Joseph laid there for several moments, captivated by an alluring look that, by all logic, no eight-year-old girl would have any business giving him… much less someone that was “related” to him.  Despite that, everything in his heart was telling him to move forward… to go through with what he was thinking.  However… he still had reservations about the situation…

	“Rose…”
	The black-furred beauty pecked him, again, causing him to feel flustered.
	“R-Rose, I–”
	Then, she did it, again.
	“H… hey–”
	And, again.
	“Damn it, Ro–”
	And, again!
	“Rose…!”
	“I’m not gonna stop ‘til you love me back, Unca Theo!”  She cutely giggled and gave a wiggle.  “Love your niece!  Let her be yer ‘Hope!’”
	“I do love my… ‘niece!’  But–”
	He blinked, then, as she gave yet another peck!
	“R-Rose, I swear to–”
	And, again, he was surprised by another peck.
	“S-stop!”
	She kissed him before whispering, “Nuh-uh…!” before giving him another playful look…
	“I’m seri–”
	Another smooch interrupted him.  “Make me…” she teased.

	Joseph growled, his frustration building…  Every time he tried to get a word out, she’d kissed him…  It was almost like a game to her… an… an ‘adult game…’  Slowly, a look of realization appeared on his face.
	“Unca Theo…?” she asked, noticing his expression change.  “What’s up?”
	It changed for a second time, then…  She blinked her pretty, golden eyes, watching his own eyelid lower and his muzzle curl into a grin…
	“U-Unca The– eep!”
	That time… it was her turn to get interrupted by a kiss.

	The girl shuddered and tensed, her “uncle” pressing his lips firmly against hers and nuzzling inward.  She huffed from her nose, once-or-twice, as the sudden oral assault practically pulled the breath from her lungs!  Then, after several moments… her mind caught up to her body and she gave a bright blush… followed by closing her eyes and leaning in.

	He was finally loving her like she’d wanted to be loved.
	And… she could not have been happier…

	“O-oh… Unca Theo…” the girl panted after an extended smooching.  “I-I… I f-feel so funny…  I-I’m dizzy… a-an’, my lowers are– ah…!”
	“You mean, these lowers?”
	She squeaked and blushed a little harder before looking down.  Her uncle’s brown-furred hand… specifically, one finger there-of… was running along her lap, just as he had been, earlier… and, it was making her shiver and squirm, just like before…  But, for some reason…
	“Y…  Yeah…”
	Being able to see her uncle’s face… watching his eye watch hers… and, being able to cuddle into him when she felt overwhelmed…  It kind of changed the feeling of the situation…
	“A… are ya gonna show me how to…” she panted as she looked at his face.
	“Absolutely…”
	She gave a hard swallow… then, she brightly smiled, letting her tail wag.
	“Please, do…!”
	She didn’t feel scared.  She felt kind of… excited…!

	Rose found herself snuggling into her uncle’s fluffy form, then.  She was squirming and shivering… panting and half-moaning… all because of what he was doing.  She’d closed her eyes… but, once-or-twice, she peeked out to see what he was looking at.
	Usually, he was focused on her body or down between her legs, where his hand was…  But, the one time they’d made eye contact… he grinned and pecked her lips with a purr, making her feel… strangely enough… more conscious of herself.
	“U-Unca Theo…” she skittishly panted as she snuggled closer.  “Are… are you in me…?”
	“I am…” was his softly-whispered reply.
	Indeed, after several moments of teasing in between her thighs… he had begun to push inward.  And, with some difficulty… he’d managed to find his way between his moistened folds.
	“It feels…  Weird…” Rose quietly murmured, her face red and eyes darting up-and-down.
	“Does it feel good…?”
	She gave a hard nod… then, she threw a leg over his, seemingly inviting him to go farther in.  At least… that’s how he decided to interpret the movement.

	“Aah–!”
	The little, black-furred vixen cried out in a start, throwing her arms around her uncle’s shoulder and tightening her leg around his waist.  He’d removed the one hand… only to slide it around under her rump and finger her from behind.  She gave shaky, broken pants as she felt the finger wriggle in between her legs, tickle her insides, then draw back only to push in, again.  It felt weird… unsettling… but…
	“I love you, Unca Theo…!”
	She… was starting to like it.

	The girl was nervous… very nervous…  But, being able to hang onto her uncle, like she was… hearing his comforting voice… being able to see his face smiling and her or his eye looking into hers…  It told her…
	“I love you, too, my little blooming Rose…”
	That her “Unca Theo” cared.  And, that was enough to keep her from being scared… even as he began shaking her body with sharper thrusts.

	Before long, Rose lost all ability to speak.  Every time her uncle’s hand bumped against her underside, she squeezed him.  Every time his finger tickled her walls, she whimpered with pleasure.  And, every time he let his digit linger, or made it turn within her… she gave a high-pitched, adorable little moan.  Even when her little hole started making slurping noises and her juices began to stain the bed, it seemed like all she wanted was to feel him rub her overheated insides raw.  Fortunately… that seemed to be what he wanted, too.

	Joseph tensed with a grunt.  His niece had suddenly tightened her grip on his body… and, unfortunately, one of her hands was squeezing his hide while both hands dug their claws into his skin.  That, combined with the rising volume of her cries, told him that she was close…
	I wonder if she would be alright with me doing… this.
	Throwing a little caution to the wind, he drew his finger back… then, extended the second one.  His fingertips touched the opening of her hole, then… he pushed inward.
	“Ah– ah–!”
	And, as he gently wriggled and rolled them, attempting to wedge them into her freshly-loosened depths…
	“Aaaaahhh…!!”
	She stabbed him with both sets of hand-claws, crushed him with both arms and a leg, and gave a long, beautiful howl of absolute bliss, her body finally reaching its first natural climax.

	The male fox didn’t dare move a muscle… and, he absolutely did not dare to move his fingers away.  He’d only pushed them in a little way, but during her reveling, his niece had managed to plunge them in up to his knuckles.
	Her body rumbled like it was being shocked by electricity, her pants came in short, hard bursts, and her vocalizations became too high for even his sensitive ears to catch.  It was the wildest… most amazing… and, to some degree… most frightening feeling that she’d ever experienced.  And… she loved every minute of it.

	Joseph’s ears perked a while later.  The girl seemed like she was finally calming down… but, at the same time, it… sounded like she was… whining?  His ears fell back and he quickly looked down to notice… she was crying!
	“Shh-shh-shh…  I-it’s okay…”
	He gently removed his fingers from her opening – which caused her to yelp, despite how careful he’d been.  He wrapped his arms completely around her smaller frame, then, even going as far as to pull his tail into the hug, giving her something soft to rest against on both sides.
	“I’m here, sweetie…” he whispered, giving her a soft, comforting nuzzle, followed by a sweet kiss on the cheek.
	“U-U-Unca Theeeooo…” she said in a sad, pitiful sort of voice.
	“It’s okay, it’s okay…  Don’t be scared…”
	“I… I…”
	She jerked her head up, then, looking at her uncle with sad eyes… and a heavy blush.
	“I think I peeeeeed…!  I-I’m sorry…!!”
	And, as she burst into tears… all Joseph could do was give a sigh of relief and rub her back.  Honestly, he had no idea if that had actually happened…  As embarrassing as it was to think about… his niece was… a very wet sort of girl…!

	“You did sooo good, sweetheart…” the fox cooed, giving the upset vixen all the hugs, all the snuggles, all the cuddles, and all the loving nuzzles he could.  “I’m so proud of you.”
	“But– but– but–!” she whimpered.  “I peed…!  On your hand…!  On the bed…!”
	“I… don’t think that’s pee,” he told her with a chuckle.
	“The in-between’a my legs feel all warm ‘n wet, though…  My side, too!”
	“Listen…”  He brought his dry hand under her chin, getting her to look his way.  “I don’t think you wet the bed.  But, if you did?  Don’t feel bad.”
	He gave his niece a little kiss on the nose, then, making her blink her wet eyes.
	“If you did, I was the one who made you do it.”
	“You… you did…?” she asked, blinking for a second time and wearing a perplexed look.
	“I was the one who, um… put my… finger… in your hole?”
	“That’s…” she panted, “that’s… that’s what you were doin’?!”
	“That’s what I was doing,” the fox repeated, sheepishly grinning at her disgusted face.
	“Eeeww…!”  Rose stuck out her tongue and scrunched her face, shutting her eyes and lowering her ears.  “You put your finger in my pee-hole…?!  But… but I pee from there!!”
	“Hey.”  He grinned before telling her, “Be glad I didn’t stick it under your tail.”
	“Eeeeewww…!!” she cried, yanking herself away from him and giving a push.  “Don’t be gross, Unca Theo…!!  I’ll never let anyone poke a finger in my under-tail…!”
	The girl violently shook her head, cutely holding her clenched fists under her chin.
	“You’d be surprised by what feels good, sometimes…” was all he could say, to that.
	“Da’s bad-bad-bad…!”
	He blinked when she suddenly thumped his nose with two fingers.
	“Bad Unca Theo!  Bad!”
	When she started giggling soft-and-fast, though… as well as grin and wiggle around the bed… he knew she probably wasn’t too upset with him.

	“So…”

	Shortly after their conversation about fingers and holes, the two had moved to a slightly-less-damp spot of the bed to cuddle.  Rose was extremely happy to be laying on her uncle’s front… and, her uncle seemed just as content to hold her there, smiling and softly purring as she did the same.

	“Did you like your first…”  He paused to think of a “child-friendly” word… but, considering all they’d talked about, that day… he eventually settled on stuttering, “O-orgasm?”
	“Is that that feeling I got when I peed all over?  Th’ really good one?” she asked,
	“I’m still not convinced that you did pee…” Joseph said as he rubbed her little rump, getting her to giggle and wiggle more.  “But, yes.”
	“Yes!  I loved my ‘organumism!’” was what she told him with a bright smile.
	“Well, I want you to know that… you can make yourself do that, too.”
	“I can…?!”
	“Mm-hmm…  All you have to d– uh…”
	Joseph gave a hard blush.  His niece had rolled over atop him and started to paw at herself.  Unlike earlier, however…
	“Unf…”
	She’d gone right for the hole, instead of rubbing along the outside.

	“I… Rose?  I didn’t mean right this second…”
	“I still feel funny, down here…” the girl panted, freely fingering herself on top of him.  “It doesn’t… it doesn’t feel as good as when you did it!  Am I doin’ it wrong…?”
	He blushed even harder when she suddenly grabbed his right hand and put it between her legs.
	“Can you… can you show me how, again?  Please?  I’ll watch, this time!  I promise!”
	“Auh… what have I done…” he chuckled.  “Alright…  Like this.”
	And, for whatever reason…
	“O-o-o-oh, gosh…”
	He started pawing at her, again.

	“You have to start slow, sweetheart…” Joseph whispered to the squirming vixen.  “Kind of… tease yourself, a little.”
	“B-bu– but, Mommy says it’s… haa…”  She shivered, closing her eyes as he stroked along her outer folds.  “It’s n-not nice t’ tease…!”
	“Normally, yes.  But, it’s okay to tease yourself, my little blooming Rose…”
	“Oh, gosh…”  She gently squeezed his hand and gave a little whimper.  “O-okay…”
	“For girls like you and your mommy…” he commented as he rubbed her little clitoris, pausing as she cried out.  “You have to make sure you’re good and ready, before you slide into your hole…”
	“Wh-wh-what about you, U-Unca Theo…?”  She trembled and huffed, her face red and her ears contently folded.  “Y-you dun have a hole…!”
	“Well, for guys… all we have to do is make ourselves hard – or, ‘pointy,’ like you said, earlier.  Then, we just grab hold and… rub.”
	“L-like this?”
	Joseph blinked… then, he gasped.  Rose had suddenly sat up, resting her legs on either side of his hips, leaned down, and taken hold of him with both hands before rubbing him up-and-down.  She didn’t even bother asking why he was “pointy…” not that he’d have a good answer, other than “closeness.”

	“Rose, I…”  The fox panted, his face reddening…  She was really working him well…  “Y-you don’t have to–”
	“You made me feel sooo good!” she told him with a giggle.  “I wanna make you feel good, too!  Fair’s fair!”
	“B-but…”
	“Plus!  I wanna see that white stuff, again!” she added as she leaned closer.  When she started rubbing, stroking, and massaging him with one hand, though…
	“G-Gods…  Rose…”
	He gave up trying to argue and just let her do what she wanted.

	The fox took long, slow breaths, enjoying the attention his little niece was giving.  She was doing a good enough job… but, every now-and-again, she would squeeze a little too hard… or, sometimes, let her claws poke him.  These little slip-ups resulted in a… surprisingly… very-arousing session, since she would build him up only to startle or hurt him and make him lose focus.  But, after a few minutes of that… he was getting a little frustrated.

	“How long’s it take…?” the curious little vixen asked her partner, mostly-oblivious to his noises.  “I really wanna see!”
	“J-j-just… haa… k-keep doing it fast… b-but, be gentle…!” he told her between pants.
	“Fast ‘n gentle…?”  She hummed…  “I dunno if I can…!”
	“Won’t know… ‘til you try…” the fox grunted.
	“You’re right!” she giggled.  “Okay!  I’ll try!”
	And, when she did…
	“Aauhn…!”
	She’d succeeded.

	“Yeek…!!  Unca Th-Theo, stop!!”
	But, unfortunately… he really couldn’t.  Once she’d gotten him off, there was no stopping the sprays of sticky, white ropes until he was done.  And…
	“I-it’s on my face!  It’s in my mouth– ptoo, ptooie…!  It’s– it’s on my front…!  Ugh, why’d we even take a bath…?  S-so sticky…!  Gah!”
	Her comments certainly weren’t helping.  In his pleasured mind, the thought of covering his little niece… the girl that had been the one to push him into such lewd behavior… just made his apex longer and his shaft harder.

	“That’s not fair…!”
	Joseph was calming down from his intense sensations when he’d heard her cry out, again.  He wasn’t sure how many times he’d felt that liquid eject from his unit… but, he felt pretty sure that he was all emptied out, by the end of it.
	“Unca Theo, you cheater!”
	Doubly-so… when his niece turned around to reveal herself covered, from the face down, in numerous, thick strands of his seed.  She looked a little upset… but, not angry, or even disgusted.  After all, she was the one who wanted to see the “white stuff,” to begin with.

	“G-Gods… Rosey…” he panted with a grin, still in a bit of a lust-induced haze.  “I… I needed that.  Thank you.”
	Rose blinked… then, she squirmed, her face turning a little sour.
	“Unca Theo…  Y-you’re weirdin’ me out, again…”
	“I-I’m sorry…” he chuckled, taking a moment to rub his face.  “I just… whew.”
	“I… did good, though?”
	When he moved his hands away, he fondly smiled before giving a nod.
	“You did very good.  Thank you.”
	And, just like that…
	“Yaaaaay…!”
	The girl forgot about the sticky trails on her arms and front-side… and…
	“Ah–!  Ugh…”
	She hugged onto her uncle’s body… something he kind of wished she hadn’t done.

	“Nex’ time… lemme know when yer gonna spew!”

	Rose sat back up after giving him a very tight squeeze.  She was grinning and her tail was wagging… possibly because she knew she’d gotten him messy, too.  But, she was also happy to have made her uncle feel so good.
	“It… doesn’t work like that, sweetie…”  He chuckled as he sat up on his elbows.  “Especially when you do as good of a job as you did…”
	“I did good?” she innocently asked, brightly smiling.
	“I already told you, you did, silly…”
	“So… s’at mean it’s my turn, again?”
	Joseph blinked… then, he finally noticed… the girl was grinding herself against his belly.  She was also blushing, a little…
	“Don’t like this sticky mess…” she commented with a shy sort of smile, “b-but… i-it smells nice…  Really nice…!  P-plus, ya never finished teachin’ me how t’ play wif my pee-hole!”
	Well… she wasn’t wrong.  However… as he sat there, watching the small girl who was covered in his spunk rub her loins against his stomach, marking him with her own scents and fluids… he got a really dumb idea…

	“You know… there’s something else that boys and girls can do, together.  Something that’s…”  He blushed a little as he whispered… “Even better than fingers…”
	“D’you wanna put your cock in me…?”
	“Wh– what?!”  Hearing her talk like that immediately snapped him out of his lusty daze.  “Where in the…  Why would you say that…?!”
	“‘Imma stick my cock in that!’  Isn’ dat what’cha said when ya got mad?”
	He gave a sharp blink, suspiciously eyeing her…  Had he said that…?
	“An’, well…”  The girl gave another bright smile.  “I wan’cha to, too!”
	“You…  I…” the fox stammered.  Eventually, all he could do was ask… “Really?”
	“Mm-hmm…!”  She opened her eyes and leaned toward his head.  “So… c-can you put your cock in my pee-hole?  Pretty-pretty-please…?”
	“Okay, first of all…”  Joseph grinned, sitting up and getting her to lean back.  “That’s another one of those ‘bad words’ you’re not supposed to say.”
	Rose jerked back, throwing her hands around her mouth, going wide-eyed.
	“I-I didn’ know…!”
	“And, secondly…”
	He picked her up, causing her to squeak in surprise.  When he pulled her into a hug, though, she was quick to wrap her arms around his shoulders and hug back.
	“Yes.  I… I’d love to.”
	“Oh, Unca Theo…!” the girl giggled as she was nuzzled.  “I love you so much…!”
	“I think you’re gonna love me even more, after this…”
	“We’ll see!”
	He blinked, then.  She’d said that in a completely innocent way… but, for some reason, the “male” part of his brain took it as an insult… or, at least… a challenge.  Still, he wasn’t about to do anything to scare the poor girl…  He would be gentle… tender… and, loving.  Not just because he was her “uncle…” but, because… he really did love her.  Besides… he didn’t know what he’d do, if he’d made her cry, again.

	“I’m gonna lay you down, okay?  Someplace that isn’t wet…”
	She blushed and giggled, giving a squirm and a squeeze.  “Okay, Unca Theo.”
	When she slipped her arms out from behind him.  Joseph smiled.  He always appreciated how well-behaved Rose was… when she wanted to be.
	“Comfy?” the fox asked as he set her near the middle-left of the bed and pulled her pillow down to where she could rest on it.
	“My bed’s super comfy…!” she said with another giggle.
	“Okay, now…”  Joseph took a deep breath before asking her to… “O-open your legs?”
	Even though she was still smiling, Rose didn’t say anything or even laugh.  In fact, Joseph noticed… she was blushing, again.  He had to swallow, at that point…  Without truly knowing… it seemed like she knew that what was about to happen… was pretty serious.
	“I… I need to warn you…” he whispered as he crawled up, hovering over her.  “Um… this… might hurt.  But, only for a little bit.”
	“I… I trust you…” the girl said, trying to hide the nervousness in her voice.  “M-my Unca Theo’d never do anything t’ hurt his fave niece!”
	“How do you know that you’re my favorite niece?” the fox asked with a grin.
	Rose rolled her eyes and grinned before asking, “Really?”
	At that, he just blushed and gave a grin of his own – one that was slightly more bashful.
	“I keep forgetting how sharp you are, kiddo…”
	“I get it from my Daddy!” she told him.
	“Prob’ly…” was all he could say.  He knew he wasn’t terribly quick-on-the-draw… so, by proxy, his “sister” probably wasn’t, either.

	“Anyway… are you ready, my li’l Rose-Bloom?”
	“I like it when you call me that…” Rose shyly told him with another blush.  He blushed, as well…  The look she was giving and the voice she’d used was… unexpectedly tender.
	“I… I’m gonna… start, then,” he said after a moment’s pause to line himself up.  “Okay?”
	The girl gave a rapid sort of nod… then, she covered her mouth… then, her face… as he reached down and opened her up.  A second later, her nerves got to her and she gave a startled whimper.  The tip of his pointy, red “thing” was touching her… down there…
	“If you want me to stop… at any time…” he told her before biting down on his lower lip.
	She didn’t have a response, to that.  She was completely focused on waiting for that moment… that painful moment… that he’d warned her about.
	I… I can’t believe… Joseph found himself thinking as he slowly… very slowly… let himself move forward, pushing himself into her gap.  I-I can’t believe… this is happening…
	But, even if he’d told himself that it wasn’t… he couldn’t argue with the facts.

	He was putting his penis… into his niece’s waiting vagina.

	No…  No, that’s just the story Josephine made up because the truth was so bizarre.  In truth… he was slowly docking himself… into the daughter of his other-world self.  And, as he thought about that, he realized… in some, trans-dimensional way… he was about to mate… with his own flesh-and-blood!  So… why, then…?  Why didn’t he feel the urge to back out?  Why didn’t he want to call it off?  And… more importantly…

	Why wasn’t she stopping him…?

	“R… Rose?”
	“Y… yeah…?” she called, looking up at him between her fingers.
	“I… I have a confession,” he told her.  And, as he pulled away, her eyes went wide and she sat up, giving him a conflicted sort of look.  She definitely wanted him to keep going… pretty badly, at that!  But, the sudden curiosity over his confession was also pretty high!
	“Wh-what izzit…?” she asked, her curious nature overriding her body’s wants.
	“I’m… I’m…  I’m not your uncle…” Joseph said, giving a sigh and looking to one side as he sat on his legs.
	“Oh, I know!”
	“Y–”  He gave a blink, staring at her in amazement.  “You…  H-how…?”
	“Mommy’s a real bad liar!” the girl giggled, her tail brushing against his knees.  “You, too!  Ah– hey, are you sure you’re not family?”
	“Would… you believe me if I said…”  He had to look the other way, then.  “I was your mom?”
	“Nope!” she laughed, giving a bright smile.  “But, ya do look a little like my Mommy!  Kinda act like her, a li’l, too!  Wait!”
	She gasped before shooting up like a rocket.
	“Are you her evil twin?!  Like, from an evil factory, somewhere?!  I bet that’s why ya know all th’ people Mommy does!  You have all her mem’ries, ‘n stuff!!”
	“Wh-what?  No!  I’m–”
	He blinked, then.  The girl… had cuddled into him with a soft, adoring purr…
	“It’s okay, evil twin…” she told him.  “I know yer not really evil.  Yer too nice t’ be evil!”
	She was giving him a fond smile as she leaned back and looked into his eye.
	“An’, if ya was evil?  Well…”  Her smile brightened as she said, “Yer not, no more!  Love conquers all, woo-hoo…!”

	Joseph… was at a total loss of words as Rose cuddled back into him, giggling and wiggling, completely content to smother him with love and affection.  He almost wanted to ask if she was being serious… but… he didn’t want to risk ruining the moment.  It was sweet… and, she was being just so darn adorable…
	“And, you wonder why I fell in love with you…” he thought aloud.
	“Izzit ‘cuz I’m cute ‘n cuddly?” she asked, leaning back to smile at him, again.  “Or, sweet ‘n sensitive?  Or, maybe, fun ‘n… ‘n… some… non-bad F-word!”
	“‘Fun-loving?’” Joseph suggested.
	“That’ll work!” she said with another giggle.  “Oh, Uncle Theo… I love you!”
	And, as she snuggled into him, yet again… he just snuggled right back, adding her purr to his own, and told her… “I love you, too, li’l Rosey…”
	“Enough t’ put’cher cock in me…?”
	“Ye– w-wait, what?”
	He flinched as she squeezed him around the chest.
	“Rose, c’mon…  D-don’t talk like that…”
	“It’s just us, Unca Theo…”
	She leaned back, yet again… but, as Joseph was quick to notice… she was giving him a rather odd look.  Her eyelids were half-closed and the smile on her face was a soft, somewhat suggestive one…
	“Can’cha leddit slide…?  Jus’ this once…?”

	“I…  How…”  He was flustered and blushing, again.  “Where did you learn that look…?”
	She softly giggled… then, she leaned in, drawing little circles on the fox’s white chest.
	“Daytime TV, when I’m home, sick…  Sometimes, Mommy makes faces at Daddy, too, when she wants stuff!  Never got it… ‘til now.  Gosh, I learned so much cool stuff from you, Unca Theo!  So, you can’t be evil!”
	“I… I’m not…?” he told her, tilting his head in confusion.
	“Darn right!” the girl laughed.  She flopped back and opened her legs, then…  “So… put it in me, Unca Theo!  I wanna feel yer shiny cock tickle my pee-hole!”
	“Ash, Ivy, and Sky…”
	“What about ‘em…?” she asked, giving him a curious look.
	“N-nothing…  I just…”  He sighed.  “We’re gonna have to have a long talk, after this.”
	“No more talk!” she said with a borderline-dominant grin, slapping the bed with her hands.  “Put it in me!”
	“What in the Void has gotten into you, Rose?!”
	“Nothin’!  An’ da’s bad!”  She lowered her eyelids, again, before saying… “Fix it…?”
	However… that sudden surge of uncouth behavior was having a rather negative effect…

	“Rose… you shouldn’t talk like that,” he told her, using a stern voice.
	“Aww, c’mon, Unca Theo!” she said with a laugh.  “It’s jus’–”
	“No,” he sharply interrupted, causing her to flinch.  “I’m serious.”
	“You… you’re mad at me, aren’cha?”
	All-at-once… Rose’s behavior shifted.  She’d lost her edge… lost her innocent lewdness… and, she’d all-but-completely lost interest in trying to entice her uncle into picking up from where they’d left off.  Her ears fell back, her face turned cloudy, and her eyes began to water.  In short… she realized that she was in trouble.  Big trouble…

	“Listen…” Joseph started with a slightly-calmer tone, “I’m not saying this as your ‘uncle…’ or even as an ‘adult.’  I’m saying this… as a ‘friend;’ as someone who personally cares about you.  You… don’t want to go around, saying those kinds of things.  If you do… someone might take you up on the offer.  And, then what?”
	“Ya say that like it’s a bad thing…” the girl said with a mix of indigence and dismissal…
	“Rose, I’m serious.  Okay?  Someone… someone you don’t want to… might take you seriously.  Someone you don’t love.  Maybe, even… someone you don’t like.  I’m only telling you this because I do love you.  And, I want you to grow up right…  Not like… not like me…”
	“Did’ja do this when you were my age, Unca?” she asked, growing curious.
	“No…  Not when I was your age,” was his answer.  “I just…  I’ve made a lot of bad decisions… said things I didn’t mean… hurt a lot of feelings.  A lot… of feelings.”
	“If someone loves you, back…” the girl said as she sat sideways and gestured with one hand, “they’ll get it.  People who love each other always fix things!”
	“Wh–  Rose?”  Joseph gave a blink before he asked, “How… why are you so smart?”
	“I… dun wanna talk ‘bout it,” she said with a hollow sort of chuckle.  And, almost immediately… Joseph took a guess.
	“Your… mom and dad…?”
	“My mom ‘n dad…” she said with a half-smile, her ears drooping.
	“Oh, sweetie…”
	Rather than press the issue, Joseph just scooted over and pulled the girl into a hug.

	The two spent a short while quietly cuddling, neither saying a word or even purring.  It wasn’t until a fair bit later that Rose broke the silence…
	“I love you, Mr. Joseph…”
	By using his real name.

	“You… you can still call me ‘Unca Theo,’ if you want,” he told her as he leaned back.
	“I know.”  She sniffled, taking a moment to rub her face.  “I jus’… thought it might mean more if I used yer real name, once.  It’s like Mommy’s name… but, boyish!  Hee…”
	“It… I…”
	She was so smart… so sweet…  It was hard to believe that she was only eight years old.
	“Rose?”
	“Yeah?” she answered, giving him a fond smile.
	“Thank you.”
	“Welcome, ‘Unca Theo.’”
	He smiled at that… which made her smile, too.

	“Unca Theo?”
	He blinked as she broke the second silence.
	“We don’t have ta… but, if ya still wanna do the thing, with me…?”
	The fox blushed a little…  “You… still want to?” he eventually asked.
	“Uh-huh.  ‘cuz, I love you.”
	“I love you, too… but, you don’t have to do that to prove you love me.”
	He blinked a couple of times after she gave him a sudden kiss.
	“Is it okay if I say… I wanna?  Like, really wanna…?”
	She squirmed, wiggling and rubbing her thighs together, her tail rapidly wagging.
	“Like… I can’t think’a aaanything else I wanna do more!  Um… i-if that’s okay t’ say…?”
	“It… it is, yes.  To say, I mean.  And, um…”
	“Yes, Unca Theo?” she prompted with a warm smile.
	“I want to…  I really do.  But…”
	She continued to smile… but, her ears fell and tail stopped.
	“I might need some… encouragement?”
	“What’s that?”
	“What I mean is…”  He bit his lower lip before suggesting… “Kiss me?”

	Without asking any more questions or saying a word… she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and gave him a rather heavy kiss, even going as far as to draw back and kiss a second and third time before letting it linger.  She was getting really good at kissing, really fast… and, the fox was really enjoying the sensations.  It was around that time when Joseph leaned in and returned the favor that he realized, however…
	“Rosey…?”
	It wasn’t doing the trick.  The moment… was gone.

	“Was it all that bad stuff I said…?” Rose whimpered when she realized he wasn’t interested.  “W-was it ‘cuz I said a bad?!  I-I’m sorry, Unca Theo!  I just–”
	But, a quick peck on the lips calmed her down.
	“I love you, Rose…  I love you so very-very much… more than your mom would like, I’m sure.  I wanna hug you, forever… snuggle you close… kiss your lips and face, cuddle you all over…  I want to lay your bare body down, caress every inch of your fur, and make sweet love with you until neither of us can move, anymore…  I… I think… I might even want to… to marry you, someday, when you’re older…  Gosh, you’d make a beautiful bride…”
	The girl’s eye lit up… as did her cheeks.  Clearly, she hadn’t expected that!
	“But, Rose?  I’m… not sure if that’s my heart talking… or, my body.”
	“Your body…?” she asked, giving a confused look.
	“You know all that ‘adult’ stuff we did?”  When she nodded, he told her, “It has kind of a… short-term effect.  It… how to explain this…  It makes me feel extra-cuddly… and, makes me love you extra… extra… extra-something.”
	“‘Hard?’” the girl asked, unintentionally making an innuendo.
	“F… for lack of better words, yes.”
	She smiled… then, she tilted her head, one ear perked while the other stayed down.
	“Is… is that why I wanted… wanted…”  She shyly whispered with another blush… “Your thingy…?  Down there…?”
	“That’s…”  he blushed a little.  “I mean… partly, I’m sure.  We did a lot of stuff… a lot of ‘adult’ stuff… and, the more we did, the more we wanted to do.  But, when I realized what it was doing to you… when I realized what kind of person it was making you… I…”
	It was his turn to be silenced by a kiss, then.

	“It’s okay, Mr. Joseph…” she calmly told him.  “I know I was gettin’ super-excited ‘n had a case’a th’ gimme-gimmes…”
	He gave a slight smile as she giggled.
	“I didn’t know why…  I just… wanted you all t’ myself.  Now!  But… maybe…”  She gave a little sigh before saying, “Maybe, we should wait.  I want it… t’ be special.”
	“That’s… that’s funny.”
	“It’s not funny!” she exclaimed with a pout.  “I was bein’ serious!”
	“No, no…” he said with a chuckle.  “It’s funny… because…”
	He leaned in, giving her a kiss on the cheek before rubbing his nose along her muzzle.
	“I want our first time… doing that… to be special, too.”
	“Mr. Joseph…”  She paused before saying, “Unca Theo…”
	“My little Rose-Blossom…”
	“Unca Theo…  Can… can we kiss?  A li’l more?”  She looked to him with hopeful eyes.  “I’d… I’d like that…”
	The fox whispered… “Absolutely…”

	Despite so little time passing, it had felt like a long day, for them.  So, after a fair bit more cuddling with plenty of kissing… to the lips, to the cheeks, and even a little attention to each other’s necks… the two finally felt satisfied enough to stop.  They knew they’d have time to be cuddly on other days… and, even when Rose’s mom was around, she knew she could still hug her uncle.  And, she knew he would hug her, too!

	“I can’t believe you don’t know how to make your bed, yet…”

	Rose stuck her tongue out at her uncle, wagging her tail as she cleaned up around her bedroom.  She’d forgotten to put away her toys – something that, as she’d told him, her mother had told her to do “over-an’-over, again.”  Meanwhile, Joseph was stuck with changing the bedspread that they’d soiled during their “playtime.”
	“I’m… still not convinced this is pee, Rose-Blossom…”
	“What– eewww…!  Unca Theo, da’s gross!”
	“What?” he asked with a grin.  He had his nose pressed against the wettest visible spot on the fitted sheet.
	“Don’t smell my pee stain!” she told him with a giggle.  “Da’s weeiiird…!”
	“Some people are into that.”
	“What?!”  The girl laughed before saying, “Eeeeewww-hew-hew…!!”
	Joseph just grinned all-the-more.  She probably didn’t believe him… but, he’d meant it.

	After drying the mattress, remaking the bed, and cleaning the room, the two took a moment to hit the shower in the master bathroom to clean each other for the second time.  There was a moment where it seemed like something could have happened, then… but, Joseph kept control of himself and distracted Rose from whatever she was thinking.  Shortly after, the two dried off and slipped into some comfy house clothes, since it was getting close to dinnertime.

	“Your mom just… lets you run around without any underwear?”
	“Uh-huh!  See?” Rose said, giving Joseph a peek under her nightshirt.  It wasn’t to tease, though…  She just wanted to show him what he’d noticed.
	“Do… you even have any undergarments?”
	“Uh-huh!” she told him before going to her dresser and opening the low drawer.  “See?”
	Just like she’d said, the bottom drawer was full of socks, underwear, and…
	“Training bras…?”
	“Mommy got ‘em in case I got a ‘growth spurt!’  I think da’s what she said?”
	“I… sure.”
	“I dun ever wear ‘em, though!” she told him with a grin.  “They feel funny!  Bad-funny!”
	“Even when you’re wearing overalls… or, shorts?”
	“They feel even funnier, then!  Tight…  Dun like it.  ‘sides, don’t need undies!” she proclaimed, pulling her shirt up to show her bare, lower half, again.  “I gots fur!”
	“But, what if–”  And, Joseph stopped himself.  His mind had wandered a bit far…
	“‘What if’ what, Unca Theo?” she asked, dropping her shirt back down.
	“N-nothing…  S-say,” the fox started, hearing a noise, “is that your Mom?”
	“Mommy!”

	Rose ran out of the room and practically leaped into her waiting mother’s arms.  She’d just come home from the studio and was very happy to see her daughter and her “brother,” giving him a hug, as well.  He was happy to see her, too… but, after what he’d done… he treaded lightly.  Thankfully, the days rolled on without incident.  Even with Rose being more affectionate toward him than usual, his other self never seemed to pick up on what the two had been up to… or, what they continued to do… whenever her and her husband were away…
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	“Remember the first time we kissed, hun?”
	“Yeah…”
	“And, the first time we got naughty…?”
	“Well, yeah!  It was the same day!”
	“Heh.  Hm…  Remember what you said?”
	“Uh-huh…  I said, ‘maybe, we should wait.  I want it to be special.’”
	“So…  Was it?”
	There was a long pause…
	“Well…?”
	“Eh, I’ve had better.”
	“Hey!”

	The young woman burst into a fit of giggles as her lover – a man who was a good many years older than her – playfully shoved a pillow into her face.
	“Uncle, uncle…!” she cried between giggles, defenseless with him pinning her.
	“That’s me, alright…”  The man with the pillow grinned before saying, “‘Unca Theo.’”

	Joseph tossed the pillow aside before settling down to look at his lover… a slender, well-toned vixen that was a little taller than him.  Her body was covered in dark, black fur… and, notably, some sweat from their romp.  She wore her shoulder-length hair loose in the back while short, pointy bangs that were frosted white at the tips curled down over her left eye.  And, as his one eye looked into her two golden spheres… which gazed back with such fondness for him… he had a hard time believing that everything had really happened the way it did.

	“Have you really, though?” he asked the vixen with a curious… somewhat cautious grin.
	“Oh, ‘Unca Theo…’” she said with a soft, sweet voice, giving him a kiss after.  “You know you’re the only man in my life!”
	“What about women?”
	She gave his cheek a brush.  “Toys hardly compare to the real thing, stud.  Though…”
	“So, you have had some fun with other people!”
	“Oh, my Gods…”  She giggled, rolling her eyes.  “Are you for real, hun?”
	“Nah…” he said with a grin.  “I don’t really care if you have or not.  If they made you happy, I mean.  Your statement did get me curious, though…”
	“I think you mean, ‘it got me hooot.’”
	“Hot under the collar, maybe…”  He continued to grin as he snuggled into her.  “Mine!”
	“Yours…” she cooed with a purr.  The two fell into silent cuddles, after…
	“So…”
	“Hm…?”
	“Was it special…?” Joseph asked with a grin.  He blinked, then, as she pulled his head down and locked her lips to hers, giving a soft, adoring murmur of pleasure.  His face turned a little red… but, he was happy to return the kiss…

	“I love you, Mr. Joseph Lithius…” she told him after breaking away.
	“And, I love you…” he said, catching his breath… “Mrs. Rose Lithius.”
	With that, the two snuggled into their hotel bed together, falling asleep.  They’d had quite a night, as lovers… and, quite a start, to their honeymoon…  But, something told them… that their adventures as a married couple were only just beginning…