The Foxling
In the far future humans create anthropomorphic animals as a way to prove to they can take care of children of their own. Unfortunately when they get the OK to have children many of these animals are put out on the streets to fend for themselves.
Dave drove down to where he knew a lot of the young Furminals would be hanging out. Those who didn't have a home with humans, seemed to gather in some places downtown begging for pocket change.
He found where they were standing this time, and decided to head to a parking lot about 3 blocks away. He pulled in and paid the meter.
He started walking, in no rush but not dawdling either, waiting for one of them to approach him. He finally got to where he could see them a few hundred feed in front of them, some were in the shade, others had their paws out asking for money from the humans who passed by.
Dave saw one sitting down, a red fox Furminal, a smile played across his lips. Dave approached the young fox and squatted down next to it.
"What's its name," Dave asked no in particular.
"That is Eric," replied a girl raccoon.
Dave's heart nearly jumped to his throat, its to good to be true, he thought to himself as he looked at the young sleeping fox. Dave put his hand on Eric's shoulder and gently shook him.
Eric slowly opened his eyes, and looked up Dave.
"Can I help you mister," Eric yawned.
"How would you like to make some money today?"
Eric's eyes grew, "What would I have to do?"
"Just let me take care of you for a little bit, we both pretend your mine. I'll take you to see Shipwrecked 23, if you like."
One of the older Furminal's walked over to Dave and started sniffing with out hiding it at all. After a few moments he stopped and walked away.
"I suppose I could go with you. How much money are you talking about?"
"I'll give you 100 credits if you do exactly what I ask, with out question."
Eric stood up at that, all of his associates were obviously wishing they were red foxes too.
They walked back to Dave's car, with out saying anything along the way.
Once they had gotten to the car Dave noticed that what he could see of Eric's coat it was obviously he was in need of some maintenance to be presentable.
"How long have you been out here," Dave asked as the car came to life.
"About 3 months now, I guess."
"What do you say we go to my place and get you all spiffed up? Looks like you could use a long hot bath and a thorough brushing."
"I would like that a lot!"
Shortly they pulled into a drive away, and Dave opened the garage door, and signaled that Eric should get out and walk into the garage.
Eric hesitated as he got out of the car, looking around almost as if he wondered if he would ever see day light again.
After they were both inside the garage Dave closed the door. Lights came on automatically and Eric noticeably relaxed, at least here in the garage were none of the things he was most afraid of seeing.
"Go ahead and take your clothes off, I have a tub right over there," Dave said indicating a small basin.
Eric reached around to his tail, and opened the buttons there and quickly was standing in just his fur. Dave almost gasped as he saw what poor condition his fur was in that had been hidden beneath clothes.
"I meant to ask, how old are you? Eight? Nine?" Dave asked as he started fumbling with the faucet filling up the small tub.
"I'm ten, just small for my age I guess."
They spent the next hour getting Eric's fur back into somewhat decent order, he layers and layers of dirt in several places. After Dave was finally satisfied, which happened to take five tubs of water, he finally motioned that Eric could leave the tub.
Eric got out and shook the water off him. Dave barely held up a towel in time so that he didn't get caught on the sudden rain storm.
Eric looked down at the floor, and whispered, "Sorry" when he noticed how wet every thing was.
"No problem, my boy, lets just get you dry and then we can give you a good brushing, what do you say?"
Eric stepped into the large towel, and allowed Dave to pat him all over. Eric's stomach growled noisily.
"I guess I should have asked, if you had eaten today yet?"
"This is one of the days I don't normally get food."
"Well we will need to change that, now won't we? Do you think you can handle being brushed first? Or do you want to eat something first?"
Eric's stomach growled again, "I guess I would like to eat something now, if that's OK."
"Come on, I think I got something in the fridge you will like," they started up the stairs to the house proper.
"Go ahead and sit at the table, I'll bring something to you."
The red fox sat at the table, with his back to the wall. It took a few moments for Dave to come back but when he did he had a large bib in one hand and a plate of food in the other.
"This, is so we don't get your handsome fur messed up after spending all that time getting you clean," he said holding out the large bib.
Eric didn't question, just grabbed the bib and slipped it over his head. Dave sat the plate of food in front of him, and Eric started drooling right away.
"Real chicken?"
"Of course, I probably should have asked, but assumed you like meat being fox based."
Eric didn't bother responding he just tore into the chicken. He didn't stop till he was about half way done with the bird.
"Sorry, were we supposed to share this?" he asked noticing that Dave was just watching him.
"No not at all, go ahead and finish the bird, its just a pleasure to watch a hungry boy eat."
With in minutes the bird was totally destroyed, even some of the bones seemed to have disappeared.
Eric let out a small burp, "xcuse me."
"Feeling better now?"
"Oh yes much better, but I have to pee now."
*~*
"There you go all brushed," Dave announced.
Eric let out a small yip of joy, and hugged Dave.
"Lets get you dressed, so we can go out to the movie, what do you think?"
Eric looked down and blushed slightly, having forgotten he had been nude for the past 3 hours.
"My clothes though, are all dirty, can't I go like this?"
Dave chuckled, "I wouldn't have a problem with that, but some people would. Besides, I have a surprise for you."
"A surprise? Really? For me?" Eric was practically bouncing with joy at this news.
"Follow me young fox," Dave replied as he walked down the hall.
"I hope there is something in here that will fit you. I've been watching you for a while trying to guess your measurements."
He opened a door to a bedroom that looked normal for a 10 year old boy, regardless of if he was human or Furminal.
Eric's maw opened as he stared into the room. A small tear managed to escape his eye. "You have a son," he managed to choke out.
"No, I wish I did. Go on and look in the dresser, the third drawer has some shorts that I think will fit you fine."
Eric went in and opened the drawer, and brought out a pair of blue shorts, he held them up to himself, and then tossed them on to the bed.
"Shirts are in the fourth drawer," Dave said answering the unasked question.
Eric couldn't help but bed far over, being that he was happy, his tail was sitting high up, so there was nothing to block Dave's view. All too quickly for Dave's taste Eric stood back up with a white shirt. He quickly slipped on the new clothes.
"You said something about a movie," Eric asked as he finished buttoning his tail.
"Yes I did, do you want to go see one?"
"Can we see one with lots of car crashes?" Eric asked wildly his tail wagging furiously.
"We'll have to see if there is one out, are you ready for us to go?"
"Yep, let's go!"
*~*
"He has to stay with you, we don't want his kind walking around the theater on his own," the manager said as he noticed Eric and Dave enter the theater.
Dave put his hand on Eric's shoulder, "Don't worry he won't be any trouble to you."
The got their sodas and popcorn and was about to enter the theater itself.
"Do you need to go before the movie starts?" he asked indicating the bathroom.
"No I'm good," Eric whispered back.
"You better not need to go, I don't want to miss any of the movie."
*~*
"Do you have really good hearing," whispered Dave.
Eric nodded his head
"When the house lights go off, if you do something I'll give you more money."
Eric pointed his ear nearest Dave toward him, and nodded again.
"These down at your ankles, whole movie," he said indicating the shorts.
Eric turned his head, his maw opened in surprise.
"You heard me," Dave replied not looking at the young foxling.
Soon the lights did go off as the previews started, Eric looked to either side of them, and saw they were on the isle a lone. They were sitting at the very back of the theater so he didn't have to worry about anyone besides him.
It kind of surprised Dave how quickly Eric was able to drop his shorts to the ground.
The movie started and was exactly what a 10 year old would want, plenty of noise and crashes. At one point Dave slipped his cell phone out of his pocket and made it light up, aiming it at Eric's crotch.
During one really exciting point when Dave happened to shine the light on him, he saw Eric's pink was several centimeters out. Before Eric knew what was going on, Dave was pinching his small member.
"That hurts," Eric whispered with a low growl
"Poor little boy, here I'll make it up to you," he said letting go Eric's boyhood, and put his ice cold cup directly against Eric's scrotum.
"Why are you doing this, you started out so nice."
"You want the money, this is the job, be my little toy. I spent a lot of time getting you presentable the least you can do is let me have my fun."
Eric closed his eyes, and tried to relax forgetting about the movie and the ice.
*~*
"The house lights are about to come back on, put yourself back together," Dave sneered picking up his soda which really wasn't that cold any more.
Eric opened his eyes and slipped his shorts back on, closing them up as all the humans expected him to. Resentfully he allowed Dave to lead him out to the car, as if he was still willingly going along as he was just a short 90 minutes before.
"I'm leaving now," Eric announced as they got back to the car.
"Day's not over yet, I won't pay you if you take off now."
"Keep your money," he said as he ran as fast as his little fox legs would carry him, soon disappearing into the corners that only the homeless knew about.