  
“So Tommy, let me get this straight.  You fucked your sister?”

“Caroline!”  Julian bristled; the twins shrank back into their seat.

“No, Julian; the time for shying away from this is long over.  Tommy fucked his sister, and Katie, you opened your legs for him, right?”  Tommy and Katie cringed and shrank away further.

He gave a low growl.  “Caroline...”

“I’m not having it!” The leopard thumped her fist down on the table.  “We tried it your way and now we’re doing it my way.  You agreed!"  She paused, peering at the pair over her glasses as she regained her composure.  "So Tommy, Katie, what do you have to say for yourselves?”

A long awkward pause.  The cubs looked from Julian to Caroline and back again, finding no respite.  The moment dragged on, and on, until the silence seemed almost to scream from the walls.  Katie broke down.  “...Yes?”

She nodded, apparently satisfied with her answer.  “And what about you Tommy?”

Katie elbowed her brother, the spell broken.  “Just tell her!”

“Err...  Yes?”

Caroline nodded again; the matter was settled.  “I’m glad we got that out of the way. Now, let’s move onto the matter at hand.”  The leopard stood up and gestured expansively.  “Who’s going to wash the dishes and who’s going to dry them?”

Katie stood immediately.  “I’ll wash!”

Tommy piped up, “And I’ll dry!”

“Superb.  You see Julian?  Don’t think you raised these two that badly after all.”  She watched with a muted smile as the twins got to work at the sink and started attacking the mammoth pile of washing up.  “Now Katie, how did it happen?”

“Huh?”  The girl turned her head, washing up foam clinging to her sleeves.

“How did you and Tommy first fuck--“  A collective gasp filled the room.  “--Okay fine, how did you and Tommy first end up, umm, making love to each other?  Don’t be shy now.  You can’t shock your Aunty Caroline, I promise you.”  She leaned forward on the chair and rested her chin on her hands.

The twins scrubbed and rinsed and dried for a while more, till Katie found her voice again, quiet and shy:  “We were on holiday, he--“

“Speak up please, we can barely hear you.”

Katie swallowed nervously, dunking another plate into Tommy’s area.  “Me and Tommy were on holiday a few months back, see.  And Mum and Dad were there too.  You remember Dad, like we told you.”  She swallowed again.

Julian nodded, looking away awkwardly.  The last time this whole story had been told, was the night everyone found out what had been happening.  The night everything went wrong.  The night she left.

“Anyway, I woke up one night and Tommy was, well, his willy was inside me!”  She broke off, blushing and turning away.

“Erm, Katie?”  Tommy turned and looked at his sister in confusion.

“Go on, Katie.” Caroline encouraged with a gentler voice, adjusting her glasses.

The cub wiped her damp paws down her skirt, fiddling with them for a while before turning back to face the others.  “I didn’t know what was happening, and then,” she stopped, looking down as she blushed, “and then he was squirting his stuff in me.”

“--But that’s not what happened.” Tommy interjected, a note of concern in his voice.

A confused look crossed Katie’s muzzle. “Err.”

Tommy continued. “We touched each other one morning, and then we cuddled, and then you put my willy inside you.”  Tommy coughed and looked away, suddenly shy again.

Caroline looked from one cub to the other, paws crossed, gently drumming her fingers against one arm. “Well then.  Both stories can’t be true.  Can they?”  Those fingers drummed for a moment longer. “Okay.  Here’s what we’re going to do.  You two are going to have a little chat and get your stories straight.  Your Father and I are going to have a cup of tea.  Okay?  Chop chop!”  She bustled the two of them into the living room.

-------

Tommy stood facing his sister, a sombre expression on his muzzle, a guilty look on hers.  “So what really happened, Katie?”

“Err...”  The girl rubbed the back of her neck.

“I don’t...  I don’t think I remember a first time in the middle of the night.  Do I?”

She spun around to face him, grabbing his paws.  “Tommy you were asleep!”

“I, what?”

Katie pulled his paws towards her, touching them to her swollen belly. “Tommy you humped me in your sleep, the very first time.  I was asleep too, but I woke up with your willy inside me.”

“But I...”

She spoke plaintively, “I liked it, don’t get me wrong!  I liked it a lot.  And the next night I made your willy hard and got it inside me and you squirted in me again.  And I feel bad I did that without asking, but then you humped me in your sleep without asking too, so I guess that makes us even.” The words all came out in a rush.

“Katie...”  He trailed off, deep in thought.  After a long while, he continued.  “I don’t know what to say.  Tommy looked down at his paws, and squeezed hers.  “That first morning, when we touched each other, I couldn’t stop thinking about a dream.  I was so sure it was a dream.  Had almost forgotten about it till now.  It wasn’t a dream was it?”

The leopard shook her head, looking at her brother with concern.

“I really humped you twice, before our ‘first’ time?  I did all that without waking up?”

Katie nodded enthusiastically.  “You came a lot too.  I was really surprised!  But it felt so good; I don’t blame you, Tommy.  You really never woke up at all!  And you know, if I could go back and change it, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

He blushed at her first comment, a wistful expression starting to spread across his muzzle.  “I can’t even imagine...  You really liked me humping you in my sleep?”

She nodded even more enthusiastically than before.  “Uh-huh!  Tommy, I got so excited.  You needed me and you just filled me, filled me right up.  No questions asked!”  Katie shivered a bit, paws wandering down the front of her skirt.

“Want to do it again?”

Katie squealed.  “Oh Tommy you have no idea how much I--“

Caroline’s voice came booming into the room, “Have you two lover-birds quite finished?  We haven’t got all day!”  She bustled the pair of them back into the kitchen before they could say another word.

-------

“Now Katie, let’s see the rest of those dishes washed.  Tommy, keep drying.  We’ll tame this kitchen yet.  Keep talking.  Did you two get your stories straight?  The truth please.”

The dishes clacked against each other reassuringly as the cubs set to work.  As one, the cubs began to talk.

“I put my willy in Katie--“
“--Tommy put his willy up me--“

“Cubs, cubs, cubs, one at a time please.  Tommy.”

“It was so hot, see, and we had to share the same bed, and it was too hot for clothes, and I was asleep, and I guess somehow I ended up with my willy inside Katie.  She didn’t mind--“

“--I didn’t mind.”  She nodded.

“And I don’t really remember it, but it must be true.  And then the next night I thought I had a s...” He blushed. “A naughty dream.  But it was real.  Katie put my willy up her, while I was sleeping, which was only fair--“

“--It was only fair.”  Katie nodded again.

“And so I must have filled her again.  And then not till the third day on holiday, in the morning, did we play with each other for real, and then she helped me put my willy up her again, which I thought was the first time, and then I made her wet.  I was scared at first, but then we played in the shower...”  Tommy blushed a deeper shade as he remembered just how naughty that particular activity had become.  “I liked it a lot.”

Caroline twirled a lock of hair through one paw, looking up at the ceiling.  “Jeeze Louise.  So let me get this straight.  Tommy, you had sex with your sister in your sleep.  She likes it and makes you have sex with her in your sleep the next night.  You half-remember it the next day and your sister helps make sure you have another go, this time while awake.  Is that the long and short of it?”  She looked from one cub to the other.

They both nodded slowly, cheeks flushed and gazes downwards.

“And Tommy, you weren’t, uh, you weren’t ever shooting blanks?”

He tilted his head, “What does that--“

“She means were you always spurting your stuff, silly.”  Katie smirked at her brother, handing another plate to him.

“Oh!  Oh.  Well no, I don’t think I was ever, uh, shooting blanks.”  He turned away, glancing at Julian as he finished drying the plate and set it down.

Julian was trying his hardest to look anywhere but at the cubs, shifting quite visibly in his chair.

Caroline held one paw to her forehead, grasping the back of a chair to steady herself. “Okay, okay.”  She turned to face her brother.  “Julian. Did it ever occur to you that putting two nearly twelve year old cubs in the same bed together was a bad idea?”

“Err...”

“I didn’t think so.  I’ll bet Alison didn’t either.”  She turned the chair backwards and sat down, crossing her arms across the seat back.

“Caroline, I really don’t think--“ Julian began.

She tutted, shaking her head.  “No you didn’t think, did you?  None of you did.  And now we’re in this frightful mess and what’s to be done about it?”

The older leopard's jaw worked silently for a while.  "I don't..."

“Quite.  Tommy, Katie, how long were you two having sex until your parents got suspicious?  How many weeks, do you think?”

“Hmm...” Both twins set down their washing up and started counting up fingers and thumbs, staring at their paws quite intently as they muttered to themselves.

“At least a month!”
“--At least five weeks!”
The cubs blurted out together.

“When Dad found us together in the bathroom.”  They nodded.

Julian spoke up softly, looking down at his paws.  “It was 6 weeks.”

“I see.”  She folded her arms, glancing over to the cubs, who by now were looking quite uncomfortable.  “Tommy, Katie, how many times did your Mother and Father explain about sex to you in those 6 weeks?  How many times in total, do you think?”

“Err...”  The pair started counting on fingers and thumbs again, whispering to each other a couple of times before looking up.  “Just the one time.  Just Dad.  When he caught us in the bathroom.”  Katie had the good grace to blush.

“Mmmhmm.”  Caroline looked back over at Julian.  “Tommy, Katie, would you give us some privacy for a while?”  The twins glanced at each other before glancing guiltily back at her.  They wiped their paws dry and shuffled out of the room, closing the door behind them.

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Caroline turned to her brother, handing him a fresh cup of tea. “So just what did you tell them, Ju--“

He growled softly, setting the cup down.  “I know what you’re going to say.  Did I tell them what they should or shouldn’t be doing?  Well of course I did!”

She shook her head.  “Julian.  Nobody’s accusing you of anything.”

“I tried, I really tried so hard; I wanted the best for them.  But I let Alison down.” He put his head in his paws.

Catherine’s eyes widened and she reached over to touch him with a paw.  “Just how did you let your wife down, Julian?”

Julian looked up at her through his fingers.  “I never even told her it happened.  Tommy and Katie in the bathroom.  I don’t know why, I just, I thought I could handle it, I thought I explained it to them, but I failed.  Alison only found out about the bathroom incident when the cubs were found out, and she was furious!”

Caroline stood up.  “Don't you see what’s been going on here?”

Julian wrung his paws together, looking as if he was on the verge of tears again.  “We failed them.  We both failed, we--“

She cut him off.  “No, she failed them.  At least you tried!  There's a lot of blame to go around, but at least you had the conversation.  What did she do?  Blamed you for even having it.  Blamed anyone but herself for what’s happened here, and in the final answer, abandoned all of you.  This is a big fucking mess, no doubt about it, but at least you tried.  Julian, by God you have got to stop beating yourself up here.  You have got to hold yourself together.  For them.  For me."

He paused and cocked his head to one side, repeating under his breath, "She blamed me...  She blamed me.  She fucking blamed me."  The leopard softly banged his paw down on the kitchen table.

"You're damn right she did."

He straightened in his chair and turned to face her.  "Caroline, you don't know the half of it."

She took his paws in her own.  "Then tell me."

"We fought, oh God we fought, but she just couldn't see."  He sighed.  "Katie is pregnant; we all know that now."  Julian wrung his paws again.  "It's too late for abortion, the doctor was very clear.  Yet Alison somehow knew better, Alison knew just who to blame."  He shook his head.  "We all know what happened when the cubs were separated.  We all know what happened when we tried to force Katie anyway."

"You very nearly lost them both.  If I remember rightly, that doctor helped you find them?"

He nodded.  "Right!  It was really touch and go for a while there.  So why would you risk pushing the twins back into a situation where they'd want to run away again?"

"She wanted that?"

Julian stood and began pacing.  "She wanted to separate the twins again.  Wanted to find some other doctor and find a way to force Katie to have the abortion.  Her own daughter, her own flesh and blood."

Caroline rubbed her forehead with one paw.  "Jeeze...  She was really pushing that hard on it?"

"Wouldn't accept no for an answer.  Wouldn't accept the two kids living under one roof after what they had done.  Blamed me for standing up to her."

She gave him a look.  "After they'd been caught fucking, right?"

His ears flattened.  "Well... yeah.  I couldn't go along with her decision.  They would have run away again, I'm certain of it.  I couldn't take that risk, and so we fought, and we fought, and then she left."

"So let me check I have this right.  You'd rather the twins were both under one roof, safe and not running away.  You'd rather follow medical advice.  You'd rather avoid forcing an impossible choice onto your kids.  You monster!"  She chuckled a little.

Julian picked up his cup and took a sip.  "Well when you put it like that--"

"And you'd rather just let your kids fuck in peace."

He spat out his tea.  "Jesus, Caroline!"

She punched him in the arm.

"I'd rather they weren't..."  He coughed, colour rising into his cheeks.  "I'd rather they weren't doing things with each other, but most of all I'd rather they were safe.  Here, together, is the only place where that's possible.

Her eyes widened.  "So you're not going to try to lay the law down and stop them?  You're just gonna turn a blind eye to it?"

He started to sweat a little.  "Caroline, I'm not trying to encourage them."

"Oh I'm sure.  Under your roof, you can make sure they're safe and sensible in every way, even if that did end up including, uh, every way.  It's completely crazy"

Julian swallowed.  "It is?"

She swatted him again, chuckling.  "Relax, Julian.  I'm just messing with you.  Having a bit of trouble getting my head around it, but it makes a lot of sense.  They're good kids, they really are Julian.  This kind of mess isn't exactly in the parenting guides.  And it's not exactly like you and I are total strangers to the idea."

He stiffened and looked away.  "Don't go there.  Not now."

She held her hands up.  "Okay okay, I guess fifteen years doesn't just disappear overnight.  It doesn't matter now.  The safety of your family is what matters.  So what are we going to do?"

The leopard relaxed a little, running a paw through his hair.  "Well it's a bit late for condoms, but we should make sure the twins know how to use them before she's had the baby.  And they need explaining about how to keep things private.  And we'll have to figure out bed arrangements."

"Julian!"  She covered her mouth with one paw, stifling a laugh.  "I meant what are we going to do, as a family.  You've got their sex lives all planned out huh?"

He flushed hotly at that, shifting uncomfortably.  "I, uh, yeah, uh, we need to figure a lot of things out.  Don't we?"

"That's the spirit.  Now let's get the rest of this mess cleaned up.  A tidy home is a tidy mind!"
  