Startling Discovery

Posted on Wed Aug 31st, 2016 @ 1:51pm by

860 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: New Faces and Terror Beyond
Location: Bawden Quarters

I'd just finished shift and had to pick up the girls early from Daycare because Marcie seemed bothered by something. The Carer didn't understand what it was which considering she's been the one taking care of the girls since they were eligible to enter Day care, was something of a worry. When we got back Home Miracle darted off to her room, she'd been silent and that bothered me but Marcie wanted down and was making her wishes clear.

At first I wondered if it was me since both girls left me standing there puzzled, I knew Ayla would be home soon but still, I'd like to know what was going on. I went to speak to Miracle and she told me that Marcie had been acting 'funny' all day. So at least I've narrowed it down to Marcie since Miracle gave me a hug.

Marcie I found upon returning to the main room was playing with her toys in silence. "Hey honey, what you doing?" I asked. I brushed her hair only to be swatted away but that's not what caught my eye. She swatted my hand which is fine but within my hand was several strands of hair. I tried to brush her hair again and she got even more irritable. Ayla doesn't lose hair like this, I know I've brushed, trimmed and stroked plenty of times. I tapped my commbadge. "Ayla it's me, you need to get home quickly somethings wrong with Marcie." I spoke as I looked at the hair in my hand.

:: XO Office::

Ayla tossed what seamed the millionth pad to the growing pile of them in her outbox. And her inbox seamed to never empty only to grow bigger. She was losing her focus as time went by, looking for a distraction.

Then it came with the sound of worry along with her mates voice and something wrong with Marcie. She blinked and responded. "I'z enroute!" Ayla gotten her distraction. She knew it was important otherwise Mark wouldn't be calling. She left her office, glaring at her yeoman as she passed her. "Family emergency."

A few minutes later, Ayla walked into the Bawden's Den. "Squeee.."

I stood up as soon as the doors opened and saw her. "Look." I showed her my hand, the strands of hair in it. Now sure kids shed hair, it happens, I get that but this was a little more than usual and I only stroked her hair. I've pulled Ayla's hair before even a little harshly in the throws of intimacy and not pulled that much from her. "I just stroked her hair." I looked at my hand then back at Ayla. "Is that normal for Mousians?"

Ayla looked concerned as she moved on over to Marcie. She looked Marcie over carefully, taking note she was scratching a lot more. She reached out and touched Marcie forhead. She was cool to the touch and when she pulled her hand away. She had a lot of Marcies' really fine fur on her hand. "You feeling okay, Marcie?"

Marcie looked up at her mother and nodded, "Iz itch." Rubbing at herself through her clothing.

"Come on," Ayla spoke softly as she picked up Marcie. She looked at Mark. "I'll get her cleaned up, be back." She carried Marcie into the common refresher.

Miracle spoke up, "She gotten Cooties! She's been hanging out with the Thompsons kid." She returned to her school homework.

I had to admit I was slightly amused by Miracle's answer to things. "I'm sure she doesn't have Cooties sweetheart." I picked her up and held her up in front of me. "Perhaps some Daddy Cooties are what you need." Then I blew a raspberry on her belly.

Miracle giggled as she squirmed in Daddy's embrace as Ayla left to cleaned up Marcie who was a bit sluggish and feverish. Ayla washed the soft short fur that had came loose in large quantities. Maybe her human gene was going to be dominate as even her ears had grown smaller

Miracle was a little darling and loved to play, sometimes she'd try and rough me up, be dominant, rule the roust like her Mother. Of course being the Daddy Unit I had to fix that notion up with a bout of tickling or chasing her around. Of course there was little chance I'd catch Miracle if she bolted being the size she was and having the agility her Mother had.

Ayla looked worried as she brought Marcie back into the main room of the Den. Marcie was wearing a loose night gown. "Maybe it's the clothes causing her to shed. Shez gonna be wearing loose dresses for awhile to see if that is the cause of her fuzz to fall out." She smiled at Marcie who was fast asleep in her momma's arms. Marcie's tongue flickered out in a reptilian manner showing her tongue forming the split.

"Ok babe." What ever she thought was best. In situations like this given the mousian genes both our Daughters had I often deferred to Ayla's knowledge since she was Mousian. If she said dresses then dresses it was going to be.

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