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If you'd like to support our continued writing and get the next story early (along with other perks), consider supporting us on subscribestar! https://subscribestar.adult/squirrelfox", "writing": "[center]Data Points[/center]\n\nCONTENT WARNING: The following story contains GAY SEX between ADULTS, as well as themes of CUBHOOD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE and recovery from said abuse. If that might be difficult to read, maybe give this one a skip. For everyone else… enjoy?\n\n\nIt had been an interesting month for Isaac. In addition to his turmoil at home, Lillian had left the lab for her new job and asked him to meet her for coffee in the city. He had been more than willing to do so, especially with how cold and distant Sarah had been.\n\nThe cat zipped his coat as he left the heated Green Line train and emerged into the city. It wasn’t quite winter yet, but late November was already cooling. He took a seat on a bench near the station and checked his phone.\n\n“Dr. Gardner!”\n\nIsaac looked up and saw Lillian running towards him. He raised a paw in greeting. “Hello, Lillian. No need to be so formal out here. Call me Isaac.”\n\nThe ferret smiled as she approached. “Oh, of course, Isaac.” She giggled softly. “So, I know I’d said coffee, but I forgot to eat before I left. Maybe we could grab lunch?”\n\n“Lunch sounds lovely,” Isaac said.\n\nThey set off around the Common. There were no shortage of options: food trucks, restaurants of every cuisine you could imagine. They settled on one of those chains run by a celebrity chef and were quickly seated.\n\n“So, how’s the new job working out?” Isaac asked.\n\n“Oh, it’s great!” Lillian said. “I’m still getting used to the lab politics but the work is interesting, and the shorter commute is lovely. I have so much more time for my hobbies.”\n\nThe feline smiled. “And what might those be?”\n\nLillian giggled and happily began talking about her crocheting and painting. She pulled out her phone and showed him some pictures of her projects. She was quite the accomplished painter.\n\n“How have things been with your son?” she asked once she settled from talking about herself.\n\n“Oh, things are going smoothly there, I think,” Isaac said. “He’s been more affectionate towards me lately, which I think is a good sign, and I’ve been teaching him to cook.”\n\n“That’s great!” Lillian said. “Cooking is a skill everyfur should have.”\n\n“Agreed,” Isaac said. He chuckled and glanced around, then leaned in conspiratorially. “Could I confide something in you?”\n\nShe grinned and leaned in herself. “Of course.”\n\n“Since Sarah and I are officially no longer together, I’ve been… exploring myself some,” Isaac said.\n\n“Oh really?” Lillian said. “Exploring how?”\n\nIsaac blushed. He couldn’t believe he was about to tell her this. “I had a little sexual encounter with another male.”\n\nLillian blushed but grinned. “You, exploring sexually? I never would have imagined it. Are you coming out as gay, then?”\n\n“I don’t know about gay,” Isaac said. “Bi-curious, if anything. I’m actually planning to meet with him again next weekend to talk about things.”\n\n“Good for you!” Lillian said. “I’ve had some encounters with other females, myself. I consider myself firmly bisexual.”\n\nThe feline chuckled. “My male friend is in an open relationship, and he’s bisexual, too.”\n\n“Imagine the threesome potential,” Lillian said. “We could have both kinds of threesomes that guys and girls dream about.”\n\n“I don’t know about all that,” Isaac said. “Open relationships like that… I don’t know if they’re for me. It’d have to be with someone very special.”\n\n“Oh, I understand that all too well,” Lillian said. “I’ve had a couple before, but with guys it was always so they had a free paw to cheat with other females. Though I did have a lovely open relationship for a while with another female. Lasted my last couple years of college. Then she moved out to California to be closer to her family, and I wanted to stay here, so we had to end it.”\n\nFor whatever reason, ending a relationship by moving stabbed Isaac right in the heart. He thought back to his own cubhood and ending his relationship with his best friend. At the time it had felt like the right thing to do, but in hindsight… maybe he shouldn’t have ended it the way he did.\n\n“It’s always a shame when moving ends a good relationship,” Isaac said.\n\n“It is,” Lillian said. “But sometimes for the best.” She shook her head. “Right now I’m not seeing anyone.”\n\nIsaac chuckled. “Well, a pretty, intelligent, successful female like you would have no problem finding a partner to suit your needs, I’m sure.”\n\nThe ferret smiled. “Thanks. I’m hoping to find someone soon. Just waiting for the right moment, you know?”\n\n“I suppose I can understand that,” Isaac said. “Relationships don’t just fall into your lap. Well, I suppose my son did, metaphorically, but… well, not in that way…”\n\nShe giggled. “I know what you mean. It might be difficult to find a partner when you have your son to worry about. It wouldn’t bother me, though.”\n\nThe feline chuckled nervously. “Heh… good to know. I’ve been thinking about having one myself, too… I’d like the full fatherhood experience, not just starting with a ten year old. I love Chuck, but…”\n\n“Oh, I understand completely,” Lillian said. “I wouldn’t mind having a cub or two, myself, one day… take a few years off to raise a cub, then head back to work.”\n\n“It’s a lovely thought, as long as you’ve a partner who can support you while you’re raising your cub,” Isaac said.\n\n“Or two or three,” Lillian added.\n\nIsaac laughed. “Partners or cubs?”\n\nShe grinned. “Why not both? It takes a village to raise a cub, after all. A polycule just means more caregivers to love on them. Shame you aren’t sure about it, yourself. It could be a lot of fun.”\n\nWhy did she keep bringing it back to him? Was she trying to tell him something? Perhaps he should be bolder. “As I said, I’m… exploring myself. When I have some results to share, I’ll be sure to let you know.”\n\nLillian giggled. “Please do, Dr. Gardner.”\n\nThey both had a chuckle at that. What was Isaac getting himself into?\n\nThe following weekend snuck up on Isaac. It was another Chuck solo therapy day followed by a play date with his friend Robbie. The cat had to admit, he was looking forward to that almost as much as Chuck was. It meant getting to see Dan again and talk.\n\nHis last conversation with the fox had been fruitful. He got some useful parenting advice, and plenty to think about in terms of his sexuality (though he purposely didn’t mention his thoughts about Chuck). Unfortunately, Dr. Langley hadn’t been able to provide any professional recommendations for his issue, but she promised to try to help him as best she could as a friend, and keep her ear to the ground for therapists who could help. It was the best he could get.\n\nWhen Chuck emerged from therapy, he seemed unusually perky. Isaac inquired about it when they got to the car.\n\n“Oh, we m-mostly talked about b-books and art and stuff,” Chuck said. “I m-made a drawing i-in there.”\n\n“That’s good,” Isaac said. “I’m glad it’s not all doom and gloom in there.”\n\nChuck nodded. “M-my therapist says that r-rest and j-joy are important parts of th-therapy.”\n\nIsaac smiled. “I guess I found you a good one, then.”\n\nThey were quiet for the rest of the short drive to the Langleys’ house.\n\nDan answered the door when they arrived. “Good to see you two!” he said. “Come on in. Robbie’s in the basement with the girls.”\n\n“I take it that means Keith is here?” Isaac asked.\n\n“He is, and he finally got his boyfriend to come over, too,” Dan said. “This is a perfect opportunity for you to meet him!”\n\nIsaac had to admit some disappointment to himself. He’d been hoping to have Dan alone. But he was warming up to Keith, and finally meeting the arctic fox’s elusive boyfriend could shed some interesting data.\n\nWhen he entered the kitchen, there were two males there, both in just their underwear. Keith he recognized, but the other fox… Their eyes met. It couldn’t be HIM, could it?\n\nDan smiled. “Isaac, you already know Keith,” he said, motioning towards the arctic fox. “And this is Teddy.”\n\nTeddy. That name. No, it had to be a coincidence. It just had to be.\n\nKeith stood up and offered a paw. “Pleasure to see you again, Isaac.”\n\nThe fennec remained seated. He seemed lost in thought. “Heh… I knew an Isaac when I was a kit,” he said.\n\n“You didn’t happen to live in Rutherford, Ohio, did you?” Isaac said.\n\nTeddy’s eyes widened. “I…” He stood up, and stared at the cat. He was still shorter than Isaac.\n\n“You two know each other?” Dan asked.\n\n“I… I think we do,” Isaac said.\n\nThe fennec took a step back. “I… the Isaac I knew wore glasses.”\n\nIsaac cleared his throat. “I had laser eye surgery a few years ago, before my parents retired to Florida.”\n\n“Fuck,” Teddy said. “I… c-can I hug you?”\n\nThe cat nodded. He watched as the fennec walked around the table, and extended his arms. Teddy walked into them and pressed his face into Isaac’s chest.\n\n“I never thought I’d see you again,” Teddy muttered.\n\n“I didn’t, either,” Isaac whispered. He hugged the fennec and sniffled. “Teddy, I… it’s been so long…”\n\nKeith coughed. “If you two need a moment, Dan and I can head to the bedroom.”\n\n“I… I don’t know,” Isaac said.\n\n“You were my first crush,” Teddy whispered between tears.\n\nThe feline sighed. “I… I’m sorry, Teddy… for how I treated you… it doesn’t excuse it, but I was scared, and I…”\n\n“No, I understand,” Teddy said. He took a step back, freeing himself from the feline’s arms, and grabbed a paper towel to dab at his eyes. “I just… fuck. I’d always hoped to see you again, but I never thought I would…”\n\n“Stranger things have happened,” Isaac said. He sniffled himself. “H… how’ve you been?”\n\nTeddy leaned against the counter. “It’s been a wild ride. I’m dating these two now,” he said, motioning to Dan and Keith. “Fuck, so many memories…”\n\n“Remember how we’d play in the woods out behind our houses?” Isaac said.\n\n“Oh gosh, we’d run around for hours,” Teddy said.\n\n“That sounds adorable,” Keith said.\n\n“We were attached at the hip,” Teddy said.\n\nIsaac chuckled. “This may come as a surprise, but I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up. Teddy was probably the best friend I ever had.”\n\nThe fennec laughed. “You were my best friend, too.” He sighed. “Remember the youth choir?”\n\nThe feline’s eyes widened. The youth choir... He’d almost forgotten about that entirely. He used to love singing. His mother had insisted that he keep singing after they left Ohio, but he had stopped after that. His heart just wasn’t in it.\n\nSo much had happened in those last few weeks before his family moved out of Ohio. That declaration of love, his first kiss, the really, really weird stuff with the choir director… what had happened? Something certainly did. It’s what ruined his interest in singing.\n\n“With that goat,” Isaac muttered.\n\n“Mr. Andersen,” Teddy said. “Yeah.”\n\n“Did you… did you keep singing after I left?” Isaac asked.\n\n“Oh, for years,” Teddy said. “Mr. Andersen moved a couple years after you did. Last I heard, he was doing a life sentence in a federal prison for… molesting a lot of cubs…”\n\nIsaac grabbed onto a chair to keep himself from falling. That was it! He’d given them that coke, taken nude photos of them, had… done things to Teddy. Offered to do them to him. “He… he did that to other cubs, too?”\n\nDan put an arm around Isaac’s shoulders. “Oh boy… why don’t you have a seat, Isaac?” He guided the cat into a chair, and sat down next to him, taking one of his paws.\n\nThe feline trembled as he sat. “I… I’d almost forgotten entirely… fuck…”\n\nTeddy sat down opposite Isaac. “I’m sorry,” the fennec said. “I know I got pushy after that, and it doesn’t excuse it… but for what it’s worth, I still loved you, even if I was shitty at showing it. I loved you before all that stuff happened. I…”\n\nIsaac raised his free paw. “You don’t have to explain.” He stared down at the table. “We were cubs. We didn’t know what he was doing. Fuck, and here I am now exploring bisexuality… was it his fault that I’m like this?”\n\n“It’s… possible,” Dan said. “But it comes down to your own actions and choices. You can let it consume you and turn you into something you’re not, or you can overcome it. Terry can tell you more about that. It’s… her area of expertise.”\n\nThe feline sighed. There was so much running through his head. That experience… it could explain so much. So much that he couldn’t just say in front of Teddy or Keith. He didn’t know Keith nearly as well as Dan, and Teddy… he didn’t want to admit to having a potential interest in cubs because of what happened to them.\n\nThe cat looked up at the fennec. He had fresh tears rolling down his cheeks. “Teddy… I… fuck, I left you with that monster… if I’d just said something, anything, to somefur…”\n\n“Don’t blame yourself,” Teddy said. “I wanted it. I was a willing participant. It’s why I didn’t say anything when the accusations came about. All of the other cubs talked about him forcing it, but I wanted it. I felt dirty, ashamed for wanting it, but I did. Fuck, I ended up with an attraction I didn’t want, myself…”\n\nKeith took a seat next to Teddy and took his paw. “Sounds like there’s a lot to work through here. But let’s let that sit for now, shall we?” He glanced over at the door to the basement. “Somefur there?” he called.\n\nTo Isaac’s horror, Chuck emerged from behind the door. He had stripped down to his underwear, as he usually did at the Langleys’, and he was blushing heavily. “I j-just… wanted a d-d-drink…”\n\n“Of course, pup,” Dan said. He got up and got down a glass. “What would you like?”\n\n“W-water, please,” Chuck said.\n\nIsaac cleared his throat. “H-how much did you hear?”\n\nThe pup shrugged. “S-something about wanting s-something?”\n\nDan handed Chuck a glass of water. “Don’t you be worrying yourself about the adult conversation. Go play with your friends, okay?”\n\nChuck nodded and headed back down into the basement.\n\nThe cat sighed. “I worry about him…”\n\nKeith and Dan both patted Isaac’s shoulders.\n\n“Worrying about your cubs is natural,” Keith said.\n\nSomething suddenly sank in for Isaac. He looked up at Teddy. “Wait… what did you mean by, ‘an attraction you didn’t want?’”\n\nTeddy sighed. “I… fuck, I’m not usually so open about that… but… I’m… attracted to cubs…”\n\nIsaac was stunned. “Dan… Keith… you’re… dating a cubophile? And you let him be around your cubs? And MY cub?”\n\n“Just having an attraction doesn’t make one a monster,” Keith said.\n\n“Actions define the fur,” Dan said. “And yes, we allow him around our cubs, even when they’re naked. I’d rather he look at them than go about looking for illegal material or hurt other cubs. And we have very open relationships with our kits. If he ever hurt them, we’d be the first to know, and he’d be right out.”\n\n“Which he is well aware of,” Keith said. “But I trust him around mine. WE trust him.”\n\nThat seemed absurd. A cubophile, trusted around kits? But then, hadn’t he been struggling with some of those same thoughts, himself? Thoughts about doing horrible things to Chuck… He felt his stomach churn as his vivid sex dreams came back to him.\n\nIsaac sighed. “This is all… a lot to take in.” He looked up at Dan. “How can you be so certain that your cubs would come to you if… something happened?”\n\nDan chuckled. “We’re pretty open about sex and sexuality in this household, which may not come as a surprise since we’re so liberal about clothes. Hell, my Robbie’s gay, and actually asked if we could get him a toy so he could practice butt stuff for with his boyfriend. We figured it’d be safer to let him explore with his own toy than risk hurting himself with something not meant to go into him.”\n\nThat was perhaps the most shocking of all to Isaac: being open with their kits about sex and sexuality.\n\n“I think it stems from our upbringing, to be honest,” Keith said. “My parents were very open with me, and to some extent with Dan and Terry, too.”\n\n“Oh, memories,” Dan said dreamily. “But yes. We look back on it fondly, and Terry and I have talked a lot about it, too. We’d rather our cubs be knowledgeable and able to articulate their feelings than be misled and left scared and confused.”\n\n“Empower them to talk about their bodies so no one can take advantage of them,” Keith added. “It’s how my parents raised me, too.”\n\nIsaac cleared his throat. “And, uh… h-how old are your girls?”\n\n“They’re eight,” Dan said. “And we’ve kept them knowledgeable about their bodies for years.”\n\nEight. Isaac’s age when the choir director had done… those things. Another wave of guilt rushed over him. He sighed.\n\nDan patted the cat’s paw. “Something on your mind?”\n\n“I just wish I’d said something,” Isaac muttered.\n\n“It’s not your fault,” Teddy said. “If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine. I brought you to him on a silver platter.”\n\n“Oh hush, it’s not your fault either,” Keith said. “It’s entirely on the bastard that hurt you. I don’t care if you ‘wanted’ it, he shouldn’t have taken advantage of two naive boys.”\n\n“Damn right,” Dan said. “Fuck that guy for what he did to both of you.”\n\nIsaac sighed. “It isn’t even just that,” he said. “It’s how I ended things…”\n\n“You were young,” Dan said. “There’s no use beating yourself up over the past. You can only learn from it and move on.”\n\nThe cat looked up. Teddy was looking at him. Isaac reached across the table and took Teddy’s paw.\n\n“So how have things been at home?” Dan asked.\n\n“It’s been a roller coaster,” Isaac said. He filled the three other males in on the tension in the house, Sarah’s hostile reaction to the suggestion of adopting Chuck and his warming relationship with Chuck. He even mentioned his little date with his former lab assistant.\n\n“Oooh, a date, huh?” Dan asked. “How’d that go?”\n\n“Rather well, I think,” Isaac said. “She’s… apparently bisexual and polyamorous. Wants cubs, open to entering into a relationship with someone who’s already got cubs…”\n\nKeith chuckled. “She sounds like a catch.”\n\nIsaac blushed. “I… suppose so.”\n\nDan smirked. “On that subject… have you had any success with your sexual frustrations?”\n\nThe cat squeaked. Talking about that in front of Dan’s boyfriends felt far too intimate. “Oh, uh… I suppose I haven’t, no,” he said evasively.\n\n“Shame,” Dan said. “You should seriously consider some of those toys. They’re much better than a paw.”\n\n“A partner can be better, though,” Keith said. “I know you’ve had an encounter with Dan before. Yes, he told me about it, too,” he added when he saw Isaac’s shocked face. “I know we haven’t known each other long, but I’d be happy to show you a thing or three. And of course, you and Teddy have a history…”\n\n“Oh, I’m sure he wouldn’t want to have sex with me,” Teddy said.\n\nIsaac looked up at the fennec. Shockingly, the idea of having sex with him didn’t immediately repulse him. Quite the contrary. Something about getting intimate with his old friend sounded… rather appealing. Goodness, maybe he really was bisexual. “I… wouldn’t be so sure about that,” Isaac said. “If you were open to it, I’d… be willing to give it a try.”\n\nKeith chuckled. “Alone, or would you like your first gay threesome or foursome?”\n\n“More than one partner at a time feels… a little much,” Isaac said.\n\nThe arctic fox chuckled and patted Isaac’s shoulder. “Understood. Teddy, you know where Dan and Terry’s room is. Why don’t you take your old friend up there and you can play catch-up.”\n\nTeddy rose from his seat and walked around the table. He took Isaac’s paw, and the two walked quietly paw in paw upstairs. It felt weird, about to fuck his old childhood friend in his cub’s friend’s parents’ house. Absurd if he thought about it too much. But maybe over-thinking wasn’t the play here. He over-thought all those years ago and ruined a relationship that he could have at least tried to maintain. It was the dawn of the internet age, they could have kept in touch if he hadn’t scuttled it.\n\nThey walked into the bedroom and closed the door behind them.\n\n“Gosh, I feel like a cub again,” Teddy muttered.\n\n“Awkward teen for me,” Isaac said. “So, uh… w-what would you like to do?”\n\n“Anything and everything,” Teddy said. “Kiss you, suck your dick, bend over and let you fuck my brains out… gods, there’s so many things I wish I could’ve done…”\n\nIsaac chuckled. “Gods, not God?”\n\nThe fennec blushed. “I stopped going to church after I moved out to Mass. Technically when I was in college I only went in the summer when I was at home, but that’s… a whole other can of worms…”\n\nThe feline nodded. The last thing he wanted to do was bring up more bad memories. “I’ve never… kissed another male before. Unless we count that little peck when we were cubs.”\n\nTeddy’s radar dishes perked. “D… do you want to try?”\n\n“Hang on a second.” Isaac took a breath, then started stripping. He got himself down to his underwear, paused, then took those off, too. “Not like you haven’t seen me naked before.”\n\nThe fennec chuckled and took his underwear off, too. “True. And maybe we can get a little more comfortable,” he said, taking the cat’s paws and leading him over to the bed.\n\nThe two males laid down together, lying face to face. Isaac wasn’t sure what was more shocking: that he was reunited with his childhood friend, or that he didn’t feel any awkwardness at all being naked with him, both of them erect.\n\n“You’re in the driver’s seat,” Teddy said. He chuckled. “Keith calls me ‘the sub’s sub,’ and he isn’t wrong. But also… I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable. I know I must’ve made you feel that way all those years ago, but-“\n\nIsaac stopped him with a finger to his lips. “Shh… no more talking about that, okay?”\n\nTeddy nodded obediently. Isaac put the thought of their cubhood out of his mind. He wasn’t an innocent eight year old anymore. He was an adult, fully in charge. And he knew what he wanted.\n\nThe feline leaned in and pressed his lips to Teddy’s. It was a little awkward at first, kissing another male. But when Teddy moaned, Isaac knew he was making the right decision. The gap between them closed, bodies and erections pressing against one another, legs entwining. Their tongues joined in on the action. Teddy tasted very different from the few females Isaac had kissed. Not as sweet, almost musky, but not in an unpleasant way.\n\nHis hips began rocking, the feline subconsciously frotting with the other male. Something awoke in him. A desire to be inside his old friend. He wasn’t sure what to make of it.\n\nTheir kiss broke, and their eyes met.\n\n“Isaac,” Teddy whispered.\n\nIsaac smiled. He’d never heard his name whispered quite like that, with such lust, with such passion. “Teddy,” he whispered. He looked down at their groins and contemplated what to do next.\n\n“I need you,” Teddy whispered.\n\nThe feline chuckled. “You’d be my first male…”\n\nTeddy beamed and rolled onto his back, then snatched up a bottle from the bedside table. “Well, then, here’s a quick primer. You’ll need this.” He put the bottle in Isaac’s paw. “Don’t be shy about using lube. If you want a condom, I know Dan’s got some in the drawer, but I’ve only been intimate with him and Keith in the past… oh, six, seven months, and I tested clean two months ago when I got my regular check for my PrEP. You can do me however you want: missionary, doggy, pin me against the wall and fuck me… your choice.”\n\n“You’re no stranger to this, I see,” Isaac said as he pushed himself up onto his knees.\n\n“You’re not the first male who’s had their first time with me,” Teddy said.\n\n“I see.” He poured some lube onto his fingers, and lathered it up on his cock. “I don’t want to make a mess of their bed…”\n\n“Don’t worry about that, I’ll wash the sheets after,” Teddy said.\n\nThat fennec had thought of everything. Isaac eased himself between the fennec’s spread legs as he closed the bottle and set it down. “Alright, then,” he said.\n\nTeddy beamed and lifted his legs, curving his back to present his rear to the feline. Isaac looked down at him. Images unbidden flooded his mind, but he pushed those aside. He only had eyes for Teddy right now.\n\nIsaac leaned in and lined up his erect penis with the fennec’s tailhole. He pushed in with surprising ease. But then, if he was getting fucked regularly by two males, that made sense. He let out a gasp as he hilted in the fennec’s rear. An ass felt so different from a vagina. None of his girlfriends had ever let him do them anally. It was snugger at the entrance, and felt surprisingly soft inside. Not as much as a vagina, of course, but more than satisfactory.\n\n“Oh, Isaac,” Teddy moaned.\n\nAgain, hearing his name moaned like that filled the feline with lust. Sarah had never. Even his college partners hadn’t ever said it with such enthusiasm. He braced his paws along the fennec’s sides and started thrusting into him.\n\nHis penis throbbed as he fucked - no, made love to - Teddy. It was such a curious sensation, having sex with another male. Different, and not in a bad way, either. What had he been missing out on all of these years?\n\nIn a moment of boldness, he leaned down and kissed Teddy again. The fennec wrapped his arms and legs around the feline and held him close. It caught Isaac so off-guard he almost slipped out, but the fennec managed to scoot forward and keep him inside. This male was damned good.\n\nFar quicker than he would have imagined, he felt his orgasm sneaking up on him. A rush of ecstasy flooded his senses as he climaxed inside the other male. He moaned out Teddy’s name as he filled the male with his seed.\n\nHe gasped as his softening penis slipped out of Teddy’s ass.\n\n“Finished already?” Teddy asked.\n\n“F-first time anal,” Isaac muttered. He blushed. “S-sorry…”\n\nTeddy chuckled and kissed him on the lips. “Don’t be sorry… I just hope it was good for you.”\n\n“It was,” Isaac said. He rolled onto his side and looked down at the fennec’s penis. Did he dare? “C-could I… try sucking yours?”\n\nThe fennec grinned and wiggled his hips. “Go for it.”\n\nIsaac blushed as he climbed down between Teddy’s legs. The fennec’s penis was smaller than his own, but rock hard. He wrapped his paw around it, the first penis other than his own that he had held, then leaned in and gave his tip an experimental lick.\n\n“Oh gods…” Teddy muttered. “J-just be careful of your teeth… and don’t try to take too much, I don’t want you to choke…”\n\nThe feline chuckled. “I’ll do my best.” He took a breath, then took about half of the fennec’s erection into his mouth. It wasn’t an unpleasant feeling. Different, curious. There wasn’t much of a flavor to it, unlike with vagina. It felt weird using a female body as his point of reference, but it was all he had.\n\nAgain memories came flooding back. This time he took a quick note from them, and copied the bobbing motions he had seen Teddy using all those years ago.\n\n“D-don’t be afraid to use your tongue,” Teddy whispered.\n\nHis tongue! How could he have neglected to think of that? He began tentatively swirling his tongue around the fennec’s penis, earning a lustful moan.\n\n“Oh, Isaac… that feels sooooo good,” Teddy whispered.\n\nTwo months ago, Isaac would have never imagined that he’d find himself enjoying the feel of another male’s penis in his mouth. But then, two months ago, he had believed that he and Sarah were still a couple. A lot had changed. At least this might be a positive change.\n\nHe kept up his work, sucking and stroking the fennec’s penis. Teddy grabbed onto his ears gently, stroking the fur and soft inner ear as he sucked.\n\n“Fuck, Isaac… I’m gonna cum,” Teddy said.\n\nHe debated whether he wanted to taste the male’s cum. He decided it couldn’t hurt to try, and prepared as best he could for the male’s ejaculation.\n\nTeddy arched his back as he orgasmed in Isaac’s mouth. The feline was surprised by how salty and musky his seed was. Perhaps he’d have to try his own for a point of comparison at some point. He worked the male’s penis through his orgasm, though he didn’t dare try swallowing. He kept up his strokes and sucks until the fennec was thoroughly spent, then lifted his head and looked around.\n\n“If you don’t want to swallow, you can spit it in my mouth,” Teddy said.\n\nKinky. Isaac leaned over the fennec and pressed his lips to Teddy’s, then allowed the fennec’s seed to spill into his mouth. Teddy eagerly swallowed down his own load. \n\nAgain, Isaac flopped down on the bed next to Teddy. “Damn…”\n\n“Did you like it?” Teddy asked. “Blowing me, I mean.”\n\nIsaac chuckled. “I might need further data to find out if I liked it or not.”\n\nTeddy laughed and whacked him in the face with a pillow. “You’re still such a nerd!”\n\nThe feline laughed himself as he was struck. “Some things don’t change.”\n\n“And some do, thank gods,” Teddy said as he hugged the feline. “We should probably wash up before the lube gets matted in our fur.”\n\n“True… shame we can’t cuddle more,” Isaac said.\n\n“Now, now, we can cuddle once we’re clean,” Teddy said.\n\nThe two males slipped out of bed and into the en suite bathroom for a quick wash. Teddy was more than happy to clean Isaac up, and the feline allowed the fennec to do so. In turn he helped wash the lube from his buttfur, from which the fennec seemed to derive great delight. He smiled as they exchanged another kiss, then returned to the bedroom.\n\nThey spent the next… goodness, Isaac had lost track of the time they spent just talking, catching up. It wasn’t until Dan knocked on the door that they finally parted. Isaac pulled his underwear back on before leaving the bedroom. Teddy opted to stay naked.\n\nAt dinner, Isaac and Chuck were the only ones wearing anything at all. The other parents had gotten nude, though Chuck didn’t seem to mind. Dinner was surprisingly normal save for the lack of clothing. He definitely caught Teddy openly admiring the younger kits, and he was fairly certain that the other adults were aware of it, too.\n\nIf he was honest, he wasn’t quite sure how he felt about Teddy being around his boy. Sure, Teddy had insisted that he wouldn’t do anything. But Chuck had made it clear that he would keep secrets. He wondered what other secrets the pup might be hiding. He knew better than to pry and risk pushing the boy away, but oh how he wanted to know what had hurt that boy so much. At least Teddy’s gaze didn’t seem to linger on Chuck.\n\nWhen they finished, Isaac slipped back upstairs to get dressed. Chuck was already dressed when he got downstairs. He took the boy’s paw and walked him to his car for the drive home.\n\nMuch to his surprise, Chuck spoke up as he pulled out of the driveway. “R-Robbie’s dad said that y-you used to know T-Teddy.”\n\n“What? Oh, yes, Teddy and I were friends when we were cubs,” Isaac said. “I never expected to see him again, honestly.”\n\n“W-why’d you s-s-stop being friends?” Chuck asked.\n\n“I moved to Massachusetts,” Isaac said. “And back then there weren’t nearly as many ways to keep in touch as there are now. No cell phones, early internet wasn’t great. We fell out of contact.”\n\nChuck nodded. “I-I-I didn’t have any f-f-friends in A-Arizona…”\n\n“I’m sorry to hear that,” Isaac said. “Teddy was really my only friend until high school. I was very shy back then. Maybe more shy than you are.”\n\nThe pup gasped. “R-really?”\n\n“Really,” Isaac said. He chuckled as he drove. “I’ll have to show you some photos of me as a kitten. I used to wear huge glasses. Nerdy little me.”\n\nHis son nodded. “O-okay…”\n\nAs they neared home, Isaac decided to be daring. “I just want you to know, Chuck, that you can come to me about anything. Anything at all. Even if it’s embarrassing or scary. Okay?”\n\nThe pup squeaked, but nodded. “O-okay…”\n\nThat was good enough for Isaac. They were talking more. And maybe he could protect the boy the way he hadn’t been able to protect himself or Teddy back when they were cubs.\n\nWhen they got home, Isaac dug out an old photo album and showed Chuck some of his cubhood photos. He laughed as he relayed stories, and even got a few nervous chuckles from the pup. They only kept it up for a little while, though. It was getting late, and they were both tired.\n\nIsaac contemplated checking on Sarah, but decided against it. If she wanted to talk, she could come to him. She had mostly rebuffed his attempts to talk the last two months, anyway. Why bother now?\n\nHe was just settling into bed when there was a knock on his bedroom door. “Come in,” Isaac said.\n\nTo his surprise, it was Sarah.\n\n“My my. To what do I owe the pleasure?” Isaac asked.\n\n“Ha ha,” she deadpanned. “I’ve been thinking about your proposal to adopt Chuck… if you want him… you can have him.”\n\nIsaac tilted his head. Something about her wording was hitting him wrong. “You mean we’d co-parent, right?”\n\n“No,” Sarah said. “I mean I’d give you full custody and give up mine.”\n\nThat shocked the cat. “You… you’d really give up custody of your son?”\n\n“He’s a reminder of things I’d rather forget,” Sarah said. “Whenever you want to start the process, you let me know.”\n\nIt felt like Isaac had been stabbed with an icy dagger to the heart. “Okay… I’ll call a lawyer first thing Monday morning and get that started, then… are you going to tell Chuck?”\n\n“No,” Sarah said. “I don’t want him to know. Keep it secret and he’s yours. Deal?”\n\n“Sarah, that’s not what I wanted,” Isaac said.\n\n“Take it or leave it,” the female border collie said.\n\nIsaac sighed. “Fine… I’ll take it.”\n\nShe nodded. “Fine, then. Good night.” She closed the door before Isaac could respond.\n\nThe absolute last thing Isaac wanted to do was to keep a secret like this from his son. Maybe he could convince Sarah to change her mind, but he doubted it. But now he had something new on his plate. He grabbed his phone and texted Dan, both to get Teddy’s number that he had neglected to get, and to ask for his advice on this one. The fox called almost immediately.\n\n“Hello, Dan,” Isaac said.\n\n“Hello,” Dan said. “You’re on speaker, Terry’s next to me. She seriously wants to give up custody of her cub? Did she say why?”\n\n“She said he was… ‘a reminder of things she’d rather forget.’ I don’t know what she means by that, but it sounds like she’s done with him.”\n\n“And she wants it kept secret,” Terry said. “I don’t like it. But if I were you I’d go through with it just to make sure he’s taken care of. If you need recommendations for good attorneys, I know a few family lawyers who are very good.”\n\n“A recommendation would be lovely, yes,” Isaac said.\n\n“And if you need to talk about anything, please let me know,” Terry said. “Dan said that you shared something that I might be able to help with, but didn’t want to say what out of respect for you.”\n\nWell, at least Dan hadn’t told her EVERYTHING. “I don’t suppose I could come over tomorrow and chat, could I? I’d rather do this face to face.”\n\n“Of course, Isaac,” Terry said. “Anytime. You’re welcome to bring Chuck along, too. I’m sure Robbie won’t mind seeing his friend again, either.”\n\n“I’ll ask him in the morning,” Isaac said. A knock on the door caught his attention. “One moment, please.” He muted his phone. “Come in.”\n\nHis door opened, and Chuck poked his head in. “I-Isaac, c-can I sleep with you t-tonight?”\n\nIsaac bit his lip. “Sure. But right now I’m on the phone with Robbie’s parents. Nothing to do with you,” he lied.\n\nChuck nodded. “I-I can wait u-until you’re d-done…”\n\n“No, no, come in,” Isaac said. “I’m almost finished.” He unmuted his phone and brought it back to his ear. “Dan, Terry, thanks for the talk. Chuck just walked in, so I’ll need to cut tonight short, but I’ll talk to you tomorrow, okay?”\n\n“Alright,” Dan said.\n\n“Sleep well,” Terry said.\n\n“You, too. Both of you.” He hung up his phone, then patted the bed next to him. “Come on, pup.”\n\nThe border collie closed and locked the door, then padded over to bed. Tonight he was wearing his one piece footy pajamas, and had Mr. Stuffy tucked under his arm. He slipped into bed with the cat and snuggled in.\n\nIsaac sighed as he turned out the light and put an arm around the pup. “How would you like to see Robbie again tomorrow?” he asked.\n\nThe pup flicked his ears. “I-I-I’d like that,” he whispered.\n\nThe feline nodded. “I need to talk to his mother about some… private things, but I figured you could come along and see your friend while I talked with her.”\n\nChuck nodded. “O-okay.” He yawned and wiggled back, pressing against the feline. “N-n-night…”\n\n“Good night, Chuck,” Isaac whispered.\n\nIt felt bad lying to him, but he didn’t want to break the pup’s heart or panic him. Was it really lying, though? Technically it was more withholding the truth. It wasn’t like it would be forever. He’d tell him some day, when he was ready. But that was definitely not tonight. For now, he needed sleep. There was a lot to think about.\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "
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CONTENT WARNING: The following story contains GAY SEX between ADULTS, as well as themes of CUBHOOD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE and recovery from said abuse. If that might be difficult to read, maybe give this one a skip. For everyone else… enjoy?


It had been an interesting month for Isaac. In addition to his turmoil at home, Lillian had left the lab for her new job and asked him to meet her for coffee in the city. He had been more than willing to do so, especially with how cold and distant Sarah had been.

The cat zipped his coat as he left the heated Green Line train and emerged into the city. It wasn’t quite winter yet, but late November was already cooling. He took a seat on a bench near the station and checked his phone.

“Dr. Gardner!”

Isaac looked up and saw Lillian running towards him. He raised a paw in greeting. “Hello, Lillian. No need to be so formal out here. Call me Isaac.”

The ferret smiled as she approached. “Oh, of course, Isaac.” She giggled softly. “So, I know I’d said coffee, but I forgot to eat before I left. Maybe we could grab lunch?”

“Lunch sounds lovely,” Isaac said.

They set off around the Common. There were no shortage of options: food trucks, restaurants of every cuisine you could imagine. They settled on one of those chains run by a celebrity chef and were quickly seated.

“So, how’s the new job working out?” Isaac asked.

“Oh, it’s great!” Lillian said. “I’m still getting used to the lab politics but the work is interesting, and the shorter commute is lovely. I have so much more time for my hobbies.”

The feline smiled. “And what might those be?”

Lillian giggled and happily began talking about her crocheting and painting. She pulled out her phone and showed him some pictures of her projects. She was quite the accomplished painter.

“How have things been with your son?” she asked once she settled from talking about herself.

“Oh, things are going smoothly there, I think,” Isaac said. “He’s been more affectionate towards me lately, which I think is a good sign, and I’ve been teaching him to cook.”

“That’s great!” Lillian said. “Cooking is a skill everyfur should have.”

“Agreed,” Isaac said. He chuckled and glanced around, then leaned in conspiratorially. “Could I confide something in you?”

She grinned and leaned in herself. “Of course.”

“Since Sarah and I are officially no longer together, I’ve been… exploring myself some,” Isaac said.

“Oh really?” Lillian said. “Exploring how?”

Isaac blushed. He couldn’t believe he was about to tell her this. “I had a little sexual encounter with another male.”

Lillian blushed but grinned. “You, exploring sexually? I never would have imagined it. Are you coming out as gay, then?”

“I don’t know about gay,” Isaac said. “Bi-curious, if anything. I’m actually planning to meet with him again next weekend to talk about things.”

“Good for you!” Lillian said. “I’ve had some encounters with other females, myself. I consider myself firmly bisexual.”

The feline chuckled. “My male friend is in an open relationship, and he’s bisexual, too.”

“Imagine the threesome potential,” Lillian said. “We could have both kinds of threesomes that guys and girls dream about.”

“I don’t know about all that,” Isaac said. “Open relationships like that… I don’t know if they’re for me. It’d have to be with someone very special.”

“Oh, I understand that all too well,” Lillian said. “I’ve had a couple before, but with guys it was always so they had a free paw to cheat with other females. Though I did have a lovely open relationship for a while with another female. Lasted my last couple years of college. Then she moved out to California to be closer to her family, and I wanted to stay here, so we had to end it.”

For whatever reason, ending a relationship by moving stabbed Isaac right in the heart. He thought back to his own cubhood and ending his relationship with his best friend. At the time it had felt like the right thing to do, but in hindsight… maybe he shouldn’t have ended it the way he did.

“It’s always a shame when moving ends a good relationship,” Isaac said.

“It is,” Lillian said. “But sometimes for the best.” She shook her head. “Right now I’m not seeing anyone.”

Isaac chuckled. “Well, a pretty, intelligent, successful female like you would have no problem finding a partner to suit your needs, I’m sure.”

The ferret smiled. “Thanks. I’m hoping to find someone soon. Just waiting for the right moment, you know?”

“I suppose I can understand that,” Isaac said. “Relationships don’t just fall into your lap. Well, I suppose my son did, metaphorically, but… well, not in that way…”

She giggled. “I know what you mean. It might be difficult to find a partner when you have your son to worry about. It wouldn’t bother me, though.”

The feline chuckled nervously. “Heh… good to know. I’ve been thinking about having one myself, too… I’d like the full fatherhood experience, not just starting with a ten year old. I love Chuck, but…”

“Oh, I understand completely,” Lillian said. “I wouldn’t mind having a cub or two, myself, one day… take a few years off to raise a cub, then head back to work.”

“It’s a lovely thought, as long as you’ve a partner who can support you while you’re raising your cub,” Isaac said.

“Or two or three,” Lillian added.

Isaac laughed. “Partners or cubs?”

She grinned. “Why not both? It takes a village to raise a cub, after all. A polycule just means more caregivers to love on them. Shame you aren’t sure about it, yourself. It could be a lot of fun.”

Why did she keep bringing it back to him? Was she trying to tell him something? Perhaps he should be bolder. “As I said, I’m… exploring myself. When I have some results to share, I’ll be sure to let you know.”

Lillian giggled. “Please do, Dr. Gardner.”

They both had a chuckle at that. What was Isaac getting himself into?

The following weekend snuck up on Isaac. It was another Chuck solo therapy day followed by a play date with his friend Robbie. The cat had to admit, he was looking forward to that almost as much as Chuck was. It meant getting to see Dan again and talk.

His last conversation with the fox had been fruitful. He got some useful parenting advice, and plenty to think about in terms of his sexuality (though he purposely didn’t mention his thoughts about Chuck). Unfortunately, Dr. Langley hadn’t been able to provide any professional recommendations for his issue, but she promised to try to help him as best she could as a friend, and keep her ear to the ground for therapists who could help. It was the best he could get.

When Chuck emerged from therapy, he seemed unusually perky. Isaac inquired about it when they got to the car.

“Oh, we m-mostly talked about b-books and art and stuff,” Chuck said. “I m-made a drawing i-in there.”

“That’s good,” Isaac said. “I’m glad it’s not all doom and gloom in there.”

Chuck nodded. “M-my therapist says that r-rest and j-joy are important parts of th-therapy.”

Isaac smiled. “I guess I found you a good one, then.”

They were quiet for the rest of the short drive to the Langleys’ house.

Dan answered the door when they arrived. “Good to see you two!” he said. “Come on in. Robbie’s in the basement with the girls.”

“I take it that means Keith is here?” Isaac asked.

“He is, and he finally got his boyfriend to come over, too,” Dan said. “This is a perfect opportunity for you to meet him!”

Isaac had to admit some disappointment to himself. He’d been hoping to have Dan alone. But he was warming up to Keith, and finally meeting the arctic fox’s elusive boyfriend could shed some interesting data.

When he entered the kitchen, there were two males there, both in just their underwear. Keith he recognized, but the other fox… Their eyes met. It couldn’t be HIM, could it?

Dan smiled. “Isaac, you already know Keith,” he said, motioning towards the arctic fox. “And this is Teddy.”

Teddy. That name. No, it had to be a coincidence. It just had to be.

Keith stood up and offered a paw. “Pleasure to see you again, Isaac.”

The fennec remained seated. He seemed lost in thought. “Heh… I knew an Isaac when I was a kit,” he said.

“You didn’t happen to live in Rutherford, Ohio, did you?” Isaac said.

Teddy’s eyes widened. “I…” He stood up, and stared at the cat. He was still shorter than Isaac.

“You two know each other?” Dan asked.

“I… I think we do,” Isaac said.

The fennec took a step back. “I… the Isaac I knew wore glasses.”

Isaac cleared his throat. “I had laser eye surgery a few years ago, before my parents retired to Florida.”

“Fuck,” Teddy said. “I… c-can I hug you?”

The cat nodded. He watched as the fennec walked around the table, and extended his arms. Teddy walked into them and pressed his face into Isaac’s chest.

“I never thought I’d see you again,” Teddy muttered.

“I didn’t, either,” Isaac whispered. He hugged the fennec and sniffled. “Teddy, I… it’s been so long…”

Keith coughed. “If you two need a moment, Dan and I can head to the bedroom.”

“I… I don’t know,” Isaac said.

“You were my first crush,” Teddy whispered between tears.

The feline sighed. “I… I’m sorry, Teddy… for how I treated you… it doesn’t excuse it, but I was scared, and I…”

“No, I understand,” Teddy said. He took a step back, freeing himself from the feline’s arms, and grabbed a paper towel to dab at his eyes. “I just… fuck. I’d always hoped to see you again, but I never thought I would…”

“Stranger things have happened,” Isaac said. He sniffled himself. “H… how’ve you been?”

Teddy leaned against the counter. “It’s been a wild ride. I’m dating these two now,” he said, motioning to Dan and Keith. “Fuck, so many memories…”

“Remember how we’d play in the woods out behind our houses?” Isaac said.

“Oh gosh, we’d run around for hours,” Teddy said.

“That sounds adorable,” Keith said.

“We were attached at the hip,” Teddy said.

Isaac chuckled. “This may come as a surprise, but I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up. Teddy was probably the best friend I ever had.”

The fennec laughed. “You were my best friend, too.” He sighed. “Remember the youth choir?”

The feline’s eyes widened. The youth choir... He’d almost forgotten about that entirely. He used to love singing. His mother had insisted that he keep singing after they left Ohio, but he had stopped after that. His heart just wasn’t in it.

So much had happened in those last few weeks before his family moved out of Ohio. That declaration of love, his first kiss, the really, really weird stuff with the choir director… what had happened? Something certainly did. It’s what ruined his interest in singing.

“With that goat,” Isaac muttered.

“Mr. Andersen,” Teddy said. “Yeah.”

“Did you… did you keep singing after I left?” Isaac asked.

“Oh, for years,” Teddy said. “Mr. Andersen moved a couple years after you did. Last I heard, he was doing a life sentence in a federal prison for… molesting a lot of cubs…”

Isaac grabbed onto a chair to keep himself from falling. That was it! He’d given them that coke, taken nude photos of them, had… done things to Teddy. Offered to do them to him. “He… he did that to other cubs, too?”

Dan put an arm around Isaac’s shoulders. “Oh boy… why don’t you have a seat, Isaac?” He guided the cat into a chair, and sat down next to him, taking one of his paws.

The feline trembled as he sat. “I… I’d almost forgotten entirely… fuck…”

Teddy sat down opposite Isaac. “I’m sorry,” the fennec said. “I know I got pushy after that, and it doesn’t excuse it… but for what it’s worth, I still loved you, even if I was shitty at showing it. I loved you before all that stuff happened. I…”

Isaac raised his free paw. “You don’t have to explain.” He stared down at the table. “We were cubs. We didn’t know what he was doing. Fuck, and here I am now exploring bisexuality… was it his fault that I’m like this?”

“It’s… possible,” Dan said. “But it comes down to your own actions and choices. You can let it consume you and turn you into something you’re not, or you can overcome it. Terry can tell you more about that. It’s… her area of expertise.”

The feline sighed. There was so much running through his head. That experience… it could explain so much. So much that he couldn’t just say in front of Teddy or Keith. He didn’t know Keith nearly as well as Dan, and Teddy… he didn’t want to admit to having a potential interest in cubs because of what happened to them.

The cat looked up at the fennec. He had fresh tears rolling down his cheeks. “Teddy… I… fuck, I left you with that monster… if I’d just said something, anything, to somefur…”

“Don’t blame yourself,” Teddy said. “I wanted it. I was a willing participant. It’s why I didn’t say anything when the accusations came about. All of the other cubs talked about him forcing it, but I wanted it. I felt dirty, ashamed for wanting it, but I did. Fuck, I ended up with an attraction I didn’t want, myself…”

Keith took a seat next to Teddy and took his paw. “Sounds like there’s a lot to work through here. But let’s let that sit for now, shall we?” He glanced over at the door to the basement. “Somefur there?” he called.

To Isaac’s horror, Chuck emerged from behind the door. He had stripped down to his underwear, as he usually did at the Langleys’, and he was blushing heavily. “I j-just… wanted a d-d-drink…”

“Of course, pup,” Dan said. He got up and got down a glass. “What would you like?”

“W-water, please,” Chuck said.

Isaac cleared his throat. “H-how much did you hear?”

The pup shrugged. “S-something about wanting s-something?”

Dan handed Chuck a glass of water. “Don’t you be worrying yourself about the adult conversation. Go play with your friends, okay?”

Chuck nodded and headed back down into the basement.

The cat sighed. “I worry about him…”

Keith and Dan both patted Isaac’s shoulders.

“Worrying about your cubs is natural,” Keith said.

Something suddenly sank in for Isaac. He looked up at Teddy. “Wait… what did you mean by, ‘an attraction you didn’t want?’”

Teddy sighed. “I… fuck, I’m not usually so open about that… but… I’m… attracted to cubs…”

Isaac was stunned. “Dan… Keith… you’re… dating a cubophile? And you let him be around your cubs? And MY cub?”

“Just having an attraction doesn’t make one a monster,” Keith said.

“Actions define the fur,” Dan said. “And yes, we allow him around our cubs, even when they’re naked. I’d rather he look at them than go about looking for illegal material or hurt other cubs. And we have very open relationships with our kits. If he ever hurt them, we’d be the first to know, and he’d be right out.”

“Which he is well aware of,” Keith said. “But I trust him around mine. WE trust him.”

That seemed absurd. A cubophile, trusted around kits? But then, hadn’t he been struggling with some of those same thoughts, himself? Thoughts about doing horrible things to Chuck… He felt his stomach churn as his vivid sex dreams came back to him.

Isaac sighed. “This is all… a lot to take in.” He looked up at Dan. “How can you be so certain that your cubs would come to you if… something happened?”

Dan chuckled. “We’re pretty open about sex and sexuality in this household, which may not come as a surprise since we’re so liberal about clothes. Hell, my Robbie’s gay, and actually asked if we could get him a toy so he could practice butt stuff for with his boyfriend. We figured it’d be safer to let him explore with his own toy than risk hurting himself with something not meant to go into him.”

That was perhaps the most shocking of all to Isaac: being open with their kits about sex and sexuality.

“I think it stems from our upbringing, to be honest,” Keith said. “My parents were very open with me, and to some extent with Dan and Terry, too.”

“Oh, memories,” Dan said dreamily. “But yes. We look back on it fondly, and Terry and I have talked a lot about it, too. We’d rather our cubs be knowledgeable and able to articulate their feelings than be misled and left scared and confused.”

“Empower them to talk about their bodies so no one can take advantage of them,” Keith added. “It’s how my parents raised me, too.”

Isaac cleared his throat. “And, uh… h-how old are your girls?”

“They’re eight,” Dan said. “And we’ve kept them knowledgeable about their bodies for years.”

Eight. Isaac’s age when the choir director had done… those things. Another wave of guilt rushed over him. He sighed.

Dan patted the cat’s paw. “Something on your mind?”

“I just wish I’d said something,” Isaac muttered.

“It’s not your fault,” Teddy said. “If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine. I brought you to him on a silver platter.”

“Oh hush, it’s not your fault either,” Keith said. “It’s entirely on the bastard that hurt you. I don’t care if you ‘wanted’ it, he shouldn’t have taken advantage of two naive boys.”

“Damn right,” Dan said. “Fuck that guy for what he did to both of you.”

Isaac sighed. “It isn’t even just that,” he said. “It’s how I ended things…”

“You were young,” Dan said. “There’s no use beating yourself up over the past. You can only learn from it and move on.”

The cat looked up. Teddy was looking at him. Isaac reached across the table and took Teddy’s paw.

“So how have things been at home?” Dan asked.

“It’s been a roller coaster,” Isaac said. He filled the three other males in on the tension in the house, Sarah’s hostile reaction to the suggestion of adopting Chuck and his warming relationship with Chuck. He even mentioned his little date with his former lab assistant.

“Oooh, a date, huh?” Dan asked. “How’d that go?”

“Rather well, I think,” Isaac said. “She’s… apparently bisexual and polyamorous. Wants cubs, open to entering into a relationship with someone who’s already got cubs…”

Keith chuckled. “She sounds like a catch.”

Isaac blushed. “I… suppose so.”

Dan smirked. “On that subject… have you had any success with your sexual frustrations?”

The cat squeaked. Talking about that in front of Dan’s boyfriends felt far too intimate. “Oh, uh… I suppose I haven’t, no,” he said evasively.

“Shame,” Dan said. “You should seriously consider some of those toys. They’re much better than a paw.”

“A partner can be better, though,” Keith said. “I know you’ve had an encounter with Dan before. Yes, he told me about it, too,” he added when he saw Isaac’s shocked face. “I know we haven’t known each other long, but I’d be happy to show you a thing or three. And of course, you and Teddy have a history…”

“Oh, I’m sure he wouldn’t want to have sex with me,” Teddy said.

Isaac looked up at the fennec. Shockingly, the idea of having sex with him didn’t immediately repulse him. Quite the contrary. Something about getting intimate with his old friend sounded… rather appealing. Goodness, maybe he really was bisexual. “I… wouldn’t be so sure about that,” Isaac said. “If you were open to it, I’d… be willing to give it a try.”

Keith chuckled. “Alone, or would you like your first gay threesome or foursome?”

“More than one partner at a time feels… a little much,” Isaac said.

The arctic fox chuckled and patted Isaac’s shoulder. “Understood. Teddy, you know where Dan and Terry’s room is. Why don’t you take your old friend up there and you can play catch-up.”

Teddy rose from his seat and walked around the table. He took Isaac’s paw, and the two walked quietly paw in paw upstairs. It felt weird, about to fuck his old childhood friend in his cub’s friend’s parents’ house. Absurd if he thought about it too much. But maybe over-thinking wasn’t the play here. He over-thought all those years ago and ruined a relationship that he could have at least tried to maintain. It was the dawn of the internet age, they could have kept in touch if he hadn’t scuttled it.

They walked into the bedroom and closed the door behind them.

“Gosh, I feel like a cub again,” Teddy muttered.

“Awkward teen for me,” Isaac said. “So, uh… w-what would you like to do?”

“Anything and everything,” Teddy said. “Kiss you, suck your dick, bend over and let you fuck my brains out… gods, there’s so many things I wish I could’ve done…”

Isaac chuckled. “Gods, not God?”

The fennec blushed. “I stopped going to church after I moved out to Mass. Technically when I was in college I only went in the summer when I was at home, but that’s… a whole other can of worms…”

The feline nodded. The last thing he wanted to do was bring up more bad memories. “I’ve never… kissed another male before. Unless we count that little peck when we were cubs.”

Teddy’s radar dishes perked. “D… do you want to try?”

“Hang on a second.” Isaac took a breath, then started stripping. He got himself down to his underwear, paused, then took those off, too. “Not like you haven’t seen me naked before.”

The fennec chuckled and took his underwear off, too. “True. And maybe we can get a little more comfortable,” he said, taking the cat’s paws and leading him over to the bed.

The two males laid down together, lying face to face. Isaac wasn’t sure what was more shocking: that he was reunited with his childhood friend, or that he didn’t feel any awkwardness at all being naked with him, both of them erect.

“You’re in the driver’s seat,” Teddy said. He chuckled. “Keith calls me ‘the sub’s sub,’ and he isn’t wrong. But also… I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable. I know I must’ve made you feel that way all those years ago, but-“

Isaac stopped him with a finger to his lips. “Shh… no more talking about that, okay?”

Teddy nodded obediently. Isaac put the thought of their cubhood out of his mind. He wasn’t an innocent eight year old anymore. He was an adult, fully in charge. And he knew what he wanted.

The feline leaned in and pressed his lips to Teddy’s. It was a little awkward at first, kissing another male. But when Teddy moaned, Isaac knew he was making the right decision. The gap between them closed, bodies and erections pressing against one another, legs entwining.  Their tongues joined in on the action. Teddy tasted very different from the few females Isaac had kissed. Not as sweet, almost musky, but not in an unpleasant way.

His hips began rocking, the feline subconsciously frotting with the other male. Something awoke in him. A desire to be inside his old friend. He wasn’t sure what to make of it.

Their kiss broke, and their eyes met.

“Isaac,” Teddy whispered.

Isaac smiled. He’d never heard his name whispered quite like that, with such lust, with such passion. “Teddy,” he whispered. He looked down at their groins and contemplated what to do next.

“I need you,” Teddy whispered.

The feline chuckled. “You’d be my first male…”

Teddy beamed and rolled onto his back, then snatched up a bottle from the bedside table. “Well, then, here’s a quick primer. You’ll need this.” He put the bottle in Isaac’s paw. “Don’t be shy about using lube. If you want a condom, I know Dan’s got some in the drawer, but I’ve only been intimate with him and Keith in the past… oh, six, seven months, and I tested clean two months ago when I got my regular check for my PrEP. You can do me however you want: missionary, doggy, pin me against the wall and fuck me… your choice.”

“You’re no stranger to this, I see,” Isaac said as he pushed himself up onto his knees.

“You’re not the first male who’s had their first time with me,” Teddy said.

“I see.” He poured some lube onto his fingers, and lathered it up on his cock. “I don’t want to make a mess of their bed…”

“Don’t worry about that, I’ll wash the sheets after,” Teddy said.

That fennec had thought of everything. Isaac eased himself between the fennec’s spread legs as he closed the bottle and set it down. “Alright, then,” he said.

Teddy beamed and lifted his legs, curving his back to present his rear to the feline. Isaac looked down at him. Images unbidden flooded his mind, but he pushed those aside. He only had eyes for Teddy right now.

Isaac leaned in and lined up his erect penis with the fennec’s tailhole. He pushed in with surprising ease. But then, if he was getting fucked regularly by two males, that made sense. He let out a gasp as he hilted in the fennec’s rear. An ass felt so different from a vagina. None of his girlfriends had ever let him do them anally. It was snugger at the entrance, and felt surprisingly soft inside. Not as much as a vagina, of course, but more than satisfactory.

“Oh, Isaac,” Teddy moaned.

Again, hearing his name moaned like that filled the feline with lust. Sarah had never. Even his college partners hadn’t ever said it with such enthusiasm. He braced his paws along the fennec’s sides and started thrusting into him.

His penis throbbed as he fucked - no, made love to - Teddy. It was such a curious sensation, having sex with another male. Different, and not in a bad way, either. What had he been missing out on all of these years?

In a moment of boldness, he leaned down and kissed Teddy again. The fennec wrapped his arms and legs around the feline and held him close. It caught Isaac so off-guard he almost slipped out, but the fennec managed to scoot forward and keep him inside. This male was damned good.

Far quicker than he would have imagined, he felt his orgasm sneaking up on him. A rush of ecstasy flooded his senses as he climaxed inside the other male. He moaned out Teddy’s name as he filled the male with his seed.

He gasped as his softening penis slipped out of Teddy’s ass.

“Finished already?” Teddy asked.

“F-first time anal,” Isaac muttered. He blushed. “S-sorry…”

Teddy chuckled and kissed him on the lips. “Don’t be sorry… I just hope it was good for you.”

“It was,” Isaac said. He rolled onto his side and looked down at the fennec’s penis. Did he dare? “C-could I… try sucking yours?”

The fennec grinned and wiggled his hips. “Go for it.”

Isaac blushed as he climbed down between Teddy’s legs. The fennec’s penis was smaller than his own, but rock hard. He wrapped his paw around it, the first penis other than his own that he had held, then leaned in and gave his tip an experimental lick.

“Oh gods…” Teddy muttered. “J-just be careful of your teeth… and don’t try to take too much, I don’t want you to choke…”

The feline chuckled. “I’ll do my best.” He took a breath, then took about half of the fennec’s erection into his mouth. It wasn’t an unpleasant feeling. Different, curious. There wasn’t much of a flavor to it, unlike with vagina. It felt weird using a female body as his point of reference, but it was all he had.

Again memories came flooding back. This time he took a quick note from them, and copied the bobbing motions he had seen Teddy using all those years ago.

“D-don’t be afraid to use your tongue,” Teddy whispered.

His tongue! How could he have neglected to think of that? He began tentatively swirling his tongue around the fennec’s penis, earning a lustful moan.

“Oh, Isaac… that feels sooooo good,” Teddy whispered.

Two months ago, Isaac would have never imagined that he’d find himself enjoying the feel of another male’s penis in his mouth. But then, two months ago, he had believed that he and Sarah were still a couple. A lot had changed. At least this might be a positive change.

He kept up his work, sucking and stroking the fennec’s penis. Teddy grabbed onto his ears gently, stroking the fur and soft inner ear as he sucked.

“Fuck, Isaac… I’m gonna cum,” Teddy said.

He debated whether he wanted to taste the male’s cum. He decided it couldn’t hurt to try, and prepared as best he could for the male’s ejaculation.

Teddy arched his back as he orgasmed in Isaac’s mouth. The feline was surprised by how salty and musky his seed was. Perhaps he’d have to try his own for a point of comparison at some point. He worked the male’s penis through his orgasm, though he didn’t dare try swallowing. He kept up his strokes and sucks until the fennec was thoroughly spent, then lifted his head and looked around.

“If you don’t want to swallow, you can spit it in my mouth,” Teddy said.

Kinky. Isaac leaned over the fennec and pressed his lips to Teddy’s, then allowed the fennec’s seed to spill into his mouth. Teddy eagerly swallowed down his own load.

Again, Isaac flopped down on the bed next to Teddy. “Damn…”

“Did you like it?” Teddy asked. “Blowing me, I mean.”

Isaac chuckled. “I might need further data to find out if I liked it or not.”

Teddy laughed and whacked him in the face with a pillow. “You’re still such a nerd!”

The feline laughed himself as he was struck. “Some things don’t change.”

“And some do, thank gods,” Teddy said as he hugged the feline. “We should probably wash up before the lube gets matted in our fur.”

“True… shame we can’t cuddle more,” Isaac said.

“Now, now, we can cuddle once we’re clean,” Teddy said.

The two males slipped out of bed and into the en suite bathroom for a quick wash. Teddy was more than happy to clean Isaac up, and the feline allowed the fennec to do so. In turn he helped wash the lube from his buttfur, from which the fennec seemed to derive great delight. He smiled as they exchanged another kiss, then returned to the bedroom.

They spent the next… goodness, Isaac had lost track of the time they spent just talking, catching up. It wasn’t until Dan knocked on the door that they finally parted. Isaac pulled his underwear back on before leaving the bedroom. Teddy opted to stay naked.

At dinner, Isaac and Chuck were the only ones wearing anything at all. The other parents had gotten nude, though Chuck didn’t seem to mind. Dinner was surprisingly normal save for the lack of clothing. He definitely caught Teddy openly admiring the younger kits, and he was fairly certain that the other adults were aware of it, too.

If he was honest, he wasn’t quite sure how he felt about Teddy being around his boy. Sure, Teddy had insisted that he wouldn’t do anything. But Chuck had made it clear that he would keep secrets. He wondered what other secrets the pup might be hiding. He knew better than to pry and risk pushing the boy away, but oh how he wanted to know what had hurt that boy so much. At least Teddy’s gaze didn’t seem to linger on Chuck.

When they finished, Isaac slipped back upstairs to get dressed. Chuck was already dressed when he got downstairs. He took the boy’s paw and walked him to his car for the drive home.

Much to his surprise, Chuck spoke up as he pulled out of the driveway. “R-Robbie’s dad said that y-you used to know T-Teddy.”

“What? Oh, yes, Teddy and I were friends when we were cubs,” Isaac said. “I never expected to see him again, honestly.”

“W-why’d you s-s-stop being friends?” Chuck asked.

“I moved to Massachusetts,” Isaac said. “And back then there weren’t nearly as many ways to keep in touch as there are now. No cell phones, early internet wasn’t great. We fell out of contact.”

Chuck nodded. “I-I-I didn’t have any f-f-friends in A-Arizona…”

“I’m sorry to hear that,” Isaac said. “Teddy was really my only friend until high school. I was very shy back then. Maybe more shy than you are.”

The pup gasped. “R-really?”

“Really,” Isaac said. He chuckled as he drove. “I’ll have to show you some photos of me as a kitten. I used to wear huge glasses. Nerdy little me.”

His son nodded. “O-okay…”

As they neared home, Isaac decided to be daring. “I just want you to know, Chuck, that you can come to me about anything. Anything at all. Even if it’s embarrassing or scary. Okay?”

The pup squeaked, but nodded. “O-okay…”

That was good enough for Isaac. They were talking more. And maybe he could protect the boy the way he hadn’t been able to protect himself or Teddy back when they were cubs.

When they got home, Isaac dug out an old photo album and showed Chuck some of his cubhood photos. He laughed as he relayed stories, and even got a few nervous chuckles from the pup. They only kept it up for a little while, though. It was getting late, and they were both tired.

Isaac contemplated checking on Sarah, but decided against it. If she wanted to talk, she could come to him. She had mostly rebuffed his attempts to talk the last two months, anyway. Why bother now?

He was just settling into bed when there was a knock on his bedroom door. “Come in,” Isaac said.

To his surprise, it was Sarah.

“My my. To what do I owe the pleasure?” Isaac asked.

“Ha ha,” she deadpanned. “I’ve been thinking about your proposal to adopt Chuck… if you want him… you can have him.”

Isaac tilted his head. Something about her wording was hitting him wrong. “You mean we’d co-parent, right?”

“No,” Sarah said. “I mean I’d give you full custody and give up mine.”

That shocked the cat. “You… you’d really give up custody of your son?”

“He’s a reminder of things I’d rather forget,” Sarah said. “Whenever you want to start the process, you let me know.”

It felt like Isaac had been stabbed with an icy dagger to the heart. “Okay… I’ll call a lawyer first thing Monday morning and get that started, then… are you going to tell Chuck?”

“No,” Sarah said. “I don’t want him to know. Keep it secret and he’s yours. Deal?”

“Sarah, that’s not what I wanted,” Isaac said.

“Take it or leave it,” the female border collie said.

Isaac sighed. “Fine… I’ll take it.”

She nodded. “Fine, then. Good night.” She closed the door before Isaac could respond.

The absolute last thing Isaac wanted to do was to keep a secret like this from his son. Maybe he could convince Sarah to change her mind, but he doubted it. But now he had something new on his plate. He grabbed his phone and texted Dan, both to get Teddy’s number that he had neglected to get, and to ask for his advice on this one. The fox called almost immediately.

“Hello, Dan,” Isaac said.

“Hello,” Dan said. “You’re on speaker, Terry’s next to me. She seriously wants to give up custody of her cub? Did she say why?”

“She said he was… ‘a reminder of things she’d rather forget.’ I don’t know what she means by that, but it sounds like she’s done with him.”

“And she wants it kept secret,” Terry said. “I don’t like it. But if I were you I’d go through with it just to make sure he’s taken care of. If you need recommendations for good attorneys, I know a few family lawyers who are very good.”

“A recommendation would be lovely, yes,” Isaac said.

“And if you need to talk about anything, please let me know,” Terry said. “Dan said that you shared something that I might be able to help with, but didn’t want to say what out of respect for you.”

Well, at least Dan hadn’t told her EVERYTHING. “I don’t suppose I could come over tomorrow and chat, could I? I’d rather do this face to face.”

“Of course, Isaac,” Terry said. “Anytime. You’re welcome to bring Chuck along, too. I’m sure Robbie won’t mind seeing his friend again, either.”

“I’ll ask him in the morning,” Isaac said. A knock on the door caught his attention. “One moment, please.” He muted his phone. “Come in.”

His door opened, and Chuck poked his head in. “I-Isaac, c-can I sleep with you t-tonight?”

Isaac bit his lip. “Sure. But right now I’m on the phone with Robbie’s parents. Nothing to do with you,” he lied.

Chuck nodded. “I-I can wait u-until you’re d-done…”

“No, no, come in,” Isaac said. “I’m almost finished.” He unmuted his phone and brought it back to his ear. “Dan, Terry, thanks for the talk. Chuck just walked in, so I’ll need to cut tonight short, but I’ll talk to you tomorrow, okay?”

“Alright,” Dan said.

“Sleep well,” Terry said.

“You, too. Both of you.” He hung up his phone, then patted the bed next to him. “Come on, pup.”

The border collie closed and locked the door, then padded over to bed. Tonight he was wearing his one piece footy pajamas, and had Mr. Stuffy tucked under his arm. He slipped into bed with the cat and snuggled in.

Isaac sighed as he turned out the light and put an arm around the pup. “How would you like to see Robbie again tomorrow?” he asked.

The pup flicked his ears. “I-I-I’d like that,” he whispered.

The feline nodded. “I need to talk to his mother about some… private things, but I figured you could come along and see your friend while I talked with her.”

Chuck nodded. “O-okay.” He yawned and wiggled back, pressing against the feline. “N-n-night…”

“Good night, Chuck,” Isaac whispered.

It felt bad lying to him, but he didn’t want to break the pup’s heart or panic him. Was it really lying, though? Technically it was more withholding the truth. It wasn’t like it would be forever. He’d tell him some day, when he was ready. But that was definitely not tonight. For now, he needed sleep. There was a lot to think about.
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