The Lion and The Lamb

Dr. Karh sat down behind his small Oak desk as the mystery women that came after Aaron and Betty left sat in front of the doctor and smiled brightly. After a few moments of looking over files he stared up and greeted her with a warmly smile.

“Hello there, Miss?”

“Stone,” the girl said, outstretching his hand. “Safara Stone, I’m your patient’s sister- Leon Stone?”

“Oh yes, Leon.” Dr. Karh nodded, folding and resting his hands on the table. “He is making great progressed in the month that he’s been here.”

“What progress is that?” she asked.

“Well, like today. His boyfriend, Aaron came for a visit and during this trip he broke up with him- a great leap in my book.”

“Oh, well… that sounds great, but that is not why I am here. I am here because my brother is sicker then he seems. I am terrified for his life.”

“What’s wrong with him?” Dr. Karh started to get interested in what Safara had to say and leaned in so he could hear her.

“Well, I haven’t seen him a while but when I heard he was in here I rushed over. When he was little before our parents died- God I missed them so- they took Leon and I to the Zoo. While there we saw every exhibit, but what really got to the Lions he just feel in love with them. How he moved how they act, days later after we came back from the zoo he started to act like them. He imitated the cats he saw. We thought that it was only a phase and he would grow out of it, but one day when I was watching him and our mom and dad where out he was climbing a dead tree that was in out backyard and acting like a Lion cub. I went inside the house for a few seconds to get the phone-which was ringing- and when I was inside, I heard something crack and I rushed out of the house to find Leo lying face down on the ground with the tree limb that he was climbing on. I called 911, when we got to the hospital the doctors told us that he would be fine, but time would tell when he would come out of the coma that he was in.

“I felt so bad for myself that I cried for weeks and when our parents brought him back home a month later, I found that he had suffered brain damaged and came running into the house like a wild animal- a lion. From then on, he has been acting like a lion. He might not be acting up now, but when he is alone he acts up: purring and walking around naked and on all fours. We even had to change his bedding because he wouldn’t sleep in a normal bed anymore. God, I blame myself for what happen to Leon.”

Dr. Karh listened to what Safara had to say and nodded. “And when did this happen?”

She sniffled, “When he was eight, so about ten year’s ago.” she took out a handkerchief and dabbed away her tears. “Oh Dr. Karh, please help my brother. You are my last hope; I don’t want him to go one living a life as some sort of animal.”

“Miss Stone,” Dr. Karh started, “I would like to help you, but I have not seen or heard anything from the staff saying he’s been acting like an animal.

“That’s because he does it a bit at a time, for about a half a hour or longer then he goes back to normal, he’s weird that way. Just keep a watchful eye on him, then if you see enough evidence to prove he’s not only a cutter, but crazy. Please help him out of it.”

The two sat silent and still for minutes, not saying a word. Safara sat quite and waited for the doctors answers as Dr. Karh thought about Leo’s sister’s words. After ten minutes of silence, he nodded and Safara cried out in you, she was happy that Leon was going to get the help he needs. After signing a few papers, Safara shook the doctors hand and he lead her out and over to her car. As Safara drove out of the driveway, she blasted the radio up loud and laughed, honking her car horn and celebrating. Her plan had gone off without a hitch.

Leon spent the past week being secretly watched by Dr. Karh and the rest of the staff members who took care of him. Dr. Karh got very curious about Leon, his actions and reactions to things. When he was viewing Leon from a distance in the arts and crafts room, he saw that he was sitting crouched down in the chair as he draw any different pictures of houses- his ears and tail where showing. Studying Leon more closely, he found that Leo was acting like a cat more and more each day. Soon Dr. Karh dropped all of his other cases and focused all his work towards Leon who he knew must be cures as soon as possible.

“Leon Stone,” one of the female staff member called in though the double doors and peered into the wreak room. Leon, who was over at his usual window seal with Chris, turned his head and sat up, his ears perked up. “Please fallow me.” and she walked out into the hall.

Leon eased his roommate off him and climbed down from the seal, but just as was leaving he was pulled back and he found that Chris was holding him back. “Don’t worry,” Leon said, kissing Chris’s hand that held him back. Chris had taken his meds fifteen minutes ago and they where now taken effect. “I’ll be back soon, I just have a surprise therapy session or something.” and he gave Chris a peck on the cheek before jogging out of the room and caught up with the nurse. “Do I have a session with my therapist?” Leon asked as they headed down the hallway towards the east wing and where his session usually took place.

“No,” she replied. “You are being moved to a single room where Dr. Gregory Karh could examine you more closely.” she then stopped outside a door that looked more like a prison cell and unlocked it. “This will be your new room for the rest your stay, you are now limited to thirty minutes a day of free time to do what ever you want and you will have your meals brought to you.” as the nurse was talked, Leon walked into the room and saw that it was an all white padded room with a full size mattress lying with no sheets in the far left hand corner. He turned to ask why this was happening, but the nurse shut and locked the door behind her, locking him inside.

Leon started to pound on the door, his ears were straight back and his tail was swishing back and forth at an alarming rate. “Open the door!” he yelled out between pounds on the padded door. “I demand to know what the meaning of this is!” Yelled as he might, no one came to his aid and he was left for the rest of the day in the small room, feeling hopeless and insecure.

When it came to dinner, Leon was starving but he wasn’t expecting to find a 12 oz stake in a large dog bowl shoved though a slit in the door where food and such materials could be passed though to him. Leon just stared at the piece of meat, which wasn’t even cooked and sniffed it a few times. He was really hungry and at this point, he could eat almost anything and he dug into the raw meat, chewing and gobbling it up viciously. As Leon ate, he wasn’t aware that a small video camera that was not even noticeable was watching his every move that he made. From the opposite end of the camera was Dr. Karh who had himself three different dishes of Chinese food out and lying open for his dinner, he had been watching his patient from the first moment he stepped foot into his new room and he discovered many unique and strange things about him.

Once Leo was finished, he find himself board out of his mind once again and confined himself back to his old habits of playing with his tail. He amused himself with that a bit, but he soon grew tired and yawned and stretched. He didn’t have a clock in his padded room-or windows- but he could it was late and he strutted over to his empty mattress and got undress, being that he was warm blooded he kept himself warm by rolling up into a ball and eased his ears and tail back into his body till the next day. Over the few weeks, Leon tried to get a straight answer out of the staff why he was being held apart form the other patients but they never got a successful answer. With his free time that the hospital he spent it in a small area outside where Dr. Karh had set up for him filled with trees and other climbable stuff so he could exam and watch Leon’s actions. Leo didn’t mind the things, and spent all his time climbing the trees or lying under them and thought of names so he could call his girls-if Aaron gave birth to girls.

“So Leon, how have been these past few days?” Dr. Karh asked, this was his first session with Leon since Aaron came five weeks ago and he has been closely monitoring Leon’s actions. He had subscribed him some anti-depressants after he saw Leon acting more like an animal then his usual self. Leon sat in front of his therapist like a normal human being and stared down at floor.

“Fine.” Leon said, he was rubbing his forearm and looking all over the place. His hair was a mess and his scrubs where dirty to the core and torn at the edges from falling out of trees. From the look on his face he hadn’t had a decent night sleep in weeks, black rings lined the bottom of his eyes and his face was smug with two small bald patches at the corers of his forehead where he needed to be shaved for his shock treatment Dr. Karh also subscribed after he found that the meds where not working.

“That’s good to hear. Why don’t we loose the ears and tail for this session, so could you take them off?” Leon shook his head and picked up his feet so that they were tucked under him. “Come on Leon, you must stop this selfness nonsense. You are not an animal, you are a human so take the ears off.” and he got up and crossed the room to take Leon’s ears off his head.

Leon swatted his therapist away and covered his ears and head as Dr. Karh tried to remove his ears. Leon started to scream and yell like a three year old who doesn’t get his way, than after moments of arguing and fighting Karh finally got a hold of his ears and pulled hard, causing Leon to scream even more. Karh tried to calm the boy down but it was no use and ignored the screams that came out of his mouth. Having enough of the pain, Leon roared and took hold of his therapist arm and dug his claws deep into his skin as he bit down at his wrist and drawing blood. Karh yelled out and let go, holding his wound he walked out to go get it tend to. Leon snorted and climbed down off his chair and went over to his mattress which was all tattered and torn just like his scrubs. A few minutes after Karh left, two big buff guys came in and picked Leon up and dragged him out of the room and down the hall.

Leon thrust and tried to wiggle away from the guys but there was no prevail, he knew where they where taking him but he didn’t want to go. The staff then dragged him into a large room where a table was standing in the middle, next to that there were monitors of all kinds. Leon got scared as he saw the table with the straps dangling off the sides and tried to brake free, but the men grabbed hold of his feet and placed him up on the table and began to strap him down. Tears began to stream down Leon’s face as he tried to break free from the restraints but they where too strong for him, even with his mighty strength he was helpless. Once he was strapped in, Leon continued to brake out as a nurse came by a strap like helmet over his head and placed two small patches over his bald patches fallowed by placing a mouth grip in his mouth and turned the table upside down so he would choke on his own vomit when she started up the machine. Leon stopped struggling and accepted the fact the he was going to have another shock treatment.

He could hear the hum of the machines next to him signaling that they where warming up. He took a big gulp and watched as a tear fell from his cheek and splattered on the tile floor and closed his eyes he prepared himself for the pain. He didn’t yell out at first as the burst of energy came rushing though his veins, but he bit down on the clasp in his mouth and clenched all of his muscles. He could bare the pain for a few moments, but he finally screamed out and dropped the mouth piece. From behind a two-way window, Dr. Karh watched as his patient. He didn’t have sympathy for him on the account that he bit and clawed at him which his arm was neatly bandaged.

“From now on,” Karh said to the nurse standing next to him. “We will up the dose of his meds and give him shock treatment two times a week. If he gives us any trouble, we will place him in the Chamber.” the nurse nodded and watched as Leon’s treatment went on.

Leon lay still on the floor of his room and felt warm salty tears roll down. He had grown to hate this place and he wanted no part of it anymore, even if it was only for his cutting. He hasn’t seen Betty for three weeks and he wondered if she had stopped coming because his therapist told her not to come, he was happy though that Daniel got to see him before he stopped having visitors and he handed off a crappy blue print that he drew up in the arts and crafts room for a house he wanted to build for Aaron as a surprise present. As he lay motionless, he wondered who or why he was now going though this torture.

Leon’s time at the asylum was running out and Dr. Karh was running out of time to cure him. He called up Betty to see if he could have more time with Leon but since she was his doctor, she denied his request and he was left with no choice but to use one of his methods that he uses in his studies and called a nurse to get Leon set up for an emergency session.

“Good evening,” he said, coming into Leon’s room. “I see you get out of here in a few days. How do feel about that?” he than sat down across from Leon who has sitting down in a steel chair and in his normal pose like normal.

“Excited.” Leon said, staring at one particular spot on the floor. He showed no emotion from his many past treatments and meds.

“Glad to hear that. Now then, this is going to be out last session so what I would like for you to do it close your eyes. Could you do that for me?” and Leon closed his eyes. “Good, now take in deep breaths and listen to the sound of my voice. What I am going to do I count back from fifty, all you need to do is just sit there and breath. I am going to start now, ready? 50...49...48...47...” Karh slowly and calmly counted down to zero, staring at Leon at him all the time and watched his breathing. It was calm and steady and he felt at ease. “5...4...3...2...1...0. Now Leon, when I snap my fingers, you will be awake but in a hypnotic trance.” before he snapped, he took a deep breath in and with a snap of his fingers; Leon opened his eyes feeling alert and refreshed. “How do you feel?”

“Great!” Leon exclaimed, a big smile on his face. Dr. Karh smiled and began talk to him like a normal being, feeding him what he wanted Leon to know and to forget.


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Aaron stared out Daniel’s car window and smiled, he was so happy, because today was the day when Leon would be free of the hell hole he was in for two months. Along for the car ride was also Karlie, their mother told her to keep an eye on him when they went she didn’t like Aaron going to that awful place. But she allowed him to go with Daniel to pick him up. He was also happy because he was having one of his good days but even a good day could become a bad day in an inset. As Daniel parked outside the hospital, Aaron quickly unbuckled and ran up the stairs, Karlie closely fallowing behind him and watched him carefully and would be there if he fell.

“We’re here to pick up Leon Stone.” Aaron said, a big smile plastered on his face as he told the receptionist why he was here. She smiled back and called for Dr. Gregory Karh.

The doctor soon came out from the hall and lead Aaron, Karlie and Daniel back a small room where Leon was sitting at a round steel table to be picked up.

“Leo!” Aaron shouted and ran to give his love a hug. Leon accepted the hug, but there was something off that Aaron could tell-but he didn’t know what.

“Hi there,” Leon said, pulling back Aaron so he could get a better view of the boy. “Umm…who are you?”

Aaron smile was quickly erased from his face and he grew pale, even Karlie and Daniel couldn’t believe what Leon was saying. “What, Leon it’s me…Aaron.” He though he was playing a joke on him, but from the reaction on Leon’s face he could tell that Leon was not joking around. “Come on surely you remember me.”

“Sadly I do not.” Leon replied.

Aaron stepped away from his love and turned to the doctor. “What did you do to him?!” he yelled, tears where now flowing from his eyes and he was on the verge of smacking him across the face, but he stopped himself.

“We cured him.” Karh said.

“I can see that, but what did you do to him?”

“What I did was used Hypnotherapy on him. I had very little time to work with him-to cure him- and I did.”

“So you hypnotized him to treat his cutting?” Daniel said, stepping bedsides Aaron and crossing his arms, Karlie walked over to Leo and sat beside him. “Tell me something doc, did you do this with all your patients or did my mother tell you, you can do this?”

“Hypnotherapy is what I use in my work and no, your mother didn’t tell me I could use this. Leon’s sister did. All three of Leon’s friends all looked at the doctor wide eyed.

“Leon’s sister?” Aaron cried, “She was here?”

“Yeah, she told be of his past and asked that he would be cured of his illness.”
“And what is his illness?” Karlie asked.

“She said that he acted like a Lion after he fell from a high limb of a tree.”

“No.” Aaron gasped and fell to the floor.

“Doc. Leon had never taken a fall in his life and he has never acted like a Lion in his life. Besides, his sister has been missing since he was eight. Now who came in here and posed as Safara?”

“Well…she had long brown-blond hair and had soft green eyes and a cute smile.”

“What,” Aaron said, getting up from the floor. “Was she about yeah so height?” and he raised his hand to about halfway between his face.

“Yes, she was.”

“Fuck! I am going to kill that bitch!” Aaron cried out when he fitted the doctor’s description with the person he knew.

“Aaron!” Karlie cried, hearing such nasty words coming out of her brother’s mouth.

“Aaron, do you know who it was?”

“Yeah, I do. It was Tiffany, boy when I see her I’ll kill her.”

“Why would she do this?” his sister asked.

“She told me that she had feelings for me, but then I told her I was gay and seeing Leo. She must be getting back at me for denying her feelings towards me.”

Daniel sighed and started to dial his mom’s cell number to tell her of what they did to Leon and headed out of the room, Aaron Karlie and Leon fallowing close behind. When they came to the car, Aaron took a seat in the back as did Karlie and let him rest his head on her lap so they could cry his eyes out for the pain he cause him and they did to Leon.

“I feel bad for the little guy.” Leon said, looking back at Aaron and Karlie who had fallen asleep from the long car ride back to Leon’s yurt.

“You shouldn’t really; it wasn’t you who forgot about him.” Daniel said.

“I know, who was he anyways? I remember you, Daniel.”

“He’s Aaron Stone, your lover and you’re engaged to him.”

“WHAT?”

“Yeah, he still hearing the ring you gave him almost three months ago. He is really heartbroken about you not remembering him.”

“We can’t be engaged, we’re both guys and that’s totally gross. Besides, I like girls not guys.”

Daniel didn’t reply to Leon’s statement and drove on to drop his friend off. When they arrived Leon stepped out of the car and looked around, he was glad to be back home. Soon everyone else fallowed except Aaron, who Karlie left in the car. The two waited outside the yurt so that Leon could get his bearings straight and they talked about what they where going to do with the lion and Aaron.

“We could leave Aaron here,” Daniel said. “Leon could gain his memory back of him, if he stays here.”

“That could happen, but I am worried if Leon doesn’t. If he doesn’t snap out of it, then he could hurt or destroy Aaron’s heart. I don’t want that to happen.”

“I know, but I don’t think that will happen. I have faith in them; Leon will remember Aaron in good time.”

“I hope so. Could you go wake Aaron up and tell him that he’s staying for a few days.” Karlie nodded and went to get his brother. Once that Aaron was out the two left, leaving Aaron alone with a confused Skinwalker who doesn’t even remember him or that he was even a Skinwalker.

“Where did Daniel and Karlie go?” Leon asked, seeing Aaron walking into his home.

“They left.” Aaron replied, “They say they wanted me to stay with you for a few days till you get better.”

“Fine with me. Umm…what are you doing?” Leon stared down at Aaron as he lay down over the floor mattress. It was late and he was tired from the long car ride apparently, the nap he had in Daniel’s car didn’t help.

“Going to bed. I’m tired.”

“I can see your going to bed,” Leo said. “But that is my bed; I’ll fix you something for you can so you can sleep on.”

“But…we always sleep together whenever we sleep over at each others houses.” Aaron pouted.

“Listen, Daniel told be about us, but I don’t like guys. So I don’t know what kind of fantasy world your livening in, but we are not together, I’m sorry.”

Leon’s words was like a dagger in his heart and Leo was just twisting it more and more since he picked him up at the hospital. He wanted Leo to remember him, to have him hold him once again in his big strong arms and to have him thrusting deep into his tight ass with his huge cock. Aaron nodded slightly and got off Leon’s bed and watched as Leon gathered a few sheets and a pillow to make a bed for his guest. Aaron tried to hide his tears but he couldn’t and broke down crying. Leon saw him on the floor and tried to calm him down the best he could without touching him, but it wasn’t any good as Aaron cried even more.

Aaron lay on his side and watched Leon sleep soundly alone. His cries had died down, but he still suffered a broken heart and there was nothing Leon could do about it. He tried to sleep, but he couldn’t get the fact out of his head that Leon couldn’t even remember him. The worrying soon got to him and he became sick to his stomach and he rushed outside into the bushes. When he came back, he found Leon lying on his back and his arms wide open. He knew he shouldn’t but he climbed into bed with him, cuddling up close to him as he gave Leon a sad peck on the lips.

“Please remember me.” Aaron begged, placing another kiss on his lips and rested his head on Leo’s chest and settled down for the night.