The Dehumanization of Ethan Brown

The doorbell rang as they were eating the next morning. “Mr. Stephenson, I’m sorry about your daughter,” Ethan said.

“What did you do to her?” Mr. Stephenson asked.

“I invited her over for dinner. I was putting food away and she had a sudden heart attack,” Ethan said. “She was my best friend.”

“I’m Sara Maria Brown,” his wife said.

“This place isn’t fit for healthy immune systems,” Mr. Stephenson said.

“I’ll change her diaper.” Ria carried the baby upstairs.

“I know you and your punk friend were up to no good,” Mr. Stephenson said.

“Would you like to join us for breakfast?” Ryan asked.

“I’m not eating anything in this house. How do I know you didn’t poison her?”

“We hadn’t eaten, yet,” Ryan said.

“I loved Leslie like a sister.” Ethan started sobbing. “No one could be more sorry about her death.”

William Stephenson walked toward the door. “This isn’t the last you heard of me.”

Ria looked at Ethan as she climbed down the stairs without Anna. “We should have invited him for dinner.”

“Ryan tried,” Ethan said.

“I offered,” Ryan said. “He thought we would try to poison him.”

“He wouldn’t be as tasty that way,” Ria said, licking her lips.

“He’s too thin,” Nici said. “He’s so old; the little meat on his bones would be too tough to chew.”

“We can’t be killing a prominent business man,” Ethan said.

“If he makes trouble, I’m serving him for dinner,” Ria said.

“I rather have cow parts,\" Nici said. “I’m sure there isn’t any good marbling and the meat will taste all gamy.”

“Probably, he does look a bit scrawny,” Ria said. “But we could get at least one meal out of the old man.”

Ethan put on a robe before he answered the door. “How may I help you?”

“I was told that there was dirty diapers and spoiled meat in here,” the woman said.

“I can’t let you in without a warrant,” Ethan said, only opening it an inch.

“I heard that there were two children living here under unsanitary conditions,” she said.

“You can’t come in without a warrant. I know my rights. I’ll meet you at a public place with my lawyer present,” Ethan said.

The woman left.

“Who was that?” Ria asked.

“A social worker,” Ethan said. “They all smell the same. I didn’t let her in. Once they come in, they take notes and they never leave you alone. My mother learned the hard way. They act like they want to keep the family together, but they have their own agenda.”

“Nici and I won’t let them in,” Ria said. “I’ll give them your cell phone number if they want to talk to someone.”

“No one but me talks to them,” Ethan said.

“I agree. We need a solid front,” Nici said. “I wish Ryan didn’t work at night.”

“You complain about me working early in the morning,” Ethan said.

“I wish none of us had to work,” Nici said.

“Perhaps, we can start our own business like Ria’s father did and work at home,” Ethan said.

“Come on. Help me make dinner. I’m starving.”

“After dinner, will you watch the girls? Nici and I would love to see a movie?” Ria asked.

“Daisy might drink out of a cup, but there is no way that Anna will take a bottle.”

“Offer the bottle and let her scream. She won’t die in three hours,” Ria said.

“After we eat, put her down for a nap and maybe I’ll get lucky and she’ll sleep while you’re out.” Ethan walked to the kitchen and pulled out a pasta pot. “Is spaghetti with meat sauce good?”

“Great,” Nici said. “Ria, you’re a lucky lady marrying a man that cooks.”

“I’ll brown a few sausages while we wait,” Ria said. “Ethan, do you feel different since Ryan put that curse on you?”

“A little but not in a bad way. I wondered if the other pack members would smell the difference. I hope they don’t, but for some reason I have my doubts.”

“Ryan and you could make up a story about playing with black magic,” Nici said.

“As long as no one mentions Leslie dying,” Ethan said.

After dinner, Ria nursed Anna until she fell asleep. “Honey, I wish you could love me half as much as you love Ryan.” Ria put Anna on a blanket to sleep.

“I love you just as much. I feel like you like Nici more than me, but I’m not jealous.” Ethan put a baby blanket on the sleeping child.

“We have more in common.” Ria walked to the living room beside Ethan.

“I have more in common with Ryan. It doesn’t mean that I love you less. I thought you preferred to snuggle with Nici so I don\'t press you for affection.”

“I do, but I would like you to act interested.” Ria kissed Ethan briefly.

“I can’t pretend to be someone that I’m not. Do you want a divorce? You could go back to your father’s house.” Ethan hated himself for these outbursts of emotional and now he was trying to push his wife away. He felt so lonely for so many years trying to make the smallest room in his condo feel like a den. He liked the small living room with its sparse furnishings and fireplace. He didn\'t care to sleep in either bedroom and only went to the bedroom to dress, but preferred to sleep on an area rug in front of the fireplace lit or otherwise.

“I like living here with you. I would just like you to love me more.” Ria\'s voice was sweet and sexy.

“I can’t give you something that I don’t have. Have a good time at your movie. The girls and I will be fine,” Ethan said.

Daisy was in the kitchen playing with her food.

Ethan put the dishes in the dishwasher and cleaned the rest of the kitchen. “Daisy, let’s watch a Disney DVD on the computer.”

“I want Mommy,” Daisy said.

“Mommy went out.”

Daisy started to scream and cry. Finally, Daisy cuddled up to Ethan and allowed hi put put on a DVD for her to watch. He checked on Anna, amazingly, she was still asleep. After the DVD was over, Anna started to cry. She wouldn’t take a bottle and just kept crying. It was going to be a long wait for the women to get home. Ryan came home to hear two children crying. Daisy snuggled against him and fell asleep, then Ryan put her in the large bed in the master bedroom. Ethan held the crying baby and bounced her in an attempt to calm her. She wouldn’t starve to death in one evening, but it felt that way as he tried to get her to eat baby food or drink formula or water.

“I hope they’re home soon,” Ryan said, tossing his clothes in the hamper.

“Me, too. My ears need a break,” Ethan said. “Why do women want babies so much?”

“Because they are cute,” Ryan said.

“I wanted her so much when Ria was pregnant. My mother told me that I was the most important thing in her life.”

“Ethan, put her in her crib and let her scream herself to sleep.”

“You can’t spoil a baby.”

“She wants mommy’s milk and you can’t give it to her. Put her down.”

Ethan put her in the crib. “Ryan, are you hungry? I’ll make you something.”

“I ate at the restaurant,” Ryan said.

“Ria says that I don’t love her enough.”

“You don’t.”

“I can’t change who I am.”

“Just hold her more. She doesn’t expect you to change.” Ryan put his arms around Ethan. “I love you.”

“Why does it feel like it isn’t enough?” Ethan leaned into the smaller man.

Ryan lay on the blanket on the floor. “Because your best friend just died and I’m part of the reason.”

“It was an accident. Neither of us wanted her to die; we were trying to save her life.” Ethan snuggled against Ryan. “I read the sign at the pizza place. It said the position-included meals. They must love you.”

“I eat a salad and two slices of pizza for lunch. I pay for my own chips and junk food. They give me all the soda I can drink.” Ryan turned toward Ethan and put his head in Ethan’s chest and stroked his chest hair. “Why do I feel closer to you than my wife?”

“Does it matter? I love you so much.” Ethan kissed him as he stroked Ryan’s dark blond hair. “Part of me doesn’t want to have more children. I don’t want this curse to spread. It’s unfortunate that the massacres didn’t kill more of us.”

“Baby, wust ust you talk like that? Most of us are good people,” Ryan said stroking Ethan’s back.

“I know bending the rules of human society,” Ethan said. “At the same time that I don’t want us to breed, I feel so lonely in this world. I wanted to live in a house with dozens of our kind. I wanted us to love each other.”

“Maybe we can join up with another pack.” Ryan kissed his neck, then planted kisses on his collar bone. Ryan moved his hand over Ethan’s hard chest. “The Buffalo and Ottawa packs are huge.”

“No, we need to keep our identity.”

“Hon, you’re our alpha. We listen to you.”

“I don’t want to be alpha.”

“We could go back to living with Juan.”

“No. It’s just that I feel like you’re the only person in the world that understands what I feel.”

“I’m not. We’ll go to the mountains and find other of our kind that feel just as lonely as you do.”

“I went camping with Leslie.” Ethan started to sob.

“Let it out.” Ryan held him tight. “I’m not going anywhere.”

“I loved her so much. I wanted her to be like us so she would understand. I hated myself when she got sick.\"

“Nici, Ria and I are your pack.” Ryan kissed his face. Ryan started to kiss Ethan’s back and moved his hands to his bottom. Ryan kissed Ethan’s bottom as his hands continued to fondle it.

“That’s nice.” Ethan laid flat on his stomach to give Ryan better access to his rump.

Ryan started to lick Ethan’s opening as he fondled the firm round globes. \"I wish I had more time to do things with Nici.\"

“I wish we worked similar hours. I want to touch you so much and you aren’t home.” Ethan relaxed his rump. “Tell Nici that you need more loving from her.”

“When I’m with her she just lies there.”

“I’m just laying here.” Ethan rolled onto his side and looked at Ryan. He stroked the curly blond hair on Ryan’s chest.

“I can feel that you’re enjoying it. Nici always looks like she wants to be somewhere else.”

“She has to take care of the house and her daughter.” Ethan put his finger in Ryan’s belly button then kissed his fingers then fingered Ryan’s balls. “I wish I had more time just to lie here and enjoy your beautiful body.”

“I’ll get a day job.” Ryan spread his legs to give Ethan better access.

“It isn’t like we need the money with Jake paying me for the use of the house.” Ethan continued to fondle Ryan’s organs. \"You could chop all that wood we collected. We could use someone to do the jobs around the house the girls don\'t get to.\"

“I like working. It doesn’t bother me to sleep while you’re working. It’s better than helping the women with the housework.” Ryan stopped talking as Ethan moved his hand to Ryan’s hardening cock.

Ethan put his mouth around Ryan’s cock. It was small like Ryan, but perfect in its own way. Ethan liked that it wasn’t as huge as Juan’s and he could fit all of it in his mouth. His was a little more than a mouthful. Ethan moved his mouth over it sucking it hard moving his tongue all over it.

As Ryan was screaming in climax, the ladies arrived home. Anna had stopped crying in the background so Ria must have been nursing her. Ryan sat up and looked at Nici, “I\'m going to find a day job. I don’t care much for sleeping during the day and being out all night.”

“It makes no difference to me,” Nici said.

“I’m your husband and you don’t give me the time of day,” Ryan said.

“Ethan just had your dick in his mouth,” Nici said.

“Someone enjoys my body; you never have,” Ryan said snuggling against Ethan on the blanket on the floor.

Ethan, not feeling like being part of his conversation, changed into wolf. It was the first time that he changed since he was made whole by Ryan’s spell and he was afraid of how it would feel. He felt rather hungry, but no different. After getting on his four legs and roaming to the kitchen, Ethan overturned a bag of dog chow and ate his full before finding a spot on the living room floor to cuddle up and go to sleep. There wasn\'t a natural wolf population in the area and he didn’t want to hunt in public and their four-acre lot didn’t provide that much in the way of rodents and other small mammals.

Ryan changed and snuggled against him. Ethan licked Ryan’s neck a moment and then fell asleep. Ethan awoke for work while Ryan was asleep. They would talk when Ryan came home from the work that evening. Ethan dressed for work without waking anyone in the house. Ryan walked to his job and the ladies could use the car for errands after he was home from work.