Martha and Eric Anderson pull up home and begin unloading Eric’s new wardrobe; As they walked in and out bringing several bags inside, William can’t help but cringe as he sees the price tags on some of the clothes from Awareness.
“The credit card bill is going to be hurting this month,” William blanches.
“Benton’s maybe,” Eric answering; “Frieda used her platinum card when we were at Awareness dad.”
Looking at his son in his fursona; he looks at Martha as she gives him a ‘go with it look’.
“So fun filled day then,” William helping them bring in the bags.
“Went to a place called Grrrrrrr,” Eric growling the name of the restaurant; “great filet mignon, awesome desert.”
“Afterwards we went to the big box store,” Martha answering. Looking at Eric; “get your clothes upstairs and get ready for bed.”
Martha looking at William, “Eric was right. Grrrrrrr was great. His, Frieda and Spencer’s dessert had a rice pudding that they savagely devoured. My crème-Brule felt like you giving me a massage.” Martha embracing her husband she whispers; “From the inside out.”
William was clearly aroused; a tenting in his pants clearly visible. Growls escaping his lips as they each run their hands up and down each other’s bodies; about to throw themselves at each other, there is a knock on the door.
“I’ll get it,” Eric opening the door to see Tachibana; “Oh miss Tachibana how are you?”
“Eric is that you,” Tachibana seeing the young Anderson in his fursona for the first time; “when my staff told me about you white furred form, I could hardly believe it.”
Eric just grins and nods as both Martha and William hear the exchange and rush over to the door.
******
“So Eric is a were-panther now,” Ben asks as he and Nate walk back home.
“White coat of fur and these deep green feline like eyes,” Nate responds.
“Nice,” Ben comments; “and he was with both Spencer Lawson and Frieda Knight last night?”
“In the rec room,” Nate answers; “This was after I had a talk with Jean Talbot regarding Liv and then shagging her on the forest floor.”
Ben laughs, ”oh bee-have”; Ben doing his best to impersonate one of his favorite movies.
“Then after doing my chores this morning,” Nate continuing; “Liv stops by. We have a talk and one thing led to another.”
“We rutted all afternoon,” A voice could be heard above them. Nate and Ben look up and see Liv in her were-leopard fursona lying casually up a tree. “I waited for you to return Nate, but then it sounded like your parents had company.”
“My mom and brother are home finally,” Nate comments as Liv silently hops down from a tree.
“And a woman with a funny sounding name,” Liv responds; “tachybanana?”
“Tachibana No Akane,” Nate corrects her; “head were-vixen of the Skulk.”
“Oh,” Liv answers; “Jean has mentioned her many times. She also is the were-fox rep for the elder council.”
“Tell us something we don’t know,” Ben cuts in.
“You, Nate and this Alex fellow would make a perfect circle jerk,” Liv grins as she sticks out her tongue and dashes off. “Call me later Nate;” could be heard as the two bewildered werewolves see liv quickly vanish in the darkness.
“Yeah,” Ben shaking his head; “you definitely need to talk with her.”
“Circle jerk,” Nate looking confused; “what’s that?”
Ben laughs, “It’s something Alex and myself have been interested in doing.” Ben grinning; “you get a group of males each grabbing each others member and-“
“STOP,” Nate not wanting to hear any more: “I get it; definitely not interested, at least in this universe.”
Ben laughs as they both approach the back yards of their homes.
*****
Tachibana No Akane, leader of the skulk and were-fox representative of the elder council was sitting at the Anderson kitchen table explaining to Martha what William and Benton were talking about at her estate earlier today.
“I was going to tell you after we got settled down honey,” William answering; "but you only just got home from clothes shopping with Eric.”*
“Ah,” Tachibana understanding Martha’s confusion for her being there; “then now I can get one with the real reason as to why I’m here.” Tachibana taking out a small envelope and handing it to William; “after you left, Benton had some council business he had to address with me. Suffice to say none of it affected you. But what surprised me was him handing me a blank cheque with your name on it. He asked me to fill in what I felt would be a fair amount.**
William opens the envelope to see a cheque made out to him with the sum for two million dollars. Both Martha and William eyes go wide in disbelief.
“Two million,” William looking at Tachibana; “are you serious?”
“Benton has the money,” Tachibana smiles; “don’t worry about it.”
“I’m more worried when he sees the cheque and see the sum you wrote in,” William putting down the sudden windfall; “won’t he flip his lid?”
“Then he will have to deal with me and the council,” Tachibana answers.
Eric who overheard the entire conversation while in his room; thanks to his enhanced were-panther hearing, just mouth two million dollars. ‘Wait until I tell Frieda and Spencer in our Skype chat’, he thinks to himself. Sitting at his computer still in his fursona; Eric begins the chat by calling both Frieda and Spencer with their private channel the Frieda set up earlier.
* Referring to the chapter William and Benton talk. Tachibana's guest see Frieda and Eric together (Moon Lake of Earth 2)
** Referring to the chapter Benton's response and the start of clothes shopping (Moon Lake of Earth 2)