Megan finished her story about the bobcat recruiting the cats to fight the dogs. It is totally batshit crazy how such a cat can grasp the concept of, I need an army to fuck up the dogs. “Wow, that is, insane Megan, like, what has that bobcat been smoking, catnip?”

She laughed, “I think so.”

I got up, “Thanks for the scoop.” I started to walk away, but I stopped and turned around, “Megan?”

“Yes?”

“Is it possible for a wolf to get pregnant by a human, or the other way around?”

Megan was seemingly quite shocked by that question. “Is this for another scoop?”

I sighed, “I am not going to lie, my wife is partially a wolf.”

Megan burst out in laughter, she looked at my serious face and stopped laughing. “Sorry, you are not kidding?”

I pulled out my smartphone, luckily it had not been damaged in the fight. I showed Megan a picture of me and Lory. Megan just stared for a moment, “That tail is real?”

“Yes, very real.”

“Oh, well, about your question, the DNA is probably too different for interbreeding. However, I think you can understand because of ethical reasons, there is no clear research.”

I nodded, “Thanks, doc. You see, she is pregnant, I am longingly expecting to become a father, I am nervous, when the first echo comes in, we will be sure whether our baby has a tail or not.”

Megan scratched her head, “This is uncharted territory for me, but, I am guessing yes. Steve?”

“Yes?”

“What did you get yourself into?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, a half wolf woman, does she have the same tendencies?”

“You mean like ripping people apart and eating raw meat?”

Megan nodded. I shook my head, “No, she is a very gentle soul, and she likes thoroughly cooked meat. She makes friends wherever she goes.”

Megan smiled, “She sounds nice, I would love to meet her once.”

I chuckled, “She runs a hair salon next to our house, book an appointment.” After rummaging through my pocket, I gave Megan Lory’s business card.

As I walked out of the vet clinic, I started walking back while in my mind. Those wolf people came out of a portal, they talked about a Fairy Kingdom. Does that mean, fairies are real? Megan said interbreeding is not possible. But maybe where those people came from, it is normal, how should I know? They came from a different reality. These guys knew how to fight. They picked the wrong person to attack. I might be a bit rusty, but I still remember clearly what I have done in the past. It is just, I am at peace with it. There was a war, I fixed it. Not many people can say that. Yes, I still think about the others I have lost. Seeing all my comrades die, it was hard on me. Being the lone survivor, it was hard. Which is why I took a job with less death. I did travel a lot, I even stayed a few years in a foreign country. After I got back, I got this house and soon met Lorraine. I should tell her what happened. Oh, shit, I need to go to the store first, I’ve got to pick up a case of beer.

After picking up some snacks and beer, I finally got home. When I walked by the hair salon, I waved at Lory. She had no clue what had happened yet. After opening the laptop, I sighed and decided to do something else, I went to the small garage. I pushed the freezer aside, and went into a hole. After pushing the light switch, I looked around in my secret room. There were many guns, all kinds, even rocket launchers.

My old outfit, a black commando outfit, with a bulletproof vest. I walked over to the desk and opened the drawer. I grabbed the box and opened it. Inside this box, I had stored newspapers. The one on the top said, lone survivor Steve ended the war by slitting the dictator’s throat, after fighting single-handed through at least one-hundred men. Seeing this newspaper, made me think back about everything. They were not even exaggerating. After I was done with my mission, the whole palace I was in then had been littered with corpses. Six of my ribs were broken, my back slashed open, I even had four gunshot wounds. It is a miracle I survived, the doctors told me it was the adrenaline of seeing my entire team getting slaughtered.

Until we got to the palace, our mission had been going perfectly. Our task was simple, stop the dictator and prevent world war three. We had a mole, I never found out who the mole was. We got ambushed by a tank in the palace courtyard. Most of our men got killed, I stopped the tank by using a grenade and throwing it into the tube that it shot rockets from. I was very young back then. We were perfectly trained, drilled. My father was an army man, he always told me, you will join the army and do the great things.

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My dad left to fight a war, and he never came back, it destroyed my mom. She committed suicide, I have not seen my sister in a long time. There are so many stories and rumors about the Doom Corps. Even if I was the newbie, when the leader of our squad died. People looked at me for orders. They all died for a free land. Why was I allowed to survive? Just pure luck.

I heard a sound and I saw Lory climb down. “Steve?”

“Hey there.”

“What are you doing? It is time for lunch.” She looked around, “You have told me about the secret room, but I have never seen it before. You were not kidding about the different kinds of guns.”

I smiled as I put down the newspaper. “Yeah, something happened.”

She looked at my wound, “Oh dear, what happened to your arm?”

“I got attacked.”

She ran over and hugged me, “Are you alright?”

“Yeah, you should have seen the other six guys.”

Lory looked at me with worry in her eyes, “Six?”

“Yes. And, they were not from around here.”

“What do you mean? Is your past catching up with you?”

“No, your past is catching up with you.”

She tilted her head, “What do you mean?”

“They were like you, wolf people.”

Lory gasped, “What? And they attacked you?”

“Yes, they were looking for you. They wanted to hurt me, to find you. Little did they know, how I was going to kick their ass. One of the fuckers snuck up on me and stabbed me.”

Lory sighed, “Did they, say something about me?”

“Yes, you are a princess.”

Lory chuckled, “For real?”

“Yes, you come from the Fairy Kingdom. Does that spark anything for you?”

She shook her head, “Not at all. Are they coming back?”

“I think not, but if they do, they don’t know who they are messing with.”

Lory took my hand, “Just be careful. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

“I will be fine, Lory, but if they hurt you or our baby, then I am going wild on them.”

Lory nodded, “As I expect you to.”

I smiled, “We should eat some lunch. And I need to write about a bobcat that is smoking catnip and recruiting cats to fight dogs.”

Lory chuckled, “That sounds like a bad joke.”

“Yep, and still, it is what Megan told me, the vet.”

The rest of the day not much happened, at the end of the day, I checked my wound in the mirror before taking a shower. It did not look bad compared to some of my other scars. After turning on the shower and making sure it is very hot, I stepped in. I let out a deep sigh and started thinking about today. While keeping up with my training and exercises, it is not the same as combat. Real combat is not something I have seen for quite some time, my last missions had been some time ago, it was for the secret order. Luckily, instinct and training did kick in. I just need to let it slide off me, tomorrow there is a new day. Riley will come over after Dinner, and we will play Dungeons and Dragons. Just, pretend fighting, that is much better. Yes, pretend fighting.

The article had been finished up and sent in. Work for the week is done. On Monday, I would get new assignments, what would the next scopes be? Will it be something stupid again, or something serious? Well, if they ask, write about cats. Then I write about cats. I chuckled, I totally made that bobcat some kind of leader in my article, where he gathers the other cats to fight for freedom on their turf. They went to war and drove off the dogs. While it is a bit exaggerated, according to Megan, it is precisely what happened. I want people to read it, not skip it. If I make it some magnificent story about a bobcat hero, then people will read it.

Lory knocked on the glass wall of the shower cabin, ripping me out of my thought process, I opened the door, “Hello dear. What is going on?”

She smiled, “Not much, I just wanted to see if you are okay after what happened today.”

“Yes, I am fine, the shower helps a lot. We have some leisure time after that, perhaps we could play a video game?”

Lory started undressing, “I can go for a shower as well, mind if I join you?”

I chuckled, “Do you really need to ask that?”

She walked into the shower cabin and looked at me, “Thank you for protecting me.”

I put my hand on her cheek. “If there is something worth fighting for, it is you.”

Lory smiled and gave me a kiss, she pushed me against the wall. I smiled as her tail started wiggling. She smiled back, “Shut up, Steve.”