{"sf1_id":688776,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 6","author":"JakeXtraTall","words":13938,"posted_at":"2014-04-04T21:18:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","Human","Love","Lycanthrope","Male","Relationships","Romance","Wolf","boy","young"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/688776-love-and-lycanthropy-chapter-6","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/688776","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=688776\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"I stayed in the woods for most of the night with Elias and Cole.\n The new wolf was testing not only his own limits, but those of\nElias and me as well.  Anytime Elias showed signs of getting tired\nfrom the game of chase and would come over to me to lay down and rest, the\nsmaller wolf would come over and start prodding at him, then growling and\nnipping at him until finally he'd coax Elias to get up and chase him\naround again.  I'd take over once in a while to give Elias a\nbreak, but I wasn't much of a challenge for Cole.We\nswitched to\nplaying hide and seek for a while.  I'd tell Cole to lie down and\nput his paws over his eyes, then I'd rush off into the woods to hide.\n I'd do my best to circle around and zig zag to try to leave a confusing\ntrail, then I'd pick a tree to climb up and wait.  After a long\ncount, Elias would bark at Cole to let him know it was time to seek.\n Cole would begin to sniff around and then come into the woods,\nhunting for me.  Elias would follow him as he searched.  The\ninstincts of the wolf were perfect of course, and Cole had no trouble\nusing his heightened sense of smell to find me over and over\nagain.  He absolutely loved the game and kept wanting to try again.At long last the sky began to lighten up again.  Dawn was not much more than an hour away.\"OK, Cole, the sun's gonna come up soon.  We need to head home so you can change back into a boy,\" I said.He whined as he came over to me.\"Don't\nbe sad, you'll be a wolf again a little while after the sun goes down\nagain tonight.  You'll change every night for a while.\"His\ntail wagged and he yipped.  I chuckled and shook my head.  I\nwent over to Elias and knelt and wrapped my arms around his neck, \"I\nlove you.  I'll see you home in a bit.  I want you to come\nwith me to Cole's house.  I think it will help if you can explain\nto his mom that you've been like this for three years and you're still\na perfectly happy guy.\"The massive wolf nodded and I stood and led Cole-wolf back\nthrough the woods to where I'd locked my bike.  I walked it back\nout to the trail and got on and he followed as I rode back to my truck that was\nparked up on the road.  I asked him to hang back in the trees as I\nunlocked the tonneau cover and put my bike in the truck bed.  My\ntruck is a heavy duty crew cab and has full sized doors for the back seat.\n I popped the door open and beckoned at the trees.  The wolf\nthat was Cole popped out and ran towards the truck and hopped into the\nback.  He just barely fit as he lay down along the bench seat.\n I made sure his tail was inside and I shut the door.We\ndrove the short way home without incident and I parked in the garage and opened the\ndoor for Cole and he got out.  We went into the house and I kicked\noff my shoes and followed him as he raced into the kitchen.  He\nimmediately started sniffing around excitedly and moving around the main floor and I continued to follow him, switching\non the lights in the dark house as he worked his way into the front\nroom.  He sniffed at the carpet and the couch and he must have\nsmelled Elias and me there.  He suddenly lifted his leg as though\nhe were going to squirt on the couch to add his own smell and I yelled,\n\"Hey!  Stop that!\"He looked at me sheepishly as he brought his leg down.\"You\nneed to control the instincts of the wolf better, Cole.  Do not\npee on the furniture please, no matter how strong the urge to mark might\nbe.\"He nodded and whined his apology.\"Come on, I'll show you the room where you're going to change back into a boy.\"I led him upstairs to the small room that had been converted to a panic room.\"We rigged this door so that it swings both ways.  You can push it open to go in when you're a wolf,\" I said.He\npushed on the door and walked in and I followed.  I switched on\nthe lights.  They were the only electrical thing that was working\nin here so far.  When the whole system was installed and\nactivated, the lights would come on automatically when anyone entered\nthe room.Cole\nsniffed around, but didn't seem to find it too interesting.  Elias\nand I hadn't spent any time in here yet, and the construction workers\nnormally wore covers over their feet so they could take them off as\nthey left the room and not track their construction dust through the\nhouse.  It probably smelled pretty boring in here.Cole\nturned to face me and sat in the middle of the floor, panting a little\nwith his wide, pink tongue hanging out, and wagging his tail.  Now\nthat I saw him in such good light, I noticed for the first time that he\ndidn't quite look the same as Elias.  He looked more like a cub\nwho was almost, but not quite, fully grown.  It made sense I\nsuppose, since he's only eleven in human form.  His paws looked\ntoo big for his body.  They were large and heavy.  His legs\nlooked just a bit thicker than the correct proportion would be.\n The ruff around his neck was not nearly as big as Elias's.\n His fur overall looked sort of finer, fuzzier and softer, and not\nnearly as full and shaggy or wolf-like as Elias's.  His ears were\na bit too big for his head, too, as were his big blue eyes, and his\nmuzzle was just a bit shorter and wider than a full grown wolf would\nhave.  Elias looked like a pretty much full grown wolf, but Cole\nlooked like he was still in the process of leaving his cubhood behind\nhim and working towards growing up completely.  He looked\nabsolutely adorable.I smiled at him and said, \"You look\nfantastic, Cole.  We don't really have time right now but I'm\ngonna take some pictures of you next time you change so you can see\nyourself.  You're the cutest damn wolf I've ever seen in my life.\"He\nyipped and wagged his tail more and got up and hopped his front paws up\nonto my shoulders and began to lick my face as I laughed and scratched\nat his neck and behind his ears.\"I wasn't giving you compliments just to get kisses out of you, but thanks, I appreciate it,\" I chuckled.He got back down on all fours and than sat again, still wagging his tail.  I\nlooked at my watch and saw there was still over half an hour before\nsunrise.  I realized I'd forgotten to bring Cole's clothes in from\nthe truck, so I asked him to wait in the room while I went to get them.\n I went back downstairs and out to the garage and got his clothes from the truck, and I grabbed a\ncouple of wooden wedges I had in the garage that I could use to wedge\nthe panic room door shut.I\nwent back upstairs and dropped the\nwedges just outside the door, then went into the room, but it was empty.\n Cole wasn't there.  My heart jumped and I went back out into\nthe hallway and shouted his name.  He hadn't passed me earlier so he still\nhad to be upstairs here somewhere.  The only door that was open\nwas the master bedroom, so I ran in there and turned on the light.\n He wasn't there either.  Then I heard splashing coming from\nthe master bath and I went over to the bathroom and looked in.\n There was Cole, drinking out of the toilet.I flicked on the light and shouted, \"Hey!  That's dirty!  Stop it!\"Cole\ngot startled and jumped and spun to look at me, spraying toilet\nwater from his muzzle around the room, and then he put his tail between\nhis legs and looked at me guiltily.  I realized right away the\npoor kid was probably dying of thirst.  He'd been running and\npanting almost non-stop all night long.  I was so frazzled by all\nof this it never occurred to me that he wouldn't be able to deal with\nhis thirst himself.  I should have thought to give him some water\nfirst thing.I said, \"I'm really sorry, buddy.  I\nshould have known you would be thirsty.  I feel like an ass.\n Go back to the panic room and I'll go get you a bowl of clean\nwater.  You can drink as much as you need.\"He wagged his\ntail again and got up and followed me back out into the hall, then he\nwent into the panic room as I went back to the kitchen and filled a\nlarge metal mixing bowl with water.  I brought it back upstairs\nand set in on the floor for Cole.  He immediately ran to it and\nbegan to greedily lap at it, splashing water all over the floor in his\nrush to get it in his belly.\"Take it easy.  You don't want to drink so much that you vomit it back up.\"He slowed down, but kept going until his thirst felt slaked.\"I'm\nsorry, Cole.  I should have thought to give you water first thing.\n We're gonna need to work out some sort of system so you can ask\nfor things when you need them and you're in wolf form.\"He wagged his tail and he came up and licked my hand by way of saying everything was OK and I was forgiven.I chuckled and said, \"Don't use that tongue on me, it's been in the toilet!\"He\ngrowled and jumped up again to put his paws on my shoulder and started\nlicking all over my face while his tail wagged and I laughed.I pushed him off and I went and\nsat on the small sofa that doubled as a pull-out day bed.  It was\nthe only piece of furniture in the room other than a small table in the\ncorner.  The rest was simply open floor covered with a thick, deep\npile rug that would be comfortable for a giant wolf to curl up on.\n The small table had one of the Tasers on it, charging and ready\nfor use.  A large can of bear spray was there too.  It\noccurred to me that I should probably 'Cole proof' the house.  He\nwould be sorely tempted by the cool looking weapons.  He might be\nspending a lot of time here while Elias taught him the ins and outs of\nbeing a werewolf, assuming his mother would permit it.Cole came over and sat in front of me and wagged his tail again.\"You're gonna change back in a bit less than fifteen minutes, so I'm gonna leave soon, OK?\"He\nwhined and shook his head.  He seemed to tense up at the memory of\nthe pain he'd gone through and he suddenly wasn't looking forward to\ngoing through it again.  He got up and walked over to me, then sat\nagain and put his head in my lap and whined longer and louder.  I\nnoticed he was starting to shake, and\nbefore long he was panting again from the heat his tremors were\ngenerating under all that fur.  I felt horrible for him.  He\nshouldn't have to\ngo through this, and he was scared to be left alone again.I scratched at the top of his head and behind his ears and said, \"I'm\nso sorry, Cole.  I know this is hard for you.  It's not fair\nthat you have to go through this alone, but you would kill me if I\nstayed with you.\"He whined again and the shaking increased.\n I wished there was some way I could help him through this.I\nsuddenly remembered the shark suit I'd ordered the first day\nElias had come back.  It had taken them nearly a month to make it\nfor me.  It had arrived a couple of weeks ago.  I'd\ntried it on for fit and found that it was OK, which wasn't surprising\nconsidering I'd given them my dimensions, then I'd put it away and\nforgot about it.  I never thought I'd have a use for the thing but\nhad bought it just in case.  It would be risky to use it now, but\nin all fairness I couldn't leave Cole alone during this change.\n He would get used to it eventually, but right now he was a scared\nlittle boy in a wolf's body who knew he was about to get hit by the\nworst pain of his life again and he didn't want to be alone.  Elias and I were responsible for\nthis happening to him.  I had to do everything in my power to help\nhim through it.\"Wait here, Cole, I'll come right back.\"He whined and whimpered loudly and my heart broke at the sound.  He was really scared.\"Come\nwith me then.  I'm not gonna leave you alone, don't worry.  I\njust want to get something that will let me stay in here with you, at\nleast for the first part of the change, so you won't have to be alone.\"He\nfollowed me out the door and into the hallway and I went to the closet\nwhere I'd put the suit.  I quickly pulled off my shorts and left\nthem on the floor, but kept my briefs and t-shirt on as the suit should fit over them no problem.  I slipped\ninto the suit and fastened it up.  It was made of strong chain mail\nthat covered every inch of me, except my face.  The double-weave\nwas designed to not let a sharp tooth puncture the suit, but rather to\ndisperse the pressure as much as possible.  It even had a hard\nshell of laminated polycarbonate inside the front half of the neck to\nprevent a bite from\ncrushing my windpipe.  I might get bruised badly if he tried to\nbite my arms or legs, but he shouldn't be able to break the skin.\n It had a helmet that the suit fastened tightly to, and the helmet\nhad a tough visor that could be pulled down and latched to protect my\nface.  The helmet and visor were made out of laminated,\nbullet-proof, polycarbonate plastic as well.  I wasn't entirely\nsure that the suit would\nwork as we'd never tested it, and I couldn't exactly ask the\nmanufacturers if they felt it could stop a raging werewolf, but since\nit was designed to stop killer sharks it should do the job.I\nwould only stay with Cole until he started to lose himself and would\nforget who I was and would start to become dangerous.  I had a\npretty good idea when that shift would happen from watching the video\nof Elias's change earlier.  I should be able to get out safely\nbefore he can lay into me.  It\nwould\nbe risky to use the suit, but seeing how scared the poor little guy was\nI couldn't bring myself to leave him alone to deal with it if there was\nanother option.  The suit would definitely keep him from killing\nme.  The worst that could happen is he might still manage to work\na tooth through the mail and break the skin.  It seemed unlikely,\nbut if he did manage, I would probably get his saliva in me and I would\nchange.I briefly thought how that wouldn't be such a bad thing\nreally.  At least that way I would be a wolf along with the boys\nand we could all look out for each other.  It just seemed better\nto have one of us stay normal, to handle unexpected\ncontingencies, like what we did to Cole tonight.  It would be\nbetter if I didn't become a werewolf.  Besides, I couldn't subject\nmyself to something like that without thinking long and hard about it,\nand talking to Elias about it too as it would affect him.  If it\nhappened right now it might be dangerous anyhow.  Since he'd be\nbiting me as the sun was rising I wasn't sure what would happen.\n Chances are I'd be cursed but wouldn't change until the night,\nbut I didn't know that for certain.  Maybe I'd start to change toward the wolf shape as\nthe infection burned into my body and then change right back to human.\n Cole would be\ndone his change and be a helpless little boy while my change was just\ngetting started and I would likely tear him to bits as I morphed into a\nnear-wolf, then right back into a man.I'd\nhave to\nbe really careful and watch him closely as he changes so I can jump out\nof the room and wedge the door shut as soon as he seems the\nleast bit threatening, to ensure there was no chance of getting bit.I\nthumped my way back into the panic room dressed in full chain mail, and\nCole followed.  I went over to the couch and fell into\nit.  The suit wasn't super heavy, but it was a lot heavier than\nclothes would be.  It was a bit awkward with all the extra weight\nhanging\nout at the ends of my arms and legs from the chain mail gloves and\nbooties\nthat covered my hands and feet, and it felt very strange.  Cole\nsat on the floor in front of me and looked me up and down, then cocked\nhis cute, giant wolf cub head\nsideways.  It looked comical, like he was essentially saying in\ndoggy language, \"What the fuck?\"I\nlaughed and said, \"I look\nawesome, don't I?  I bet you never saw a real life suit of armor\nbefore.  I bought this for when I play World of Warcraft so it\nwould feel like I was really there.  I still need to get a cape\nand a tabard but it's a start.  Luckily my class doesn't get\nto wear plate or I'd barely be able to move at all.\"He rolled his eyes and shook his head at the\nlame joke.  At least he'd temporarily forgotten to be nervous and\nthe shaking had stopped.\"Check it out, put your jaws on me and\ntry to bite, just not too hard or you might bruise me,\" I said as I\nlifted an arm out in front of him.He opened his jaws and\nclamped down on the arm.  He was holding me tight.  I tried\nwiggling my arm around to see if the mail would give, but it was fine.\n It didn't even hurt.\"Try a bit harder, I'm curious.\"He\nclamped down much harder and I immediately felt the pressure ramp up to where it felt like the bone in my arm might break.\n He had incredibly strong jaws.  I pulled and pushed hard but\nagain the suit held.  It was starting to hurt so I asked him to\nlet up and he did.  I examined the arm and couldn't even see any\ndents where his teeth had made contact.  The suit had been very\nexpensive, but it seemed I really got what I'd paid for.  I was\nimpressed.Suddenly Cole yelped and jerked slightly.  Then\nhe looked at me and I saw him start to shake again.  He grunted\nand his head went down once more, then he looked at me again and\nwhined.  It was starting.I slid off the couch onto the floor and said, \"Lie down.  Put your head here, Cole.\"I\nindicated my lap and he lay down and on his side with his head across\nmy legs.  I started to stroke his side and the top of his head.\"It\nwill only hurt for a minute or two, Cole.  I promise.  It'll\nbe over before you know it.  You're a tough guy and I know you can do this.  Hang in\nthere, buddy.\"The shaking seemed to ease off a bit and his tail\nthumped a couple of times against the floor, then he suddenly tensed\nand another spasm hit him.  He whined more and began to wiggle a\nbit like he was trying to find a position that would hurt less, but it\nwas only going to get worse.  My heart began to break at the\nthought of this innocent little kid going through this shit because of\nme and Elias.\"I'm so sorry, Cole.  I wish I could make it not hurt for you.  I wish this hadn't happened to you.\"The sound of my voice seemed to calm him slightly and I continued to speak as I held him and stroked him.\"You're such a great little man.  I don't think I could handle this but I know you can.  When this is all over, I'll let you kick me in the junk for doing this to you.  I'll keep the suit on though.\"He made an odd coughing sound like he was laughing as his tail thumped a couple of more times, then he\nsuddenly jerked violently and curled up and I felt something moving\nunder my hands as I stroked him.  I saw his skin begin to bulge in\nspots and I even heard some horrible crunching sounds as bones began to\nshrink again and joints moved around and his rib cage widened while\nbecoming shallower front to back.  His fur began to take on a\nstrangely wiry feeling as it began to stiffen while it shortened.  He was beginning to change fast.\"Can you hear me, Cole?  You're doing great.  It won't be long now, buddy.\"He\nwhimpered and then the sound cut off as his neck and head began to\nchange shape dramatically.  His forehead began to bulge as his\nmuzzle began to shrink into his face.  This was it.  It was\naround the point when Elias stopped making sounds that I could tell he'd\ngone out of himself.  The brain inside the rapidly changing skull\nmust be going through hell and it was unable to think clearly or make\nmemories now.  I pulled the visor down on my helmet and locked it in place to protect my\nface and I carefully extricated myself from under Cole and crawled over\ntowards the door.  I stopped and turned.He\nwas thrashing\nmore violently now and his back legs were suddenly moving to stretch\nout behind him much further back than should be possible for a wolf.\n His hips were rearranging themselves to give him the normal\nupright gait of a human.  It suddenly occurred to me as I watched\nthat I was likely not going to be in any danger at all.  When\nElias had change into a wolf, he'd ended in the massive, dangerous wolf shape\nwhile still not fully back to himself, and he was able to do a lot of\ndamage to Cole and would have killed him if the boy hadn't thought to go up the tree.  In this case, Cole was\ngoing to end in the relatively harmless shape of a small boy.  He\nmight still rage against me, but he certainly wouldn't be hard to\ncontrol, and his little boy teeth would sure as hell be no match for\nthe chain mail.  I decided to stay in the room and be with him\nthrough\nthe whole thing.I moved closer to him, but I didn't touch him.\n He was so far gone now I thought it might cause him even more\npain if anything came in contact with his rapidly morphing body.\n I watched as the stiff hair grew shorter and shorter and it seemed\nto be retracting right into his dark skin, which began to slowly lighten.\n His ears began to change to a more rounded shape and turned on\nthe skull to move towards their proper positions on the sides of his\nhead.  His tail was naked of fur now and it began to get shorter\nas it was absorbed back into his body.  His hands and feet seemed\nto be getting the worst of the change.  I could hear a wet,\ncrunching sort of sound coming from the bones as the joints popped and\nmoved and the bones of the paws became longer and more spread out to\nform fingers and a hand.  His feet were doing the same.  It\nmust be horribly painful, but even though the not-quite-human face had\nthe mouth open and looked to be screaming, no sound came out.My\nheart ached and tears welled in my eyes as I watched the poor\nboy's body get run through the grinder.  He was shrinking quite\nsteadily as all of the changes were happening and he was close to the\nsize of the eleven year old boy now.  It wouldn't be much longer.\n I heard him moan and then he cried out as he started to gain his\nvoice back.  He blinked and looked at me and started to look\nconfused, then angry.  He was almost done and he was becoming\nconscious enough to be enraged at the pain.\"You're almost done, Cole.  Hold on, little man.\"He writhed a bit then rolled onto his stomach and tried to get up on his knees.I\nheard him groan and then he turned his head to look at me and it was\nlike he wanted to kill me.  His face went dark and he frowned at\nme and the corners of his mouth turned down as he sort of growled with\nwhat was left of the wolf in him.  He was enraged and he didn't recognize me, but it was as if he knew it\nwas my\nfault that this was happening to him.  He stared at me in a murdering rage.  The look was totally\nunsettling coming from a little kid who looked like a bald and naked\nproto-human.  I stayed still and didn't do\nanything that might make him even more angry with me.\"I'm so sorry,\" was all I could say as a few tears slipped down my cheeks.His\nlook softened.  It was like he realized I was feeling bad for him,\nthen he jerked and cried out as another violent spasm hit him and I\nheard the pop of several joints landing into their final positions.\n His head hung down and I saw his soft, black hair begin to grow out of\nit incredibly rapidly.  He held the position as I watched his\nmuscles rapidly take shape on his frame.  Finally he rolled over into a\nsitting position with his back against the couch, breathing heavily.I\npulled my\nhelmet off and threw it aside and pulled the gloves off and dropped\nthem on the floor.  I quickly went over to sit next to him\nand support him.  He was still jerking and twitching, but he was\nalmost completely done.  The transition was amazing.  His\nskin was smooth and supple and human again.  He was a fit,\nhealthy,\neleven year old boy.He leaned against me and put an arm out across my chest and held\non to me as the last of the pain began to fade.  I stroked his\nsoft, black hair, kissed the top of his head and said, \"You made it.  You did great, Cole.\n I'm really proud of you.\"He held me for a bit, then suddenly sat upright and looked up at me and smiled.  The change was so abrupt it was shocking.A\nsingle tear slipped down his cheek as he grinned at me and then he\nsaid, \"You stayed with me!  Thanks, Jake, it really helped.\"\"It was the least I could do for you,\" I said, \"I wish I could have taken the pain for you instead.\"\"It\nwasn't so bad,\" he said, still smiling, \"It hurt a lot, but not for\nlong.  I was really scared, but you were there at the start and\nthe end and I heard you talking to me and I knew it would be over soon.\n I think next time it'll be even easier.  It's over really\nfast, so I think I can get used to it.\"I couldn't believe he was smiling after all that.\"You're amazing, Cole.  I can't believe you would take it so well.  You're a hell of a tough kid.\"He shrugged and said, \"I feel great now.  I don't think I ever felt so good.\"He\nstood up and I noticed immediately that he didn't quite look the same.\n He was the same boy, of course.  His height hadn't changed\nand his hair was exactly the same color and he still had the same face.  He just looked much\nhealthier.  The sort of thin, frail look he'd\nhad was gone.  He even looked a bit more fit than a regular boy of his\nage would look.  His muscles where nicely developed and he had the\nposture of an athlete.  He looked down at himself and then looked\nat me with a start.\"Something's wrong with my wiener!\" he said.I\nlooked, but didn't see anything wrong.  In fact, it was incredibly\nplump and long for an eleven year old kid.  It looked great.\n He was uncut and had a healthy amount of foreskin covering the\nhead and the hole at the tip looked large enough for the skin to\nretract back completely already.  His balls were much bigger than\nI would expect too.\n He looked like a healthy boy fast approaching the end of\npuberty.  He looked fantastic.  He was well endowed.I wondered if that was what he was talking about.  Maybe\nbeing a werewolf somehow affected him there.  Elias was certainly\nwell endowed, so it made sense that Cole would be too if it had\nsomething to do with the 'curse'.  I loved Elias's big balls, and\nhis penis was about\naverage size for a full grown man even though he had the body of a\nfourteen year old.  Maybe it had affected Cole in the same way.\"What do you mean, Cole?  It looks awesome to me.  I don't see anything wrong with it at all.\"\"The tip!  There's something wrong.  It doesn't look right!\"It\nsuddenly occurred to me what exactly he was on about.  He must have been\ncircumcised before.  Elias said that the change from wolf back to boy\nwasn't like rewinding a video back to the way he'd been, it was more\nlike growing from scratch inside himself following the original plan of\nhis body.  Cole would have regrown his foreskin even though it had\nbeen taken from him before!\"Do you mean your foreskin?  Did you not have that before?\" I asked.\"No,\nthe tip looked way different.  Is that what that skin on the end\nis called, foreskin?  This is so weird looking,\" he complained.\"It\nreally looks absolutely fantastic to me, like I said.  Foreskin makes it look\nnatural and better.  Believe it or not you had that when you were\nborn.  Someone cut it off when you were just a baby.\"\"What?!  Why?\"\"It\ndepends.  It could be religious reasons or just for reasons of\nhygiene, or maybe they think it looks better, which just isn't so if you ask me.  Whatever the reason, it's\nwrong to cut it off as far as I'm concerned.  Mine's gone too but\nI wish I still had it.  I wish mine was like yours.  It looks so great.\"\"Really?  Why do you like it so much?\"I\nthought briefly about why I liked it so much.  I just love all\nthings natural I guess.  That's why I prefer guys who don't wear\ncologne or aftershave or antiperspirant or deodorant or use excessive\namounts of scented soap.  Stay clean enough, but smell like a man,\nnot a fucking flowerpot.  I hate artificial and I love natural.\n I love a natural cock versus one that's been mutilated.\n Cole's cock looked terrific.I suddenly realized I'd become\ncompletely erect inside my chain mail suit as I'd been studying his\nfantastic package.  This was not an entirely appropriate state to\nbe in around an eleven year old boy.  I tried to think about other\nthings to get it to go down, but it was hard with this beautiful little\nguy standing here in front of me.\"We\ndon't need to get into that.  You're too young for that\ndiscussion.  Just don't worry about it.  Trust me when I say\nit's absolutely perfect the way\nit is.  A lot better than it was before, even.  You look\nbeautiful.  I don't have a foreskin myself, like I said, so I\ncan't advise you on the proper care and feeding of it.  You'll\nneed to make sure you clean yourself more carefully\nthere.  You're old enough that you'll probably be able to pull it\nback so it looks more like it used to, but the head will be a lot more\nsensitive.  It can get dirty under the skin so you need to keep it\nclean.  Just be gentle\nwith it.  It's there to protect the head of your penis.  You can have a talk with Elias about it.  He has one too.\"\"OK.\"He looked himself over more and suddenly lifted one leg, then the other, then he hopped up and down a couple of times.He looked up at me again and grinned, \"I don't believe it!  My leg works!\"I\nsmiled at him as he started jumping up and down on the spot, crouching\nlower and jumping higher each time.  Whatever injury he'd had\nwould be gone too as his body regrew from scratch.  It occurred to\nme that his bad leg might have been the reason for his overall frail\nlook.  He wouldn't be getting out and running around getting\nexercise like most kids, so he probably was wasting away a bit from\ninactivity.  His body regrew the way a healthy body would, though\nhe still looked a bit better built to me than an average kid his age.\n His penis was flapping up and down along with his jumping and it\nwas doing me no good.  He needed to get his clothes on and get the\ntemptation out of my sight.\"I think you should get dressed now, Cole.  I'll just get out of this armor and go make us something to eat.\"I\nstood and undid the shark suit and stepped out of the bottom half and then removed the tunic and dropped it on\nthe floor and moved to go out into the hall to get my shorts.He\ngrinned at me, and before I could exit the room, he ran up and jumped\nat me and I\ncaught him in my arms.  He held his little naked body tight to\nmine and wrapped his arms around my neck and his legs around my waist\nand hugged me hard.  I grabbed him just under his little\nbutt to lift him up high enough to make sure he didn't rub against my\nhard cock.  This was getting more inappropriate by the minute and\nI needed to extricate myself from this situation quickly.\"Thanks so much, Jake!  I've never felt so good in my life!  I'm so glad I changed!  This is so great!\" he exclaimed with enthusiasm.I\nchuckled and patted his back.  He still wasn't thinking far enough\ninto the future to realize just how badly we'd fucked his life up.\n To him it was all great.  I suddenly realized he really\ndidn't know exactly what this meant yet.  He wasn't aware yet that\nhe was stuck at this age forever now.I set him back down on the floor and said, \"Don't thank me yet.  Give it some time.\n You might not be so happy with all of this after a while.\n We need to have a long talk about what this means to you.  What time does your mom get home?\"\"Not usually until around eight in the morning,\" he said.We\nstill had lots of time.  \"OK, get your clothes on.  I'm gonna\nmake us some breakfast and we're gonna talk.  I want you to\nunderstand what all of this means before we go and talk to your mother.\"He\nnodded and went and got his little briefs and stepped into them.\n I took one last look at his nice package before it got covered up\nagain as he pulled his underwear up.  I went out in the hall and picked up my shorts and put\nthem on while he dressed.  I waited for him to come out into the\nhallway and I led him back downstairs to the kitchen.  I showed\nhim where the bathroom was and he broke and ran for it immediately while\nI turned to making our breakfast.  I made enough for three of\nus.  Elias would be home soon and he wouldn't be going straight to\nbed this time.  I wanted him here to talk to Cole with me.\n Nobody knew better than Elias just how Cole's life was going to\nbe now.I was just finishing up the cooking when I heard the\nbeeping of the lock on the back door.  Elias came in to the house,\ntook off his shoes, and walked into the kitchen.  He came straight\nto me and slipped into my arms and kissed me, then put his arms around\nmy neck and just held me.\"I fucked up so bad,\" he said, and I could hear the pain of it in his voice.\"No,\ndon't beat yourself up.  We both should have been more careful.\n We shouldn't have been taking it so lightly, making videos and\nscrewing around so close to the bike paths.  There shouldn't have\nbeen anyone out there at that time, but it was still a stupid risk, and\nnow Cole's the one to pay for it.\"\"How is he?\" Elias asked as he pulled away and went to get plates and drinking glasses.\"He's\namazingly great.  He really is.  He's in the bathroom right\nnow.  He came through it like a champ.  He's thrilled with it\nall.  He doesn't get it yet,\nthough.  We need to explain what it really means for him.\n Right now he thinks it's the greatest thing that could have\nhappened to him.  He's over the moon.  Remember the limp he\nhad?\"Elias nodded and said, \"It's gone, isn't it?\"I\nnodded and smiled, \"He's bouncing around like a basketball player now.\n He looks amazing.  He was so thin before and now he looks\nlike a well trained athlete.  Sort of like you.  That was\none good thing that came of this I guess.  He can run again.\n He was a bit surprised about his cock though.  He wasn't\nexpecting to get his foreskin back.\"Elias chuckled and asked,\n\"Does his junk look unusually big?  Mine was bigger after the\nfirst time I changed.  It was almost like something I'd been\nexposed to had affected it in my normal life, but that effect was gone\nwhen I regrew inside myself and my privates grew to the size they were\nsupposed to be.\"I\nnodded and said, \"Maybe that's it.  I remember some theories going\naround a while back about some chemicals in preservatives and stuff\nhaving some female hormone-like effects that might keep male genitals\nfrom developing as fully as they should, and even causing girls to\nreach puberty earlier than they should while delaying the onset of\npuberty in boys, as well as making it take longer for them to finish.  His junk looks absolutely great anyways.\"\"Did he go though it all in the panic room?\"I nodded, \"Yeah, I was in there with him when he\nchanged.  I couldn't bring myself to leave him alone.\"\"What?!\n Are you crazy?  He could have killed you, or changed you\ninto one of us!  Why the fuck would you do that?!\"I was taken aback by his sudden anger, but I realized he was just concerned for my safety.\"It's\nOK, Elias.  You weren't there.  I was, and I saw it would work.  I was wearing\nthe shark suit and helmet and had the visor down.  I realized half\nway into the change that I probably didn't really need it at all.\n He was changing from a dangerous form under control, to a fairly\nharmless form out of control.  He couldn't have really hurt me at\nthe point where he was enraged.\"Elias thought about it a bit\nand then said, \"That makes sense.  I never really thought it\nthrough.  He's just a little kid and since the rage happens near\nthe end, when he's the shape of a boy, he couldn't do much to hurt you.  It would still be\ndangerous if he bit you though if he wasn't fully a boy yet.\"I\nnodded, \"Yeah.  The surprising thing was that he looked like he\nwas going to go into a rage, then he suddenly calmed down when he saw\nme crying for him.  I suppose it wouldn't be totally safe without\nthe suit, but there was no chance at all that he would get through the chain mail.  I even had him bite me hard while he was still the\nwolf and\nI shook my arm to see if his teeth could get through, but they didn't\neven come close.\"\"Cool.  So the suit was a good idea after all,\" he said.\"Yup, and it was your idea if you recall.\"The bathroom door opened and Cole sauntered out and grinned at me, then looked over at Elias and said, \"I'm Cole, who are you?\"\"This is Elias, Cole,\" I said.Elias smiled and put his hand up in greeting, \"Hey, little guy.\"\"No way!  You're Elias?!  You're the great big dog from the park?  Really?\"Elias grinned and nodded, \"Yup, really.\"\"That's so cool!  Do I look just like you when I change?\"\"Pretty\nclose,\" I said, \"You're just a bit smaller than Elias and look just a little less grown up, just like you\nare now.  You're grey and black instead of tan and brown like\nElias, but you both look awesome.\"\"Neat!  I wish I could see myself when I'm like that.  I want to know what I look like,\" Cole said.\"Like\nI said earlier, we\nhave a camera.  I could try to get some photos and videos of you,\nbut only if you change here in the house.  I don't think we'll be\nscrewing around with taking\nvideos down in the woods anymore.  That's how we got you into this\nmess in the first place.\"\"What do you mean, mess?  This is the coolest thing ever!\" Cole exclaimed.\"You\nhaven't really thought it through yet and you don't even have all the\nfacts.  Sit and we'll eat, and Elias will explain how things have\nchanged for you.\"He ran up to Elias and hugged him hard and\nsaid, \"I don't care what you guys say.  It's awesome!  Thanks\nso much for changing me, Elias!  I love it!\"Elias hugged him back and then turned him around and pushed him towards the table and said, \"Go sit.  Let's talk.\"Elias\nlooked haggard and tired.  He was obviously really stressed out\nabout this.  He had a right to be.  He set the dishes out on\nthe table and went to the fridge for orange juice while I brought the\neggs, bacon and toast to the table.Cole tore into his breakfast\nlike he hadn't eaten in days.  I knew he'd be hungry so I'd made\nplenty.  I only nibbled at mine and Elias ate half what he\nnormally would.  Neither of us had much of an appetite right now\nas we worried about what we'd done to Cole and how it would affect him.\n While Cole ate, Elias carefully explained about everything that\nwould be different for him now.  The boy took it all in stride.\n Pretty much any time we suggested something to him that was a\nterrible tragedy, like the fact that he would never grow into a man, or\nthat he'd never get married, he'd say \"So what?\" like he just didn't\nget the problem and thought we were nuts for suggesting it was a bad\nthing.It\nmade me think harder about what had mattered to me\nback when I was eleven years old, and I suddenly realized none of this\nmight ever really seem like a big deal to him for quite a while yet.\n Girls still had\ncooties at that age and there was no way he would ever want to even\ntouch one if he didn't have to, let alone marry one.  School was a\nhorrible thing to do to a kid when you were eleven.  It was way\nmore fun to be free and do whatever you wanted, so he was certainly\ncool\nwith that aspect.  There was absolutely nothing about his new\nsituation that was bad as far as he was concerned.  In fact, when\nElias had mentioned the fact that Cole would never be able to go to\nschool again the boy's face had brightened and he said, \"Awesome!\n I didn't even think of that!  This is so great!\"\n Couple all of that with the fact that he had full mobility\nagain and was more fit than most boys his age, and even got to spend\nmost nights in the shape of one of the most awesome animals in the\nworld, and it was easy to\nunderstand why he was absolutely thrilled.Elias shook his head\nand smiled at the enthusiastic little kid, then he looked at me and\nsaid, \"You know, now that I think of it, he's absolutely right.  I\nlove my life now, Jake.  Being with you is better than anything\nthat could have ever happened to me even if I'd never been changed by\nthat guy in the woods in the first place.  My life is better than anything I could\nhave imagined back then.  It was just the terrible loneliness that\nwas killing me, but that's over thanks to you, and now life is better\nthan ever.  Cole will never have to know that loneliness.\n He's got his mom, and he has us.  Why are we so upset about\nthis?  We should just be happy for him.\"Cole grinned at him and nodded vigorously, and then he looked at me and smiled.I\nsmiled back at him and said, \"I guess you're right.  There's\nno sense trying to convince him there's a problem when he'll never see\nit that way.  There's still your mom to worry about though, Cole.\n Are you ready to go home now?  Elias and I need to face the\nmusic.  The suspense is killing me and I just want to get it over\nwith.\"Cole said, \"You guys don't know my mom.  She might be mad, but she gets over things fast.\"I shook my head, \"Maybe she forgives you easily, but you're her little boy.  She won't be so easy on us.\"Cole\nshrugged as he got up.  I took the camera from the backpack and\nstuffed it into my pocket and went and got the other memory card that\nhad the first video we'd taken of Elias as a wolf when I'd measured and\nweighed him.  Needless to say I left behind the card that had the\nvideo of us having sex.We all went to the back door and put on\nour shoes and then piled into the truck and I drove over to Cole's\nhouse.  As we pulled up in front of the house and I shut off the\ntruck I saw a bus pulling away down the street.  A tired and run down\nwoman who looked to be about thirty five was walking slowly back from the bus stop.  She must have just got\noff the bus.\"Hey!  That's my mom!  She's early!\" Cole shouted.He\njumped out of the truck and ran down the sidewalk towards her.  I\nsighed and got out of the truck.  This was the moment of\ndoom for me.  I didn't know how she'd react, but it couldn't be\ngood.  Elias sat in the truck like he was afraid to get out and\nface her.  I couldn't really blame him.  When I reached the\nsidewalk I looked over and smiled at him encouragingly and he\nreluctantly opened the door and got out to join me.\"Hi, mom!\" Cole shouted as he ran towards her.She\nsaw him running down the sidewalk and she went completely pale like she'd\nseen a ghost.  \"Cole?\" she asked in a shaky voice.She\nwas carrying a small bag with a few groceries\nin one hand and a big handbag in the other, and after looking closely\nto ensure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her, she dropped both like\nshe'd forgotten she had them, then she fell to her knees.A\nhuge smile spread across her face as she became certain it was really\nher boy and she shouted, \"Cole!\"Her arms opened up as he reached her and she scooped him in\nand held on tight.  I suddenly remembered the fact that he was a\nfair bit healthier now than he'd been before and it had to be a bit of\na shock to her.  I didn't know how long it had been since Cole was\nlast able to run and jump into her arms but it must have been a while, judging by her\nreaction.Tears streamed down her face as she continued to hug\nhim hard and he wiggled, trying to get free.  She finally\neased off and let him go and he pushed away from her and excitedly\nsaid, \"Come and meet Jake and Elias!\"He grabbed her hand and\nshe was forced to stand up and let him tow her down the sidewalk\ntowards us.  She didn't even look up at us as they approached.  She was looking\ndown at her boy the whole time with a puzzled but overjoyed look on her\nface.They reached us and Cole said, \"This is my mom.  Her\nname is Grace.  Mom, that's Jake and that's Elias.  Remember\nwhen I told you about my chain breaking on my bike and a man fixed it\nand made sure I got home safe?  This is him!\"She looked at\nboth of us in turn and smiled and nodded, but said nothing.  She\nwas likely speechless about the change in her son and needed to absorb\nit for a minute or two.\"It's nice to meet you,\" I said, \"Would you mind if we went inside?  We really need to talk to you about Cole.\"Her smile faltered for a moment and she asked, \"Is it about the change in him?\"I nodded and said, \"We'll explain it all.\"\"I'll go get your things,\" Elias offered, and he ran back down the sidewalk to get the bags she'd dropped.She\nled us to the front door of the house slowly and just a little\nunsteadily.  She was visibly shaking from the shock of this and I\nhoped she'd be OK when she was hit with all of the news.We\nentered the house and took off our shoes and she led us into the living\nroom.  Elias and I sat on the couch and she settled into a large\nchair while Cole just stood beside her.  She looked at Cole for a\nlong while, then she turned to me and steeled herself and asked, \"What\nexactly happened to my boy?\"I said, \"I don't know quite how to\nexplain this so as not to shock you too much, but he's gone through a\nchange.  It will affect him for the rest of his life...\"\"I'm a werewolf, mom!\" Cole shouted excitedly before I could finish.She\nlooked at him and smiled indulgently, then she looked back at me, and\nthen Elias.  We both sat quietly and straight faced.  She saw\nhow nervous we looked.  Her smile faltered again and she looked back at\nher son and said, \"Of course you're not a werewolf, Cole.  That's\njust in stories.  Maybe you could let Jake explain to me what\nhappened to you.\"\"Aww,\nI'm telling you what happened.  I got bit by Elias and now I'm a\nwerewolf!  It's so cool, mom!\"She looked back at me and said, \"Please, tell me what happened to Cole.\"\"I\nguess the best way to approach this is to just tell it like it is,\" I\nsaid, \"Cole is telling you the truth.  Elias is a werewolf.\n He bit Cole in a moment when he wasn't himself and didn't know\nwhat he was doing.  That made Cole change too.  He's a\nwerewolf now.\"She began to look a bit flustered and angry,\n\"You're joking.  There's no such thing as werewolves.  It's\nimpossible!  What the hell really happened?!\"\"Is it any\nmore impossible than your son suddenly being able to run and jump\nagain?  Look at him.  He's healthier than any eleven year old\nI've ever seen.  What could cause that much change overnight?\"She looked her son over again and then looked\nback at me, but said nothing.  She seemed to be running it through\nher head to see if she could find some way to make it fit.\"I\nknow it's hard to believe, but I can show you that it's true.  I\nhave a video of Elias as a werewolf.  He looks just like a wolf,\nbut way bigger.  You'll see that he's impossibly huge.  I\nalso have a video of him changing, though I can only show you part of\nit.  The video even shows Cole getting attacked and then changing,\nbut I don't think you should watch that part until you're well used to\nthe idea.\"\"It hurts really bad to change, mom, but not for long\nat all.  I feel better than ever after I change.  It's\nawesome!  You don't need to worry about it,\" Cole said.Grace\nlooked at her boy again, then back at me.  She seemed to be\nstruggling with the idea, but wasn't ready to accept something so\nbizarre and preposterous.  The sudden and equally impossible\nchange in Cole's physical condition was just as preposterous though, and undeniable, so\nshe wasn't quite ready to dismiss out of hand the possibility of him being affected by something supernatural.\"Show me,\" she said.I nodded and pulled out the camera and stuck in the memory card that had the first video we'd taken of Elias.\"I'm\ngoing to show you the video we took of Elias when he was in his\nwolf form.  He'd never seen himself properly so I wanted to show\nhim what he looked like.  It was the first time I saw him that way\ntoo, so I may say some expletives that Cole shouldn't really hear.\n Would it be alright if I played it with no sound?\" I asked.She nodded.I cued up the video and got up and went over to her chair and crouched\nbeside it and I pressed the play button to start it up, and then muted\nthe sound.Grace\nwatched the small screen on the back of the camera as I moved into view\nin the video and turned to face the sound I'd heard coming from the\nwoods, and she gasped loudly as the massive wolf emerged.  She\nreached over and grabbed the camera from me and held it closer as she\nwatched, mouth agape, as the impossibly huge wolf walked up to me and\nI dropped to my knees, showing Elias's true size in relation to me.\n I was ready to snatch the camera out of her hand if she tried to\nun-mute the video.  I didn't want her to hear the things I was\nsaying to Elias.She continued to watch, but said nothing for a bit, and then finally she half whispered, \"He's so beautiful.\"She\nwatched as I balanced Elias on the scale and he was standing taller\nthan me and she looked over at Elias who was still sitting on the couch\nand said, \"You expect me to believe that the huge animal in the video\nis this boy?\"Elias said, \"It's me.  We can prove it to you\neasily, but if you really want to see for sure you can watch the video\nwe took last night.  It shows me going through the change.\"\"It's\ntrue, mom!  That big dog is Elias.  The night I broke my\nbike chain and Jake fixed it for me, I saw him.  I didn't tell you that\ntime because Jake asked me to keep Elias a secret.  I just thought\nhe was a really cool dog.  He did arithmetic!  Now I know why he\ncould do it.  It's really him!\" Cole said.She glanced at\nher boy and then back at the video.  She could see Elias nodding\nand shaking his head at me while I spoke to him.  It finally came\nto the point where he'd rolled his eyes and turned to lick his privates\nand I reached over and took the camera from her and said, \"That's where\nthe video ends.  I can show you the other one if you want, but\nI'll warn you it's hard to look at.\"\"This is all impossible.  I just can't believe it.  I have to see it,\" she said.\"Do you mind if I show it to her, Elias?  She'll see you nude.\"He nodded his head and said, \"It's fine.  She needs to see.\"\"Cole, could you go sit next to Elias please?  I don't want you to see this just yet,\" I said.\"Aww, can't I watch it?\" he begged.\"No, Cole.  Go sit with your friend, please,\" Grace requested.\"You\nhave a right to see it, Cole, but I really think you should wait a\nwhile and get used to what's happened to you before you see this,\" I\nsaid.\"Fine,\" he moped, and then he went over to the couch to join Elias.I\nturned back to Grace and said, \"There's a point during the change where\nElias loses control.  He's not himself anymore.  He's a\nmindless beast halfway between being a boy and being a wolf.  He\ndoesn't know who he is and he doesn't know who anyone else is.\n He's full of pain and rage.  He's dangerous at that point.\n Because he's in the middle of the change, if he bites someone\nthey will begin to change too.  He would never hurt your boy, or\nanyone, intentionally.  It was bad luck that Cole happened\nto come to him right at that point...\"\"I was looking for you!\"\nCole interrupted from the couch, \"I kept going back there every night\ntrying to find you guys again but I couldn't remember exactly where the\nplace in the woods was that I found you last time.  I finally\nfound it again last night and I was so happy to see Elias there, but\nthen I saw he was hurt so I went to see if I could help.  That's\nwhen he attacked me.\"I nodded and said, \"Like I said, it was\nbad luck that you came right at that moment.  I should have warned you better not to ever try to find\nus again.  It never occurred to me that you might do that.\"Cole shrugged and said, \"I guess you don't know me yet.  It doesn't matter if you warned me.  I wouldn't listen.\"I chuckled and shook my head, \"Well, you're a kid so I should have expected that and we should have been a lot more careful.\"I\nturned to Cole's mother again and said, \"When Elias is in the process of changing, that's the only time that he's\ndangerous.  If he bit\nsomeone when he was a wolf they wouldn't change.  Anyhow, I\nwanted to explain that to you first, because this video keeps on going\nand you'll see Cole come into the picture.  I think I should stop\nit before that, but if you want, I can run it all the way through.\n I don't think you will be up to seeing Cole go through that.\n The change is exceedingly painful and it's really hard to watch.\"\"I don't care.  I have to see it all,\" she insisted.\"OK,\njust try to keep in mind when you see him going through all that pain,\nhe came out of it fine.  It's intense, but fairly brief.\"\"It's really OK, mom.  It hurts bad, but as soon as it's over I feel better than I ever felt before,\" Cole added.She nodded impatiently and said, \"Show it to me, please.\"I cued up the video and quickly fast-forwarded past the strip tease\nthat Elias had done and his subsequent masturbation, and I paused it\nwhen he had settled onto his knees and was just about to change.\n I pressed the play button and handed her the camera.She watched\nfor a moment and glanced up a couple of times at Elias on the couch to\nverify that it was the same boy in the video.  Elias in the video\nsuddenly stood up and hunched over in pain and the change began.\n Grace's eyes went wide in horror as she watched the boy's\nbody begin to bend and expand and twist into the new shape.  Her\nmouth hung open and she began to grimace and grunt lightly as though\nshe were feeling some of Elias's pain right along with him.\"Oh\nmy God, it's really true,\" she whispered in awe as the change was\nnearly complete and Elias the wolf had expanded to his full size.I\nreached in and pressed pause and told her, \"He's almost done changing.\n This is the point where Cole comes in.  Are you sure you\nwant to see it?\"She looked over at her son sitting on the\ncouch.  Cole was grinning back at her.  She glanced at Elias\nand he was watching her with interest, waiting to see what she would\nsay.\"I think I have to see it,\" she insisted.\"Go\nahead,\njust keep in mind, Elias didn't know what he was doing.  He's\ncompletely harmless and he's fully himself when he's completed the\nchange.  You'll see Cole get hurt bad, but when he changes, all of\nthat damage is wiped away.  When he changes back to being a boy,\nhe comes back absolutely perfect, as you can see.\"She\nnodded and pressed the play button to get the video\nrolling again.  I watched her carefully as Cole came into view in\nthe video and Elias-wolf lunged at him and bit his arm.  She\nseemed unusually calm as her boy scrambled away as fast as he could to\nsave his own life.  She continued to watch and she jerked a couple\nof times\nwhen she saw Elias tear a strip out of Cole's calf muscle, and when\nCole fell from the tree to hit the ground as the change started to\nravage his body.  She looked up at her son several times to see\nhim grinning back at her from the couch, and I think that was what was\ngiving her the strength to handle what she was seeing in the video.\n She watched the whole thing play out right up to the point where Cole\nwas a wolf and he ran off into the woods in panic.  Then she saw\nElias come back into the picture and then run off into the woods after\nCole, then she saw\nme come into the picture as I looked at the mess at the tree and\nfinally come back to the camera and the video stopped.\"You weren't there when it happened?\" she calmly asked.\"No,\nI wasn't in the clearing with them.\n It's too dangerous, so I was coming on my bike down the path while\nElias was changing.  I was trying to make sure the coast was clear and\nthat nobody else came down the path and went off into the woods.  I had\nno idea Cole had got there ahead of me.  The plan was for me to arrive\njust after the change to collect the camera and\nbring it back home.\"She nodded and said, \"You couldn't have\nhelped him then.  It's not really your fault.  It wasn't\nElias's fault either.  Neither one of you had any idea he would go\nthere.  Was it that hard for him again when he changed back?  Will it always hurt him so much?\"I nodded and said, \"Yes, I'm sorry.  He's a tough little guy and he handled it like a real champ.  I'm impressed with him.\"\"Did he change back in the woods?  Was he alone then?\" she asked.\"Jake\nwas with me when I changed back, mom.  He held me and he talked to me.\n He made it so much easier.  I could have hurt him bad, but he stayed\nwith me anyways.  He's awesome!\" Cole exclaimed.She smiled at\nher son, then at me, and she said, \"Thank you for that.  I can see that\nhe came through it fine, but the thought of him going through that\nalone is what really bothers me.  I'm glad you had the decency to help\nhim through it even though you were taking a risk to do it.\"She then turned to look at Elias and said, \"I could see the\npain you were going through.  I understand that you were in a\nrage.  You didn't know what you were doing.  I don't blame\nyou.\"I saw tears brimming in Elias's eyes as she forgave him, but he was too choked up to speak.\"It's good of you to be so understanding,\" I told her, \"but the truth is we are\nat fault.  Elias and I both.  We knew how dangerous he was\nand yet we ignored that fact in our curiosity and our desire to record\nthe process and see it happen.  It was reckless and stupid and\nCole and you will both be paying the price for the rest of your\nlives.  I'm so sorry about all this.\"She\ndidn't look angry, she just seemed a bit dazed by all of this.  I\ncouldn't figure out why she wasn't freaking out yet.  Was she in\ntoo much shock?  She should be ready to kill us right now for what\nwe did to her boy.\"What does it all mean?\" she asked, \"How will it affect my son besides the obvious change in him?\"\"When\nhe goes back through the change to being a boy, it's like he regrows\ninside himself and he is perfect and pristine at the end of it.\n From now on, he will always grow back to the exact stage of\ndevelopment he was at when he was first bitten.\n You can see that he's like a boy who grew up without ever getting\na scratch on him.  He's physically perfect.  That's why his\nlimp is gone and his muscles are better developed.  I should warn\nyou so you don't get shocked when you see it, his foreskin is back too,\nand his equipment is a bit bigger than it was down there and he's much\nfurther along through puberty.  It seems to be part of the change and\nElias was affected the same way.  Any fillings he might have had are\ngone.  Any scars he\nhad or anything at all that was wrong with him physically would be\nerased...\"She got a shocked look and interrupted me and asked, \"Anything?\"I nodded, \"As far as I know, yes, anything.\"\"Even a genetic problem?\" she asked.I\nshrugged, \"I don't know about that.  I doubt it, to be honest.\n His genes don't change.  Not as far as I know, anyways, and\ncertainly not significantly.  That's why he looks exactly the\nsame with the same eye color and hair color and height and voice and\neverything.  I imagine if he had a genetic problem it would stay\nwith him.\"\"But every time he changes back, he will look just like he does right now?\"\"Yes.\"\"How often does he change?  Is it only on the full moon, like last night?\" she asked.\"No,\nI'm afraid not.  He'll change any time the moon is up and the sun\nis down.  He'll change back to a boy when the moon goes down or\nthe sun comes up.  His change will track the lunar cycle.\n Your lives will be much more complicated now.\n There's something else important, too, and really it's the\nbiggest problem with all of this and the hardest thing for you to have\nto live with.  He will never grow beyond his current age\nphysically.  He'll never become a man.  His body will never\nfully develop as his genes had planned for him.  He'll never be\nable\nto fall in love and get married and give you grandchildren.\n He'll never have a chance at a normal life now.  I'm so\nsorry, Grace.\"She looked at me strangely for a moment as tears\nbegan to well in her eyes.  Then she stood from her chair and\nturned to face me.  I stood up and braced myself for the slap that\nwas likely about to come my way, determined to hold my ground and take\nwhatever punishment she chose to throw at me.  Tears started to\nstream from her eyes as she came toward me and I flinched as her arms\ncame up, but to my shock she wrapped them around my neck and hugged me\nhard as she began to cry in earnest.  I put my arms around her and\npatted her back gently, waiting for her to get it out of her system.\n It had to be difficult to hear that your child would never have a\nnormal life, to know you'll never see him grow into the man he was\nmeant to be.  I expected a lot of anger though, not this.\n This was somehow harder to take.  She must be weeping in sadness for the loss of their future.  We had taken it from them.\"I'm so sorry we did this to you.  I know it's not fair,\" I said.Her sobs finally began to abate and she managed to mumble the words, \"I don't know how to thank you.\"I thought I'd misheard her and I said, \"Sorry?\"She\npulled away from me and faced Elias as she sniffled and wiped at her\nnose.  She was smiling broadly as she said, \"Thank you, Elias.\n Thank you both.  You have no idea what you've done for us.\"\"I told you she'd be OK!\" Cole said as he jumped from the couch and ran to his mother.She\ncrouched and scooped him into her arms and held him tightly for a while\nand then he pulled away and said, \"Isn't it great, mom?\"She\nsmiled and nodded at him as she put her hand on her boy's head and\nstroked it and said, \"It's wonderful, sweetheart.  It's still so hard\nto believe.  It's like a dream come true.\"I was completely\nflummoxed at this point.  There was something I was missing here.\n Why the hell was she happy about this?  She looked up at me\nand saw the confusion in my face and she stood and said, \"Please, sit.\"I went over to sit next to Elias as she sat back down on the chair.\"My son has ALS,\" she said, \"Lou Gehrig's disease.  He was diagnosed eight months ago.  Do you know what that is?\"I\nwas shocked at the news, but I nodded and said, \"It's a genetic\nproblem.  It affects the motor neurons and causes muscle atrophy.\n I don't know a lot of details about it, but I thought it only\nhappened to adults.\"She\nnodded and said, \"That's normally the\ncase.  It can show up in children though.  It happened to\nCole.  We don't know why.  They did tests on me and couldn't\nfind any markers.  I didn't exactly live very well when I was\nyoung.  I was brought up through foster care and had been abused.\n I was wild and out of control when I was a teenager and it\ncarried on through my life into my twenties.  Cole saved me.\n His birth changed everything and it brought me back down to\nEarth.  It was so devastating to get the news of his condition\nwhen he was diagnosed.  I honestly don't know who his father is so\nthey couldn't\ntest him, but it didn't really matter.  Only ten percent of ALS\ncases are familial anyhow, the\nrest they just can't explain.  It wouldn't really help to know why\nhe got it, there's no treatment in any case.  You saw how Cole was\nbefore, his\nlimp and his frailty.\"I nodded again.\"He was losing\nmore and more of the muscle response in his left leg and it was\nstarting to show in his right leg too.  He was even starting to\nlose some of the functionality of his arms though it wasn't showing\nmuch yet.  The muscles stop responding as well to commands and eventually they just\nstart to atrophy down to nothing from not getting any use at all.\n The process was going to continue to the point where he'd be in a\nwheelchair by the time he was twenty years old, and he'd be unable to move\naround on his own.  Odds are he would have died of respiratory\nfailure before he reached twenty five.  It's unusual for anyone to\nmake it much past ten years after being diagnosed,\" She said.I was\nin shock.  My head began to spin as I thought about what it meant,\nand then it all fell into place for me.  The relief was immense as\nI realized we hadn't ruined their lives at all, just the opposite.\n We'd sort of unintentionally fixed a problem that there had been\nno possible solution for, and given them a future together that they\nhad no chance at before.  He still had ALS and that would never\nchange since it was in his genes, but it's a degenerative disease.\n His body regrew to perfection, then the degeneration started\nagain, but there was no way it would ever show again.  There\nwouldn't be time for it to weaken him before the next change would\nhappen and he'd be reset to perfection again.  He would be strong\nand healthy forever!Grace smiled at me as more tears slipped\ndown her cheeks and she said, \"Do you see?  The plan his genes had for him was horrible!  You didn't take away\nhis chance at a normal life, you gave him a chance at life he never could have hoped for!  You saved us both!  You have no idea\nhow hard it was for me to watch my healthy little boy begin to\ndeteriorate right before my eyes.  To know that he'd never be able\nto run and jump and play like a normal kid again.  To know that he\nwas only going to suffer more and more as the years went on.  He\nnever would have been able to grow up and get married and have kids of\nhis own, so you've made nothing worse in that regard.  You've made\nhim healthy and strong.  Look at him!  He's my healthy little\nboy again, and he'll be that way forever!\"She\ngrinned at Cole and wiped tears from her face\nagain, and then she continued, \"We were in a downward spiral.  The\nmedical bills were mounting out of control already and there was no way\nI could keep paying them much longer, even though they would only get\nworse as his need for physiotherapy increased.  I had no idea what\nI was\ngoing to do.  I was working two jobs already and looking for a way\nto squeeze in a third.  I couldn't even afford a babysitter so I\nleft him on his own even though I knew I shouldn't.  I also knew\nthat eventually he wouldn't be able to take care of himself at all and\nI would have to pay for someone to care for him, or stay home and do it\nmyself.  I couldn't afford either option.  I would do\nanything to try to keep him more comfortable as he got worse and the\ncost would simply continue to climb.  I was at my wits end.\n I was talking to a realtor to put the house up for sale.  I\nalready sold my car months ago.  We were in really bad shape.\"\"You\nwon't have to worry about that anymore, Grace,\" I said, \"We did this to\nCole so the least we can do is offer to help you in any way we\ncan.  I think you should go ahead and sell this place and come\nlive with Elias and me for a while until you get fully back on your\nfeet.  Our house is a lot bigger than we'll ever need and we've\nalready modified it to help with Elias's condition so it will be better\nfor Cole too.  You're going to have to learn the routines\nnecessary to keep yourself safe.  You don't need to work two jobs\nanymore either.  One job will be plenty.  You need more time\nwith your son.  You don't even have to work at all if you don't\nwant to.  It might be best for you to be at home with him all the\ntime.  He can't go to school anymore for obvious reasons.\n You might want to continue his education yourself.  We'll\nfigure out what happens next at some time in the future.\"More\ntears spilled down her face and she said, \"I don't know what to say.\n It's such a generous offer.  It would help us immensely.\n Thank you very much.\"\"Wow!  I get to come live with\nyou guys?  That's awesome!\" Cole exclaimed, \"Do you have a bike,\nElias?  We could go riding together!  Oh my God, my bike!\n It's down in the woods!\"I chuckled and said, \"Don't worry\nabout it, Cole.  We'll get you a new one.  Your mom should\nhave one too so she can ride with you sometimes.\"\"I\ncan't let\nyou spend so much on us,\" Grace said, \"You're doing enough just by\nletting us stay with you until I can sell the house and climb out of my\ndebts.  I intend to hold on to one of my night jobs.  That\nway I would be with Cole during the day and you and Elias could be with\nhim at night.  You don't need to start buying things for us.\"\"Please,\nit's nothing at all, Grace.  I've been\nlucky with my career.  Money really isn't an issue for me at all.\n I have no family other than Elias and I'll have no use for\nthe money after I'm gone.  Better to spend and enjoy it.\"\"So, Elias is your son?\" she asked.\"No.  I suppose I should explain that before you make any decision about moving in to our home.  We're a couple.\"She got a shocked look on her face and looked over at Elias, then back at me, \"How old is he?\"\"He's seventeen, but he was bitten when he was fourteen.\"She\nthought about it and then looked me straight in the eye and said, \"I'm\nnot going to beat around the bush.  I realize Elias is older than\nhe looks and given his situation he'll never look older than fourteen,\nbut I'm not completely comfortable with it.  I think you're both\nfree to do as you wish if you're happy, but I have to ask.  Is my\nson safe around you?\"\"What the heck are you talking about, mom?  Of course I'm safe with him,\" Cole said.I\nblushed at the implication of what she was saying, but I realized she\nhad a right to ask it.  It was her duty as a mother, really.  I'd\nalready had thoughts in that direction, but I had no intention of\nacting on them.  Cole is just a little kid and it wouldn't be right.\"Yes, he's completely safe.  You have nothing to worry about,\" I said.\"I'm\nhappier than I've ever been in my life,\" Elias said with a hint of\nanger in his voice, \"Jake is the best thing that ever happened to me.\n He treats me with nothing but love and respect.  He means\neverything to me and nobody could ever mean more.\"She thought\nabout it for a bit and then her look softened and she said, \"I'm sorry.\n I really shouldn't have even asked.  You've been nothing but\ngood to us.  It was just instinct really.  You seem like a\ngood man and I feel like I should just trust you until you give me\nreason not to.  I accept your offer.\"\"Awesome!  Can we move today, mom?\" Cole asked.Grace looked over at me and I smiled and nodded.She looked back at Cole and said, \"I don't see why not.  We could pack up some clothes and go over right away if you want.\"\"Yay!\" Cole shouted as he got up and ran off to his bedroom to start pulling clothes out of his dresser.Grace\nslumped back into her chair and smiled at her son as he raced off.\n She looked at me again and said, \"This is all such a shock, but a\ngood one.  I think I might faint when the relief of Cole's medical\ncondition being over really hits me.  I've been working all night\nand I'm exhausted.  Have you got a spare bed set up already or\nshould I sleep here before we go over?\"\"Don't worry about it,\nGrace.  There are two spare bedrooms that are completely\nfurnished.  You and Cole will each have your own.  You can\ncrash as soon as we get over there.\"She smiled and said, \"You really are a good man.  Do you live far?\"\"No,\nnot at all.  Walking distance almost.  You can just grab one\nchange of clothes for now if you like.  We can come back and forth\neasily to get the rest later on or as needed.\"\"I\nthink I'll do\njust that.  I'll take just a few clothes and our toothbrushes for now\nand we'll head\nover to your house and I can have a bath and then sleep.  I honestly\nwouldn't mind putting this house behind me as soon as possible, paying\noff my debts, and moving forward with our new life.\"I\nnodded and she got up and followed Cole down the hall and went into her\nbedroom to grab a suitcase and put some clothes in it, then she went to\nhelp Cole select just enough clothes to last a couple of days.\"I\nhope she can get over us being a couple,\" Elias said after she left the\nroom, \"I won't want her living with us if she can't.  I know we\nsort of messed things up for them, but we fixed them too.  I don't\nwant her messing up our lives now.\"\"I\nthink she's over it already,\nElias,\" I said, \"Don't stress over it until it becomes a real problem.\n It's your house just as much as mine now, so if it doesn't work\nfor you she'll have to go, but I really think it will be fine.\n She seems like a really nice woman.  I think she'll be OK\nafter she's seen us as a couple for a while.  Give her a chance.\n It's just until they get back on their feet and learn how to deal\nwith Cole's condition well enough to go out on their own.\"Elias\nnodded and said, \"I guess so.  It sure is a relief to know we\ndidn't really ruin their lives.  We sort of saved Cole in a way.  He's\na pretty cool little guy.  It's gonna be great to have company all the\ntime, even when I'm a wolf.\"I\nnodded and said, \"Yeah, we got lucky.  We need to really make sure\nthere's never a chance of this happening again though.  We wouldn't be so\nlucky next time.\"Cole and Grace came back out, each carrying a small suitcase, and we all went out to the truck and loaded it up and got in.As\nI got behind the wheel and then looked around to ensure everyone was\nstrapped in, I saw Cole grinning at his mom, then at Elias, then at me.\n We were all his family now in a way, and he seemed utterly\nthrilled with the prospect of his new life.You could almost say\nthat Elias and Cole were related by blood now and they would be linked to\neach other for the rest of their lives, which could be very long indeed.I\ndidn't know how well this was going to work or how long it would be\nthis way, but I felt obligated to give it every possible chance of\nsuccess.  Helping them settle into their new lives and learn to\ndeal with the complications was the least we could do for them.I started the truck and put it in gear and headed out.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/688110-love-and-lycanthropy-chapter-5.json"}