Samantha and Frances Twist, still in their human forms, sat at their kitchen table for a few minutes, playing with the new arrivals to their household and family: two cute and adorable regular—non were—kittens.
Frances cradled the tiny ball of cute fur and just smiles and coos. "Hello little one. What is your name?”
"That is something we still need to do together," replied Samantha, while cuddling the kitten she had.
"As cute as they are, I've got homework to finish up if I want to go out with Alex tonight*," said their son Ben, before grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge and heading to his room.
When they were alone, Frances looked at her wife and said, "Is there something we need to talk about?"
"What do you mean?" asked Samantha in return.
"The sudden need to bring our new housemates into our lives?" inquired Frances, even as she continued to play with the kitten she was holding.
"I..." then Samantha paused, trying to figure out what to say. Her wife** sat patiently waiting until Samantha spoke again.
"Even if he stays at home and attends Moon Lake College like I did, eventually Ben is going to leave the nest. Probably as Mister Ramsey, or Ramsey-Twist or however they work it out between them."
"So..." said Frances, trying to prompt a response from Samantha, using her training as a professional therapist.
"I didn't tell you the rest of that dream I had that inspired me to go to the animal shelter for these," said Samantha, indicating the kittens. "You know how we've talked sometimes about, instead of adopting another were-child in need like we wound up doing with Ben, we'd try to have a child of our own biologically through a sperm donor someday..."
"Yes..." said Frances, eyeing her mate closely.
"I dreamed that you v-volunteered... b-but... y-you and our d-d-daughter d-d-died in labor," wailed Samantha, as she broke down and began to cry.
Frances stared at Samantha. She had never seen her wife so heartbroken before.
Acting quickly, she took the two kittens and gently put them back in the animal shelter container that was sitting under the table by Samantha's feet, and then moved closer to comfort her mate.
"It's okay honey. I'm here. We're not going to do anything that would ever jeopardize our love," said Frances, putting her arms around Samantha, while not bringing up the temporary spat the two had when Frances got curious about what semen tasted like and tried it straight from William Anderson and Evan Lawson's penises during the last Anderson/Twist/Lawson group orgy, back over the Thanksgiving weekend.***
"I don't want to ever lose you," cried Samantha. "I love you so much. Ever since that day I saw you hauling boxes out of that moving van when your family first arrived in Moon Lake. But the pain and fear of that nightmare..."
"I know dearest," cooed Frances, while letting Samantha cry out her frustration on her shoulder. "I fell in love with you the moment I spotted you across the street watching me move in from your front yard, and you've had my heart ever since."
Ben, not sure what the noise his sensitive werewolf ears was picking up, came back into the kitchen and asked, "Is everything all right?" as he saw his mother cry.
"Your mother just told me about a very bad nightmare she had last night," replied Frances, while looking at their son.
Not knowing what the nightmare was about, Ben just put his arms around Samantha too, but his other mother simply stared at Frances and asked, "Are you sure that's all it was?" looking for reassurance.
Frances knew that Samantha was referring to what some weres called the "prophecy dreams" that sometimes occurred in Moon Lake, where a glimpse of the future was shown the dreamer to reassure them about some aspect or question concerning their future.
Yet those were always positive. Not like Samantha's.
"Yes, I am my love," said Frances. "Despite how frightened you were, a plain and simple nightmare was all it was. Now, what do you say we get our new roomies settled in their new home," she suggested, while bringing the shelter container up onto the kitchen table. "Then we can have a late lunch together, and maybe take a nap afterward."
The way Frances stressed that one word made Samantha smile as she started trying to dry her eyes, even as Ben moved to start setting things up for lunch.
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*In the Earth-2 version of Moon Lake, Ben Twist is gay and dating fellow werewolf Alex Ramsey.
**No matter what Earth you're on, Samantha and Frances Twist are a happily married lesbian werecat couple.
***It is currently the first weekend AFTER the Thanksgiving holiday weekend on Earth 2.—tmw.