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The Man of My Dreams

By Green

"Look into my eyes..."

The jackal smirked as the sun bear intoned those words in a faux-serious tone, theatrically holding the first two fingers on his left hand against his temple while his right hand offered the handsome canid a fanned out hand of cards, facing the jackal.

"Keep your breathing even, focus your thoughts, and pick a card..." the bear said. The jackal, visibly amused, lifted his hand.

"I'll take... this one," he said, obediently grabbing a card.

"Don't let me see it," the sun bear was quick to say, "Just memorize your card, keep the image of the card clear in your mind... and look, once again, into my eyes!"

Further down the bar, another sun bear was struggling to look nonchalant, but he was proving unable to keep a crooked smile off his face. Fortunately, anyone in the pub who wasn't looking at the TV or their own drink was looking at the card trick. Sun bears were on the skinny side for their famously thicc species, and their limbs were longer than usual, giving them a slightly odd appearance for those more familiar with North American varieties of bears, but right now, that didn't much seem to bother the jackal making eyes at the bear with the cards.

"Picture the card in your mind..." he said, then grinned. "Your right eyebrow is twitching, so it's not a face card." The wild dog narrowed his eyes slightly, but said nothing.

"Don't think I don't see those fingers tapping against the table," the bear continued, nodding towards the jackal's free hand, "That suggests it's an even number..."

"What?" chuckled the jackal, "How do you figure that?"

"Shh, shh, I've almost got it..." the bear replied, winking at him, "I'm looking in your mind, and I see... the curve of infinity, looping around to bite its own tail - it's an eight!"

The jackal laughed, but said nothing, just leaned forward in his seat, his tail wagging behind the hole in his chair. This was the closest to 'lively' the place had gotten all night, and even people who weren't involved seemed a little more relaxed as the sun bear put on his little act. The jaded badger bartender watched in silence with something close to interest as he polished a glass. On the opposite side of the magic trick from the other sun bear, an elephant watched with rapt attention, his massive hand gripping his pint glass a little too tightly. He didn't seem to be particularly relaxed at all, just staring intensely at the younger men and their card game.

The sun bear had fallen quiet, scratching his chin with the hand he'd put the cards down with.

"Hmmm... suit is always the hard part..." he murmured, squinting at the jackal as if trying to read some tiny text on his face. Really, he was just deciding whether or not he should try to get the guy's number.

'As we say on the sales floor, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take,' he thought to himself. Of course, getting a little unwitting inside info from the target itself tended to help make bullseyes a lot easier. Finally, he lifted his hand and pointed at the happy canine's smile.

"The way your smile goes higher on the left than on the right means either it's a heart, or you're in love with me," the bear declared, sitting up a little straighter, "My friend, is your card... the eight of hearts?" Sighing even as he continued to grin, the jackal turned his card around to reveal the eight of hearts.

"Damn!" said the sun bear, as the jackal began to laugh, "Oh well, at least I won!"

Handing the card back over, the jackal regarded the bear.

"Okay, you did win," he admitted, "I owe you a drink." Shuffling up the cards and returning them to a well-worn cardboard box, the bear was about to make some witty remark or other when the jackal reached out and placed a hand on his forearm.

"Hey... what's your name, stranger?" he asked, "It's the least you could tell me, after rooting around in my mind." Giving the jackal a rather warm smile, the bear took hold of his hand and shook it, giving it a firm squeeze before letting go.

"I'm Teddy," he replied, "It's very nice to meet you." The canine chuckled.

"I'm sorry, but - really? Teddy?" the dog asked, incredulously. The bear was already rolling his hand in an 'I know, I know' gesture.

"Yes, yes, it's terrible, but what am I gonna do? My parents named me Theodore," he said, "Teddy was kind of inevitable."

"I can sympathize," the jackal responded, "The name's John... but my family still calls me Jack." Teddy grimaced.

"Oooh, that is bad," he said, "There ought to be a law against pun names." John grinned at that, then regarded the bear curiously.

"You know," the canid said, "the card trick was fun and all, but the part that really impressed me was how confident you were when you were flirting with me. I mean, this isn't a gay bar or anything, and not a lot of people are able to pick me out as gay like that. So how'd you know? And don't say it was magic!" Teddy chuckled and shrugged.

"Finely-honed gaydar," he said, matter-of-factly, as he winked at the other male, "Trade secret."

It was not, in fact, gaydar.

Teddy smiled warmly at the jackal with unabashed bedroom eyes.

"So, John, I believe you were gonna buy me a drink..."

The canine reached out and placed his hand atop the one the bear had moved down to the bar, gently stroking the fur on the back of Teddy's hand with the pads on his fingers. Teddy shivered at the light sensation, and also at the look in John's eyes.

"I was thinking I might buy you a couple drinks, actually..." John murmured, his voice much lower, more sensual, "And then - actually, you know what? You're the mind-reader, you tell me what I'm thinking now..." In Teddy's opinion, the slight leer in the man's eyes told him everything he needed to know, but it never hurt to check.

"Hmmm..." he replied, lowering his voice to match. This time he didn't bother touching his temples or putting on a production. "You're thinking... that you would very much like to kiss me, and wondering if I'd be willing to get a room tonight." John laughed delightedly as the two males began to lean in closer.

"Excellent guess, Kreskin," he teased, reaching up and stroking Teddy's face.

Teddy was about to compliment the vintage reference, and then to make out with John like there was no tomorrow, but he was interrupted by a rather loud voice off to his left.

"That's enough of that bullshit!" It was the elephant from the end of the bar, who now looked absolutely livid as he stomped over to the two men.

"Leave 'em alone, George, they ain't hurtin' anyone," said the bartender, as he made a suddenly nervous ferret a screwdriver, but the elephant just pointed at him with his trunk as his hands remained curled into meaty fists.

"Just stay the fuck outta this!" he said, threateningly, before looking back to the jackal and bear. "I've had it up to here with you queers fagging up my bar!" He pointed angrily towards the two men with his trunk while simultaneously, and rather menacingly, cracking the knuckles on one hand, then the other. Distantly, Teddy admitted that was a very nice bit of theatricality.

"I heard one'a you say it! This ain't no gay bar, so why the fuck can't you just - just pretend to be fuckin' normal while you're out in public?!," he snarled, taking another step closer, "I don't wanna see men suckin' face while I'm tryin' to watch the game and have a goddamn drink!"

By this point, of course, every eye in the bar was on the altercation, excepting of course the bouncer, who was staring directly at the bartender, waiting for the signal to go in and break it up. The ferret had taken his screwdriver and retreated to the corner booth, as far as he could get from the furious pachyderm. A human man and a red fox vixen sat at another table, trying to avoid drawing attention to themselves. After all, if this large gentleman was not a fan of same-sex couples, he might not be a big fan of interspecies couples, either. The sun bear who had been sitting further down the bar from the mind-reading act now appeared next to Teddy, who gave him a terse, but grateful nod.

This bear was, in fact, Teddy's younger brother Cody, who hadn't wanted to step on his toes while he was trying to pick up a date.

"Hey, man, they weren't hurting anybody," Cody said in a gentle tone, raising his hands placatingly, "So how about they just take themselves out of your bar, so you don't have to think about them any-"

"Are you with them?!" the elephant asked, looking between the bears, "Are you two in cahoots?" Without waiting for an explanation, the even-more-agitated man raised his fists and lumbered forward. He had a noticeable gut, but the thing about elephants was that their fat was deceptive, and there was probably a wall of muscle behind that stomach. Even if the three smaller men suddenly jumped the elephant together, with him being that angry to start with, he could probably kick all of their asses without much of a workout. As he closed in on them, Teddy was terrified, stepping back and raising his hands, wishing this guy would just go away. Next to him, he felt Cody panicking along the same lines. At the last possible moment, as the elephant raised his fist to bring it down across Teddy's face, suddenly the siblings' fear lined up precisely, down to the same exact thought: Calm down.

In that instant, Teddy instinctively forced everything he had into the impulse, knowing that Cody was doing the same, and they 'pushed' their collected energies into the elephant, who... stumbled backwards and raised a hand to his forehead with a soft groan as if he'd suddenly gotten dizzy. It lasted less than a second, though, and he looked up, still breathing hard... and cleared his throat as if he were embarrassed to only just then realize that everyone was looking at him and the bartender was lingering in the vicinity of the shotgun under the bar. But while he might have been glaring at them, he was clearly no longer agitated to the point of trembling with rage, as if he'd suddenly just... forgotten what he was doing, or more accurately, how he was feeling. Stomping over to his table, he grabbed his glass and threw back the remains of his drink in one go, then threw some money on the table and turned to go, pausing only to look back at the still-frightened Teddy, Cody, and John.

"Fuckin' faggots," he muttered, "You're just lucky that... that I've been watching my blood pressure."

Teddy rubbed his own forehead as the man left, since he was suddenly suffering from a wicked headache.

"Are you guys alright?" It was the badger bartender. "I am so sorry about that, that guy's an asshole, sure, but I've never seen him get physical like that before."

"Ted? You okay?" It was Cody, who was rubbing his own forehead.

"Y-yeah, I'm alright," he said, "that was just, uh, a little intense..."

"You're telling me..." sighed John. Turning to the canid, Teddy frowned.

"Man, that guy had some shitty timing, eh?" he said. The jackal managed a small smile, but it didn't entirely reach his eyes. After a moment, John sighed.

"Look, I'm gonna get going," he said, "You're a great guy, Teddy, but almost getting flattened is kind of a mood killer." The sun bear was already nodding.

"Yeah, that's fine, I wasn't exactly feeling it either." As he stood up, John managed another smile.

"Gonna have to give you a rain cheque on that drink," he said, "Take it easy." Putting on a slightly forced smile of his own, Teddy waved at him.

"Have a good one," he called. The jackal walked out the front door, visibly hesitating a moment to look around outside, presumably for the elephant. When he saw no one lurking in the parking lot, he glanced back to Teddy, nodded, and then John slipped out the door.

It wasn't until then that Teddy realized.

"Ohhh, dammit, I didn't actually get his number!" he groaned, as Cody paid for the drink he'd been having when the elephant ruined everybody's night. "Shiiiiit! That guy was so hot! And he was really into me!" Cody walked by and patted his big brother on the shoulder.

"C'mon, Teddy, let's get going," he said, "I don't wanna stick around here either, and I think I've got a migraine coming." Teddy stood, but only sighed in response.

"I mean, I could call the guy anyway," he said, "But that would just look creepy, right?" Cody made a face.

"Yes, yes it would," he confirmed, "Definitely don't do that, or that guy won't be 'really into you' any more." Teddy nodded sadly, then began rubbing his forehead again.

"I'll drive," he muttered, as they stepped out into the night, "Turns out I never got any drinks tonight."

* * *

Teddy and Cody Benson were not quite like most sun bears. They'd been born to Philippe and Marie Benson a year and change apart, and things had been nice and idyllic in a suburban, white-picket-fence kind of way for a few years. Then, tragically, an all-too-common sort of car accident had robbed the boys of their parents, and they'd been adopted by a pair of grizzlies who had done their very best to raise them as if they were their own. Which was good, since far too many orphans don't get the benefit of a loving home, but as much as Stephen and Jessie Summerfield did their best, there was something they couldn't help their new sons with. As Teddy and Cody grew older and started attending school, they very quickly determined two very important things.

The first was that sometimes, they could 'hear' snippets of what other people were thinking, almost like a silent voice inside their own heads.

The second was that it was not normal to hear what other people were thinking.

At the time, the boys only knew that both of them had it, none of their teachers or classmates had it, and their foster parents thought they were playing some kind of game when they brought it up, so out of a simple childhood fear of being bullied for being different, they decided amongst themselves never to mention it to anyone else. As they grew older and learned about the role genetics played in 'the birds and the bees', Teddy and Cody became convinced that since they hadn't both been exposed to gamma rays, alien artifacts, or mysterious chemicals, it must have been something they inherited from their parents, the way that Cody shared the late Philippe's trait of having one blue and one brown eye.

Unfortunately, their parents were gone, and they hadn't had any extended family to speak of, which was why the boys had been put up for adoption in the first place, so Teddy and Cody had absolutely no one to speak to about whether or not psychic powers ran in the family, or to help them train their minds. Teddy had some slightly fuzzy memories of their parents, mostly remembering his father's aftershave-scented hugs and his mother's gentle, kind smile, but nothing that would suggest they could read minds. Cody had been too young to remember them at all, unfortunately, a chip Teddy worried the younger male would carry on his shoulder for the rest of his life.

Naturally, being telepathic had lead to some rather awkward moments. A good-looking bear, Teddy didn't know how many times he'd caught someone checking him out, not by seeing them doing it, but by catching them imagining him naked, or thinking to themselves about what a nice ass he had. A few times he'd come across people thinking about their illicit affairs, which was never not awkward, especially when it was someone he knew. But it had lead to a bit of trouble at home, too. Part of Stephen and Jessie's attempts to raise the boys like they were their own came in the form of a Catholic upbringing, and so it had caused Teddy no small amount of stress as he entered his teens to slowly realize he was gay. He had lived in a pretty hardcore state of denial for a while, until one day, he'd been worrying about the way he'd found it hard to keep his eyes off a classmate in the shower after gym class, and Cody had overheard the thought. Cody had helped a deeply upset Teddy come to terms with himself by revealing that he, too, was a fan of the man. To this day, the Catholic guilt still affected Teddy in certain ways - he found it very difficult to actually tell people he was gay, for example - but that night had done a lot to make Teddy stop hating himself, and he had always been deeply grateful to Cody for helping him. That night had also done a lot to convince the brothers that for the sake of their sanity, they needed some privacy inside their own heads, and Teddy and Cody had agreed to at least try and avoid each other's thoughts from then on.

* * *

The keys jiggled in the door to the cozy little bungalow, before it swung wide open and allowed entrance to a pair of stressed-looking sun bears. Neither of them had said a word on the way back from the bar, and now Cody walked on ahead as Teddy re-locked the door and stepped out of his shoes.

"Okay, so I guess it needs to be said... what the hell was that?!" Cody asked, spreading his arms wide over his head, "We - we thought 'calm down' at that asshole, and he just... did?"

"If I hadn't been there, I wouldn't believe it," Teddy sighed, "God, it made my head hurt, though..." Shaking his head, Cody pressed one hand against his forehead, covering his blue eye.

"We've never... affected anyone else before, Teddy!" he said, "How are you not freaking the fuck out?!" Teddy winced as his brother raised his voice.

"Because I've still got a murderous headache," he said, "Take it down a notch, little brother. And take your shoes off, wouldja? We just had the carpet cleaned."

Cody made a face, but then that face fell and he sighed, briefly sitting down in a nearby chair to slip his shoes off.

"I - I don't know about this," the younger bear said, "that guy went from wanting to murder us to totally calm in like one second, how the hell did we do that?" They walked further into the house, stopping in their living room. There weren't any answers waiting for them there, but at least the couches were comfy.

"I felt you thinking the same thing as me, 'I wish this guy would calm down', and suddenly, I guess I sort of... pushed?" Teddy said, frowning at the way the English language was failing his attempt to describe what had happened. It wasn't his fault that most people assumed this kind of thing was impossible.

"Me too," Cody said, "I pushed the thought towards him, sort of, and it was like we'd - what's that DiCaprio movie with the trippy visuals?"

"Inception."

"Yeah, it was like we'd 'incepted' him, planted an idea in his mind." Teddy took a deep breath and sighed again.

"More like threw it in his face like an empty bottle," he muttered, reaching up to rub his temples. "I don't understand this, Cody. Hell, I don't know how we do any of this. Neither of us came with instructions on what makes it happen, or what should or should not be possible."

There was a moment of silence, and then Cody, who was staring at the floor and visibly fidgeting nervously, let out a quiet whine, almost sounding like a canid.

"I'm... I'm scared, big brother." That made sense, as Cody usually only called Teddy that name when he was anxious. "Okay, we made that guy calm down, so we didn't get the shit kicked out of us by some insecure homophobe, but..." He looked up and met Teddy's eyes, and the older male was taken aback by exactly how scared Cody looked. "Wh-what if it hadn't been 'calm down'? What if we accidentally sent that guy 'kill yourself'? I know I thought it when he started screaming at you..." He hugged his arms tight to his chest.

"What if this is building up to, you know, mind control?" he asked, "Jesus, that's... that's some supervillain shit!" Teddy had already stood up, to cross to the chesterfield Cody was sitting on, and he settled down right next to his brother, putting his arm around the shorter male's shoulders.

"Deep, slow breaths, Cody," he whispered, "Relax. We're not comic book bad guys, we're car salesmen."

"Are you sure?" Cody asked, "We're literally scamming people out of drinks and phone numbers!" Teddy blinked. He hadn't thought of it that way.

"Well, I -" But the younger bear interrupted him.

"I mean, how do we even know this is the first time?" Cody asked, "How do you know you weren't, like, subconsciously affecting that jackal at the bar into finding you attractive?"

Teddy suppressed the instinct to yell, knowing it wouldn't help his brother's emotional state.

"Don't say it like that," he scolded (at a normal volume), "You make me sound like a rapist or something..." He flinched as his head throbbed.

"Listen, Cody, figuring out whether or not we're on the path to supervillainy can wait until the morning, when I don't have a migraine," he said, "For now, it's late, so I'm gonna get some sleep after a shot of Nyquil or vodka, I haven't decided yet." Cody let out a deep sigh of his own and slowly nodded.

"...Okay," he said, "My head's killing me too." He managed a small smile. "I guess that's what happens when you tap into the unexplored depths of your mysterious psychic powers..." He raised his hands and wiggled his fingers, adding a ridiculous 'OooooooOOOoooooo...' as Teddy chuckled.

"I thought you didn't want to sound like a comic book character," he said, standing up with a grunt. He started out to the kitchen, to grab some Tylenol or something, but paused before stepping out of the room.

"...Are you sure I shouldn't call John?" he asked, trying not to smile, "Maybe I could -" Turning around with a grin, Cody pointed at him.

"No! Bad Teddy! Bad boy!" he teased, despite them not even being canine, "No tele-stalking the normals!" Looking crestfallen, Teddy sighed.

"But he was so hot!" he whined, silently adding to himself 'And he wanted to fuck me so hard...'

"And if he refused to be gaslit into believing he really did give you his number?" Cody asked, crossing his arms and giving his brother a Look. Frowning exaggeratedly, Teddy threw his hands up in defeat.

"Alright, alright, you win, but if I never see him again, I'm holding you responsible."

Both brothers were tired, and just wanted to lay their aching heads to rest, so they got through their nightly routine with a minimum of foot-dragging. They brushed their teeth, got changed, plugged their phones in to charge, and all the other little rituals that came at the end of the day for the Bensons. Soon enough, Teddy was in bed, rolling onto his stomach and hugging his pillow as he nuzzled his cheek against it. Missing the opportunity to let a studly canid like the jackal have his wicked way with him was a painful one, true, but maybe it was for the best, given that he had work the next day... Still, as he began to nod off to sleep, Teddy couldn't help but think that he'd be even more comfortable right now if he was cuddling with a naked man who was really into him.

* * *

What felt both like seconds and hours later, Teddy found himself cuddling with a naked man who was really into him. There was light, but it was dim, and he could barely see. That was okay, though, because the other male bear was so close to him that their feet intermingled at the other end of the - bed? Couch? Buffet table? It didn't matter. He wasn't paying attention to that anyway, not with another man's hands already reaching out to touch his chest, rubbing up and down, feeling up his muscles through the loose skin that characterizes ursines. Sun bear skin was a bit less baggy than that of other bears, because their feral ancestors had not had the need to hibernate in their warm home regions, but it was still at least as loose as the average cat's. Churring softly, Teddy leaned in and boldly kissed his lover, closing his eyes and focusing on the physical sensations. The kiss was slow and lazy, their tongues slipping into each others' mouths and gently entwining. This was how Teddy came to know that his lover was a fellow sun bear; most people were surprised to learn exactly how long their tongues were. As they continued sucking face, Teddy shuddered and felt his penis give a throb, starting to respond to the moment by growing longer and harder. No sooner had Teddy thought about his manhood before his partner's hand started sliding down his body, teasing one of his nipples, then brushing his pecs, then slowly crossing his abs, and finally sliding through his pubic fur and taking hold of his penis. As those warm fingers gently curled around his mostly-soft cock, Teddy broke off the kiss and groaned softly.

"Oh God, yes..." he whispered, "Touch me..." It was at that moment that his lover froze in place.

"...Teddy?" asked the other male. Teddy's eyes snapped open, and this time, even in the dim light, he recognized his younger brother.

"Cody?!"

Teddy leaned back, shocked and horrified, trying to remember how he'd ended up naked in bed with his sibling in the first place.

"Oh - oh my God!" he gasped, trying to disentangle himself from their tight embrace. At the time, he was so panicked that it had not yet occurred to him that Cody had yet to let go of his penis. In his agitation, the vague idea of the room around them began to blur even further, the furniture sort of melting, like a Salvador Dali painting, as he fumbled against his brother to no avail. No sooner had Teddy thought of Dali, naturally, before he noticed the enormous clock, currently about as solid as a fried egg, draped over a chair on his left. It was that ridiculous sight, more than anything else, that suddenly made something click in his mind, something he usually didn't become consciously aware of: he was dreaming... about being nude and intimate with his own brother.

'Jesus Christ,' he thought_, 'what the hell is_ wrong with me?!'

Realizing it was just a dream was a little relieving, but it still felt incredibly real, from the warmth of the other man's body to Cody's natural scent in his nostrils, which Teddy couldn't believe he'd failed to notice before. While Teddy was distracted by this revelation, his brother caught him totally off-guard. The younger male smiled, his pearly white teeth glinting in the dimness, and to Teddy's surprise, Cody began pulling him back in closer.

"Hey, relax, big brother," he whispered, obviously angling for another kiss, "I'm told I'm pretty good at this." Placing both hands on the shorter male's chest, Teddy gasped, shocked beyond belief.

"What do you mean?! We - we can't do this!" he protested, "This is wrong! We're brothers!" To his surprise, Cody placed one hand on the side of his head, and began gently, tenderly stroking Teddy's cheek with the backs of his fingers.

"Shhhh, big guy, just relax, nobody needs to know..." Leaning in closer, Cody began to playfully kiss and lick the side of Teddy's throat, and the older male groaned in confusion. Why did it feel so good?!

Teddy moaned in pleasure, despite himself, as Cody began to squeeze and knead his penis, even as he continued to worship Teddy with kisses. His brother's gentle touch felt so incredibly good that Teddy couldn't bring himself to push him away, passively letting the younger male fondle him. As he grew harder and longer in Cody's grip, Teddy whimpered.

"We... we really shouldn't..." he said, "Cody, this - this is incest..." Closing his eyes and shuddering, the deeply conflicted male groaned softly.

'I... I'm so confused...' he thought to himself, 'I'm n-not a pervert... so why is this so fucking hot?' Cody chuckled and began trailing the kisses upwards, moving up to the side of Teddy's muzzle.

'You see? You want it, I want it, why don't we just enjoy it?' came Cody's thoughts, as clear in Teddy's mind as his own. Certainly a great deal clearer than they were in real life; what they heard through their gift tended to waver in and out of clarity, like a radio with bad reception. It was then that Teddy realized that Cody had heard all his own thoughts, and blushed.

'Hey, I'm not judging you,' Cody thought supportively, 'I just want to make you feel good, big brother, after all you've done for me...' Trailing those kisses along the side of Teddy's snout, Cody came to the front and... stopped, looking Teddy in the eyes. The truth was that Cody had been right, a confused Teddy realized that somehow, he was really getting off to this. And after all, he'd already realized that none of this was real, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad...

"Oh, Cody..." he whispered, and throwing caution to the wind, Teddy leaned in and hungrily kissed his brother, who churred softly and eagerly kissed him back.

This time, their kiss was more energetic, more passionate, and as they sucked face, Cody continued to grope and tease Teddy's hardening prick until he'd reached his full pride. As the younger male started rubbing the crown of Teddy's cock with his thumb, Cody broke off the kiss and whispered in his ear.

"Touch me, Teddy," he whispered, "Oh, please, I want you to touch me too..." Teddy's hands had been resting on Cody's shoulders since they kissed again, but now Teddy found himself sliding his hand down his brother's body, his heart jackhammering in his chest. But as he approached Cody's neglected dick, which was at half-mast all by itself, Teddy hesitated. Sensing this, Cody moaned softly with need.

"Don't stop now, I'm begging you," he whimpered, "Please, I need you so badly..." He licked the side of Teddy's muzzle and smiled at him.

"C'mon, no one will know," Cody said, winking, "it's just a dream, right?" Teddy blinked, taken aback.

"Whoa," he whispered, "Meta..." He'd never had a dream that knew it was a dream before. Cody frowned slightly at that, but Teddy barely noticed, interrupting whatever his brother was going to say by gathering his courage and taking hold of Cody's prick. The younger male yelped, his hips bucking slightly, and Teddy smiled as he began to massage his lover's sensitive flesh.

"Oh - oh God, yes..." Cody moaned, biting his lip, "Oh, big brother..."

Teddy shivered with indecent excitement as he fondled his brother's cock, feeling the sensitive flesh twitching and hardening against his fingers. Cody was trembling too, and he'd closed his eyes, no doubt for the same reasons Teddy had earlier. As Cody's dick reached full erection, Teddy licked his lips before he caught himself, but the younger bear hadn't noticed the slip. This was a highly unusual scenario, even by dream standards, but even now, even here, certain male instincts took over, and Teddy quickly compared himself to his brother. Teddy's manhood was definitely girthier, but Cody had at least an inch in length over him. His brow furrowed, but before he could dwell on the primitive train of thought for too long, Cody's hand began to move again. This time, the enthusiastic male was stroking up and down Teddy's shaft, massaging his fat cock with smooth, gentle motions. The elder sibling moaned with pleasure, and Cody opened his eyes and smiled.

"This is so crazy..." Cody murmured, "I c-can't believe this is happening, big brother..." This time, Teddy caught it.

"You keep calling me that," he observed with a smirk, "Cody, are you into this?"

Blushing, the other male averted his eyes.

"No!" he blurted out, then, "...Maybe?" Sighing, he flinched and let his head hang down.

"...I don't know, I never even thought about it before, but y-yeah, I guess so..." Teddy laughed gently, but not at Cody's expense.

"I wasn't expecting you to confess that quickly," he said, amused. Cody blushed harder, but smiled.

"I mean, not much point in denying it, eh?" Cody opened his mouth to add some witty follow-up, but what came out was a gasp as Teddy began to stroke his brother's dick, returning the favour.

"Oh - oh fuck..." Cody whimpered, shuddering hard. His prick throbbed in Teddy's hand, and the older male swallowed, his mouth feeling drier than usual as he watched a clear droplet of pre-come drool out of the tip of Cody's rod and ooze down his hand. In the back of his mind, Teddy felt the sudden impulse to let go, to lick his hand clean, to know what his little brother's arousal tasted like, but he just couldn't, as if moving beyond kissing and hands was a line he didn't dare cross. Pushing the thought out of his mind, Teddy leaned in and kissed Cody again, and the other bear groaned with need and kissed him back with such enthusiasm that he pushed Teddy back several inches.

The two brothers continued to make out as they energetically masturbated each other, seeking out sensitive spots and teasing them mercilessly. Teddy broke off the kiss to gasp and felt his toes curl up as Cody paused in his stroking to lightly trail the very tip of a finger-claw along the underside of the crown of Teddy's penis. It was his turn to buck his hips uncontrollably as Cody took in the reaction with a smile.

"God, no f-fair..." Teddy groaned. He'd tried his hardest not to react as Cody had been touching him there, fearing that if Cody learned how sensitive he was there, his playful sibling would, well, do this. But Teddy realized that this was Cody, and the other male had surely sensed how much Teddy had enjoyed it.

'That's right,Ted,' came Cody's slightly smug voice in his head, as Cody raised his free hand up to slowly trace the large circle of pale fur on Teddy's chest, a signature marking of sun bears. 'You can't hide anything from me, not like this...' Teddy swallowed a distinctly submissive moan, and instead responded by focusing his own stroking on the skin just beneath Cody's own crown, right on the front of his shaft. That smug grin melted right away as Cody gasped out a profanity and leaked some more pre. The two brothers regarded each other more neutrally, having reached a stalemate... so they just shrugged it off and went back to kissing.

It wasn't long after that (Or was it? Teddy felt like he could lose himself in Cody's lips...) that Cody returned his hand to Teddy's chest and began to push. Teddy didn't clue in until he was leaning way back that Cody wasn't going to stop. As he flopped backwards onto his back, Cody's prick slipping out of his grasp, Teddy realized that Cody was now in the perfect position to stick it to his big brother.

"C-Cody! Wait!" he said, raising one hand in alarm, "We can't! Not that far! I -" But Cody was waving him off, and climbing over him on all fours.

"Relax, I just wanted a different position," Cody murmured soothingly, "I don't like sitting up for this long." Reaching down, he took hold of Teddy's prick again, picking up where he left off. Encouraged, Teddy reached up and mirrored his lover. The older bear caught himself thinking that lying on his back beneath an attractive male was not all that uncommon to him, and quickly pushed that thought out of his mind, lest Cody pick it up. They were being way more open with their thoughts to each other than they were in real life, and it was exhilarating, but it was also slightly stressful, as Teddy was afraid that his brother might see 'the weird stuff' while he was hanging out in Teddy's mind.

Soon, they were really working themselves up, both brothers panting a little as they continued to stroke and fondle each other, their cocks achingly rigid and freely drooling pre-come by now, though they hadn't really been going at this very long.

"I... I always pre so much..." Teddy whispered, looking down at their dicks, "Some of my exes used to tease me about it... It's nice to be with a guy who's as p-productive as me..." Cody churred to him and smiled.

"Forget those guys, they don't know what they're t-talking about..." Taking a look for himself, Cody licked his lips, to Teddy's quiet delight.

"God, watching you leaking like that, knowing I'm m-making it happen..." Cody murmured approvingly, "This is the hottest f-fucking thing I've ever done..." The next time their eyes met, Cody suddenly swayed his hips to the side - so that the next droplet of pre that dripped off of his tip fell down directly onto Teddy's penis. The older male let out a yelp of pleasure and surprise that was considerably more high-pitched and less dignified than he would have hoped for. Chuckling, Cody bent down and began playfully licking his brother's cheeks, something which quickly progressed into more kissing. It was strange to Teddy how quickly making out with his own brother had grown to feel natural...

After working each other's straining shafts for what could have been thirty seconds or thirty hours thanks to how oddly time worked in a dream, Teddy felt the point of no return closing in on him, and redoubled his efforts to resist, not wanting to pop until after his brother did. Cody chuckled into the kiss.

'Is that a challenge, Teddy?' Cody's thoughts came teasing into his mind, 'We'll have to see about that...' Teddy would have blushed again if he hadn't been so flushed from arousal.

'...Oops,' he replied, simply, to Cody's obvious amusement. The younger male adjusted his position, lowering himself down and gently pushing Teddy's hand off his erection so that he could press both their pricks together. As the undersides of their shafts made contact, Teddy broke off the kiss to gasp, a gasp which extended into a moan as Cody wrapped his hand around both of them and began to stroke again.

"Oh - oh fuck, little b-brother, that's s-so fuckin' good..." he panted, his toes curling up again. Teddy felt Cody's cock throb against his own when he called him 'little brother', and marked that theory 'officially confirmed'. So much for 'maybe'...

"Hell yes it is," Cody replied enthusiastically, "Now remember, big brother, it's only gay if the balls touch, so let's make sure to do that." Teddy let out a delighted, if slightly strained laugh, and nodded.

"Mmmm, good idea," he agreed, reaching down and pressing their scrotums together, jostling the sensitive orbs within against each other and making their forbidden pleasure 100%, certifiably gay.

Teddy added his free hand to Cody's, so they could apply pressure evenly all over both of their rods at once. As they both stroked eagerly, rolling their hips and humping against each other, the taller bear shuddered with pleasure again. As his manhood pulsed and leaked more pre, Teddy felt his back entrance clench down tightly. His rear felt awfully empty as he approached orgasm, it was the one detail keeping this scandalous tryst from feeling perfect. Teddy realized just a little too late that he was making the same mistake he'd just been called out on, and groaned in anticipation of embarrassment. Sure enough, the groan ended in a gasp of pleasure as Cody's saliva-slicked middle finger muscled its way past his big brother's tight anus and pushed into his rump. As the knuckles settled firmly against his skin, Teddy involuntarily clenched down and whimpered as Cody lightly pressed against his prostate.

"You just can't stop shivering, can you?" teased Cody, observing his lover's squirming body, "Teddy, are you into this?" The callback was as excellently-delivered as it was embarrassing, and Teddy self-consciously covered his eyes, even as he spread his legs a little more, to offer deeper access to his brother's probing digit.

Soon, the brothers kissed frantically, hungry for each other, even as they continued to tease and stroke and manipulate each other. Teddy's legs quivered as Cody's hand slipped up and down his hard cock, which glistened with pre. Cody worked that finger in and out of his lover's tight, welcoming rump, rubbing along his inner walls and making him crazy - while also making his tiny stub of a tail begin to twitch. At some point, much, much later, it would occur to Teddy that if Cody had been using both hands to molest his brother, he couldn't have been holding himself up over Teddy as if he was on all fours. But in the moment, Teddy was just too worked up to care about trifles like gravity and the laws of physics. Thankfully, Cody's breath was coming fast and shuddery, too, and both bears whimpered and moaned as they ground their erections together.

"J-Jesus Christ..." Teddy panted, "I - I'm getting so c-close..." Growling with need, Cody began to move even faster.

"Me t-too..." he admitted, "Ohhh, fuck, I'm g-gonna coooome..." Incensed by even hearing his brother's voice saying those words, Teddy moaned just a little too eagerly.

"Do it," he hissed, "C-come all over me, Cody, oh God..." Reaching up, Teddy gently cupped his free hand against the younger male's cheek.

"L-look into my eyes..." Teddy teased, in as close an approximation of his on-the-grift voice as he could manage whilst on the brink of orgasm, "I wanna see how g-good it feels for you..." He didn't have long to wait, as it was only about six seconds later, as the two bears gazed into each others' eyes, that both brothers tumbled off the precipice together.

Stiffening from head to toe, Teddy cried out, helpless against the onslaught of pleasure that spread through his body. His prick began to throb against his - and his brother's - fingers as he felt hot, creamy jism splattering silently onto his stomach fur. The older male gasped a profane word as he felt Cody's dick begin pulsing against his own, sharing in the experience of his little brother's climax as more ursine semen spurted onto his chest. Despite how lewd the moment was, Teddy barely looked down at all, though, as his eyes were locked on Cody's, watching them glaze over as the shuddering bear was subjected to overwhelming pleasure. Teddy drank it all in; all the ecstasy, every little emotion, everything Cody experienced in his orgasm flickered through his mismatched eyes as the brothers came and came together... The best part, of course, was that distantly, Teddy knew that Cody was enjoying exactly the same show in his own eyes.

When it was over, Teddy slumped against the bed with a sigh of relief, releasing his grip on Cody's still-hard cock as he did so. Cody, for his part, moved his hands to either side of Teddy's head, as if he'd suddenly remembered that he should be supporting himself, and that bears don't usually float. Both of them panted hard, Cody letting his head dangle down freely as he recovered, and Teddy was struck by, in addition to the distinctive smell of come, the strong scent of male arousal in the air. His own, mixed with Cody's, which was curiously intoxicating to Teddy. As he filled his nostrils with the scent of his brother's desire, the older male distantly wondered if it was at all close to the real thing. Lifting his head, Teddy looked down upon himself, and licked his lips upon seeing exactly how much seed had been spilled onto his chest, catching himself too late to prevent the instinctive reaction. Cody didn't seem to notice. Teddy had hunched forward as he climaxed, so he'd mostly ejaculated all over his abs... which meant the puddle of come higher up on his chest was entirely Cody's. Suddenly aware of his heart pounding in his ears, Teddy reached out and wiped up some of the still-warm jism, looking at it and squishing it between his fingers, unable to shake the thought that he was playing with his little brother's semen. Which, incidentally, there was nearly a quart of; a ludicrous amount of the stuff now glistened in Teddy's fur.

"God, there's so much..." he murmured, squirming at the sensation of it resting on his chest. He'd hinted at it right before they came, but Teddy low-key loved it when his partners ejaculated upon him. The feeling of a man's hot seed against his fur always made him feel like his lovers were marking him as theirs amidst their pleasure, made him feel wanted and desirable. Truth be told, though, nothing beat the feeling of another man erupting into Teddy's eager rump. Naturally, that thought summoned up the mental image of Cody Benson, buried to the hilt under his big brother's tail, and Teddy tensed up, swallowing a yelp as he desperately thought about how much he liked chili dogs instead, pushing the thought out of his mind before Cody could sense it - or before he could dwell on why it made his heart beat a little faster.

Blinking, Teddy reminded himself that this was a dream, as he'd nearly forgotten, and the actual Cody couldn't really read his mind right now any more than Teddy had really rubbed his dick against his sibling's. It was kind of hard to think about things that were not the dream, but Teddy was pretty sure he wasn't normally as productive when he climaxed as it seemed he'd been here. But if this was a dream, it also meant he could indulge his curiosity without consequences... and ever since Cody had emptied his balls onto Teddy's chest, Teddy had been wondering what his little brother's come tasted like. Scooping up some more cream, he brought it closer to his mouth, shivering lightly at its familiar scent. But as he parted his lips, moving to put his fingers in his mouth and lick them clean, Teddy hesitated. Somehow, bringing his sense of taste into things felt like crossing a line of some kind, a line he wasn't at all certain he wanted to cross. While he was hesitating, Cody sighed, and the younger bear settled himself down directly on top of Teddy, despite the mess of jism all over his chest. Inhaling sharply, Teddy took advantage of the moment to surreptitiously wipe his hand off on Cody's back, even as he pretended to be uncomfortable with this turn of events.

"W-wait, Cody, I'm -"

"Covered in jizz?" Cody interrupted, "Hey, I helped make that mess, I don't mind..." Squirming atop the larger male, Cody sighed contentedly.

"You're way more comfortable than you look, big brother." Smiling softly, Teddy reached up and embraced his lover, closing his eyes and just basking in the feeling of afterglow, of having another warm body up against his own.

"You're not so bad yourself... little brother." And before his awareness faded away, the last thing Teddy heard was his brother giggling tiredly.

* * *

Teddy slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he became aware of was that it was two minutes - make that one minute before his alarm was due to go off. Reaching over, he flicked a switch and prevented the unnecessary annoyance. That was as far as he made it before his sleepy brain congealed in his skull and the memories fell back into place. The sun bear's eyes widened sharply, and his pupils practically disappeared as he was faced with the stark reality of the situation: last night, he'd dreamed about a sexual encounter with his own brother. A sexual encounter that, in the dream, Teddy had longed for with every fibre of his being, that had filled him with a desperation that suddenly didn't feel quite as harmless as he'd told himself within the dream.

"Oh - oh my God..." he blurted out into the silent room, "Did I really just -" Suddenly snapping his mouth shut, afraid of being overheard, Teddy twisted in bed to look at his door, as if he'd see Cody's feet under it, straining to overhear Teddy talking to himself first thing in the morning. But knowing that his brother could read minds, Teddy didn't feel any better, terrified by the idea of Cody finding out he'd had a sexy dream about him. It didn't help matters any that when he twisted towards the door, Teddy shifted on the bed, and he felt something most unwelcome.

"Jesus Christ, no way..." he breathed, rolling onto his back and pushing the sheets off himself, revealing his bare, furry upper body and the plaid pyjama pants he'd worn to bed... which had a small but noticeable damp spot right over the junk.

Teddy gingerly untied the drawstring, whispering 'No, no, no, no, no, no...' to himself as he did so. Lifting the waistband of his pyjamas, he slipped a paw into his pants, rubbed his fingers against the fabric over his penis, and whimpered as they came out glistening with semen. The dream had felt so intoxicatingly real, between the heat of Cody's body, the feeling of his soft lips, the scent of their mingled desire in the air... but the orgasm had been something else entirely, one of the best he'd ever had. And now he knew why. His climax had felt so real because it had been real, he'd had a wet dream as a grown-ass man and ejaculated in his PJs... thanks to a fantasy of rubbing his prick against his little brother's! Even now, as he gazed upon the jism on his hand, Teddy was reminded of when he'd touched Cody's seed, and how badly he'd wanted to taste it.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck..." he muttered to himself, "Where did that come from? Wh-what the fuck is wrong with me?!" Somehow, even though it was just a dream, what he'd done with the imaginary Cody didn't quite feel like harmless fun anymore...

After wiping off his hand on his thigh, since the PJs were a mess anyway, Teddy peeled his pants off, trying to ignore how strong the scent of come was. To his consternation, the dream wasn't blurring and fading in his memory the way most dreams did upon waking. Every detail of the forbidden tryst remained crystal-clear in his mind, from how perverse it had felt to kiss his brother once they'd recognized each other all the way to the noises Cody had made in the throes of orgasm.

"Are you kidding me?!" he muttered, "I was too drunk to remember Stuart and Robbie making out at Chase's party last summer, but I get to carry this 'til the day I die? Come the fuck on!" The bear buried his face in his hands and groaned.

'Cody can never know about this. Never,' he silently vowed, but of course, that was easier said than done. He'd need to take some time and focus, build up his mind's defences. They were never very good, of course, if Cody actively wanted to get into his mind and poke around, they wouldn't do much more than slow him down, but at least they'd help prevent Teddy's thoughts from wandering off and getting Cody's attention while Teddy was distracted.

And boy, howdy, was he ever distracted! His mind was flooded with a thousand stressed-out thoughts, all yelling over each other, clamouring to be heard, which meant he couldn't focus on any of them for long enough to really process them, and soon he was practically dizzy trying to deal with this shockingly scandalous dream.

"It... it wasn't real, none of it counted," he mumbled to himself, rubbing his forehead, "It w-wasn't really Cody..." In the dream, that had felt like an ironclad defence, but now, he couldn't stop thinking about the fact that after his initial reluctance, Teddy had wanted Cody eagerly and wholeheartedly. He had ached for his brother, and a small part of him was a little disappointed Cody hadn't pushed things past frottage and made the older male his. But worse than that, of course, was the undeniable truth that when Cody had gotten Teddy off in the dream, he'd spilled his seed in the waking world, too; even if it had been in a roundabout way, technically...

"Oh God," he whimpered, "My little b-brother made me come!"

The image repeated endlessly in Teddy's mind: the brothers' dicks throbbing and spasming together as they painted Teddy's chest with an incestuous mixture of ursine cream. Shaking his head against the humiliating images, the tormented bear scowled.

"...No." He closed his eyes, gritting his teeth. "That's enough." He knew, distantly, that he was still groggy from sleep, his mind not at all up to the task of sorting through all of this, especially when wracked with panic. He also knew that he needed to get a hold of himself for any of that to change. Sitting up straight, Teddy took a deep, slow breath, and then another, and another. Only then opening his eyes, the much calmer male sighed quietly. He was making himself crazy for no reason. It had been a dream, which meant that none of it was real, even if he had been extremely horny for his own brother inside the dream. He'd once had a dream where he got into a swordfight with Morgan Freeman atop a building in the rain. In that dream, he'd had an intense hatred of the Hollywood actor, yet after waking up that time, it hadn't even occurred to Teddy to worry that he secretly loathed the man for real, simply because he knew he didn't. This was only different in that Cody was someone Teddy knew intimately.

Teddy took another deep breath, feeling better each time he did it. His mind kept working feverishly to push away the fear that deep down, he longed to get into Cody's pants. The idea felt less and less reasonable the more he considered it. It had been more than a year since Teddy had been in a proper relationship, having had only a handful of mediocre dates and a few pretty decent one-night-stands since then. Perhaps the dream was his brain's way of saying he wanted more than just enthusiastic sex, he wanted it with someone he truly cared about. Surely in real life, it wouldn't feel nearly as natural to have his own brother's tongue in his mouth... Even the fact that just about everything that had happened in the dream had been something Teddy was way into felt like it supported the idea that he was jonesing for a relationship, as he was generally not comfortable enough with his one-night-stands to, for example, ask them to play with his sensitive butt before they got down to the main event. He always came so much harder when he was being fingered, as the imaginary Cody had ably demonstrated. Teddy's train of thought was distracted as he thought, fondly, about how much semen they'd produced in the fantasy, practically coating Teddy's entire chest in warm, creamy goo. As he remembered the way it glistened so appealingly on his fingers, Teddy sighed again and distantly wished he'd tasted Cody's seed after all... Blinking and blushing, the self-conscious bear rather charitably decided to write that stray thought off to having just woken up, and didn't pursue it any further.

He felt much better about the idea of the dream itself, but there were still details that made him uneasy. Like the way he'd so eagerly submitted to Cody fingering him, the sounds he'd made as Cody played with his ass. He flinched as the words played through his mind again.

"You just can't stop shivering, can you? Teddy, are you into this?"

Burying his face in his hands, Teddy swallowed a whimper. The passage of years, and the simple reality of being a gay man, had done much to undo the Catholic guilt within him, but certain things irrationally brought it back up to the surface. One of those things was the fact that when it came to loving, Teddy preferred to take it under the tail much more than he preferred to be the one doing the thrusting. He knew there was nothing wrong with it, certainly nothing more wrong than being a top, but somehow, it just made him feel 'more gay' that after The Deed was done, he was the one with another man's jism leaking out of his rump, not the other guy. The very idea of Cody finding out Teddy was a bottom was humiliating, made his heart pound faster as if it was anticipating the panic already. Teddy felt a wave of hot shame wash over him as he remembered the eager, attentive smile on the imaginary Cody's face as he worked his finger in and out of Teddy's welcoming rear.

The rational part of Teddy's brain told him, for the forty-seven thousandth time, that Cody, being even more laid-back than his brother, would never look down on him just because he preferred the receptive role during sex. But the irrational part stubbornly remained, the deep-seated fear of being judged for his preferences by one of the most important people in his life. It was this that had made Teddy a little secretive about his sex life, ever since he'd started having one. Sure, Cody would know when Teddy was dating someone, and he'd bring the guy to meet his brother if things got more serious than dinners and kissing, but when it came to any actual details beyond the PG-13 level, Teddy's lips were sealed. He took another deep breath and allowed the worry to run its course, knowing it would make it easier not to think about Cody playing with his ass the next time he encountered his brother in the waking world. He picked up a towel draped over the back of a chair and frowned slightly, staring off into infinity. One other thing had been bothering him, if he was honest with himself; one of the only things the Benson brothers did know about each other, sexually speaking, was that both of them were growers rather than showers. Teddy had seen Cody naked plenty of times, usually while getting changed at a public gym or pool or something, but he'd never seen his brother hard... so with that in mind, he was a little annoyed that in his dream, his subconscious mind had apparently seen fit to give Cody a bigger prick than his own.

Sighing quietly, the conflicted sun bear turned and walked to the door, deciding that having a hot shower and a cup of hotter coffee would do wonders for his state of mind. He froze in the middle of turning the doorknob, though, as he was about to head into the hallway totally naked. He may not have been big on talking about his sexual escapades, but Teddy was no prude; both Teddy and Cody had on occasion crossed the distance from their rooms to the shower in nothing but their fur. In the past, Teddy getting seen like that had only lead to sarcastic wolf whistles from Cody, but right now, with that damnable dream looming over him, he couldn't bear the idea of being seen nude by his sibling. There were little patches of dried come in the fur around his junk, for God's sake! Okay, they were practically invisible, but still... With a slightly larger frown of worry plastered across his face, Teddy went and grabbed yesterday's boxers to hide his shame.

To Teddy's deep, lasting relief, he had been right; after getting himself squeaky clean, throwing on a suit, and drinking a cup of coffee, he felt considerably better about the lewd dream he'd had, and considerably readier to face the world outside. To his relief, he didn't panic or freak out the first time he saw Cody that day. The shorter male was drinking a coffee of his own as he tried to read a newspaper and tie his shoes at the same time, to limited success.

'I don't know what I was worried about,' Teddy thought confidently, 'This is gonna be easy, the dream didn't mean anything after all.' As he adjusted his tie, he smiled slightly and nodded to his sibling.

"Morning, Cody," he said, calmly. Looking up at him, the younger bear grinned and gave him a little wave.

"Good morning... big brother." To his chagrin, Teddy couldn't help but remember the way the fictional Cody from his dream had moaned those words so lustily and so enthusiastically as they worked their hard, drooling lengths against each other. Turning away so Cody wouldn't see him blush, Teddy studied the thermometer built into the wall, which had a sensor wire tucked into the window next to it, to get an outside reading.

'Okay, maybe this will be harder than I thought...' Teddy fretted, sighing. He looked away from the thermometer, knowing it couldn't actually hold his attention that long; a glance would tell him the indoor and outdoor readings, and a lot of the device was actually dedicated to air pressure, which meant absolutely nothing to the Bensons.

"What's so interesting over there?" Cody called, underlining the point, "You finally figure out how you read a barometer? Or why you would want to?"

Cody sounded so calm, so collected, that Teddy found himself relaxing just a little. The younger male sure as hell didn't sound like he knew his brother had just woken up from a dream about the two of them naked together.

"Yeah, right, you'd need a PhD just to make sense of this thing," Teddy said, looking over his shoulder, "Just admiring my reflection is all, gotta look g-good for the customers!" Fuck. That had been going pretty well until the stutter. He looked away and cleared his throat, as if he'd just stumbled over a cough.

"Pffft..." Cody scoffed, "Come on, you? How many times have you been chewed out for showing up to work looking all sloppy? 'I'm sorry, I didn't realize homeless chic was in this year!'" This last bit was done in an average-at-best impression of their boss. Teddy made a face, wondering what he would even see in Cody that would compel him to jump his brother's bones. The guy wasn't even Teddy's type! At least, that's what he told himself as he let out a deep breath and regarded the younger bear with a Look.

"You're a laugh riot, little brother," he sighed, slowly clapping, "You should have joined the comedy circuit." Beaming from ear to ear (only proverbially, though, as a bear's ears are on top of his head), Cody nodded graciously.

"Thanks, Teddy" he said sweetly, as if he'd somehow missed the sarcasm, "That means a lot to me, coming from you." Teddy couldn't help but snicker.

As they drank their coffee and Teddy checked the actual weather on his phone, a device he definitely knew how to read, the elder bear frowned slightly. He couldn't shake the feeling of tension, like a small part of himself was expecting Cody at any second to drop the calm, happy act and angrily confront him about the sexy dream. This wouldn't do at all. He couldn't just go on being uncomfortable around his brother until the memory of the dream faded into oblivion, there was no way Cody could miss that, even without using his gift. Nobody knew Teddy better than Cody did, and vice-versa. They were close with their adopted parents, and with the younger stepbrother and sister their parents had had a few years after bringing the Bensons into their family, but the relationship between Cody and Teddy was different. Beside the two of them sharing the same enormous secret, the fact that Teddy and Cody were, as far as they knew, the only biological relatives they had, had caused them to grow inseparably close with each other, ultimately culminating in the two of them getting their own place together when they moved out. So Teddy couldn't just allow things to stand, if he was nervous just being around Cody!

Swallowing to wet his throat, Teddy took a deep breath and forced his voice to sound more relaxed than he felt.

"So, you, uh, feeling any better after last night?" he asked, glancing up from his phone only briefly, as if the question was just idle conversation. Cody instantly looked up and cocked his head to the side, a blank expression on his face.

"What?" he asked, as Teddy blushed, realizing his mistake and silently insisting it wasn't Freudian.

"Uh, last night's headache, I mean!" he quickly corrected, "Is your head feeling any better?" Cody grinned, leaning back in the seat.

"Ohhhh... Yeah, definitely, thank God..." A moment passed, and then the shorter bear spoke again, his voice softer than before.

"Hey, uh, Teddy?" he asked, "I just wanted to... thank you for being there for me last night, when I was freaking out, I mean."

Teddy blinked, caught off-guard. It took him a moment to remember Cody fretting on the couch that they might be on the path to evil. Teddy had almost forgotten about that, in his fixation on the lewd dream.

"Oh, uh, you're welcome," he said, stumbling as his brain shifted gears, "Any time, man." Cody smiled and studied his hands.

"I mean it, Ted, after we... did whatever we did last night - you know, at the bar... I was terrified," he said, more firmly, "We hadn't figured out anything new since we were like ten years old, I thought we had this psychic gift thing all worked out, and then this comes along out of nowhere and suddenly I have so many questions..." Cody sighed quietly before continuing. "I was absolutely losing it, and I think I would have fallen apart if I didn't have you there, going through it with me." As Cody spoke, something happened, so subtly that Teddy didn't even consciously notice. He'd been so preoccupied with the sex dream that he'd been unintentionally holding the image of the two of them, kissing deeply as they rubbed their dicks together, firmly in his mind. Being aware this was happening didn't help much, as it was purely instinctual, the way that telling someone not to think of something brings it right to the forefront of their mind. Frankly, he'd been worried that Cody would notice if he so much as thought about reading Teddy's mind. But as Cody opened up like that, shared his vulnerability with his brother, the shocking image in Teddy's mind was gradually replaced by the image of Cody looking extremely worried, with Teddy sitting right next to him, a comforting arm around his shoulders. And as it fully settled into place, Teddy smiled much more naturally, the tension finally leaving his muscles.

Walking closer to his brother, finishing his coffee, Teddy felt rather sheepish. It was like a spell had been broken, like it had finally sunk in that nothing that happened in the dream had any bearing on reality. This wasn't the Cody who he'd lustily writhed against in a dream last night, this was the Cody who'd held Teddy when he cried after they came out to each other. As he reached his brother, Teddy extended one hand and gently rested it on Cody's shoulder, giving it a supportive squeeze.

"I got your back, little brother," he said, without the slightest hitch or stutter, "We're in this together." His smile eased up a little. "We do need to talk about that, though. If our gifts are still growing, we need to get a handle on them." Cody looked up at him and smirked.

"Yeah, but somehow I'm less afraid that we're turning into supervillains," he added, "I mean, we didn't even make that guy go punch a cop or anything." Carefully keeping his face straight, the elder bear regarded his sibling.

"Do you wish we had?" he asked.

"Well, kinda," Cody admitted, "I mean, the bigoted ass deserves it..." Reaching over, Teddy booped his brother on the snout.

"Then maybe wait a little bit before declaring we're not secretly evil," he quipped, "Come on, let's get to work."

The drive over was much more normal, to Teddy's infinite relief, they just took the same route they took every day and exchanged some tired morning banter. Teddy only pictured his brother naked once, and he maintained that that only happened because Cody mentioned that he'd heard the song on the radio the other day while he was in the shower, but hadn't managed to get the artist's name at the time. Surely, Teddy could be forgiven for briefly imagining the other male soaping himself up while eagerly singing along. As the lot came into view, Teddy tightened his hands on the steering wheel and took a deep breath, pushing all the nonsense that was weighing on him far, far into the back of his mind, asserting that he could deal with it later. After all, there were cars to sell, and no one seemed to do it quite as well as Teddy and Cody Benson.

As the bears were climbing out of their car, itself a newer model than they'd have been able to afford without the employee discount, a man was walking across the parking lot from the garage to the building that housed the showrooms and the offices. If the sun bears were an odd sight as skinny bears, then surely this man was just as unusual as a stocky, overweight otter. The amicable man, their boss Jerry, tended to write off his build as a by-product of equine heritage thanks to a grandfather, and he tended to change the subject if people pointed out the soft gut that was not an especially horse-y feature. To this day, Teddy wasn't even sure if the grandfather was a joke or not.

As he saw who was getting out of the car, Jerry's whiskers parted in a wide smile and he raised both hands to point dual finger-guns at the brothers.

"Heyyyy, how're my two favourite bears in the world?" he asked, pausing by their car. Teddy smiled and gave Jerry a wave before he bent down to retrieve his briefcase from the backseat, and Cody nodded to him as he stood up straight and adjusted his tie.

"Morning, Mr. Keystone," Cody said, as proper as you like. Jerry made a face and looked to the other bear as Teddy stood up.

"Theodore, help me out here," he said, putting his hands on his hips and looking frustrated, "How many times have I told your brother not to call me that?" Gamely playing along, Teddy turned and looked to his sibling as he responded.

"I know, Jerry, I know. 'Mr. Keystone' was your father," he said, "the poor lad just can't get it through his head."

"'The poor lad'?" Cody scoffed, "I'm like a year younger than you!" Gleefully ignoring that, Teddy nodded sagely.

"Don't worry about him, he's still wet behind the ears," Teddy lied, "he'll figure it out."

"We started on the same day!" Cody laugh-protested, "You ass!" All three men chuckled together, and then Jerry continued on his way towards the office.

"Well, I wish I had the free time to stand around and jaw with the guys who are keeping me, ah, observably well-fed," the otter said, placing his hands on his belly, "But I've got shipping receipts to go over, looks like somebody fucked up and some of our import cargo ended up in Singapore!" He turned and hurried towards the office, and Teddy caught a single thought - an exasperated 'It's always something,' - from the older male.

After locking up the car, the brothers followed in Jerry's wake, heading into the office portion of the main building to get settled for the day. As Teddy went through the messages left for him, already dialling the first one up on his cell, he glanced over to his brother's desk. Smiling slightly, he nodded, and when Cody returned the favour with a wide, handsome grin, Teddy felt the tiniest flutter in his stomach, so subtle that it took four seconds for him to think 'Wait, fuck'. That wasn't supposed to happen... Frowning slightly as he turned to the window, the slightly frustrated bear let out a huff, telling himself that one odd little moment didn't mean anything. It wasn't his fault that his little brother had a sexy smile!

'...Handsome. A handsome smile,' he silently corrected himself. But he put Cody and his s-handsome smile out of his mind as the person on the other end of the line finally picked up, and Teddy's mind shifted firmly into 'work mode'. He focused his attention on getting updates on local shipments and keeping an eye on the window to the showroom, to make sure no customers wandered in and avoided the attention of sales reps. Teddy wasn't a big fan of multitasking, so he was relieved that he managed to get through all his messages before he hit the sales floor. Cody had already headed out to see to a preppy-looking human, and their associate Elizabeth was off chatting with a lemur who was distracted trying to keep his three bored kids in line. The next person to walk in the front door was a slightly overweight brown bear who had a distinct 'dad' look to him, so Teddy got up, smoothed down his suit, and went to work his magic.

Teddy and Cody were two of the best salesmen the dealership had ever seen, it was true, but it wasn't because they were naturally talented at convincing people to buy things, and it wasn't because they lived and breathed financial transactions (ha), it was because they had insider info on every single customer. When someone walked into Keystone Automotive looking for a car, the bears would continuously read their minds and work the conversations accordingly. If a new dad (like this brown bear, who gave Teddy bonus points right off the bat because he was more comfortable talking to other bears) wanted a car that would keep his kids safe, Teddy would lead with the cars with the best safety ratings. If a single bachelor wanted a car that looked good to the fairer sex, Teddy would quietly point out that the car he was trying to sell him had topped out a poll of 'cars that make a guy sexier' at a popular women's magazine. It was his job to keep track of such things, of course, the ads with shirtless guys and articles that gave him tips about keeping his claws nice and long and shiny were just a pleasant coincidence.

This didn't mean they had magic powers of convincing, mind you, since a car is still a purchase up in the thousands of dollars, and even when presented with the perfect sales pitch, plenty of potential customers walked back out without so much as an 'I'll think about it'. But if there was an angle that could convince someone to buy a car, Teddy and Cody could find it - provided that the customer wasn't distracting themselves from car thoughts by thinking about what they'd seen while binge-streaming The Sopranos, or some problem at work, or (on at least three occasions) having sex with their spouse. Teddy and Cody had never been able to go any deeper than surface thoughts, although as this occurred to him today, Teddy suddenly remembered the incident at the bar, and wondered if they just hadn't been trying hard enough. With that thought in mind, he turned to the dachshund who had unironically used the word 'babemobile' in his thoughts as he assessed the car next to him. Swallowing, Teddy took a deep breath and focused all of his energy on his thoughts, trying to recreate the moment. He concentrated as hard as he could on the words 'upgrade to the special edition' and did his best to push them towards the oblivious dog, who turned to him and... asked about the gas mileage. No surge of thought, no dizzy emptiness, no sudden splitting headache, and no reaction whatsoever from the dachshund. Teddy swallowed his disappointment in order to not affect the calm, neutral smile on his face.

The dachshund didn't even end up buying the car, although he did schedule a test drive for the next week, which was usually a good sign. As the fellow walked off to the bus stop, Teddy wondered about that attempted push. They'd sent 'calm down' the first time, had 'upgrade to the special edition' been too complex a thought to give someone else? Or had Inception overstated the importance of simplicity? Did it fail because he wasn't scared, didn't have the adrenaline rushing through his system? Turning to look across the room at the office, the contemplative sun bear gazed upon Cody having a pleasant chat with Elizabeth by the water cooler. Cody had his jacket off and leaned against the wall behind him with a confident casualness that really worked for him. Of course, this time, Teddy wasn't thinking sinful thoughts, he was just wondering if the real reason he'd been unable to influence the canine just now was because he'd done it alone. He'd never experienced the kind of synchronicity he'd felt with Cody's mind in the bar. For just an instant, it was as if there was only one sun bear there, and he just happened to have two bodies. Teddy couldn't help but think that whatever it had been, it felt like the most likely candidate for the missing ingredient in his second attempt. Teddy smiled slightly and decided to set this aside for now, lest Cody get mad that he was attempting 'supervillain stuff'.

The rest of the day actually went pretty smoothly. Customers were pitched to, contracts were signed, paperwork was done, and by focusing on the work, Teddy was gradually able to push his anxiety about the taboo dream almost completely out of his mind. In fact, at one point, during a slow hour, Teddy's mind wandered to a homoerotic fantasy, but it wasn't the dream that had caused him such stress, it was just Teddy and an imaginary orca guy in a speedo on a beach somewhere. When he caught himself and self-consciously went back to work, Teddy was insufferably, albeit quietly pleased that the dream hadn't crept back into his head in a moment of weakness, pointing to the much more vanilla fantasy as evidence that he wasn't really a pervert who lusted after his own brother. By the end of the day, the embarrassing flutters Cody was inspiring in him had faded away, and he was able to have entirely professional conversations with his brother about spots where their work overlapped. Needless to say, at the end of the day, when Teddy shrugged his jacket back on and gathered his files into his briefcase, he felt much more comfortable with his own mind than he had when he woke up.

The drive home that day was, by Benson standards, fairly quiet and subdued. Both brothers just seemed tired after a long day's work, like they had a lot on their minds. Teddy asked Cody early on if he wanted to stop by a bar for a quick drink, but Cody wasn't comfortable with the bar scene tonight. After almost getting his ass kicked by a homophobe the previous night, the younger male just wanted to avoid any potential further trouble. Teddy found he couldn't help but agree, and so they drove straight home, barely exchanging a word the whole way until they were pulling onto their street.

"Oh, I forgot," Teddy said, calmly, "I tried to, you know, 'influence' a guy today."

"You what?!" Cody replied, shocked, "Jesus, Teddy, I thought we were gonna talk about this!" The older bear had anticipated this reaction, so he wasn't especially put off by it.

"Relax, it didn't work," Teddy said, waving him off, "I didn't even think it would, I figure we have to do it together." There was a pause as Cody mulled that over, looking slightly cross. Then he looked back at Teddy.

"What did you try to make him do, anyway?" he asked, "Please don't tell me you tried to make a hot guy kiss you..." Teddy scoffed.

"Ouch! Right in the pride!" he said, facetiously, "I can't believe my own brother could even think I would do something like that." Blushing slightly, Cody shrugged defensively.

"I - I don't know, you've just been kinda guy-crazy this year..." he mumbled, as Teddy beamed at him and held up one finger like a teacher giving a lecture.

"I tried to make him go down on me!" he lied, cheerily.

"Teddy!" Cody protested, dismayed, but the taller bear was already laughing.

"Easy, dude, I'm kidding," Teddy said, "Nah, he was already thinking about buying, so I tried to make him upgrade to the special edition." A moment passed as Cody regarded him neutrally.

"So let me see if I've got this straight," Cody finally said, "Instead of trying to kiss someone without his permission, you just tried to force him to buy a more expensive contract, which by the way would also just so happen to increase your personal commission. Is that right?" Another pause fell as Teddy stopped in front of their place and began to back into the driveway before he responded.

"...I mean, when you put it like that, you kinda make me sound like an asshole," he said, with an absolutely deadpan face. Cody chuckled.

"That part didn't even occur to you, did it?" the younger male asked.

"You have no evidence of that," Teddy replied, cheerily, "Oh, I was thinking, maybe it didn't work because 'upgrade to the special edition' is too long, you know, since 'calm down' was super short." Cody nodded thoughtfully at that as his brother put the car in park and switched it off.

"That's an idea," the younger ursine murmured, "Have you considered maybe it didn't work because you didn't, uh, believe it would?" Teddy blinked. He had not.

"Huh, that's an interesting angle," he mused, "I thought that kinda shit only happened in, like, children's books and anime, but it makes as much sense as anything else..." With some new thoughts to work around in his head, he got out of the car, grabbed his briefcase, locked the doors with the key fob, and followed his sibling into the house.

To celebrate getting through a very troubling twenty-four hours (though Teddy didn't let on exactly how troubling last night had been for him), the Bensons had a couple beers while watching the highlights of a hockey game they'd missed. Along the way, they'd had a long, pleasant conversation about absolutely nothing important, just shooting the shit with each other the way they'd been doing since before they could remember. Teddy finally felt fully relaxed around his brother, and none too soon, in his opinion! But it wasn't until he walked into his bedroom and laid eyes on his pyjama pants, still lying on the floor next to his bed where he'd self-consciously discarded them, that Teddy sheepishly realized he'd completely forgotten to wash them, and there was still come dried into the fabric. For most of the day, whenever Teddy had nervously thought about the dream, the part that had been most vivid was the early bits, eagerly embracing Cody as they hungrily kissed each other. But now, as he was reminded so specifically of the end of the dream, Teddy bit his lip, unable to avoid remembering the feeling of Cody's hard prick pressed against his own, both lengths throbbing hard in orgasm... As a defiant reaction to this unwanted lewd memory - and, if Ted was honest with himself, an attempt to avoid a repeat of last night's embarrassing outcome - the sun bear stripped naked and threw himself on his bed, eagerly rubbing one out to the fantasy he'd had at work, of the big, muscular cetacean having his wicked way with Teddy as he begged for more. Closing his eyes to lose himself in the fantasy, he eagerly stroked his rigid cock and worked a finger in and out of his welcoming rump, distantly reminding himself for the fiftieth time that he really needed to get over his self-consciousness and order a dildo from the Internet, because fingers were a little lacking...

Teddy didn't try to last, still being kinda tired after all, and before too long, he'd shot a thick, creamy wad all over the undershirt he'd left on, clenching his teeth and trying not to moan as he savoured every throb, every spasm, and every involuntarily clench of his backside around his finger. When he sagged down against the bed, he was satisfied, and he'd successfully kept the dream out of his mind the entire time, which he was pleased about, but he couldn't help but feel strangely conflicted that his climax wasn't quite as good as the one he'd had while dreaming about a blood relative... Cleanup was a snap, as he just peeled off his undershirt and left it on top of the also-soiled pyjama pants, then slipped back into the boxers he'd worn that day, figuring they'd do as replacement PJs for a night. He'd already brushed and flossed and taken care of all the other bits of late-night maintenance, so with sweat still clinging to his fur, with the scent of come still teasing his nostrils, Teddy pulled the sheets over himself and turned out the light, ready to put the last couple days behind him.

* * *

Teddy let out a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan, shivering with relief as the nearly-searing heat encompassed his entire body.

"God, this feels good," he murmured, despite being alone, leaning back against the wooden bench and raising his arms to rest on the platform behind him. And it was true, he loved a good sauna. There was already a handsome sheen of sweat to his fur as he lounged in the extreme heat of the room, clad in only a towel. He was just thinking that the only thing missing right now was some company when the door suddenly flew open, and his brother Cody stepped inside, looking extremely frazzled and wearing clothes that hadn't been in fashion since they'd been in college, which might also explain the backpack he was wearing. The younger male frowned as he took in the room around him.

"What the - am I in the gym?" he asked, bewildered, "Oh God, I'm late for an exam, and I'm so lost! It's like the hallways keep changing!"

Teddy was only half-listening, in truth, as his eyes had already started to roam up and down his sibling's body. He liked what he saw.

"You're so stressed out, Cody," he observed, standing up, "You need to relax, or you're gonna have a heart condition by the time you're forty."

"Wh-what?" Cody asked, confused, "B-but..."

"Come on, little brother," Teddy interrupted, his voice low and sensual, "wouldn't you rather stay here? With me?" At that moment, Cody, who had been squirming anxiously this entire time, clearly desperate to find his way, froze on the spot, his eyes widening slightly. Without a word, he looked Teddy's practically-naked body up and down, desire quickly igniting in his eyes. He licked his lips subconsciously as he drank in Teddy's firm abs and well-formed arms, which Ted was quite proud of; he'd started exercising them in hopes of making his sun bear arms look less skinny, which he'd half-succeeded at.

"...Y-yeah, I would," Cody admitted quietly, "God, I really would... B-but I sh-shouldn't, I... I have an exam..."

"Shhhh..." the taller bear interrupted, stepping still closer, "It can wait."

He was pretty confident about that, too; as soon as desire for Cody began to flicker in his mind, Teddy had realized it was a dream, and so he knew that the exam Cody wanted to get to was no more real than Cody himself was. Extremely distantly, he was aware that in the waking world he'd been a big, stressed-out baby over having had lewd dreams about his own brother, but here, now, with Cody in front of him and looking interested, the eager male just thought to himself that Awake Teddy needed to chill out too. With that thought, he reached down to his waist, and, his eyes watching Cody's, he very purposefully untied his towel, then peeled it off to the side. This exposed his treasures while keeping the warm, sweaty fabric pressed against his buns. He imagined, incorrectly, that it made him look like the titular goddess in "The Birth of Venus", though in truth, he was actually thinking of a different old-timey painting of a naked human woman... which he also didn't much resemble. Failed art allusions aside, Cody obviously appreciated the view, as his eyes locked on Teddy's flaccid penis and refused to budge.

"...Oh God, big brother," Cody breathed, slipping his backpack off, "Come here and kiss me!"

Dropping the towel to the floor and stepping forward, Teddy took the suggestion, eagerly pulling the clothed male against his glistening body and kissing him deeply, without hesitation. Cody groaned into the kiss, and his hands began wandering Teddy's naked body, though they teasingly avoided the most obvious areas. For his part, Teddy immediately untucked Cody's shirt, slipping his hands beneath it and beginning to rub and caress along his sibling's back.

'Christ, this is so fucking sexy...' Teddy thought, 'I can't believe I want Cody this fucking bad...' Cody shivered against him, and Teddy belatedly remembered that his brother could hear his surface-level thoughts. Breaking off the kiss, he whispered into his sibling's ear in a deep, husky voice.

"Come on, little brother, it's too hot for clothes in here..." he teased, "Let me help you..." with that, he began lifting the hem of Cody's shirt. The shorter bear raised his arms to help - and then Teddy tucked the front of the shirt over the top of Cody's head, trapping the confused male's head and arms inside the shirt while Teddy ducked down and began to kiss and nuzzle at Cody's chest. Cody gasped sharply when Teddy teased his nipple with a flick of his tongue, which made the taller bear grin playfully. As Cody freed himself from the shirt and tossed it to the floor, Teddy closed his lips around Cody's nipple and started to suckle.

Cody was breathing a little harder than usual, and he looked turned on but confused.

"Th-this is weird..." he said, softly. Teddy observed that being caught off-guard like this seemed to have thrown Cody off his game; he was acting much more submissively than he had in the last dream. Teddy himself was a bit of a switch, but he found this aspect of Cody just as erotically exciting as the one that lead Cody to have his wicked way with Teddy last night. The corners of his mouth curled up again and he winked at his brother.

'Look how nervous you are, you'd think you were cherry,' Teddy silently teased, knowing his lover could hear every word, 'Relax, Cody, they say that with bears, the men actually have more sensitive nipples than the women because they don't need to do anything with them. Might as well enjoy it!' With that, he underlined his point by slipping across Cody's flat chest to latch onto his other nipple.

"Ohhh..." Cody sighed, lifting one hand and cupping the back of Teddy's head with it. The younger male closed his eyes, but opened them again only about two seconds later as Teddy began to unfasten his belt.

"God, I... I can feel how badly you want me..." Cody whispered, "I've n-never felt so, so... desirable." And it was true, Teddy ached for his brother with an urgency he didn't entirely understand, with a heat he felt both in his entirely metaphorical pants as well as in his heart... but as Cody said that, Teddy curiously focused his senses and realized he could feel the way his touch was inflaming Cody's arousal, and the way the shirtless bear longed for more intimate contact from his big brother. Moving away from Cody's nipple and leaving it shiny and glistening with saliva, Teddy blinked. It was hard to focus, asleep as he was, but there was something odd here.

"Have we always been able to feel each other's emotions?" he wondered aloud, but Cody just pulled him in close again and muttered 'Feel this' before kissing him again. Teddy found it difficult to counter that argument.

Teddy shuddered, moaning softly into the kiss as he let the thought drift off to better focus on the shocking act of incest he was preparing to commit.

_ Incest_.

The word that filled him with such shame, such fear when he was awake felt so different now that he couldn't comprehend that reaction. To know that this man, this beautiful man, was his own brother just set Teddy's nervous system aflame with wanton desire, made him want Cody even more than he already did. Cody's hands slipped down to grip Teddy's buttocks firmly, possessively, and the older bear broke off the kiss in order to gasp.

"God, yes..." he whispered, growling with need and pulling the other male closer against him. Leaning in, he began to kiss and lick at the side of Cody's neck, enjoying the way his lover shuddered appreciatively from his affections.

"Oh, Teddy..." Cody breathed, barely audible above the excited beating of Teddy's heart. It was at this moment, as they bumped together again, that Teddy realized they were both starting to get hard, and (reluctantly) stepped back from the tight embrace, reaching down to resume unfastening his brother's pants.

"I need you to be naked right now," he said, eagerly, "I mean, doing it with clothes on is kinda hot, but you don't want to show up to your exam all flushed from sex and wearing clothes soaked through with sweat, do you?" He expected the teasing to embarrass Cody, but the shorter ursine just smiled shyly.

"I think I'll just have to reschedule..." Cody mused, playfully.

Dropping to his knees on the wooden floor impatiently, Teddy finally got Cody's pants open and tugged them down his fuzzy legs. His grip turned out to be tight enough to pull the other male's boxers down with them, and Teddy swallowed as Cody's penis flopped out into the open. It was at about quarter-mast, one of Teddy's favourite looks for cocks; just excited enough to show that Cody was serious about being into him, but not fully, rigidly stiff, which made it ideal for playing with. As the more muscular bear contemplated the aesthetics of dicks, Cody pulled his feet free from the pants, leaving him just as nude as his brother.

"I could have sworn I was wearing shoes and socks a second ago..." Cody mused.

"Well, now you're not," Teddy said, bluntly, "and I think I need to correct a terrible mistake I made..." Looking down at the older male, his ears perking up curiously, Cody regarded the bear who was staring unashamedly at his junk.

"What mistake is that?" the shorter bear asked. Teddy smiled and glanced up to meet his lover's eyes for a moment before looking back down to the source of those male pheromones that were making the gay bear's instincts go crazy.

"Last time, all we did was rub our dicks together," Teddy said, "This time, I intend to taste you." He reached forward and cupped Cody's package from beneath, jostling the heavy balls in his hand as Cody tensed up - but for a different reason.

"Wait, you - you remember that?!?" the younger male asked, shocked, as Teddy leaned in and inhaled deeply, tingling all over with anticipation as the musky scent of Cody's growing arousal filled his nostrils.

"Of course, little brother," Teddy replied playfully, "We came together and you busted a huge nut all over me, it was pretty memorable!"

Without waiting for a response, Teddy leaned in and gave his sibling's cock a quick, experimental lick, drawing out a gasp of pleasure from Cody. He followed it up with a couple more playful licks, then by smacking his lips together loudly and rolling his eyes up a little, as if he were concentrating on the flavour.

"Hmmm... salty, but flavourful. I knew you'd taste good..." Teddy said, winking at his lover before moving back and surrendering to his instincts, eagerly taking the other male's dick into his mouth and closing his lips tight around the base. Cody swore and involuntarily bucked his hips, which might have made Teddy gag if he hadn't already taken Cody to the balls. Even then, admittedly, having a muzzle really helps with fellatio, since deep-throating isn't necessary when you have a deep mouth. Cody moved both hands to the back of Teddy's head as the older bear began to lick and suckle along Cody's entire length. The eager prick twitched and throbbed, hardening against his tongue, eliciting a shuddery gasp of pleasure from Cody and a muffled moan of relief from Teddy.

'God... why is this so fucking hot?' Teddy's ear flicked; the thought had come from Cody. 'It's Teddy_, it's my own brother... but it feels so_ good_... Shit, he's really good at this...'_

At that moment, Cody's eyes moved from Teddy's muzzle, buried in his pubic fur, to Teddy's eyes, which were delightedly watching Cody's face. The older male deeply enjoyed the visual of his brother belatedly remembering their gift, and raising one hand to his mouth, as if he'd blurted something out aloud without thinking.

"Oh shit!" Cody gasped, blushing. Without moving a millimetre away from that tasty cock, Teddy winked at his sibling.

'Aww, shucks, little brother,' he teased, 'I'm just glad you're enjoying yourself.' Cody snickered, despite himself, and shook his head, still blushing.

"Fuck you..." Cody muttered, even as he grinned self-consciously. Taking care not to think it in words, Teddy shivered; after all, wasn't that the end goal?

When Teddy had sufficiently savoured the taste of his brother's manhood, he pulled away and took stock of Cody's fully-engorged prick, now wobbling slightly in the open, glistening with saliva from root to crown. Teddy frowned ever so slightly. It looked exactly the same as it had in the first dream. Taking a moment to glance down at his own rod, as if he needed to check, the elder sun bear sighed with mild irritation.

"Your dick is still bigger than mine..." he muttered, momentarily grumpy at his own subconscious. Cody chuckled and rubbed at the back of his neck.

"W-well, I wasn't gonna say anything..." he said, in a distinct humble-brag tone.

"Then why start now?" Teddy growled, leaning back in and opening his maw wide, obviously moving to take Cody's dick back into his mouth. To Teddy's endless surprise, the younger male reached out and stopped him, pushing him away.

"Wait wait wait wait wait, hold on," Cody said, "I - You can't just kneel there and suck me off!" Smirking, Teddy looked up and crossed his arms.

"And why not?" he asked, "I'm pretty sure it's what we both want."

"Well, uh, y-yeah," Cody admitted, "It's just, if we do it here, like this, then, um, then I come and you don't." He averted his eyes and lowered his voice. "...And I don't get to play with you." An idea instantly occurred to Teddy, who grunted as he pushed himself back up into a standing position.

"You know what? That's a good point," he said, cheerily, "I think if we move over here..." As he trailed off, Teddy turned around and calmly crossed the room, imagining that he could feel his little brother's gaze immediately gluing itself to his pert, soft ass. As he passed the sauna's heat box, he ladled up some water and poured it over the stones, earning himself a loud hiss as a hot cloud of vapour billowed into the room..

"...Then things will start getting steamy."

Distantly, it occurred to Teddy that he was pretty sure the sauna had been an electric set-up when he first found himself here, but somehow that didn't bother him. Climbing back onto the bench where he'd been sitting, Teddy pulled his legs up and lay down on his side, as if he wanted someone to paint him like one of their French girls. Running a finger along his own body, Teddy smiled and waggled his eyebrows lewdly.

"Come on over, Cody," he said, patting the bench next to him, "Plenty of room for two..." Swallowing, eyes wide, the younger male nodded eagerly.

"Oh, fuck yes..." he murmured, immediately moving to follow his lover across the room, his erect cock bouncing provocatively as he walked. Cody lifted one foot and started to climb onto the bench so they'd be face-to-face, but Teddy lifted a hand and stopped him.

"Not like that," he said, his voice lower, more sensual, before breaking into an enormous smile, "The other way." To emphasize the point he was making without words, Teddy licked his lips and winked.

Sucking in a deep, sharp breath, Cody nodded again, understanding shining in his eyes. Lifting his other foot, Cody climbed onto the bench as Teddy rolled onto his back, watching his brother get onto all fours above him, with his hands next to Teddy's thighs. The older bear shivered with anticipation from watching Cody's thick cock slowly lowering itself towards his face, and feeling his lover's heated breath on his own stiff prick.

"Look how much you're leaking," Cody murmured, examining his big brother's erection closely, "You've been neglecting yourself, haven't you?" Despite the fact that this had been Teddy's idea, and that he watched it happening, Teddy still gasped as Cody leaned in to plant a kiss on the crown of his dick.

"Poor thing," Cody said, as if directly to Teddy's penis, "Don't worry, Co... little brother's gonna take good care of you."

'Pervert,' Teddy thought. Glancing over his shoulder, Cody raised an eyebrow.

'Seriously? Coming from you?' Springing his trap, Teddy winked and grinned widely.

'I didn't say it was a bad_thing..._'

Cody grimaced exaggeratedly and groaned out loud - and not from taboo pleasure.

'Even here, you're so cheesy_..._' the younger bear thought. Not put off in the slightest, Teddy chuckled to himself.

'Yeah, yeah, eat me...' he thought, out of habit.

'Mmmm, don't mind if I do...' Cody thought; Teddy had been expecting another sassy comeback, so the response threw him off just enough that he was, once again, caught completely off-guard when his little brother bent down and took Teddy's hard prick into his mouth.

"Oh - Oh my God!" the muscular sun bear moaned, tensing up as he shuddered from head to toe.

'You're telling me?' Cody thought, 'And you thought I tasted good!' The older male flinched as a droplet of pre-come dripped onto his cheek from Cody's dick, drawing his attention to the fact that it wasn't a sixty-nine until they were both helping each other out. Reaching up and placing his hands on Cody's hips, Teddy gently guided his brother's cock closer to his mouth. Cody obediently moved where Teddy lead him, and soon, both brothers sighed contentedly as Cody's stiff prick slid between Teddy's lips and back into the welcoming warmth of his mouth.

With that, both brothers began licking and suckling each other's cocks in earnest, eagerly but unhurriedly exploring each other's sensitive, taut flesh with enthusiastic, playful tongues. Reaching up, Teddy gently cupped Cody's balls and began to squeeze and massage them, rolling them around in his hand as he bobbed his head up and down along his lover's shaft.

'Oh, I - I like that,' Cody thought, shivering above him, 'K-keep doing that...' As if it were agreeing with him, his dick pulsed once against Teddy's lips, and the older male felt the distinctive salty taste of pre on his tongue. He instantly wanted more, as the very idea of tasting his little brother's come was so naughty that it inflamed Teddy's desire for the other male until he found it difficult to think about anything else. Focusing the tip of his tongue on the underside of Cody's crown, Teddy found a rhythm and made himself comfortable, enjoying taking a deep breath of Cody's musk every time he reached the base of his brother's cock, and Cody's balls draped themselves over Teddy's snout. Somehow, he had a feeling Cody was doing the same thing.

On one particularly deep bob, Teddy happened to open his eyes and catch a glimpse of something on Cody's scrotum. Curious, he tilted his head to a slightly different angle so he could try and get a better look without letting the tasty prick in his mouth escape. Moving his free hand to cup Cody's heavy, swaying balls, Teddy gently turned his brother's sac to the side. To his surprise, there was a small white spot in the otherwise pitch-black fur, as if a single drop of bleach had fallen there. The curious male brushed his thumb over the white spot, enjoying the way the wrinkled pouch twitched in his hand as he did so.

'Mmmm, keep going,' thought Cody, 'I love it when guys play with my balls...' Still examining the off-colour spot, Teddy let out a 'hmm' noise, since he couldn't do much more with so much bear cock in his mouth.

'I didn't know you had a marking down here,' he thought, rubbing the spot as if checking for a different texture.

'Yeah, well, don't worry, you're gonna get really familiar with it,' Cody thought back, 'because you're gonna have a front-row seat for the next little while...'

Teddy left the spot alone and started alternating between lightly squeezing Cody's sac and jostling the orbs within against his fingers. To be honest, he was kind of phoning that part in so he could focus on giving his brother the best head he'd ever received... but their lewd behaviour so far had clearly ignited something inside the amorous Cody, because around the time Teddy was shivering at the taste of more pre on his tongue, he was surprised yet again when he felt a slickened finger teasing at his anus. Cody rubbed back and forth, working saliva into the wrinkled flesh. Teddy immediately began to squirm self-consciously, more from anticipation than anything else, his feet twitching as his sibling pressed maddeningly gently against his entrance.

'You really seemed to like this last time,' Cody observed, 'Or was I mistaken?'

'N-no, no, you, um, you were right...' Teddy replied, amazed he even could still blush, given how turned on he was. 'So if you're planning what I think you're planning... Please do!' He shuddered again, but this time it was because what he'd said was awfully close to admitting to Cody that he was a bottom, and he just knew if he ever let that slip in real life, he'd never be able to meet his brother's eyes again. This was almost certainly an exaggeration, of course, but a hang-up was a hang-up... Thankfully, Teddy was given something else to think about, as Cody's finger increased the pressure until the tight ring of muscle surrendered and the digit slipped easily into Teddy's rear entrance. The older bear moaned around the prick in his mouth as once again, Cody gave him a solid fingering. This time, though, it was paired with some tender, attentive, and skilled oral loving as well, and for a few moments, Teddy feared the pleasure was too much, that he'd blow his load in seconds... but he managed to hold on.

Teddy and Cody continued their tender ministrations to each other, both brothers getting more and more worked up as straining cocks were worked by playful tongues and lips. The bears twitched and shuddered due to the extra effort they were putting in; Teddy tenderly massaged Cody's sensitive testicles while Cody worked his finger - then two - in and out of Teddy's eager rump. Swallowing a mouthful of saliva mixed with pre, Teddy groaned around his little brother's dick as his toes curled up further down the bed, and at one point, Cody abruptly threw his head back and gasped 'Christ!' before sheepishly returning to Teddy's manhood. The older male couldn't really blame him, he usually got a reaction like that from his signature ripcord move, where he curled his long, slender sun bear tongue around the full length of his lover's erection, then yanked it away all at once, like he was pulling the ripcord on a gas-powered appliance.

"Ohh... oh fuck..." panted a shuddering Cody, as Teddy was rewarded with another dollop of pre-come.

'I thought you'd like that,' thought Teddy, playfully with a hint of smugness for flavour, 'Every guy does.' He tensed up slightly as Cody gave him a smack on the ass.

"Yeah, yeah, you're God's gift to blowjobs," Cody muttered aloud, "Gimme that cock back..." Settling back down into position, the younger male took his brother's length back into his mouth, and the two of them went back to suckling.

A bit of time passed without words being exchanged out loud or psychically, and the room was mostly silent aside from the quiet hissing of the sauna and a near-endless series of wet, lewd slurps coming from the two entwined males. To mix things up, and because his jaw was getting a little tired, Teddy let Cody's prick slip out of his mouth, and began stroking it with his hand as he began to lick at his little brother's scrotum, starting with the white spot he'd found earlier. Cody grunted approvingly as Teddy gently took one of his balls into his mouth and bathed the wrinkled skin in saliva with slow, thorough licks. Unable to resist the taboo need for Cody that ached within him, Teddy soon returned to his lover's cock, but it seemed like he'd planted an idea in Cody's mind, as the other bear also pulled away from Teddy's manhood, and removed his fingers from Teddy's backside. Teddy was about to telepathically protest this latter choice, but before he could form a single syllable, Cody's plan became all too clear: without asking, without warning, Cody suddenly pushed his tongue against Teddy's anus, the well-worked muscle instantly surrendering to this new invader, which pushed deep into Teddy's rump... and kept going.

"Hnngh! Ahhh - oh my f-fucking G-God!" sputtered Teddy, as he arched his back off the bench below him, but not before he practically choked himself on Cody's prick by unthinkingly lifting his head and forcing the shaft to the very back of his throat.

'I thought you'd like that,' teased Cody, as he began working his long, long sun bear tongue in and out of the trembling male's ass, 'Every bottom does.'

For a moment, Teddy was more embarrassed about the act itself than the particulars of that comeback, afraid that - well, he was afraid of exactly what you'd expect he'd be afraid of when there was a tongue buried that far up his rear. But he quickly realized; this was a dream, and a sexy one at that, which meant his backside would be perfectly, 100% clean, so as not to interfere with fingering, anal sex, or yes, the mother of all rimjobs. With that panic abating, he was able to turn his attention to Cody calling him out on his preferences.

'I - I'm not a bottom!' he lied, defensively.

'You're lying!' Cody announced, in the telepathic equivalent of a sing-song voice, 'I can feel it coming off you, clear as day!' If he weren't already so flushed from arousal, Teddy knew his cheeks would be burning hard. The muscular bear swallowed an uncharacteristic whimper as he felt irrational shame wash over him from the idea that Cody knew the truth, heard the metaphorical voices whispering to him that Cody would never respect him again.

'N-no way! I w-would never!' he insisted, so agitated that he'd forgotten he could speak aloud with his mouth empty. To his dismay, Cody suddenly stopped moving entirely, his tongue freezing in place and his hand coming to a stop at the base of Teddy's cock.

'Admit it, or I won't get you off,' Cody thought, with the confidence of someone who knows he's winning, 'And do it out loud, hearing you say it will be so fuckin' hot...'

Teddy's muzzle peeled back, revealing his teeth as he began to growl. Bears are omnivores, even the feral ones, but even though not all of their teeth were fangs meant for piercing meat, the ones that were sharp were still plenty imposing... but Cody was facing the other way, and his butt seemed unimpressed.

'Fuck y... Eat m... Shit! Are there any insults that don't sound like a good thing when you're fooling around?!' he thought, disgruntled. Cody sighed, and Teddy felt his balls tighten slightly as Cody's hot breath washed over his scrotum.

'Suit yourself,' thought Cody, faux-sadly, 'I was really looking forward to tasting your come, too... Oh well, I think your balls would be cute with a little blue on them...' With that, he actually let go of Teddy's penis and slid his tongue free of Teddy's ass.

"Okay! Okay!" Teddy blurted out, overcoming his silence through his sudden fear that Cody really wasn't going to let him climax. "I... I'm a... a... Oh God..." Wildly embarrassed, he clenched his eyes shut as hard as if the Ark of the Covenant had been opened in his vicinity, and tried one more time.

"...I'm a bottom."

To Teddy's chagrin, he felt Cody shiver indecently on top of him, and his prick began to drool a constant stream of pre onto Teddy's chin.

"Oh, damn, that really was sexy," the younger male muttered to himself, "I don't know if that's because I like kinda subby guys... or because it's you." Before Teddy could ask him to clarify that, Cody bent down and planted a kiss directly on the spot where Teddy's penis met his scrotum.

"Thank you, big brother," Cody cooed, "That really made my day." Without another word, out loud or otherwise, the younger bear moved back down and returned his tongue to the warm, tight confines of his lover's rump, pressing the tip against Teddy's prostate and making him moan, which helped him to forgive his brother. Besides, deep down, where he'd never admit it, now that he'd said the words, Teddy himself found the idea of confessing his secret to this imaginary Cody to be kind of sexy-exciting.

The two males lost themselves in each other, their passion building towards a crescendo as they tenderly worked each other's sensitive flesh, curiously and eagerly exploring each other's bodies in a way they'd never dared to, or even considered before. Teddy's feet were shaking and twitching constantly, his toes clenching and relaxing over and over again as Cody's (remarkably!) skilled tongue squirmed and wiggled within his tight backside, repeatedly returning to tease his prostate and make him moan around Cody's prick.

'Damn, you really do love that...' Cody thought. 'My big brother is a cute little butt-slut, who knew?'

'Cody!' Teddy protested, pausing in his fellatio for a moment, 'C-come on! You're embarrassing me!' He closed his eyes and flinched as he recognized the whine in his own 'voice'.

'I didn't say that was a bad thing, Ted,' Cody quickly added, 'The way you react to every little thing I do, I've never seen a guy do that... Fuck, it's such a turn-on...' Tangibly relaxing, Teddy went back to suckling.

'Well, alright...' he silently muttered, 'But don't call me a fuckin' butt-slut, it makes me -'

'It made your dick throb, that's what it did...' Cody gently teased. Teddy thought about reacting grumpily... but instead just kept sucking, the extreme corners of his mouth curling up.

The older bear was putting up his best fight, but he knew he couldn't hold the pleasure back much longer, not with Cody's tongue licking and teasing inside him like that. So he was secretly relieved when Cody moaned and shuddered, then admitted the same thing.

'Teddy, I'm getting so close...' he thought. As it was telepathy, his 'voice' wasn't affected by the level of strain his body was going through, no stuttering or panting, though it did sound slightly fuzzier, like a radio starting to lose its signal.

'God, yes...' Teddy replied shamelessly, 'I can't believe how badly I want you to come in my mouth...' Cody tensed up above him, and for a moment, Teddy thought he was going to do just that, but the younger male held on... which made a light bulb go off in Teddy's mind. The reason Cody kept teasing him was because he got off on pillow talk, it was so obvious! Now to test this hypothesis (and to try and make his big-dicked younger brother finish before him, for his ego's sake).

'Mmmm... You've got such a tasty cock, little brother,' he thought, in as lewd a tone as he could manage, 'So big and so hard, and it's alllll for me right now... But the flavour is probably my favourite part, I could suck you all day... And your musk! Hrrr, the scent alone makes my mouth water...' Cody moaned again, and his dick pulsed angrily against Teddy's tongue, as if fighting back against Cody's resistance. Success!

'Oh - oh God...' thought Cody.

'Don't hold back, Cody!' Teddy immediately replied, pressing his advantage, 'I'm almost there too, and the only thing that would make it better for me is if I finally got to taste my little brother's cream, I bet it's delicious...'

At that, Cody suddenly switched places again, unceremoniously pulling away from Teddy's rump and slipping his fingers back inside, none-too-subtly rubbing directly against his brother's prostate to compensate for the lack of depth compared to his tongue. Meanwhile, Cody wrapped his lips around Teddy's straining prick and frantically suckled.

'Yes, yes, I wanna taste you too!' thought Cody, with a desperation that was, itself, a turn-on for Teddy, 'Not doing it is the only thing I regretted about the first time!' Both bears were trembling and panting and shuddering as their bodies tensed up in preparation for release, and Teddy felt his tiny tail begin to twitch and flick about behind him. Less than ten seconds later, both males moaned aloud as their resistances crumbled and pleasure exploded from within them, even more powerfully than in the first dream. This time, though, Teddy could feel Cody's bliss through this new, stronger connection that seemed to exist between them in the dreams. As raw, white-hot ecstasy flooded both of their systems, Cody's mental signal trailed off into white noise, his last coherent thought being a long psychic cry of 'Big brotherrrrrrrr!' It wouldn't be until afterwards when Teddy would realize that at the same moment, he'd cried out for his little brother, too. In the moment, of course, he was much more focused on the orgasm itself, as dicks throbbed and spasmed against tongues, spurting wet, hot, creamy jism directly into each other's mouths. Cody continued to work Teddy's prostate like it was a 'come harder' button that worked every time it was pressed. Teddy groped and squeezed Cody's balls in time with the throbbing of his lover's cock, milking his little brother of every last drop of gooey, flavourful come, which Teddy greedily swallowed again and again to keep the impossibly productive load from overflowing his mouth while he was trying to savour the taste.

When the pleasure finally ebbed away, and the last of the ursine semen had been swallowed, Cody released Teddy's dick, then lifted his hips so his own slowly-softening cock slipped out of Teddy's mouth. Impulsively, Teddy leaned up and planted a farewell kiss on the underside of the crown. Cody chuckled as he started to move; the older male expected him to stand up, but instead, Cody remained on all fours, carefully turning around so he was aligned the same way as his lover, and gave Teddy his handsomest smile. Teddy smiled back, feeling a familiar flutter in his chest.

"So? How'd the taste test go?" Cody asked, cocking his head to the side playfully.

"Oh, you're delicious, man, 10/10," Teddy replied immediately, and then added, on a whim, "From now on, I'm gonna have you on my toast instead of honey." Cody laughed delightedly even as he cringed.

"Euuugh, c'mon, Ted, no one would ever have come toast, that's just nasty!"

Grinning, Teddy shrugged.

"Yeah, you're probably right..." he said, "Or maybe I'm just biding my time until I can tie you to your bed and jack you off onto a piece of whole wheat." Raising his eyebrows, Cody regarded his brother with his blue-and-brown eyes and made a face.

"It's official," Cody said, "I am never eating your cooking again."

"Everybody's a critic..." Teddy deadpanned, and both males broke out into laughter, which ended as Teddy pulled his brother down into kissing range. Cody made himself comfortable on top of Teddy, their half-hard cocks smushing together as their tongues danced and entwined. Teddy closed his eyes to enjoy the moment, because he felt even more tired than he'd expected.

"Mmmm... that was nice..." he murmured.

"And how," Cody agreed, hesitating slightly before adding "...I love you, big brother." Shivering happily, Teddy smiled without opening his eyes.

"I love you too, little brother."

* * *

Teddy slowly opened his unfocused eyes, a big, goofy grin plastered across his face. For a moment, all was right with the world, and he felt truly relaxed and content. Then his brain kicked in, and he sat bolt upright.

"Oh no." It was a statement, not an exclamation, for it wasn't exactly a surprise, nor could he deny it. He blushed, hard, as he unwillingly went over the dream again. The sauna. Calming a panicked Cody. Kissing. Touching. Tasting. A hot, sweaty sixty-nine.

"God, what is wrong with me?" he murmured, burying his face in his hands, "Why... why the fuck do I keep having sex dreams about - about him?" Suddenly afraid that Cody might hear him, he stuck to a vague term. Swallowing, he voiced the unspoken fear. "...And why are they so fucking hot?!" Pulling his blankets aside, he confirmed visually what he'd felt as soon as he'd woken up: once again, he'd gotten so worked up in the dream that he'd ejaculated in his sleep in the real world, and yesterday's boxers had a dark, wet spot around the head of his penis where jism had soaked through. Unlike yesterday, though, he was still rock hard, sporting some impressive morning wood. He couldn't deny it anymore: he found the dreams intensely arousing, and even as hot shame washed over his body, he couldn't help but shudder at the memory of Cody grunting with pleasure as he came in Teddy's eagerly awaiting mouth.

"Jesus Christ, aren't dreams supposed to fade?!" the humiliated bear groused, "I have a dream where Dwayne Johnson sweeps me off my feet and makes me his, and I can barely remember it when I wake up, but I..." He trailed off, swallowing self-consciously, before picking up on the other side of that thought. "...and I can remember it perfectly!"

It was true. Somehow, these dreams had been so much more vivid, so much more real, than any other dream he'd ever had, and the little details that usually faded and blurred were still crystal-clear; the feeling of his brother's fur against his fingers, his warmth against his body, even the smell of his musk and the taste of his needy flesh... and his seed. Even now, Teddy caught himself licking his chops at the memory of drinking down Cody's come, fresh from his heavy balls, and dedicated entirely to him if that psychic cry of 'big brother' as Cody was overtaken by his orgasm was anything to go by. By the time he realized he was getting turned on by the memories, it was too late; he still wasn't entirely awake, and such primal passions were stronger when the mind was tired. Slipping his hand into his boxers, Teddy gathered up as much semen as he could, finding it still kind of warm against his fingers. Surrendering to a desire too powerful for him to really understand, the conflicted male closed his eyes as he pulled his hand free, imagining that he'd just given Cody a handjob, and the younger bear was watching Teddy intently as he brought his hand to his muzzle and slipped his fingers into his mouth, groaning as he licked his fingers clean of 'Cody's' cream, as he started his day with the taste of fresh come. It wasn't enough, though, not nearly, and acting without a single conscious thought, Teddy peeled his sticky boxers down and flung them off into his room without even opening his eyes to see where they landed. Lying back down, he took hold of his rod, shivering with indecent glee as he began to stroke himself, using the residue of his own jism as lubricant.

He didn't last long. He wasn't trying to. He didn't need to. With his mind full of impossibly lewd thoughts about his brother - his sweet, supportive, sexy little brother - Teddy worked himself into a panting, trembling frenzy.

"Oh, Cody... oh, God, Cody, yes..." he whispered, beyond caring if he was heard. He kept licking his lips, wishing he had a nice, hard prick to suck on, feeling an intense oral fixation after that dream. As he approached the point of no return, he impulsively opted for the next best thing; with a grunt, Teddy heaved his butt up off the bed and lifted it up and over himself. The sun bear didn't have a long enough dick or a flexible enough spine to suck himself off (not that he hadn't tried it at some point during puberty, like every other male), but as he braced his feet against the wall behind his bed, his cock ended up in a position pointing directly at his face. Hurriedly suckling on his left middle finger, Teddy reached up and began fingering his rump, making his tuft of a tail twitch and dance. Frantically stroking and fingering himself, Teddy imagined his brother kneeling over him, shuddering as he approached the edge.

I'm a-almost there, big b-brother, open wide!

Obediently opening his muzzle and letting his tongue loll out, Teddy moaned as he slipped off the edge, and his prick began to throb in his hand even as his backside clenched and squeezed at his finger. Long, ropey strands of hot, wet come pumped out into the warm air of his room, some of them falling onto his tongue or into his mouth, causing Teddy to groan again with sinful pleasure. Others draped themselves over the bear's face, painting his handsome features with creamy goo. Distantly, he was absolutely certain that he was coming harder because he was pretending that it was Cody painting his face, marking his territory, making his big brother his.

It wasn't a crappy orgasm by any means, but compared to the incredible climaxes the dreams had brought him, it did feel a little lacking. Still, it sated the burning desires deep inside Teddy, and when he finished, he pushed off the wall with his feet and let his ass flop back down to the bed with a groan. For a moment, he just lay there, panting, and then he slowly drew his jism-spattered tongue back into his mouth and swallowed the seed down. He liked the flavour, and imagining that the semen was Cody's had been kinky, but somehow, it just wasn't the same when he knew for a fact that it was his own. When he opened his eyes - well, one of them anyway, as the other had a dollop of bear come on top of it - he stared at the ceiling, so shocked by what he'd done that he didn't even get upset. It felt a little like acceptance.

'It's official,' he thought, unusually calmly for the situation, 'I'm a goddamn pervert. I... I'm attracted to Cody. I'm really attracted to Cody.' He whimpered quietly as he thought about how many different sins were wrapped up in his thoughts over the last few days.

"God... please forgive me..." he whispered, closing his eye again and sighing.

After self-consciously retrieving a T-shirt from his laundry hamper and wiping his face off with it, Teddy swapped out his moist boxers with the pyjama pants he'd been wearing when he had the first dream. The spot in front of his crotch was a little stiff from dried semen, but he only needed to wear it from his bedroom to the bathroom. Soon enough, he was getting nice and clean under the warm, soothing water, but it wasn't as calming as Teddy normally found it, as the troubled bear couldn't stop thinking about this problem that had crept up on him... when had this started, anyway? Three days ago, Cody had gotten in the shower as an unaware Teddy had started a cycle in the dishwasher, and a disgruntled Cody had demonstrated how unhappy this made him by walking across the house, naked as the proverbial jaybird and dripping wet, to turn the dishwasher off himself. Cody had bent over at the waist to push the start/stop button on the machine, which meant his firm ass had been pointing directly at Teddy, but the older male hadn't so much as glanced at his brother's entrance or the glimpse of 'backsack' the position offered, choosing instead to glare at the back of Cody's head and grumble that he could have at least towelled off first.

So why had the younger male suddenly become absolutely irresistible to him? Even right at that moment, with guilt running a parade through his mind, when Teddy remembered the dishwasher incident, his mind drifted to the idea of Cody unexpectedly joining him right there in the shower. He imagined his brother suddenly pulling the curtains aside, stepping into the tub over Teddy's false protests, and dominantly pushing the larger bear against the back wall, before reaching down to take hold of his rigid -

"No!" Teddy blurted out, his pulse spiking, as he realized his dick had started to lengthen, "God, please, no... I... I don't want to be like this..." There was a strange sense of déjà vu about those words, but at the moment he didn't care to trace the feeling back to its point of origin. Leaning one arm against the cool tile wall, Teddy rested his forehead against his arm and let out a sound that was about three-fourths sigh and one-quarter whimper.

"Cody... I'm so sorry..." The words came out in a whisper so soft that even Teddy himself could barely hear them over the sound of water splashing to the floor. But as he stood there, wallowing in self-pity and shame, a random memory came back to him, a moment from the first dream that had little to do with the Benson brothers grinding their cocks together. Cody, telling Teddy how badly the younger male wanted him, then winking and adding a phrase that had surprised Teddy at the time.

"C'mon, no one will know, it's just a dream, right?"

Like a puzzle suddenly starting to assemble itself before his eyes, and leaving him feeling even more disconcerted, Teddy's mind immediately came to another moment in the second dream: He'd been on his knees, freeing Cody's junk from his pants, and when he made a reference to the first dream, Cody had been visibly shocked that Teddy remembered it. The 'push' they'd made the other night had felt like both of them had reached beyond what they'd thought the limits of their gifts were, and since then, it had felt like Teddy's gift was getting stronger, like other people's thoughts were coming to him more easily, more clearly... what if their psychic abilities really had been pushed to a new level? What if the reason these dreams were so vivid was because...

"Holy fuck!" he gasped, "Was that actually Cody?! Were we... sharing the dreams?!"

The guilt had only intensified as Teddy wrestled with the idea that the profoundly taboo dreams had been real sexual interactions with his little brother. Thinking about the sticky surprises he'd woken up to both times, he couldn't help but wonder if Cody, the real Cody, had brought him to two of the most pleasurable orgasms he'd ever experienced.

"No... no way... it can't be..." he muttered, belatedly grabbing the body wash and starting to scrub himself down to give himself something to do, "How could it even be possible?" As he continued to clean himself, Teddy firmly rejected the idea, less out of conviction that it couldn't be true than because he had no idea what he would do with himself if it was. Was 'telepathic dream incest' even a sin? He was pretty sure it wasn't a crime, but only because there were no laws governing psychic powers. They'd checked.

By the time he stepped out of the shower and into the fur dryer booth just next to it, Teddy had calmed down the initial rush of panic, and had moved on to trying to convince himself that it wasn't true, that he couldn't possibly be linking to his brother's mind in his sleep. After all, Teddy had tried reading peoples' minds when they were sleeping in the past, and gotten absolutely nothing; over the years, he and Cody had concluded that they could only read peoples' conscious thoughts, things they were actively thinking about, which was why they couldn't sift through someone's memories and snoop through their entire life story. Naturally, people who were unconscious didn't have much by way of conscious thoughts going on. It would probably have been easier for Teddy to convince himself of this if there wasn't a voice in the back of his mind playing devil's advocate, helpfully pointing out that reading Cody's thoughts had always been way easier than reading anyone else's, and that the Bensons didn't truly know the limits of their gifts. It also didn't help, of course, that even if Teddy didn't want to admit it, a part of him found the idea that it had really been Cody to be thrilling, not horrifying... Stepping out of the fur dryer, looking extra-fuzzy, Teddy looked in the mirror, glared, and lightly slapped himself on the cheeks a couple times, trying to shock his mind out of the downward spiral it seemed stuck in.

'Get a fucking hold of yourself!' he thought, crossly, at himself, 'You're going to make yourself crazy if you keep obsessing over it! What'll you do if Cody catches you thinking about him that way, eh?'

His cheeks lightly stinging, Teddy sighed, then started breathing deeply, slowly, and evenly. He wasn't some closeted teenager, in denial over his first gay crush - not anymore, anyway - he was Theodore Benson, one of the best salesmen in town, and he wasn't about to let weird dreams turn him into a panicking mess, even if they might be psychic and weird. After all, he definitely wouldn't have sucked his brother's dick if he'd suspected it was real, right? So he was going to go back to his room, get dressed for work, grab a sandwich or something, and head out with Cody to do his job and pay his bills. Figuring out all this telepathic dream nonsense could wait. Standing up a little straighter, Teddy smiled. That wasn't half-bad. He actually felt better in the face of his own determination... though since it was Friday, just to be on the safe side, he decided that he was going to stay up all night tonight so that he wouldn't be asleep at the same time as Cody.

Soon, Teddy was walking out into the main room, adjusting his cuffs and looking sharp. Cody sat on the couch, holding the last bit of a piece of toast in one hand and his smartphone in the other as he chewed and looked intently at the screen, an uncharacteristically dire look on his face. Teddy caught himself thinking that his brother's tie went very nicely with his dark fur, and quickly gave himself something else to do.

"Morning, Cody," he said, as he took a turn into the kitchen and went for the bread. Cody started slightly, nearly dropping his phone, though the toast remained firmly in his grasp. Amused, Teddy grinned at the other bear as he retrieved some condiments.

"Catch you daydreaming? Sorry," he said, mostly sincerely, "What's got you looking so grim?" To his surprise, Cody blushed just slightly. A human probably wouldn't have been able to tell past such dark fur - hell, most bears probably wouldn't have noticed, but Teddy was closer to Cody than anyone else alive, obvious innuendo notwithstanding, and everything about his brother's body language told Teddy the younger ursine was embarrassed.

"Oh, uh, I just... S-sorry, you know what the news is like these days..." Cody said, hastily putting his phone away. It was then that Teddy nearly dropped the mayonnaise jar in his hand in surprise. He hadn't been trying to read his sibling, or even concentrating on him, but as Cody said those words, Teddy suddenly knew that the shorter male was lying, with absolute conviction.

'Oh my God, the link is stronger,' Teddy thought, 'Since when am I Deanna Troi?'

The sense of deception quickly faded as Cody changed the subject.

"This week has been crazy. 'Thank God it's Friday', eh?" he said, "I don't remember the last time I was looking forward to a weekend this much, and I'm not even doing anything." The younger male sighed quietly.

"It'll be nice to have some time to, uh... work some things out," he murmured, as if to himself. Teddy swallowed ever so slightly nervously. He couldn't keep from thinking the thought, no matter how he resisted: what if Cody was anxious for the same reason he was?

'No, that can't be,' he told himself rather firmly, 'Because the only real person in my dreams is me.' Suddenly feeling afraid that this stronger link between them might let Cody hear his thoughts without meaning to, Teddy tensed up and looked uneasily at his brother, but Cody didn't react in any way. On the other hand, his anxiety level, which Teddy was still mildly disturbed to realize he could sense, remained fairly even.

It was at that moment that it occurred to Teddy that maybe the solution was simply to come clean. If Cody had taken part in the dreams, okay, it would be embarrassing, but embarrassing for both of them, and neither of their fault. After all, it's not like they'd known it was more than an empty fantasy, and if they exchanged notes, maybe they could figure out a way to stop it from happening again. But... what if Teddy was way off base? What if Cody was anxious because, say, he was planning to ask a guy out on his lunch break? Teddy confessing would accomplish nothing except... letting Cody know that his own brother had had sex dreams about him. Teddy knew, but had never acknowledged, that Cody still looked up to him in a lot of ways. The older bear flinched as he imagined that pride Cody held for his big brother draining out of the other male's mismatched eyes, to be replaced forever with revulsion and disappointment. Unable to bear the idea of alienating his only blood relative like that, especially when he'd be able to feel Cody's emotional reaction, Teddy shuddered uneasily and swallowed, burying the idea of coming clean as deep within him as he could, where it would never see the light of day. If only there was a way he could know for sure before he confronted Cody! A solution suggested itself to him as Cody leaned back in his seat, yawned, and scratched his junk through his pants. One's personal etiquette tends to relax when one is only in the presence of family, after all. But it made the older bear think about Cody's package from the dreams, and the unfamiliar white spot on one of his balls. As Cody stood up to get ready to leave, Teddy gathered his focus in order to sound as casual as possible.

"Hey, I'm still not really feeling like going to a bar and maybe getting my ass kicked," he said, "So how about we just hit the gym on the way home, work off some stress?" The shorter male grinned.

"Sure, it's been a while," Cody agreed, "Sounds great." As he went to retrieve his shoes, Teddy tried very hard not to think about the fact that technically, he'd just come up with an excuse to see his brother naked.

The trip to Keystone Automotive was a lot quieter than usual, and while he was new to the whole empath thing, Teddy felt like Cody was putting some effort into coming across as calm and collected, even as his anxiety continued unabated. Both bears were relieved when they arrived at work, as there was only so long silence could go on before it became tense and awkward. Jerry didn't greet them that day, as he was neck-deep in phone calls to a manufacturer about a car that had arrived with a rather significant defect in its engine. It was moments like that that had always made Teddy and Cody glad they were just salesmen, as neither of them really had the patience to deal with the endless games of pass-the-buck that such management calls looked like from the outside. Besides, while they were great at crafting sales pitches to customers, their gifts wouldn't do diddly-squat to a person they were only talking to over the phone.

On the other hand, to Teddy's chagrin, he soon found that the low-level anxiety he was unable to fully shake today seemed to be interfering with his mojo. While he was finding it too easy to read Cody, picking up his little brother's emotions without even trying, Teddy quickly discovered that he was having much more trouble than usual reading anyone else. A beaver walked in, and Teddy couldn't tell whether he wanted a car that was safe, or fuel-efficient, or fast, or even whether he'd only walked into the dealership to ogle Teddy's co-worker Elizabeth, who was wearing an unseasonably short skirt along with some stockings that Teddy had on good authority were very popular with straight guys. Teddy was an experienced salesman, but without the inside edge he'd relied on, the flustered bear felt like he was trying to land a plane for the five hundredth time, but this time he was being asked to do it blindfolded. It certainly didn't do much for Teddy's ego that he was floundering so much without the use of his psychic powers. A shy arctic fox walked in holding hands with a skunk, and the only thing Teddy could read from the two men was that they were crazy about each other, which he could have guessed just from the way they looked at each other. But when he was getting his first senses off of them, for just a moment, he could have sworn that they were thinking about seducing Cody. The 'devil's advocate' voice helpfully offered the idea that it was some kind of reflection from Teddy himself. Much as he bristled at the idea, it was a little hard to deny the attraction that had been so intense as to lead him to give himself a facial this morning...

Things didn't much pick up from there. Teddy felt like he was floundering, and maybe it was his imagination, but he could almost swear his brother looked every bit as stressed as he did. After a while, Teddy had started making a conscious effort not to read Cody's emotions, as the older bear had his hands full already with his own anxiety, thank you very much. Once he stopped trying to rely on his usual trick, Teddy did okay, but apparently he still seemed 'off' enough that as they crossed paths in the office, Jerry stopped Teddy to ask him if he was alright. Unable to confess to any part of what was really bothering him, Teddy went with a nice, vague 'It's just one of those days', and the otter nodded sagely, his whiskers dancing as he spoke.

"I know exactly what you mean, my boy," Jerry said, patting the other male on the shoulder, "I'm sure my ex-wife can tell you all about it... Keep your chin up, Ted. You and your brother don't need to be the best salesmen in the country every day, you know."

Teddy blinked, surprised by his boss' hyperbole.

"That's... really nice of you to say, boss," he said, "Uh, do you think you could go say something like that to Cody? It would really make his day." The otter laughed gently and winked at the younger man.

"As a matter of fact, this conversation was his idea," Jerry replied, obviously delighted. Surprised, Teddy looked across the office at his brother, who was just standing up from his desk. Their eyes met, and both bears found themselves grinning at each other.

"You two are sweet, you know that?" Jerry opined, as he started walking off, "I was never that close with any of my brothers..." Teddy couldn't help but wonder if Jerry would still say that if he knew exactly how close the Bensons had grown in their - in Teddy's dreams.

Somehow, someway, the end of the day came, and with it came a wave of relief that Teddy felt from the tips of his ears all the way down to his toes. He sat at his desk, just staring at the paperwork he'd finished up, trying to gather the energy to get up. He looked up as Elizabeth walked by, shrugging her coat on.

"Hell of a week, eh?" the friendly capybara said, "God, I'm glad it's Friday." She zipped her coat up and beamed delightedly at her co-worker.

"My boyfriend and I are going away for the weekend, just the two of us," she said, with no small amount of enthusiasm, "How about you, big guy? You and Cody got any plans?" The exact wording of her question threatened to bring the dreams to mind, but Teddy just scoffed and grinned at her.

"Sure, rub it in, why don't you..." he muttered, winking.

They laughed together as Elizabeth headed out, giving Teddy a wave as she stepped out the door, and Teddy finally stood up, just in time for Cody to walk over to his desk.

"Hey," Cody said, simply.

"Hey," the older male said back. Sometimes, you didn't need a lot of words.

"You look tired," observed Cody, "You sure you're up to the gym?" In truth, Teddy really, really just wanted to go home and lie down, but the idea of living in constant uncertainty convinced him that for the sake of his own sanity, he needed to go to the gym and peek at his brother's testicles.

Waving his hand nonchalantly, Teddy managed a grin.

"Nah, I'm good to go," he said, "It'll be nice to work off some stress after this week." As he retrieved his own coat, Cody nodded.

"Cool," he replied, "Then let's get going." He turned to go as Teddy knelt down to retrieve his briefcase, and the older male glanced over and couldn't help but notice what a nice, firm ass his little brother had, and how Cody's tuft of a tail accentuated it without getting in the way of the view. Looking away, Teddy silently cringed, thinking as hard as he could about the report he'd just typed up, lest Cody 'hear' Teddy waxing poetic about his butt. Fully aware that he was going to a place where Cody would only look even sexier, Teddy sighed quietly.

'Lord, give me strength...' he thought to himself (mostly) facetiously.

They pulled into the gym, a local entry in an exercising franchise, about a dozen minutes later. Teddy had already ditched his tie, but Cody didn't unfasten his until he stepped out of the car, and Teddy was struck by how sexy the action looked. That didn't please the elder male, as it felt like the forbidden thoughts were coming more frequently, despite the fact that he was fighting against them harder than ever. He quickly decided the thoughts were only coming more often because he was suddenly spending time with Cody again. They headed into the gym, bags in hand, and found the place to be well populated, but not uncomfortably full, thanks to other people coming in after work. Teddy let his gaze linger on a tall, muscular horse, tracing the muscles in the man's bulging arm as he did arm curls. It wasn't until he'd glanced sideways at Cody that Teddy realized that he'd subconsciously been afraid of Cody catching him looking at another man, as if they were dating. He sighed to himself as they walked into the men's changeroom. At least in a moment, he would know for sure...

But just before he reached the actual locker room area, Teddy stopped dead in his tracks as he glanced to the left, surprised to find a wooden door there.

"Hey, has... has that always been there?" he asked, softly. Cody said nothing, and Teddy, wondering if he was suddenly going insane, walked over and pulled the door open. Sure enough, there was a sauna inside, just like the sign said. There was no one currently inside the sauna, which was cooling down from inactivity, but the troubled bear had half-expected to find himself and his brother in their eager sixty-nine atop the back bench. Okay, the design was different, and this one was definitely electrical, but it was unquestionably real, and he had absolutely no memory of it being at this gym before.

Gazing upon the heated room, Teddy's mind wandered back to the initial, hungry kiss, the way Cody had relaxed in his arms like all his problems had melted away the second he encountered his big brother's lips. The way Teddy had trailed those lips all over Cody's body, working the younger male into a frenzy of lust as he'd sampled the way his sibling tasted. He probably would have gone on like that for a while, but he was pulled back to reality when his cock twitched in his pants. Not wanting to get a hard-on before getting changed in public, a rather self-conscious Teddy backed up and closed the door, which helped him to realize that the wood in the door was flawless and new, and the laminated sheet explaining how to operate the sauna was perfectly smooth, its images unfaded.

"Huh, it must really be brand-new," Teddy concluded, silently relieved that his incest dreams weren't leaking through into reality. Speaking of which... turning to the changeroom, Teddy was deeply disappointed to see that Cody had continued on without him - and now stood there with his gym shorts on. Stepping into the room after him, Teddy swore under his breath. Now he'd have to wait until after their workout to get an answer! Literally adding insult to injury, Cody unknowingly gave his brother shit for taking so long before he'd even started getting changed. Teddy, somehow, didn't feel like explaining himself.

As usual, they both went with some cardio before getting to the weight training; Cody hit the treadmill, while Teddy consciously one-upped him by going to the stair-climber. He would privately admit to himself that this may have been a mistake; he could handle the stairs, but the climbers were behind the flat treadmills, and from here, he had a perfect angle of Cody's butt in those tight shorts... Forcing his eyes up to one of the TVs mounted to the ceiling, Teddy tried to follow the news by the subtitles, since he hadn't brought any headphones.

'Besides,' he thought to himself, 'My ass is muuuuch nicer than his, no way he'd be able to resist this...' He was only half-kidding, as he couldn't help wondering if Cody would like his rump if he got a good look at it under the right circumstances... like Teddy on all fours on a bed, grinning at Cody over his shoulder with come-hither eyes.

Teddy blushed at this errant thought, but did not otherwise respond. As much as he didn't want them to be there, he couldn't exactly pretend he didn't have these embarrassing feelings for Cody, after all.

"It's not fair..." he whispered to himself, as his gaze slowly dropped back to Cody, focusing on the tight muscles running across his shoulders, which were mostly exposed by the younger bear's sleeveless shirt. "He's thoughtful, he's charming, and he makes me laugh harder than any other guy I've known..." Teddy swallowed a groan of frustration. "All that, and he's so fucking sexy..." he sighed, "Why's he have to be my brother?"

"You say something to me?" asked the tall, buff tigress who had apparently been standing directly behind Teddy's stair-climber. Her calm, neutral expression suggested that she hadn't clearly heard Teddy foolishly confessing his attraction to Cody, but her words still made Teddy jump out of his skin. After checking to make sure his pelt was, in fact, still attached, he looked back at her and grinned nervously.

"N-no, sorry, never mind that," he said, feeling about as smooth as sandpaper as he did so. The tigress' tail was twitching with mild curiosity, but she still just turned and left without a word. Some gym regulars motivated themselves in weird ways, after all, and people just got used to it. Like the human gentleman who dressed like a dad and talked to himself like he was his own boxing coach in order to push himself through his exercises.

When he got off the stair-climber, a slightly sweatier Teddy headed over to the free weight area, intending to take some dumbbells and work on his biceps, get those arm curls in. But as he walked over to the dumbbell rack, his brother called out to him.

"Hey, Teddy," Cody said from over by the bench press station in the barbell area, "C'mon, I'll spot you." This was hardly unusual for the two brothers, but today, Teddy worried that even these actions could be misconstrued, that Cody would suddenly sense the unwanted attraction for him that Teddy couldn't shake, the same way Teddy had detected when Cody was lying this morning. Taking a deep breath, Teddy told himself he was being crazy, pushed the knee-jerk fear out of his mind, and walked over to the bench.

It took only a few moments to get the proper weight plates locked onto the barbell, and soon Teddy was on his back ('Where I do my best work,' he thought, before suppressing the urge to cringe), with Cody taking position at the head of the bench.

"Okay, ready? Here we go!" Teddy said, grunting out the word 'go' as he lifted the bar from its supports. Immediately, Cody's hands moved in to confidently hover just under the bar, just inside of Teddy's own grip. Cody wasn't interfering, wasn't helping Teddy in his reps, he'd just put himself in position to immediately take hold of the bar if his big brother suddenly ran into trouble. At first, Teddy focused on his form, making sure to keep his movements smooth and consistent. Once he found a rhythm, the older male glanced up at his brother and cleared his throat.

"I was thinking maybe we could go back out to a bar tomorrow, pick up where we left off," Teddy said, his voice only slightly tense, "There'll be more people around on the weekend, make people less likely to start shit with strangers. Besides, fuck that guy, he was the one who tried to assault us, why should - oof - why should we hide ourselves away?" He'd been thinking about that a lot since the incident - when he wasn't worrying about their growing powers or the fact that he wanted to jump Cody's bones. Although he'd never admit it, Teddy's true motive behind that suggestion was that he hoped that if he played his cute mind-reading 'trick' and won over another guy (or hey, maybe Jack the jackal might be around), meeting a man who desired him who wasn't related to him might help Teddy let go of that damnable attraction to Cody.

But to his surprise, Cody turned his head away, looking slightly unhappy.

"I... I don't think so, man," the younger bear said, "N-not tomorrow, anyway..." Cody kept his hands in position to spot Teddy, as barbells can become dangerous fast if the lifter's grip slips, but Teddy got the distinct impression that Cody would be self-consciously rubbing at the back of his neck if his hands were free.

"Hey, if you're afraid, we can, ah..." Teddy trailed off, hesitating before bringing up their gift aloud in a public place. "...We can, you know, practice that... self-defence technique we used last time. Before we go back out, I mean. You know, just to make sure." Cody sighed, shrugging.

"I don't know, I just..." he said, frowning as he stared off into the middle distance. Neither sun bear was specifically aware of it, but as he pondered his words, Cody had exactly the same facial expression that Teddy had just been wearing while finding the words to indirectly refer to their powers.

"Look, it's not that asshole, or assholes in general," Cody finally said, "I'm not too afraid of that... Hell, when it actually happened, I could hear the bartender from that distance, he was already moving in towards the gun behind the counter." Looking down, Cody met Teddy's eyes, and Teddy suspected (Or was he sensing this? Psychic powers are confusing...) that his brother was forcing himself to make eye contact.

"I think... I think maybe I'm just kinda done with that scene," Cody admitted, his voice as tense as if he was the one lifting weights. "I don't know, as fun as it is sometimes, maybe some part of me is tired of getting a guy's phone number for a month of fun before I feel the need to back off and find something new," he said, "It was great in college, but constantly going with 'something new' means I never really get to find out how deep relationships can go... Matter of fact, I'd love to have something old to hold onto." As he said those words, Teddy had a visceral flashback to one of the dreams, Cody throwing his arms around his big brother, hugging him tight in the way that only a bear can manage, and kissing him. Teddy inhaled sharply as this vivid image flashed through his mind, and naturally it was right at that moment that Teddy realized that with Cody standing directly next to the end of the bench, it meant his sibling's package was only inches away... and lying here, breathing hard as he lifted, Teddy could actually smell the sweaty male's most private scent. A shudder ran through his entire body and his toes twitched in his shoes as he breathed deep of Cody's masculine scent, his mind quickly moving to a different part of the dreams, namely the part where Teddy had been nuzzling and kissing and licking at Cody's bits while the other male stood tall and trembled with desire. This, of course, segued directly into a sudden fantasy of Cody whipping his sweaty manhood out of his shorts and sliding it into Teddy's mouth as he lay on the bench, continuing to lift weights as his little brother made love to his face. Pretending this deeply embarrassing moment wasn't happening, Teddy belatedly responded to his brother's statement.

"S-something old?" he said, "What do you m-mean?"

Cody smiled distantly.

"Watch your left side, it's drooping," he noted, before responding "You know, a relationship that's had proper time to build, someone I really know, instead of just someone who's new and sexy and exciting. Someone who really gets me, like we've known each other since we were born." At these words, some unhelpful part of Teddy's brain decided that these words were proof that the prior fantasies were justified, and the idea of sucking his brother's prick in full view of all those strangers popped back into Teddy's head, refusing to be dislodged as he began to pant from exertion, each breath tinged with the scent of Cody's cock and balls... which smelled exactly the way he remembered it from the sixty-nine dream.

"But it would have to be someone I trusted, someone I really trusted," Cody continued, as if he didn't notice the effect he was having on his brother. "I mean, where am I gonna find someone I can trust enough to talk about... well, you know, the stuff we've been dealing with lately." Teddy's traitorous heart began beating faster, and not from the exertion.

Cody sighed again.

"But I don't know that I've ever been that close to a guy, don't know that I'd even know the feeling if I found it," he admitted, "I mean, it kinda feels like the only guy who tells me 'I love you' is you." As a shiver of glee flitted through an embarrassed Teddy's system, the older male scolded himself. These words did_not_ mean he had a chance! They did not mean that Cody was experiencing the same dreams he was! They did not mean Cody would be open to try experimenting with him! And they definitely did not mean that it would be okay for two brothers to fool around together, even if they did both want it! Teddy suppressed a sigh of his own as he realized that he no longer even batted an eye at the confession that he wanted his own sibling in a most un-brotherly way.

Swallowing, his mouth very dry, Teddy struggled to both keep control of the weights and keep these unwelcome emotions out of his voice.

"You, uh... you sound like you've - hnnngh - put a lot of thought into this..." he observed. Cody smiled almost shyly.

"I mean, haven't you ever thought about what your dream guy would be like?" the younger male asked self-consciously. Then his eyes defocused slightly, and Teddy really began to sweat as Cody went into detail. "Let's see... He would have to be buff, I love feeling thick arms wrapping around me, it's not just sexy as hell, it makes me feel... I don't know, loved, protected, all those warm, fuzzy feelings." Sun bears may have had skinnier limbs than most bears, but Teddy had worked out enough that he knew he was a fine physical specimen of their species. Unable to stop thinking about all those gentle, passionate embraces in the dreams, Teddy tried to deflect.

"You know, Dad was ripped when we were young," he said, referring to their adoptive father Stephen, as Cody couldn't remember their biological father Philippe, "Sounds like you've just got unresolved daddy issues."

Cody snorted and shook his head, amused.

"Man, fuck you," he said, warmly, which a part of Teddy found appealing, to his irritation. Cody continued, with a wistful smile on his handsome face.

"My perfect man would be funny, smart, able to think straight in a stressful situation - lord knows I turn to jelly when things go off the rails - And I think he'd know exactly how to make me feel better when I've had the most awful fuckin' day, that's very important." The younger bear shrugged, his smile fading away.

"Eh, but maybe I'm kidding myself," Cody mused, "I mean, where am I gonna find someone who'll be okay with... what we've got going on?" At that moment, Teddy felt Cody's words in his head, directly sent there, something they hadn't done much lately. Outside of the dreams, anyway...

'Buff, smart, charming, and oh by the way, totally okay with me literally being able to read his mind.' Cody thought, self-effacingly, 'Yeah, I'm sure there are plenty of guys like that out there...' Teddy couldn't stop thinking about the one guy he knew of that fit that description, and he was pretty sure if he had to lie here for another minute, basking in Cody's musk and listening to him shyly describing a hypothetical soulmate who shared a lot of traits with his big brother, the conflicted older male was going to pop his wickedest boner of the month. Thankfully for both of those problems, his reps were finished.

Teddy pushed the bar up one last time, and Cody helped him slide it back onto the supports. The older male let his 'buff, thick arms' flop down to his chest with a sigh of relief. Putting his hands on his hips, Cody bent over and smiled.

"That was excellent, by the way, you had great form." He patted his sweaty brother on the shoulder and turned on the spot to walk away - which caused his package to lightly brush against the top of Teddy's head through his shorts, not that Cody gave any sign of noticing. As he sat up, Teddy was pleasantly surprised (and tangibly relieved) to discover that he hadn't gotten aroused enough to form a visible bulge, and silently thanked past-Teddy for picking the baggiest gym shorts he owned. Blushing nonetheless, he stood up, took a deep breath of air that didn't smell like his brother's balls, and tried to walk the moment off by crossing to the opposite side of the gym from where Cody was currently working out, and getting in the leg press machine so he could focus on not skipping leg day, and not on how badly he wanted to make out with his cheeky sibling.

After calming down, Teddy rejoined Cody, and the two of them had a pretty good workout, being careful not to overwork any one muscle group. Car sales didn't require as much physical fitness as, say, the marines, but Teddy knew from experience that having a strained muscle pretty much anywhere made being on his feet all day, dealing with potential customers, a real pain in the ass. Normally, exercising did help Teddy let go of the frustration that built inside him over the course of a week, even if it didn't actually solve his problems, but today it just didn't feel like it was working, and he was pretty sure it was because watching Cody working out in shorts and a tank top was making one of Teddy's problems worse. Had Cody always been this sexy? Was this a dream? Frowning as paranoia washed over his mind, Teddy subtly pinched himself, feeling both silly and relieved when he confirmed he hadn't actually been sleeping this entire time.

Eventually, Teddy saw Cody wiping some sweat off himself with a rag and splashing himself about the face with his water bottle. This was a sign that the younger Benson had had enough, so, only feeling a little bit like a pervert under the circumstances, Teddy abruptly wrapped things up, silently vowed to make up the missing reps later, and hurried over to the exit hall so he wouldn't miss the chance to see his brother naked.

"Hey, good timing, I just called it," Teddy said, hoping the slight pant to his voice would be taken as a result of the exercise. Cody lifted his water bottle and nodded, but said nothing. Teddy recognized that he was tired, and that the younger bear would need a little bit of time to recharge his batteries, which the shower often helped with. As they stepped into the changeroom, Teddy caught himself pondering slipping into Cody's shower stall, purely to help his brother recover from his exertion, of course, nothing untoward going on there. As Cody opened his locker and unceremoniously let his shorts and boxers drop down to his ankles, Teddy took in the sight of his sibling's naked ass and swallowed. Nothing untoward going on in this locker room, no sir... in a pig's eye.

And then, suddenly, the moment of truth was upon him. Cody stepped out of his pants, the fur of his naked legs slightly disorderly from sweat, and as he casually turned towards Teddy, seemingly unbothered about being naked in front of his sibling, Cody peeled his shirt up and over his head, momentarily blocking his sight and giving Teddy several seconds to stare openly at his little brother's naked body. And there it was, a white, circular spot on Cody's scrotum, more or less aligned with his right testicle.

"Oh God..." Teddy breathed, his eyes widening and his pupils dilating at the sight before him. The spot was there. The spot was real.

Teddy shuddered in a confusing mixture of disgust and desire as he tried to reconcile what he was seeing with what he'd expected to - no, what he'd known he would see: that Cody Benson's scrotum fur was uniformly dark, just like Teddy's own. He'd been nervous about this all day, suffering through lingering doubt on the subject, but deep down, he'd felt that he was being ridiculous, and that this would prove it, and set those worries to bed once and for all. And here, instead, was the tell-tale spot, right where it had been during those dreams. As his heart began to beat faster, Teddy couldn't help but consider the possibility that if the spot was really on Cody's balls, then it was possible that Cody really had experienced everything that had happened in the dreams. That Teddy knew what it was like to experiment sexually with his own brother. He couldn't take his eyes off that spot, that damned spot, as if it had suddenly become his obsession. The tormented bear almost wanted to walk up and touch it, to see if it wiped off of Cody's sac, see if it felt funny, but he already knew that the white circle didn't have any special texture to it, as he'd curiously felt Cody's scrotum up with both his fingers and his mouth. Even now, scandalously encouraged by this shocking discovery, a shameful part of him longed to drop to his knees and start tonguing Cody's sweaty balls...

'After all, it's not like it would make us any more damned,' he thought, bitterly, 'Not with what we've already done together...'

Oh, sure, Teddy might not have touched Cody inappropriately, not literally, they were both asleep in bed throughout both incidents. But if - if it was really true, if Cody had been connected to them for real, then that was just a cheap technicality; the dreams, or whatever they really were, felt as vivid as any real-life memory, and if Cody's subconscious had been shaping the dreams the same way that Teddy's hand been, then that meant that Teddy now knew what kind of a lover Cody was, knew what it tasted like to lick sweat off the crown of the younger bear's penis... For God's sake, he knew now what kind of noises his little brother made when he had an orgasm!

"See anything you like?" It was Cody, who had freed himself of the tyranny of clothing and now regarded his sibling curiously, hands on his hips as he looked at Teddy, who was still staring at Cody's testicles.

'Oh, fuck ,' thought Teddy, who improvised something on the spot and was more than a little surprised that it didn't come out totally awful. It helped that he stuck close to the truth.

"It's that little circle there," he said, now openly gesturing to his brother's sac, "Has that always been there?" Reaching down, Cody cupped his package from behind and gently lifted it forward to get a better view of the white spot.

"Oh, funny you should say that," Cody said, "It's weird, I never thought about pelt art before, but the day before yesterday, I suddenly felt this... compulsion to go out on my lunch break and get this circle put here."

Teddy had moved to pull off his own shirt, feeling a little self-conscious being fully-clothed around his naked sibling, which was lucky, since it meant when he heard Cody say those words, his shirt was in exactly the right position to hide the look of open shock that washed across the older bear's face. Feeling a strange, contradictory combination of excitement and relief, Teddy couldn't help but hope. What if Cody hadn't been in the dreams after all? What if Teddy had accidentally pushed the idea of the scrotum spot into Cody's head because he couldn't stop thinking about the dreams? Teddy strained his mind but could not remember what Cody had done for lunch two days ago.

"W-wait, really?" he asked, once he'd gotten a hold of himself. But Cody just laughed.

"No, of course not!" the younger bear chuckled, "Why would I get a plain-ass circle put on my balls? They'd probably charge triple for having to touch my sac, too..." He laughed to himself again and shook his head.

"Naaah, this thing's been on my 'nad since the day that that other Mom squeezed me out," he said, picking up a towel. Cody sometimes acted a bit dismissive of their birth parents when the topic came up. Teddy thought it was some kind of defensive reaction to not remembering them, and normally he would give the guy shit for saying something like that about 'that other Mom', but today, feeling his momentary hope fading away, Teddy just fell silent, feeling the full weight of his perversion weighing down on him like the proverbial tonne of bricks.

His mind still reeling with shameful revelations, Teddy went and took a shower, fully on automatic. He didn't know what to think anymore. The idea that all of it had been real, that it had really been Cody's dick that he'd been grinding his own against, that Cody had actually felt the pleasure from coming all over his ecstatic brother afterwards... And that was just the first night! Teddy cringed for about the forty-seventh time since he started going over his memories. How the hell was he ever supposed to look Cody in the eyes again? Those sexy, mismatched eyes of his...

"Wait, no, dammit!" The troubled male grumbled, catching himself thinking like that again. He kept his voice low, to make it harder to hear over the water cascading over his wide shoulders and running through his pelt to splash to the floor.

"Fuck! I get it already!" he groaned, "He's hot! I want to fuck him! Message received! Now can I please stop thinking about it for more than ten goddamn seconds at a time?!"

This stall had a wire-frame bench built in for the benefit of disabled patrons, and Teddy pointed the showerhead in that direction and sat down, letting the hot water cascade over him, as if it could cleanse him of the cloud of negative emotions that had been hanging over him since he'd gotten a good look at Cody's testicles... though he had to admit to himself that deep down, he'd had serious doubts since he'd gotten a hint of his sibling's masculine scent and realized it was the same as in his dreams. If those scenarios had been purely the invention of Teddy's subconscious, there was no way he could have just guessed what his brother's cock smelled like when Cody worked up a sweat.

Remembering that moment, Teddy also remembered how badly he'd wanted to take his brother's tool into his mouth, and unwillingly shuddered with indecent excitement. He really needed to get control of himself, he just couldn't stop thinking about Cody Benson as 'a sexy guy' instead of 'my brother'. Honestly, the stressed bear was a little afraid that if there were any more dreams, there would be nothing of his innocent, brotherly affection for Cody left, and that all that would remain was this perverse, scandalous desire to get in the other ursine's pants. Teddy tilted his head down, so that his mouth was out of the spray.

"I can't let that happen... I won't let that happen, no matter what!" As he spoke, he lifted one hand and tightened it into a fist, as if he could overcome his problems through sheer determination. "Someway, somehow, I'm gonna stop the dreams from coming!" Saying the words out loud felt good, but deep down, where he wouldn't admit it, in the same spot where he'd previously stashed that thought about the scent of Cody's arousal, there was a little doubt in Teddy's heart.

As he stepped out of the fur dryer, momentarily fuzzier than usual, Teddy considered the problem of the dreams themselves. He'd already been planning it, but now he was absolutely determined to get through tonight without falling asleep, as if missing the cycle for even a single night would break a magic spell over the two brothers, and they'd never lust after each other again. Still, he was troubled by the fact that a part of him longed to give in to those feelings, to be with Cody, and damn the consequences.

'How could I want that?' he wondered, seriously, 'How could Cody want that?' It just seemed so bizarre, so... alien for him, to feel such desire for his own brother, to have such wanton, shameful thoughts about Cody, and so abruptly! It was as if in the span of a single night, he'd gone from feeling nothing particularly out of the ordinary for Cody when he fell asleep, to craving him more desperately than he'd ever wanted a man when he awoke. Teddy had been dejectedly tying his towel around his waist, but he froze in place as a thought occurred to him. It had been a single night, hadn't it? The night that Teddy and Cody had forced their abilities beyond their previously-believed limits and emotionally influenced a man. The night before Teddy began to realize his gifts were getting stronger. He wasn't sure exactly where this train of thought was going, but Teddy's pulse was racing, as he was finding it quite exciting to get there.

Teddy's brow furrowed as more tidbits about his week kept funneling in. Upon waking up from one sexy incest dream, Teddy had been embarrassed to realize he was physically attracted to Cody, and had caught himself throughout the day letting his gaze linger on the other bear, checking out Cody's firm rump or that cute smile of his when the younger male was making co-workers laugh. Upon waking from a second dream, though, Teddy had been so overwhelmed with erotic desire for Cody that the second he was awake, he'd immediately masturbated onto his own face while fantasizing about his little brother - even though he'd had a wet dream recently enough that the jism in his boxers had still been warm. And come to think of it, today at work, Teddy kept catching himself daydreaming about Cody joining him for one lewd act or another, rather than just peeking at him from a distance. It seemed impossible, but... what if the first dream, guided by Teddy and Cody's unconscious, totally untrained minds, had actually caused these feelings, rather than simply uncovered them? What if those feelings then fed back into the next dream, which made the feelings stronger?

He didn't know, if he was honest with himself, whether this was denial or not, but in that moment, it felt like Hope with a capital H to the guilt-ridden bear, and Teddy's eyes nearly teared up as he latched onto it gratefully.

"I'm... I'm not a pervert!" he whispered to himself, "The dreams were made of bullshit, random thoughts, and they made me feel those things!" His eyes darted back and forth as if reading information off a screen, and he thought about Cody's behaviour. He'd thought Cody had been looking at him more often on that first day, but what if Cody had been behaving normally, and it just felt like that because of how often Teddy was looking at Cody? For that matter, his gift had seemed to be on the fritz at work today, and Teddy felt like he'd had a bad sales day... but Cody's figures had seemed normal when Teddy saw the preliminary numbers just before leaving. Surely his sales would have suffered as well if they'd both been affected?And while he was on the subject, Teddy had suddenly reached the point of becoming self-conscious just by holding a conversation with his brother. But Cody was comfortable being naked in front of him, talking candidly about his love life, and even standing close enough for Teddy to smell his balls while spotting the older male... Okay, maybe that last one was unintentional. But still!

"I'm a fucking nervous wreck," Teddy realized, "And he's all calm and relaxed! Is he... Am I really sure he's sharing the dreams?" Now there were two seeds of doubt in Teddy Benson's heart, but they were diametrically opposed; which one would last, no one could say.

By the time he got dressed and emerged from the changeroom, Teddy had just about convinced himself that he had been missing the forest for the trees, and that he'd had the dream scenario all wrong. He'd almost convinced himself that he'd been wrong about Cody sharing the experience with him, too. He and Cody went to the gym often, after all, and they'd both loved swimming growing up, so Teddy had seen his brother naked plenty of times, surely it was conceivable that at some point he'd noticed the white dot on his sibling's right testicle and subsequently let it slip out of his conscious mind and into his subconscious, where his dream could shape his little brother's body more accurately. The hopeful bear managed a small smile to himself as he pushed open the door that lead back out to the gym, as he knew he'd definitely never seen Cody's dick hard in real life, which meant Teddy might still be bigger.

Cody was leaning back against the wall, obviously waiting for Teddy, and he had one leg lifted, his foot pressed against the wall under himself. He was the very picture of 'cool', according to movies from their shared childhood, anyway, but somehow, Teddy managed not to swoon over his brother's charms.

"There you are, took you long enough," Cody said, grinning, "I bet you rubbed one off in the shower, you dirty old bear..." Teddy chuckled as his sibling elbowed him playfully.

"Thought about it, but nah," he replied, casually, "Prolly catch a disease or something..." Teddy felt a little embarrassed that he'd gotten so carried away with his little scenario of long-buried feelings coming to the surface thanks to psychic powers and sexy dreams. Stretching his arms over his head as they stepped outside into the cool evening air, Cody yawned.

"Man, I can't wait for tonight!" he said, turning and smiling widely at his brother - And was that a wink? Teddy hadn't been looking straight at him, did he imagine that?

"Y-you got plans I don't know about?" Teddy asked, narrowing his eyes just slightly. The shorter bear shrugged.

"I'm just talking about how satisfying it's gonna be to climb into bed after the week I've had," Cody said, calmly, "Honestly, I haven't been feeling very well-rested lately, so I'm really gonna enjoy getting some shut-eye tonight." Immediately, the mental image of the two brothers, lips locked together, hands on each other's cocks, flashed through Teddy's mind, and he swallowed, feeling only slightly nervous as he silently vowed that nobody would be having sexy dreams tonight if he could help it.

The ride home was mercifully normal, with the two bears speaking minimally, as they'd comfortably worn themselves out with their exercise routines. Normally, on a (dateless) Friday night, Teddy and Cody would sit on the couch, watch whatever happened to be on TV, and just basically hang out and talk about absolutely nothing important for a few hours. Today, though, Cody headed off to his room, and Teddy started off his night by setting a fresh pot of coffee to start percolating at midnight. Once he was finished faffing around with the coffee machine timer, having forgotten yet again how to set it thanks to how infrequently he used it, Teddy headed out to the living room and sat down on the couch, but left the TV off. Truth be told, he was nervous. Not about his immediate task, all he had to do was not fall asleep until the sun came up the next day, something he'd pulled off in the past while studying for subjects he wasn't very good at in school, and to help prepare himself for the midnight shift when he was working at that terrible department store downtown. But no, what was bothering Teddy was that he had absolutely no idea how he would go about doing away with the dreams after tonight. The stakes felt rather high, and he was still afraid that each dream would push things more and more. Just about the only thing about his little brother's sex life that Teddy hadn't learned was what Cody's hard cock felt like inside him, and he felt like they were right on the verge of crossing that line. And after that, of course, they risked delving into fetish territory... Even more than that, though, Teddy couldn't stop thinking about his theory that the incestuous thoughts were because of some kind of feedback loop with the dreams. If a third dream made Teddy want Cody even more than he already did, he might not be able to resist just dropping his pants and bending over the arm of the couch the next time his brother so much as smiled the right way...

A few hours later, after Teddy had managed to successfully distract himself with a fantasy epic from the early 2000s, Cody came out of his room, shirtless in pyjama pants, and paused as he turned to go into the kitchen.

"You gonna get ready for bed?" the younger male asked, "You're usually way faster than me..." Teddy looked back at his brother in a move that was very carefully orchestrated to look casual and calm, as if he hadn't even been aware Cody was there.

"Hmm? Oh, sure, of course," he said, waving his hand in a vaguely dismissive gesture, "This just came on, and I haven't seen it in like a decade, so I figured I'd check it out." Cody stepped closer to get a better view of the TV, and as he did so, he reached down and casually leaned one hand against Teddy's broad, firm shoulder. To his chagrin, Teddy immediately blushed, shuddering reflexively as the handsome bear touched him. Remembering the feeling of Cody's hands so confidently exploring his big brother's body, Teddy bit his lip, longing for the younger male's touch and feeling terrible for it. But rather than letting his hand wander, or even massaging the shoulder it was already sitting on, Cody just nodded and removed his hand.

"Nice, I think I watched this like a year ago with a guy who'd never seen it, it actually made a pretty good date," Cody opined, "But I already knew he was a fantasy nerd, so I didn't have to take a gamble on it backfiring." The topless bear turned and walked back out to the kitchen.

"Goodnight, Ted," he called back, "Don't stay up too late, you aren't a kid anymore..."

"Ouch, my pride... " Teddy replied, "Don't worry, Dad, I'll turn in after this is over."

'Or maybe I'll catch the rest of the trilogy too, funny how they're doing a marathon...' he thought, feeling the slightest bit guilty for lying directly to his brother like that.

A few minutes later, Cody emerged from the kitchen, having done whatever he'd gone in there to do. Teddy, feeling nervous and guilty for various reasons, called out 'goodnight', which he'd neglected to actually say after Cody had. His little brother turned, raised a hand to acknowledge him, and smiled. Teddy shivered, feeling embarrassingly warm inside, like he was back in high school, dealing with a crush. After his train of thought ran in that direction for a few seconds, Teddy frowned and insisted silently to himself that the fact that he'd been in denial about most of his high school crushes did not have any reflection on the way he didn't want to admit his feelings for Cody might be real. They were totally different scenarios, of course; he'd been in denial about his crushes back then because they'd all been on guys, and he hadn't wanted to admit that he was gay. But while he really was gay, he was not really lusting after his own flesh and blood.

"Totally different," he muttered out loud, grumpily.

Hours passed. Despite what felt like twelve thousand commercial breaks slowing it down, the movie eventually ended, and the sequel began. So far, so good. When midnight had come around, Teddy's ears had perked up at the sound of the coffee machine kicking on, and had smiled to himself with a self-assuredness that bordered on smug. Now, there he sat in front of the TV, one hand holding a steaming mug of fresh coffee, the other one currently stuffed down his pants, scratching an itch behind his balls in that satisfyingly direct way that's only really feasible when one is alone. Teddy was doing his best to focus entirely on the movie, to enjoy the story, and not just to fixate endlessly on his problems. He was doing a pretty good job of that, as even during the commercial breaks, he found himself contemplating whether he should have a couple beers to help him relax, or if the risk of nodding off was too high, rather than just dwelling on his troubles again. It was shortly after he finished off his coffee that Teddy felt it. He was getting his phone out to play a game of 'what has that guy been up to lately?' with one of the actors from the movie, when he abruptly shuddered, his phone slipping from his suddenly numb fingers as a wave of dizziness and fatigue washed over his entire body.

"Wha' the hell?" he mumbled aloud, raising one hand to his forehead. He'd never felt so tired, so quickly before, not unless he was dealing with medical sedation, and he was reasonably certain that he hadn't been anaesthetized at any point tonight. Teddy found himself seriously wondering, just for a second, if someone had roofied his coffee. Groaning, the confused bear pushed himself forward, hoping to stand up and walk this off, but the feeling only intensified, and with a forceful sigh, Teddy slumped backwards into his chair, his eyes reflexively closing to block off the feeling of dizziness.

Suddenly realizing what he was doing, Teddy forced his eyes open and sat bolt upright with a gasp, finding himself... sitting in his preferred chair in the living room, with an empty coffee mug on the table in front of him, and the TV showing commercials at low volume. The fact that he didn't recognize these products didn't concern him in the slightest, as watching TV in the middle of the night wasn't exactly a habit for him.

"Oh," he said, softly. He felt a little sheepish, truth be told; the sun bear had expected that if he closed his eyes like that for even a second, he'd instantly find himself in some kinky sex dungeon with Cody there, waiting to pounce on him. Distracted, he then imagined Cody pouncing on him and blushed at how much he liked the idea of the younger male pinning him to the floor. Quickly pushing that out of his mind, not wanting to linger, lest he be tempted to go to bed after all, see if he could still catch Cody. Looking around, he found his phone on the floor next to his chair - no scratches! Bending over, he picked it up, and leaned to the side so he could return it to his side pocket. But as soon as he made himself comfortable again, he felt a hand gently lay itself on his shoulder.

"There you are," cooed Cody, "You've kept me waiting, big brother."

Teddy tensed up, hard, as his brother announced his presence.

"Cody? Wh- Holy shit!" he cried, shocked, as he looked over his shoulder. In his defence, Cody was standing there behind him, wearing exactly two things: that sexy smile of his and a honeycomb-patterned banana hammock that left nothing to the imagination about his balls and flaccid cock.

"Jesus, Cody!" Teddy blurted out, "I didn't know you even owned a thong!" Churring lightly, a sound which sent a sinfully pleasant shiver down Teddy's spine, Cody began to rub and knead his brother's shoulders in a casually intimate way that made Teddy bite his lip to keep from whimpering happily.

"Oh... oh God..." the elder male sighed despite himself, shuddering at his brother's gentle touch, leaning into his hands.

"I'm just full of surprises, eh, big brother?" Cody teased, grinning delightedly. To Teddy's chagrin, the shorter bear came around the front of the chair and sat himself down on the arm of the couch next to the chair, so he was directly facing his brother, giving Teddy his full attention. Teddy swallowed as Cody's eyes roamed up and down his form, a hungry glint in his eyes, making Teddy briefly feel like he was the one who wasn't wearing any clothes.

"I'm happy to see you, Ted," Cody said, keeping his gaze on his sibling's eyes, "I mean, I got here and I was all by myself. I thought I wasn't going to get to see you tonight, I really did. I'm so glad you came when I called for you." Teddy frowned.

"I... I didn't hear you calling," he managed to say, struggling to keep it professional in the face of his brother's eagerly-displayed body, "And didn't you just come out here?" Cody chuckled.

"Not exactly," he said, clearly enjoying himself, "I didn't call out with my voice, I called out with my gift. I just reached out with my mind until... until I felt you, and then I... sort of called you back here with me." The entire time they'd been speaking, Teddy had been trying to keep his gaze on Cody's sparkling blue-and-brown eyes, but the flustered male found it impossible not to look down at his brother's tightly-wrapped package every time his concentration lapsed. Teddy hadn't been able to tell if Cody noticed or not, but now, the shorter bear paused in his confusing explanation to lean forward and lower his voice.

"You know, you can look, if you want to," he whispered, instantly making Teddy's cheeks turn beet red. Cody chuckled to himself and averted his eyes for a moment, then looked back at Teddy with an unexpectedly bashful expression on his face. "...I like it when you look at me, big brother."

That certainly made some pieces fall into place in the puzzle Teddy hadn't even realized he'd been putting together over the last few minutes. Cody grinned widely as he adjusted his position on the arm of the couch, spreading his thighs in open invitation of his brother's gaze. Despite himself, Teddy couldn't help but look at the sizable bulge in Cody's golden yellow thong, tracing the contours of his sibling's barely-contained penis and testicles as if trying to commit them to memory.

'Oh my God...' he thought, stunned, 'I must be dreaming again...' He swallowed as he took in the sight of Cody's fuzzy body almost reluctantly, unable to tear his eyes away from what seemed to the flustered male like a vision of masculine perfection. It was making it quite difficult to concentrate on worrying about this idea that Cody had 'called' him into the dream despite Teddy being awake when he did it.

_ 'Goddamn, he's so fucking sexy...' he thought, candidly, _'He's making it hard to think straight...' Teddy's mind began to race, but before he could spend any time on trying to figure this out, he gasped, feeling the brush of Cody's mind against his own again.

'Awww, thanks, Ted,' Cody thought, smiling delightedly, 'I should have known from your card trick routine that you were a flatterer...' Teddy swallowed again, shivering. He'd spent most of the day reluctantly thinking about the sexual parts of the dreams, mostly due to how hard he was trying not to think about them, but somehow he'd actually forgotten the detail that he and Cody were freely telepathic with each other in the dreams... again.

Teddy reached up and ran his hand through his hair, overwhelmed with all manner of confusing, conflicting emotions. Before Teddy could gather his thoughts enough to think of something to actually say, Cody unceremoniously slipped down off the arm of the couch, climbed up on the chair his brother was sitting in, and settled down on a surprised Teddy's lap. The older male swallowed a gasp as Cody calmly made himself comfortable, squirming back and forth atop his big brother's package. Acting entirely reflexively, Teddy reached out and placed his hands on Cody's thighs, but couldn't quite bring himself to force his brother to move.

"C-Cody! What the hell?" he asked, dismayed. He bit his lip as he felt the first embers of arousal starting already; he was just so damnably aware that the only thing separating him from Cody's naked body was that tiny slip of honeycomb-printed fabric. The younger bear might as well have been naked, for the amount of his ass that was covered. Completely unbothered, a confident, yet calm smile on his handsome face, Cody raised his own arms and laid them on Teddy's shoulders, loosely encircling his neck in a casual embrace that felt much more intimate than it probably looked. Although, Teddy reflected, most gestures probably feel more intimate when they're performed atop your crotch by someone only wearing a thong.

Looking straight into Teddy's eyes, Cody smiled just a little wider.

"I don't want to beat around the bush," he said, softly, "I want you, big brother. I want you like I've never wanted a man before, you're... you're intoxicating. And I know you want me, too. Don't try to deny it, you couldn't stop thinking it last time."

"Oh - oh God..." Teddy whispered, closing his eyes and shivering. "Cody, I - I don't know..." He inhaled sharply, tensing up for a moment as Cody playfully licked his nose.

"What don't you know, hmm?" Cody replied happily, "What position you want to try first? Whether you want to do it fast or slow? Ooh, is it whether you can trust me with your secret fetish? It's something weird, isn't it?" Ignoring that, and the fact that Cody was still squirming on top of him, Teddy grimaced.

"N-no, I don't know if we should... keep going..."

"Why not?" Cody asked, earnestly, "I want you, you want me..." He reached out to boop the taller bear on the nose. "...And no one else ever has to know."

Shuddering again, Teddy groaned, closing his eyes tightly as if Cody was a glorious star he dared not look at directly. This experience was new, different. Before, in the dreams, he'd felt a little like a different person from when he was awake; he felt all of the desire for Cody without most of the pesky guilt. Now, though, Teddy could feel that desire, burning just as intensely as when he'd dropped to his knees to suck his brother's dick, but he could also feel all the doubt, all the nervousness, all the guilt... and something else he dared not even think about for a second.

"I'm so confused..." he admitted, "I want you, but I'm ashamed... I feel guilty, but it doesn't feel wrong..." Teddy opened his eyes as he felt Cody touching his cheek, gently stroking his scruffy fur.

"I won't ever make you do something you don't want to do, Teddy," Cody said, softly, "But you know what? When we, ah... when we're intimate together, it doesn't feel wrong, it's true... but it's more than that, isn't it?" Teddy swallowed. He was right, but the troubled bear didn't want to admit that, knowing where it would lead with absolute certainty... exactly where he wanted to go. Whimpering quietly before he could stop himself, Teddy lowered his head submissively, as if surrendering to the thought in his mind.

"Yes," he breathed, shivering yet again. The hand on his cheek moved to his chin and very gently tilted him back up to look at Cody, who began to lean in closer.

"That's right, big brother," the nearly-naked male murmured, "I'm not afraid to be with you because when we're together like this... it feels right." Just before their lips met, Cody dodged to the side and whispered to Teddy, barely audibly.

"Like it was meant to be..."

With that, Teddy began to nuzzle his cheek against Teddy's, nothing particularly out of the ordinary for normal morphic siblings, and Teddy groaned again, knowing he was beaten.

"Oh, Cody... I'm trying to do the right th-thing... what the law and society and my own experience are telling me should be the right thing..." he sighed, "But you're r-right, being with you feels like it is the right thing." Raising his arms, Teddy pulled his brother against him in a tight embrace that would force the air out of the lungs of a member of basically any other species. There was a reason the term 'bear hugs' existed, after all.

"I can't even tell what the right thing is anymore..." Teddy admitted, then chuckled, despite himself, "And you throwing yourself at me in a thong is making it so much harder..." Teddy suddenly gasped as Cody slipped a hand beneath himself and touched his brother's package through his pants.

"Hmmm, not yet," Cody teased, "But give me some time, I'm pretty confident." Teddy laughed, even as a (small) part of himself was frustrated from how easily Cody could get him worked up.

"Just shut up and give me some sugar, little brother..." he growled, pulling Cody closer somewhat roughly. The less muscular male churred delightedly.

"Oh hell yes, that's what I like to hear..." Cody said, before Teddy captured his lips and kissed his brother like there was no tomorrow.

Moving one hand to rest on Cody's back, holding him close in a slightly possessive gesture, Teddy groaned into the kiss with what he hoped was relief and not resignation. He hadn't been lying; when he kissed Cody, it didn't feel like doing something terrible and forbidden, it made him feel better in every way. His fears and worries began to fade away, little by little. His stress became fuzzier, more indistinct, less of a burden on him. Holding Cody in his arms, being with him, made Teddy feel like the invisible scars life had left on him were suddenly beginning to heal. But deep down, he couldn't help but be afraid that this was just the dream, making the feelings stronger again. Would it be worse tomorrow? Would he wake up seeing Cody as just a sexy man to be seduced, not his flesh and blood? But these fears were distant, and they seemed even further away with Cody squirming atop Teddy, who felt himself finally beginning to stir beneath the younger male's taut rear. Meanwhile, Cody's hands had moved to Teddy's chest, and the conflicted bear felt his brother's fingers nimbly unbuttoning his shirt.

'I wasn't wearing a button-up shirt...' he thought.

'C'mon, go with it, this is more fun,' Cody replied, 'In fact...' Letting go of the next button, Cody slid his fingers into the gaps between buttons and gave a sudden powerful yank, ripping open Teddy's shirt and sending buttons scattering to the floor.

Breaking off the kiss, Teddy frowned at his sibling.

"Cody!" he exclaimed, "What the hell?" He found it difficult to maintain that expression once Cody turned his attention to Teddy's now-exposed chest. The shorter male pressed two fingers against the ring of lighter-coloured fur on his brother's chest, that sun bear trademark, and began to trace it in a circle.

"Relax, big brother, I'll buy you a new shirt," Cody said in a soothing tone, "But you gotta admit, that was really hot, eh?" Teddy, who had belatedly remembered that the shirt wasn't even real, just nodded with a smirk. Cody chuckled and ground against Teddy's crotch, as if checking his progress.

"Mmmm, very nice, but I can do better," Cody teased, "Let's try that again!"

Leaning forward, Cody eagerly kissed Teddy once more, this time noticeably hungrier for his brother than he had been before. The older bear shrugged off his shirt, and Cody appreciatively slipped his fingers into the fur on his back, churring approvingly. Teddy got the distinct impression that Cody was enjoying touching him just as much as he was enjoying being touched. Which was fair, as Teddy's own hands had already dropped down to begin groping Cody's rump. Soon, the embers of arousal had grown into a flame, and Cody leaned back again. He wiggled from left to right, grinning triumphantly as he ground against Teddy's thick, rigid cock, which had finally reached its full pride.

"Hey, that's more like it!" he said, "Just like I told you! It's all in the hips." The younger bear winked as he moved off of his brother's tent.

"Now stand up," Cody continued, "Let's get those pants off you!"

Eagerly rising to his feet, Teddy churred, a low, growly sound, as Cody dropped to his knees and quickly unfastened his sibling's belt. Soon, he'd opened Teddy's fly, and the pants began sinking down his legs. Taking in the sight of the impressive bulge in his older brother's boxers, Cody let out a long, shaky breath.

"God, the anticipation is killing me..." he admitted, "I've been looking forward to this all day... I just couldn't stop thinking about you..." It looked to Teddy like the younger male had more to say, but Cody bit his lip, trailing off. Before Teddy could pry, Cody went for a distraction technique by leaning in and nuzzling against his lover's prick through his underwear, playfully mouthing the shaft with his lips and dampening the fabric. Only along the underside, though, the cloth around Teddy's tip was already plenty damp.

"Oh, Cody..." Teddy sighed, "I don't understand why I want you so badly... but I do."

"Does there need to be a reason?" Cody replied, as he tugged the boxers down Teddy's thighs. "Can't two adults just, uh, have strong feelings for each other without there being some kind of rational explanation?" The way he was looking at Teddy's cock, Cody might as well have been licking his lips, but instead of taking his big brother's hard dick into his mouth, the confident male simply leaned in and planted a kiss against the underside of Teddy's crown.

"I've missed you too," Cody teased, as Teddy's prick reflexively throbbed, a droplet of pre drooling out of the tip and slowly lowering towards the ground on a thin strand of fluid. "Oooh, I'd say you missed me almost as much as the rest of my big brother did." Reaching up, Cody caught the pre-come on the tip of a finger, glanced up to meet Teddy's gaze, and licked it off his finger.

"You're mighty tasty, Ted," observed Cody, "but I've got other plans for tonight... that is, if you're still up for it."

It was at this moment that Teddy made a decision. He was so, so very tired of feeling stressed and worried over this. Tired of second-guessing himself and worrying that he was some kind of pervert, or that he was being brainwashed by kinky dreams. And more than anything else, he was tired of fighting it. Because that's how it felt to Teddy, not like his attraction to Cody was some insidious influence creeping into his mind from without, but like it was something warm and powerful emerging from within that he'd been struggling desperately to hold back.

"You know what?" he asked, a smile forming on his lips, "I am still up for it." Bending down, he slipped his hands under Cody's armpits and began tugging him upwards.

"C'mon, get up here... little brother." Teddy was pleased by the way Cody blushed slightly at the title, even after how lewdly he'd been behaving. The second Cody was standing up straight, Teddy pulled him in tight and slid his hand down his brother's back, taking hold of a buttock. Cody gasped softly at being manhandled and chuckled a little self-consciously.

"A-are you sure you're a bottom?" he asked, "All the bottoms I've dated have been, like, skinny and maybe a little femmy, and you're, uh, not."

To say that Teddy was put off by this question was putting it mildly, but he quickly got his revenge. Cody yelped as Teddy slipped a single digit under the thong, resting the pad of his finger directly against Cody's anus.

"Well, I could top you, if you'd prefer..." Teddy mused, applying the slightest pressure. Cody tried to lean away from Teddy's finger, and only succeeded in pressing himself against the front of his brother's naked body in a way that Teddy quietly enjoyed.

"Wait! No!" Cody blurted out, "You c-can't just spring that on me with no warning! I - I'm a virgin that way!" A moment passed as the two brothers regarded each other with surprise, and then Cody groaned.

"Why did I tell you that?" he sighed, shaking his head, clearly having accepted his doom. Teddy laughed merrily.

"Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and file that away for future reference, thank you very much," he said, delighted, "And lucky for you, I've kinda got my heart set on getting the D, so unless you'd like to keep teasing me over my preferences, you'll have to wait your turn."

He kissed his brother before the shorter bear could complain, but Cody seemed pretty into it... once Teddy stopped teasing his back door and moved his hand back out to grope Cody's rump. After about ten seconds, to help Cody relax, Teddy pressed his hand against his brother's chest, then began to slowly slide it down the front of Cody's body. His fingers started off brushing down the younger bear's sternum, then moved on to the stomach, which made Cody stir impatiently, inflamed by his lover's touch. Finally, Teddy reached down and gently wrapped his fingers around the head of his brother's dick, which had escaped its imprisonment by growing hard, as the thong wasn't exactly designed with men in mind. Cody squirmed and groaned into the kiss, and even his tongue shivered as Teddy began to rub the tips of his fingers along the underside of the crown, mercilessly teasing all the taut flesh peeking out the top of the thong. He kept it up until Cody gasped and stepped back, his dick throbbing and a droplet of pre emerging from his tip.

"God, you make me so horny, Ted," the younger male panted, "What are you, magic?" Teddy, who'd just had a major ego boost, had been standing with his pants and underwear around his ankles this whole time, so he stepped out of them, kicking them away, and then bent down, unceremoniously pulling the honeycomb thong down Cody's thighs. As he freed the garment from one foot, then the other, Teddy turned his attention to his brother's hard dick, leaning in close to get a quick sample of Cody's musk, which was just as toe-curlingly tantalizing as it had been last time. Unlike Cody, though, Teddy wasn't satisfied with just a kiss, and used his tongue to give the entire underside of Cody's erection a nice, wet lick, helping himself to the pre he'd coaxed out of Cody just earlier.

"Well, Cody, I think it's about time I showed you," he finally replied, grinning hungrily at his lover.

If Cody had been a dog, his tail would have been wagging like mad. As it was, his ears stood up a little straighter and his eyes lit up with eager anticipation. Turning to leave the room, he motioned for Teddy to follow him.

"Oh, hell yeah!" Cody said, walking away without looking, "C'mon, let's use my room, we can -"

"Hey," interrupted Teddy, calling after him. Cody stopped, looked behind him, and swore under his breath.

'Sweet Jesus,' the shorter bear thought, as he took in the sight of Teddy, who had taken his totally naked self to the side of the couch and bent over the arm Cody had been sitting on earlier. With Teddy's feet wide apart and his tuft of a tail pointing straight up, Cody had a clear view of his brother's treasures, and he swallowed visibly as his eyes locked on Teddy's anus.

"Your room sounds fun, but I have a better idea, little brother," Teddy cooed, raising a hand and crooking a finger, silently beckoning Cody closer. "How about we stay right here and you just fuck me now?"

Cody's immediate response was to make an unexpectedly high-pitched meep, followed by blushing and frowning at the embarrassing reaction, and finally ending with his smile re-appearing as he remembered that he was still about to have his way with Teddy. As much as Teddy enjoyed watching the emotions play across his brother's face, he enjoyed it quite a bit more when Cody slowly walked up behind him, one hand on his hard cock. He wasn't quite so horny as to forget one of the most important details, though, so as much as he ached to feel Cody inside him, Teddy held up a hand behind him.

"Ah, ah, not so fast," he said, "First, we need -" Before Teddy could tell his brother where he kept his lube, a third voice cut in. Suddenly, an older human in a crisply starched black suit stood next to Cody, so suddenly that Teddy was genuinely startled to see him.

"Your lubricant, sirs," the man said, in an upper-class British accent. He seemed totally unbothered by the two bears' nudity as he held out his hand, holding a serving tray perfectly horizontally with one hand as he lifted a metal dome lid with the other, revealing a full bottle of water-based lube.

"What the fuck?" Teddy asked, confused. Cody simply took the lube from the tray and nodded to the man with a smile.

"Thank you, Jeeves, that will be all." Closing the tray, the butler folded his free arm behind himself and nodded.

"Sirs." Turning, the human walked out of the room without so much as glancing at the sight of impending debauchery behind him.

"What the fuck?!" Teddy repeated, with more gusto. Turning back to him, Cody made a dismissive gesture.

"Oh, don't worry about him, he won't tell anyone we're fucking," he said, as if they were discussing a secret no more important than a surprise birthday party, "I mean, if you can't trust the help, who can you trust, am I right?"

It was moments like that that really pointed to the idea that Cody knew it was a dream, and Teddy was aching to know, but didn't dare ask, not even with his thoughts, which he kept carefully focused on his anticipation, since he figured Cody wouldn't bat an eye at that. To be fair, as much as he wanted straight answers, as much as he wanted to be done with the doubt and the worry and the struggle against denial, right now, he wanted to fuck his brother more. The older male watched, biting his lip eagerly, as Cody squeezed some gel into his hand, then began smearing it along his prick, stroking himself slowly, gently, really taking his time... because while Teddy was staring at Cody's dick, Cody was watching Teddy's face. Soon enough, with his manhood glistening from base to tip, Cody released himself and stepped forward again, placing his dry hand on one of Teddy's buttocks and spreading it to the side.

'Goddamn, that's a beautiful sight,' the shorter male thought, swallowing.

'I've heard it's my best angle,' quipped Teddy.

"Don't say that," Cody replied out loud, "You're sexy as fuck, big brother! Face like that, body like that, ass like this... God, no wonder I can't stop thinking about fucking you..."

This was perhaps the most ego-boosting thing Teddy had heard since a boyfriend had uttered the words 'I'm impressed I got the whole thing in my mouth', but before he could even decide whether to let his sincerely flattered feelings show, or whether to play it like a joke and be insufferably smug about it, Cody pressed a slicked-up finger against Teddy's anus, rubbing lube against it, and Teddy sucked in his breath in a hiss.

"F-fuck, that's cold!" he growled, "What kind of lube is that?"

"Nothing fancy here, but I like to chill it in the fridge," Cody said, happily, as he continued working lube into every wrinkle on the tight rosebud under Teddy's tail. "Mmm, it's so bracing... Nothing else feels like it!" As that finger applied more pressure and pushed past the tight ring of muscle, and cold lube was spread onto his inner walls, Teddy groaned and shivered.

"Agree... to... disagree..." he groaned.

Soon enough, Cody was pleased by how slick Teddy's backside had become, and slipped his finger out. Teddy reflexively clenched down on the emptiness, and Cody churred as he wiped his hand off with a hand towel or something else he clearly hadn't had when he walked over.

"Just give me a moment and... Okay." Cody reached down and took hold of his prick again, slowly stroking it with just the tips of his fingers to keep himself turned on as he stepped closer. Teddy's heart began racing as the other bear stepped so close that Teddy could feel the hairs on their legs brushing each other, as Cody placed a hand on his hip, and as the head of his little brother's cock touched his entrance for the first time.

'Oh God, yes... it's really happening...' Teddy thought, as Cody adjusted his stance, his dick maintaining contact with Teddy's body the entire time, as if the younger male were deliberately teasing the older one. Finally, Teddy sensed that his lover was ready, and he took a deep breath, then let it out, allowing all of his muscles to relax. Taking that as a cue, Cody began to push forward. Teddy's anus put up its best struggle to keep out the intruders, but with Teddy consciously relaxing and Cody keeping up the pressure, it was only seconds before the tight ring relented, spreading open as Cody's stiff cock pushed forward and into his sibling's hot, squeezing backside.

Teddy arched his back and let out a long, low moan as Cody continued to push forward, slowly burying himself in Teddy's rump, inch by glorious inch. Teddy wasn't particularly embarrassed about this, as Cody joined him in that moan, throwing his head back with a gasp as he finally hilted himself fully in his lover's welcoming rear.

"Oh fuuuuuuuuck, big brother..." Cody whimpered, "You're s-so fucking tiiiight..." If the hard dick buried in him hadn't already been sending a shiver of delight down Teddy's spine, hearing Cody say those words definitely would have. As Cody squirmed behind him, making his dick wiggle about inside Teddy, the older bear dug his claws into the couch beneath him and groaned with pleasure and relief. It had been so long since he'd had a man under his tail, and the fact that it was Cody of all people had Teddy so turned on he felt a little self-conscious about it. Cody began to pull back, but Teddy looked over his shoulder.

"W-wait!" he said, "I... want to savour this." Cody responded to this by grinning at him knowingly, to Teddy's chagrin.

"Now that sounds more like a bottom," teased Cody, chuckling, "I should have made you beg for it..."

"I would never beg," Teddy lied through his teeth, "I've got too much self-respect."

'Are you sure about that?' Cody teased in his mind, and Teddy remembered hearing Cody speak the previous morning, and knowing with certainty that his sibling was lying. His cheeks darkening, Teddy made a face.

"Hmm. Fuck." He said it calmly, matter-of-factly, and Cody laughed, delightedly.

Teddy found that he kind of loved that when Cody laughed, even in the middle of teasing him like this, it never sounded like his brother was laughing at his expense. Besides, the guy had a cute laugh, which went well with his face. Catching that last thought a moment too late, Teddy flinched, then relaxed, no longer trying to fight his attraction to the charming bear. While Teddy was distracted by these thoughts, Cody bent forward and hugged his brother from behind, scritching his fingers through the fur on Teddy's chest while he began to kiss and nuzzle at the older male's neck.

"Mmmm, take your time, big brother," he murmured, "I love feeling you squeezing my cock, makes a guy feel real welcome under your tail..." Shuddering again, Teddy churred happily. He felt so wonderfully stretched out, Cody felt even bigger inside him, though Teddy reminded himself that this seemed to be true of every penis that had paid his backside a visit. Of course, while he was slathering kisses all over the back of Teddy's neck, Cody was subtly rolling his hips, making the tip of his cock rub against Teddy's slick inner walls, no doubt leaking pre-come all over the place. And at the moment, that meant that Cody's dick happened to be tickling at Teddy's sensitive prostate, making him squirm and tremble with desire.

It might have been twenty seconds or it might have been five hours that they just stayed that way, bodies entwined, savouring the experience and communing with each other. Teddy could feel the excitement and anticipation intertwining inside his brother, along with the contentment that currently held them at bay. Teddy kept trying to turn to face his brother, maybe steal a kiss, but Cody kept switching sides as soon as he started to look back. Eventually, Teddy was getting so turned on by their subtle movements that he felt his dick throb against the side of the couch, knew he was dripping pre.

"Ohhh, Cody," he sighed, "You're driving me wild... Let's do this! Please, fuck me, little brother, fuck me!"

He'd chosen his words deliberately to inflame Cody's desires, and now Teddy held his breath, silently praying that Cody didn't make him beg after all, because Teddy could beg submissively with the best of 'em, but surely if he did it for Cody, his brother would never let him forget it.

'You're lucky I'm horny AF too,' Cody replied to that, clearly having heard some of those thoughts, 'Or I would make you sing like a canary...'

'In your dreams,' thought Teddy, who winced when he caught himself, but Cody was already pushing himself back up to a standing position, and seemed more interested in easing his dick back out than in Teddy's choice of words. The older bear bit his lip as more and more of his brother's prick slipped out of him, and that empty feeling started to return - before Cody abruptly reversed direction and thrust back home, sheathing himself in his lover's rump once again. Cody groaned with pleasure, but wasted no time before continuing to move, pulling out once more until only the crown of his dick remained inside Teddy's rump, then slipping it back into the place both bears longed for it to be. In no time at all, the younger male had started a nice, smooth rhythm, and soon the Benson brothers were fucking in earnest.

For the second time that night, Teddy shuddered, digging his claws in as he gripped tight handfuls of the couch cushion beneath him. He'd most definitely not been a fan of the sensation of cold lube inside him, but as his lover continued to thrust behind him, their combined body heat, and the delicious friction Cody was creating, caused the lube to warm up nicely. Of course, at the moment, the lubricant was the last thing on Teddy's mind, and with good reason. He absolutely couldn't remain still, squirming atop the couch arm as Cody's hard cock was buried deep inside him again and again, pleasure dancing all along his nervous system. In this position, facing away from the bear energetically rutting into him, and with Cody not vocalizing much, Teddy could almost imagine he was with someone else, someone... not related to him. But to his shock, Teddy realized that he didn't even want to. The fact that it was Cody's dick under his tail, Cody's hips bumping his ass, Cody's hands wandering his back, and Cody's mind reeling with the pleasure he was receiving from the older male's tight channel, all of it was sending Teddy's bliss skyrocketing.

"God... yes..." he murmured, "Oh, Cody..." A shockwave of pleasure washed over his body, and he bit his lip, self-consciously trying to swallow his cries, but this was immediately followed by Cody's prick jabbing against his prostate on three thrusts in a row, and Teddy's restraint failed hard, the muscular bear arching his back and moaning with ecstasy as his own cock began to drool pre against the side of the couch.

"F-fucking hell, little brother," he panted, enjoying the particularly deep thrust Cody made after he used that title, "Th-that's so good... Just like that... Don't stop!"

Behind him, Cody groaned, and Teddy felt the hands on his back tighten, felt the shudder running down his brother's arms.

'I can't believe it's actually happening...' Cody thought, 'I'm actually fucking my big brother... How is he so tight? I thought he was a bottom!'

'Awww, thanks, Cody,' Teddy replied, quietly enjoying the hitch in his brother's rhythm, 'That's sweet of you to, uh, say.'

'Fuck!' Cody blurted as soon as Teddy started 'sending' to him. Teddy was more or less certain that his lover had forgotten Teddy could hear his thoughts, the way Teddy himself had slipped up several times.

He laughed aloud as Cody confirmed this, self-consciously thinking 'So that's what that feels like...' as he resumed driving himself into the other male's tight entrance.

Soon, they'd really worked themselves into a lather, their pelts glistening with sweat, Cody's sac lightly smacking against Teddy's every time the former hilted himself in the latter, and the cushions showing signs of serious use thanks to Teddy's claws and the way he kept flexing and unflexing his fingers as waves of pleasure washed over him. Ted was almost embarrassed by how turned on he was, by the way his sibling was playing him like a well-oiled instrument. Which, from a certain perspective, he supposed he was, but not in any way he wanted to dwell on.

'God, how is this so good...' he thought, as he gasped out his lover's name, 'He's my little brother! He's not supposed to be able to give me such a good dicking! Oh man, I feel like such a pervert, but I... kinda like it...' One of Cody's hands, which had been massaging the flesh up and down Teddy's spine, moved up to tap the older male on the shoulder.

"Uh, y-you know I can hear that, right?" Cody asked, "I mean, we j-just established that..." His bait having been taken, Teddy turned and looked over his shoulder, making eye contact with the younger bear and grinning lasciviously.

"Oh, I know..." he said, confidently, and he could almost feel the shudder that ran down Cody's spine as he winked.

By now, Cody's thick, hard dick had poked at Teddy's sensitive prostate so many times, his legs felt like jelly, and he wasn't sure he'd have been able to stand if he wasn't resting his weight on the couch. Not wanting to be outdone by his younger sibling, he'd been fighting back the pleasure building inside him for quite some time now, but as Cody pressed the magic button yet again, Teddy gasped with ecstasy and threw in the towel.

"God, I - hnngh!" he said, interrupting himself with a grunt of pleasure before trying again, "I'm s-so fucking c-close... Oh, f-fuck, little brother, you're g-gonna make m-me come already!" Cody moved his hands from massaging Teddy's back to gripping his sibling's hips tightly, using them as leverage as he continued driving himself into Teddy's backside.

"Yessss..." Cody hissed, increasing the speed of his thrusts, "God, when you t-talk like that... oh, shit, that's s-such a fuckin' t-turn-on, big brother..." Teddy did not respond, as he was clenching his teeth to keep from yelping and whimpering from his lover's powerful thrusts, which now let out a muffled slapping sound every time hips met buttocks. The younger male groaned as Teddy clenched down on him again, then sighed happily, murmuring something almost to himself. Teddy had to strain to hear over his own heavy breathing and rapid heartbeat.

"God, I love this..." Cody muttered, "Can we have this dream every night from now on?"

In an instant, the room went cold. Literally. It was as if the temperature had dropped about twenty-five degrees in the time it took to blink.

"Wait!" Teddy cried, rather loudly. When Cody stopped thrusting, Teddy could sense his brother's confusion, his concern, but before Cody could voice any of that, Teddy pushed him backwards. The younger male's face fell as he retreated a few steps, his still-hard cock slipping unceremoniously out of his brother's rump. It pulsed angrily in the cool air, glistening with lube.

"Teddy, what - what's wrong?" Cody said, worry etched across his features, "Did I hurt you? Was it something I said?" Teddy was leaning up against the side of the couch, sitting on the arm, trying to ignore the way his rear kept flexing, clenching in on itself, as if it suddenly missed the presence of his brother's dick. Teddy's own manhood was a dark red in colour, and it twitched at random as if in protest that the delicious stimulation had been interrupted before the glorious orgasm that had been building inside him could come to its explosive fruition.

"You - you... You m-mentioned the dreams... you know! You know what's happening!" he finally managed to stammer. Cody crossed his arms and shivered against the cold, frowning.

"Yeah, and so did you, just earlier!" the younger ursine said, "I don't see the big deal!" Teddy grabbed at his head as if it hurt and let out a groan that had nothing to do with his prostate.

"I m-meant - come on, 'I must be dreaming' is a figure of speech!" he protested, helplessly, "Oh God, it's r-really true..."

All of the carefully-constructed denial Teddy had so painstakingly rebuilt after refusing to face reality at the gym suddenly came crumbling down, and he was left with only the irrefutable truth. He halfheartedly tried to convince himself that this was just a dream version of Cody that was breaking the fourth wall for some reason, but deep down, he knew. And so did his brother.

"Oh my God, you - you've known this whole time..." Teddy breathed, trembling with anxiety.

"Of course I have!" Cody said, confused, "I - I thought you were enjoying yourself! The blowjobs were your idea!" He took one step forward, but stopped when Teddy visibly flinched.

"Come on, big brother, I - I thought we were really onto something here! You and me, we're - we work so well together! Nobody's ever made me come as hard as you did last night!"

This time, the usage of that nickname brought only shame to Teddy, who was still struggling with the idea that his real, actual brother was fully aware of everything he'd said, everything he'd done in these dreams - and he approved?!

"H-how can you be so calm?!" Teddy groaned, "We're - we're perverts now, Cody!" The younger male stepped forward again, reaching out to touch Teddy.

"Wait, Teddy, calm down..." he said, softly, his eyes full of a warmth that currently frightened his overwhelmed sibling. At the last second, Teddy yelped and ducked to the side, escaping the couch and his brother's touch all at once.

"Don't touch me!" he cried, fear obvious in his voice, and he turned to flee from the room, but only took a single step forward, which was in Teddy's case due to the fact that the other side of the room had suddenly been replaced by a canyon-sized chasm, and that first step sent Teddy falling off the cliff, which certainly didn't do anything to help with his stress levels.

* * *

Teddy sat bolt upright with a gasp, his heart pounding like a jackhammer and his pelt damp with sweat. Because he'd woken up in fear, his mind was almost instantly alert, which was helpful, because he was still tired as hell, and if he had just woken up feeling like this from a normal sleep, he might just have let himself nod back off. Looking around, he saw that It was still dark out, and that the TV was still on. The movie he'd been watching had ended, to be replaced with the third movie in the series, which frankly he'd never loved. But Teddy was no more interested in watching the movie right now than he was in moving to Kabul, for time was of the essence. He stood up, acutely aware of the wicked boner straining against his pants, and of the ache in his poor, denied testicles that was already setting in.

"Gave myself f-fuckin' blue balls," he muttered, "At least I didn't nut in my pants this time..." he muttered, even as a part of him wished he had, to relieve the pressure his body so desperately wanted him to do something about.

Teddy anxiously turned the TV off, then hit the lights, then hurried towards his room. He wasn't sure where that cliff had come from, but if he had to guess, his subconscious had picked up on how profoundly uncomfortable he was, on the fact that he didn't want to deal with that conversation, on how he'd rather be anywhere else, doing any_thing_ else, than chatting with his brother about those dreams where they'd fucked. The troubled bear flinched at the thought, letting out a quiet whine that any canine would be proud of. How could he ever face Cody again, after what they'd done? How could he ever look himself in the eye in the mirror ever again? But he was so overwhelmed, so confused... he felt all the guilt and all the stress that his deviant desires had brought in the past, but this time, he still felt that terrifying warmth in his chest, still remembered how freeing it had felt to let go of his guilt and surrender to his passion... Was that why Cody had seemed to be okay with it?

Exactly as that question crossed his mind, and exactly as Teddy passed by the door to Cody's bedroom, that door flew open, and Cody lunged out, wearing pyjama pants and nothing else, and grabbed hold of Teddy's shoulders. After the fact, the older male would not be proud of the fact that he'd yelped like a scared cub when this happened, but it's not every day the most complicated relationship in your life suddenly jumpscares you.

"Teddy!" Cody cried, squinting at his brother with bleary eyes.

"Fuck!" Teddy replied, eloquently. Not yet awake enough to realize he'd startled his sibling, Cody just blinked, mild confusion radiating off him, then ignored it and moved on.

"Get in here," Cody mumbled, "We need to talk!" He began to pull the taller male with him into his bedroom. Teddy was only a bit taller than his brother, but he was considerably more swole, as Teddy genuinely enjoyed lifting weights as a hobby, rather than simply as exercise. So he could have stopped Cody dead in his tracks... but between getting the bejeezus scared out of him a second ago, and how overwhelming his feelings regarding Cody were, Teddy just reached up and grabbed onto Cody's wrists, dragging his feet slightly to slow them down, like a fussy child who doesn't want to go out today.

"Wait, c'mon, Cody, we - we - do - uh..." He tried to think of a way out, but all that was in his mind was panic, fear, and annoyingly lingering arousal.

"No more dancing around it," Cody insisted, "We need to settle this!"

Teddy reluctantly allowed himself to be pulled into his brother's room, but not before turning to the side and taking a longing glance in the direction of his own bedroom door. Once they were inside, Cody firmly closed and locked the door, and then shoved Teddy so that the older bear ended up sitting on the bed, looking up at Cody, who stood there with his arms crossed over his chest. The tiredness was slowly lifting from his eyes, but he still clearly had bed head... which for a morphic, meant that there were little random tufts of unkempt fur sticking out all over his body. And yet, somehow, he made it work. He'd always looked cute with messy hair... Catching that thought, a discouraged Teddy looked down, studying his socked feet. After only a few seconds, he tensed up as Cody, who had silently stepped forward, moved a hand to Teddy's chin and gently lifted his head until they were making eye contact.

"Come on, big guy, we... we can't ignore this any longer," Cody said, sounding a little more sympathetic.

"Can't we, though?" Teddy replied immediately, a hopeful expression on his face. Smirking, Cody shook his head and sat down next to him. Teddy swallowed nervously. He'd only sat on another man's bed next to the guy who owned it a handful of times... and each of those times, he'd quite happily ended up on his back - with the exception of the one where he ended up pushed against the wall of a shower instead. He now knew, thanks to those damnable dreams, that Cody could be surprisingly charming when he was putting the moves on someone, and the older male couldn't help but wonder if his little brother planned to seduce him.

But Cody didn't touch him, didn't get the two of them to lie down, he didn't so much as waggle his eyebrows lasciviously at his sibling. He just sat down, hands folded in his lap, and looked over to Teddy, who said nothing.

"So, I'm just gonna say it," Cody began, after a profoundly awkward eight seconds of silence, "We've been sharing dreams all week long. Sexy dreams." In his nervousness, Teddy replied much too quickly.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Teddy lied, badly, "In fact, I don't remember having a single dream all week long." Cody didn't even look mad, he just smiled sympathetically, which made Teddy start blushing.

"I don't know about you, Ted, but my gifts have been getting stronger ever since we influenced the homophobe," Cody said, gently, "I can feel when you're lying now, even outside the dreams."

"Oh, God..." whined Teddy, who closed his eyes and shook his head, as if trying to 'nope' this situation away. After a moment, he shrugged. "I feel it too, b-but I had to try, right?" He opened his eyes again as Cody caressed his cheek. Teddy shivered and resisted the urge to bite his lip.

'Is - is this it?' he thought, nervously, 'Is he going to seduce me in real life? We won't be able to walk that one back... God, and I'd let him, wouldn't I? I'm so hopeless...'

Cody scritched his fingertips against his brother's cheek, and Teddy couldn't help but push his face against the hand. After a few moments, Cody let his hand drop, a thoughtful look coming over his face.

"You know, even if I couldn't tell you were lying, I could prove it by now, the things I've learned in the dreams," he said, smirking, "Things like... how your tail twitches adorably right before you come."

"Oh fuck..." Teddy said, shivering with conflicting emotions. He actually felt a little light-headed as Cody casually discussed the dreams out loud in the waking world. Leaning in a little closer, Cody whispered into his ear.

"...Or the fact that you're a bottom," he breathed, causing Teddy to blush despite seeing it coming a mile away, "Which you seem to be really hung up on, for some reason."

"Cody, you're killing me..." Teddy groaned, hiding his face in his hands, "Just watch, I'm going to get so fucking embarrassed that my brain will spontaneously disconnect from my nervous system to put me out of my misery."

"Ohh, Teddy..." Cody sighed, and Teddy looked up, surprised at the sadness in his brother's voice. Sure enough, Cody looked hurt, slouching slightly and pouting.

"W-why do you gotta say things like that?" the younger male said, crossing his arms over his chest. Teddy blinked, so confused that some of the stress had eased, as if it had simply slipped his mind.

"What are you talking about?" he asked, not sure he wanted the answer. Cody frowned, looking frustrated.

"Why can't you just admit you're into me, so we can move forward from there?"

Shocked almost beyond words, Teddy instinctively leaned away from his brother.

"You - you want this to happen?" Teddy asked, wondering with a sudden rush of paranoia whether this whole series of events had been orchestrated by Cody somehow. He quickly rejected that idea, though, as Cody didn't really seem like the Machiavellian type. The shorter bear reached back and rubbed at the back of his neck.

"W-well, yeah!" he said, a little defensively, "Ted, when we're - when we're together in those dreams, there's a real connection between us, something I've never felt with anyone else. That's why our gifts are getting stronger, I'm sure of it! The more time we spend together, the sharper my senses feel!"

"So you're saying that makes it okay to just - to just fuck around and commit incest?" Teddy asked, too surprised to be horrified.

"Dammit, Teddy!" Cody said, frustrated, "You know I've been reading you freely in the dreams, just like I can feel you reading me!" He leaned in closer and poked one finger against his brother's chest, right over his heart.

"I want you, Teddy, I am... well, I'm really, really attracted to you," Cody said, bluntly, "And I know you want me, too! You want me more than my last boyfriend wanted me!" He sighed. "There. It's out in the open."

Looking away, again, Teddy crossed his own arms.

"...Well, your last boyfriend was a jerk," he muttered, sullenly.

"That's the part you want to comment on?!" Cody said, frustrated, "God_dammit_, Teddy!"

"Why are you acting like I'm the weird one here?" Teddy snapped back, finally pushed to the absolute limit of his ability to deal with stress, "Jesus, Cody, we're brothers! The fact that we had some dreams about - about fooling around doesn't change the fact that it's a terrible fucking idea for us to try that in real life!"

"That's not how you really feel about it!" insisted Cody, "I've felt it in the dreams, when you aren't surrounding yourself with - with military-grade denial! And if you won't admit it, then I'll just have to come in and get the proof myself!" Looking back at Cody, Teddy saw that the shirtless bear was glaring at his brother, every muscle in his forehead taut with concentration. At that moment, Teddy felt an intangible pressure inside his head, Cody's psychic presence attempting to directly enter and read his mind.

Alarmed, Teddy recoiled.

"No!" he gasped, as he reached up and grabbed at his head with both hands, a reflexive gesture that of course would do nothing to actually interfere with a psychic invasion. They'd never really tried to work out an active defence, since the two of them were the only psychics they'd ever been aware of, and this was the first time in their whole lives one of them had tried to read the other one expressly against permission. The pressure inside Teddy's mind was growing, and he grimaced, horrified by the idea of Cody rooting through the shameful thoughts he'd been having all week. He was pretty sure he could stop it by, say, punching his brother in the nose or giving him a nice solid bitchslap to the cheek, but Teddy didn't want to hurt him. Improvising, the conflicted bear filled his thoughts with the opening words of an old song that he knew for a fact that Cody didn't like... because of how easily it could get stuck in his head.

Extreme ways are back again, extreme places I didn't know

_ I broke everything new again, everything that I own_...

His eyes bulging out, Cody fell back, the psychic pressure ceasing instantly. Cody made an anguished face as he raised one hand to his temple.

"Oh my God, really, Ted? Moby?" he asked, disbelievingly, "God, why do you have to make this such an ordeal? Why can't we just be open and honest with each other? Why are you fighting this so hard, big brother?" A sudden spike of further anger flared up inside Teddy, and he blurted out his next words - more of a shout, really - before he thought about them.

"Because I don't want us to go to Hell, dammit!"

It was as if the exclamation had been a fireball eating fuel, suddenly absorbing all the anger and frustration in the room, and leaving both brothers feeling considerably calmer, staring at each other in surprise. Looking at the floor again, Teddy sighed and closed his eyes.

"...I do want you," he whispered, trembling with the effort it was taking to say these words, "In fact, I - I'm crazy about you, Cody. You're always on my mind, always, like I can barely go five minutes without thinking about kissing you, or cuddling with you, or whatever..." He kept his eyes closed, but he imagined that Cody was blushing fiercely in the face of this confession. It helped, somehow.

"I want you so fucking bad, I can't stand it," he continued, "B-but I... Look, I know what you're gonna say, but some of the stuff Mom and Dad taught us, I s-still believe, okay?" Teddy braced himself for teasing, but no mockery came.

Feeling uncomfortable in the silence, but too afraid to open his eyes, Teddy tried to go into more detail.

"I don't know, when we're in the dreams, I can just let go of worrying and enjoy it, but when I wake up, I'm waking up to shame, and I always feel so guilty..." he said, running his hand back across his hair, "I'm so, so afraid that if we - if we go any further than we already have, if we try anything in real life..." He whimpered, despite himself. "I mean, it's not like there was a commandment that said 'thou shalt not fuck thine hot-ass brother', and I'm pretty sure incest isn't one of the seven deadly sins, but I still can't imagine St. Peter letting us past if we actually have sex..." He swallowed, feeling abjectly miserable. He knew Cody wasn't particularly fond of organized religions, and the brothers had sort of avoided the subject for years. But there was just silence, and the lonely darkness behind his eyelids. At this point, Teddy was afraid to look, quietly worried that Cody had left him alone... in his own bedroom, after dragging the reluctant man inside insistently. Okay, so it wasn't the most rational worry, but it was there. This train of thought evaporated completely as he suddenly felt Cody's arm slipping around his shoulders, the younger male moving to sit right next to him. Opening his eyes, Teddy dared to look at Cody - and found only warmth, sympathy, and support in his eyes. The warmth in Teddy's own chest flared up worryingly as he took this in, but he tried to ignore that.

Cody squeezed the shoulder opposite himself, where his hand was resting.

"I'm... I'm sorry, Teddy," Cody said softly, as he turned away, "This whole time, I just assumed we were on the same page, and I - I didn't even consider that you might have this kind of problem with it." Teddy swallowed and sighed again, feeling some of the tension in his chest unspooling.

"But... Teddy, a literal interpretation of that book says we're going to Hell anyway," said Cody, carefully, "I mean, we've been living our lives for the past decade assuming whatever god is out there is a bit more liberal than the explicit command to beat us to death with rocks." He was a little tense, treading carefully, lest he offend, but Teddy snickered at this, nodding slightly.

"Well, I gotta give you that one," he allowed, "But it's one thing to assume God is liberal enough not to hate us just because we like guys... I don't know, Cody, it feels like another thing entirely to believe that He's okay with the idea of incest."

Cody nodded at that and took a deep breath. After a moment of looking thoughtful, the younger male tilted his head slightly and looked directly into his brother's eyes.

"Teddy, do you remember the day we... came out to each other?" he asked, softly.

"Hard to forget," Teddy replied, a tiny smirk appearing on his face, "We were talking about something, I don't even remember what, and you suddenly cut off in the middle of a sentence and went 'Wait, you like guys?!'" Cody grinned at that, shaking his head in amusement.

"Hey, it's not my fault that you were thinking about seeing that guy in your class soaping his chest up in the showers after gym class," the shorter bear insisted, "Although in your defence, that guy was pretty hot..." Both brothers laughed softly at that, and Teddy felt more of the tension leaving his body.

"You, uh, didn't handle it very well," Cody continued, after a bit.

"That's being generous," Teddy replied, making a face, "It was basically a panic attack. I just kept insisting over and over that it wasn't true..."

Teddy shivered, despite himself, as Cody leaned over and placed a hand on his knee. The look on the younger male's face was nothing but supportive.

"You didn't say 'It's not true', Ted," Cody said, very softly, "You kept saying 'I'm not a faggot.' Over and over, until you were crying it." Teddy swallowed and said nothing. Even today, thinking back to how absolutely horrid he'd felt that night made him a little sad. He'd been so afraid, thinking that Cody might tell the world, or worse, that he might lose Cody himself for good.

"Cody..." he whispered, following it up with a heavy silence. The shirtless sun bear lifted his hand from Teddy's knee and moved it just slightly, setting it down atop Teddy's hand, which had been leaning against the mattress.

"I know our gifts have gotten stronger in the last week," Cody murmured, "But that night, even way back then, I could feel how miserable you were... You were drowning in self-loathing, dude. You were making yourself crazy trying to convince yourself you were a good old-fashioned God-fearing man who was gonna marry a God-fearing woman and, like, have boring sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of having three-point-five kids to put into Sunday school." Despite himself, Teddy snickered at this.

"You ass," he muttered. Cody said nothing, but his grin widened.

Teddy didn't pull his hand away, but he did regard his sibling dubiously.

"Is this story going somewhere, or did you just want to reminisce about the shittiest I've ever felt?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. Cody held up his hands in supplication.

"I was just about to get to that..." he replied, "See, do you remember what I told you afterwards?" Suddenly finding it hard to maintain eye contact, Teddy worked his lower lip between his upper and lower teeth for a moment while he gathered his words.

"You... said that I wasn't a faggot, I was gay, and there was nothing wrong with that..." Teddy swallowed again. "...And that you liked guys, too." Unable to bear the openness of the moment, Teddy shifted his gaze to study the ring of lighter fur on his brother's chest, as if he hadn't seen it a hundred times before.

"You even showed me a memory of almost getting caught checking out another guy's butt in gym class," Teddy recalled, "So I'd know it was legit."

"And I told you that God judges people for what they do, not what they had no choice over," Cody continued, "and that 'the book' was written a couple thousand years ago by people, not by anyone divine, so it could be imperfect without reflecting on the Big Guy."

"I really appreciated that part, by the way, felt like a life preserver," Teddy interjected.

Cody had begun to lightly stroke the back of Teddy's hand with his thumb, but it was so gentle and slow that Teddy didn't consciously notice. It did, however, cause him to relax just a little bit more.

"So let me ask you something right now," Cody said, "When we have those dreams, when we're fu-"

"Fooling around!" Teddy interrupted, firmly. Cody smirked in a way that made Teddy feel more than a little self-conscious.

"Sure, when we're fooling around in the dreams, how do you feel?"

"Wh-what do you mean by that?" Teddy replied, growing a little tenser again. He was getting quite tired of this back-and-forth. "I mean, it, uh, it felt good, of course, you got me off in both the first two dreams..."

"And I treasure those memories, but that's not what I meant," Cody said, smoothly, "I mean, how do you feel emotionally?" Teddy looked at him curiously, and Cody clarified.

"Say we're naked together, cuddling, kissing, and we're just sort of, I don't know, idly grinding against each other," Cody said, sending a taboo shiver down his brother's spine, "Do you feel like you're doing something evil and sinful? Do you feel like you're indulging in something obscene and disgusting?"

Teddy shivered again, the conflict in his heart growing.

"I - Come on, Cody, it's against the law," he said, but his brother leaned in and booped him on the nose, interrupting him.

"Ah, ah, ah!" he said, waggling his finger like a disappointed schoolteacher, "That's your brain, telling you it's wrong on paper." Teddy frowned, scowling slightly.

"We - we've been over this already," he grumbled, more than a little defensively, "We had this conversation before!" The other bear had every right to be frustrated, but Cody's voice remained soft, gentle.

"Sometimes you need to hear a lesson more than once before it really sinks in," he murmured, "C'mon, humour me?" Teddy found his irritation disappearing as quickly as it had arisen, despite his best efforts to remain pissed off. Cody reached in and placed his free hand over his brother's heart, pressing just hard enough that Teddy suspected that Cody could feel his heart beating, even through his shirt.

"We've heard from your brain. So tell me... What's this telling you, big brother?" the younger male whispered. As he said those words, something changed in Cody's eyes. There was a fear there, a desperation, and in that instant, Teddy's gift confirmed what his eyes suspected. Faced with such open vulnerability, Teddy found that he didn't have it in him to be anything but totally honest.

'God forgive me...' he thought.

"It... No. It doesn't feel evil," Teddy admitted, the quiet words seeming deafeningly loud in the silence of their home. "It feels... it feels natural. Comforting. Like it's m-meant to be... Oh, Jesus Christ, it feels right, okay, Cody? It feels right..."

Tears were silently sliding down Teddy's cheeks as he was overwhelmed with emotion. He wasn't sure whether he loved this conversation or hated it, whether he was excited or terrified, and he just wanted it to stop. He just wanted to feel hopeful again.

"Oh, Cody, what's wrong with us...?" he moaned, letting his head sag down. But as he did so, he raised his other hand and placed it on top of the one resting over his heart, so that the brothers were holding both hands.

"How could we have let this happen?" he continued, without waiting for a response, "I feel like... like such a freak..."

"Hey." Cody sounded calm and collected. "Look at me." Sniffling, Teddy semi-reluctantly looked, and he was once again taken aback by the strength of the joy twinkling in Cody's eyes, long before it was strong enough for Teddy to sense it. The younger male was very obviously quite okay with these circumstances.

"If this is freaky, then we'll be freaks together," Cody said, simply, "I'll always have your back, big brother... and I know you'll always have mine."

For a moment, Teddy's head swam with how badly he wanted to just let go of the stress entirely, just let himself get carried away on a wave of relief. The moment of lightheadedness passed just in time for Teddy to find Cody embracing him, slipping his arms around the older male and nuzzling against his chest as he hugged Teddy tight. Instinctively returning the hug, Teddy sighed. His brother's words were so warm, so open, so honest, and he wanted so badly to believe them, to believe in Cody, to lose himself in his warm, shirtless embrace... But the Devil's words were supposed to sound reasonable, too, and a small part of Teddy was still unsure...

"Cody..." he breathed, "I... I'm scared. I w-want to be happy, I want to let go of all this worry, but I keep thinking... what if I'm wrong? What if it's me, and this really is fucked up after all?"

"I know it's not," Cody murmured, as he continued to rub his cheek against his brother's chest and shoulder, "Because I feel the same way you do, Ted, and I don't think anything that feels this right could ever be wrong. In fact, I... I..." He trailed off, blushed, and grinned a little sheepishly. "Uh, it's just like you said," Cody said, "Feels like it was meant to be." Teddy was reading just a hint of evasiveness from his sibling, but he didn't detect any indication at all that Cody wasn't being totally honest, and he felt quite moved by that. He also felt pretty moved by the way his brother suddenly switched to kissing at his cheek and throat.

"Ohhh, Cody..." Teddy sighed, closing his eyes and letting himself surrender to the passion that had been growing in him for far longer than he'd ever let himself admit. Every muscle in his body slowly relaxed, and he reached up, gently pushed Cody juuuust a bit away from him, and then leaned in to kiss his little brother the way he'd wanted to, deep down, since before he had the first dream.

Cody made a not-entirely-dignified noise as Teddy captured his lips, but the older male saw fit to ignore that, as he was much more interested in smooching than in teasing right now. He ran his hands up and down his brother's back, feeling the short, slightly bristly fur against the soft pads on his fingers, exploring the familiar and yet brand-new topography of Cody's back beneath the pelt. This moment felt so natural that at first the clothed bear didn't really think about it, happy to be free of the ever-present worry, and it was almost ten full seconds before Teddy realized that this was the first time he and Cody had kissed in the real world. Shuddering, he moved one hand to the back of his brother's head and groaned into the kiss, focusing on the feeling of Cody's soft lips and flat but nimble - and long - tongue.

"It... feels different," Teddy said, as he finally broke off the kiss, "from when we're asleep, I mean." Cody chuckled and caressed his sibling's cheek.

"Doesn't everything?" the younger male replied, as calm and content as you like, "Here, let me help you with this." Leaning back in to nip playfully at his brother's neck, Cody reached down blindly and un-tucked Teddy's shirt from his jeans.

'Do you do that a lot?' Teddy thought, amused by how skilled Cody's hands were when he wasn't looking.

'Hey man, you're the one who was hitting the bars all the time looking for guys,' Cody thought back, a little indignantly. Smiling, Teddy raised his hands appeasingly, which was also helpful when Cody peeled Teddy's shirt up, baring the older male's chest.

'Easy, I'm just kidding,' he thought, 'I... I guess you know how I feel about you, so you know it's just teasing, right?' As Cody tossed his brother's shirt to the floor (where it remained, of course, because this was real life), he pulled his legs up onto the bed and got in a kneeling position. He crossed his arms and smirked at his brother.

'Gee, I don't know, big brother,' Cody thought sarcastically, 'Maybe you should remind me how you feel...' Taking the message, Teddy grinned and stood up - then suddenly lunged over, pouncing on a very surprised Cody and pinning him to the bed as they both laughed delightedly.

The older male grinned eagerly as his muscular arms held his brother's wrists against the mattress with (relative) ease. Teddy felt Cody shudder beneath him, clearly into this. Thusly encouraged, Teddy bent down and kissed the other bear deeply and passionately. Feral sun bears were known to use their long, long tongues to slip into holes in beehives and steal honey more effectively. Well, there wasn't any honey in Cody's mouth, but Teddy still felt deeply satisfied as his tongue slipped into a tight, spiralling embrace with his brother's. Although now that he'd thought about honey, he found he suddenly craved the stuff. He briefly thought about making a daring suggestion, but then recalled some horror stories he'd heard about trying to combine honey, sex, and fur in the same night, and decided he'd rather not. Although the train of thought did remind him... Breaking off the kiss, a bridge of saliva hanging between the two males' mouths for a moment, Teddy grinned self-consciously at Cody.

"Hey, uh, I was wondering..." Teddy said aloud, willing himself not to blush and only half succeeding, "Do you think you could, um..." Cody, still totally content to be held down by the larger bear, just smiled supportively.

"What is it, big brother?" he asked, almost too eagerly. Cody's enthusiasm was certainly admirable. Teddy tried again.

"Oh jeez... do you think you could, ah... put on that honeycomb thong you were wearing in the last dream?" he asked, blushing harder, "Holy fuck that was sexy... really made your ass look good, too."

But before he finished speaking, Cody had already started looking a little sheepish himself.

"Oh, um..." His hands were still held in place, but Teddy got the distinct impression that Cody would be scratching at the back of his neck if they weren't.

"S-sorry," the shorter male said, a touch reluctantly, "Uh, that thong doesn't actually exist... Or, well, it probably does, somewhere, but, um... I don't actually own any thongs. You were right." Teddy nodded, disappointed, but managed to grin at the younger bear anyway.

"Oh, that's okay," he replied, "Your birthday is coming up, and I'll just have to remedy that..." Cody laughed, squirming beneath his muscular sibling.

"You know, Ted, it kinda sounds like that present is for you... And by 'kinda', I mean you might as well be giving me a bowling ball with your name on it." Snorting in amusement at the vintage Simpsons reference, Teddy bent back down and nipped at his brother's ear.

"Well, Cody," he murmured, between playful nibbles, "if it does have my name on it, it'll be right below 'property of...'" Cody groaned and shuddered beneath him.

"Oh God, that's hot..." Cody sighed, "B-but... call me 'little brother'... please?" Teddy grinned, but set aside his immediate instinct to tease his sibling about being so obviously into that, because right now, Teddy liked the idea of playing into Cody's kinks.

"Well, you did say please," he replied, smirking, "So how can I say no to my little brother?" Cody giggled delightedly, then blushed, as if the reaction had caught him by surprise. It looked good on him. Teddy's smile widened at the candid reaction, and then he bent down to kiss him again.

A long, gentle, warm moment followed, broken when Teddy adjusted his position and felt the bulge of Cody's penis through his pyjama pants. It felt like the younger male was at about half-mast. Growling with need into their latest kiss, Teddy began to roll his hips, grinding against Cody and showing off that he was getting pretty hard himself. Whimpering with raw desire, Cody broke off the kiss.

"Oh God, a-are we gonna recreate the first dream?" he asked, eagerly, "C-can I take my pants off first? I mean, I actually thought it was hot as hell when I woke up and realized you made me come for reals, but, um, if we're doing it awake... I want to see you." Teddy shivered with anticipation as Cody failed to catch himself before reflexively glancing down at the lump in Teddy's jeans.

"You're just full of pervy surprises, little brother," Teddy observed, "Okay, but let me get that for you..."

Releasing Cody's wrists, Teddy crawled down the bed, until he was face-to-tent with Cody's crotch. Tucking one claw into the loop of the drawstring on the pyjama pants, he gave it a tug, untying the knot and loosening the pants. But Teddy froze with his hand on the elastic waistband, frowning.

"Wait, fuck..." he muttered to himself.

"What's wrong?" Cody asked, leaning on his elbows and lifting his head and shoulders from the bed, "You're not second-guessing this again, are you?" Embarrassed, Teddy studied the pattern in his brother's pants.

"No, no, it's not that," he said, "It's just, ah... I may have just realized that if the dreams were real and that was actually you... then you really do have a bigger dick than me." Teddy was expecting at least a light ribbing, maybe some humble-bragging from Cody, but the younger male just narrowed his eyes ever so slightly.

"You said something like that in one of the dreams, too, you need to relax about that, man!" Cody said, shrugging, "I mean, if one of us had to be bigger, it might as well be the top, eh?" Shivering at the reminder of where this was obviously leading, Teddy regained his smile.

"Heh... I guess you're right," he replied, and he pulled Cody's pants down, not surprised in the slightest to find his sibling's malehood exactly as he remembered it from the dreams.

Begrudgingly accepting that he lived in a world where his younger brother's penis was longer than his, Teddy tried to cheer himself up by focusing on how he was the only person in that world getting to play with Cody's prick tonight... and it wouldn't be the only time, if the shorter male's obvious eagerness was anything to go by. Taking hold of Cody's hardening cock, Teddy immediately gave it a big, wet slurp of a lick, then savoured Cody's pleasured reaction. Breathing in deep of his brother's private scent, the older bear took the whole length of his lover's dick into his mouth and began to lick and suckle at it, shuddering with delight at the way Cody's length twitched and spasmed against his lips and tongue, growing longer and stiffer by the second. It was a major turn-on for Teddy to feel a guy get hard in his mouth, but this time there was so much more to it. He was so aroused he could barely stand it, between that unique sensation of stiffening muscle against his tongue (which he secretly loved), tasting Cody's eager cock, listening to the noises the other bear was making, and knowing that he was responsible for his brother's erection, that he was making Cody's dick hard, and no one else.

'I - I can't believe I'm making the first move...' thought Teddy, while his tongue was otherwise occupied, 'I was so scared, I thought... I thought I might chicken out again when you touched me, but here I am, gobbling your knob, and my pants aren't even off...' Cody churred excitedly above him, but Teddy could sense the amusement building in him.

'I can do something about your pants, but ugh, please don't ever say 'gobbling your knob' in bed ever again,' Cody replied, 'That's so... that's so cringe.' Teddy paused in fellating the other bear, lifting his head and letting Cody's cock slip out of his mouth, now at its full pride and glistening with saliva.

"Says the guy who begged me to call him 'little brother' while we fuck..." he replied, with a cheeky wink. Radiating embarrassment like light from a light bulb, Cody began to sputter out a complaint about this comparison, but Teddy just laughed, feeling totally stress-free for the first time in... well. It had been a while, anyway.

Once he finished grumbling, a frowning Cody moved in and unfastened his brother's pants, reaching in and fishing out Teddy's malehood, which was already at its full pride, as he'd quite enjoyed getting his brother hard with his tongue.

"You've got such a fat cock, big brother," Cody observed appreciatively, "If we ever switch it up, I'm gonna have to stretch first..." The blatantly sexual compliment sent a lewd shiver down Teddy's spine, and he growled with desire, at least as much from the words as from the mental image of Cody working a dildo in and out of himself in order to prepare for his brother's girth. But right now, Teddy wanted Cody under his own tail, and he wanted him badly. But just as he opened his mouth to suggest some proper dickings, Cody returned the favour and took his prick into his muzzle. Teddy grunted as Cody's tongue teased the underside of his crown, then settled down against the mattress to let Cody have some fun... for now.

"Hey, Cody? I mean, uh, little brother..." he said, "What did you mean, earlier, when you asked me, like, 'Are you second-guessing this again?'" Teddy rolled his shoulders and resisted the urge to scratch at his neck.

"I just wonder - hnngh! - what you meant by 'again'?"

Cody paused in his suckling and looked up at Teddy with a guilty expression in his eyes.

'Well, uh...' he thought, slightly nervously, as he turned his eyes back down to Teddy's pubic tuft, 'It's just that, um... Oh man. Since our gifts have been getting stronger and all, I sort of... accidentally overheard a couple of your thoughts at the gym.' Swallowing, Teddy felt... not as horrified as he would have been right after that trip.

"I... see..." he said, wondering distantly how this one-sided conversation would seem to others.

'S-sorry, I didn't mean to! You were thinking pretty hard, so it was like it was really loud...' Cody replied, his eyes darting up at Teddy for just a moment, 'I thought you were finally admitting that we - we've got this thing between us, that the dreams were real... That's why I was so surprised when you didn't show up in the dream tonight.' Teddy groaned with pleasure and reached forward to cup the back of his brother's head.

"Hrrrgghh, that's so good..." he murmured, before relaxing a little. After a few seconds of silently enjoying the moment, Teddy continued, saying "I gotta ask, Cody..." The younger male growled quietly around his brother's penis.

"I gotta ask, little brother," Teddy corrected himself, without missing a beat, "How is it that you're so... cool with all of this? Real talk, have you wanted to fuck me for a while now?" Sitting up, Teddy regarded his sibling with a Look.

"The dreams weren't your idea, were they?" he asked, suddenly suspicious.

His eyes widening in surprise, Cody looked up at Teddy, looking about as concerned as he could without taking his mouth off of Teddy's prick. Honestly, the visual was kind of silly, but Teddy wasn't thinking about that right now.

'What! No, it's not like that!' Cody silently insisted, 'It was the - the nipple thing!' Teddy blinked, slowly.

"The nipple thing," he repeated, flatly. Cody flinched and looked back down at the fuzzy pelvis directly in front of him, embarrassed.

'It was something you said in one of the dreams, remember?' the younger male thought, 'You were, um, playing with me, and talking about how male nipples are more sensitive than female nipples for bears.'

'Yeah, I remember that,' thought Teddy, who was getting weirdly self-conscious about being the only one audibly speaking while Cody went down on him, 'So what?'

'Well... I didn't know that,' his lover replied, simply, 'That was at the beginning of the sixty-nine dream - fuck, that was so hot, wasn't it?'

'Cody. Priorities.'

'Right. Sorry.' The younger male made the telepathic equivalent of clearing his throat, like a little pop of static in Teddy's mind. 'So when I woke up, I remembered you playing with my nipples and saying that, so I, you know, googled it.' Teddy grunted as his dick throbbed in Cody's mouth, and the other bear licked at his crown, likely gathering tasty pre. Cody paused a moment to let Teddy's malehood slip out of his muzzle so he could switch to just licking it like a popsicle. Clearly, Cody had plans for Teddy, and he didn't want him to pop too soon.

Glancing up at Teddy again, Cody continued his explanation while he also continued tenderly licking his brother's rod.

'So I look it up, and it's true, for bears anyway, but, uh, I didn't know that,' Cody thought, 'I had absolutely no idea, but you said it in the dream, and it turned out to be a real thing. So I figured a figment of my imagination probably couldn't spontaneously come up with a random fact I'd never heard of, and, well, realized that the you in my dreams must be real.' Teddy suddenly remembered seeing Cody on his phone before work while feeling embarrassed and anxious, and realized he must have been making that discovery just as Teddy walked into the room. No wonder he'd been so stressed...

'Why didn't you say anything?' he asked, reflecting on how very upset he'd have been one day earlier if he'd known that Cody had accepted the truth so much earlier than Teddy, without seeing fit to mention it to his big brother. Glancing up at his lover, Cody frowned slightly.

'Well, you were kind of... freaking the fuck out about it, Ted, I didn't exactly wanna just, you know, come right out and say it,' he thought, shrugging as he gave his sibling's penis a thoughtful lick.

Letting go of Cody's head, Teddy reached back and awkwardly rubbed at his shoulder.

"...Oh," he said aloud, though only barely. After planting one last affectionate kiss on the underside of Teddy's rigid prick, Cody crawled up the bed and snuggled up against his brother.

"Hey, don't be like that," the younger male whispered, as he threw a leg across Teddy's body, laying against him in a decidedly possessive manner. Teddy wondered without words if it was on purpose that this position also pressed Cody's erection tight against Teddy's upper thigh. Toying his fingers through the older bear's hair, Cody kissed his lover on the cheek.

"I wasn't, like, afraid of you or anything, I just didn't want to make things any worse," Cody said, "and I... needed some time to work through things myself."

"Oh, so you weren't just instantly on board with this, uh, whole idea between us?" Teddy asked, a small smile returning to his lips.

"Hell no," Cody replied, making a dismissive wave, "I mean, I wasn't worried about my immortal soul or anything, that must have been rough for you, but I thought I was either going crazy or turning into a pervert. Hell, at one point, I almost convinced myself the dreams were making me into a pervert... but it was so much deeper than that." For just a moment, Teddy was silently embarrassed, averting his gaze as he recalled how long he'd been convinced it was all the dreams' fault he was so attracted to his brother, but that last bit made him too curious to linger on his self-consciousness.

"Deeper?" Teddy pried, raising one eyebrow. To his amusement, Cody suddenly looked rather self-conscious, and he focused his attention on smoothing down a wayward tuft of fur on his lover's chest.

"Oh, uh, I just meant that it took me a while to get comfortable with the idea that I had the hots for my own brother, eh?" he said, and Teddy was polite enough not to mention the evasiveness that he didn't need psychic powers to detect.

Looking up shyly, Cody grinned.

"It's like you said, big brother," he murmured, "Somehow, it just feels... right." Reaching up and tracing Teddy's strong jaw with his fingertips, the smaller bear churred quietly.

"Man, are you ever out of my league..." Cody breathed, his eyes scanning Teddy's face. "God, even after the dreams, it's hard to believe this is really happening..." Teddy had been gently rubbing Cody's back, and now that hand seamlessly moved down to slip down onto the younger male's taut buttocks and give them a pinch.

"Ghhhgh! Fuck!" Cody cried out, instinctively arching away from the pain, which pressed his stiff, naked cock harder against Teddy's body, which once again Teddy was entirely on board with.

"Definitely not a dream, confirmed," the older male teased, as he lightly patted the spot where he'd pinched. Cody leaned back and gave him a Look, but said (and thought) nothing.

"Awww, come on, Cody, that was funny," Teddy insisted. Still no response.

Sighing exaggeratedly, and still smiling, Teddy reached down with the hand that was not on Cody's rump and, while still meeting the other bear's grumpy gaze, curled his fingers around his brother's hard dick, taking a firm hold of it. Giving Cody's tool a squeeze (and feeling it throb against his fingers in response), Teddy upgraded his playful smile with his patented bedroom eyes.

"Alright, alright, I can make it up to you... How's about I see if your come tastes the same in the waking world, too?"

"Ohhhh, no, big brother," Cody finally replied, "I think you're going to have to raise your tail for me, to make up for such a grave injustice." To his credit, his face did not at all betray that he was trying not to laugh. His voice let it leak through, though. Undeterred, Teddy churred at him, feeling his backside instinctively clench down with longing he hoped Cody couldn't sense. He hadn't forgotten that he'd denied himself a pretty potent orgasm earlier that night, even if it had been while he was asleep.

"My tail is a powder puff, Cody," he replied, deadpan, "It doesn't do much more than twitch or wiggle... I'll let you fuck me in the ass, though, how's that sound?" Despite himself, Cody laughed at that, and then Teddy made a noise of triumph at having disrupted his mildly-annoyed sibling's poker face, before giving Cody a kiss on the cheek that seemed to soothe his irritation just a little bit more.

Churring, Cody climbed atop the larger male, the bed creaking beneath the two bears as the weight shifted. As Cody bent down and hungrily kissed his lover, Teddy reached down beside the bed blindly, guided by practice, opening the bottom drawer of his nightstand and retrieving a tub of vaseline. Shoving the drawer (mostly) closed with a rough push of his knuckles, Teddy pulled the tub up onto the mattress next to him, popped the lid, and got some on his fingertips. Cody broke off the kiss and inhaled sharply as his big brother took hold of his rod, Teddy churring back to his partner as he began to smear petroleum jelly along Cody's rigid length.

"There you go," Teddy murmured, "Get you nice and slick... and none of this 'frozen lube' bullshit, either..."

"I do not use frozen lube, that would just be a block of ice," Cody replied, a little defensively, "I just love feeling it go from cold to warm as things get more energetic." Teddy gave him a Look, but continued lubing up his malehood.

"Easy to say when you've got it on your dick, not up your tailpipe," he muttered, "Yeesh, I was hoping you being into that was just a dream..." Cody snorted in amusement, then reached over to the tub of jelly, gathering some up as he slipped off of Teddy. Then, without warning, the younger bear grabbed hold of one of his lover's ankles and lifted that leg up into the air, rolling a surprised Teddy onto his side. Teddy opened his mouth to say something, but all that came out was a surprised gasp as Cody wasted no time, reaching under that raised leg and pushing two fingers into Teddy's rump, easily slipping past the tight ring of muscle and getting the larger male's entrance nice and slick.

As his brother's fingers confidently worked themselves in and out of his backside, Teddy struggled to resist showing how much he was enjoying it, and failed horribly with an embarrassed moan.

"Oh... oh, God..." the older male panted, squirming and shuddering in Cody's grip. Having his leg up in the air like this would be making his heart race even if Cody hadn't been massaging his prostate. Teddy had never felt quite as exposed, as vulnerable as he did right now, and the fact that it was his own sibling that he was sharing this deeply intimate moment with... had Teddy finally starting to understand why Cody was so insistent on being called 'little brother'.

"I have to admit it, big brother," Cody said, casually, clearly having caught that last thought, "I wasn't expecting you to actually be this tight in real life." Teddy laughed, despite himself.

"You bitch!" he gasped, through chuckles.

Snorting in surprise, Cody joined him in laughter.

"W-w-w..." he stammered, unable to speak through his giggles, which is no doubt why he switched to telepathy.

'Wait, I didn't mean it like that!' Cody thought, 'I just mean, uh, you were always picking guys up at bars... and you're a bottom, so, uh... Y-you know!'

"And now you're slut-shaming me on top of that?" Teddy said, sighing exaggeratedly as he crossed his arms in mock disapproval. Cody's fingers slipped out of Teddy as this renewed his laughter, and the slender male had to lean down to the bed with his clean hand to maintain his balance.

'You are the worst, you know that?' Cody thought, even as he doubled over with mirth. 'Try to give a guy a compliment about being as tight as a virgin, and this is the thanks I get, I see how it is...' Sitting up, Teddy reached out and grabbed Cody by the shoulders, then pulled the surprised male down on top of him as he hugged him tight in that characteristically ursine way and then gave his face a big, sloppy lick.

'Yes, that's definitely how it is,' Teddy cheerily confirmed, as he nuzzled aggressively at his brother, 'Glad to have been so enlightening!' Shaking his head and sighing just as exaggeratedly as Teddy just had, Cody hugged his lover back and returned the favour with licks of his own.

'Ohhh, sure, laugh it up now,' Cody replied, 'We'll see who's laughing once you're screaming my name and begging me not to stop...' Teddy swallowed, shuddering from head to toe at those provocative words - and aware that his smug sibling felt it.

"You, uh, you promise?" Teddy asked, blushing even as he grinned.

Cody's grin grew wider and smugger at those words, but instead of answering the question, he just pushed himself back up and off his brother. Teddy reluctantly let the shorter male slip out of his arms, and watched as Cody got back up onto all fours above him. Their hard pricks had been pressed together, and now the underside of Teddy's shaft glistened slightly where residual vaseline had smeared off of Cody's tool. Speaking of which, almost as if Cody had been waiting for the moment, as soon as Teddy turned his gaze directly on his brother's dick, Cody began to move back into a kneeling position, and then he slipped his hands under Teddy's thighs and lifted his rump just a bit off the bed. Teddy swallowed, knowing with certainty that the moment was upon him, that this was going to be when he crossed the imaginary line in his mind. He held his breath without realizing it as that beautiful cock moved down and out of sight, then let that breath out as a gasp as he felt Cody poking and prodding at his pert ass. Playing along, Teddy spread his legs wider, lifting his knees a little, and offered his little brother easier access to his back entrance.

Teddy sucked in a sharp breath as he felt the tip of Cody's cock nudge against his anus, shivering with anticipation from the tips of his ears down to his curling toes.

'Are you ready, big brother?' came Cody's thoughts. Swallowing nervously, Teddy took stock of himself, faced his emotions honestly... and nodded.

'Yes... oh, God yes...' he replied, blushing from how badly he wanted his brother inside him... and from knowing that Cody would be able to sense it. With that, the younger sun bear thrust his hips forward, and Teddy arched his back off the bed with a wordless cry as his brother's hard, drooling prick pushed past his back door and into the tight, slick channel beyond.

"Fuck!" Teddy gasped, as his hands gathered up fistfuls of the sheets. With both males properly lubricated, and Teddy's - cough - prior experience, Cody was able to bury his entire length in the trembling male's rump, inch by inch, with a single slow, smooth thrust. The younger male shuddered and let out a sound somewhere between a growl and a groan of pleasure.

"God, you're s-so fucking tight, Ted..." Cody whispered, "What did you do, sell your soul to the devil for the p-perfect ass?" Normally, Teddy would have chuckled at the compliment, but this particular time, he was too busy trying not to moan at the glorious sensation of fullness... but even if he hadn't been, he was still reeling from the thought that after days of worry, he was actually committing incest... and it was mindblowingly sexy!

It was almost surreal, the idea that this was even happening, and Teddy was struck by how similar this felt to the same moment in their dreams... but he was absolutely certain that having his brother's real, actual prick inside him, spreading out his inner walls so deliciously, wasn't even in the same league as just dreaming about doing it. His ass kept involuntarily clenching, flexing as it got used to the presence of the intruder, however welcome it might be, and every time it did, Teddy would stifle a whimper as he would squeeze down tight on the steel-hard cock inside him, as if trying to memorize its contours.

'Relax, take your time,' Cody thought, moving one hand to rub back and forth along his brother's thigh, which the elder bear found both soothing and arousing, a curious combination. 'Just take deep breaths and let yourself get used to it...' After a moment, his grin widened just a little, and he performed the telepathic equivalent of lowering his voice. '...After all, we're going to be doing this a lot from now on if I have anything to say about it...' Meeting Teddy's eyes, Cody blinked, his cheeks blanching under his fur, and he lowered his head sheepishly.

'...You, uh, weren't supposed to hear that last part,' he admitted, 'S-sorry, Teddy... I'm still not used to the gift being stronger...' Seeing his lover's confidence waning, Teddy decided to show mercy, since he was in a rather good mood from anticipating what was about to happen.

'...Call me 'big brother', and I'll forgive you,' he replied, winking playfully. Cody perked up a little, and his prick throbbed against Teddy's inner walls, clearly just as eager as the bear it was sheathed inside to get moving.

Cody's anticipation was palpable, even beyond the gift, and after glancing down and drinking in the sight of himself buried to the hilt in his sibling's rear, he put on an apologetic expression and bowed his head respectfully.

"You ready to get started, big brother?" he asked, managing not to sound self-conscious about it.

"God, yes," Teddy replied, without hesitation, "Give it to me, little brother!" Replying to one title with the other felt a little silly... but Teddy couldn't deny that it was also a massive turn-on, not with his cock drooling pre onto his stomach in full sight of Cody. Thankfully, this wasn't a moment for conversation, and Cody distracted him from words by pulling back until he'd almost entirely slipped free, then reversing direction and shoving his meaty prick back into Teddy's tight ass once more. Teddy moaned shamelessly as he was filled again, and Cody kept going, drawing back and thrusting forward, until he'd hit his stride, and both bears groaned with pleasure as Cody began to properly fuck his brother.

Teddy swore under his breath - or was it in his mind? - as his lover made himself at home in the older bear's backside. His entire body was tingling from the pleasure spreading out through it as Cody drove himself home again and again, a soft patting sound filling the air each time he sheathed himself in Teddy's welcoming rump. It was, again, almost surreal, the way that it was so very similar to the dream where they'd begun to make love... and yet so very, deliciously different, too! And not just because Teddy was on his back, which gave him a front row seat to watch his little brother making lo- fucking him so enthusiastically. Teddy swallowed, but Cody showed no reaction whatsoever, so he assumed that that thought had slipped by, and focused his attention on reaching forward to touch Cody. That, after all, was why missionary was Teddy's preferred position for sex, if he was honest with himself. He just loved running his hands over another man's body, running his fingers through his fur, feeling the growing heat in his flesh, and savouring those glorious moments at the end when the muscles all over his lover's body began to tighten and tense up for the final release... God, he couldn't wait to feel Cody shooting inside him...

'That's pretty fucking hot, not gonna lie,' thought Cody, sounding a touch amused and a touch self-conscious at the same time, 'But you're getting ahead of yourself, big brother, this is a journey, not a race.' Bending down far enough that the older male could feel his brother's breath teasing his chest fur, Cody waggled his eyebrows lasciviously.

'...Besides, I think we both know that I'm gonna make you pop first,' he continued, smugness bleeding into his mental voice and drowning out the other emotions, 'You may be a big, tough guy, but look at you, you're moaning already...'

Teddy took a nanosecond to gather himself, which was necessary when his prostate kept getting jabbed like this, and then reacted with cartoonishly exaggerated surprise, as if he was shocked beyond words that his younger brother would dare speak to his superior this way.

'...You know, Cody,' he thought, perfectly evenly, even as he began to pant heavily out loud, 'There's a reason people people warn you not to do something stupid by saying 'don't poke the bear'.' Cody laughed without breaking his rhythm, and Teddy reached up and pulled his brother in close enough to kiss. He tried to keep it out of his thoughts, but the truth was that it had been a while since he'd actually gone all the way with a guy, and feeling a hard prick - and this hard prick, specifically - stretching out his backside was sending Teddy's arousal through the ceiling. Cody punctuated his worry by prodding at his sensitive prostate yet again, and Teddy broke off the kiss just long enough to moan "God, fuuuuuck..." while his dick began continuously drooling pre all over himself. While his tongue still danced and entwined with his lover's, Teddy took a deep, shuddery breath through his nose and pushed back against the bed beneath him, adjusting his position just slightly, which wasn't even enough to make Cody stop, just to slow down for a couple of thrusts. But even as the younger male returned to his full pace, Teddy let out a mostly metaphorical sigh of relief, as his little move there had adjusted the angle of penetration just enough that Cody's eager cock wasn't bumping Teddy's prostate so often. It had been starting to feel like he had a flashing red weak point in his ass, like an unusually lewd videogame boss from the 90's.

Teddy smiled at that ridiculous thought as Cody shuddered and groaned.

"F-f-fuck, you feel so - hffff - so goddamn good, b-big brother..." he panted, "Your ass is fuckin' m-magic..."

"That's right, y-you don't stand a ch-chance, cupcake," Teddy teased, grinning even as passion sweat dripped from his muzzle, "I'm gonna make you c-come so hard..." A stupid joke occurred to Teddy, who immediately pounced on the opportunity, "...It's a shame this is j-just another dream, eh?" Cody faltered in his stride, his dick accidentally slipping out of his brother entirely. He swore quietly, then frowned at his lover even as he hurriedly reached down to grab his cock and remedy the situation.

"W-wait, what?" Cody replied. Without missing a beat, Teddy winked at him.

"Oh, you know, we've b-been through this dance before," he said, his breathing calming a little from the respite, "We're gonna mess around, it's gonna be a-amazing, and then you're gonna wake up in the m-morning with jizz in your pants, and none of this w-will have actually happened..." Cody groaned with a combination of frustration and confusion.

"Ohhhhhh, no, come on, man, f-fuck you," he said, as he slipped himself back inside Teddy and prepared to do exactly that, "Don't say that, you're g-gonna mess me up! ...Wait, this isn't a dream, you - you pinched me earlier, you shit!" Teddy laughed delightedly at that.

"Busted," he replied, totally unapologetically - at least until Cody gave his brother's ass a potent smack, causing Teddy to yelp and clench down on the rigid length within him.

"Okay, okay! Jeez..."

Teasing Cody like that had been fun, but now that he'd brought it up, Teddy realized that even with the obvious similarities, getting dicked by his brother in the waking world was quite different from doing it in a dream. For starters, the room was not quietly changing when no one was paying attention to it, and Teddy could clearly read the words on the posters on Cody's walls, which politely remained the same at all times. There were no butlers interrupting the brothers in their passion, no sudden, unexpected shifts in scenery. No being late for a test in the sauna tonight, that was for sure... Teddy groaned and shuddered yet again, reaching up and hugging Cody tight, resting his chin on his brother's shoulder as the younger male drove his hot, rigid cock into Teddy's tight, but welcoming rump over and over, the friction of the stiff length sliding in and out making his legs feel weak. The trembling bear closed his eyes to focus on the sensations, and smiled. No, there wouldn't be any frustrating interruptions in real life, nothing to get in the way of the truly excellent dicking Teddy was enjoying.

The older male reflexively tried to stifle a whimper and failed as Cody managed to nudge his prostate again, tightening his hug for a moment as he tensed up against the man in his arms. Out loud, he just made a hnnnngh noise, but inside...

'Oh God, don't stop! That's so, so fucking good...' Teddy thought, 'Yes, yes_, just like that... Fuck me, little brother, fuck me!_' Cody growled with pleasure and shuddered above Teddy, and for just a heartbeat the muscular bear thought he'd outlasted his sibling, but Cody quickly relaxed and resumed thrusting at his previous pace.

'Oh man, this is so hot...' Cody thought, 'But it's so weird, too, I've never gotten pillow talk inside my head before!' Teddy wanted to reply with something suave and playful, really he did, but it was getting harder and harder to think straight as that beautiful cock set his nervous system a-tingling. Letting out a shaky breath, Teddy's hands tightened, gripping fistfuls of fur as he spread his legs still wider and began rolling his hips, pushing back against Cody's energetic thrusts. This had the delightful effect of making each of Cody's thrusts (feel) just a little bit deeper than they used to be, and making Teddy feel even more full of dick than he already had.

Inspired by his brother's candid comment, Teddy grinned widely.

'I can't wait until you come,' he thought, with the artificial calm of telepathy, 'That moment when you can't fight it anymore, when you can't resist my perfect ass for one more second, and you just unload every last hot, sticky drop right up my tail... It's gonna be amazing, little brother... So why don't you just give in, already?' Sure enough, Cody shuddered hard and moaned, hunching over Teddy as if he were about to succumb. But he managed to compose himself, and then leaned back so he could see Teddy's eyes, baring his teeth and growling. Cody was probably going for 'grumpy, dominant male', but the effect was somewhat undermined by how sexy Teddy found it.

'I bet you think that's really cute, eh?' Cody thought, sorely. Teddy showed his own teeth with a handsome smile as he merrily answered the obviously rhetorical question.

'Mmm-hmm, you bet I do,' he teased, winking. His smile vanished as Cody drew back and then slammed his hips forward hard enough for Teddy to gasp in pain.

'Yeah, we'll see how cute you are when you're whimpering and moaning and nutting all over yourself, big brother...' The ache under Teddy's tail quickly faded, and the pleasure came back to take its place, but in that moment, he was more concerned with the impromptu staring contest the Bensons were holding. The older bear wasn't sure why Cody was so determined to wear the pants tonight, but it certainly was interesting... and strangely arousing.

The sudden tension only lasted as long as it took for the tip of Cody's rigid prick to find Teddy's prostate once again, as it was proving so good at doing. When Teddy couldn't help but whimper with pleasure, the younger male's face softened a little.

'...Jesus Christ, you're so sexy when you make those noises,' Cody observed, 'I didn't know you could be adorable and sexy at the same time, are you sure you're real?' Before Teddy could compose himself enough to tease his lover, Cody's eyes narrowed slightly.

'Wait, shut up, don't answer that,' he quickly thought, 'You're just gonna try and mess with me again, tell me that I'm dreaming or in a coma or some shit...'

'Yes, absolutely,' Teddy agreed, 'That was 100% the plan.' Cody snorted with unexpected laughter.

"You f-fucker..." he panted, even as he shook his head and smirked, "C'mere and k-kiss me, you ch-cheeky bitch...' Teddy wasn't a big fan of being called a bitch by his tops, but Cody was both special to him and currently inside him, so he let that one slide, bending forward to give his brother a deep, forbidden smooch.

With each thrust into his rump, each gentle, possessive caress across his body, the pleasure within Teddy grew and grew, and the sweat-limned bear continued to struggle against it, fighting the bliss back down in a desperate attempt to manage it. His hands were so figuratively full of wrestling against his own ecstasy (in addition to being literally full of his brother) that it took Teddy a while to notice that something was beginning to change. Ever since he'd first allowed himself to accept his feelings and kissed his brother, Teddy had been able to sense how Cody was feeling very clearly, and it was no surprise that the man was deeply aroused, nor that those feelings were focused on Teddy himself. Even as his hard, drooling prick gently bounced on his stomach from the impact of Cody's thrusts, part of Teddy's mind was still focusing on these telepathic feelings - and he was baffled to realize that he was starting to pick up more complex emotions, to the point of having hunches towards some of Cody's motivations. Like, for example, the fact that the reason the younger male was being so aggressive and dominant a lover was that... he wanted to impress Teddy? That confused the muscular bear. They didn't exactly have a competitive relationship as brothers, where had these feelings come from once sex got involved? As Teddy pondered this, Cody's eyes suddenly widened just slightly, and he looked over at Teddy with an embarrassed look on his face. He'd clearly noticed what Teddy had detected, and it left the older male feeling like he'd been caught staring at someone's black eye.

Time passed, love was made, and Teddy's strength was flagging. By now, he was lying flat on his back with his legs raised, loosely wrapped around his brother's waist as Cody continued to have his wicked way with him. The younger male was gently pinning Teddy's wrists to the mattress above his head, holding his arms down while he planted kisses on Teddy's neck and shoulders, making him squirm with pleasure beneath the smaller bear.

"Oh, Cody..." Teddy sighed. It was hard to believe he'd ever been afraid of letting this happen, that he'd been sick with worry and stress for days over this. He couldn't help but think of Cody's confident words on the subject just earlier.

"Mmmm... y-you were right, little b-brother, you were soooo r-right..." he breathed, "N-nothing that - nnff! - that feels this r-right could ever be wrong!" It felt cheesy even as he said it, but Teddy could sense that Cody kind of loved that. But he was also starting to hear whispers in his mind. Some were just random words, others were snippets of grammatically-correct but totally non-sequitor sentences, and still others were - incomplete quotes from action movies? It was like he was hearing the 'static', the random, almost subconscious thoughts that buzzed around his own mind, ignored, but these were not his. He knew he should want to look into this, knew that he should probably be concerned about it, but... he was so close, and by now he desperately needed to come, almost as desperate as his desire to outlast his brother - a desire he was starting to reconsider. Surely dealing with the telepathic static could wait until the after-cuddles...

It was only about forty-five seconds later that Teddy moaned as his aching desire for release battled it out with his need to show up his brother. Finally recognizing that the pleasure raging inside him would not be denied, Teddy turned his head to the side and intently studied the wallpaper, knowing he'd be blushing if he weren't so flushed from exertion.

"Hhnnngh... Oh, G-God, little brother, I'm - I'm so close, I'm g-gonna cooooome..." he whimpered, "D-don't stop, f-finish me off!" That last word trailed off into a long, hissing F sound when Cody jabbed at his prostate just as he reached it. To Teddy's surprise, though, Cody groaned powerfully himself.

"Fuck, m-me too," Cody admitted, "I'm r-right there... Gonna p-paint your fuckin' face, m-make you mine..." Deep down, a part of Teddy loved the idea of his brother ejaculating all over him, leaving his scent all over the older male... but a much larger, much louder part was dismayed by these words. Teddy's legs, which had been lightly wrapped around Cody's body at hip level, suddenly tightened, hard, preventing Cody from moving within his big brother's rump, much less pulling out.

"Nooooo..." moaned Teddy, shamelessly, "D-don't pull out! I w-want to feel you n-nutting inside me! P-please, Cody, I want it s-so fucking b-bad..."

'I know, I can sense that now,' came Cody's thoughts, once again incongruously calm compared to how worked up the man was, 'I just wanted to hear you say it...'

Teddy relaxed his legs and allowed Cody to begin moving again, and this time, the younger male's thrusts were shallower, but harder, clearly moving on to the vinegar strokes. Each time the shorter sun bear buried himself under his brother's tail, a wet slap rang out in the confines of Cody's room, and Teddy would tense up just a little. Both of them were breathing hard, panting and sweating as they writhed against each other, and Teddy's pleasures building and building inside him, hurtling towards the point of no return. The fact that something else was building up inside Teddy's mind was surely not as important, and could wait until after the absolutely terrific orgasm that Teddy was anticipating.

"Ohhh, big b-brother," whimpered Cody, "I'm... I'm... oh, God, I'm c-coming!" Hunching low over his lover, Cody hilted himself one last time, his prick beginning to pulse and spasm as Teddy threw back his head and cried out "Yes!", not having time for anything more before his own pleasures were unleashed.

Both brothers gasped each other's names as their climaxes exploded into being, pleasure flowing through them like water roaring down a river. Cody growled and shuddered as his cock began to spurt thick, creamy ursine jism into the tight, slick confines of his big brother's rump, painting Teddy's walls with his potent seed like he was marking the older male as his own. Meanwhile, despite not having been given any direct stimulation, Teddy's own dick began to throb against his belly, the muscular bear grunting as he emptied his balls all over himself, his malehood jumping each time it spat forth a long, ropey strand of hot, gooey sperm. And of course, each time it did, Teddy's tight backside clenched down on his little brother's cock, encouraging Cody to give Teddy every drop he had. The ejaculations themselves were much less productive than the ones in the shared dreams, where they'd spilled almost cartoonish amounts of come, but it felt much more powerful, and not just because a hard cock was pressed up against Teddy's prostate. And yet, amazingly, the orgasms were not the thing drawing most of the brothers' attention...

For at the moment Teddy and Cody climaxed together, the moment bliss washed over their trembling bodies, their minds were fully focused on each other. Once again, just as in the bar when they'd told the aggressive elephant to calm down, both bears thought precisely the same thing in precisely the same way... but these three words triggered something entirely different. To Teddy, it was like an explosion of light inside his head, and a feeling of falling into Cody... or was he falling into himself? No, it was both. Images began flashing before his eyes, and in a moment, they were joined by sounds, then smells, and then everything else. The scenes were flashing through Teddy's mind so fast that it took the completely overwhelmed bear a few seconds to realize what he was looking at: their shared life, from Cody's perspective. As the Bensons shuddered against each other, writhing in orgasm, their minds had opened up a direct psychic connection to each other that went far, far beyond anything they'd ever experienced before, anything they'd ever imagined was even possible.

"Oh - oh my G-god..." Teddy managed to choke out, unable to turn off the deluge of Cody's memories, somehow fully aware that his own memories were playing at the same breakneck speed in Cody's mind. It was like the barriers they'd put up over the years, the things that separated the two of them, had never existed at all, like their minds had connected on some deep, primal level... to the nervously religious Teddy, it felt like their souls were touching.

The scenes kept flying past; Cody's greatest highs, his most heartbreaking lows, his ultimate triumphs and awful defeats. Teddy saw things he knew that Cody would prefer he hadn't, like the shame and betrayal when he'd caught a boyfriend in the arms of another man, or even the embarrassing details of how a younger Cody had first discovered the joys of touching himself. It was like Cody's entire life was flashing through his mind in the span of just a few seconds. And then, just like that, it stopped.

The Bensons found themselves back in Cody's bedroom, both of them feeling a little light-headed, a little dizzy. It felt like it had taken years and years, but this direct conduit between them only lasted as long as the actual orgasms it seemed to be tied to. That two-minds-in-one sensation was gone, but Teddy somehow knew, on some deep, primitive level, that the two of them had just forged a stronger connection than they'd ever had before... a connection that would never fully fade, for better or for worse. He could no longer see Cody's memories, but he could sense Cody's emotions and understood them as perfectly as he understood his own. There were so many things they could talk about, so many experiences they'd now shared that had previously been dire secrets. As just one example, with the context he'd just gained, Teddy realized that the reason Cody had been so dominant, the reason he'd wanted to impress Teddy, was that he'd long been intimidated by his big brother, and wanted to prove in his own mind that Teddy trusted him and considered him enough of an equal to submit in bed. But despite this new, remarkable understanding of each other they'd been blessed with, as Teddy and Cody blinked themselves back to reality, as their eyes locked on each other, there was only one thing the two bears wished to address, one thing they both said in perfect sync with each other.

"You... love me... too?"

Teddy pushed himself up onto his elbows as Cody leaned forward, the two bears lost in each other's eyes, seemingly oblivious to the fact that their bodies were still intimately entwined. Cody silently reached forward and cupped his hand to his brother's cheek, and Teddy sighed and nuzzled against the soft pads.

"I... I thought I was going insane," Teddy quietly admitted, "I mean, it was crazy enough when I realized I wanted to fuck you, what was I supposed to think when I realized that I... that I had fallen in love with my own brother? A week ago, the thought had never even crossed my mind, that's why I was so convinced that it was all in my head, because how do you go from platonic to love that quickly, eh?" Bear claws are not retractable, so bears learn to roll their fingertips away from the skin when they're caressing someone, to keep the pointy bits off the surface. But now, Cody lightly curled his fingers and playfully scritched at the thick scruff on Teddy's neck.

"You always did have a knack for overcomplicating things..." the younger male mused, before adding "Uh, m-more than I ever realized..." Teddy swallowed as he remembered that Cody had just been given a front row seat to his most embarrassing memories, but before he could linger on that, the other male sighed.

"Me, I've thought I was going crazy for a while now..." Cody whispered, "I..." He trailed off, looking distinctly uncomfortable for a moment, and Teddy reached forward, mirroring his brother's gesture by touching Cody's cheek.

"It's... it's okay," he whispered, "you don't need to -"

"No, no," Cody interrupted, shaking his head, "I... I want to say this... I need to say this." That was okay with Teddy, who remained silent, as he dearly wanted to hear this. Cody looked up and met his brother's gaze again.

"Oh God, big brother..." the shorter bear breathed, "I've been in love with you for a while now."

Cody flinched, but maintained eye contact. Teddy sensed an emotional trace from his brother that might as well have had its exact nature written on it in plain English.

"Sorry? Don't you dare say sorry," he chided, "You have no idea how..." Teddy cleared his throat, suddenly feeling rather emotional. "...How happy it makes me to know that it's not just me."

"But..." Cody started, though it seemed it was Teddy's turn to interrupt, moving one finger around to his lover's soft lips.

"If it was just me or just you, that would be weird, that might be worth apologizing over," he acknowledged, "But with both of us, that's a different story! Don't you get it?" Totally earnest for once this week, Teddy smiled warmly at his sibling. "You're the one who said it earlier, little brother," he churred softly to the other male, "Nothing that feels this right could ever be wrong."

But Cody leaned away from his hand. Not as if he were disgusted, or afraid, he just leaned away and brought his own hand to his forehead.

"Jesus, I... I've wanted this for so long... wanted to hear you talking like this... b-but I never thought about what would happen if you actually did." Before Teddy could find the words to answer, Cody winced, and his fingertips began massaging his temples.

"S-so much to deal with at once..." the shorter bear whispered, "It's so... so..."

"Overwhelming?" suggested Teddy. To his relief, Cody met his eyes again and nodded. The younger male frowned slightly and made a 'can you believe it' gesture.

"I mean, you'd think that the fact that we just fucked would be the most important thing we'd have going on," he said, disgruntledly, "but surprise! We also get to deal with all of each other's dirty laundry, and oh, by the way, we're in love with each other too." He sighed and shook his head.

"The only way tonight could get any more complicated is if we also won the lottery and witnessed a murder."

Teddy chuckled at that, but noticed that Cody went back to avoiding his eyes. Teddy really, really wanted to keep talking about their feelings for each other, so this was disappointing to him, but before he could say (or think) anything on the subject, Cody looked down at the chiselled abs beneath him, abs which were currently splattered with ursine semen. Reaching down with his thumb and one finger, Cody lifted Teddy's mostly-flaccid penis away from his body and stared at it thoughtfully. When he gently, slowly rubbed the sensitive underside with the pad of his thumb, Teddy bit his lip to keep from whimpering, but he couldn't fight the shudder that ran through his body - or the way his dick pulsed weakly at his brother's touch, drooling a little leftover come into Teddy's pubic fur. After a moment, Cody moved his finger up to his brother's tip and wiped it across the slit, gathering residual semen onto his digit. At this point, Cody sighed.

"I can't believe I had to watch your whole life play out... while I was coming inside you," the younger male said, shaking his head again. "I felt like such a fuckin' degenerate, spying on all my big brother's memories and giving him a creampie at the same time."

"Well, if it helps, I really enjoyed that creampie," Teddy said, plainly, and Cody laughed once, caught off-guard by that. Teddy shrugged calmly.

"I mean, I had to deal with all of your memories while my little brother was filling my ass and I was coming on myself, and that was without touching my dick!" Continuing to study his sibling's penis and the still-hot jism glistening on Teddy's well-defined abs, Cody smiled.

"That's not the first time you've come from bottoming, and you know it," he retorted.

Teddy made a sound somewhere between a groan and a laugh.

"Oh God, and now you know that," he chuckled, "I, uh, don't suppose we could just pretend we didn't see all of that?"

"Suuuure," replied Cody, blatantly lying, "Just as soon as you tell me allllll about this leather thing." This time, the noise Teddy made was definitely a groan.

"This is unfair... This is so unfair..." he sighed, covering his face.

"Let me see if I have this straight," Cody teased, grinning, as he reached down and began to trail his fingertip through the cream on his brother's belly, tracing meaningless symbols into the come.

"You're a bear... who chooses to go by 'Teddy'... is gay... and is into the leather daddy thing." Embarrassed, the older male averted his eyes.

"Cody..."

"Seriously? Teddy the gay leather bear? You don't find that the slightest bit ridiculous?"

"Oh, come on! Loads of gay guys are into leather!" Teddy protested, deeply embarrassed, "You say all that like you didn't dress up like a schoolgirl and have a guy spank you!" Cody's face fell, and he turned beet red.

"That was one time..." he muttered.

Cody rubbed at his forehead and sighed loudly.

"Are we really going to tease each other for every perverted thing we've ever done?" For once, Teddy had a definitive answer.

"Oh, yes. Absolutely," he replied, happily, "That is definitely going to happen." When Cody groaned, Teddy shrugged.

"I mean, we are still brothers," he said, as if that justified everything. But that seemed to bother Cody in a way that had nothing to do with Teddy's newfound knowledge of his brother's secret interest in women's clothing.

"Yeah... we are, aren't we?" the younger male said quietly. He swallowed and focused his attention on thoughts other than whatever was bothering him, and Teddy was kind of floored that he could sense that.

"So, uh, what do you think was with the memory thing in the first place?" Cody asked, his voice slightly tense.

"I haven't the faintest idea," Teddy said truthfully, reaching up to smooth down a tuft of fur on his lover's cheek, "Maybe this is just what happens when two psychics bump uglies." He grinned. "Hey, maybe we've, like, imprinted on each other, and now we're mated for life." Those negative feelings from just a moment ago suddenly flared up in Cody's consciousness, and Teddy was pretty sure he'd worked this one out. He lowered his chin and stared directly at Cody until the shorter bear met his gaze and instantly became embarrassed.

"C'mon, Cody, you know I'm getting a live feed of your Feels all of a sudden, right?" Leaning forward, he planted a chaste kiss on his brother's lips and teased his fingertips along his jaw.

"So, you never thought about what would happen if I actually said 'I love you too', eh?"

Somehow finding it within himself to blush even harder, Cody looked away.

"I mean, don't get me wrong, I would daydream about you saying it, but it was just, like, the confession part, not the part, um... After." He sighed and slowly looked back over at his muscular sibling.

"I don't know, I just suddenly can't stop thinking about all the ways this could turn out..." Cody said, wincing, "Oh, Theodore, is this really a good idea?" Teddy swallowed as his brother made a rare use of his full first name.

"You mean, making my brother my boyfriend?" he finally replied, bluntly, "Accepting that I've got mad feelings for a handsome, thoughtful guy who cares about me and wants to see me succeed... and is maddeningly good at hitting my prostate?" Cody snickered at that, and Teddy smirked.

"No, really, I've never been dicked like that before," he admitted, "You're kind of amazing, little brother." Reaching up, he cupped the back of Cody's head and began stroking behind his ears. Shivering, Cody let out a heavy, ursine sigh of pleasure and pushed back against those fingers.

"So I'm gonna give you the advice I wish someone had given me when I first started dreaming about us, even if it is kind of weird coming from a psychic," the older male continued, before leaning in as close as he could and whispering in his lover's ear, "Don't overthink it."

When he lay back down, an intensely thoughtful look had appeared on Cody's face.

"I love you, Cody," Teddy whispered, which drew his brother's attention. "Do you love me?" He felt the other sun bear shudder from head to toe.

"Yes," Cody immediately replied, "Oh, God yes, I love you like crazy, big brother." This delighted Teddy, who let it show in his smile.

"Then just leave it at that for now, and don't worry about everything that could happen, okay?" The shorter male nodded slowly.

"Okay," he replied simply, "I can do that... I think." They held each other's gazes for a long, warm moment, and then Teddy glanced down at himself.

"You know, you could just get off me now," he observed. Cody grinned sheepishly.

"I was savouring the feeling of being inside you," he admitted, "Sorry, just let me..." He gave a tug, and Teddy grunted as his rump was suddenly vacated. As the empty feeling returned, he instantly regretted making that comment, but told himself that surely there would be other opportunities for fullness soon enough... Cody flopped down to the bed next to Teddy with a sigh and immediately cuddled up close against him, resting his head on a muscular shoulder and churring contentedly.

The two bears just lay there together, enjoying their afterglow and the warm, sweaty closeness they were sharing. Teddy was also low-key enjoying the feeling of his brother's still-warm jism slowly leaking out of his rump, but he was trying not to think about that hard enough for Cody to pick up on it. They were going to have to work on re-establishing privacy, to be sure, but having this level of deep connection with someone he truly cared about was... nice.

"You know," he said, without opening his eyes, "If you've had the hots for me for a while now, it was totally your fault that the dreams turned sexy to begin with, eh?" Cody grinned and nuzzled against his brother's taut shoulder muscles.

"Mmmm..." the younger male sighed, sounding satisfied and fulfilled, "I accept no responsibility... and I regret nothing." After a moment, though, Cody pursed his lips thoughtfully.

"So, uh... I guess you... already knew all that stuff I just explained, huh?" he asked, "You know, about how I already loved you, and all..." Teddy nodded.

"Sure, just like I assume you knew that I wouldn't even let myself think about the fact that I loved you," the older bear replied, "But don't worry about it. Sometimes it's nice to hear things you already know. Sometimes it's nice to say them. For example..." He curled his arm up around his lover and squeezed him tight.

"I love you, little brother," Teddy murmured, not for the first time, and far from the last time. He couldn't see the smile with his eyes closed, but he could sense the happiness that bloomed within Cody.

"I love you too, big brother," Cody replied immediately, "Heh, that was nice..." He scootched just a little further up the bed and bent over to kiss his brother. Without the burning, desperate desire for release, their kissing was slow, languid, more emotional then sensual, and they liked it that way just fine.

Soon enough, all the lights were out in the Benson house, and both of the sun bears could be found in Teddy's bed (which had less sweat and love residue on the sheets), cuddled close together even in sleep, gentle smiles on their faces and the warmth of love blossoming within them. They'd rinsed out their pelts, dried off, and returned to bed, vowing to sleep in to make up for their late-night revelations, since it was the weekend after all. But before they'd nodded off, there had been one last psychic exchange between them, which had been responsible for the cute smiles on their muzzles now.

'So, now that we've actually done it,' Cody had thought, 'Are we still gonna have those sexy shared dreams?'

'I don't know,' Teddy had answered honestly, 'But I can't wait to find out.'

Now, the house was quiet and still, and all the stress and fear that had hung over the brothers like a cloud had finally passed, leaving the bears with a connection forged through the heart and the mind. There were still many questions to be answered, of course, but Teddy at least was pretty sure they were gonna be okay. After all, how bad can things be when you get to be with the man of your dreams?