The door swung open, and a familiar figure stepped through. "Hey, Daisy." Theodore glanced around the room. "I had a few questions."

Theodore paused when he saw that Daisy was not alone. Cedric was sitting with Daisy, and both were looking his way. The pair were clearly comfortable with one another, and Cedric was a little shy at the intrusion, but he wasn't trying to hide. "Bad time?" He looked between the two suspiciously.

Dhiren laughed from his side of the room. "They are a pair now, Theo. If you were hoping to woo her, you appear to have lost your chance." The lion man was working on something, but he was also watching the three with interest.

Daisy waved a hand. "It's fine. Sit down, Theodore." She gestured at the room's spare chair near the desk.

Theodore looked between the three, then moved to sit. He turned his attention to Daisy, and she could see the tension in him. "You're really with him?" He was looking at Cedric with a bit of a frown.

Cedric leaned a little against Daisy. "I really am. She, um." He fidgeted in place. "She makes me feel things I never felt before." He colored at his words. "Sorry, but it's true. I'm very happy right now."

Theodore frowned at that. "You're not, upset, at what happened?"

"Upset?" Daisy peered at him. "What do you mean?"

Theodore huffed and sat back in his chair. "You're not the first person he ever got close to ever. He didn't tell you about the other?"

"The other?" Daisy blinked at him. "What other?" The rabbit man was looking more nervous by the moment.

Theodore leaned closer. "Did he not tell you, Daisy? There was a female student here, a year ago."

Cedric paled around his eartips and snout. "That was a horrible mistake! We were both miserable." He played with his fingers. "Neither of us were right for the other." His voice had dropped to a whisper, and he looked ashamed. "I didn't want it to end the way it did, but it couldn't work. Neither of us wanted it." He was fidgeting, his fingers clasping and releasing each other.

Daisy put a larger paw over both of his, gently squeezing. "It's alright. Sometimes these things don't work out. I hope we do, but if we don't, we can still be friends. Let's, uh, not freak out, okay?"

Theodore was watching her, and his expression was a mixture of frustration and concern. "Daisy, he used you, for your milk, and to feel good, just like he did with her.

"I did not!" Cedric looked ready to implode away from the whole thing.

Daisy cocked a brow. "Did this other lady have milk to spare?"

Theodore blinked. "Um. Yes. She was a dairy cow, and she was producing milk, but she was not interested in him, and-"

Daisy lifted a hand, cutting him off. "Ah. Well, he can't cheat before he even met me." She poked Cedric on his nose, rubbing at that point slowly. "We're together now, so no cheating, now. But then? He's allowed."

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Theodore frowned. "I'm just trying to protect you. You're a good person, and he's not." The lion man at the far wall was watching all of this with a smirk.

Daisy pushed Cedric to the side, almost knocking him onto the bed as she stood up, taking up more space than she had a moment ago. "Theo, you are testing me. Cedric is a good person. Trying to figure himself out with some lady I never met before we ever came together doesn't count for anything except you throwing up old news. Are you that jealous?"

Theodore huffed at that, and his ears pinned back as he flushed. "I am not." His tail was lashing behind him. "I just think you deserve better."

Daisy moved to loom over him, and she could feel her chest bouncing on her every step. "Better? Like you then?"

Theodore was looking up at Daisy's face, and then his eyes trailed down. They were stuck, and he had frozen. "I, uh, maybe?" He was clearly struggling to pull his eyes back up to hers.

Daisy lowered a hand down on him, grabbing his head directly. His ears poked out between her fingers. "I forgave you. We can try being friends. But more than that? You're far far away from it. Damn, is this what ladies feel?" She frowned with the thought, feeling his eyes on her, measuring her appeal. "No wonder it gets tiring after a while."

Theodore huffed, and he finally was able to pull his eyes back up to her. "You're a good person, Daisy. I'm sorry about, all that. But he is still a bad person."

She shook him gently by the head she held. "You'll need to give better evidence than, 'he had relationships before you.'"

"He hurt her." Theodore was glaring at Cedric. "He hurt her a lot."

Daisy looked back at Cedric, and the man was almost curled up on the bed, his ears low and his hands clutched. She released Theodore. "I need to talk to him about it." She hiked a thumb at the door. "Without you here."

Theodore frowned, and his tail was still lashing, but he stood up. "Very well. If he hurts you, I will help you, Daisy."

She chuckled and gave him a shove. "You think I'm a helpless little girl now? I could kick both your asses at the same time. Git!" She gave a final playful kick, sending him out. She shut the door behind him and turned to face Cedric. "Okay. So that was a mess. I'm going to go get a drink. Do you want a drink?"

Cedric looked up at her from where he sat on the bed. "Y-you want a drink, with me? I, um. I did hurt her." He fidgeted miserably. "I could hurt you."

She sat beside him and took his hand. "Tell me about it?"

Cedric nodded. "She was the only one I could find that would let me drink milk, and she was the only one that was interested. But, we weren't interested in the same things, and she wanted to do more and more, and I just couldn't. He licked over his lips. "She wanted to change me, but I don't change that way. So she tried to force it. I fought her, and I won. I won too much. I hurt her, and it wasn't an accident. I was so scared. She was bleeding, and, and." He was crying softly. "I felt so awful. I was made to help."

Daisy stroked down his back. "There, there. It sounds like she pushed you into a horrible situation. You are not bad for defending yourself." She leaned in. "If I do that, you give me a swift punch and you run away. Don't even feel bad about it."

Cedric looked over at her, his eyes wet with his tears. "You're not scared?"

She grinned. "Oh, of course I am. It's terrifying. I could kill you." She tickled at him suddenly. "I'd hate to hurt you."

He laughed at the tickles and pushed back at her, trying to escape them. "No fair!" He grinned and leaned into her. "Thank you, for, for understanding."

Daisy hugged him tightly to herself.

Dhiren clapped gently from the other side of the room, and both of them blushed and looked over. "That was beautiful, truly." He rolled his eyes. "But I am trying to study over here."

Cedric colored and smiled. "Um, you mentioned a drink."

Daisy slid to her feet. "We can hit a bar, or you can pull me down and go for the drink I always have on tap. Which sounds better?"

His smile turned shy. "The, the latter?" He gave her a little push back onto the bed. He settled down on her lap and moved his lips to her breast.

She patted his head gently. The two cuddled, going quiet enough to let Dhiren get back to his own work, so long as he ignored what was going on in the same room.