Chapter 17
I Want an Explanation
Jura heard Chase sound the alarm for everyone to get up. He was surprised that Ryder, Rex, and his sister hadn't gotten him up before that. He watched all the other pups head to breakfast, except for Rex and Skye who immediately went over to check on him.
"What's going on?" asked Jura.
"I don't know," answered his sister. "I'm surprised Ryder didn't get us up early to help you get into your wheels before Chase rang the bell for breakfast."
Immediately afterwards, and angry looking Ryder showed up carrying a leash. "Skye, Rex, go to breakfast, Jura and I need to have a little chat," said Ryder in a cross tone. The other two pups nodded and scampered off. Ryder then helped Jura into his wheels as usual, but unexpectedly clipped the leash on to his collar, and led him toward the Lookout like a prisoner.
Jura upon noticing the foreshadowing, nervously asked, "where are we going?"
"To have a little chat with your prospective mistress about how you took advantage of Rex last night," stated the boy irately.
"But I didn…" began the cockapoo.
"Tell it to Dr. Turbot!" interrupted Ryder.
He then led him up to the observatory, were the Dino vet's stern face was on the large screen.
"I would like an explanation," she demanded.
"I swear I didn't do that to him," pleaded Jura.
She then nodded suspiciously and then asked Ryder, can I speak to Rex, alone?"
Ryder nodded, as he went to go fetch Rex, and after he returned with the Bernese, he then led Jura out of the observatory.
"Now Rex," she began. "Tell me what happened last night between you and Jura," instructed the doctor.
"We were watching the sunset together, then, I don't remember what happened next, but the next thing I remember was Jura getting my attention, and when things came back into focus, I was looking at his penis, and it was… like mine was at the clinic yesterday. I started apologizing and began to back away, only for him to tell me that he didn't mind as long as I asked first. I don't know why, but I really wanted to look at it, so I asked, and he said I could. A little while later, he pointed out that I had an E rex goen like him…"
"Erection dear."
"I asked why I kept getting them, and he told me that looking at certain things could make them happen, and that his penis was probably one of those things for me. I asked him how I could tell if that was true, and he told me that if looking at his made mine feel really good than it probably was. Then I asked if other boys tended to get them when looking at another boy's penis. He told me that some boys did, but not most. I was suddenly hit by that feeling of being different from everybody else,"
The doctor felt a pain inside her. Her heart constantly broke at the reminder of him dealing with this feeling.
"but then, Jura told me he was one of the few boys that did, and that he didn't feel it was weird if I did."
The doctor smiled upon hearing this.
"Then I got the feeling that he would like to look at mine, so I asked if he wanted to, he said only if I was okay with it, and I told him I was. It felt so good looking at each other's penises. Eventually, the thought occurred to me of how we were going to get rid of our E rex geons, so I asked him.
"Erection," she corrected. "How did he recommend doing that?" asked his owner.
Rex then explained Jura's answer, and what he taught him to do. "Then, all of a sudden, everything felt really tight down there, and then it just popped like a balloon and I felt myself thrust forward like somebody pushed me. I don't know why but it felt really good."
The Dr. smiled warmly.
"It went away soon after."
"Now, this is important Rex, did he touch you down there with any part of his body?" she asked.
Rex shook his head.
"Did you touch his with any part of your body?"
Rex shook his head again.
"Then that's all Rex, you can go," she informed.
The little Bernese nodded, and headed for the elevator while his owner called Ryder back up to the observatory.
Ryder then returned to the observatory with Jura.
As soon as he was in front of the screen, the doctor asked, "tell me what happened last night, the whole story.
Jura took a breath and began. "The two of us were watching the sunset together, and then I noticed that my… was standing at attention, and I turned to him to see if he had noticed, I hoped he hadn't, but he was staring at it in a trancelike state. As soon as I brought this to his attention, the poor boy was beginning to crawl away in shame, so to calm him down I honestly blurted out that I didn't mind, as long as he asked first. He then asked, and I nodded involuntarily. I then brought to his attention that his … was doing the same thing as mine. He asked why this kept happening to him, and, ignoring the overstatement, gave him a rudimentary explanation of turn-ons, that his tail probably wags that way, that mine does too, and that he doesn't need to feel embarrassed about it. He then asked if I wanted to look at his, I told him that only if he was okay with it, because I wanted to reinforce the basic notion of consent that I introduced earlier in our conversation, he said yes, and we looked at each other for a while. A few minutes later he asked how we were going to get our dachshunds to go back to sleep. Knowing full well that it would be a horrible idea for the two of us to just walk back to our pup-houses with our sabers fully unsheathed, I thought through all the options I could. We couldn't jump in the nearby pond because his wheels were electric, I didn't want to risk drinking any of that pond water because I didn't know how clean it was, and I didn't want to pull him out of the moment so it could just resolve itself on its own because he was clearly so happy. Eventually, it became clear that the only option was to… with our paws, so I taught him how to do it as a remedy, like you requested. I also decided to wait until the sun had gone down so the darkness would obscure what we were doing, and to let him get more 'excited', because I figured that since this is his first experience, he had every right to enjoy it," finished Jura.
The doctor then turned to Ryder, who was still literally looking down on Jura. "He's telling the truth, his account matches up perfectly with Rex's," explained the doctor.
Upon hearing this, Ryder's firm expression loosened a bit. "Thank Dog I misunderstood what I saw," he said in relief.
"Why were you watching us anyway?" asked Jura skeptically.
"Well," began Ryder nervously, "as soon as you said 'what could possibly go wrong' I knew your initial plans weren't going to succeed, so I felt I should keep an eye on you so I could give you some tips on how to do better next time."
"What was Jura trying to do," asked the doctor.
"He wanted to tell Rex how he felt about him," explained the boy.
She then turned her head to the blonde cockapoo. "Jura, I can just tell him for you if you want, I'm pretty sure he has similar feelings for you," offered the doctor.
"Thanks doctor, but I want to try telling him myself a few more times," he answered.
She nodded an understanding. "I want to thank you for being a mentor to Rex, for being so considerate, and for presenting masturbation in the way I asked you to, and I'm sorry you were dragged into this awkward misunderstanding, I promise to make it up to you somehow," thanked/apologized the doctor. She then turned to Ryder, and asked, "Could you run off to retrieve Rex for me?"
Ryder nodded and was back with the other paraplegic in less than 10 minutes.
"Now," she began, "when we get back to the Dino Wilds, I will set boundaries and ground rules for masturbation and a limited amount of mutual masturbation…"
"What does masturbation mean," interrupted Rex.
"stroking your dachshund like we did last night," whispered Jura into his ear.
"Anyway, just make sure nobody, especially Taylor, sees you when you're doing it, try to wait till after the sun has gone down, and for the next year or two, please keep your paws to yourselves."
"Also," interrupted Ryder, "Rex, don't tell the other pups about this, Jura, don't tell your sister that your prospective owner will allow you to engage in mutual masturbation, I don't want her getting jealous.
The two pups nodded in agreement and headed for the elevator.
"Jura, can I talk to you about one more thing?" asked the doctor.
The half cocker turned around. "What is it?" he asked.
"With regard to mutual masturbation, can I ask that you not ask Rex to engage in it with you?"
"Why?" asked Jura suspiciously.
"I am worried that if you ask him, he will feel he has to say yes and will agree to it even if he doesn't want to. Therefore, I would prefer it if he approached you first, so I can be comfortable that if he engages in it, it's because he wants to.
Jura nodded in understanding, and then went to the elevator to go eat his overdue breakfast.
Notes:
She smiled warmly: She thinks the way he's describing it is cute.
Dr. Turbot being more liberal with Jura and Rex: she intends to allow the two to sparingly engage in what they did the previous night, in part because she recognizes the futility of trying to put the genie back into the bottle.
The use of doctor's terms: Dr. Turbot is technically a doctor.
I don't want her to get jealous: Ryder has two main reasons for saying this. First, he doesn't want to have to deal with a grumpy Skye, and second,
he wants to avoid a situation of her making a complete fool of herself in front of Chase, and subsequently creeping him out.
I promise, this is the last chapter of the story that will involve anything sexual, not that the story isn't wrapping up in a few chapters. The reason I wanted to show both Rex and Jura's recounting of the previous night's activities was to show the difference in how the two talk about the subject, and to show the difference in self-awareness. Don't forget to leave a review if you have any questions comments or concerns.