In Trouble, part 1

[frogs_of_war]

I couldn't remember if we'd addressed any of this: Familiars impregnating Wizards. Cell phones (did these show up anywhere?). Extra powers a Wizard/Familiar cross has. What Wizards who don't work for the University do for a living. Just how long a familiar's gestation is. How much regular people know about the University and the people in it. And lots more. But I wrote it anyway.

Title: In Trouble, part 1

Series: Wizard's familiars

Set: weeks after the Mass Breeding Event

Length: 1.2k of 6k

JD pulled a throw pillow against his belly. "Please, Mom, Mumsey."

Why wouldn't they just leave him alone?

"Do you know who the other parent is?" Mom would never say father as she was the one who'd 'fathered' him—at least as much as he was 'mothering' his kitten. Please let it be just one. He couldn't deal with a litter right now.

"Of course he knows, don't you, Jadey." Mumsey always made his name sound like she was talking to a little kid. "Jadey isn't one of those kind of boy."

Mom raised her eyebrow. "What kind of boy would that be?"

Mumsey looked at her hands. "You know what I mean."

Did they have to fight now? JD pulled his feet onto the couch and hugged his knees.

"It's not him having sex that's troubling me," said Mom. "It's the catnip. How could you take catnip before sex, JD? You knew you could get pregnant."

Now that wasn't fair. "What does catnip taste like?"

Mumsey looked away.

"It's in the mint family," Mom said slowly.

"Like peppermint? Is it eaten? drunk? smoked?"

Mom looked away and grinned. Mumsey frowned. "You weren't anywhere with smoking!"

She had been super protective since she'd carried his brothers last year. Please let her go back to the laid-back woman JD knew and loved.

"He didn't smoke it, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. I don't know about the vapor." Mom put her hand on Mumsey's shoulder. "We didn't experiment with that."

"We were adults. Jadey's still in high school!"

They were seniors in college when JD was born. He'd been planned—something about a wizard laying claim to her familiar and showing her power—but they hadn't been sure exactly when he'd come.

Mom sat down on the coffee table—where she didn't let JD or his brothers sit—and turned to him. "You probably ate it."

"I only ate what everyone else did."

"And what was that?"

"Movie popcorn, soda, and boxed candy." Five weeks ago, the movie of the year came out and JD and his friends all planned to go. But the midnight showing was on a school night. JD had known his mothers would say no, so he'd gone to bed like normal and then snuck out the window. He'd had to leave his phone plugged into the outlet in the living room, so he couldn't call anyone.

A long line wound around the building. His friends weren't in line. He waited by a tree. People were being allowed in. His friends still weren't there. But a group moved up beside him. They were from the university. And one was the really hot guy JD had seen when he visited the university about taking some of his high school credits there. He'd sat in on classes and drooled over the guy as he'd eaten lunch in the quad.

The beautiful guy recognized JD and asked him to join them. When J Danyal put his dark hand against JD's back, JD's body hummed.

"None of that could have been doctored." Mom looked him over. "Where else were you all night?"

J Danyal had invited him back to campus for a party where he'd met some of the people he'd seen in his classes. He'd never get to make friends with them now. Part of his punishment was not getting to take any college classes.

"I just hung around. The moon was full and everything was beautiful." It was more beautiful with J Danyal's arms around him. J Danyal had invited him home and JD had been so hot and horny he hadn't noticed that the bed was in a master suite of an apartment too nice for a college student to own until the other man… "I was in trouble anyway. I thought, how could staying out all night make it any worse?"

No one would have known if he'd gone home then. The cold morning air from the cracked open window had woken his brothers at dawn. Oops. He'd been grounded ever since.

Mom stared pointedly at his midsection. She could do this despite the pillow and legs in the way.

"But the boy you got in trouble with," Mumsey asked. "Where did you met him?"

"He's a student."

Mumsey's eyes lit. "At your school."

JD lowered his cheek onto his knees. "At the university."

Mom growled and paced the room. "He's not a professor, is he? Because I'll—"

"No! A freshman, I think, A sophomore at most. The party was for undergrads."

"Party?" Mom sat on the arm of the couch. Another place the boys weren't allowed to sit. Even in cat form.

"What was served there?" Mumsey moved to the the couch beside JD. She put a hand on his shoulder.

JD wiggled away. "Party stuff. Punch and finger food. It was almost over before I got there, so there wasn't much left."

Mom frowned. "Brownies?"

"There may have been brownies?" He and J Danyal had shared something chocolaty.    

"Then the two of you did some intimate rolling around." Mumsey grinned. "Who was he?"

"His name is JD just like me."

Mom relaxed. "He shouldn't be that hard to find. You weren't the only one to get pregnant at that party."

Mumsey smiled. "Twins maybe."

JD bit his lip. "Wizards don't react to catnip the way familiars do?"

"Correct." Mom took a deep breath. "So some college boy took advantage of you."

Mumsey sighed. "No happy ending."

Of course not. It was JD's life after all. "I didn't do anything I didn't want to."

"Except eat catnip." Mom was always annoyingly right.

"But he might not have known what was in it either."

Mom stood up. "We'll find him and ask."

Mumsey leaned back on the couch. "He can't be that hard to find."

JD hoped he was. When they asked him what J Danyal looked like, he said dark hair, medium height, and a bright smile.

He didn't say J Danyal's dark hair was almost waist length or that his skin was golden and his dark eyes sparkled with intensity. That he was the same height at JD but came across as taller. That his smile was bigger for JD than for anyone else that night and that his lips had rubbed JD in all the right ways. That his hands were dexterous and he knew how to change JD back when the satisfaction of completed pleasure relaxed him into cat form.

And he didn't tell how he'd woken up to a big, powerful hand petting him and a sultry voice speaking in low tones or J Danyal's satisfied moan as the new man kissed him.

JD's eyes had opened and the opulence of the house suddenly made sense. JD was carrying the kitten of a wizard who already had a familiar and lover.

An older established one if his white hair meant anything.

JD had run all the way home, where he was promptly grounded, and he'd tried to think of that wonderful night as a dream until Mumsey had smelled his sheets today while putting them in the washer and somehow known.

He hadn't even been sure. But his dreams of a hot boyfriend and a cute little kitten were over. He'd have to raise this kitten alone. Or with his mother's help, which might be a great deal worse.