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Chapter 15: Farewells and Welcomes home

Smooth white alabaster hands effortlessly lifted me out of the pile, turning and rotating me just so to cause minimal disturbance to Edda, who was using me as a teddy bear, and Suzie who was holding onto my tail. She slipped a teddy bear.. Mine in fact! Into the hole and pressed a finger to my lips and whispered "Shhh... Once your padding's dry okay?" I tucked my tail and didn't fuss as she laid me on a leaf and hummed a bit. She pet my ears, stroked up and down my arms and belly, and started to hum. Without realizing it I started lifting and lowering my legs in time with the song. A warm almost to the point of being hot rag was gently wiped between my legs and under my rump with minimal fuss and a maximum of delighted cooos. When she was done a very thick diaper spread my legs a little and provided some very comfortable padding as i rested in the crook of her arm.

"Going to try to be a boy still hmm?" she asks, holding a gray shirt over my head and pulling it down. I looked but there weren't any pants with it. It might cover me if it was tugged down. Maybe.

"That may be harder for you than you think child. Oh, I know you CAN do it. I don't think you'd be here if you weren't as stubborn as you are. But I want you to promise me you'll only do it if it's really what YOU want to do" she tapped my nose and nudged a white noise generator "Not just to spite someone making a choice for you."

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Someone else shouldn't get to pick how I act, much less how I should think or feel"

She bounced me a little. "And how much choice does anyone get in that hmm? You didn't say "Oh, let's put my brain in a testosterone bath for fifteen years to let it marinate did you?" she teased, inuit kissing my head fur "That was decided by chemicals the second you were conceived"

In lieu of a counterargument i "ewwwwwwwwed" I mean those chemicals were me. You couldn't separate them out like that without changing who someone was, but the ewww was what managed to make it to my muzzle first.

"Looks like someone noticed I stole their teddy bear"

Suzie was slowly waking up and rubbing her eyes, and by extension waking everyone else up.

"Noooooo" she said, holding onto my tail. "It's too earrrly" the other boys stopped hugging each other and pushed away, wiping themselves off. They then made a scramble for the door to get to the bathroom first, slowing themselves down by trying to go through the door three at a time.

Edda stood up, curtsies to miss Rabuka, looking down and blushing while muttering incoherently. The cream skinned woman patted her head and handed me over to the girls more than firm embrace.

"Come children. Ronan has a long way to go today. We don't want to keep the train waiting for them." and proceeded to shoo us down the hall like she was herding chickens. Chuck , Mathias and Chuck started running around in circles smacking my tail as they went by, bursting out the front doors into the orange light of the rising sun after the third revolution. The Spacer put a hand on Edda's shoulder and whispered "We all get to walk out of here sweetie. Hospital tradition" She awwwed but set me on my feet.

I'd hardly been deprived of being outdoors. But the hospital courtyard, as big as it was, was contained by the building. Watching the sun climb into the sky over the valley casting everything in orange light and sepia shadows stretched on and on without limit. I had a new future waiting for me with complete freedom...

And a baby pram.

I huffed a little. No wonder they'd brought out the heavy artillery with miss Rabuka.

"Hon, it's required to travel. It's the only way you can go on the train. And in the car when you get there. I'll let you all walk to the train but you have to promise not to fuss "

The father and son snickered. Chuck ermmed. "Maybe we can paint some flames on the side of it really fast?" The girls agreed it was very pretty, which was worse than the guys teasing.

"Come on. You're a boy now we can tease you..." Bob accentuated the point with a noogie, that left him rubbing his knuckles. "That IS a hard head.. Ow..."

The outside didn't seem familiar to me at all. Had I been conscious when I drove up? It was odd to think that there was something in my head that was completely gone now. Miss Rabkua saw me stopping to think and came back, leaning down to whisper

"Is this really how you want to spend right now hmm?"

She turned me so I could see Mathias and Bob running through the streets, which were completely empty. The girls were looking in the window of a candy shop. It might be the last time i saw them for years, or decades if not ever. I shook my head.

"Then don't..." she patted my rump to nudge me into the streets. The padding pretty much necessitated running on all fours, which let me dart under the other boys legs, stop, circle back and do it again. The second time they tried to catch me and fell over, bruised, slightly scraped.

But laughing and smiling.

The candy store opened for Miss Rabuka, despite the lack of any biological staff. She gave the girls three pieces, then the rest of us two for "showing up late". Which totally wasn't my fault, Chuck had tried to sit on my tail to give Mathias a head start. I got a pair of Gummi worms out of the kin section and chewed on one, slurping and wriggling it around. Edda "Ewwwed" but Suzie just started eating it at the other end.

"Come children we have to hurry now." and with a little bit of pre breakfast sugar in our systems we did, circling around the grown up pushing the pram and taking 5 steps to her one, and even trying a brief shortcut through the parkour path. We managed to exhaust ourselves and burn off the sugar rush in the few short blocks to the station. Which was probably her plan. By the time we walked up the ramp to a the train station we were exhausted. I even rolled on my back so i could look up at the roof, admiring the slate tiles shaped like individual leaves.

"Am I going to be an evil mastermind like you when I'm your age?" I asked as she scooped me up and set me in the pram. She eskimo kissed my nose and said, "Even more so I suspect"

The depths of her evil knew no bounds. Inside was my pink blanket. The scents of vat gel, cookies, a frog, and my friends infused in the fibers. Suzie looked in and awwwwed.

"Did you want me to get you a new one honey?" I shook my head. She reached over, put Mister Bear into my arms and gently put down the three point harness over my shoulders and padding. I fidgeted as little as i could, but it was a fair bit apparently. She leaned in and whispered, bringing a familiar straw scented sausage up to my snout and whispering very softly.

"No fussing. It's only fa... there you go" I nommed the proffered treat. She was right. She'd given me a great morning to say goodbye to my friends, hadn't steered me wrong yet. Whatever made my new girly brain different from my old one apparently didn't extend to being confined. Even if it was soft. And warm.

She wheeled the pram over to a bench, got a container from underneath, and let Suzie in to hug me goodbye. When she let me go my tail had a big ribbon tied on it. She wiped her cheek. "Boy ribbon, it's blue okay?" I blushed and nodded. "Boy ribbon" and gave it a little wag. Edda pulled the carriage closer to pet me between the ears, and gave me a wrapped up spicy fruitcake. The boys were next, gave me a fist bump and half a box of cookies. Bob sniffled and rubbed a hand over his nose , and wiped the snot off on his shirt. Mathias got off one "ha..." before the snot was wiped over him.The prams AI pulled it away from their ensuing scuffle until the trains arrival broke up the fight

With an ear flattening "toooooot" the garishly painted train rolled into the middle of the building. The last car looked like a puppy, and it extended a "tongue" through the safety wall and rolled up the sides. A bio 8 year old boy ran off the train at top speed, followed by a caretaker with a handful of bags.

A synthesized female voice informed passengers that the train would leave in 15 minutes. As the gang moved forward it added "Passengers only on the train." to a chorus of awwwws.

"I'm going to introduce you to my associate, and he's going to make sure you get to school safely okay?" And wheeled me to the only lone male on the train.

I was surprised, even if I shouldn't have been. The head of the hospital wasn't about to go on a two day train trip with me. And i wasn't allowed to take the trip by myself anymore. I peered out and UP at my new custodian.

Even without my reduced height he would have been big. Sitting in the pram he looked absolutely enormous. Tall, lanky, with shoulders that would have looked broad on a shorter male. He smelled of babypowder, children, milk, some sugary breakfast, gym sweat, a lot of soap and the tang of ozone from...A stunner?

"Hey.. you're a cop." I blurted out as soon as i put it together. Not sure WHY.. Like Chuck said, putting a gap between the brain and the mouth was the last thing to come back.

"Damn.. how'd you.." he looked left, right, and pressed his ring so it shone a badge.

Miss Rabuka Laughed. "Told you they were good."

"I showered TWICE. " he harumphed.

"Ronan, this is Sven. Sven, this is Ronan" Sven smiled and gave a big open handed wave. "Svens just here to make sure no one bothers you on your trip."

"So.. we're going with RonaN?" he asked, looking quizzically at my blanket and tail bow.

"Blue. Boy ribbon"

"So it is, so it is." he conceeded.

"They had a sleep over last night, so naturally there was very little sleeping. They're a little fussy with the harnesses so i gave them a soother, I bet the second the excitement of the train ride fades she'll pass right out. Ronan's padding should be good till the Central Terminal"

"So what about ...erm..."

"Not a problem but you'll have to take her. She may need a little help after though.

My ears flattened, my tail curled all the way around said padding and i felt my cheeks flush at the grown ups talking about me as if i couldn't understand "I'm right here you know..." not that i was showing a lot of my face while hiding behind my blanket.

"I think your friends are trying to wave goodbye sweetie, why don't you set it to window mode?" She clicked the pram into place in the wall and gave it a tug that could have moved a small pony, but didn't budge the integrated plasteel clamps. The "window" opened, revealing Mathias sticking his tongue out at me, and Bob spreading his lips so wide i thought it had to be a trick of the cameras. I waved back and gave the windows a lick, prompting the girls to ewwwww.

Miss Rabuka gave me as much of a hug as the seat allowed, and kissed my nose. "Be good sweetie..." and backed out, giving me a small bow.

The girl and her mother ran back onto the train at the "30 seconds until departure. Please stand clear of the doors. Yes. You. Boy in the red shirt." notice. The doors sealed shut, and the train tooted as it started to move forward. I sniffled a bit as the boys started to run after me, waving, and waved back.. Despite starting a second later, Suzie passed them and managed to climb to the parkour wall and wave at me until the train passed. I waved longer than they could possibly see me for, but in short order the train left them behind and took me forward into the sunrise.

End part I.