Chapter 23: Physicals and Triage

The next morning, Toby woke up to the sight of his mate's beautiful Auburn fur glow radiantly warming up in the cold winter morning sunlight. She had unwound and got very cozy to her sire during the night after he transformed into his therian form once his mother permitted him to do so. He let out a deep relaxed sigh, and he soon adjusted himself in a more comfortable position admiring the sight.

"Toby..." She muttered. He looked back down at her clutching onto him tightly. He smirked seeing that she was still in a deep sleep but acting completely on instinct. "...Toby..." Sasha muttered spooning with him happily. He reached over to run his claws over her shoulder causing her to stir and flex her fingers into his chest.

He closed eyes at the sharp pain, but he was given a rush of endorphins and dopamine floods his body in a sea of arousal and pleasure. His mate opened her eyes and growled at him seductively and crawled on top of him nipping at his ear. Her wolf instincts overpowering her to breed with him, which he gulped smelling her heat. "Uh, Are you there all the way?" he asked.

She rested her hands onto his chest then raised them up to the base of his neck as she lay on top of him. "I'm here...I feel like my body is screaming at me to be close to you" she said before she whimpered to herself. "Toby...what should we do? I've never felt like this before" she said feeling afraid and in need of his attention.

He looked at her sternly. "Sasha...what do you want me to do?" he asked as he reached up to caress the side of her face before she sat up looking down upon him intensely.

She thought about what might happen in the future, and she weighed her options. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. "Toby...I'm going to stop taking those pills. I want...If anything happens to you, I want to know I'm continuing your bloodline" she said as she placed her hand over his heart.

She opened her eyes and gazed upon him sincerely. "I don't want to bear Ian's pup either...I want you to deny him that satisfaction" she said. He nodded slowly before she leaned in to rub her muzzle up against head as she let out a heavy sigh. "Thank you...thank you so much" she said into his ear.

She soon shimmied down his body and backed her hind quarters into his phallus, sliding him up inside her preheated oven. She gave a soft moan as she rocked her entire body forward and back. She closed her eyes and arched her back already experiencing an enhanced tingling sensation building up within her. She gasped and hissed at some stinging, but that it soon went away.

She reached around gripping onto his back tightly while her claws dug passed his downy lawyer of fur. She buried her nose into his armpit smelling his musk that she had grown accustomed to. She breathed it in using it to cope with her traumatic experience. Whenever she felt those memories try to creep up, she inhaled deeply knowing just who she was with, and she knew that she was with the love of her life.

She was jarred loose from her conflict within when she felt his maw clamp down onto her neck. He gave a deep low murr as he nommed onto her neck. Her toes curled feeling a shot of euphoria surge through her body. "Toby! Easy there big guy!" she shrieked before she tensed up and laughed at how ticklish her neck was. She subconsciously turned her head away exposing more of her neck wanting more. This was a mate she was willing to do anything for, and she knew he had her back and return the favor.

She began to buck her hips into him trying to force that knot of his inside her core and give her what she wanted. She felt more pain as her insides stretched out to allow him complete copulation. Just like the times before, she was determined to achieve this at all costs. She began to pant and growl as she finally fitted the rest of him inside. She bared her teeth and gasped as she immediately clamped down and tied him off. Her mouth hung slightly agape, while she felt whole and satisfied.

•••

Once they finished mating and cleaned up, they entered the living room in their human forms where they met the pups. Zoe sat on the couch keeping guard over the tiny twins while they slept, and Haley rubbed the eldest boy's back as he had slumped over and held his head between his legs. Lilian emerged from the bedroom after checking on Todd and Olivia, which she let out a relieved sigh. "Olivia's memory is coming back, thank goodness" she said before she stared at Sasha. "Can you come with me? I need help with the Laundry" she said.

Sasha looked at her strangely before she realized it was a rouse to have a private talk as the washing machine started rattling around from entering its spin cycle. She nodded and followed her into the garage which she leaned against the drier looking at her intensely; although, she did not appear to be upset with her. "I wanted to let you know that we have already put a plan in place" she said before she let out a heavy sigh. "I'm going to ask Toby to donate his spermatozoa cells. That way...if he dies, you'll still be able to bear his pups posthumously" she said.

Sasha looked at her strangely, and she felt her gut tie up in a knot. She felt disgusted, but she did not know at what exactly. She sighed giving a slow nod. "I'd rather have him give me pups the natural way" she said.

Lilian touched her shoulder. "This is a backup. Look, I don't want Toby to die any less than you do, but..." she said before she gritted her teeth and her breathing grew shaky. "...They have nukes Sasha" she said lowly. Sasha's mouth dropped and stared into space blankly before she looked to the side biting into her cheek. Lilian embraced her and took in a deep breath. "Everything is going to be fucked up no matter what happens!" she sobbed.

Sasha frowned still lost in thought before she had a flash of inspiration. "Hey! Don't forget, they put my vlogs back up! I know a lot of people will watch them. Percy has been posting things up as well" she said. Lilian let out a weary sigh and went quiet not wanting to take away the only shred optimism left in the household.

•••

Inside the living room, the pups woke up to see Toby, which the little girl ran up to Toby and hugged his leg burying her face and sobbing into it. The little boy looked at Toby and stared into his eyes trying to determine whether or not to trust him, but his elder brother looked up and frowned knowing exactly who he was.

Toby's eye twitched and looked over at Zoe oddly. "So, what's going on here?" he asked.

The little girl looked up at him and whimpered. "We're orphans. A bunch of mean Thralls attacked our clan...Mommy and Daddy told us to find some place safe" she said.

The little boy looked back at Zoe and relaxed. "Sean and Zoe told us about how stwong you and your daddy were. We were thinking since you are so stwong we could stay with you" he said.

Toby sighed. "I don't think using my father as some indicator that I'm strong, besides...my father is dead..." he said.

Zoe looked at him oddly before rolling her eyes at him. The little girl was quiet and rubbed her nose into Toby's leg. "Please! You're a big strong Wolfgang! Mommy and Daddy have told me all about nobles..." she said.

Toby's eye twitched and growled. He slowly gave in and ruffled the little girl's head. "You're going to have to ask my mom. She's in charge of this den" he said.

The eldest smiled at Toby's confusion. "That's not what they meant. Tammy and Sammy are afraid of the dark" he said.

"Am not..." Sammy protested.

The eldest rolled his eyes. "Trust me...They are...especially the boogieman" he said.

Toby laughed slightly. "Wow, that's kind of ironic when you think about it..." he said.

"But the boogieman is weal Sean...he was with those Twalls! You saw him...he was no werewolf..." Sammy whined.

Toby and the others looked at the twins curiously. "The boogieman?" Toby asked.

Sammy nodded. "He was huge, He could touch the sky and..." he said.

Toby sighed. "Don't worry...the boogieman won't be coming around here...not if I have anything to say about it!" he said.

He looked up at his mother and Sasha coming back into the room, which Lilian smiled at him. He pretended he did not see, but he could not ignore his mate when she huddled up to her beloved mate and reached up placing her hand over his chest. She looked at the kids with a frown, and her heart began to ache. "How did you manage to make it all this way without getting caught?" she asked nicely.

Sammy smiled. "We were hobos..." he said

"We found one of your gammas along the way, and he brought us here" Sean said.

Toby sighed as his mate stroked his chest endearingly. "What is your last name?" he asked the boy.

He smiled. "My name is Sean Silbergiftzahn" he said.

Toby thought for a moment as he tried placing a face to that surname. "I think I've met your father before. His name was Liam right? You're his pups aren't you?" he asked.

Tai came out of the kitchen smirked as he sat down with a plate of breakfast meats. "Well would you look at that...looks like you've got some Alpha pups to raise" he said.

Toby gasped. "Raise!? What!? You think I'm capable of raising pups?" he yelled.

Zoe snickered to herself and gave him a mischievous grin knowing just what Sasha was trying to get him to do. "Sounds like good practice for you two in my opinion" she teased before she reached over to ruffle Sammy's head. "They are well behaved. Hardly even fair to call them proper practice" she said.

Lilian laughed. "You do a good job with helping Yvonne's pups so far, I don't see what the problem is with taking them in. If you won't I sure will...I could use the extra paws to help around the den" she said.

Sean frowned. "I thought that if we came here, we would see the best. I hope that we'd end up descant Alphas..." he said before Sasha interrupted.

"You will be...I know you can. You are right! They are the best!" she said with overflowing confidence.

Toby sighed. "Fine...I'll do it..." he muttered reluctantly.

His mate smiled and pulled him down for an approving peck on the cheek while she kneaded his ears. "You're a good wolf, Toby..." she said before she draped her arms over his shoulders and leaned her forehead into his. "I want to do anything I can to help...and I know you'd make a great father" she said softly. He blushed at this, and she gave him a smooch. "You've already rubbed off onto Todd...I know it'll happen with them just as easily, big bad" she said amorously.

•••

Later at the werewolf clinic, they watched Lilian take off ahead of them in the parking lot, and then he took Sasha's hand walking with her into the clinic lobby. There was a lot of barking dogs heard echoing inside. The door to one of the rooms was open, which Dr. Lovejoy's assistant was wrapping a dog's hurt leg. The dog whimpered. "Owie!"

"I know it hurts, but we need to keep the swelling down...so quit squirming!" The nurse growled.

The short doctor walked into the lobby room, and she eyed Toby with a wily grin. "It's been a long time since I've seen you without some sort of traumatic injury" she said.

He scowled at her, and Sasha suppressed a giggle. The doctor motioned for them to follow her into the maze of corridors in the deceptively large clinic. "So since you've reached your prime or close to it, I'm going to give you a full examination...all of your forms" she said before she looked back at Sasha. "Since you're new to our files, I'm going to give you the same examination" she said.

Sasha nodded meekly before she looked up at Toby. "Toby...I don't know how to transform on my own like you can" she muttered.

The doctor laughed to herself lightly as she opened the door to a large examination area. "You aren't expected to know how to transform. I can provide some sort of stimulation for that" she said before she glanced back at her. "That's why I chose to do this when Toby is here" she said before she walked over to the personal computer at the wall. "We've been pretty busy with thralls as of late, so our drugs are in short supply" she said before she grumbled to herself, "Doesn't help that some of the drugs got stolen"

"Stolen?" He asked.

She looked back at him and scratched the back of her head. "Was I rambling again?" she muttered. She swiveled her chair around and set her hands on her knees. "We've caught the one stealing the drugs. It's been dealt with" she said nonchalantly. Her gaze narrowed upon him before she scooted her chair up to him. "Please, take a seat" she said in a commanding tone.

Sasha's hand dug underneath Toby's arm, and she began scratching at his chest as he sat down on the table. Toby blushed catching the doctor smiling at them. "I see what she is to you...she sure knows how to make you a very happy wolf" she teased before looking to the chart on her tablet.

Sasha grinned from ear to ear. "I'm one lucky wolf. I sure hope to have pups with him someday...I really do. I can't really imagine life without him" she said before she started nuzzling her nose into his neck. "I am glad that he popped up in my life"

The doctor smiled at her. "I would put some confidence in his ability to survive. He's got a tight intelligent network of friends does he not?" she asked before she motioned for him to stand up. "I'm impressed with Clare. She knew beforehand what would happen if she touched Toby's blood, but she still went in to help" she said as Toby stood in front of the measuring bar.

"What happened to Clare? Is she under quarantine?" Sasha asked.

The doctor shook her head as she slid the bar up the track. "Naw, she's just an outpatient at this point. I gave her a number and told her to call me if she experiences anything out of the norm...oooh! 7 feet and a half! You're about two and a half inches away from your father's height" she said before Toby looked over at her oddly.

The doctor laughed to herself. "You know, for all the time you spent in bed, I think you'll grow about an inch taller than your father" she teased him. She touched this back and escorted him to the scale, which she shook her head. "You're still about a hundred pounds lighter than him" she said as she pecked away at her tablet.

She scooted over to her computer and started looking through her records. "Well, well, well...you're about the same height as Bernie is right now. Just about a hundred-twenty pounds lighter" she commented.

The she reached over for her mug and she took a sip of coffee. Sasha could smell the aroma, and she remembered the things she could not have. "Um...I thought we couldn't drink anything with a lot of caffeine in it? Or is it decaf?" she asked.

The doctor looked over at her oddly before she looked down at her cup. "Decaf doesn't do anything for me" she said before she grinned. "Only a couple sips are what I need" she said playing with the measuring tape. "You know, I monitor my caffeine dosage. As long as I don't go over 260 milligrams in a day, I should be fine" she said while her hands shook subtly.

She motioned for Sasha to go through the same routine as Toby, while she created a new file. She swiveled around and scooted back over to Sasha who was standing underneath the measuring bar. She took notes in her tablet before she Lilian entered the room appearing very impatient. The doctor ignored her as she took the measurements. "Alright, five feet six inches" she said before she ushered her over to the scale. She looked over at Toby and shook her head at him. "Why are you looking?" she asked.

He glared at her. "You guys looked when I was on!" he said before he crossed his arms over his chest in protest. "I don't appreciate double-standards! Zoe doesn't give a shit if anyone looks!" he stated.

The doctor rolled her eyes as she wrote down Sasha's weight, but Sasha laughed. "I don't care. I've lost forty pounds anyway" she said before she smiled back over at him happily.

Lilian looked towards Toby then at the doctor. "How long is this going to take?" she asked.

The doctor shrugged her shoulders. "Beats me...Toby has 4 forms, so I'll say 10 minutes if he cooperates. If not I'll get the muzzle and even the cattle prod" she said smirking.

His lip quivered and muttered in a wimpy whinny tone. "Cattle...Prod?"

"Then I'm going to have to work on Sasha...don't know how long that's going to take, but I'm guessing about an hour" she said.

Toby whimpered and slowly walked off. He could imagine the scenario already. He started to cringe at the thought with the shocky twingy thingy from hell. He walked with a very awkward robotic like stride.

The doctor's eye twitched and shouted, "Oh knock that off Toby! You know Olivia didn't put up half the fuss you are doing right now. Now drop your clothes and let's get this over with!"

"Olivia does not know what Dr. Lovejoy is capable of..." Toby said timidly while he undressed.

Dr. Lovejoy came up with the measuring tape. "If you are a good boy then there's a big strip of beef jerky in it for you" she said grinning.

Toby went silent before he sighed heavily. "Kay..." he said.

Dr. Lovejoy smiled. "Alright, shift into your anthro form and stand on the scale for me" she said pointing to the industrial grade scale. Toby walked over to the scale and stood on it looking at her transforming into his anthro state. She was looking at the display and looked back at him. "You've gained 45 pounds" she said happily.

Toby looked at her oddly and looked at his gut. "I'm not that fat am I?" he asked worriedly.

Dr. Lovejoy was writing on her clipboard. "No...it's mostly muscle, skeletal, and organ mass...your growth spurts have been preventing any adipose tissue from growing" she said while writing. She looked over at Sasha inquisitively. "I suspect that you will gain some increase in height, perhaps a two to three inches. I'm looking into the altered effects of puberty in thralls. Todd's been a gracious case study for me. Turns out his estrogen levels have gone way down thanks to the hormones" she said.

"So, will he get massive muscles like Toby?" Sasha asked.

"Nah, Toby's condition is hereditary not transmitted. It's the lycanthropic hormones that I'm referring to" the doctor said before she took in a deep breath seeing Sasha begin to panic and rightfully so. "I'm going to be learning a lot from you Sasha. Maybe Lycanthropy will reverse your AES; maybe it will remain the same. Just leave it to us Whywolves to figure out. Just remember how super rare this condition is, okay? It's nothing to worry over" she reassured her.

"I wonder which gene will dominate once you have pups with him" she muttered into her coffee cup.

Toby looked back at her and scowled. "What are you going on about?" he asked.

The doctor looked over at him and cleared her throat. "Well, your genes and Sasha's are polar opposites. I'm just saying you'd have some pretty interesting looking pups" she said before she looked over at Lilian. "Hey! You think their pups might look like Sephiroth?"

Lilian giggled and nodded. "You know, I had that cross my mind too"

"Oh, they are really going to be the pick of the litter aren't they?" The doctor said before she looked back at Toby. "Alright, go to the wall" she said looking down at her clipboard.

Toby walked over towards the wall with tape placed between certain intervals. Having done this before, Toby stepped behind a strand of tape on the floor. The doctor stood behind the camera and took his picture. "Turn please..." she said. Toby sighed and turned to the side. After Toby's mug shot, the doctor took the tape to various places on his body.

Toby glared and his eye twitched uncontrollably. "This is so humiliating" he said.

The doctor looked at Toby indifferently. "I've seen plenty of naked werewolves before...including your parents. Don't know why you are so insecure all of the sudden. You've only grown a couple inches" she said before those words sunk in a little. "Err...in height" she said.

Toby grumbled and started to transform into his therian stage. The doctor looked back at Toby and smirked. "Well, you've grew a good couple of feet" she said beginning to write again. "Must be a Wolfgang thing...50% larger size increase than Bernie" she muttered cheerfully as she scribbled into the notes.

The doctor took Toby's mug shot and his measurements. She grinned. "You're a couple inches taller than Bernie in this form...He has a couple records. Which you've already broken" she said.

"I did?" Toby asked looking down at her.

The doctor laughed. "Yep...though, Bernie is still way heavier" she said. She took Toby to the scale and grinned looking at the display. "145 more pounds than last time" she said happily.

He looked himself over and wagged his tail happily. The doctor took another mug shot, and she struggled with getting his measurements. "Oh sweet mother of Jesus!" she said unable to fit the tape around his chest.

"Just get a bigger Tape measure" He said in a monstrous tone.

The doctor looked at him funny. "That was the biggest..." she said scared.

He let out a deep annoyed sigh as the doctor climbed off from him. She patted his back. "Well at least you are as big as Ian...and not as stupid" she said optimistically.

He cocked his head before the hairs in his neck stood up. "What do you mean...not as?" he asked before he growled.

The doctor tried to act as if she was not afraid of him. "Well, You see...Ian is smart yet stupid, and you are incredibly smart yet...totally normal...err I don't know, you do like to play stupid a lot" she said smiling nervously.

Sasha laughed out loud, and they both looked over at her oddly. "He does! He's been teaching me all about biology and politics not too long ago" she said. He soon relaxed, and his mother shook her head at them while leaning into the wall.

The doctor let out a huge sigh of relief and regained her composure. "Just transform and you'll get your Jerky" she said loosely.

Toby stood up and stretched. "Alright but it better be one good strip of jerky...I don't Tf into my Lycaon form very often" he muttered. He soon shifted into a giant wolf before stretched out his back to limber up like a dog would. He was bigger than a horse and had no human traits remaining.

The doctor's eyes widened with shock and awe. "Ooh...wow...you have a fantastic aura for your age" she muttered nearly dropping her tablet. She gulped and laughed nervously. "You are a really big boy aren't you?" she said timidly.

"Can he talk?" Sasha asked.

"Not very well" Lilian said casually.

"Good boy...now stay" The doctor said happily. She took the last of his mug shots and started to take his measurements. She ruffled his fur and grinned. "Such a nice silky soft coat you have" she said happily. She lifted up his chops to look at his teeth. "My, what big teeth you have..." she teased before he shook off the slobber from her hand.

Sasha was perplexed as to why the doctor was treating him in this way, so she looked back at Lilian nervously. "Is Toby still Toby in this form?"

"Yea, he's in full control" She said as she approached her. "I don't remember him telling you this, but one thing that makes natural born werewolf different than thralls is that there's no separation between their wolf side and their human side...it's just never existed" she said before she sighed heavily. "Even though that makes him less dangerous in his more advanced forms...he's even more dangerous in human form" she said before she sighed heavily.

Sasha frowned thinking back on all the times he had lashed out. "What do you mean by that exactly? Towards me or towards others? Why didn't I go out of control last night?" she asked.

"I mean for others. You have a tight relationship. As for why you didn't go out of control...you and your wolf simply wanted the same thing. It happened to me when I turned, but you'll notice you don't have as much control over your wolf later on. Although...since you're more accepting of your urges, so maybe you'll be able to cope better than I could" she answered.

"Why? Have you not gotten a handle on being a werewolf?" Sasha asked.

"Well, I have later on, but I was foolish to think that trying to repress myself would go without consequence. I had Toby do it too, but my mother is still embarrassed that my son and I are werewolves. Toby tries to do it from time to time, but I think you and Zoe have done a superb job in unlearning the bad habit. I was just so worried that he'd draw attention to himself and bring in hunters" she said before she looked towards Toby. "I'm glad you can accept his behavior and for what he is" she said.

Toby watched them listening in on the conversation while the doctor was making measurements. "Come on...get onto the scale" She said as she slapped at his croup. He got up and padded his way over to the scale and sat down. She looked at the scale and smiled happily. "195 pounds more than last time" she said before she finished up on her notes. She grabbed his clothes and set them in front of him. "You can turn back to your base form now..." she said.

He reverted to his human form and started to put his clothes back on. He looked towards the doctor who was reaching into her desk for a bag of treats, which she bumped a dog toy making it squeak loudly. "So how many records I break?" he asked grinning. The doctor threw a huge bag of Jerky his way, and he snatched it in midair. "Sweetness!!" he said cheerfully. He ripped the bag open and started gnawing at the Jerky.

The doctor rolled her stool to cupboard, and she pulled out a key from her pocket. "You've not broken any so far...but you're on your way. I'd say your stature is very impressive now..." she said as she unlocked the latch. She put on gloves then she pulled out a plastic bag from a box in the bottom shelf before she took a deep breath. "...Right then..."

She glanced over at Lilian awkwardly before she shook her head. "Are you going to donate your sperm to our program?" she asked.

He looked up at her confused before he looked back towards his mother, which Sasha nodded at him. "It's okay...they already explained it to me" she said.

The doctor ripped open the bag and wrote, "Tobias Wolfgang" on a sticker in sharpie before she handed a sheet of instructions and the sample container to him.

"Sasha take him into the bathroom and help him out. You can explain everything to him when you get there...I need to speak to Dr. Lovejoy anyway" she said.

Sasha nodded and marched over to grab his hand before she dragged him out. The doctor beckoned Lilian to follow her into her office where she sat down at a computer and opened up google maps. Lilian sat down and sighed heavily, and she doctor took a sip from her mug. "I'm wanting to get your opinion on where we should place Westside triage. I was thinking about OHSU, but now that they have nukes, I'm beginning to second guess myself on that" she said.

Lilian bit her lip and gulped. "I would sequester supplies from there and bring them into the Washington Park Station. Maybe we could use the light rail vehicles as a mode of transport from the wounded inside and even as mobile hospital rooms. It's nearly three hundred feet underground, and it should have generators inside. It could provide shelter from an indirect nuclear blast and fallout" she said.

The doctor nodded in agreement before she sighed heavily. "I'm going to have Haley work the Eastside. She's already donated her ova...her duty as a physician is more important than her being on the surrogate list" she stated.

Lilian nodded understanding her reasoning. "I don't think she will be in much risk anyway, right?"

The doctor shrugged before she pointed to Powell Butte on the map. "She said she was going to place her station near here. She said it would be a good area for medevac, but I hope Eastside won't be as much of a target as the urban core" she said before she pulled out her phone to call Bernie and fill him in on their preliminary decision.

Thirty minutes later, Sasha and Toby came back with a half way filled container, which he awkwardly handed it to the doctor. She stuck the label on the sample container as Lilian came in with a giant industrial sized dewar flask filled with Liquid Nitrogen. Lilian opened the lid and pulled out a metal rack using gloves, and the doctor set the container on the rack before Lilian submerged the rack down into the frigid liquid.

Toby and Sasha were very self-conscious about the whole thing, but the doctor looked over at Sasha and smiled. "Sasha...would you like to volunteer yourself as a surrogate?" she asked.

Sasha's eyes widened before she looked over at Toby. "Uh! I-I-I'm not sure. Aren't I supposed to be 18?" she asked nervously.

"It's 16 for werewolves actually; its 18 when you can adopt the pup...Look, if you are a surrogate, you can have access to Toby's spermatozoa cells at any time you wish. Just in case" she said.

Sasha looked back at him, which he shrugged. "It's up to you"

She sighed and bit her lip. "Alright, but...will other werewolves have access to Toby's...genetic material?" she asked.

The doctor nodded. "Yes, although they cannot actively seek his genes out. It's given out randomly and with anonymity. A werewolf has a right to seek out their late-mate's sample upon request. We will have him registered at your mate, and you be guaranteed access to it. You can also nominate a female to receive your mate's sample if you so choose. You can also choose to host a zygote or with your own ova for a barren female or a same-sex couple"

Sasha thought about it before she nodded. "Okay, I will join your surrogate program. I want to help out in any way I can" she said.

Toby began to feel less embarrassed about his decision, but he began to wonder. "So, are there a bunch of half-brothers and sisters of mine in the clan then?" he asked.

The doctor nodded. "There are a few out there" she said as she tossed her gloves into the trash. "Alright...time to get a few drugs, then I'll come back to start with Sasha's physical" she said as she left the room.

Lilian opened up a file cabinet and pulled out a folder labeled, "Steele Wolfgang" which it revealed medical details about him. She showed Toby the pictures of his father in all forms and compared them to the pictures of him. "Are these to scale?" he asked looking back at forth. He set the pictures aside and looked at his father's records. "Let's see..." he muttered looking at the size of his father's Therian forms. "Father was 13 feet 6 inches and 850 pounds" he read off.

His mother nodded. "He was quite large" she said.

Sasha was very impressed, and she gripped onto him allowing her wolf instincts to take over as she could see that it had the same emotional attachments and sexual desires as her primal id, only now it was amplified through constructive interference. No defense mechanism made by her super-ego was going to withhold her from her wolfman. It was a fundamental need that was the result of eons of evolution set for her to seek the strongest male and form a pack. "Yea, Toby's quite large already" she said dreamily as her fingers wondered his chest.

The doctor came back in the room with a pouch of syringes and vials of liquids. Toby gulped awkwardly as he rubbed Sasha's back. "Um...Is Sasha going to be in heat this season, or not?" he asked.

The doctor looked at Sasha and raised an eyebrow noting her lupine behavior in full manifest. "Uh...she might be entering estrus" she said before she took in a deep breath. "It's about that time for all the females to do so anyway, but I'm ninety percent confident that she won't ovulate this season" she said.

Sasha looked at her disappointed. "Is there a way to, um...trick my body into ovulating?" she asked.

The doctor looked at her oddly and nodded. "There is...but that brings a bunch of risks...I don't think you want your hormones messed around with. It could end up with gigantomastia, ovarian cysts, and a whole bunch of other unpleasant things. I would just let nature take its course for now. We got you covered" she advised her.

Sasha bit her lip and looked towards Toby anxiously, which he rubbed her back reassuringly. "Sasha...maybe we should stick to our original plans. Everything is hypothetical right now. You'll be the mother my pups okay?" he said. Deep down he felt terrible for asking if she was pregnant before all the chaos happened.

Lilian and the doctor knew all too well the feelings and stigma that are attached to miscarriage and pseudopregnancies. The doctor looked tapped Sasha on the shoulder and smiled warmly. "Let's get this taken care of" she said as she gently led her over to the area where Toby undressed. "I'm going to give you a shot of Epinephrine and other werewolf hormones. You're going to feel a rush and then hot all over" she said as she plunged the needle into the vial. Lilian whipped her shoulder with a rubbing alcohol pad.

Sasha nodded and gulped watching the doctor flick at the syringe then she stuck the needle into her shoulder. She could feel tingling sensations as the chemicals quickly made her arm transform. Her heart began to accelerate, and the forced transformation made her skin feel like it was on fire as the transfiguration front propagated away from the injection site.

The doctor stared at her in shock and took a few steps back to soak in the results. "Therian?" she muttered before she looked towards Toby. "You must have some potent strain there" she said before he began her measurements. "Six feet ten inches..." she read off.

Sasha's ears flattened back, and she whimpered in disappointment. "Why isn't my size change as drastic as Toby's?" she asked, which he gave her a strange look having a strange sense of déjà vu.

The doctor scratched the back of her head, and she glanced back over at Toby. "Well...You are in the 15.9th percentile part of the growth chart, and Toby's in the 99.9th percentile. I'm just going to put it out there, just like humans, not all werewolves have the same transformation. Some grow bigger in relation to proportions than others. Some don't have as much control as others, and some have...bigger body parts than others. We can tell each other apart more easily that way" she said before she giggled to herself. "I think you have really nice fur though. That's a really rare trait to have" she complimented.

"Thanks...I was worried that everyone would think that I was a werevixen" Sasha said nervously.

The doctor laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "Um, we prefer to be called kitsune" she said.

Sasha stared at her blankly before her face went bright red upon realizing how bad her comment sounded. "Oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean that kitsune were bad! I just didn't want to be misidentified!" she quickly corrected herself.

The doctor swatted at her rear and laughed. "I know what you meant." She walked over to the PC and calmly said, "You're free to go after the drug wears off" before she sat down on her stool to begin writing her evaluation.

Half an hour later, Sasha reverted into her human form and got her clothes back on. They were in a room with Lilian's newborn pups, and Sasha stared at them transfixed at how fragile and tiny they were inside the incubator chamber. Lilian stood over them with love in her eyes before she looked over at her son and his mate. "I think you should put off making pups for now...just until you get settled into your own place. Don't stray from your original plans, okay?"

Sasha nodded and Toby continued to stare into the chamber feeling bad for his siblings. Sasha squeezed his hand and smiled amorously. "Did you hear all that?" she asked before she nuzzled up against his shoulder. He nodded slowly and let out a deep sigh. "I love you big bad" she spoke softly.

Lilian looked back into the chamber and beamed with satisfaction. "I know you know he can provide for you, but it would sit better with me if you just let your love grow past infatuation. Help me with my pups...You've got plenty of opportunity with those pups also. Right?"

Sasha nodded once more before she let out a deep heavy sigh. "Yea...I've been thinking about those little guys also. I think Toby might need it more than I do" she suggested.

Lilian placed her hand on the glass and frowned not wanting to part from her babies. "Mama loves you! I have to take care of a few things okay?" she said before she headed out of the room, which Toby and Sasha followed close behind. She stopped in the lobby noticing a Bernie walking into the clinic, which he quickly learned over the desk and cleared his throat. The assistant looked up and jerked back seeing the immense wall of a sheriff.

"So how's was his physical?" he asked before he looked back at Toby who was about to put a hand on the door. "Where do you think you're going!?" his voice boomed causing the assistant to flinch as he reached for the tablet full of Toby's files. Toby looked back at him confused not bridging the connection at all as to why Bernie was there, but Bernie looked through the charts and laughed. "So he's going to be just like his old man is he? Perfect!" he muttered.

"I know right?" The doctor said while still working on the dog in the other room. She sighed. "Anyway, Lilian and I spoke about triage and a makeshift hospital not too long ago" she said.

Bernie looked up and frowned. "Oh yea? Where do you think we should place them?" he asked.

The Doctor paused for a moment. "Somewhere close and somewhat protected...If you can get the Washington Park MAX station cleared out that would be ideal. Also make sure to have some strong werewolves to give us some muscle" she said.

Bernie nodded. "Okay, I'll make that a priority" he said.

The doctor sighed. "So why are you really here?" she asked.

Bernie looked over at Toby and sighed heavily. "I just stopped by to tell Toby that the Elders had a meeting not too long ago, and we are going to hold his ceremony today" he told them.

Toby's eye twitched at this news, and his mother raised an eyebrow before she looked back at Bernie not too sure what to think, but he looked back at her and cracked a smile. Sasha grinned ear to ear with this news, and she pushed on him for his unenthusiastic response. "What are you being so weird about this? Isn't this supposed to be a high honor?" she asked.

"Of course it is!" Bernie barked.

Toby looked over at Bernie and groaned. "I don't have to give a speech do I?" He interrupted.

Bernie scratched his head before he laughed. "Well of course you have to. It's all a part of the role" he said with an evil smirk.

"I know you can do it" Lilian said.

Toby moaned and looked off to the side trying to avoid all the eyes stared at him. "Stupid fucking speeches" He muttered under his breath.

Sasha could not help but giggle. "Poor Toby" She said in an amused tone.

"Yea, Poor me!" Toby said sarcastically before he started to walk off to the door. "...and Toby..." The doctor said. Toby stopped and looked back. The doctor looked back at him and Sasha. "I want our new Alpha to kick Pete's ass!" she said with a growl.

Toby smiled. "I will at least try..." he said modestly.

"Tch, this is coming from a wolf that could lift a car at age 10" she said skeptically.

Sasha glanced at Toby, and her jaw dropped somewhat impressed. "A car! That young!" she shrieked.

Toby pinched his fingers together, and put it up sheepishly gesturing that it was small. "It was a Civic..." he said trying to stay humble.

Sasha laughed. "Wow...you were pretty strong when you were young too. I bet you and Zoe caused a lot of chaos together didn't you?" she said very impressed. Bernie chortled in the back as he continued to skim through the tablet, which Sasha took that response as confirmation.

Lilian opened the door and held it looking back at them. "I'll see you later" The doctor said waving.

Toby and Sasha walked out of the doors and passed by a sign that said, "Tualatin Canine specialists". Sasha looked back at the place and smiled. "I thought this place was an ordinary veterinary hospital..." she muttered to herself.

Lilian smirked. "It is...but it's also a Werewolf clinic. Patricia is most experienced in werewolf medicine. She helped me with learning all the ins and outs of werewolf physiology and anatomy" she commented.

"So I know this is a silly question, but do wolves get sick too?" she asked smiling weakly.

"Mhmm, although most human diseases we're immune to..." he said casually.

"You ever get sick?" she asked curiously.

"He got the Dog flu last spring...He was out for two days. I nearly blew my budget on chicken noodle soup" his mother chimed in.

Sasha face lit up. "So anything dogs can get wolves can too?" she asked.

Toby nodded whimpering slightly. "But when we get sick, boy...someone is going to need make a barrel full of Chicken noodle soup" he said.

Sasha laughed. "With his appetite now it would take a Tanker" she said rubbing his upper back.

As they drove back home, Sasha was skimming through articles on the internet, while Toby rested his feet across her lap. She looked up at him and sighed happily seeing an expert able to ask any question she desired and more intelligent than the AI in her phone. "So Toby...just how did werewolves come into existence? I mean, not the folklore, but...do you guys have a scientific answer?" she asked.

Toby looked up at her and shrugged. "I guess, but it doesn't explain everything" he answered.

"Doesn't matter...I wanna know what you know" she said as squeezed his calf.

He scratched the back of his head and smiled. "Alright then...Well, it began some 20,000 years. Either by an act of fate or luck, an asteroid cluster was passing by earth when some of the bigger pieces got captured by earth's gravity. We suspect these other pieces would give raise to Werebats, Nagas, Dridders, Werecats, Minotaurs, Merfolk, and so forth.

Based off of old folklore, archeology, and climatology, we've concluded that werewolves came from Doggerland. My ancestor was one of clan leaders...He was the original Wolfgang. He and the clan saw the bright flash in the sky and a fireball stream towards the mountains. The elder elected one of his strongest to help investigate. When they arrived they were encountered by a rabid wolf. They ended up killing it, and it fell into the crater.

My ancestor picked the wolf and the rock out of the crater and left. Somehow it turned out that a Rabies virus or whatever it had mutated in the wolf and absorbed it's DNA and his as well. Anyway, a month later, when his pregnant mate consumed the undercooked flesh of that contaminated wolf and a month later they both got sick, they started acting strangely, and the tribe grew concerned of the supernatural. Later that night he and his wife transformed and the clan banished them

Leader and his wife were left to survive on their own. They were stranded in a cave and soon the first true werewolves were born...One that could fully retain their mind while being in werewolf form. These were the nobles...The first wolves to have full consciousness...and they all were quite big. When they grew up they spread out. Some of them went west to the British Isles, some east to Scandinavia, and some south to Deutschland. You already know how well we breed" he said with an awkward laugh.

"That sounds like something your dad would say" his mother commented before she giggled to herself. "Maybe you two can focus on writing a speech for later" she added.

His eye twitched and he crossed his arms over his chest growling. "Ficken Reden!"