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Note. This story will eventually make more sense when I've finished Glenroy Oaks. This story is about another human, and opens up alot of Liam's past. For future readers, read Glenroy Oaks before this, to get the full picture.

I stood outside my dorm room, trying to prolong the inevitable. Finally, taking a breath, I opened the door.

"CLOSE IT!" and rapidly closed the door, turning away from it and focusing upon the door accross the hall from my room. I felt my face heating, already blushing as for the first time in a long, long time I had seen another male's genitals. I heard cursing and springs popping as the person I was meant to be sharing my room with for the next year or more, quickly got dressed. The door opened behind me, I partially turned to apologise to the person, and got dragged through the doorway by the back of my shirt. I was bodily tossed to the bed, my rage and defensiveness being triggered. The big black wolf stalked towards me, I got to my knees before he reached the bed, already prepared to defend myself against him. He stopped moving towards me, his scowl softening to a nervous grin. He held out a large black fur covered hand to me.

"Uhmm, sorry about before, I just didn't expect you to be here so soon. I'm Cody." I didn't move from where I was, wary about his intentions. The small grin faded, turning his dark features serious. The hand fell to his side, a claw scratching the shorts that he'd hastily put on. "Well, I'm sorry for shouting earlier, are you my new roomy?" I nodded once, keeping my eyes on him. "Karate?" I shook my head. Letting my eyes roam the room I noticed a few things. For one, there was only one bed. It was a king sized bed, but still.... The door opened to the bed, and the bed faced the wardrobe for the occupants of the room. The wardrobe took up the entire front wall except for the door. Directly next to the bed was a normal sized tv, cables leading out of it and under the bed.

I watched the wolf a bit longer, waiting to see what he would do. When all he did was just stand there looking embarrassed, I relented. I let go of the self that allowed me to hurt and defend with full animalistic fury, and let my normal everyday personality surface. I looked away from him immediately, embarrassed myself that I'd been staring at him for so long, and that I'd almost taken him on earlier. Then I remembered exactly why we were in this predicament. My blush from before resurfaced, and I looked for some way to just hide from plain sight.

"Wow, now that's a change." I glanced at him, before looking away again. "What happened to the serious guy that was about to pick a fight with me?"

"He went away after you backed down and didn't threaten me anymore." A moment, and then I was bouncing upon the big bed. I flapped around, wide eyed as I moved, no idea as to what was going on. Big dark arms wrapped around me, bringing me back to the bed and the big wolf that had just flopped onto it.

"Well, this is definitely a change from how you were acting before." I didn't think I could blush any harder, then he said, "What's a hot looking human like you doing in an all furre college?" I moved away from him, and he loosened his grasp. I stood up, went to the door, opened it, and took my bag out of the hallway. I went rummaging through it, then found the paperwork I was looking for. I took it to him, handing him the small sheaf of paper, my blush fading rapidly.

He took the paper, reading through it rapidly. He flicked over the back few pages, reading the signatures down the bottom. He tossed them gently to the side, looking at me with curious eyes. "So you're the only human student this college is going to have, and I have the distinct pleasure of getting to know you first?"

I had to think through the wording of that, but I nodded. "I don't know if it's really that much of a pleasure. I had been intending to open the door say hi, then get the hell out of your way as much as possible. Why is there only one bed in this room?" The wolf covered his mouth and gave a slight cough.

"Well, ya see, Furre's are more of a touchy feely group of people than humans are. We tend to sleep together for the contact more than anything else. It promotes social bonding and closeness, especially with strangers. If you want, I can call into room supplies and get two single beds sent up?" I shook my head partially.

"No, it's okay. I came here to study furre culture and to try and blend in as much as possible. If I have to share a bed with you, then I have to share a bed with you. Apart from my accidentally walking in on you while you were ... relieving yourself, is there anything you want to tell me about furred culture that I might need to know?"

His eyes slid to the side, as if he were thinking about whether to tell me something or not. "Well.... You should probably know that this is an almost entirely rainbow school." I blinked, looking at the wall colourings. I thought about when I'd first seen the school, then shook my head.

"I don't remember the school being rainbow coloured. Is it getting a new paintjob soon?" The wolf's eyes bulged while he choked upon either a laugh or a cough. Finally he settled upon sticking his head into the bed and laughing. I blinked at him, completely in the dark on the joke. "What?" He shook his head, still laughing into the bed. I frowned at him. "C'mon, tell me. Obviously it was something stupid or you'd just tell me outright what I did wrong." It took the wolf about five minutes to stop laughing at what I'd done. In between smiling fits and giggles, he told me what it was I'd said, and explained the significance about the word rainbow.

"Listen, a few things you need to know. I'm gay." I closed down, turned off all facial expressions and emotions, he noticed, but he continued anyway. "I'm gay, and most of this school is gay. When something is rainbow coloured, in reference to people, it means gay, and proud of it. So this being a rainbow school, means that the students, or most of them, are gay and proud about it. Sure we get into tussles with the straight furres and the occasional gay basher, but this being a gay school it means that almost anyone can find a partner for the night." He looked at me very seriously, focusing upon my face and eyes. "Do you have a problem with gay people?"

I twitched. It wasn't all that noticeable, but my left hand twitched slightly. I knew he saw it, so I answered his question in two parts. For part one, I drew out the cross upon it's chain so that he could see. "My parents are religious to the extreme. They're against furres of any type and sort, going so far as to secretly suggesting the varmint laws go back into effect." Cody's eyes widened in shock. "They forced me to wear this blessed cross when I was four, and I'm only here because I specifically requested it of my college. My parents raised ... no, trained me to see all faggots as sinners, and pedophiles, only good enough for something to shoot at. Had it not been for my older brother being gay, I probably would have ended up as my parents wanted me to be. I thought the world of him, and they almost killed him. My interference prevented my brother's demise long enough for his boyfriend to save him, and me to end up in hospital for two days as my wounds were stitched. Since then I've thought of my parents as worse than filth, and my brother as someone I will trust untill he hurts me the way my parents have." Cody gave me concerned eyes.

"So what'll your parents do when they find out you transferred to here?" I wondered about that.

"I don't know, maybe kill me? If this is an all gay school, they might jump to the wrong conclusion, and try to kill me, whether there are witness' or not." Cody stared at me stupidly.

"Are you serious?!?" I nodded once, keeping everything tight and closed in. "Can I ask what your name is?"

"Zach Finlan."

"Finlan... you wouldn't happen to know a Thomas Finlan, would you..?" I couldn't hold in my surprise.

"My brother? You know Tommy? How is he?" I sat down next to Cody, desperate to hear any news what-so-ever about Thomas. I hadn't seen or heard about him for ten years, maybe more. Cody looked at me like I'd grown a second head.

"Well.." Cody put an arm around me. "You see, Thomas has been in and out of trouble since your parents. After incurring a huge debt because of his medical bills, he decided to try to become a doctor. He succeeded, and is now one of the top doctors at Mercy. His boyfriend that rescued him left him at the hospital he dropped him off at. Thomas was heartbroken when one of .... Josh's friends informed him that he'd been dumped, but he worked hard in order to get where he is today." Cody looked at me, then leaned close and pressed his forehead gently against mine. "I'm sorry to say this, but he said in no uncertain terms, that he wanted nothing to do with his blood related family. He said that since nobody wanted him, he'd cut all ties with them as well." The arm around me hugged me tighter to him. It took me a while to notice that I was crying. I tried to get up, but Cody pulled me down to him.

"Let me go." Cody let me go, reluctantly. I got up, opened the door, and left.

Cody waited for a few more minutes, then got his cell phone out of his pocket and started making calls. The first person on his list was Adrian. "Hello Adrian, yeah I had fun the other night, hey listen a moment... I have a new roomy staying with me for awhile, but he needs some help. I don't know if he's gay, but I don't think he is. The help he needs is for someone to get in contact with his brother and arrange a meeting. His brother Thomas Finlan thinks that everyone in his family hates him. He doesn't know that his brother Zach stopped their parents from killing him long enough for his current boyfriend to get him to the hospital. Yeah, Tom has a brother, and I must say he's even cuter than Tom is. So is it possible for you to get Thomas down here in the next couple of days? It is? Great. About what time do .... Hi Tom. Look, I can't talk about it now, but I want you down here sometime this week, there's someone I want you to meet. Yes, you'll like him. I love him, so of course you'll like him. Ten thirty thursday morning? Great, I'll let him know you're coming. Yeah, thanks, tell Adrian to lay off the bed cricket." Cody chuckled before hanging up and calling the next person.

"Hey, DC, long time no chat. Ya huh ........ ya huh ............ ya huh. Shut up DC. Thankyou. Now, I need you over here to comfort someone who's emotionally unstable due to his parentage and his rough treatment by them. It looks like he can handle himself in a fight, but I just want you over here to chat with him. I need some people to help bring him out of his near suicidal funk. Yes he's that bad. He just found out that the brother he loved more than anyone in the world, hates his guts. No, not like that, I don't think he's gay. His parents are ego religious nuts. Yeah, like Danny's, but worse. You know how Thomas Finlan was beaten almost to death by his parents? Yeah? Remember how he said no one in his family stepped in to stop the beating? Yeah, well his brother, all of nine years of age, took the remainder of the beating and spent two days in hospital getting his wounds stitched. Yeah, ouch. I don't know all the details, but I really need you here before he comes back. Yeah, he left about fifteen minutes ago. Yeah I'm still in four one five. You'll come? Great! I'll be waiting for you." Cody hung up on that call, dialling yet another number.

"Hey Laurie, as soon as you get this, call me back, there's someone you need to see." He hung up and dialled a new number. He waited, waited, then.. "Jennifer, hi, can you possibly come down tonight and say hello to someone I have bunking with me? You can? Great, he's been in a spot of bother and I want to make it up to him. No, he's not like that, I just thought he should meet with some new people, not all of them gay. I know, but technically you're female. Technically you're male as well, so .... yeah. Yeah, I know, you've got to find someone who'll be willing to spring for the operation, but why don't you just tell the guy you're going out with that you're considering switching your gender? HE WHAT?!?!? What do you mean he called you a gender bending fuck up? You kick his ass? Well good for you! You don't need a guy like that. Honestly Jen, find yourself a nice girl ... or boy, and settle down. Yes, I really do want you over here. Not for me, but for Zach, he needs someone who looks female, and wont care that he will or has been crying. Ya huh. So around sixish? Cool. Thanks Jen, I'll see ya when ya get here." Cody hung up, looking through his phone book for anyone else to call. A single name popped up which he was loath to call. Sighing, he hit the call button, placing the modified phone to his large ear.

"Liam, hi, look, we need to talk..."

I walked out the front doors of the cafeteria, shell shocked. My brother hated me? Even after almost dieing to protect him? I bumped into some people a couple of metres from the door.

"Hey!"

I ignored them and kept shambling along, though ignore isn't the right word. It was more like they weren't important enough to know they were there. Something dark blue flashed past my face at an incredible speed, horn blaring. It didn't register, and I kept moving forwards. Something big and steel grey came up in the corner of my eye, a large air horn blowing.

"HEY!"

It was inches away when my world suddenly exploded into a shambling, rolling mass of hard to see images. The last thing I saw clearly was the face of a white lion with electric blue hair and deep yellow eyes.

It was some time before I came 'round again. I had started that day at about eight in the morning. Now it was... I opened my eyes and stared up at an unfamiliar ceiling. Afternoon sunlight filtered through large pale yellow curtains. I blinked up at the ceiling before turning to my immediate right. Golden eyes stared at me from a face of carefully carved marble.

"Hi there." I blinked stupidly at the thing of otherworldly beauty. His mouth crinkled slightly at the corners, a smile showing through. "Yeah, I get that alot, name's Leon. Did you want your roomie contacted? Or maybe your parents?" His eyes widened as I let some fear/rage slip through my facial features before I closed down. "Okay then, I wont call your parents. You do have a room mate here though, don't you?"

I nodded once. "His name's Cody, and we're in room 415, building B." The face of white marble split with a vertical grin. A white hand with small, blue tinted claws reached for me, then hugged us together. That was how I first knew that the both of us were naked. The second came when something nudged at my groin, and his tail rubbed along my left hip.

"That's excellent! We live next door to each other. I'm in 416, building B, but I don't have a roomie. How about requesting you be transferred into my room? I'm sure I could make it worth your while." His face was pressed right up against mine. All I could see were those orbs of yellow light within a face of snowy white. His minty breath was almost overwhelming. It wasn't that it was overpowering, just that it was strong, like peppermint. Something wet licked under my nose, and left the same minty smell there.

I didn't know what to do. I felt trapped, like I had to do whatever he asked in return for saving my life, but if he wanted to have sex with me just because he saved my life, he had another thing coming. I let go of myself, and summoned my other half. The one that protected me, the one that fought. I put all of my rage, fear, sorrow and loss into him, explaining what was happening as I saw it. He took steps to insure my safety. He raised my/our hand and broke Leon's hold upon our body. We stared into his shocked eyes and allowed him to see our rage. He rolled back, then stayed completely still as we followed his movements, prepared to attack without warning if need be. Once he stayed put, we moved to the door. His room was like a mirror opposite of our's. So instead of going to the right to get out the door, we went to the left. Our attention was focused upon him, so we didn't hear the people outside the door. We forgot that we were naked, but we didn't care.

Opening the door, we stepped out into the hallway. Several furred people stopped, staring at us. A horse came up to us, grinning. We glared up at him, showing our fury. He stopped grinning real quick and stopped moving as well. We turned to our right and moved down the small stretch of hallway before our door. We opened it, and went in, to an almost fully packed room.

"Zach!" We turned to face Cody. "Zach..?" We stared him down, went to our bag, and pulled out spare clothes.

"Hey, that's no way to treat a friend." A lynx's paw dropped upon our shoulder, tightening to make us turn. We reacted with deffensive purposes. Dropping our clothes we took the paw, and attacked. A single open handed strike to the chest, disrupting the flow of air. He wheezed, and we hit the diaphragm, forcing him to increase the amount of time needed to get his breath back. He took a swing for our head, we blocked, then followed through, hitting his collarbone with our elbow and forcing him back. He hit the bed and fell into it, the other furres getting up and looking at us angrily. Cody jumped from the bed, his back to us and his arms outstretched.

"Stop it! Can't you see he's not himself? What human in their right mind walks about naked? Leave him alone and let him get dressed." The furres grumbled, then helped the lynx sit up. We went back to dressing. The first thing was our underwear, then shorts, then a shirt. Finally dressed again, I wondered about where my clothes that I had been wearing disappeared to. My other half suggested going back to the Lion's room and demanding the clothes be returned. I let him do what he wanted.

We moved with a purpose, ignoring the furres within our room and going back out the door. The furres from before were still there, but they gave us a wide berth. We opened the door to Leon's room and went in, to find him still on the bed. "Our clothes, where are they?" Leon's yellow eyes blinked at us, before his blue tail tuft pointed at the wardrobe. We went further into the room, opened the wardrobe, and found my clothes neatly folded upon the top shelf. We also found my shoes. They were right next to the folded pile of clothing. Taking them all, we exited his room and closed the door, going back to mine and Cody's room. We moved to my bag, and placed the clothes on top of it, the shoes went next to the bag.

"What the hell's wrong with him?" We turned, eyeing the unknown occupants of the room. Cody sat upon our bed with a lynx, skunk, and a gryphon. We both felt the strength and power within the gryphon, and neither of us were completely sure if my other half could take him on, but he would if he had to. Cody turned to glare at the lynx.

"Listen, he's not exactly himself right now. We went through this earlier today when he walked in on me masturbating. I got a little angry that he saw, but then he creeped me out by doing this." Cody waved at us. "He goes like this to defend himself. Apparently he calls up something inside of himself in order to protect himself from others. I think that maybe he's schizo. You know, like he has more than one personality." The gryphon stared at us, and me and my other half did our best to stare down his cold gaze. "If he's done this then something happenned to cause it. I'm guessing it's linked to him walking in here naked." Cody turned to us, dawning comprehension filling his face and eyes. "Did you walk through the hallway completely naked?" We nodded.

"Shit... What human would willingly walk through a crowded corridor of gay furres naked?" We turned our gaze to the skunk who had spoken. He looked up at us, then avoided eye contact. Cody moved into view, and spoke up.

"Zach, or whoever you are, can we have your normal self to speak to?" I shook my head, not voicing why. "Why not?"

I sighed inside, while my other half tried to tell me not to explain it to them. They weren't human, so they wouldn't understand. I told him that they weren't human, so maybe they would understand. I opened my mouth, and spoke with the deep voice of my other half. "I don't want to let him go."

Three sets of ears focused upon us. "Let who go?" Cody asked.

"I don't want to let my other half go. He's here right now because I need him to stop from falling apart. The blue and white lion next door, Leon, stripped the both of us and laid us down in his bed. I felt he wanted to have sex with me, so I panicked and summoned my other half. We then intimidated Leon so that he wouldn't move closer to us, then we left. I thought that if I could get in here, and tell you about it, that I might be able to relax and let him go, but you have visitors, so I'm keeping him with me. I don't want to let him go, only to summon him again when I fall apart and nobody's there to catch me."

The lynx turned to Cody with an open face. "You weren't kidding. If he's this far gone he needed to make a secondary personality to keep himself together, he needs serious professional help. I'll do what I can, but he needs to see a professional psychologist." The lynx turned back to me, his eyes open and trusting.

"DC, you know why I called you, the same with Liam and Laurie. I wanted him to get to know some people before a tragedy like what's happenning just now, happened. I wanted to introduce him to a few gay people on campus before he got hijacked, so at least he'd know what to do, but it looks like he has his own way of getting out of tricky situations." Cody turned his eyes to me, his amber eyes showing sorrow at not being able to help me. "Zach, if you let go of your other half, I promise to do everything I can to help you emotionally. Laurie will be able to protect you physically, but all I can offer is emotional support. I hope that'll be enough." He hung his head down, almost like he was praying. We looked to the gryphon, the one with power. He nodded once, staring at us with his intensive eyes. I looked back to Cody, already starting to let my other self go.

"Cody?" He looked up at us. "Catch me when I fall." He nodded. I let go of my other self, putting him back in the part of my mind that I drew him from. I felt my face crack, tears starting to flow as I recalled why I had just been in another guy's bed. The truck that he'd saved me from as I'd walked into the street without care. My legs buckled as my fear/sorrow, swelled within me, no longer having my other self's iron will to support me. The gryphon moved first, while Cody just stared. He caught me before my knees could make contact with the carpeted cement. His scaled hands pulled me to him and I just let go. I let go of everything. I preceeded to tell them, in detail, about my life with my family. I started when I was almost three years old, and finished it with transferring to this college. I told them everything. The abuse from when I was five. My defence of my gay brother. The constant ridicule by my parents for not having a job. Even the time where I'd released the furre chained in our basement, only to witness them being shot in the back as they ran from the house. I told them everything.

Laurie's scaled hand rubbed my head gently, his beak issuing a soothing warble. Liam the skunk, was hugging my back and side while DC and Cody talked on the phone to someone else. Someone knocked on the door, causing everyone bar me to startle. I was too busy crying at my ineptness at not being able to handle this on my own. Cody looked at DC, and DC looked at Cody. "Expecting someone?"

Cody went to shake his head, then paused. "Yes actually. What time is it?"

Laurie's musical voice answered above my head. "It's six twenty four."

Cody cursed. "Everyone, don't do anything rash, I called Jennifer over." DC gave a snort.

"What does that genderbending nut case want?" Cody glared, and DC lost his smile.

"I called her so that she could provide some female ears and form to asuage Zach's fears that this entire school is gay." DC went to open his mouth again, but Cody glared him down. He went to the door and opened it, letting in a female white tiger.

"Hi, sorry I'm late.." She took three steps into the room, saw me, then stopped. "What happened?"

Cody answered her question. "Jen, this is Zach Finlan, Thomas Finlan's brother. You know the story of how Thomas escaped from his dictorially religious family, but what you don't know was that he left behind his brother to suffer their abuse alone for the next ten or so years. Where Thomas had it tough by living without the support of his family, Zach had been left behind to deal with them on his own. He's a little lost at the moment. It seems he developed a second personality in order to protect himself from himself and his own family. It should be enough to say that he needs all the love and support he can get right now. Are you willing to chip in?"

Jennifer nodded immediately, coming to the bed where everyone was centered around me. She lifted one leg to slide onto the bed, and then the other, shuffling herself closer. She grabbed me and gently extracted me from Laurie and Liam, pressing my head into her chest. "It's okay hunny, they can't hurt you anymore. We'll protect you. The whole college will protect you from your family." I hugged her tight to me, simply wanting to believe that for once in my life, no one was going to tattle on me and tell my parents what I was doing. I sniffled, trying to get a better grip on myself. I berated myself for crying in front of a girl, no matter what species she was. Gay guys were acceptable, because they cried alot and were really emotional, but infront of a girl, the guy was meant to be strong, and be her shoulder to cry upon.

I don't know if it was because I was exhausted, or drained both physically and emotionally, but I fell asleep then and there, comforted by the people around me, even though I didn't know them. That was the first time I actually slept without waking every five minutes, prepared to defend myself against either of my parents. My first day at college ended with me in a bed full of furres, and not a one of them touched me during the night.

ch2

I awoke amidst gentle snores, a leg over my crotch, and several hands holding me. I blinked, staring up at the ceiling. The events of yesterday came crashing through my mind in a torrent of embarrassing moments. My embarrasing break down infront of people I didn't know, and the events that happenned yesterday that led up to it, including Leon. I gave a gentle sigh, knowing I'd have to appologise to Leon for how I behaved and acted yesterday. A hand moved to the leg at my crotch, and rubbed gently. I followed the black fur covered hand, up to the face of it's owner. Blinking blue eyes looked back at me.

"You okay?" I nodded to Liam.

"Yes, I'm sorry for dragging you into my dramas, I should have held onto my other self and been mean, then you could have hated me and refused to get involved with me." Liam's eyes grew round with shock.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no. It's no problem, honestly. I'd much rather know you, all of you, then have been put off by an angry human who didn't like us furres." He smiled over at me, then moved closer, snuggling. "You know, you're actually rather cute for a human, especially when you're asleep." I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Oh really? You like watching other people when they're sleeping, do you? Well then, I'll just have to fall asleep in your lap one day and tempt you for a few hours before I wake up." I smiled, grinning up at his fluffed out nose. I was toying with him, but I couldn't help it. He looked cute when he blushed. He stammered something about that not being a good idea. "Why not? You wouldn't take advantage of a poor, defenceless human now, would you?" He shook his head desperately, eyes wide and his lips parted. I had to listen close to know that he was actually panting. I frowned at him, confused. "Do you like being taken advantage of, or something?" The eyes widened in shock, his breathing getting heavier. I felt my face show surprise, my eyes widening and my lips spreading in a little smile. "No way, you actually like people taking advantage of you?" He shook his head vigorously, his eyes staying glued to me, as well as his ears. I decided to try something. If I was wrong, I could apologise immediately, but if I wasn't, then I'd just found someone that I could play with.

"What if I told you, that I wanted to tie you down on your bed, and gently use a feather to bring you to orgasm?" He gave a whine, and rolled backwards, a scent and a large bulge in his pants following him. I rolled over to play with him some more, but my blessed cross touched my skin. My hormone levels dropped so quickly I was left blinking at air. I got up off the bed, went to my bag, and got my clothes out. I opened the wardrobe up and checked what was inside of it. Liam watched me, a confused and hurt look upon his black and white face. As much as I wanted to tell him I cared, I couldn't. Because right then and there I didn't care. I put my stuff away in the wardrobe, and checked myself in the mirror it held. My hair was all frumpy so I got my brush out of my bag, and swiped my hair a few times with it. That done, I checked my clothes, trying to see if anything was out of place. Apart from some creases on my right side, the clothes looked fine. I picked my bag up, and placed it on the left hand side of the wardrobe before closing the great big doors.

I turned back to the pile on the bed, and located Cody. He was asleep between the gryphon and the lynx, the lynx's hand looked like it was embedded up Cody's butt. I shook my head, knowing it wasn't true, because Cody had a pair of black pants on. I grabbed his long foot, and wriggled it. Cody's eyes snapped open and he looked down at me. I waved at him. "Hiya. I'm going down to get breakfast in the cafeteria and apologise to Leon, okay?" Cody blinked at me, then looked to either side of him where he was sandwiched by two furres.

"Sure... see ya in a few." He rolled over, facing Laurie and his broad chest, going back to sleep. I looked over at Liam who still had that hurt look upon his face.

"Sorry for playing around earlier, but I'm not used to gay people. So, I apologise for what I said earlier." I gave him a curt bow, and went out the door. Turning left, I went up the hallway to Leon's door and knocked politely. I waited, then knocked again. I tried the handle, it gave gently. I took a deep breath, then knocked upon the door loudly, opening it up wide.

"Leon..?" I moved inside, glancing to the heavily tussled bed that had held Leon at some point. I poked my head around the corner, and couldn't see Leon anywhere within his room. I pondered whether to wait for Leon, or go get something to eat. My stomach growled at me, and that decided it. I closed Leon's door and walked over to his bed, sitting down carefully. I looked over to his sideboard and found, an item that wasn't worth mentioning. I turned away from the item, blushing. I turned to face the door that was to my immediate right, and asked myself what Leon would do if the first thing he saw was me. A few scenarios ran past, and none of them were particularly good. I got up from the corner closest to the door, and walked around to it's opposite corner, sitting back down and facing the wall.

I was moments ahead of him. Leon's door opened almost noiselessly, swinging back and gently butting the side of his wardrobe. I smelled something like vanilla, and heard a towel rubbing through hair, then heard the motion stop. I waited, feeling he should be the one to speak first, either to tell me to get out, or to ask me why I was here. I waited, and still no response from him. I waited for almost a half an hour, simply wanting him to speak. Finally, he did.

"What do you want from me?" I partially turned, before the half choked sob registered, then I fully turned around, gazing at the white lion with electric blue hair that had saved my life yesterday. His hair was fluffed everywhere, along with his fur, and he had a bright pink towel held up in front of his abdominals. I had the grace to blush, realising he'd just had a shower, when he asked the same question again. Looking up into his yellow eyes, I wished I could read him like some people could read me. All I saw were sad orbs that reflected back everything. I turned back to face the wall, crouching over my knees, resting my elbows upon them.

"I came to apologise for how I acted and treated you yesterday. I was told only an hour or so before you rescued me from the truck, that this was a gay school. Even though I want to give an excuse for my behaviour, I can't because I did what I thought was right at the time. I thought you were trying to have sex with me, even to the point of forcing me, and I over reacted, immensely." I paused, trying to think my way through my emotions. The cross wasn't helping, with what it did to my body when I wore it, but I was unable to remove it for some reason. Every time I tried, I suffered immense pain in the arm that I was trying to remove it with. I heard the towel drop behind me, and refused to look, focusing with all my will power upon the wall in front of me. I heard the springs in the bed creak, and felt Leon's weight on the bed, even as a furry hand smelling of vanilla gently tugged at my shoulder. I went with the movement, relaxing and leaning back upon the bed. I stared up at Leon's wet blue hair and his partially smiling mouth. His eyes were still sad, but they didn't hold that almost about to break sadness that they'd held a moment ago.

"I was actually trying to have sex with you, mainly because I find humans attractive, but that doesn't mean I'd go so far as to force you into it. I'm not a rapist, and despise the act." He leaned upon his elbows and gently wiped at my hair and face with his white hands. "I knew there was a reason why you went animalistic, but is it because you were so disgusted about the thought of having sex with a furre..?" I blinked, and shook my head.

"No, no. It was because I felt trapped. I have a slightly nervous disposition, that was created because my parents are religious to the extreme, and I witnessed them murdering someone. When I'm at home, I wake up every ten minutes with the me that you saw yesterday, ready to defend and kill in order to protect myself. I thought maybe you'd be like other humans I knew, and demand something from me in return for saving my life. I never thought beyond defending myself and preventing myself from being hurt, honest." I tried to show my desperation in my eyes. I really hadn't meant to hurt him, and all I'd really tried to do was defend myself. I watched his eyes. I saw the thoughts that ran behind them, hidden to me, but he seemed satisfied with the fact that I'd only been trying to protect myself. My own eyes widened in shock as I saw him lean down further, and kiss my forehead. I must say, being kissed on the forehead by someone with a cat's face is deffinately different. I felt pressure in three distinct places, which represented his upper left lip, upper right lip, and his lower lip which merged with his chin. When he lifted himself off of me, his eyes had gone back to their original laughing expression.

"Never been kissed by a furre, have ya?" I shook my head slowly, staring up at him with wide, surprised eyes. I couldn't shake the feeling of the contact. Not even my cross could interferre with the sensation. It was almost like his lips had been perfectly crafted to kiss that one spot on my forehead. I don't know when I've felt so happy about being kissed by a guy, furred or not. Oh wait, I kinda felt something similar when Thom kissed the top of my head goodnight before he went to bed. It was the one thing he did that kept me awake at night, waiting for him to visit me so that I could go to sleep with that warm feeling chasing my dreams.

"It was kinda nice though. Nobody ever kissed me like that except for Thom, and only because he kissed my head when I was little." An emotion akin to jealousy chased itself against his furred features before his face resumed a more, passive expression. "Thom's my older brother ... well he was someone I looked up to, but now I know he hates me, so I don't know what to think about him anymore. That's also the reason why I walked into the street without paying attention to it. I was so shocked at hearing that Thom hates me, that I just lost all care for anything else. Sorry for being so, depressed, and forcing you to rescue me, then turning on you for the sexual threat you represented." Leon's eyes took on a more, humourous look.

"I'm a sexual threat, huh?" He leaned back down, his head moving to my right. I felt him snuffling, then his tongue snaked out of his mouth and licked my right ear, causing me to jerk away at the sudden explosion of pleasure. "If I'm a sexual threat, that means I should be hunting you, doesn't it?" I looked at him, then swiveled upon the bed so that my back was to the wall, and I was standing, away from the bed. I stared, feeling ...shock and some other emotion. His yellow eyes sparkled at me. "Oh, I think the little human wants to be hunted." He moved forwards along the bed, his muscles moving perfectly, as if they'd been designed for this one moment in time. I could see his full form, pure snowy white and naked. Though with his fur he wasn't exactly naked. His tail waved above and behind him like a white serpent, swishing to and fro.

"I..." I swallowed, and tried again to find my voice. "I .. I don't want to be hunted." My heart raced, my breathing was shallow and rapid. All I could do was stare at Leon and his snow white magnificence. What was wrong with me? Why wasn't my cross interfering with what I was feeling? Normally if I got excited over anything my cross released an enzyme into my bloodstream and neutralised whatever was making me excited/happy. Leon moved lithely upon his bed. Calmly, completely aware of whatever he was doing to me, he positioned himself untill he was one move away from crouching directly infront of me. He moved his right hand up to his chest, then gently moved it down his body. I watched his lungs take a breath of air, pushing his slightly muscled chest outwards as his hand descended lower. He crouched fully before me, leaning backwards as his hand travelled further down his lean furred stomach, and then... and then ..... and then .........

I turned around sharply and faced the wall, my face red with embarrassment. I pushed my forehead against the wall, eyes wide and staring as I tried to remove that last image from my sight. I was desperately afraid of closing my eyes, terrified that if I did so, that image would be burnt into my eyelids. I blinked, and that image did indeed burn itself onto my eyelids. I finally forced myself to look at the image, to analyse it, to force myself to believe I had seen something similar only yesterday, but for all my desperate want that it was exactly like Cody's, I couldn't help but compare differences. The first difference was that Cody was black, where Leon was white. Cody had some deffinite bulk to his muscle structure, where Leon was lean and well toned. The image I had been trying to avoid forced itself into my analisation here. Cody's ... dick, what I saw of it, was large and long, with some type of extremely disfigured base. It was a deep, bloody red with two thick deep blue veins running up either side of it. But Leon's .... Leon's was remarkably different. His was a deep fleshy pink, and it glistened in the light. The base wasn't horribly disfigured like Cody's, but had a little extra girth than my own dick. Leon was probably a couple extra inches longer than me, but he also had these weird bumpy things all along his shaft. I couldn't help but wonder what it might feel like to touch it. What it would feel like to stroke it. What it would feel like to be laying under him and feel him move above and within me...

"Like what you see?"

I near jumped as Leon's suddenly husky voice made me ask myself if I did. Something within me shouted out, desperate to be heard. I squashed that voice, burying it under years of emotional torment. Slowly, and very carefully, I shook my head in the negative. Leon moved on the bed behind me. The bed gave a soft creak, then I heard him slowly stepping towards me on the soft carpet. His large, yet nimble, hands placed themselves to either side of my head. He moved his face closer and slowly whispered in my right ear.

"You're lying." I twisted around, looking up into his vibrant yellow eyes and tried to make him understand that this was wrong and that it went against god. In reply, he moved his face closer to mine. I moved my head as far backwards as it could go, straining to push my own head through the thick cement wall as Leon's face slowly edged closer to mine. "I can smell your lust. It seeps from you and clouds the air like a wonderful perfume. I know you want me. I can almost taste your need. If you tell me no, I'll stop right now. Do you want me to stop?" His breath blew against my face as he spoke, it's mintyness piercing through my foggy mind with it's sharp scent. Desperately I did, desperately I didn't. What the fuck was going on? I went to nod my head, but shook it instead. Leon's smile was the last thing I saw as he moved closer, his lips gently touching mine before he leaned back.

I thought that was it, a simple touch and he'd be done. Fuck was I wrong. I went to move forwards and duck under his arms, and that's when he made his move. It was so predatorily calculated that I had missed the subtle hints. His hands clawed the cement wall to my back, causing a screeching sound that made me jump towards him, giving him more room to work with. One hand cupped gently around the top of my neck, gently cradling my head, the other went to my lower back, his fingertips gently tapping the tops of my shorts before worming underneath the hem and gently clawing at my skin. His face which had never truly left mine, fused us together at the lips. Leon's fuzzy and well talented lips made little work of what minute resistance I could muster. The kiss he gave me was so heated and passionate, I felt myself responding willingly, even wantonly, to him. His lips parted, and in their parting my own lips followed. Before I even knew what was happening, a thin fleshy invader had penetrated my mouth. It touched my tongue, and minty flavour exploded accross my mind.

My knees collapsed and Leon held me close to him, his dexterous tongue working around my mouth, gently assissting my tongue as I tried to copy what he was doing to me. As he held me close to his own body, something hard poked at my stomach. When he finally let me go from that kiss that was so much more than a kiss, I was floating in and out of awareness. Leon hugged his furry body to mine, his heat thrilling over me where my bare skin could touch his short fine fur. I watched through a haze as Leon moved his face to my ear again, and only partially heard what he said next.

"I will stop myself here. If you want to come to me, then my bed will always be yours. If you don't want to come to me, I shall wait, patiently. I will promise you though, if you ever need me, for anything at all, I will always be there for you. While I could finish the bonding ritual now, I will give you a chance to escape. If you do not want me, do not want any part of me, do not want anything at all to do with me, then all you have to do is stay away from me for an entire month. That's the length of time the bonding is open for." Leon's talented lips and tongue descended upon my unprotected ear, making me give a shallow gasp as his semi rough tongue massaged the inside while his lips teased the edges and outside of my ear. He paused in his ministrations, his next words making me shiver as his breath danced accross the wet skin of my ear, instantly cooling where it touched. "I will now set you outside the door to your room. I want you to enter it, go to your bed, and lie down. If you sleep, you sleep, but all I want you to do is rebuild yourself so that you can speak and interact with others again."

He pulled his head back from my cold ear, and gently kissed the top of my head. The gentle but firm grasp that had been on my neck was released, his hand moving from the edge of my shorts to the small of my back, though the hand remained where it could touch my bare flesh. He moved me away from the wall, and carefully manouvered me around the bed and through his door, turning me to my own dorm room. I was only just barely aware of the other furres around us as he walked me to my door. His tail found its way around my waist as he positioned me directly infront of my door. He turned me around so that I was facing him, his tail trailing around my waist as I turned. He leaned forwards and kissed my forehead again.

"Now, do as I have said, and if you hate me in the evening, I will have deserved it." He turned me to face my door again. "Good day my love." His lips suddenly seared a kiss into the lower right of the back of my neck. It was above the shoulder, but not quite part of the neck. The moment his lips left, my skin burned, and I wanted him to put his lips back. Instead, he grasped the door handle and clicked it open, giving me a gentle shove as he moved back to his own room.

Once the door had opened fully, I found Liam standing there. He stood there, wide eyed, as he sniffed the air. I was too busy riding my high to take full notice of him. Stepping around him, I went to the furre laden bed that was slowly waking up, and flopped into the furre pile. Leon's voice suddenly swam up around me, and sucked me down into the darkness of sleep.

Ch 3

Liam turned, watching Zach make his way to the bed, almost seeing his lust as a physical cloud around him. He felt himself responding immediately to the human's hormones and pheremones, feeling pain as his growing shaft was kept locked underneath his underwear and shorts. The bulge it created was noticeable, even though nobody else could see it, yet. The moment Zach hit the bed, every single furre currently sleeping or waking from it, woke up. They turned, almost like one part of a larger entity, towards Zach as he quickly fell asleep. Cody was the first to speak.

"Holy Fuck!" Laurie nodded as well, his eyes narrow slits as he looked over Zach's body. DC looked around, confused, before his sleep mudled brain told him where the delicious scent was coming from. He took one look at Zach before jumping up with a loud exclamation, and leaping away from the bed.

"Who did it?" DC whispered. Cody looked up from Zach's prone form, trying not to let his hormones get the better of him, however insanely hard that was.

"What do you mean?" DC gestured to Zach, and the odour he was emitting even now.

"Someone's triggered him. He's like a bitch in heat, and god do I want to fuck him." Laurie suddenly moved, positioning himself between Zach and every other furre present. His eagle eyes reflected the light coldly as he stood guard. Laurie's musical voice spoke out what he was doing.

"While I am not immune to his scent, I have more mental and physical control over myself than any of you do. I will protect this human from you while he is defenceless, because you will not like the repercussions of your actions, however innocent or right they seem." Liam looked about ready to cry, where as Cody and DC just looked confused.

"But if no one screws him, then he's going to be really shitty when he wakes up."

Laurie turned his cold stare upon Cody. "Then he will be shitty when he wakes up. What do you know about human mating rituals and actions? What difference is there between them and us?"

Everyone blinked at the sudden change of topic, but Liam was the only one who looked like he was thinking. Cautiously, he raised his hand, as though wondering if that was the right thing to do or not. Laurie nodded his eagle head at Liam. "Yes?"

Liam put his hand back down but now he was even more unsure about what he was going to say now that everyone's attention was focused upon him. "Logically speaking, it's impossible for humans to be triggered. They lack the brain chemistry to properly read our pheromones. When they get exposed to our breeding signals, they get aggressive or become disgusted with us. Because of this incompatibility within humans, it's difficult to find friends that wont be put off entirely by our respective breeding scents. A human that can smell our scents and not be enraged or horrified is a one in two million chance."

Cody and DC stared at Liam, completely shocked at the amount of information that just came pouring out of him.

DC was the first to speak after the slight silence that followed Liam's words. "How in the name of fuck do you know that?"

Laurie gave a soft warble that indicated he was clearing his throat. "He knows that because he went to a special school before applying for this college. As it is, most of the people here are amazed that he could even get in with his school's previous record." Liam tried to signal Laurie with his eyes, trying to tell him to shut up before he went too far.

"What school was that? Liam, you've never told us what school you originally went to." Cody asked Liam, turning to bring his bulky presence into play.

Liam glared at Laurie, almost like he was saying a sarcastic thanks to Laurie's bringing up his schooling. He moved his attention to Cody and backed up slightly, bringing his hands up to protect himself against his bulk. "It doesn't matter what school I went to, what matters now is that we do what we can to help Zach, right?" Cody stalled in his advancement upon Liam, his eyes showing the cogs that were twirling within his brain. He backed down from Liam, turning back to the human lying on his bed that literally oozed sex.

"He said he was going to the cafeteria and then he was going to see Leon. I don't think he even knows where the cafeteria is, so he must have talked with Leon."

DC froze where he was againt the wall, his tail was pointing out straight behind him and running up the wall, the hairs all bristled out and making his tail one gigantic bottle brush. It took everyone about three minutes to notice DC's change in character, and another minute to finally drag him from his own little world.

"What's up?"

"Leon Whitemane?"

Cody blinked. "I don't know, he only said his name was Leo-"

"Leon Whitemane?" DC asked, stressing the last name. The others looked at him, wondering just what exactly had triggered this reaction.

"What's the deal with this Leon guy?" DC stared at him as though he'd just asked why the sky was blue.

"Leon Whitemane is the richest, cutest, gayest guy on campus. How could you not know about him? His family owns four fifths of the campus, they're the ones that founded the furre only campus' so that we could have safety in numbers. Don't any of you read human/furre history and culture?" Looks darted about the room as Liam and Cody tried to see if either they or Laurie read history books as bedtime stories.

Laurie held up his hand slightly. "I do, but I didn't think you were talking about the same Leon. It's a rather common name you know, especially amoung furres that come from upper class families." DC stalled in his tirade, the truth hiting him a little hard. His eyes lost the fire of a fanatic finding something of interest, and gained a much calmer concerned look.

"Well, it could be that it's another Leon, but exactly how many Leon's would be in this school that are white lions? I mean, the Whitemane family is a pure bred family made of white lions. There has never been a single case when a Whitemane has bred outside of his or her species. The best way to tell a Whitemane apart from other white lions is the fact that they have extremely distinctive natural hair. If you ever see a white lion with hair the exact colour of fire, water, earth, gold, or basically anything imaginable, the chances of them being a Whitemane are extremely high."

"Are you going anywhere in particular with this?"

DC looked up at Laurie, a frown crossing his face. "Well, I'm not really sure. I'm finding it hard to concentrate at all with Zach emitting that very, very distinctive and highly arousing odour. Can we either leave the room, or put on masks?"

Laurie flicked his cat like gaze to Cody. "Your choice Cody, this is your room and your roommate. Do you want us to leave and come back at a later time when he's not as ..... indefinable?"

Cody raised a single black eyebrow. "Word a day calendar?" Laurie gave a beak smile, which constituted tucking up the far end of his 'lips', and turning his head just a tiny bit to show off the angle of the muscles straining.

"Yeah, my roommate's an IT programmer from Lyso, he's here to study the 'natural body' of other males so he can rewrite a certain program for his employers." Cody nodded like it made sense and concentrated upon the problem at hand.

"Well, I'm not entirely sure what to do. I mean we should probably see the doc to find out if Zach's got a disease or something, because humans should not be able to be triggered. Right?" Laurie nodded to his question. "Well, I dunno. I'm not in the med department, I'm only here to do my graduate and move on to my dad's corporation. So does anyone else have a suggestion? Apart from leaving him here unattended and hoping that those extremely horny furres in the hallway wont be able to smell him through the door."

DC glanced towards the door to the room, wondering why exactly no one had actually come in looking for a hot fuck. Liam looked towards Zach on the bed, and saw something that almost stopped his heart.

"When did Zach get a tattoo?" He immediately had everyone's attention. Cody's body seemed to swell inside the small confines of the room, causing everyone to shift uneasily away from him.

"DC, these Whitemanes, do they have a crest, coat of arms, anything?"

DC blinked at the question, before he put two and two together. He moved towards the bed and, while holding his breath, leaned accross Zach's sleeping form to see what Liam had seen. There, to the lower right of his neck, there was a faint outline of white flames surrounding dark black cat fangs.

"Leon Whitemane. I Knew it!" DC made a fist and pumped it into the air, over joyed at the knowledge that he'd been right the entire time.

"Yeah yeah, that still doesn't change the fact that we need to leave." Cody started ushering the others towards the door as he spoke, helping them get out before they all ravaged Zach's body. Laurie was the last to step outside of the door, Cody locking it behind them all.

"So what are we going to do now? Should we all go back to our rooms, grab some more sleep, then come back later for group bonding, or should we end it here?" DC speaking. He was aware of the tragic nature of Zach's condition, but he wasn't one hundred percent sure of what to do immediately. On the one hand his training suggested he help with group bonding, to reassure Zach that he had somewhere to go, and friends to turn to. But on the other hand, he knew humans were antisocial creatures by nature. He knew Zach would prefer his space, and not to be crowded by so many strange furres.

Cody shrugged. "We can ask him later tonight. He might want to be in the middle of a furre pile again, or he may want time alone. He might want to talk about what just happenned, or he might want to leave the campus completely. Whatever he wants, he can get."

"And if he wants your cock?" Several passing furres paused to listen to the conversation since a favourite word had just been uttered. Cody glared at DC for bringing out his smart alec personality.

"Then we'll discuss it at the appropriate time. Not now." DC smirked. Cody turned to Laurie. "Do you have any suggestions?"

Laurie shook his head slowly. "I don't have any real suggestion except to leave him alone, protect him when he needs it, and wait for him to open up. He spilled his heart to us last night. That means he's extremely vulnerable right now, so we should be calm and understanding around him when he wakes up. I will tell you something though." He paused here, making sure he had everyone's attention. "Under no circumstances should he be near any of the 'human lovers' without a chaperone." Lightbulbs flicked on behind open eyes as everyone understood exactly what he was talking about.

"Yeah, I'll watch for them. Isn't there a list you can download from the library?" Laurie nodded to DC's question.

"It's labled 'the human fuckers'. Not exactly imaginable, but still true. It has a list of all current members, and almost all of the human lovers are in the group. There's probably about five that aren't."

Cody nodded, then looked at Liam since he looked like he was thinking about a question. "Yeah?"

Liam blinked slowly, untill Cody repeated the question. "Oh, I didn't think you were talking to me." Cody's expression added a touch of the emotions running through him. Liam was suitably cowed. "Well, I was just wondering what we should do right now. Personally, I'm kind of hungry. I haven't been the bottom in ages and my stomach's empty." Cody raised a single dark eyebrow as DC burst into laughter. Liam's face fur fluffed in his embarrasement. DC clapped a furry hand onto Liam's back, causing him to jump noticeably.

"I'm sure we could find you a cock to suck at this hour. I'm pretty sure there's an elephant around here somewhere."

"An elephant?" DC nodded at Laurie and Cody's shocked expressions.

"Yeah, there's at least an elephant here ever year. They're kinda shy, but they're deffinately worth knowing." DC's grin was huge, his fur patterns shifting in the hallway's artificial light.

"Never mind the cock sucking. Let's all go down to the cafeteria and get something to eat. I feel like some slop that's supposed to be shepard's pie." Cody clapped his large arms around Liam's and DC's backs, steering the two towards the end of the hallway, and the set of stairs that'd eventually lead to the college's cafeteria. Laurie followed, giving a single backwards glance to the room that held the strange young human.

I was dreaming. At least I knew that much. It was a strange dream. I was running from my parent's house, and I had fur. I heard a scream and a loud bang, then there was fear. My chest exploded outwards, and as I tumbled down into the darkness I could see the small glint of metal pellets falling with parts of my body.

Then something amazing happened. I was tumbling through the darkness, then this bright light descended upon me. It wrapped me up in it's warm fuzzy glow, and I felt loved. For the first time in my life, I was happy.

Something started to fight the fuzzy white glow, but I beat it down and locked it away. It's scream of agony made me think I was doing the wrong thing, but all I could think about was the loving embrace of that white glow, and the feeling that I never wanted to be cut off from it.

I awoke with that feeling enshrouding me. It was a tangible thing that I knew was there as soon as I woke up. I tried to remember what had happened, and drew a blank. I immediately waved it off, uncaring if I remembered what happened. I felt hungry, and wondered what there was to eat. I smiled and jumped from the bed, giddy for some unknown reason. I felt like a kid and I just felt like dancing.

I checked my clothes for my wallet, and couldn't find it. Still smiling, I waltzed towards my bag, bent over it, and searched for my wallet. Again I couldn't find it.

"Where oh where might you be my leather clad friend? I need my money, or my tummy wont be happy." I grinned in delight. Why didn't I talk more often? I had a wonderful voice. I laughed out loud, spotting my wallet underneath my bag.

"There you are you little munchkin!" I picked up my wallet and hugged it to me, joyous to find something I had lost. "Right, now you and I are going to the cafeteria! Tummy's hungry!" I grinned at the inanimate leather, and held it in a loose grip. I walked towards the door, almost kicking my heels. I couldn't even remember the last time I felt so happy.

I opened the door and looked around. I grabbed a young stallion by the hand, and he immediately looked me over.

"What ya want sugar?" I grinned and hugged the horse to me. He hesitated a moment before hugging me back. "Well. Iss a nice to see a human that likes to touch." He moved his large hands lower, and gripped my bottom, squeezing appreciatively. "How's abouts we go back to mai room for some fun? Mai roomie's ditched meh for the food downstairs."

I looked up and tilted my head questioningly. "Are we gonna play games in there?" The horse grinned at me slyly.

"Yeah, sure sugar. We'll play any game ya want. We can play hide the bone, plough the field, and suck the lolipop." He grinned widely, a deep braying laugh coming from him. I smiled as well, just happy to be happy.

"Okay, but I dunno how to play those games. Are you gonna teach me how to play?" The stallion looked at me a little oddly.

"Uhh, sure sugar. Come on, le's go back to mai room afore the roomie gets back. I've got bluer balls than a penguin!"

I frowned up at him, but followed him all the same. "Penguins don't have blue balls, they have black ones."

"Oh really?" I nodded at him as we turned a corner.

"Because they live in cold climates, they need black pigmentation in order to keep their bodies warm." The horse paused at a door, glancing at me strangely as he opened it.

"Ya thinking of majoring in animal anatomy, or furre hun?"

"Oh deffinately both. There are so many differences between bipedal and quadrupedal species and races that both need to be studied till all the information has been gathered." The horse casually pulled me into his room, and I kept chatting away. "Take you for instance. Feral equines are much larger in size, and weight. Furre counterparts can have larger and longer sex sessions than their equine cousins because of their higher brain functions."

He started stripping off his clothes before me, and I just blinked. "Why are you taking your clothes off?"

He looked at me funny. "The question is, why aren't ya sugar?"

"Oh.." I blinked again, then shrugged. A smile on my face, I also started stripping. "Do we need to be naked to play these games?"

The stallion looked at me funny again. "Okay sugar, the act's getting a lil' old. We gonna do some hard fucken or no'?"

I blinked at him, then noticed something I should have realised a lot earlier. I knew what a stallion's penis looked like, but I'd never before seen a furre's equine penis before. Like his feral cousins, he had length and thickness. His shaft was blotched with skin tones against his dark red shaft. He was fully hard, and his tip, while not flared, was still larger than the actual size of his shaft.

"Wow... you're big." That same braying laugh from earlier rumbled out from his chest.

"Why thankya sugar, y'all not so bad yo'self. Now, hows abouts we get down to the nasty business? I wouldn't mind a sucking, and in return you can has a fucking."

"Okay!" I smiled widely at him, pleased to be able to do something he'd enjoy. We were both standing, so that put his cock head just even with my mouth. I grasped his shaft with both hands, and sucked at his cock head. Knowing what'd make him even happier, I grasped the medial ring halfway up his thick cock. I rubbed my hands up and down over that medial ring, making sure I kept a tight pressure upon it as I licked and sucked at his cocktip.

"Damn sugar, ya sure know how to please a boi. If only you was a lil bigger, then I'd be able to show ya what this thing's for." I felt a slight disappointment at knowing I wasn't what he wanted, but then my overly rambunctious self came back in full glory. Even if I wasn't what he wanted, I would be the best I could be for him. The joy I felt in that decision swamped me with glee.

"You never know unless you try." The horse looked at me, his dark auburn fur rippling with muscle contractions.

"Ya mean that sugar?" I shrugged, happy to help in any way at all.

"Of course!" I turned around and bent over for him. I looked over my right shoulder at him, all smiles and joy. "Is this better for what you want?"

The stallion's muscles rippled and stretched and that massive hose I had just been playing with was brought down to nudge at my bottom. "Sure sugar. Ya dun think ya'll are goin' too fast?" I smiled up at him and shook my head. I felt like giggling for some reason, and did it, simply because I could. I was really, really happy today. "Hey, ya've got a tat!"

I shook my head. "Nuh uh, I don't do tattoos, my parent's would kill me if I damaged my body."

The stallion moved closer to me, rubbing his thick hands up and down my sides as he leaned closer for a better look. He placed one hand at the back of my neck, spreading the skin. "Ya've... Holy Jesus!" The hand at the back of my neck shook abruptly, the rest of his body shivering. "Ya, ya'll is Whiteman territory. I'm ... mai .. I can't do this sugar."

"Ohh, why not?" I turned around and looked at him, no longer happy that he wasn't happy with me. His great big stallion body was shaking like a leaf, and his eyes were filled with shock.

"I've ... I gotta make a phonecall hun, hold on a sec will ya?" I nodded at him, smiling in bliss. He immediately reached for his shorts, and yanked out a cell phone that had been modified for his larger hands. He punched in a number and moved away from me. I smiled in happiness. Maybe he was calling someone else for fun? Wouldn't that just make everyone happy? My smile turned into a grin of joy.

"I told you to never call me again Jackson." Leon was angry, his voice deep and growling with suppressed rage.

"I know, I know sugar pop, but a little thang popped into mai room just a moment ago. Ya see, this little thang has ya'lls mark. He's got it upon his right shoulder/neck and-"

"If you touch him I swear by all you hold dear, that there wont be enough pieces of you left to make dog food." Jackson swallowed. He'd assumed Leon was just an average boy looking for some fun when he'd taken him home. He hadn't known who he was, nor what he'd let into his home. When he'd 'put the moves' on him, Leon had been disgusted. He'd been completely affronted by Jackson's offer, because Jackson had taken him home on the premise of asking a favour from him. Jackson had learned from his mistake, but had never been able to repair the tenuous friendship. Anything he did just seemed to make it worse, so he eventuall gave up, resigning himself to the loss of the friendship.

"Sugar pop, this little thang of yours is actin' weird. He just grabbed me in da hall, an' said yes to anythang I said. He's just happy, like really, really happy, all the time. Sugar pop, I think you ned to come get your little thang, I dun want him to be harmed." Jackson waited, listening to Leon's phone. "Sugar pop?"

I turned, all smiles as the door opened.

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She was one of the most beautiful little mouse furres I had ever seen. She had just walked up to me, out of the blue, and asked if she could go out with me! Needless to say I was ecstatic. I was slightly perturbed over the fact that I would have to pay for the night out, that's only logical, so I delved into my savings so I could pay for whatever she needed, so long as it was under a grand. We went to Costello's, which is one of the richest restaurants near the college. We had four courses, the first being a rich and creamy pumpkin soup for me, and an alfalfa and asparagus soup for her. I wrinkled my nose at it, but she said she loved the taste.

Our second course constituted some type of cheese dish. There was only one bowl between the two of us. When I went to raise my hand and complain, she held it down and pointed to the two spoons in the dish. I understood immediately, this was a shared food. She took the innitiative and picked up a spoon. She presented the spoon to me, her face open and expectant. Blushing bright scarlet, I opened my mouth, allowing her to place the head of the spoon inside. I closed my mouth gently, and she removed the spoon while I used my tongue to hold back the contents. I almost dropped it from my mouth when the flavour really hit me. It was a sweet creamy dish that melded the flavours of anchovies, schallots, and some type of herb or spice that I couldn't identify.

She laughed at my surprise, telling me it was a cat furre specialty, melding fish, cream, and catnip. She further explained that it was illegal to remove it from the restaurant because it was an addictive drug for cat furres of any description. I immediately thought of Leon when she told me that, then squashed the sense of yearning I felt. I wasn't seeing Leon, not since whatever it was he'd done to me. Whenever I started to yearn for him I just replayed the hospital visit, with the doctor yelling at him for marking a human.

When we finished sharing the cheese dish, that she called LesNas, our third course arrived. I was just a little put off by the flamboyantly displayed mainmeal, a collection of roasted pumpkin and sweet poatato (a request of mine before hand) a well cooked fillet steak, an assortment of beans, peas, and brocoli took up the remaining third of the plate. The steak and pumpkin/potatos were covered in a rich gravy that carried the scent of plums, and made my mouth water when it was set before me.

Her meal was again, different from mine. Instead of a fillet steak she had some type of patte. It rose like a small island within her moderate serving of gravy. Her gravy was a light tan colour, due to it's combination of vegetables instead of meat and fruit like mine. She had normal potatos with her serving of something called custard apple. As soon as I heard it I blanched. My mother ate those things like they were going out of fashion. I'd never gotten used to their taste, and avoided them whenever I could.

We ate our seperate meals in peace, listening to the soft chatter around us. I honestly felt more at peace with her, than I ever had with Leon. With Leon it was animal attraction, but with Resali, it was comfort, not lust, that drove me.

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Leon stared down at me from his massive height, his eyes like citraline gems that portrayed everything, yet kept that everything mysteriously hidden.

"Well? Will you allow me to take you out on a date, or are you going to run screaming in the opposite direction?" His eyes looked deep into mine, and I could tell he wanted me to say yes. Hell, I wanted me to say yes, but after what he did to me, against my will, whatever trust he had was broken. I shook my head, closing my eyes before looking down at the ground and away from him.

"I don't want to go out on a date with you." It hurt to say it and my small voice showed it. It hurt to say those words to him. I wanted nothing more than to spend eternity with him, but how could I tell what I was feeling were my desires, not his imprinted upon me by what he did to me? Even now, I wanted to push myself against him. I wanted to put my hands in places that weren't exactly socially acceptable in human society. I wanted him to do things to me to show everyone that we were together, but how can I do that, when I'm worried about completely and utterly losing myself to and in him?

"Little hell cat, if you want me, all you need to do is say the word, and I'll be yours." His snow white fur covered hand tucked underneath my chin and raised my eyes to his. I let him see my hurt. I let him see it all, how much what he had done hurt me, how much what he was doing hurt me, and how much I hurt myself because of him. The hand dropped immediately, leaving only the sensation and the brief cry from deep down inside that wanted his hand back there, and in more pleasureable places.

I dropped my gaze again, trying not to cry, and trying to sound tough enough not to need his caring hands. "I don't want to see you ever again." My hand moved of it's own accord, covering my heart as a sharp pain lanced through my chest at the mere thought of never seeing Leon again. I swallowed dryly, feeling faint and sick at the thought of never seeing Leon again, but I had to do this, for my own good I had to do this. "I ....... I don't ....... don't want .... you" I clenched my fist in my shirt, the pain feeling like it was gonna rip my heart into little pieces, and take my sanity with it.

"Zach?!?" Leon's voice, it was odd to hear him so concerned. He was sounding so casual a moment ago. I opened my hand and pressed the palm against my chest, rubbing at the searing pain directly beneath my ribs.

"ZACH!"

Leon's voice was panicky, his arms suddenly wrapped around me and I tried to push him off. It was only then I realised how incredibly weak I was. With Leon holding me so close, I could hear and feel his heart beat. It lessened my own pain a little, but my chest still felt like it was going to explode. My legs suddenly fell out from under me, dropping me shoulder deep into Leon's strong and gentle grasp. His heart was beating faster and faster, almost hammering against his ribs that were directly pressed into my face. I pushed myself into his warmth, suddenly feeling cold, but no matter how much warmth Leon's body produced, it couldn't warm the cold chill seeping into me.

"ZACHERIE!!"

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"Are you sure this is what you want?" I heard his words again, tumbling through my mind. Did I? Did I really want this? I've never once thought of myself as gay, but it seems right. Giving myself to him like this just feels like the right thing to do. I also want to know if this really is for me. For all my massive faults, Leon is still the only person that's ever moved me like this. I nodded once to him, face set and eyes showing my trepidation.

"I see." I frowned. He didn't sound happy about that. Leon got up from the bed, his jeans hugging his legs. One large white hand rested upon my shoulder, and he gently gripped my shoulder with that hand. "Are you absoloutely sure about this? There is no going back, and I can't guarantee that you'll still like me, if at all, afterwards."

I wrapped my ams around his back and pulled myself into his chest. "I don't care anymore. I love you, and I want to show you how far I'm willing to go for my love." I looked up into his eyes, trying to tell him just how much he meant to me, but I didn't have the words to express myself.

"Okay. I just wanted to make sure. You've never done this before, have you?" I shook my head against his chest, trying to stop the sudden rush of feeling running through me at the chance that Leon was actually going to do it with me. "Well then, let's do it right the first time." Leon's hand raised my chin untill I was looking up at him, then he kissed me like he had that first time. To describe the sensations is nigh impossible, but to call it heaven would come close. His kiss was gentle, yet firm, and while I was caught up with what his mouth was doing to me, his hands were busy undoing my belt.

I felt the jeans drop at the same moment I felt his hands upon my legs. His claws gently traced over my skin, causing me to flush with an undeniable need. Leon's eyes were focused solely upon me, their hard citraline colour soft and warm, his heart speaking through his eyes. Even as his hands tugged my underwear down, I couldn't stop the blush that flamed up my face. Apart from my shirt, I was almost standing naked in Leon's room. Leon's lips crinkled in the kiss, letting me know he was smiling.

"It's okay, don't be shy. We're going to do this right, and there's only one way to do it. We can get into nastier stuff after your first time." The way he said nastier left no doubts what he intended, and I'm hesitant to say that my arousal skyrocketed, along with the hardness of my cock. Just being near Leon was enough to get me to rise, but to be semi naked infront of him, and to know he wanted me the way I wanted him, it was enough to make my head spin.

"Ahh.." My face was an even deeper red as Leon's white hand wrapped around my hard dick. I forgot all about what Leon's hand was doing as he shoved my back into the wall and deepened the kiss, using tongue and lips to get me to comply. His tongue tasted the insides of my mouth, as mine tasted the insides of his. He still had that extreme mintyness that I was beginning to love, and I was glad that I'd taken the time to brush and floss my own teeth especially well before coming to see him.

Leon's other hand left my side, and I could feel it fumbling slightly against my stomach as he did something to himself. His own jeans were pulled down his legs as he used his clawed feet to grip and pull the tight material down. Leon's spare hand then grabbed my right hand and put it against something hard and slick. I broke the kiss to look at what I was touching, and gripped a little too hard.

"Yes, you're holding my dick, just like I'm holding yours. And if you don't mind me saying so, you have a rather nice dick for a human." I blushed hard, but I couldn't take my eyes off what I was doing. I glanced back up to Leon, and he nodded at me. So I took a breath, and gently ran my hand up and down his dick, feeling that thin slime or liquid making my hand slip down and up with ease.

"Ahh, yes, just like that. Be careful though, the slime you can feel protects my dick from drying out, and it's extremely painful to touch if that happens." I immediately stopped, worried that I was going to dry him out. "If you don't want me to dry out, you can try spitting on and licking my dick." I immediately stared up at him. His face fur was fluffed out slightly, their way of blushing. "You don't have to if you don't want to." I thought about that for a moment, and then a thought appeared. I remembered accidentally walking in on Cody while he was with a friend, and he had been sitting on his bed as the other person did something with that overly large dick.

"Maybe we should move to the bed, so you can sit and I can kneel." I tried not to blush, but the way he was smiling made it hard.

"So, you're not without some knowledge, and you've got a decent amount of kinkyness to say it that way." I gripped his dick a little too hard. "Ah, okay, okay, I get it. I wont joke, and we can have a good time, okay? Let's get on the bed my sexy human." I froze as he pulled away from me, my hand slipping from his dick. "Zacherie?"

"Do you really mean that?" I looked at him, trying to hide how much what he'd just said meant to me.

"Of course love, I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it." That smirking smile was back, that gentle lilt of his lips that made me want to lean forwards and kiss him.

"You really think I'm sexy?" Leon's white arms wrapped around me and lifted me up so that I was taller than him.

"You are the sexiest human alive. I consider myself to be the luckiest furre around to have a human as sexy as you, and no one can compare to you and your sexy body." Leon's laughing eyes were back, telling me that I'd made a fool of myself, but that he still loved me regardless.

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"Die Furfag!" I saw him moving perhaps seconds before Leon. He'd been watching us ever since we left the cinemas, and I'd had a bad feeling about him from the start. He reached into his sweater pocket and pulled out a mean looking little gun. His knuckles were bone white as he raised it to sight on us.

Part of me was screaming, screaming at the unfairness of it all, but my other side was louder, desperate to gain control over me so that he could prevent this tragedy from happening. I hesitated for the briefest of moments, my immediate thought being for Leon and moving myself in front of him. He'd screamed Furfag, giving me the impression that he hated Leon more than me.

Leon started to move as I saw him pulling upon the trigger, the hammer pin sliding back. His hands that comforted me when I was depressed started to pull at my shoulders, twisting me around behind him as he moved himself in front of me. I was horrified at the thought that Leon was going to sacrifice himself for me, and stopped resisting my other side. I didn't want Leon dead, and no matter what it took, I would make sure Leon was happy.

Everything slowed down as he swelled within me. I used him, and he used me. Together, we were strong enough, smart enough, and fast enough to avoid the problem. We twisted sharply within Leon's grasp, instantly loosening his hold upon us as we grabbed a hold of him and moved him out of the line of fire. The gunshot sounded, but it was an odd sound. It was long, drawn out, and excessively loud. We felt the passing of the bullet as it whispered through our hair and past our forehead, ricocheting off the marble column behind us and launching into the ceiling high above us.

People started to scream at the sound of the first shot, but we were still moving. He knew that there would be another, and another, and another until he was certain he had killed either Leon, us, or Leon and us. I was in agreement with him. Using our combined strength, we pushed my body to its limits and almost flew behind the column the bullet had ricocheted from. We dropped Leon as gently as possible before gripping the ridged column and using our momentum to come flying back at our shooter.

Somehow he had tracked our speed, his eyes wider now as he tried to comprehend our fury. Had we been born a furre, our claws would have been outstretched, ready to rip him limb from limb for what he dared do. As it was, our hand was outstretched, ready to tear out his throat with desperation.

The second shot was fired as we intended murder upon his human body. We could not react fast enough to avoid its path, and were shot through the hand. The pain was immediate, and almost unimaginable. For the first time in my life, I actually thanked my parents for the torture they inflicted upon me as I was growing up. Thanks to them, we were able to shove the pain down, deep inside us and finish the initial action. Our bloody hand wrapped around his throat, his eyes widening further in surprise as he moved the gun's muzzle to the side of our head.

He started to pull the trigger when we twisted our grip savagely, snapping the larynx and cutting off his air supply. The effect was immediate. He dropped the gun, immediately grabbing for his throat as he tried to suck in oxygen. The seconds ticked by as people screamed, blood freely flowing from the gaping hole in our right hand as he choked slowly from lack of oxygen.

My other side alerted me to the approach of several large individuals with weapons drawn, yelling and pointing at us. I didn't know what to do. I was frozen where I was, horror coursing through me as I realized that I had just killed someone. Something within me broke. Something deep down within me, far out of reach, broke. All of a sudden, I knew I was dead. I had just killed someone, whether it was in self defence or not, I had just killed someone. Society would see me dead, unless I ran right now, I was dead. My other side nudged at me, making my eyes look and focus upon the blue and black unfiroms heading towards us, angry and rage filled faces pointing towards us, shouting incomprehensible things.

I couldn't handle it. The fear was too great. It welled up within me and all I could concentrate on was my fear, terror, and anxiety. Suddenly I just pitched forwards, eyes open and staring as my fear covered me, making it impossible for me to move, to see beyond it. Fear became my life, and all I could see was my fear.

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"Liam." The skunk froze in the motion of standing up to face the opening door. His lithe body shook as he slowly turned his head to face the door.

"Head Master!" Liam dove towards the human standing in the doorway, completely ignoring me and Cody. The elderly man chuckled deeply, picking Liam up in a bear hug and barely even moving backwards.

"How've ya been my little studmuffin?" I blinked, shocked. What did he just say?

Liam smiled, eyes bright with love and warmth. "I've been doing this and that. How come you only visit now? Why didn't you visit years ago when I first left Glenroy Oaks?"

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"Leon ... I think I'm sick.." Leon turned around to look at me, his eyes alight with worry.

"How come darling?" I smiled at that. Every time I heard him respond like that just made my heart flutter a little bit more. I held my head and sat on our bed.

"I'm getting a headache and I'm feeling nauseous. Whenever I'm hit by both of them, it means I'll be sick in a day or two. It's almost never wrong. The headache's a massive one, and every time I move I feel like I'm going to throw up.." Leon moved from his desk and sat beside me. He wrapped his fine furred arms around me and moved me close to him. I sighed in his warmth and sat there for a moment, waiting for him to speak.

"You sure you're never wrong?" I nodded against his shoulder, wincing as a sudden spurt of pain traveled along the right hand side of my brain. He rubbed my sides and purred. "Never fear darling, I'll help you through this. I'll take you to the doctrs and they can give you something for the cold you're getting." I shook my head.

"No doctors, it'll pass on it's own. It's just ... if it's a bad one there'll be a point where I'll be really, really scared, and if that happens I need you to reassure me." I looked up into his yellow eyes to make sure he understood me. His eyes held in his worry for me, but I could feel it in how he held me close to him. Ever since that anti-furre terrorist he's been especially protective, which I like, it's just a little restricting sometimes. I push the bad memmories aside, and push myelf into his warmth.

"I guess there wont be ny sex for the next few days, huh?" I shoved at him and he grinned at me. He leaned down and placed a kiss upon my forehead, purring and rubbing his cheek against my own. "Don't worry darling, I'm not so priggish as to think of sex first. Whenever you're ready is fine with me. I'll nurse you back to health as quickly as I can my darling little human, can't have you missing classes next month." I smiled and hugged him.

"It's not like what I learn here will actually make a difference in where I end up. You and I both know I have no true talents..." Leon shook his head. I leaned back to view him better, my head staring to pound at the sudden movement. I took a moment to mentally push back the pain, and look up at his worried eyes. "What, you think I'm actually going to accomplish something with a degree in Furre and Animal physiology? I'd be better off studyin accounting and trying to be a banker or an accountant.."

Leon wrapped me up in his fur. "Darling, whatever you want to be, I'll support you and your decision. I believe your choice to study furre and animal physiology will be an important step forwards for human-furre relations. You might even be the onl human who can completely understand us, without being disgusted by everything you find."

I shook my head. "I can't help being attracted to you, whether it's my own desires, or what you did to me, I don't care. I love you, and I want to please you. The only reason I came to this college was to learn about the fure culture and community, while at the same time escaping the reach of my parents, and humans like them." I got up and wobbled slightly, the world swimming into greys and pale water colours. Leon came up immediately, his larger body supporting me as the world slowly reformed. My stomach heaved, and I turned to the ensuite. Leon opened the door and I raced for the toilet. I lifted the lid, and removed what was in my stomach. I heaved, and heaved, and heaved, shaking as I tried to stop in order to breathe.

"Zacherie?" I vomited, my body shaking. I tried to stop, tried to draw breath, and held my stomach in place for a moment as I heaved in much needed air. My head pounded and screamed at me, the nurofen I'd taken earlier having no effect. I gasped for breath, felt my stomach churn, and placed my head over the toilet seat, crying.

"Darling, do you want me to get a doctor?" He rubbed at back, and I shook my head as I cried and gasped. My head screamed at me, and I used every ounce of will power I had to stop myself from fainting from the pain. My stomach roiled, and yet again I emptied my stomach into the pristine toilet. It was too sudden. This was bad, I was never this badly ill after the first stages of exposure. Whatever was in my systm was horrible to push me this far after the firststages were noticed. I looked up into Leon's yellow eyes, trying to show my shock at my knowledge, trying to tell him something was wrong.

"It's bad isn't it?" I very carefully nod, then shove my head back over the toilet as I dry retch. "Bad enough to need a doctor?" I shook my head. "Bad enough you need my support?" I nodded. I could feel my body shting down. I was losing my strength fast. This was bad, very, very, very bad. My head was pounding, screaming at the strain, my stomach was empty, yet it still wanted to empty itself, my limbs were light and weak, I had no strength with which to raise them.

"Zacherie, I'm going to leave you for a moment." I shook my head untill it screamed. I couldn't lose him, he couldn't disappear like everyone else, I needed him! "Don't worry. I'm just going to the bed. I'm going to call the house doctor. For whatever reason it is you don't want to prevail of a normal doctor, he's here twentyfour hours a day, three hundred days a year. He gets two months vacation time. He's here, so I'm going to call him. He'll be up here as soon as he can to help, okay love?" I shook my head, weakly grabbing his muscled arm.

"Doh..Doan go.. doan neeeed ta doctor... juss hug.." I shook and cried, unable to voice my desire that I wasn't worth the time of a doctor. Whatever was in me would pass, as it always did in the past. I just needed time, thick and heavy soups, and heat. Leon wrapped his arms around me and held me tight, and I just shook. Pain and terror started to build, and I realised then that it was a bad one, possibly the worst I'd ever experienced. Leon licked my cheek, then I felt his warm presence move away from me. The cold tiles sucked the warmth out of my body, and without Leon to reheat me, I was soon left shivering because I was cold to the bone.

"Please, get him for me now, it's an emergency. Zacherie's sick, and whatever it is is very bad. He told me a little over a half hour ago that he had a headache and was feeling nauseous. He said that was how he could tell he was sick, and that he'd be sneezing or vomiting within a few days, depending how bad it was. Twenty minutes ago he rushed to the toilet, and has been vomiting since. He shakes, shivers, vomits, and cries. I don't think he's got a lot of strength, and he informed me a little earlier that if it was a bad one he'd need me close to reassure him. I don't care if he's at a family reunion or dead, GET HIM HERE!" Leon set the phone down after shouting, and the world swam again.

"Hang on lover, he's coming." I tried to say he wasn't needed, but my stomach roiled again. I pushed my head back over the toilet and vomited, and kept vomiting. When I finally stopped, there was a coppery taste in my mouth, and I shook in terror.

"LEON!!!!" He was at my side in an instant.

"What's wrong?" I pointed as best I could into the toilet, and he saw what I was too blinded to see. "Shit.. Hang on lover, I'm taking you to your brother's hospital." I shook my head as he wrapped his arms around and under me, trying to push him off. "Don't fight me on this, there's enough blood in the toilet to make me worried you've hemmoraged. Try your absoloute best to quell your stomach." Leon placed his hands against my forehead and stomach for a moment. He then wrapped me up in a soft, loving embrace. "We're going now love, stay conscious for me." He moved, and the world swam as pain became my life.

"How long has he been presenting symptoms?"

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"We've got him! Nurse, suction, the sooner we sew him up the better."

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"I don't know how he did it, but his body absorbed and neutralised most of the poisons. He's a very lucky human. You said he knew his body's responses well enough to inform you he was going to be ill in a few days?"

"Yeah, he said when he got a headache, and was nauseous at the same time that he was sick, and would be suitably ill in the next few days. I think he was shocked that he was ill so suddenly. He didn't want me to bring him to a hospital, but I think that's more to do with the fact he doesn't like making people do unneccessary things for him when they can be avoided. Can you tell me how he was poisoned?"

"I don't know how, but he was dosed with very high levels of heavy metals. Whoever did this has a vast knowledge of poisons, their causes and effects, and knows how to mask them. Judging by his hair, he was dosed lightly over a period of three months, then dosed heavily the day before yesterday. Was there anyone strange near his food or drink? Was he acting oddly before hand?"

"No.. But then I haven't been with him all of the time. We sleep in the same bed most nights, unless we're at college. Even then we tend to sleep in the same bed. I swear, I'll find out who did this to him and make them pay to the fullest extent of the law. Thanks Thomas.. for a moment I wasn't sure you'd do it."

"Yeah.. I know. If I hadn't told the labs to test for everything, I don't think I would have been able to save him in time. Lead, Gold, and Iron. Whoever did it used them all in small enough amounts that it went unnoticed for ages. Find him Leon. You find him, you tell me. We'll both .. play a game of twenty questions. Each time they give a wrong answer, we take a piece of them. No one harms my little brother."

"He's my boyfriend. No one harms him because he's saved my life at great risk to his own."

"You also risked his life by marking him."

"How'd you-"

"Never mind how. I know what your family is capable of. While I'm glad he found someone to love who can support him, I can't help being his big brother, especially after knowing how wrong I was about him. No doubt by now you know he's affectionate of everyone, but keeps it all hidden inside. Our parents punished any form of emotion. Love him as best you can. If you break his heart, I will hunt you down and kill you, Whitemane or no'."

"I'll never leave him, I love him too much. He feels for me strongly, and I'd do anything for him, as you've probably witnessed by my bringing him to you instead of another hospital's doctor. I knew you'd exhaust yourself in order to save him, for which I'm grateful."

"If you hadn't kept him calm and stable untill he reached me, he would have been beyond me. Let's just agree to be friends and stop trying to out piss each other. You love him your way, and I'll love him as much as society allows me to. Adrian's fair and kind, but I'll always love Zacherie more than a brother should. Take care of him Leon, and call me the second there's any type of problem. Oh.. and if you've noticed his special little condition, I have some pills that may make him easier to handle. I'm not talking about Zion, but his furre-like qualities. I discovered long ago what his body wants most when it's horny, and what makes it horny. It's one of the reasons I went into medicine."

"I .. uhh.. maybe. We've been going okay without any help, though I wouldn't mind him being ontop once in a while."

"Give him two of these during breakfast when you want him ontop. Be warned though, he'll be agressive and wont play the submissive. He'll be reasonable, but wont bottom. If you say no, he wont do anything for you for a while, so make sure of your decision."

"Doctor Finlan? You're needed in the O R, multiple gunshots to the chest and arms, bearmorph. He's critical and needs your expertise immediately.

"Well Leon, I'm glad we got a chance to speak. Keep what I gave you on hand. Don't let Zach see them, and don't even try taking them yourself. They're specially designed for him, and him only. Keep what I said in mind. If you find his poisoner, let me know. We'll both get the truth out of him one way, or another."

"Sure thing Thomas, thanks again for your help. I'll keep in touch."

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"Darling? Darling little hell cat, can you hear me?" I slowly opened my eyes, and grinned slowly as I saw Leon's worried eyes staring down at me. The second I started my feeble grin, one of his own covered his face. He licked at my face, and I grimaced in mock disgust.

"Leon, we're in a hospital. Save that for the bedroom.." I couldn't help but giggle at Leon's wide smile. I tried to lean forward, but found my body too weak to move. Leon saw what I was trying to do, and leaned down for a kiss. I'd planned on giving him just a normal press of lips, but apparently he had been very scared about my being sick. His tongue speared itself between my lips, and once more his minty taste was transfered to me. I almost purred myself as he agressively attacked my mouth, lapping at the insides, tongue wrestling with me and starting to move into me.

"Ahem.."

We sprang apart and turned to see a doctor in a white labcoat by the glass sliding door. He held a board underneath one arm, tapping it with a claw. His scales dully reflected the light in a dark green hue, his crocodillian looks more than apparent.

"How're you feeling Zacherie?" Zion surged, but I bade him to relax.

"Zach. No one calls me Zacherie except for Leon and Thomas. You are not close enough to me to call me by that name." The doctor's eyecleft rose.

"I see. So Zacherie.." Leon and he startled as I growled. "Zach.." He amended as Leon had to push me back into the bed I was using. "We had to remove a metre of your small intestine, about a tenth of your liver, and you almost lost both of your kidneys. You need to rest and be extremely careful for the next month. I don't know how it happened, but you were exposed to lethal amounts of heavy metals. Do you have any idea as to how that happened?" I shook my head slowly.

"Well, Doctor Finlan's already okayed your release, so there's nothing I can do to hold you here. I'll give you some pills to take with you. I want you to take one a day with dinner, and you need to sleep for a minimum of eight hours after eating and taking the pill." He held up a clear plastic bottle with multi coloured pills inside. "They need to be taken daily, and you can't miss even one. They may make you a little ill the first week, but you must keep taking them. After your body adjusts, you wont get ill anymore." Leon looked at me, and I looked at him. I nodded slightly to the doctor, and Leon moved forwards, taking the pills from him. He checked his board again. "Well, whenever you're ready to leave, just talk to the nurse and sign out. Good day to you all. Hopefully we wont see each other again." He smiled wide, turned around slowly, and left us to ourselves.

"That was odd.." Leon looked to me, and his eyes brightened. "Ready to go my darling little hell cat?" I nodded at him, smiling. Even in my weakened state I felt better than I had in weeks. Whatever tommy had done had really done the job. Unless I was on drugs. I looked for a drip of some kind, and couldn't see one. "They took the I V out yesterday. You regained consciousness last night. Do you remember talking last night?" I shook my head. "Don't worry, all I did was make sure you were alright, you didn't miss out on anything important.

"When can we go home? I want to go to bed and just sleep and sleep and sleep while snuggled tight against you. I miss your fur, you gentle purrs, even your tail moving over my naked skin.." Leon grinned wide.

"Don't worry precious one, you'll get me in bed before long. I intend to be by your side for the next week while you recover, then I intend to help you move your body in order to help it heal more. I'll have Lewis check on you each day for a week, then once every week, even if I have to pay him double his normal rate to get him to see you."

Updated 23rd may 09