{{Since I still have no idea why Mister Jackson needs to talk to Claire Robertson, unless it has something to do with the new weretigress' unique white stripes on black fur pattern...}}
"Who is your Lamaze coach?" asked Doctor Olivia Watson, OB/GYN of Moon Lake and a werepanthress herself.
"Err..." began Martha Anderson, for she honestly hadn't stopped to think about a potential candidate for the position yet, let alone ask anyone. Her husband William had been it for the birth of both their sons, but that was impossible now. She had seen him die defending their family from the rogue were-vixen Yvette Smith.
So who...?
"I'LL DO IT!" shouted Katherine 'Kat' Johnson, Girls' PE Coach at Moon Lake Junior High School, startling both doctor and patient.
Both women turned to look at her, and Kat was just as surprised as them that she spoke.
"I may not have previous experience, despite the fact my (adoptive) mother likes having a big brood, but Martha is my friend, and I want to be there for her the best I can," pleaded Kat.
"Well, that's more Martha's decision than mine," began Doctor Watson, staring at the weretigress, and presuming there was more going on between the two ladies than there actually was at the moment; "but how is your mother anyway? I haven't seen her since I helped bring your brother Edward into the world."
"Edward's in elementary school now, but my folks have decided to wait until after they get a couple of his older siblings out of high school before they decide whether or not to have more cubs," explained Kat. While technically considered the third of eight children (to date), the lady was actually born to human parents who died cruising through Moon Lake on their way to Canada so the man who was her biological father could escape the military draft of the Viet Nam war. Being unable to identify who the humans were and thus unable to find legitimate next of kin, local authorities allowed the Johnsons to adopt the baby they renamed Katherine, who later voluntarily became a weretigress to honor her new parents when she could legally do so.
"Well Martha, the decision is up to you," Doctor Watson pointed out to her patient.
"Can we have a minute or two?" Martha asked in return.
"Sure. Just holler if you need me," replied Olivia, before leaving the examining room.
When they were alone, Martha looked at Kat and asked the obvious question. "Why?"
The fact that they had just met Monday when Martha started subbing at the junior high, let alone discovered she was pregnant with what would be her husband's last child, had made for a whirlwind of a week so far.
That Kat had also professed having feelings towards Martha, let alone the fact that the widowed werecat was starting to have similar feelings towards her present co-worker didn't hurt either.
"You mean, besides the fact that you need someone and my growing feelings towards you?" asked Kat in return, while taking Martha's hand in hers. "You may think this is silly, but I had a very interesting dream about us overnight, and I want to see if it comes true."
"You... dreamt about us last night?" asked Martha, staring at the other woman.
"Yes. It was so vivid. Like I was actually experiencing the events as they happened instead of just remembering them. The two of us grew close to the point where I moved into your place and we started raising little Wilma together. The summer of your, or maybe I should say our daughter's fifth birthday–"
"We got married," said Martha, finishing Kat's statement for her.
"Yeah," replied Kat, starting to blush in embarrassment. "It was kind of odd, because instead of one of us taking the other's name..."
"We hyphenated our surnames to honor each other, the way my oldest son Nate and his boyfriend Alex Ramsey will when they get married before us. I had a similar dream last night too," confessed Martha.
"REALLY?" asked Kat in disbelief, although she had overheard Martha tell Samantha and Frances Twist that she had had some kind of dream when the ladies dropped Martha off at the school that morning. "I've never had a dream like that before. It was like I was seeing what will be, instead of a possibility or what I hope will happen. So, I know what I'm hoping for, but what does happen now?" she asked, staring deeply into Martha's felinish green eyes.
After taking care of a few other matters and noticing that a good ten minutes had passed since she left the examining room, Doctor Olivia Watson figured she had given the ladies enough time to discuss the matter, and decided to reenter and discover what decision had been made.
As she reentered the room, Olivia had mixed feelings over the fact that not only were Kat and Martha engaged in some very passionate kissing, but that Martha's examining room gown had fallen to her waist and Kat was playing with Martha's exposed breasts, while Martha held the other woman tightly and was starting to release her inner werecat.
Olivia uttered a loud "AHEM," before Coach Johnson decided to transform too and started bursting her clothes at the release of her inner weretigress.
Martha reverted back to her normal form, but didn't bother pulling the gown back up to cover her breasts, as the OB/GYN stared at them.
"So, I take it we've reached a decision?" Doctor Watson asked with a smile on her face, wondering if, after Martha was no longer officially her patient, if the ladies would be interested in having a threesome.