
"I swear. I need to talk to her..." Fernando says to himself before he goes about cleaning up the bathroom and shower stall for Hikaru.
 
When done Fernando steps out into the main room. Macey was dressed in the polo shirt, short skirt, sox and Uggs-looking boots he had out for her but not fully made up. She just laid up on his bed staring at the ceiling. He gets dressed and gets a brush and hair band from the bag. He climbs onto the bed with her.
 
"What's on your mind?" He asks her.
 
"Can we do it?" She asks.
 
"Do what?" He asks.
 
"You know - Put your thing in me and make me your special daughter?" She asks.
 
"Sit up. We got some talking to do while I do your hair." He tells her.
 
Macey gets up and he guides her in between his legs with her back to his front. He begins to brush her hair, making sure that there are no tangled ends, working his way up until he can brush her hair with ease.
 
"Look Macey. Being a daughter is not an easy thing. And being my daughter is harder than most. You and I will have our alone time together, we will have intimate moments to share, and we may even be sexual in expressing that love a father and daughter have. But we may never be sexual with each other, we will never be demanding what we have as a father and daughter. But we will always be father and daughter, and in that we will be respectful and loving to each other. There will be times when I will be hard on you, but only because you need to learn some hard lessons in life and I am your teacher in those lessons. You understand what I'm telling you?" He explains to her as he brushes her hair.
 
It takes a while for Macey to answer but she eventually does, "Yes... uh, daddy."
 
"Good." He says sternly.
 
"Uhm, daddy?" She calls to him.
 
"Yes, Macey?" He answers.
 
"You angry at me for kissing you?" She asks.
 
"Angry? No. Just concerned." He says.
 
"Concerned?" She asks.
 
"Worried." He answers.
 
"Why?" She asks.
 
He puts the hair band to her long hair, making it into a pony tail, and finishes up with some bangs in the front before he answers, "Worried because I can understand why you did it, but do you? It should be a 'Thank you' kiss, not a sexual kiss and I think it was sexual. Was it?"
 
"Uhm... sorta. I mean, it was half a thank you kiss and half a sex kiss but it got all messed up." She tries to explain.
 
"You wanted to tongue kiss you dad?" He asks.
 
"Yes." She answers.
 
"When we kiss, it has to be loving, not sexual. You understand the difference?" He says and asks.
 
"I think so." She answers.
 
"Good." He says, he looks into the bags and get a coat from inside that Jeanette bought, "Now get up. We got things to do and you need to get with Jeanette and the others. Put that on."
 
Macey nods before hopping off the bed to put on the coat. Fernando consolidates the items in the bags into one bag, taking the empty bag in the bathroom with him. He puts her old dirty clothes she had on in the bag and folds up up tightly.
 
He then steps out of the bathroom, putting on his jacket, "First thing's first. I call Jeanette to tell her I'm done with cleaning you up and get your clothes to the laundry to get them washed."
 
Macey nods before taking his hand. He takes out the radio and calls to Jeanette, explaining what he had done and that he is taking Macey's clothes to the laundry room.

"You got the trench coat with a zippered fur liner inside? Make sure it has such a liner. It will keep her warm on cold days and take out the liner on warm days." He says on the radio to Jeanette, "We'll be over here waiting for you to return."
 
After taking Macey's clothes to be washed at the laundry, he takes her to the camper. He opens the sliding door and tells her to sit down on the rear bench as he turns on the propane heater inside, turning it about to face her and heat up her area. He inspects the passenger seat she was sitting in, seeing that the cold had killed off what few lice that jumped onto the chair for their next victim to sit in. He dusts off the seat and the front of the camper. Taking the broom from inside the camper, he sweeps off the snow that built up on the solar panels. It was just a mere dusting, but it's better to wipe it off now before it turns to ice later.
 
He comes back inside the camper after a few minutes of sweeping the snow of it.
 
"Dad... die?" Macey hesitantly calls to him.
 
"Yes Macey?" He answers back.
 
"You would never leave me?" She asks.
 
"Well, no. But understand that I have to leave to do a job and come back. And I will always come back. So until you are grown up and can go on your own, you are stuck with me." He tells her.
 
"OK... I think." She says. She remains quiet for a while but then asks, "Dad, you said Hikaru is married. Why isn't her husband
with her?"
 
"Well. If I remember my ages correctly, Arik, Hikaru's husband, would be in his 90's. He would be too weak and frail to do this trip, so I believe he is home waiting for her to return." He tells her.
 
"Oh." Macey replies. She then asks, "Is Hikaru to be treated like an adult because she's married or is she an Immortal?"
 
"Neither. She is to be treated like an adult because though she does not look it, she is an adult. A basic level of respect is given and more of it is earned. She has earned her share of respect by those around her. You as a child has to give her respect, and she will return it to you. Anybody can be an immortal, and children can be married, so those two things do not amount to a hill of beans in being an adult. Respect is the only thing that does. Got that?"
 
"Yeah..." She replies. After another moment of silence, she calls to him again, "Dad?"
 
"What is it?" He returns in an annoyed tone.
 
"Why are you sitting there and not here with me?" She asks.
 
"No reason." He tells her, "But I need to be here in case we need to get going. You should lay down and rest on that bench. Later one day soon I will teach you how to open that bench up into a bed to be part of the bed in the back where I sleep in. Right now, just sit or lay down and relax. Jeanette should be back in a few minutes. Depending on the time, we will have dinner, Jeanette and I will be checking out the campers, and then we go to sleep. And tomorrow is another day."
 
Macey lays down on the her side on the bench, saying to herself, "Oh."

"I'm at the electric camper with Macey, cleaning it up before ice develops on it's solar panels and enjoying the propane heater."