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“And so we come to the end of the tour of Kool labs, the experimental section where our inventions are either too dangerous or undergoing development," droned the voice of a man clad in a white coat with his name tag identifying him as Roland. A tall figure and bald head with a greying beard certainly lived up the stereotype of a scientist as he showed a mostly bored looking class around a laboratory on a college field trip.

“Oh hey, hey!" the only student that seemed to find all this exciting jumped with her hand in the air; a stick of a girl with short ginger hair, freckles dotted her pink skinned face which housed a pair of pale blue eyes set behind a set of wire framed glasses. “Hey, what is that domed device in the back?" she asked, pointing towards a domed device, a number of wires and tubes feeding into the back and seemed to have a blender-like set up on the inside, separated by a second layer of glass.

“Oh that? It is a prototype of a molecular scrambler. It was designed to fuse the atoms of two objects together but was deemed too dangerous so has been decommissioned for scrapping," the tall, lab coat wearing stiff explained in his droning tone.

“Aww, can't I get to see a demonstration? Please?" the young woman begged before the tutor with them glared at her.

“Tina Dorsy," the cross voice of their tutor came, making her cringe, “that's enough. No means no," he scolded her as Tina looked sullenly at her feet, provoking raucous laughter from a few of the guys in the group. They were soon silenced with a glare from the tutor but one of them, a particular nasty bully by the name of Ashly; big, beefy and a cruel face helped to fill out his character.

As the rest left, he quickly came up behind her and put a hand over her mouth before whispering in a nasty tone, “You want to see that machine work huh?" before dragging the small girl to the darkened room.

Throwing open the door to the molecular scrambler, he chucked her in and closed the door before finding the power socket and turned it on.

“Hey! Let me out!" Tina cried out, muffled by the glass door as Ashly left, laughing evilly.

“Who knows, it might scramble yourself so you actually look like a woman you flat chested bitch," he said as he ran out laughing to catch up to the rest.

Little did any of them know that the machine was still on its last run set up. And as the machine hummed to life Tina banged her little fists against the glass, screaming at the top of her lungs but to no avail.

“STARTING PROGRAM" the machine sounded loudly before her ears became deafened as the machine hummed loudly.

“It's okay. it-it is okay. So long as there is nothing compatible to blend myself with I should be okay, I should be..." she paused mid thought as she saw a few hairs stuck in her jacket, realising with horror those were the family's cat hairs. She usually hugged him in the morning before heading off for college. The poor girl was labeled a crazy cat girl by the students; needless to say she wasn't popular.

As the machine hummed ever louder, an alarm was sounded as a few scientists heard the clamour, followed by the college group and a frantic tutor.

“Tina?" He called out, having noticed only when the alarm sounded she was missing.

As the interior of the machine began to glow in the darkened room he just made the outlines of Tina as her hand slid down the glass screen. “TINA!"

He rushed into the room through the door and made to unplug it, only to have two scientists restrain him.

“No!" the tall scientist from before warned with a shake of his head. “Do that and you will kill her, mangled beyond recognition, it is best to let it finish and hope for the best now..."

The crowd watched on with baited breath. Well the adults did, the students ranged from concerned to gleeful onlooking by a few bullies.

When the hum of the machine died down then stopped, the scientists hurriedly threw the door open.

There, laying unconscious on the floor was a changed girl.

No longer all human, her ears had morphed into the familiar triangle shape of a cat and had moved up her head. Her head was still topped with ginger hair but her face had pushed out into a more feline shape. Her body was a little more bulked up and the legs looked a little more bowed at the joints and covering her form was a thin covering of black fur, ending with her newly formed tail.

The tutor pushed his way through to look at the naked form, the clothes seemingly had dissolved in the process.

He looked on with shock before picking her up, only to see that she was now minus her lady parts and instead had been replaced by a very male feline sheath.

“Everyone go straight back to the bus. And if I find who was responsible for this they will be facing more than expulsion from the college mark my words," he said in a low and edgy tone before turning to the scientists.

“Can it be reversed?" he asked them though he had little hope.

A slow shake of their heads confirmed what he knew of genetics. Easy enough to change, near to impossible to bring them back to how they were.

“She will, or he will have to live with what has happened...though sadly I don't hold out too much hope for him now. Society will likely view him a freak and even the police will turn a blind eye to him. You would be better off leaving him with us, least he showed interest so we could protect him and train him to be an assistant."

“Out of the question!" The tutor angrily growled before turning around with the changed girl in his arms. “I am taking him home to his family and will explain what happened. And for his sake I hope you had a camera recording in here to find the perpetrator." Before they could say anything else he marched out of the double doors and the lab itself before driving back to drop the students off before trying to figure what to say to the parents when they saw her...like this.

Propping him up in the front seat of the mini bus, the tutor draped his large coat over Tina's form before heading straight back to school.

*

“This has got to be some sort of a joke right?" A man in his early fifties said as he saw his former daughter. He had short brown hair shaved right back, was of average build and wore a grey smart suit, having just rushed home when he got the call from his wife that there had been an accident with their daughter.

His wife just held the unconscious form of their once daughter in her arms and shook her head sending her mid length ginger hair flying about, the same colour as the now unbound hair of the strange cat hybrid.

Giving a long, loud sigh out, the father ran a hand over his face and rather large nose before the family cat came rubbing round his ankles.

Picking the all black feline up, he compared the wriggling feral to this cat man that the tutor had said was their daughter before placing him down and gave a huge sigh into his hands.

Their cat jumped onto the sofa where the mother held Tina before sniffing him, clearly confused about how he could smell himself but then scented Tina, though somewhat altered, and settled on his belly.

That was confirmation enough before he turned to the tutor.

“At this point I'm not sure whether to hit you or thank you…but we are glad she is still alive. Please though...we need some space to work things out," he said, opening the door to let him out.

“I am truly sorry...we will do all we can to find the student responsible," the tutor said, only receiving a nod from the parent before walking out and closing the door behind himself.

The pair looked at each other, and then to what had become of their daughter.

The mother buried her head in Tina's head hair, trying to keep hysterics at bay when her husband put a worried hand on her shoulder.

“It will be okay...somehow," he said in a none-too certain voice.

Lifting her head his wife looked between crying and laughing. “Oh of course it will be fine; you always wanted a son after all!" She said in a shrill tone before Tina moaned and began moving.

“Shh," he put a finger to his lips and squeezed her shoulder tenderly but with a firmness that told her to be quiet.

Tears running down her eyes, she nodded and with a determined effort, she pulled herself together.

“Mom...dad...I had the most awful dream..." Tina mumbled, stirring with his eyes shut still. “I dreamed that...wait. Why do I sound like a guy?" he said, pausing at the sound of his voice.

“Shh, it's okay sweetie. You just had a feverish dream. That's all," his mum said, putting as much reassurance in her voice as possible. “Rest a bit more dear...things will seem better tomorrow."

No sooner had she finished though when Tina's snores could be heard.

His father gently picked him up and carried Tina to his bedroom.

Carefully closing the door to, he found himself in the arms of his wife as she pressed a tearful face into his shoulder.

“What is going to become of him...our Tina?" she sobbed.

Gently stroking her fiery mane of hair, he just held her close. “We will just have to be there for her...him, until we figure something out."

*

The dawn broke with the sound of birdsong and the sunlight streaming through Tina's thin bedroom curtains.

Waking up with a groan, she remembered having such a funny dream. In it she was chasing a mouse through some tall grass before happening across another cat in the foliage. But in the dream she was male, and this cat she met female who seemed to be in heat.

The dream had left her very confused as she pulled round, feeling her ears heat up at the mating scene. Why had it felt so good?

Still drowsy, she felt like she had slept for a week with how sore and stiff she felt as she eased out of bed.

Walking up to her dresser she looked down to open the drawer before looking into the mirror...and froze.

This couldn't be right, right? Surely the image looking back was still her dreaming?

Tina pulled at one of the many hairs now covering her body, only to wince at the pain, her yellow eyes squeezing shut tight before opening and looked her form over.

Checking lower over her naked form she confirmed her worst fears...she was now a tom cat.

*

A piercing, male scream sounded from Tina's bedroom followed by the rush of feet as her parents shot to her bedroom.

“MUM, DAD!" Tina cried out, the poor thing confused and in near hysterics as he lay huddled and shaking on the floor.

“Shh, it's okay...it's okay Tina," his mum whispered soothingly, running a hand gently over his head.

“How? How is it okay? Tell me how? I am a freak and male!" He cried, looking at her through angry, tearful eyes.

“Look...I know it looks bad," his father started from the foot of the bed, “but there is a chance that it can be reversed."

“Reversed? This?" He gasped through the tears, feline ears laying flat against his head. “I know about genetic engineering and I know it would be dangerous to even attempt another try. I am STUCK like this!"

“Look...we will do all we can to help you Tina, I promise you"

“Leave me..." Tina growled softly at them, grabbing his mothers arm to lift it away before she gasped in pain.

Turning to look, he saw her clutching her arm where his new claws had sunk in and blood ran down her arm.

“Mum...I'm sorry..." Tina said, reaching a hand out before quickly retracting it under his body in case he hurt her any more.

“It isn't your fault Tina. Just...we are here if you need us okay?" His father said before gently guiding his wife out to tend to the cut.

Before closing the door, he looked round the corner of the door. “We love you Tina…no matter what you look like. And we will talk about if you know who did this to you so we can see justice brought."

With that he closed the bedroom door, turning the lights off in the process to leave Tina to himself.

As he lay there in a depressed stupor, Tina lost track of time. The hours rolled on by with his parents visiting him, checking if he was hungry, only to get no reply. He kept trying to fall asleep in the hope when he woke up it would have been a very horrible dream but no. Each time he opened his eyes he still had furry half-paws and a tail that kept twitching with anxiety.

He heard them talking as his parents came to bed, talking about what they could do.

He felt awful that he was causing them suffering along with his own. But he didn't know how to be happy any more. Sure he had never been a girly girl but he never wanted to be a boy, or a feline for that matter.

His door opened slowly, his new ears flicked at the faint creak but didn't make any move. Next was the weight of something jumping on his bed followed by a soft nuzzle into his nape.

His yellow eyes peered at him curiously, sniffing all over this strange creatures face before Tina's scent came through and curled against his chest, purring softly as if trying to assure everything is okay.

Curling an arm to pull him against his thin chest, Tina hiccuped before murky tears began running down his face, tears that finally found freedom after feeling numb for so long.

“Oh Jasper..." he sobbed, his face pressed into the back of the large black feline. “What do I do...what can I do?"

After a while, his sobs subsided with Jasper curled peacefully under his arm.

Rubbing at his eyes with the back of his soft furred hand, his head felt a little emptier now before sitting up from the bed and tried to dry the warm, wet patch he had made on Jaspers' back before shaking his head.

“This is HIS fault!" Tina flattened his ears to his skull with a low growl of anger sounding in his thin chest, “I remember what happened now. That bully Ashly! I always knew he was sick, the times he threatened to kill you. Oh he will pay, and I know just how to go about it...so long as the machine is not scrapped yet."

Opening the window to his bedroom, he leaned over to look at the floor. There wasn't much of a moon out but his enhanced vision saw nearly as clear as day now.

Dropping down, Tina stretched and felt his re-modified spine flex and tail lash uncontrollably. It was quite unnerving to have an extra appanage and twisting round to grab at it, he found he could twist his body almost half the way around.

Unnerved, he stood and took a few deep breaths, finding this aided in keeping his tail from twitching all over the place before checking himself.

Running a paw-hand over his face Tina realised he was just in the fur. “Not that any clothing would fit how I am now..." he muttered before sighing. It was late at night and unlikely to be anyone about apart from night shift workers.

Fortunately he knew the bully lived down a quiet road since the mini bus that picked them up that day had gone round all their houses.

And as luck would have it he also had recently taken his driving test so knew how to drive a car.

Silently opening the garage, he crept in and tried the car door handle but no luck, automatic locking had it shut tight.

But he did have a nice new set of claws to help him now.

Sliding two into the crack of the door he fiddled with the handle until he heard a clunk that signaled the doors were unlocked.

Climbing in through the driver's side, he hotwired the car and engaged the electric motor before quiet as a ghost, he drove it out. His mind set on one thing only now. Revenge on the one who ruined his life.

*

Tina found him waltzing down an avenue, half drunk and laughing with a few other friends that didn't look too friendly as they threw beer cans on the floor before picking up cat by its tail, causing the poor thing to screech and thrash as he dangled it.

“Oh man you should have seen her. I changed her from crazy cat girl to crazy cat monster!" He laughed nastily, his friends joining in though not in earnest.

All of a sudden his gang stopped upon seeing a large pair of yellow glowing eyes from a passing tree. With his black fur Tina seemed almost invisible in the shaded branches and relished as they cowered.

“Hey um, we should get back home. See you at college tomorrow," one said before they quickly scampered off, leaving him alone as he dropped the cat in fright.

“So, you think it is funny do you?" Tina growled before dropping down to the floor. “You think it funny to pick on creatures weaker than you? You think you can do what you want because might makes right?"

When he saw who it was he relaxed and grinned sadistically, “Oh it's only you. Shouldn't you be on the cover of papers as the local freak show or in a circus or something?" He laughed nastily before pushing by Tina, full of arrogance and confidence.

He was however surprised when he lashed an arm out to grab at his own. “You think this is all funny do you?" he growled lowly, sounding more like a panther then a cat. “Want to see how funny it is when I mess you up?"

“Let go, fucking freak!" Ashly cried out, swinging an arm to clobber him on the side of the head before his eyes widened as Tina easily dodged the fist before doubling over as he countered with a knee to the chest.

Ashly's eyes rolled into their sockets and fell forwards allowing Tina to strike his head, sending him out cold before dragging him into the car.

*

“Nnh," Ashly groaned as he woke up. “Hey mum, put the kettle on. I could use a good coffee with this hang over," he said before opening his eyes.

“Sorry sweetie," came Tina's light male voice, “but we're all out of coffee," a small grin crept over his muzzle as the bully's eyes went wide with alarm at seeing where he was.

“We're in Kool labs? How?" He said before banging on the cylinder of his prison. “LET ME OUT!" He roared.

“No can do Ashly. You see, you are a brute who thinks he can do what he wants because you are a large ape. And so I think it only fitting seeing you destroyed my life that I return the favour. And as for how I got in here, well lets say technology and I go hand in hand, and it was simple after I managed to learn the security system," he said, his voice cool and smooth.

“Okay, I-I'm sorry. Really sorry. Please, you don't want to sink to my level. Please let me out!" Ashly pleaded like a whipped dog.

“Oh no, because one of two things would happen: you would either try beating me up or make a run for the cops. Either way, it is too late to turn back for me now...or you."

With that Tina turned the machine on, the device humming to life as it powered up. “And as to what I am going to turn you into...well lets see how you like been turned into a freak. I found a cute, female mouse in one of the labs here and scattered some of its fur around you. Let's see how YOU like it when you are the victim."

“NO! LET ME OUT!" he screamed as she hit a button that read 'MERGE.' “FREAK! FUCKING MONSTER! I'LL KILL YOU!" He screamed as the drone started increasing in volume before the interior of the drum began glowing.

Tina looked on in satisfaction as his pounding and screaming quietened. When Tina was human the bully had been the focus of so much pain in her life. All those remarks about if she would watch tv on her glasses, if she was trans due to her nearly none existent bust. The times he had stolen her homework as his own for her to write out again or that time he and his gang cornered her in the women's bathroom during a field trip. He forced her to give him a blow job then made her drink from the toilet, saying tap water was for real people. And when Tina said she would go to the police, Ashly threatened to kill her cat Jasper.

“Now you will know what it is like you piece of shit!" Tina growled, his paw-hand in a tight fist at the memories.

As the whine of the machine died down and the glow faded inside the cylinder, the curled up form of a transformed mouse lay in a curled up, shivering ball.

“What-what have you done to me?" He, or rather she squeaked out as Ashly slowly uncurled and staggered to her feet, leaning on the inside of the container with his body trembling.

Tina noticed with some satisfaction that the bully seemed to have lost a good foot of height, coming more to his own level. And to top it off had a cute, pink slit that showed up well against her white fur and a row of nipples only just hidden by the fur; apart from the top row ending in B-cups that just stood out from the fur.

“Exactly what you deserved, don't like a taste of your own medicine huh?" Tina taunted back, his arms crossed and a self-satisfied look on his face, seeming even more pronounced with his feline appearance.

“YOU CHANGE ME, YOU CHANGE ME BACK THIS INSTANT!" Ashly roared, or more squeaked furiously out as she pushed off the container and charged towards Tina.

His yellow eyes widened in alarm at the charge, but instead of looking threatening, she just seemed slow and lumbering.

All too casually, Tina stepped out of the changed mouse girls tackle before grabbing from behind, wrapping an arm around her front to pin Ashly's arms and the other round the mid-section.

“Oh, this seems familiar doesn't it?" Tina said in a low, taunting tone, digging his short claws into her arms to halt the squirming. “You liked it before didn't you? Forcing me to suck you off in the toilets, pushing all the small people around in your gang. Let's see how you like been the mouse to be toyed around with by the big cat."

“No, please I'm sorry I'm so…" Ashly's protests were cut off as Tina pushed her up against the wall before throwing the mouse on her back and heavily sitting on her chest.

Reaching a hand down, Tina gently massaged his sheath, purring softly as the pink tip began to protrude through to opening. “Now, lick it," Tina demanded.

As Ashly shook his head, his small, pointed muzzle shut tight, Tina sighed before reaching forward and pulling on her large ears, pulling her head upwards to his cock and a squeak of pain sounding from her before he thrust his emerging cat cock into her muzzle.

“And I swear, you bite and I will eat you for lunch," Tina said in a tone that sent the mouse shivering in fright before slowly running her tongue over his tip.

“Mmh, good girl," Tina moaned out, still holding onto her ears but relieving some pressure as a reward.

More and more of his feline rod vanished into her muzzle and began to wonder just how big it actually was before she seemed to start struggling with the length.

As she made to pull away, Tina pulled her back up and scraped the tips of his claws over the thin ears, reminding her who was in charge now.

A terrified squeak sounded in her throat before obliging. Tina watched as she closed her eyes and began sucking, gagging now and again as he thrust before she adjusted to the weight and feel.

More and more the former bully took in her muzzle. More Tina felt himself warming up to the strange, new sensations coursing through his male form. Without even realizing it he had let go of her ears to help prop himself up.

And yet the look on her face wasn't one of someone forced, but someone who was slowly losing themselves to the moment as she seemed to develop a method of slowly suckling his cock before pulling back, letting that short tongue drag along the girth before plunging back.

A pressure was starting to build in his sack by now, Tina's pink tongue poking between his lips as he panted softly. “Oh fuck…" he whispered before from his reclined position, saw the mouse's glistening slit.

Deciding to go with the feeling rather than questioning why he'd want to pleasure his enemy, Tina inserted a forefinger inside of her sex.

The sudden stimulation to her unexplored sex caused Ashly to suck sharply, sending a jolt of combined pleasure and pain through his nerves, a spurt of pre hitting the back of the mouse's throat.

With a gasp and cough, she took her muzzle away from Tina's cock with a confused expression. “That…what was that?" she breathed out, her body tingly from that one bit of contact.

“That, you bitch, was what you have taken away from me. And if you wish for any more you had better give me all you've got with that muzzle of yours," Tina hissed, annoyed at having his own pleasure interrupted as he shoved his cock straight back into her muzzle with a gurgle coming from Ashly.

Swallowing around the length, she began suckling with renewed fervor, hungry for more of that electrifying feeling from her new folds.

Another moan came from his throat, lower and more lustful this time as his sack started to empty a steady stream of pre into the mouse's muzzle.

A sound of need sounded in the back of her voice, when Tina opened his eyes he saw the mouse girl looking pleadingly at him.

Sighing he decided he didn't have the heart to be as ruthless as the once bully was and obliged, starting by gently diddling his finger around her moist labia, pulling and teasing the outer lips, causing her hips to arch into him. He then slowly inserted it partially inside those wet pink depths, a muffled squeak of pleasure coming from Ashly before rubbing the clit with a finger.

The result was immediate; she went from wet to climaxing as her pussy covered his furred hand in female juices.

The squirming and moaning around Tina's own cock brought about his own orgasm, gritting his teeth as he hissed out and rode the waves of his first ever true male experience.

He watched in satisfaction as the former male tried to move away, only for his quivering body to let him down and could only choke on the seed before Tina pulled his cock out.

He looked on at the mouse girl with a look of triumph, a tingling warmth running through him as his cock slowly softened, drooling seed as it did so across the floor.

“Well, how did you like a taste of your own medicine?" He asked, trying to look cocky though the breathlessness in his voice took the edge off of his venom.

“Hah…" she gasped out before spitting a load of seed from his muzzle, making a face at the strong taste before bending over and coughing up more, her small breasts wobbling as she fought for breath.

Straightening up she glared angrily at him. “I should have bitten through your cock," she gasped, smacking her muzzle lips at the lingering taste.

“Do that and I would kill you," Tina growled, backing his threat up with a flex of claws. Suddenly the doors to the experimental room opened up, causing the pair to whip round in alarm as four police armed with tranquiliser guns trooped through. Behind them, the tall, slim scientist Tina met earlier on with a much younger looking guy he took to be his apprentice.

“And to think I had just finished looking through the video footage caught by our hidden surveillance," Richard said in a low, angry tone. “Then when I had a security breech warning blare from my computer, imagine my disappointment when I saw who it was," if anything, his voice had become even lower and more dangerous.

“Hidden surveillance…?" Tina said in shock, having recovered from his shock of been found out on before suddenly feeling very conscious about his nude form.

As he covered his receding cock up with a silky furred tail, Ashly crawled to the scientist. “Y-you saw what a monster he is then right? You saw how he forced me into this thing then-then raped me," she whimpered and squeaked, putting on a good show of been the victim.

She flashed Tina a quick grin before returning her expression to that of a fearful victim, her red eyes looking up to the scientist she was grovelling to before she was picked up by the skin by one of the burly police.

“Oh yes I saw, and I also saw you shoving poor Tina into the machine the day prior," Roland said in a low, dangerous tone. “So I would say you both deserve locking up a few years. But…that would be to cast you both in the public light as freaks and then your lives would truly be over."

With a nod from him, the police dropped Ashly with a whimper before quickly scooting away out of reach. “W-what would you do with us?" she said before blushing through her white fur, realising she had more on show with her new pink slit and small breasts poking through the thin fur.

Using one arm to cover her chest and the other hand to cover her pink pussy she continued, “You wouldn't use us in twisted experiments would you?"

Shaking his head slowly he gave the police a nod, giving them the all clear to be on their way before looking at the unusual pair. “I am not sure where you would both fit in to be honest. It is a matter to talk about with your families," he said, his voice grave and unpromising.

The pair could just swallow as both their futures seemed suddenly quite narrow and bleak.

*

A phone call to their parents and a short but nervous time of waiting later, both pairs of parents arrived. Roland's assistant had nervously tried to caution them they would be in for a shock, despite that though it did not stop Ashly's father, a big beefy fellow like she used to be, from picking Roland off the ground and threatening every means of legal action possible.

As the mouse girl's mother wept and clung on to an awkward looking Ashly, Roland looked calmly into the mad eyes of the father.

“You can either keep threatening me and go through with your idiotic actions and thus cast your former son into the public spotlight, or you can listen to what I have to offer."

Tina, who had been involved in a heated discussion with his family, walked with them to the group looking quite sullen.

“And what do you have to say for yourself hmm, you-you cat monster!" Ashly's mum said, looking angrily to the one responsible for her son becoming a freak.

“She…he has nothing to apologise for," Tina was surprised when his father came to his defence. “It was wrong by all accounts what he did yes, but since it was your son who had been responsible shouldn't it be he, er she, who should apologise first?"

As the four adults glared at each other and Rolland stood on the side, massaging his temples as he tried to keep his calm in the fractious atmosphere, Tina looked at the once bully, their eyes meeting as an understanding passed between them.

Stepping forward and pushing between them, Tina and Ashly came between them before they both apologised at once.

“Sorry for kidnapping you Ashly…I guess in normal circumstances I should be the one going to the slammer. It amounts to no more than vengeful rape," the feline confessed, his ears half back with shame.

“No…I'm sorry," Ashly squeaked back, her large ears turning a cute shade of pink with a blush. “I now know what a horrible thing I did to you. I should be the one to go to jail," she said before an awkward pause hung over the crowd, with both victims looking down at their feet and the parents staring at them in bemused silence.

“Ahem," Rolland cleared his voice, getting everyone's attention. “Now that unpleasant issue is cleared up, perhaps we can talk about what to do next. I was thinking on keeping them around for a few weeks, running tests on them and maybe even finding a way to reverse the process."

After a bit of protesting from their parents and some more blubbering from Ashly's mother, they convinced their parents to let them stay at the labs, with a promise from Rolland they would be cared for.

“Hey, thanks for admitting you were in the wrong," Tina said once they were shown to their hastily readied rooms and had some alone time.

As he reached a paw out, Ashly slapped it away with a small white mouse paw.

“Don't think we're friends you rapist. I only did that cos I didn't want to see my dad get arrested again," she squeaked, glaring at him coldly before hopping onto her bunk and rolled over, her back facing him.

Shrugging, Tina decided to do the same and crawled onto his own bunk, deciding some rest would be best for the night. “Whatever, though I think you actually did like it," Tina said in a smug tone, a frustrated whip of the mouse girls tail on her bunk been the only response.

He just gave an inward shrug before closing his yellow eyes shut. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to stay like this? Sure he missed been a girl and his cat, but this he could get used to; stronger, taller and a set of natural weapons to back him up if he was ever messed with. And surely they wouldn't be kept here forever right?

*

Two weeks later…

“So…there is definitely no way to change us back? Like 100% no chance?" Tina asked in a flat voice, unsure how to feel about the news in front of him on the test paper.

“You know the answer yourself Tina, having assisted us with some of the tests," he said before turning towards the huddled figure of Ashly on her bunk. “She still not talking?" he asked him.

Shaking his head sadly, his ears pulled half back and tail swished in agitation. She had hardly been eating much, even with her parents making daily visits to her and had lost quite a bit of weight. “She still blames me," he said softly as the elderly man rested a comforting hand on his furred shoulder.

Though they had both been given clothing custom made for their unique builds, Tina preferred to go around topless. With the body fur it felt…awkward.

Taking a few steps away from the curled form, Richard knelt down to whispered into his ear before drawing away, a nod of agreement coming from Tina.

The feline walked up to the mouse girl and said softly, “Ashly…?" no response before he placed a hand gently on her, only for her to give a violent shrug and whipped around to glare with angry, accusing eyes.

“Fuck off," she squeaked weakly at him. Her face was matted with tears of self-pity and stunk of unwashed fur.

“Look…how long you going to keep this up? You want to die like this?" Tina said softly. Despite how she was he did feel guilt for her situation.

“Yes, hopefully it will scar you for life," she spat, her saliva thick with lack of hydration.

“*Sigh* look, you won't just be hurting me. What about your parents, don't you care they still love you and worry?" he reasoned with her.

“Why does it even matter?" she said, her eyes starting to mist over. “Our lives are gone, we are prisoners, there is no life outside for us no-

Slap

Tina lost it and slapped her across the muzzle, his teeth bared and ears flat with anger. “That is no reason to give up. All the times you bullied me and forced me to redo thing in college, did I give up on life? Things are not good yes but we have to work with what we have. As long as we live there is hope for things to work out."

She placed a small hand over where she had been slapped before looking down. “I'm sorry…for everything. I know…I know this is what I deserve. You can make a life here because you are a nerd…smart. Me…all I had was my build and strength and now not even that," she said before her eyes widened in surprise as Tina wrapped her in a tender hug.

“Then let me help educate you. Whilst we are here I will help you make a life for yourself. No one is completely hopeless," he said before backing off and reaching a hand out for her to grasp.

Reaching hesitantly out, Tina pulled the mouse girl to her feet, catching her as she stumbled from lack of use and fatigue.

Looking at her, now she lost that initial fat she did make a cute mouse indeed.

Ashly caught herself staring back, looking over his lithe form before the pair looked away awkwardly.

Clearing his throat, Tina fumbled, “Erm, well er yes um. Shall I…show you to the lab showers and cafeteria? The food is actually nicer then colleges here."

Nodding, she let herself be led with both in silence to the showers.

Ten minutes later after they both had cleaned up and dressed in fresh clothes, they were on their way to the cafeteria before a young girl voice squealed behind them “Ohhhh what a cute kitty and mousy!"

Whipping round, they saw it to be a young girl, no older then 6 years as she stared excitedly at them.

Ashly shrunk back whilst Tina stepped forward and knelt down, smiling at the girl. “Now then, what are you doing here? We'd better find the rest of your group," he said before she grabbed hold of an ear and tugged, causing Tina to wince.

“Ooh, they are real? They feel nice and soft," she giggled before Tina whipped his tail into her hands, making the girls face light up, then giggle as he tickled her chin with the tip.

“Amanda?" a woman's voice called from further down the corridor before freezing at the sight.

“Oh…hi, um," Tina faltered at the awkward intrusion.

“Okay…Amanda just…step away from the monster now. Nice and easy, okay?" she said, looking petrified.

“W-we're not monsters," Ashly squeaked up from behind her before having her whip around to see a giant mouse before screaming and shooting out of the doors, nearly barrelling into Richard.

“What on earth…?" he said before running his hand over his face and beard in frustration. “I'll take the girl back to her group…don't worry. I'll cover things here."

As he gently took the girl from Tina, she waved at the pair, “Bye cat person, by cute mousy," she said with a broad smile.

Before they exited through the doors though, Ashly grabbed him by the shoulder.

“Professor…will we ever be able to be seen as anything other than freaks and monsters?" she said in a barely audible tone.

He paused to think for a moment before simply saying, “This girl isn't afraid of you, and we here know you are as human as we are on the inside. There will come a day, I promise you," he said before hurrying to do some catching up and explaining.

“Don't worry, that girl liked us and I know not everyone will be as judgemental. One day we will be able to walk back among people Ashly. Now come on, I'm hungry and you must be starving," he said, holding a paw out to lead which she hesitantly took.

Little did they know though, that this would be the start of an anthromorph craze once word got around.