Painter's Special

Story by Thorn Blackbriar on SoFurry

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#1 of A Special Friendship

A/N: Ok, let me nip this in the bud real quick for anyone who is going to get weird over p...


A/N: Ok, let me nip this in the bud real quick for anyone who is going to get weird over pronoun usage. I understand why some folks use shi/hir/boi/gurl and the like. I, however, will not be using those terms. They grate on me from the grammatical sense. I just can't justify using them myself when I correct papers with improper spellings like those. Just want everyone to understand that up front.

Also, about the tags. I'm assuming that the M/Herm tag should be using to imply a male with a herm, rather than a masculine hermaphrodite. If I'm mistaken please let me know and I'll edit tags accordingly.

Ok, bitching done. Please read and enjoy.

OOOOO

Painter's Special

"Yo, I'm outside. Come help me bring this crap in." There was a grumbled reply on the opposite side of the line as the wolf hung up the cell phone and turned his barely operational, beige sedan into the drive way. "Still can't believe I let this dumbass rope me into this." He muttered as he turned off the engine. "Better be getting more than a pizza and a sixer out of this."

As he stepped out of the vehicle the male was revealed to be a gray wolf with an off white coloring for his underbelly. His fur was slightly disheveled, as though he had not slept all that well or in a proper bed. The faded, torn blue jeans and grungy looking black tee shirt only further imparted this lack luster appearance. Any other day the wolf would have never considered going out in public in such a get up, but there were extenuating circumstances for this occasion. "Patches! Get your ass out here!" He called through the open front door of the house as he popped the trunk of his car.

"Fuck you Thorn." The golden furred lion growled as he exited the building and began to descend the brick stairs. "You know I hate that nickname." The feline was a bit taller than the wolf, but also considerably heavier from enjoying his drinks far more often. Like the wolf he was dressed rather raggedly in black, ripped up cargo shorts and a green tee shirt with a band print of some sort on it.

"Then learn how to trim that mane of yours dude." The wolf grinned as he pointed to the red-brown mass of fur that circled the lion's head, indicating the spots where the growth was still not coming in evenly.

"And yet, I still get more tail from the ladies than you do." The feline shot back with a grin of his own.

Thorn smiled, grudgingly, but nodded as his ears flattened back. "Whatever, that'll change at some point and then you'll have nothing to come back with Leon." The canine grabbed up a couple of plastic bags and two paint cans in his trunk. "Grab up the board will you?"

"You do know what you're doing with all this right?" The lion asked as he picked up the sheet rock and promptly got a face full of plaster dust. "Cause if you don't, tell me now. I need to get this fixed up before the ‘rents get back from their vacation."

"Wouldn't have been a problem if you didn't decide to play football...in the house...with a billygoat... while intoxicated." Thorn chuckled as he dragged out the retelling of the previous nights events. "It was a good game though."

"Fuck dude..." The lion sighed. "I don't even remember it, my head is still putting a hurt on me." He turned a suspicious glare at the canine. "You had more to drink than I did. How come you're not hung over?"

"I hold my liquor better." The wolf set down the paint cans and dropped the plastic bag to the ground and looked over the job before him. "You have a saw?"

"Bull shit you hold your liquor better." Leon continued as he grabbed up the saw he'd gotten out of the garage earlier. "I've seen you black out wasted. Beside that, your ear is twitching. Your ear only twitches when you try to hide something."

Gray furred ears flattened as Thorn began to saw away the broken pieces of sheet rock from the wall. "You swore we'd never speak of that night I blacked out again."

"Then tell me why you're not hung over at least." The big cat insisted as he watched his friend work. "You always recover faster than the rest of us." Any chance to answer was cut off as Leon's phone began to ring from his pocket. "Hold that thought."

Thorn sighed as he watched his buddy walk off into the other room, having already recognized the ring tone that belonged to one of Leon's "friends with benefits". Still, it kept him from having to explain how he avoided hangovers, leaving him one advantage over the lion. By the time the lion came back Thorn had already cut out the bad plaster pieces and was measuring out for the replacement that needed to be cut. "Which one was that?"

"Lamis, she just got back from her trip. Sounds like she's in heat too." Leon grinned. "Um, I know I said I'd help but..."

"Just go." Thorn shook his head. "If I said you had to stay you'd just whine like a bitch over how you're not getting any from a hot panthress exchange student."

Leon's grin got even wider. "Thanks dude. I'll make it up to you, swear."

"I'm going to hold you to that one of these days." Thorn nodded as he heard, more than saw, the lion already racing for his own car. "Really to nice for my own good some days..." He muttered with a smile as he marked and cut the replacement sheet rock.

A few quick nails, and some muttered curses, later the new board was in place. "Now then, next is..." He thought aloud as he pushed the furniture of the room around, being carful not to scuff up the hard wood floor he knew Leon's parents prized so much. Once the couch, tables, lamps, and area rug were safely out of harms way the wolf returned to the plastic bags he'd dropped earlier and pulled out a small tub of plaster. In a matter of minutes the board's edges were covered over with the pasty liquid and the lupine stood up. "Can't do much more ‘till it dries."

Happy with the work so far the wolf left the living room and moved instead to the kitchen. Having been over to the house many times before Thorn knew where everything was. Reasoning that they wouldn't miss a few eggs the wolf gathered a few things from the fridge and began to make a light breakfast. As the scrambled eggs cooked he noted a new, but familiar, scent attempting to sneak up behind him. "Morning Cori." The canine smiled as he heard the defeated sigh behind him.

"The house reeks of construction stuff and eggs, and you still smelled me coming." The lioness grumbled as she leaned against the counter next to the stove the wolf was working at. Like her brother, Cori had a rich, golden color to her fur with the slight exception of some red-brown along the top of her head and back of her neck. "That damn sniffer of yours is to good."

"Thanks, I think." Thorn shook his head as he pulled out a couple of plates. "Eggs?"

"Sure." The lithe feline nodded as she stretched her arms over her head. As she did so her purple, spaghetti strap style, top rode up giving the wolf a brief glimpse of her flat tummy. "Milk?"

"OJ please." Thorn replied as he set the plates down on the table. Despite his best intentions, he found his eyes roaming over the girl's backside as she stood at the refrigerator getting their drinks. Of course, the oversized, hand-me-down, black, basketball shorts she wore left a fair amount to the imagination. He shook his head quickly and reminded himself that this was his best friend's little sister, making her decidedly off limits on a number of levels.

"You were staring at my ass again weren't you?" Cori grinned as she sat down across from the wolf. "You like it that much?"

"Shut up." Thorn closed his eyes and attempted to look indifferent to the conversation so as to mask his embarrassment at being caught. "Nothing there I'm interested in."

"Really?" Cori grinned as her tail began to flick playfully behind her. "Cause you were staring at me pretty hard last night at Leonard's party."

"I was looking out for you to make sure you didn't die of alcohol poisoning or get whisked away by some weirdo who snuck into the party." Thorn amended honestly. "I may not get the same rotation your brother gets but I'm not to the point I'm going to risk pound-bait like you."

"I am not pound-bait." Cori huffed as she sat back in her chair, her tail fur now puffed out in annoyance. "I turned sixteen last month. I'm legal now."

"With another sixteen year old maybe." Thorn teased, knowing he'd turned the attention away from himself and was more than happy to keep it that way. "No one else really."

"Whatever." Cori stuck her tongue out at the wolf. "You couldn't handle me anyway." She frowned as the wolf simply laughed at her attempted retort. "What the hell are you doing here so early anyway?"

"Fixing your idiot brother's mess." This time it was Thorn's turn to frown. "He was supposed to help but..." He shrugged.

"Not the skanky panthers again." Cori growled as Thorn nodded. "Fuck...guess I'm not getting much sleep tonight either."

"Huh?" Thorn raised an eyebrow in question.

"She's a screamer."

"Oh, great." Thorn replied sarcastically as he finished his eggs and stood up from the table. "He's never going to shut up about this now."

Cori scarfed down the remainder of her eggs and followed the canine back to the living room. "Well, as long as I'm here, you want some help?"

Thorn blinked but nodded. "Yeah, sure." He knew Cori had always been something of a tomboy, but he never considered her having an interest in carpentry even in such limited cases. "It'll go quicker with two Furre's to prime it and paint it..." He grimaced for a moment. "Shit...have to sand down the plaster first." He turned to the smaller feline. "Your dad still have that old rotary?"

"If you mean the power sander, it should be in his work shop." Cori pointed off to the rear of the house. "Beyond that, I have no clue."

"I hope it's there, doing this by paw would suck." Heading back to the workshop of the elder lion he left Cori in the living room by herself. As he entered the power tool filled room he noticed an extra scent under the smell of sawdust and oil, lion musk. "Guess Leon's dad works all his tools in here." He chuckled at his really bad pun and began to search for the sander he needed.

"Thorn!"

The wolf's ears perked and he spun around in full defensive mode as he heard Cori call out in panic from the other room. He raced through the kitchen and skid into the living room, his claws scratching into the wood floor as he surveyed the scene. "What the hell?" Panic began to ebb away and the canine had to fight to keep from laughing at the sight before him.

Cori sat on the floor at the center of the room. "Stop laughing and help me!" The lioness called out worriedly as she turned her now dark blue head around blindly. "It's going to get in my eyes!"

"Ok, ok." Thorn went to her side quickly and took her paw in his own while his other paw went to under her arm. "How on Earth did you get paint all over your head?" He couldn't keep the amusement out of his voice as he helped her to stand.

"You said we had to paint!" She yelled, her fear being replaced with anger as she heard the wolf laughing at her. "I was just trying to open the can but the lid was on so tight! The whole thing just jumped into the air went I finally popped it open!"

"That's why you use the pry bar dummy." Thorn chided her as he lead them upstairs into the bathroom. "Put your paws here." He guided her to grip the side of the bathtub. "Now lean over." After helping her get into position he grabbed up the showerhead, thanking the fact that it was one of the movable types, and turned the water on to a luke warm temperature. "Keep your eyes shut."

"Like I need you to tell me that..." Cori sputtered as she got a mouthful of paint water.

"Might want to keep your maw closed too." Thorn added as an after thought. He ran his free paw over Cori's neck and head as he tried to scrape away as much of the paint as he could from her fur. Some of the paint was in deep though and he had to use his claws a bit more forcefully to get the gunk out. The lupine eased off as he heard a low rumble from the feline. "Sorry, I'll try to be more gentle."

Cori nodded slightly, thankful that her face was down towards the tub. The rumble the wolf had heard come from her was not a growl of pain, but her purring in enjoyment of having her neck skritched. Even as the wolf eased of on the pressure Cori could feel little jolts of electricity racing down her spine. She stifled herself as best she could and hoped that Thorn was to focused on her head to notice the fact that her tail was flicking and swishing madly under his inadvertent caresses.

The wolf's ears flattened back as he watched Cori's tail flick about at an ever-increasing pace, but again misread the underlying cause thinking he was being to rough. The matter would have been easily resolved by his nose, but the over whelming scent of paint fumes in the small bathroom masked the lionesses more subtle scent. "Damn, you really did a number on this didn't you?" Thorn sighed as he finally removed most of the paint. "Oh shit..." He chuckled lightly as he shut off the water and let the girl up.

"What?" Cori demanded as she shook the extra water out of her fur, sending little drops of blue all over the white bathroom tiles and pink wallpaper. "What the hell are you laughing..." Her eyes went wide as she spotted her reflection in the bathroom mirror. "My head looks like a gods damned blueberry!" She mewled in despair. "I can't go out like this!"

Thorn chuckled a few moments more before he decided to ease the teenager's fears. "Relax, I have something in the car that will fix you up. Ok?" He smiled and patted her on the shoulder as he walked from the room. "Try to rinse a bit more out while I go get it." Descending the stairs again he stopped to survey the living room, thanking his foresight for moving everything earlier. There was a giant puddle of blue paint on the hardwood flooring, along with Cori's paw prints leading away from the mess and up to the bathroom. "That...is going to be a bitch to clean." He sighed as he continued on.

Up in the bath room Cori was having a tougher time than she expected trying to rinse out her fur. "And now this shirt is ruined too!" She snarled into the empty room. With a barely contained roar she pulled the shirt up over her head and let the garment plop into the tub basin. The lioness frowned as she watch paint swirl out from the shirt and tugged at the remaining undergarment, a simple black cotton bra that felt just a bit to constricting at the moment. "Stop it." She growled at herself. "You keep on like this and..."

"Ok Cori, I got the acetone..." Thorn suddenly stepped back into the bathroom holding a large metal container, but stopped dead as he saw the lioness' current state of dress. He promptly turned around and massaged the corners of his eyes with his unoccupied paw. "Gods damn it Cori..."

"Oh relax." The lioness grinned, somewhat pleased she elicited such a reaction from the wolf. "I know you've seen tits before. And this is no worse than me being in a swimsuit."

"The last time I saw you in a swimsuit was three years ago, and it was a one piece." Thorn griped. "I've now seen you half naked. Your brother by all rights gets to officially kill me now."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Cori laughed as she moved over to try and get in front of the wolf. "Why would he care?"

"It's a rule." Thorn shifted his gaze to try and avoid looking at the younger Furre. "You don't mess with a guy's ex, and you don't mess with a guy's sister. Those are pretty much the two biggest rules in the code of brotherhood, now please stop trying to put me on the expressway to death." He held the can of acetone out to her. "Just rinse this through your fur that's been painted, should take it right out."

Cori took the offered solvent can, but refused to let the canine leave. "I can't see the top of my head genius. You're going to have to help me."

Thorn sighed and nodded. "Going to die." He muttered. "Going to die, then going to hell for being in the same room as a half naked cub."

"I am not a cub." The feline shot back with a displeased tone. "I'm pretty much full grown already."

"By whose standards half pint?" Thorn quipped with a grin as he nodded for her to get in the tub, so as to not spill acetone about the entire room.

"Shut up and get this paint out of my fur." She shot back with more than a hint of annoyance in her voice. "This stuff doesn't burn right?" She suddenly wondered as a look of concern washed over her features.

The lupine shook his head. "Nah, it evaporates pretty quick. So it'll feel a little chilly if anything, and your skin might feel kind of dry tomorrow." He placed one of his paws as a make shift barrier at the top of Cori's head, to prevent the chemical from getting into her eyes, and began to pour from the can before the girl had a chance to protest.

Cori shivered as the odd smelling solvent began to run through her head fur and down her back. "Is it working?"

"Yeah, the color is coming out. Put your paws up top here where mine is." As his own paw was replaced Thorn began to rub the more colored areas in an attempt to remove the remaining paint. "Really stuck in there." He grumbled as he used a few claws to try and separate out some of the matted fur.

Cori swallowed hard, but couldn't completely surprises the purr that rose from her throat as the wolf played with her head and neck fur. As if that wasn't bad enough, she could feel the acetone running over her shoulders and down her front. It was only a slow trickle, but it tickled still, and it began to make its way to her chest and saturated her bra. True to the older Furre's prediction, Cori began to feel a slight chill over the parts of her body where the acetone touched. She grunted as the colder temperature, along with the male's petting, began to cause her nipples to harden and scrape ever so softly along the padded cotton garment that constricted her chest. She mewled in worry as she felt the acetone dripping further down her body, another portion of her anatomy already beginning to stir.

Thorn's eyes narrowed in irritation as he watched Cori's tail begin to increase the pace of its wild movements, along with the squirming of the rest of her body. "Yo, chill out. It's hard enough trying to clean you up without you moving around like that."

He just about had all of the paint out of the lioness' fur when he noticed a small change in Cori's movements, namely that she was bucking her hips ever so slightly. He felt his cheeks grow hot beneath his fur as he realized how this whole cleaning process must have been affecting her and did his best to avert his gaze from her shivering body. It was a short-lived battle, as he was still a guy despite his best intentions, and found his eyes returning to her waistline. What he saw he was not prepared for. "What in the hell?"

Cori's eyes squeezed shut as she heard the wolf's whispered question, her ears flattened against her head in shame. Her paws came to her eyes as she felt herself begin to cry. She didn't have to look down to know what Thorn was referring to the sizable lump that jutted out from groin and tented her shorts.

Thorn stood dumbfounded for a good, solid, minute as his brain restarted after the current scenario failed to compute. "You're...you're a boy?" His question was barely audible.

"No!" Cori yelled as she remained faced away from the wolf, her shoulders shaking as she cried over the fact her secret was now exposed. "I'm a girl! I just...I just..."

"You just what?" Thorn's mouth continued before his mind had a chance to catch up. His eyes darted to her back, zeroing in on the bra strap, and then went to the elevated shorts at Cori's waist. As the solution made itself known Thorn almost expected the bathroom light to click on over his head. "You have both?"

The lioness looked back over her shoulder, unsure of what to make of Thorn's calm voice as the question was asked. Her eyes were wide, but the pupils were pinpointed in fear. She let go of her unconsciously held breath as she saw the very confused, but gently smiling, expression on the wolf's face. "Yeah." She nodded slowly.

The canine nodded as he sealed the acetone can. "Explains a lot in retrospect." He smiled as he saw Cori's head tilt in silent question. "You always did act more like one of the guys than a girl."

She started to turn, then remembered her current predicament, and remained faced away. "You're not grossed out by me? Not squicked out that I'm a freak?"

"Freak?" Thorn scratched his head. "You're not a freak Cori. Hermaprodatism occurs in a lot of species..."

"Not in lions." She cut off quickly.

"Clearly it does." Thorn nodded to Cori. "May even be other cases you don't know about." He turned and began to walk out of the bathroom. "You should wash the acetone out of your fur now, the paint is out."

"Wait!" Cori turned around quickly as she saw the wolf beginning to leave. "Where are you going?"

"To clean up the mess you made downstairs." He looked back over his shoulder, confused as to why he detected so much panic in her voice. "Have to get that paint up before it dries."

"That's all?" Cori let out a small sigh of relief. "You're not going to run now that you know?"

"Run? Why would I do that?"

"Cause that's what happened the last time my secret got out. It got spread out all over town." Cori's golden eyes pleaded with Thorn. "It got really bad and...I don't want to have to move again."

"I have nothing to run from Cori, don't make any plans to move." Thorn smiled as he walked out of the bathroom and closed the door. "Take a shower, that acetone is making my nose burn." He slumped against the wall as he closed the door. "Yep..." He whispered to himself. "Patches is officially going to kill me now."

Returning to the living room the wolf set about cleaning up the paint that was on the floor. As he scrubbed and scraped his mind wandered. He'd known Leon and Cori since they'd moved into the neighborhood, but he'd never had any suspicions of the younger feline's secret. Now that he knew about it, there was a fair degree of certainty that their friendship would change. That prospect annoyed the wolf. They'd always gotten along together and he didn't want to see that fall away because of the awkward situation they'd just had.

"Thorn?"

Looking up from the now mostly clean wood floor Thorn realized that almost an hour had passed without him being aware of it. He looked Cori over as she stood nervously in the doorway. The lioness had showered and changed into a pair of loose fitting black sweatpants and a slightly baggy red tee shirt. "Hey...still feel like helping me paint?" He asked as he tried to redirect the day back to normalcy.

"I don't want things to be weird." Cori blurted out as she stepped into the room. "We're the same as we were before, so I don't want things to get weird."

"Doesn't the fact that you're saying you don't want things to get weird mean that things have already gotten weird?" Thorn attempted to joke.

"Stop it!" Cori's outburst shocked the wolf into silence. She'd yelled at him before, but always in anger or annoyance or...or any other reason. This time though there was a tone she'd never heard in her voice before, desperation. "You know about me now. I don't want to lose you..."

"You haven't lost me..."

"Yes I have!" Cori glared at the wolf almost accusingly. "You said you weren't interested in me before, when you thought I was all girl! What chance have I got now?"

Thorn blinked, several times. "Wait...what?"

"Are you serious?" Cori stared at the lupine. "All the banter we've had, all the free looks I've given you...you still haven't clued in that I like you?"

Thorn sighed and scratched his claws though his head fur. He had suspected for some time that Cori had a little crush on him, but it must have been a bit more than he thought if she was bringing it up after all this. "Cori...you're young still, you'll find someone your age that will be a lot better fit with you and..." The canine trailed off as he saw Cori's lip tremble and recognized the sight of a girl trying not to cry.

"Fine! I get it!" Cori turned angrily and ran for the stairs. "Who'd want a freak for a girlfriend anyway? Right!?"

Thorn winced as he heard Cori's heavy steps followed by the slamming of her door. With a sad shake of his head he turned back to the wall and began to ready it for priming. It took only a few minutes to ready his supplies, but the wolf could not bring himself to actually start. "Gods save me from hormonal teenagers..." He growled softly as he turned to ascend the staircase. "Should leave this alone." Came the whispered thought as he climbed. "It's better as is. If I try to fix things, I'm only going to complicate it further, but I'm too fucking stupid to do that cause I can't stand a girl's tears." He mocked at himself.

Cori picked her head up out of her pillow as she heard a knock at her door. "Go away!" She turned her face toward the wall as she heard the door open anyway and mentally noted to get a lock for her room. "You need to get you ears checked." She growled.

"I'll look into that." Thorn joked, but it was forced and had no effect on lightening the mood. "Look, you're not a freak, and any guy would be lucky to have you as a girlfriend."

"Then why don't you want me?" Cori asked angrily.

"One, you're illegal. Two, it'll be weird down the road when you realize you shouldn't have had any interest in me at all in the first place." Thorn smiled, not that she could see it right now. "I don't want to put you through that."

"Just a bunch of excuses."

Thorn sighed and stepped further into the room. His mind ran through dozens of possibilities of what to say as he looked over the various band posters that adorned the walls of Cori's personal space. With another sigh the lupine allowed himself to sit heavily atop the purple covers on the feline's bed. "You know what? I have no idea what to tell you..." He admitted at last in defeat. "You're not going to accept anything that I say, so why don't you just tell me what it's going to take to convince you that you and I playing this through would end badly?"

Cori's ear flicked slightly as her head turned to cast a curious eye at the wolf. "And you'll do it? No more arguments?"

"I'm not sleeping with you." Thorn amended as he suddenly grew concerned with where the girl's mind as going. "And nothing that'll get me arrested."

"Yeah, yeah. We'll get to that in a minute." Cori replied as she pushed herself up on all fours before she sat back on her heels on the bed. Her brown, gold-flecked eyes searched the wolf for any signs that he might be simply messing with her head, but found no trace of insincerity. "All right, kiss me."

Thorn released an exasperated sigh. "I told you..."

"Not fuck me, just a kiss." Cori frowned just a little, afraid the wolf would balk at his promise. "I've heard you talk with my brother." She whispered. "How you know if a girl is a ‘keeper' or not by the first kiss, right?"

"That's not..." Thorn tried to fight, but it was hard to do when someone used your own words against you. He could only shake his head as he leaned forward. "Fine, one kiss. Then we put an end to th..." The wolf blinked as Cori put her paw against his lips and cut him off.

"A real kiss." The young feline insisted as her eyes met the wolf's. "No ‘little-sister-peck-on-the-lips' bullshit." Only when the canine nodded did she remove her paw and close her eyes. "Ok..."

Thorn could feel his brows furrow in irritation as he watched Cori close her eyes and simply wait. While he had to admit that she did look cute, or perhaps innocent would be more accurate, the position was awkward under the best of circumstances. With a rumbled growl he slide in closer and put his paws on her shoulders. "This is why this is a bad idea..." He muttered, though there was much less dissent in his voice this time around. "You don't even know what you're doing."

Cori's eyes opened quickly as she felt the wolves strong paws guide her down to lie on her back and rest her head on her pillow. Before she could speak she found herself between two gray furred arms as Thorn supported himself over her. While his body was still mostly off to the side of her own, his face was directly over hers. "F-for someone who doesn't want to do this, you're putting an awful lot of effort into it."

The corners of Thorn's mouth curled up into a small grin as he heard Cori's momentary stutter. He silently questioned where this shy side had come from, something he'd never seen before and totally changed the state of the game. "Yeah, well, I don't want you accusing me of half-assing it later." Came the whispered reply as he leaned in.

Cori felt tingles run through her body as they came into contact with each other. The kiss was soft, fleeting almost, so that she was sure Thorn was going to pull away and it would be over. There was a moment of loss as he did pull back but it was short lived as Cori leaned up to recapture the wolf's lips.

Thorn couldn't help but growl a little as Cori forcefully reciprocated. Part of him had hoped that moment of hesitation had been the feline's way of giving up, but another part had been just a bit disappointed when she hadn't responded. By conscious design or by instinct Thorn decided to test the next boundary.

The feline startled for a moment as she felt a warm, moist, muscle gently probe at her muzzle. Confusion passed as she recognized the advance of Thorn's tongue and she cautiously opened her mouth to allow him entry. She groaned as she felt him lick along her fangs and moved to meet him with her own tongue before her mind could fully catch up with her actions. A second groan, though muffled, rose from low in her throat as their tongues danced between the shared space of their muzzles. Instinct came to the forefront with a roar of desire as Cori brought her paws up from her side to wrap around the wolf's neck.

Thorn growled slightly as he felt those soft padded paws circle about him. He wondered for a moment if it was a measure to try and prevent him from getting away but the more basic side of him pushed that thought away hurriedly, not wanting to escape the situation he was in now. He tilted his head a bit and pushed forward a bit into the kiss, a bit possessively almost, and Cori responded in kind by accepting his lead. As with all good things, the kiss came to an end a few moments later as they had to separate for air. "Satisfied now?" Thorn tried to bluff, rational thought still not complete fled from him, as he looked into the eyes of the girl below him.

Cori shook her head, panting ever so slightly. "Not by a long shot." She let one hand fall from the wolf's neck and settled down in his lap, tracing out the firming outline of his sheath. "And neither are you by the feel of things." The lioness smiled as she saw Thorn's eyes drift closed as the pleasurable touch washed out. "You can't tell me I'm not a ‘keeper' after that little exchange."

Thorn swallowed, hard. "Cori, this is...this is playing with fire of the worst kind..."

"I'm not going to tell anyone Thorn." She pushed herself up on her elbows and pressed her nose to the canine's. "I've liked you for a long time, I wouldn't do that to you. Please..." She bent her head forward and bumped his chin up with her muzzle. "I want you to be my first."

"You're..." Thorn looked her over, a bit surprised

"In spirit...not so much in body." Cori pulled back and her ears flattened in embarrassment. "I...got a little overzealous with the handle of a hairbrush last year." She looked up at him, a trace of concern in her beautiful eyes. "But I swear, you're the first guy I'll have ever been with."

Thorn searched her face for a few quiet moments, and then cursed his weakness for cute cat-girls. He smiled in surrender, nodded slightly, and leaned in to give her a soft kiss. "You get any second thoughts, any doubts, any fear..."

"I won't."

"...You say so and we stop right then and there." The wolf continued despite her interruption. He took her pouncing him onto his back as her sign of agreement, laughing as she straddled him. "Easy their, your first should be special, take your time."

"We have no idea when my brother will be back." The lioness grinned as she pulled her shirt up over her head hurriedly. "Time is the one thing we really don't have to spare.

Thorn couldn't suppress a rumble of appreciation as he saw that Cori had decided not to put a bra on under the shirt, revealing her shapely B-cups to his sight. "Maybe so." He reached out one paw and stroked slowly across the surface of her breasts, making her shiver at the contact. "But the lead up is what makes the big moment worth it a lot of the time."

Cori just growled and ground herself down, putting the two Furres groin to groin with only a few layers of clothing between them. "Thorn, I'm fit to pop as it is. Screw the foreplay, let's just get to the big moment."

Thorn felt his cock lurch a bit at her words, and grinned. The memory of her words at the breakfast table floated through the back of his mind. He let his paw trail down her chest and belly before vanishing into the loose elastic band of her sweat pants. "Ready to pop..." He smirked as he watched her eyes widen and her jaw drop a little as his fingers tickled along the tip of her cock. "Yeah, that feels about right."

Cori struggled to gain control of her body again for a moment. "Never felt that good by myself..." She mewled in protest as she felt that foreign paw dip lower, away from her cock. "What are you...Ung!" Her back arched as she felt a gentle pressure push against her femine folds.

Thorn smiled at her reaction, but his act was more than to just give her pleasure. While her mind was made up to get this act done as quickly as possible, her body was still catching up a little. He could already feel that she was nowhere near wet enough to do the things she seemed to want to do. "You know..." He began as he gently rubbed at her pussy. "There is something I've always wanted to find out."

"Huh?" Cori blinked as she felt Thorn shift beneath her, and then toppled back onto the bed as the wolf sat up. "Wha-what are you doing?" She swallowed as Thorn kneeled between her legs and pulled off his shirt. Her heart raced for a moment as she considered what he was likely planning. "Thorn, what are you doing?"

Thorn grinned as he heard the waver in her voice. It was kind of amusing how Cori switched back and forth from cute and unsure of herself, to the take-charge version. "I told you, I'm going to find something out." He placed his paws on the bed on either side of her waist before leaning up to kiss the feline. "Just sit back and relax."

Cori nodded trustingly as Thorn slid down her body, shivering as that long canine tongue gave a gentle caress to each breast on the way down. She bit at her lip as she felt wolf paws grip at pants and begin to drag them lower, planting her footpaws in the bedding so she could lift her hips clear. Moments later she was clad only in her purple cotton panties, though with a seemingly out of place bulge under the straining fabric, blushing furiously as the wolf looked her over. "So what was it you wanted to find out?" She asked to break the tension.

Thorn shifted back a little bit and lay down on his chest between Cori's legs. "To see if fair maidens really do taste sweeter." His tongue extended and took a slow, casual, lick along Cori's panty covered slit all the way up to the tip of her cock. The wolf growled a little, both at the pleasant tastes and the sounds that little bit of contact had elicited from girl. Pulling the panties to one side Thorn let his tongue split the feline's cleft and slowly worked it around, exploring to find which areas really made her respond.

The lioness for her part was doing her best to keep her breathing somewhat normal. A loud gasped escaped her as she felt that slippery soft piece of flesh inching deeper into her. Her hands flew to the male's head, holding him in place, as she couldn't seem to decide if she wanted to pull him closer to gain more pleasure or push him away to regain her composure. "See if fair maidens taste sweeter?" She half giggled/ half husked. "You just wanted to see what a virgin cunt tasted like, didn't you?" Cori felt the wolf's head shift and she looked down, groaning at the mental overload of having those warm brown eyes staring up at her from between her thighs.

Though his mouth was full at the moment, the lupine felt himself grin as Cori's head fell back onto the pillow. He lifted his paws to her knees and bent them up so as to have more exposure to play with. Her pussy contracted rhythmically around his lapping tongue, but not quick enough to signal her cumming quite yet. The wolf didn't give her any warning as he brought his arm around her leg and closed his paw around her cock.

If not for the canine's arm helping to hold her in place, Cori was sure she would have jumped from the bed and landed tail first on the floor. She'd played with both her cock and her pussy before, but this was something else altogether. One paw left Thorn's head and flicked the flimsy cotton cloth down away from the tip of her drooling cock, letting the wolf have more free movement to run his paw along her shaft. She could actually feel her legs quivering as his fingers ran over each of the fleshy little barbs of her dick. So distracted in her own pleasure she was completely unaware as Thorn free paw crept slowly up along her tail.

Thorn shuddered as another one of Cori's wails cut through the room. He didn't think he'd done all that much, but the feline seemed to disagree if those moans were true to life. He hoped they were, because the sounds and sight of her writhing about in that sensual high had his own cock threatening to pop the zipper of his jeans. Still, he had one more surprise for her before he could think about his own relief. After making sure that his finger was slicked with the now copious amounts of juices leaking from Cori's pussy he moved on.

The lionness' entire body locked as she felt something press against her tailhole. "Gods...Thorn! I don't think!" The words were lost as her breath caught in her throat, the digit pressed past that tight ring of muscle up to the first knuckle and gently turned about. She'd never considered anal play seriously, thinking it was all talk. Apparently she'd been wrong in that respect. She felt herself beginning to lose control with so many new stimuli at once, but she didn't want to cross that line like this and she bit down on the inside of her cheek to focus. "Thorn..." She gasped. "Fuck me...please...I wanna cum while you fuck me."

The lupine didn't need to be asked twice as he near bolted upright and unbuckled his pants. He didn't even bother to kick them all the way off, just pushed the jeans and the boxers far enough down to be functional. His paws lifted her hips a small amount to help him line her up, but he paused to look her in the eyes. "Last chance..." He rumbled in a growl of need.

Cori closed her legs around the canine's back and pulled him toward her. "Fuck me already!" She yelped as the wolf speared into her. Even with the wolf helping to prepare her, she was still used to the size of her fingers or occasional make shift toy, and the sudden intrusion shocked her. "Don't stop..." She whispered. "The pain will pass, please, don't stop."

Thorn swallowed hard and did his best to comply. "Dear gods..." He groaned as he began to shift slowly. It was as though someone had clamped a vice down around his cock. A hot, wet, trembling, euphoria inducing vice. Consequence be damned now, he needed her as much as she needed him. Hunching over he kissed the feline hungrily as he increased his pace.

Cori gasped and moaned into the lip lock as her pussy got the fucking of her young life. Her paws came up and began to roam over the wolf's chest and then wrapped around his back pulling at his fur. In response he growled and pulled away from the kiss only to follow with a bite along the crook of her neck. She fairly roared in pleasure as the pain of the mating bite coursed over her already overtaxed nerves. "I'm going to cum..." She moaned out in the wolf's ear. "I'm gonna cum. You're making me cum."

Thorn forced himself to release his bite and pulled back, kneeling over her supine form and increased his pace. "Stroke it!" He barked out. "I want to see it." His eyes drifted from the rhythmic back and forth of her breasts down to her twitching cock. "I want to watch you cum all over yourself."

Cori let out a throaty groan as she heard the order and wrapped both her paws around her swollen prick. One circled along the head, helping spread her precum over the tight skin and let it dribble down the sides as her other paw began to stroke quickly. It didn't take long when coupled to the pounding her quim was taking as well. With a roar her back arched up and stars flash before her eyes.

Her pussy and her cock pulsed in time with each other. Thick ropes of pearly, white, lioness cum gushed from the tip of her prick as though she'd never came once in her life before their coupling. So great was the force that the first three shots hit the lioness in her own face, splattering messily over her cheeks and nose. The next shots landed between those pert breasts, smearing into her fur as the flesh continued to jiggle around from the wolf's continued thrusting. There was cum pooling in her belly button, then trailed down in heavy streaks until it came to a second smaller puddle just below the tip of her still pulsing five-inch cock.

Cori came back to herself in small pieces, recognizing the feeling of her pussy squirting out her love honey around a foreign object. She looked up to see Thorn still thrusting away at her now quite sensitive pussy. He was looking at her with an expression of complete lust and it thrilled her. Her paw went to her cock again as she remembered a conversation she'd over heard between the wolf and her brother. "Gonna cum?" She squeezed her cock hard and pulled up slowly, milking out any remained cum and letting it drip down to her fur. All the while she never missed the way he watched her actions. "Tell me when..."

"Gods..." Thorn groaned as he felt his balls jump. "It's cumming...I'm cumming!" The wolf could barely believe his senses as he saw Cori pull off him and sit up with surprising speed. He felt her paw and muzzle wrap around his cock and began to jack him quickly, her fist bumping against the large knot at the base insistently. Taking a note from Cori's book, his paws settled on her head as he grit his teeth and grunted as his orgasm finally hit.

Cori let the first jet hit her in the mouth, tasting her first lover as he had tasted her before. Her mouth then came off of the engorged wolf flesh as the pointed tip continued to spurt, hitting her along the ridge of her muzzle. More shots of heavy wolf seed continued to rain down on the feline girl, painting her muzzle and cheeks, her eyebrows and even some of her head fur. As the twitching subsided and the flow slowed to a dribble Cori stuck out her tongue and flicked it across the tip of Thorn's cock. She looked up at the male as she rolled her tongue, a cat showing of her newest catch, then swallowed and smiled.

The wolf collapsed back as the after glow hit him. "Gods..." He murmured as he felt Cori snuggle up beside him. "That was intense."

Cori purred as she felt Thorn wrap an arm around her shoulders. "Aren't you glad I talked you into this?" She picked herself up a little as the wolf failed to respond. "Thorn?" She grinned mischievously as she watched his retreating cock jump a bit just by seeing her messy face. "You can't tell me you still want to call this off. Even after you painted my face almost completely white."

Thorn let his head fall back and began to laugh. "Well, I'd be quite the liar if I said I didn't enjoy it." He craned his head forward and gave the lioness a lick. "Though I have to wonder how you knew I have a thing for messy females?"

"You and my brother talk rather loud sometimes." Cori shrugged. "And I may have peeked your browser history last time we were over your place..." She looked up at the wolf again. "You should really clear that more often by the way."

"Yeah, well..." Thorn scratched at his ear as he looked over the girl beside him. "Look, Cori. About what I said earlier..."

"I know, I know." The feline sighed. "I'm pound-bait. Little sister. Not allowed. Yadda, yadda, yadda."

"Yeah..." Thorn nodded. He hated to ruin the moment, but it had to be done at some point. Better to get it done with sooner rather than later, even if he really didn't want to. "If you still feel the same way in a few years, we'll see. But that's all I can offer you."

Cori grinned up at the canine. "I guess two years isn't too long to wait." She slid, quite literally, away from him. "Come on. We need to clean up and finish that wall or my brother's going to wonder what we were doing all day." She extended her paw to the wolf. "Shower?"

Thorn raised an eyebrow, but took her paw. "What the hell. Pushed our luck this far, haven't we?" He smiled and wrapped an arm around her shoulders as they walked towards the bathroom. "Don't know about you, but that two years is going to be long for me." He remarked casually, feeling Cori hug him tight in response as they closed the bathroom door.

OOOOO

"Yo? Anyone here?" Leon called as he entered the house. "Cori? Thorn?" He entered the living room and found the wolf sprawled out on one couch watching TV while the lioness teen was relaxing in the matching armchair. "Oh, ah..."

"You better have something to eat for us dude." Thorn remarked dryly as he sat up and pointed a thumb towards the wall. "You owe us big time."

The lion walked over and ran a paw over the wall. "You can't even tell there was ever any damage." He looked over at his sister. "You helped with this?"

"Yep." Cori nodded. "Thorn's a pretty good teacher about all this sanding and spackling and painting stuff." She let her head hang back over the top of the chair. "Consider pizza and beer the price of our silence on this whole matter."

"Done." Leon agreed as he started to head for the kitchen phone to place the order. He stopped as he saw the wolf's ear twitch a few times, ever since Cori had mention painting. The lion stood behind the canine and there was a short pause as he took a deep breath in through his nose. "You fucked my sister didn't you?" He grinned as both Thorn and Cori seemed to suddenly sprout arctic coats and clapped the wolf on the shoulder. "Bout fucking time dude. If I had to wake up to her creaky bed and her moaning your name anymore I might have killed myself."

Thorn blinked. "You...You're ok with this?"

"Sure!" Leon grinned. "I know you'll take good care of her. Plus she's half boy so you're nice and happy after the events of black out..."

"Shut up now." Thorn warned as he tilted his head and glared at the lion. "We do not speak of that."

"Yeah, yeah." Leon continued to wear that smug grin all the way to the kitchen. "Though it's not really much of a secret now that we all know you like the kitty cock."

Thorn sighed, but didn't get much time to think as Cori landed in his lap. She pushed him back into the couch and kissed him forcefully. "Happy much?"

Cori's head nodded emphatically. "Guess we don't have to keep it a secret now at least." She pressed down into the wolf's lap with her legs. "Now what was Leon talking about?"

"N-nothing."

A smirk began to grow on Cori's features. "You know..." She whispered and pressed her breasts hard against Thorn. "A lioness can mate quite a number of times during her heat cycle." She purred. "Eventually, you'll tell me anything I want to know."

Thorn blinked again, then grinned up at the girl sitting in his lap. "Maybe, maybe not. We'll have to see."

"Ok, just cause I said I was fine with this doesn't mean I want to see you two fucking in the living room." Leon teased as he came back from the kitchen and passed around the beers. "Get a room."

Cori smiled and removed herself from Thorn's lap, pulling him up after her. "Let us know when the pizza gets here, ok bro?" With that she tugged a grinning Thorn toward the stairs, leaving the slack jawed lion alone in the living room.