Traumas

King Kong and Terkina were peacefully sleeping in their nest when the male started having a lucid dream. In it he just woke up from slumbering and expected to find himself on Skull Island but was boggled when he found out he wasn't lying but sitting in a completely alien environment to him: a theater. As he came to his senses his vision sharpened and he experienced the sounds increasing in volume and audibility. Due to the extremely sharp contrast between his dwelling place and the interior of this building, which he found to be far from what he calls home, he became appalled, moreover the loud music, which was pretty foreign to him, played by the orchestra and the actress's (who played Ann) screaming bothered him to the extent that he began bellowing and twisting out of protest to break free from his chains. His arms were bound to two posts on the stage and his body was kept in place by a ring around his waist connected to the floor. Several men in black tuxedo suits began taking pictures of him which was the final nail in the coffin regarding his turmoil and rage. The silverback went insane and put a much better effort in trying to free himself, he violently thrashed while roaring clamorously and savagely.
Terk got sprung out of her sleep when she heard her husband's loud cry.
"Kong, wake up," she exclaimed while shaking her mate.
Having noticed this failed to force him out of the nightmare she began smacking his face. The male opened his eyes and was taken aback by the advanced darkness surrounding him.
"Terk, I had that horrid dream again," he groaned whilst still wheezing having recognized his wife's voice.
"I'm sorry to hear that," said the female empathetically as she leaned on her husband and rubbed her face against his to comfort him. Kong in return wrapped his arms around her. The female felt that his heart was still racing. She straightened up from her position as King Kong gradually released her.
"I don't think you've fully processed the trauma of what had happened to you in the theater yet. Maybe this is why this dream keeps returning. Do you want to talk about your negative experience already," offered Terkina as she had before several times when her mate had relived the awful events in that nightmare.
The male wasn't in the mood to discuss this matter as usual. He emitted a loud sigh.
"Okay, fine," replied the silverback in an annoyed voice stressing the second word. "I don't want this but if it'll stop the dream from reoccurring I'm in," he added in a softer tone.
"Alright," responded Terk. "I think you'll feel better. Remember the time when I was almost artificially inseminated? After we talked about our experiences about being in the weighing room in our enclosure you concluded and revealed to me that they planned to impregnate me and Tarzan was also in this. I had crying spells and nightmares about this for a week. I thought it would be over by then but it turned out I wasn't fully through I had the same reoccurring dreams until I acknowledged the pain Tarzan caused me and wept that out. The working up ended there but I still had spiritual, physical and emotional symptoms due to dreading it would happen again and demolish the kind of relationship we have carefully built up and preserved."

Flashback:
One time when Terk was in heat Tarzan and the other keepers called King Kong into the weighing room. After the male entered he caught sight of a container filled with a sweet smelling orange liquid, a thin, hollow rod-like structure about 3 meters in length on the floor and a large basin. They let him know by hand gestures that they had prepared a special drink for him which was in a receptacle situated on the floor. The male lifted the vessel and tasted the fluid. The aroma of it reminded him of mangoes, his favorite fruit, it had a slightly syrupy texture, a sweet and exotic scent with a touch of vanilla. As it slid down his throat it slightly burned it but this didn't bother him, he chugged it down and licked the container clean. Soon, he began feeling tipsy, then he started having vision problems, lost coordination and felt drowsy. He remembered the humans closing in on him, before he was about to fall asleep, and placing the bowl under his private area and doing something with his genitals. Hours later he woke up hungover with a splitting headache. The people, the holder and the basin were all gone. The door was open and Kong roved out still feeling woozy. He reached Terk and reported to her everything the people including Tarzan did to him. Terkina was shocked and didn't believe her friend participated in these acts. Tarzan hurried towards the apes and signaled to the gorilla lady that a surprise awaits her in the weighing chamber. Kong advised his wife not to go into the room but the female trusted the man. Terk was being led by her main caretaker like an unsuspecting lamb to the slaughterhouse. Having worries for his mate the silverback followed them. The female entered, the door was shut. King Kong peered through one of the windows, he could clearly see what was happening. First, Terk was presented with some chocolate which she happily devoured. Then she received commandments one after another which she unseeingly obeyed. She had to lay down in a way which her bottom faced the rod-like instrument previously mentioned, which one of the keepers was now partially covering with Vaseline, and spread her legs apart. The male found the unfolding events strange and started to feel an urge to barge in and extract his wife. However he kept watching. A man came into the place through a little door with a large towel and a 5 liter bottle of chloroform which he hastily opened. As this was happening a ladder was placed right next to Terk's head. The man soaked the towel in the substance then, hurried to the gorilla, climbed the ladder and spread the towel on her nose. Having inhaled the chemical Terkina blacked out. After making sure she was unconscious the men lifted the inseminator on their shoulders and began nearing her buttocks. Kong instantly suspected that the keepers want to insert the rod into his wife's vagina. He swiftly backed away from the door, charged then, body slammed it resulting in it suddenly getting knocked off its hinges. It descended and partially landed on the female. The people were gravely frightened, dropped the instrument and retreated through the more insignificant door from which the person carrying the chloroform and towel came through. As the rod impacted the concrete ground a crack formed on it and white liquid began oozing out of it creating a puddle. Kong having witnessed this deducted that the caretakers had obtained sperm from him and had planned to inseminate his mate with it. His discovery horrified him. He broke the tool to make sure it would never be attempted to be used on Terk again then, dragged the still sleeping Terk out into the middle of their enclosure. He was holding her in his arms when the female regained consciousness.
"What happened," she asked.
"What do you remember," enquired Kong.
"Our keepers gave me chocolate. After I ate it one of them signaled to me to lay down and spread my legs apart. That's all I remember for now," she answered. "Between that and my awakening I don't know what I went through."
"I saw everything you experienced. You can't recall what you missed because you were unconscious. One of our caretakers knocked you out with the same liquid that made me black out when I was abducted from Skull Island. I recognized it by the jar. When you were comatose the men, even Tarzan, lifted that 3 meter rod, which had some substance spread on a part of it before, off the ground and wanted to shove it into your vagina. As they were approaching you, I broke in through the shut door knocking it out of place. The humans dropped the object and retreated out of the room through a different entrance. The instrument fell and cracked. "White stuff" seeped out of the fissure. I remembered the keepers had done something with my male parts when I was drunk and concluded that that was my seed which they had extracted from me then and put it in the rod. They wanted to get you pregnant! I broke the rod so that they wouldn't be able to use it again then, pulled you out to where we are right now then, you regained consciousness again," reported the silverback.
Terkina felt petrified by the news, she became wide-eyed then, started grievingly and bitterly crying her eyes out whilst feeling emotionally and spiritually tormented. From that point on the female terminated her friendship with Tarzan, both apes distrusted humans and never went into the weighing room even if commanded. Even a few weeks after the traumatic experience they kept up with their ranting in sign language expressing their opinions about the incident and arousing their feelings such as anger, disappointment and sadness in their partners in communication. Some of their messages they kept repeating:
"We told you before we want no children, is this too high for you to understand?"
"Why have you done this to us? Without our consent why did you attempt to force your will on us? You stole our freedom of choice, got me drunk and molested me! What did we do to deserve this?"
"Tarzan, I am VERY disappointed in you! I thought we were best friends... Best friends don't oblige each other into things ESPECIALLY SERIOUS things that would GREATLY affect other things in the future! Well, congratulations, you just lost a close friend, well done. I think that you and your fellow colleagues assume we are dumb animals too unintelligent to decide what kind of relationship we want and that it doesn't matter to us what kind of relationship we are in, even wanting kids or not. Well, we are CLEVERER than you think, we are brainy enough to PLAN and MAKE CHOICES regarding our relationship. Speaking of decisions I'm not taking you back as a friend no matter how much chocolate you would give me. I wouldn't take a single bite out of it knowing it's from YOU!"
"I don't want to be here anymore. I want to return to Skull Island. Even Terk wants this not knowing she'll survive. She told me that she'd rather die in a dinosaur attack than living her life in misery here. Yes, you made her miserable and depressed, you made her cry and have horrible dreams for a week and a half. You've caused us torments when we NEVER induced you suffering. We obeyed your commands. We let you have us act in films to make you earn money. And what do we get? First, you introduce another female of our species into our dwelling place without asking us whether we want a third gorilla or not in our relationship. Why have you done this when you have witnessed over and over again how happy we are together? Her staying here was torture for us especially for Terk. We stayed outside our enclosure for a week with a stranger in it who had tried to seduce me before. Didn't you consider that she may destroy our good marriage? Second, you steal sperm from me and try to get Terk pregnant without enquiring whether we want a baby or not, when you should have noticed that we don't mate when Terk's in estrus and should have concluded that we don't want to reproduce! Speaking of Terk, look at her! She's nearly underweight, she's not eating properly, she's depressed and she's living in fear! I hardly recognize her anymore, it's as if most of her died. YOU CAUSED THIS YOU'RE SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY KILLING MY WIFE AND AS A RESULT ME AS WELL!"
The most recent message from King Kong was the final one, the one that made the keepers act and the deterioration of Terkina's physical and mental health contributed to their actions as well. The humans gathered around the apes, apologized and promised them that they will transport them to Skull Island, but first they will nurse the female back to health so that she will be strong enough for the journey. They kept their word and this is how King Kong and Terk ended up on Skull Island.
End of flashback.

As the previously mentioned past events played in the silverback's mind, he began sobbing, but tried to keep it in.
"It's better if you grieve and cry it out. That nightmare may never come back. It's okay to cry, there's nothing shameful about it," encouraged Terkina.
"It's not what happened in the theater this time..." Kong pressed out. "It has to do with the artificial insemination memory," he floundered then, sat up and wept harder right after mentioning that not being able to speak.
His female embraced him as he let out a quiet groan and he continued shedding tears on her shoulder.
"Would you like to tell me what part of that incident makes you cry," she asked.
"Yeah," replied Kong when he was able to.
Minutes later his weeping ceased and he began opening up about his sadness.
"Terk, it really darkened me when I had seen you spiral into depression and fear, eat little and lose a lot of weight. You were hardly anything like your normal self and I was scared that you would never return to your original mental, emotional and physical state. I was really stressed out and doleful about this and also about whether we will be able to continue our lives on Skull Island or not due to your state and not knowing whether that promise was a lie or not. This time was very rough for me as well," he confessed as another wave of loathsome mournfulness overtook him which resulted in further tearful grieving.
"Kong, I didn't know that this had such a dire effect on you. I know you were saddened but not this much. I'm really sorry about what I caused unintentionally," replied his wife on the verge of tears.
Soon she was weeping with her husband while clinging together with him having been fueled by sorrow towards him. After crying themselves out they kept silent for a while.
"Kong is there anything else you'd like to share with me," Terkina enquired moaning a little.
"This is all that came to my mind regarding the artificial insemination incident," he replied. "I still feel shaken..." he added.
"You may have negative feelings and crying spells for a while even bad dreams, but it'll go away with time. This goes along with the healing journey. You've just started it by sharing your thoughts and feelings with me and releasing those bottled-up emotions. You shouldn't rush your healing and remember that it's not a shame to cry. If you feel like you have to do it, do it. You may have to do this several times. It may take weeks to fully recover, at times it takes months or years. Be patient with yourself. If something comes to your mind that's bothering you still you can share it with me," informed Terk in a warm tone. "I think we should postpone the discussion about your trauma in the theater for another time whenever you want to, even right after you wake up from its nightmare. Let's take one step at a time," she advised.
"Okay," responded the male. "Thanks."
"You're welcome," replied his mate.
The gorillas continued their sleep.
It took months for the silverback to process the traumatic events that he experienced in the enclosure and in the theater. Taking Terk's advice and with Terk's help his emotional and spiritual wounds healed.