Learning to Swim - Part XVIII

Story by OttersGonnaOtt on SoFurry

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#18 of Entropy Series

Ilaria gets a lot of love and support after surgery.

Urg... Lots of family and friends leads to little private time for writing and drawing inappropriate things. Plus there's the constant inebriation... Holidays, right? All that aside, I never do forget about my fans, followers, and fellow contributors. This was a fun one to write even if it was done so in short bursts. I hope you all enjoy it! Happy new year!

As always, this story contains adult content and explicit sexual imagery. If you are not allowed to or do not wish to view such material, please stop reading immediately. To all the rest, enjoy your new year's present!


Was this a dream to which Ilaria woke? Perhaps she had died and gone to heaven. The warm fur of the squirrel laying beside the otter soon proved that déjà vu was a more likely culprit for her confused state of mind. The trance broke when Robyn lifted her head to check on her lover.

"Finally awake, sleepy head?" Robyn pinged with a cheerful smile.

Ilaria tried to drop back a quick quip or snazzy remark, but found herself oddly unable to do more than blink. She couldn't so much as move her lips much less form words themselves. Then panic set in as she realized she couldn't muster the ability to breathe.

"Ottah? You in there?" Robyn continued to ask as she quirked an eyebrow. When she finally noticed something was wrong however, she looked over to Ellie across the room and fought against the weight of Ilaria's body curled over her. "Ellie, help! She's not breathing!"

"What?" Elliot stood from his seat overlooking Adrian and jogged to check on Ilaria. "And she was fine until she woke up?"

As Ari started to shake and convulse Robyn cried out a half-processed "I don't know! She just... Gods!"

Ellie checked Ilaria's throat quickly, then lined up two fingers so she couldn't bite her own tongue. Thankfully for his fingers the girl never felt the compulsion to chomp down, and instead she just blacked out a few seconds later. Ellie took the time to check her erratic pulse and then pulled back in confusion.

"Do something, damnit!" Robyn pleaded.

Ellie backed away slowly and looked to his bag across the room. "I'm not sure what's happening. I can try to give her something but--"

Suddenly Ilaria coughed herself awake with enough fury to make another fur think she was trying to spit out a lung. Ellie held fast and checked her vitals again, this time appearing much more pleased with the results.

"Ilaria, don't scare me like that!" Robyn went to kiss her otter but stopped just a second into the act. "Hey, there's still something wrong. She's not moving."

"Systematic neural erasure is a solid assumption," Ashe chipped in from a nearby table. "Her neural pathways have be reconfigured due to the nature of the implanted devices. Likely her motor functions are malfunctioning due to shock."

After a slight pause to process the strange girl's words Ellie confirmed, "Yeah, what she said. I'd have protested if I knew those things were fully replacing bits of her spine."

"But... it's not permanent, is it? I mean, is she going to be a vegetable now or something?" Robyn whined out as she started crying.

"I hope not. If things were really bad, her heart and lungs wouldn't be working either." Ellie looked over to Ashe with her next words. "I think she's figuring things out as she goes. It takes months or years normally in therapy for my patients though."

"Interesting. Pursuant dynamic testing of nerve to muscle relationships is indeed possible. Typically that only happens when nerves are not reconnected properly. Damaged nerve tissue at the sub-cuticle level is remappable as per numerous examples, but spinal injuries have zero return on such endeavors to date..." Ashe's rambling ceased for a moment as she attempted to make her way over to the others, resuming once she found India's guide bar. "Perhaps her neural mappings are incorrect and the devices allow her to compensate?..."

"Lolin..." Ilaria finally managed even though her lips still wouldn't move. "I'n al'llight..."

"Ottah!" Robyn squealed as she gave her lover another kiss. "I don't care if you're like... whatever Ashe said... I'm always gonna be here for you."

"...perhaps due to severance? No, new neural conduits were created..." the wolf girl continued to mumble to herself.

A few random twitches across her body seemed to bring hope back to everyone's eyes as Ilaria fiddled about with her speech. As soon as she was satisfied with her control over her lips she assured, "It's like things are backwards. Thought ny liss were ny toes."

"...structured reprogramming integral to the hardware's design! Naturally that's the way to go about it..."

"Gotta hind ny jaw now. Sorry anout the gad sseech, Ronyn," Ilaria apologized as she continued jerking and wiggling about next to the squirrel.

"Hey, no worries love. I'm glad you can speak at all." Robyn wiped the tears from her eyes and planted her head into Ilaria's chest. "Just do what you need to do. I'll be here."

"Huh. So I think I get what's going on then. Those things in your back had to cut all the nerves, right? So you have to test out all the new connections or something like that to make sure it all works again," Ellie commented as he took a seat nearby. "Sort of like setting the controls in a video game. Gotta get your preferences just how you like them."

"That's it! Found my jaw!" Ari almost chuckled out in excitement.

"And apparently that's fun to some of us," Robyn giggled back as she bopped her otter. "Now if only you could move the rest. Been needing to hit the restroom for a while and you're a bit hefty. No offense, lover."

"Nah, I get it. Might take a minute though. Wanna try slipping out?"

"Do I. Let me try to..." Robyn hefted her shoulder up so that Ari's arm was in her control, then shoved upward so she could slip free. "Got it. Right, give me a minute and I'll be back to snug--"

"Shi~it!" Ilaria found herself yelping as she landed flat, then began slipping off the side of her table. When she ended up inevitably on her back on the ground, she winced in pain. "Fuck, right on the new tech. Gah!"

"Oh, honey! Crap, I didn't mean to do that!" Robyn wailed as she went to help Ari get back up, only to find it was an impossible task on her own. "Hey, a little help here..."

"Oh, right. Sorry, just sort of... watching Ashe, really." Ellie hopped off his seat and grabbed one of Ilaria's shoulders, letting Robyn get under the other. "She's acting really strange. Smart mode on overdrive or something."

"She's a genius. That's just what they do, right? Can you focus on Ari now though, please?"

As Ilaria was lifted up to lay on her table again she got a good glimpse of the rambling wolf. "Yeah, but she was almost reluctant to get the shit banged outta her. She said it was a curse to get all smart again." She settled on her side so the implants wouldn't receive any undue pressure and then called out, "You alright Ashe? What're you bumbling about?"

"...synaptic linkages may indeed be able to interface with chemical-mechanical leads on a..."

"Ashe?" Ilaria tried again, soon finding that she had to yell, "Hey Ashe! Wake up!" to see any effect.

"...multiple extrapo--" Suddenly Ashe snapped her head up and swiveled her perky ears to the group. "S-sorry... Uh..."

"It's alright," Ari assured with a much calmer tone. "You just seemed all worked up over something. Need to share?"

"N-no... Shit, I'm doing it again." Ashe stopped herself to think of her location, then directed Indy toward her original desk table. Reaching in her purse she yanked out her jar of white powder and cracked it open. "I'll be fine in a minute. Just continue investigating your motor systems and I'll have this sorted out by then."

"Ashe, hon... I don't think you should uh..." Ilaria's words were a bit too late, the wolf looking back at her with a powdered nose in what had to be record time. "It's just sort of... sad. You should be ~you~, you know."

"I'm... fine, okay." Ashe wiped off her nose and gave a few sniffles, making her way back slowly to the others. "Just worry about yourself, alright? You're in worse shape than me in any case."

"Yeah, well you're all buddy buddy with Sprite, right? And you're smart. Like really smart." Robyn made her way to the bathroom and paused by the girl in passing. "Could you try and find a way to help Ari?"

"The AI over there's overloaded right now doing... gah... surgery on Iolvin. And I'm already feeling a lot dumber." Ashe found Ari's table and stood next to it, telling India to sit at her footpaws. "This uh... this is something Ilaria needs to... handle herself anyway."

"Wait, Sprite's overloaded?" Ari queried as she found how to move her neck. "I thought she was a crazy-powerful AI. Aren't they supposed to be almost alive?"

"No... but proportionate to her uh... her..." The wolf girl was rapidly losing the bulk of her intelligence, but putting up a good fight for Ilaria's sake. "I think your issues are from that. Coulda done better with more juice."

"So you think she wasn't smart enough to handle that surgery?" Ari looked across the large room toward the little being hovering over her brother. "Hey Sprite, can we talk a minute? Sprite?"

"Overloaded..." Ashe reminded.

"She's right though. No living being could reconnect all those nerves exactly right. We haven't even fully mapped the spinal column yet." Elliot slipped in behind Ilaria to brush some dirt off her new additions and added, "I wouldn't doubt something went wrong. But she probably anticipated this in her calculations or else she wouldn't have thought it safe, you know?"

"Well then we should maybe think about finding a way to upgrade her. That and..." Ilaria paused to look at Ashe as she started mellowing out. "...maybe something better for you, hon. I'm not sure the drugs are much of an improvement."

"Eh, good enough to me. Dumbs me down a bit much though." Ashe found a chair and pulled it closer to the table to sit. "I am trying to find better though. Sprite helped that too."

"You mean your favor from the other day? What, you guys searched for something else?" Ari said as she finally got the hang of moving her neck properly.

"S-sort of..." Ashe donned her head a moment and then popped it back up. "Can we talk about this later? I'm sort of freaking out right now."

"As long as you'll be alright. Speak up if you need some help. And--" With a spasm all over her body Ari spat out, "Oooh! What was that you just touched, Ellie?"

"Uh, right around the op device here. Looks like the sealant or whatever this is dried out now."

Ari bent her neck back as best as she could and quizzically requested, "Hey, can you try touching the back of my shoulder? The right one. I think I can pair that up with faster."

"Sure," Ellie answered as he fulfilled the request. "There. Got a claw on the spot. That help any?"

"I think..." Ilaria kicked her leg forward a bit and gained a puzzled look, then suddenly her right arm jerked backward. "Got it. That works great. Try the front now."

"So... this. Anything?"

"Well that sure as hell ain't my ass, so that's wrong." The arm jerked forward and then back again to balance itself. "Sorry, bit too much info there."

"Wait, who's touching who's ass?" Robyn asked as she came back to the table.

"Oh, nothing Munchkin. Just found out I can rewire myself if you touch a spot first." Ilaria tried to do something else and her other leg jerked back a tiny bit. "Hmm, what's next? Top of the shoulder?"

"Sure, there you go." When the arm raised up and away from the otter Ellie hunched forward into her view and cheered, "Good! I think we'll get you back on your feet in no time doing this."

"Yeah, and I'll have to explain it to the others when they come to." Ilaria tested out her new linkages and moved her arm about, appearing as though more or less all of her sensation and motor control had been replenished in the joint. "But we should work on the rest before then. Try my elbow next?"

Robyn stepped in and grabbed Ilaria's arm saying, "No, you go tend to Dee hon. I'll help with this." With a hearty smile she placed a claw tip to the inside of Ari's elbow and circled it slowly. "Can you feel that, sweetheart?"

Snapping her view from Ellie once he sat down beside Dee, Ilaria smiled and said, "Sorry, umm... the inside, huh?" She flexed her a toe for a second and then found the real connection, bending the joint as intended. "Cool. Just keep moving down the list, honey." Ari looked back to the other otter siblings and queried, "So how's he doing?"

"Oh, my sis is doing about as well as you were. Actually, his blood pressure is a bit better than before the operation." Elliot took a cloth from over Dee's back and started inspecting the actual work. "Yeah, he's a bit sticky still though. Don't know what this stuff is, but I'd love some for my own work. Any clue why it's green instead of orange like yours?"

Ari squinted at the details, finding Robyn huffing as she placed the otter's glasses on her snout for her. "Thanks, Robby." She spotted the substance in question, a lime green emulsion similar to gelatin that was used almost like caulking around what appeared to be exposed parts of the implants. In fact, it looked like the skin for the area wasn't even replaced and the metal vertebrae were designed to be uncovered. "Hmm, I think that's actually a bit of our blood done up some special way by Sprite. No clue why but Dee's is green."

"Oh, well that explains why he looks so... minty... since you guys had this happen to you. Blood tints your skin after all, and I guess we both do have fair fur." Ellie gingerly placed the cloth back down to cover his brother both for the wounds and because he was more or less nude due to the procedure. "So any of you know what the things do? I can see something close to the brain stem, but the lower one has me boggled."

"Lower..." Ilaria spotted a slight glow through the cloth near the back of Dee's neck, and then found one at the base of his tail. She looked down at herself and immediately brought her now fully-functional right paw to cover her exposed groin. "H-hey! That wasn't part of the deal I was expecting!"

"The top is control. The bottom is... uh... it's for... movement or something." Ashe took a paw from her forehead and sat up straight. "Sorry, I can't remember exactly right now..."

Rolling Ilaria onto her side so the two could lay face to face, Robyn assured, "Don't worry, love. You've been wearin' me to keep warm when you were out." She moved a paw to grab Ari's ass and added, "I think I did a good enough job o' keeping your bum all to myself."

"Bit creepy on the wording there, but thanks hon." Ilaria wiggled her good arm free of her own weight and gave her squirrel a scritch on the side of her tummy. "Which er... cheek was that by the way?"

Gliding her silky, bushy tail to more adequately shield her lover's bits from prying eyes Robyn answered, "Umm... Your right." She then slid that paw on Ari's rump around her thigh to eventually touch the front. "And there's the other side, love."

"Ooh... slow down, honey. Bit trickier than the arm."

"Hmm, the leg or?..." Robyn giggled as her paw glanced Ari's inner thigh briefly. "Where you need me to touch?"

Ari rolled her eyes at Robyn's cheesy advances and said, "Dunno. Just try a little higher and lower and I'll see what I can get. That all feels like my back or something."

"Aww! And Here I thought I was having some fun," Robyn playfully whined. She slid her paw down Ari's inner thigh since going the other direction would only prove awkward in her current state. As she slowly but firmly raked a claw through the otter's fur she pinged, "Feel anything familiar?"

"No... wait." Ilaria jerked her other arm forward momentarily and then slowly started moving her leg forward and back. "I think I have that now. Most of the muscles anyway."

"So a little lower then?" Robyn asked as she slid her paw towards the end of Ari's stump.

"Nah, not surrrRR--!!" Suddenly Ilaria was twitching and quivering, her whole body wincing in pain from Robyn's touch.

"What's wrong?! Oh shit, I shouldn't have touched there!" Robyn immediately took her paw back and looked into her mate's eyes.

"Hnng! F-fuck!" Ilaria finally managed through the pain, tears streaming from her eyes. "Hah!... Fucking..." Eventually the otter managed to open her eyes and stare back at Robyn. "So bad..."

"What's going on, guys? How can I help?" Ellie suddenly asked as he heard the cries of pain.

"My leg!" grunted Ilaria. "Like it's... on fire!"

"Your meditation, Ari. Remember your meditation." Robyn rubbed Ari's side slowly and added, "You remember, right? Just breathe slowly and we can get through this together. We've done this once and we can do it again."

"What's happening?" Ellie asked again, this time standing up to make his way over.

"She had issues after losing her leg. I've got this, Ellie. Just take care of your sister" As Elliot calmed down Robyn went back to her now hyperventilating otter. "Come on. Deep, slow breaths. You need to stop focusing on the pain."

"Can't!... Worse... than before!" Ilaria slapped her good arm down and held the end of her stump with a paw, hoping it would somehow lessen the pain. "Gods... make it stop!..."

Robyn pulled herself up to meet Ilaria face to face and mumbled, "I will..." She quickly joined her muzzle to Ari's and pushed her weight into a long, deep kiss. Mere seconds into it Ilaria started loosening up, not at all raising a flag when Robyn's tongue slipped into her mouth.

Pulling back her lips with a loud gasp of fresh air, Ilaria remained speechless for a moment. Finally snapping back to reality she barely mustered, "That was... just... wow."

"Just a 'wow'? Aww, I thought that was worth at least a bloody 'sexy' myself." Robyn snickered to herself as she placed another kiss on the side of Ari's snout. "Just breathe and you'll be fine, Ottah."

"I, uh..." Ilaria brought both her paws up to hold the sides of Robyn's face. Before she could line up another kiss however, the two ended up looking at Ari's arms. "Hey, I just moved the other one..."

"Yeah... But that's not what I was wondering about..." Robyn instead had her eyes fixed on another appendage that was poking between her knees.

Ari tried to reach down and adjust her situation but found Robyn blocking access. "Hey, let me fix that before--"

"No, I still owe you from yesterday. And you know I always pay off my debts quickly." Robyn giggled as she scooted lower again, cautiously taking Ilaria's stiff member from between her jean-clad thighs and enveloping it in a sheath of furry paws instead. "They can't see a thing, and you can't say no..."

"But... what about Ashe?" Ari almost groaned out as she fought the urge to moan.

"What about her? They think you're in pain, Ottah." Robyn took one of her paws and slipped it further down to brush Ari's soft petals. "So why don't you remind them and ~make some noise~?"

"Like I could do th--AH!!" Ari hunched forward and pulled her little squirrel's head into her chest as two fingers breached her down to the knuckles. "Fuck!"

"That's it. Just let it out and I'll keep going," Robyn chortled with a large smile.

Robyn pushed another finger into the mix and started to smile when Ilaria ground back against her paw. She slowly rocked her paw and then began a similar light stroking motion along Ilaria's cock. A long, bellowing moan only prompted the squirrel to go harder, tightening her grip around that rod of flesh and speeding up to an almost furious pace.

"You like that? Hmm?" The squirrel drew her head upward and beamed her grin at the nervous otter.

"I... Oh!..." Ari gave Robby a kiss on the forehead and corrected her volume a moment. "You're way too good at that..."

With but a giggle and a return kiss, Ilaria knew Robyn was going in for the kill. She swapped paws, using Ari's own love juices to better lubricate her pumping. Ilaria nearly bit her tongue as her teeth clamped down, hiss after hiss blasting and wheezing through as she was brought closer to her peak.

"Hmm, gonna make a mess?" Robyn slowed her pawing and pressed her head into Ari's chest, giving a light nibble to one of her perky nipples. "I didn't think that far... not that I mind getting it all on me but it might concern the others..."

"Just... Ah!... do what you have to!" Ilaria bellowed out.

Robyn made sure her tail covered the offending area well and said, "Fine... You're doing this for me so I'll take one for the team."

The squirrel pulled open the front of her jeans and then stuffed the tip of Ilaria's cock into the lip of her panties. Then with an almost furious energy she returned to kneading and rubbing. Her other paw found the girl's spongy wall of flesh inside her pussy and pressed firmly against it, her g-spot giving an immediate response in the form of squeaks and moans. But there was more to it than that; there was something else in that sensitive area. A huge blast of pre coated Robyn's panties as Ilaria's prostate was milked. It only took a few more strong pushes in that area for Ilaria to lose control, her cock jumping and pulsing out of control.

"...There!..." Ilaria mustered as she started blasting orange-amber glowing honey into Robyn's pants.

"Ooh, so warm..." Robyn had to time the removal of her paw perfectly between hard clenches of Ari's walls, but she eventually reached it into her pants to play with the gooey gift she was hiding. A kiss later and she commented, "I know that face. That's a good one, isn't it?"

Ilaria bucked a bit and sprayed stream after stream into the girl's already darkening pants. "It's missing something..." she mentioned as she adjusted her hips and rocked them forward, forcing her sloppy length into Robyn's cunt without resistance.

"Cheating bitch," Robyn giggled as she was filled by blast after blast deep inside. As her cervix was kissed by each messy buck of the otter's hips she lost her ability to speak even tones. "You do let out more than a horse," she huffed out as s slight bump formed in her tummy from her womb being filled. "Best do it somewhere appropriate at least."

"At least we know all of me works now, right?" Ari ground herself home, letting all but her swollen knot drive into Robyn. "Damn, that was sexy. My heart's about to explode, Munchkin."

"You like playing in front of others? Because," Robyn paused a moment to kiss Ilaria's neck, "it's sort of a thing of mine..."

"Well, it was... exciting to say the least." Ari scritched her mate's ear and assured, "Don't worry, hon. I'll try anything you want so long as I know about it beforehand. Just... take it easy at first, alright?"

"I know... You're embarrassed about being intersex and all. No viewers until you say so." Robyn gave her lover a squeeze around the waist and held her tightly. With hints of tears in her eyes she mentioned, "What would I have done if I lost you today?"

"You'll never lose me, Munchkin. I'll fight death itself to make you happy."

"That's so sweet," Ashe commented softly from her spot a table over, two paws rising to cover her muzzle once she realized what she'd done.

"Ashe!" Ari quietly lashed out as she lifted her head and looked her way. "Good, looks like you're the only one that knows at least..."

Noticing Ari was all done below the belt, Robyn pulled her out of her pussy and started working her jeans back to normal. "Well that's a little embarrassing."

Ashe sat up straight and stared just left of the two, an awkward byproduct of trying to appear more normal while blind. "S-sorry... I didn't mean to pry but I was right here..."

"It's alright. Giving me the shakes, but alright. Not like it's the first time she's caught us." Ari shifted so her shrinking junk wouldn't interfere with embracing Robyn. "She's a bit used to this sort of thing too... being around sex."

"I swear, I'll make it right! I'll... lick you clean. Yeah, both of you. Will that make us even?"

"Ashe, honey... No, you don't have to do that sort of thing around us! Of course not!" protested Ilaria.

"Yeah, I'm alright with you knowing so long as you keep it a secret," Robyn added.

"Well I really wouldn't mind it..." Ashe hunched down on her stool and mumbled out, "I sort of like it in a way, too."

"That's... alright. We're all wired a little differently." Ilaria looked back to Robyn and nudged her for help. "Just make sure you actually want something like that and it's not the drugs or abuse speaking. And know I'll never take advantage of you. You're family now, Ashe."

"Hey, if the girl wants to get lucky on occasion she should be able to..." Robyn wrapped her tail tightly around the two and held her otter closely. "But for now I'd settle with you finding Ilaria here something to wear. Deal, Ashe?"

"That's easier said than done with me, but sure." Ashe stood and found her guide bar. "Indy, time to get to work."

As Ashe made her way by the two Robyn tugged her shirt and pulled her close. Whispering into her ear she slipped out a sultry, "We can have fun later..."

"Hmm? What was that?" Ari asked as Ashe wandered off to find her clothes.

"Oh, nothing. Just helping her out." With a kiss and a squeeze she added, "Shes a sweet girl. I just hope we both get to know her a lot better sooner than later."

"Yeah, about that... You don't mind if she sleeps with us do you? I mean, she can't stay on my dad's couch." Ilaria started petting Robyn's hair and pleaded, "Please? I talked with her about us and our intimate time, and she seemed really cool with it."

"Hey, Ottah... No need to beg. We can find a time and place for our fun, but that darling needs to feel at home more than anything." Robyn buried her head into Ari's furry chest and closed her eyes. "I have you but so does she... and I'll share if it makes her a better fur for it."

"GAH!" Adrian suddenly shouted from across the room as he lurched himself into a sitting position.

"Great, am I the only one that got botched up from the surgery?" Ilaria practically snarled.

"Why can't I move my legs!?"

"Guess not," Robyn chuckled, soon to be joined by her lover.