So here is chapter 8 Aptly titled Overload as you will soon find out the reasoning.

A year ago I posted the first chapter to this story, and I never expected it to take off like it did. 78 followers, 59 favorites, 49 reviews, and over ELEVEN THOUSAND views! Thank you all so very much for the support.

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So I have devised a simple system to keep my stories going withput giant gaps in updates. I will write and post a chapter for A Father Figure, then one for A True Brother, then one for my brand new story Red Hood: The Story of Jason Wilde-Todd. If you have not seen or checked them out go ahead and give them a look over if you wish.

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Disclaimer time. I will never write sex scenes in my stories, ever. There will be heavily implied sexual acts but no sex scenes and no smut. There will also be a lot of sexual jokes, like knot jokes, there will be quite a few. Now if people really want to see those implied scenes someone message me about writing them if people really want them. If I give the go ahead you can write the scenes and post them, I will not do so, sorry. (To those following the story, my beta BrutusDeagon will be writing smut chapters for my stories, cheers.)

(To my followers this is Overload and Bathroom Talk combined. They work much better together.)

this chapter is half drama and the other is lighthearted with humor and sex jokes, so enjoy! story time!

Chapter 8: Overload

Jack read the message again, and then another time. He looked away for a moment, then looked back and read it again, and again, and then again. Once he was sure that the message wasn't going to change he promptly hit the erase button, set the laptop gently into the seat to his left, stood while saying "excuse me for a moment" to Michael, and then walked to the back of the plane farthest from anyone. He took several deep breaths to calm himself, and then roared at the top of his lungs.

"FUCK!" After that in a slightly quieter tone he continued. "Fuck! Mother fucking fucks of fucking fucks in fucking fucker land with an extra side of fuck!"

Letting out a deep irritated sigh he took several more deep breaths to compose himself before turning back around to face everyone who naturally had their eyes wide as saucers staring at him. He even noticed both the pilot and co-pilot peeking their heads down the walkway of the plane staring at him.

Jack simply waved and said in an elevated voice "sorry folks, just got ah..some...interesting new developments in my life and I needed..to, ah, express it I suppose. So go back to what your were doing. And...for the love of the gods you two you're flying a damn plane look forward!"

This seemed to snap everyone out of the stupor and the pilots were the fastest snapping their heads back to the windows of the plane and their paws to the control sticks. The rest followed suite, those that were napping grumbled a little bit and settled back down, and the rest went back to what they were doing before, some occasionally glancing back at him.

Taking another few deep breaths Jack re-centered himself, he'd let to much real emotion show which he realized he'd been doing a lot in the last few days, around David, Demetri, and even though he barely knew them, Nicholas and Vivian. Those select few that was fine, but he needed to be a little more careful with everyone else. Jack smiled a little at Michael and his Cheetah friend as they were the only ones still staring at him, the friend he noticed had moved to be seated right next to Michael and had probably done so when he got up. Jack walked back over to his seat and re-seated himself, smiling lightly again to both agents. He focused then on the female cheetah, she was definitely pretty with soft hazel eyes, and somehow had an air of familiarity to her that for now he didn't have time to sort through and place.

"Sorry about that, I'm back now."

Focusing again on the cheetah he stuck a paw out and introduced himself.

"Jackson Hunter, but just Jack is fine. I don't believe the dashing wolf here has been kind enough to introduce us yet. Or tell you I heard what you were planning to do to me if you got me alone."

The cheetah for her part kept her composure very well only flushing slightly when compared to the fireball Michael had turned into.

Taking he paw in her own she shook it with the blush still on her face and she replied "oh, you did, did you? Hmm well did you like it?"

Her voice was silky and smooth and could probably warm any poor bastards heart, except Jack's, but he wouldn't let her know that. He simply smirked at her and replied "quite a bit actually, but Michael here still won first go fair and square."

The cheetah let out a light, bubbly laugh at that and said "why yes he did. My name is Evelyn, Evelyn Spotters."

When she said her name Jack no longer needed time to sort through his memory to figure out why this cheetah on front of him seemed sort of familiar, and he voiced as much.

"Spotters huh? Then you must be the daughter of Tammie Spotters."

At this Evelyn adopted a look of surprise and quickly replied "yes I am how did you know?"

Michael for his part also had a look of surprise, interested as well of how Jack knew who Evelyn's mother was. But he also couldn't feel not just a little bit irritated that his conversation with Jack was getting put on further hold. But he buried the thought and continued looking back and forth between Jack and Evelyn.

"Other than the last name Evelyn it's your eyes, same as your mother's."

"Oh..and just how do you know my mother?"

Jack tapped the scar on his neck and replied, "She kept me from bleeding out, patched me up when I was four after a very bad, and dark day. In fact she's the only one who actually treated me like a damn decent mammal instead of another shifty fox. I dare say I owe my life to your mother Evelyn, she all but forced the doctors to treat me, get me blood and what not."

At that Evelyn's paws shot to her mouth and between her fingers she muffled out, "oh my gods! You're that fox kit she used to talk about! I thought your name seemed seemed familiar!"

Jack just smirked a little bit and replied "yeah that's me. I.."

Jack didn't get to continue because Michael butted in, Michael wasn't from Zootopia but Periton, so he wasn't very aware of the news from there unless major. "Sorry to interrupt Jack but what are you two talking about?"

Jack glanced over at him and then looked back to Evelyn with a slightly pained look and said "You know the story then, could you tell it to him? I've had to tell it a bit recently and would rather not again, hearing it is difficult enough."

At that Evelyn leaned over and patted one of his paws and with a little bit of a sad smile replied "of course Jack, I understand."

Evelyn spent the next fifteen minutes telling Michael his story. Jack for his part left after the first minute and walked back to where he had gone to after reading the message. He kept his ears plastered to his head to muffle what was being said and kept his back to them, while he kept his head down with a paw continuously rubbing the scar on his neck.

Micheal, for his part at least couldn't stop staring at Jack's back after Evelyn told him about Jack's parents. And everything after his eyes never wavered, focusing more intensely on the spot between Jack's shoulder blades where the scars Evelyn had said should be there. Michael couldn't even begin to comprehend what Evelyn told him about Jack, so he wasn't going to even try. But it didn't mean he wouldn't get up and try and comfort the clearly distressed mammal.

Evelyn for her part didn't have to go past Jack's parents, but she saw the look in Michael's eyes, he was interested in Jack. So she decided to let her friend know what he would be getting into, a potentially broken, at the very least, damaged, mammal. Evelyn's specialty was psychology being a CIA shrink and while Jack had a very very good mask, it was still a mask. She wagered only specially trained mammals like her could even see it, no ordinary psychologist would. It gave her an idea, but she wouldn't voice it for now. She watched as Michael stood and began walking towards Jack, she smiled at that because she was just about to suggest he do the same thing.

Jack was trying to maintain his composure. His eyes were screwed shut and the lash scars and scar on his neck felt like they were on fire. All of his worst memories coming in rapid fire flashes, he was even starting to shake. He had these moments sometimes, when the emotions and memories he bottled up over loaded. It's happened about a dozen times, normally while he was by himself. One Demetri experienced and helped him through after he had come back from Japan, three David helped him with, two during the first year and one during the fifth. One thing all dozen had in common is they were NEVER in public, one was a close call but he managed to make it into his apartment building just in time and stumble into the lobby bathroom that was thankfully empty.

This time though it looked like it would be in public, he knew once the shaking started he wouldn't be able to move much. Definitely not enough to make it to the little bathroom towards the front of the plane. So while Jack had the mental capacity to do so before the memories started to completely take over and started to sink to the ground, his vision blackening. Before he could reach the ground fully though, a set of strong paws from a certain wolf went under his arms lifting him up.

He vaguely registered Micheal murmuring in his ear "I got you Jack, come on."

Michael started more or less carrying Jack towards the bathroom. As they passed Evelyn she stood, concern evident on her face, she had watched the sudden change in Jack and was immediately sure of what was happening, and she didn't know if Michael could handle it. But Michael shook his head and waved her off, continuing towards the bathroom. As they went by those agents who already weren't dozing again looked at the wolf carrying the fox shaking like a leaf with concern, several even standing as Evelyn did. But Michael waved them all back and reached the restroom, opening it and entering it. It was big enough so an elephant could use it comfortably, but since not all mammals were huge it was fitted with multiple sized fixtures.

Michael lowered Jack unto the floor leaning him against the wolf sized sink, he tried everything he could think of but Jack wouldn't budge even a little bit. He was seriously regretting not accepting Evelyn's help, he stood to do so since he assumed she would more than likely be right outside the door when a crazy idea hit him that might pull Jack out of his mind. So he walked back over to Jack, leaned down to muzzle level with him, took his face into his paws, and kissed him.

It took a minute of Michael kissing him, but the warm sensation from the kiss finally cut through the dark memories, causing instead of flashes of dark, but of light. It started with flashes of his parents before their deaths having a picnic in the park, one of the few times they had actually gone out in public. Then it went to a time where David was chasing him with a buzz cutter threatening to shave his tail after he had flipped the couch on him during a nap. The next memory was when they loaded up James Sparrowtail's remains, so he could finally be laid to rest properly. The next was when he and Demetri toasted to the first contacts Sparrowtail Industries acquired. The next was him and David reuniting at his home in Deciduous District.

The final three were of a certain vixen and her kit, the first being brief flashes of seeing them both for the first time, the second when little Nicholas gave him his red handkerchief, and the third was when he hugged Nicholas and caught Vivian slyly taking a photo with a big smile on her face.

Jack's vision slowly came back into focus, still being a bit blurry. The first thing he registered was the warm sensation of being kissed, and as the cloudy haze was lifting he saw the one who kissed him slowly leaning back from it and saw the emerald eyes of a familiar Vixen. He briefly was confused about where he was and why Vivian was just kissing him, but then he quickly realized he really didn't care besides the fact that it felt amazing and she was leaning back effectively ending the kiss. So he quickly put his right paw on the back of her neck and drew her right back in for another. He heard a small noise of surprise at his action before the kiss he now initiated was being returned, after a few seconds of the kiss she put a paw on his right cheek. It took only a moment of confusion wondering why her paw seemed bigger and why the pads felt like the rougher ones of a male for the haze to be completely lifted and for him to realize that it wasn't Vivian that he was kissing but Michael Fangsworth.

Eyes widening Jack quickly ended the kiss and lightly pushed Michael back so he was at the position he was before Jack drew him back in. Michael for his part was initially surprised when Jack suddenly drew him back in for another kiss but he quickly got over and returned it. Now he was surprised that ended just as quickly and that Jack looked more surprised then he did, but that didn't stop the dopey grin from showing up on his muzzle.

Jack saw the dopey grin and smirked himself in return, his surprise subsiding as confusion replaced it, last thing he remembered he was sinking to the ground at the back of the plane, now he was here and was just being kissed. He moved to stand and Michael quickly stood himself holding out a paw to help Jack up. Once they were both standing Jack simply gave Michael a questioning glance with a raised eyebrow for Michael to once again turn into a fireball before sputtering out,

"ah, um..Sorry its just I saw you sinking towards the ground and uh, well I caught you and kinda sorta decided that whatever was happening to you at the time you wouldn't want to have everyone see so I took you here to the bathroom and lowered you down. You were shaking like a leaf with a thousand yard stare, and I tried everything I could think of but you weren't reacting! soIstartedtopaincandIthoughtIshouldgetEvbecauseshesashrinkbutthenIrememberedEvoncesaid"

Jack raised his other eyebrow at the flurry of words Michael was saying so he interrupted, "Woah easy! Deep breath, then continue."

*Deep breath* "That she said when someone is trapped in their own head it's usually because of deep trauma associated with bad memories, and that normally triggers or good sensations can bring them out soIturnedaroundandkissedyou!"

The last part came out as a rush with a squeak at the end but Jack understood it. But that didn't mean Jack wasn't going to tease him a little, and he did so by keeping one eyebrow raised while crossing his arms.

While he was doing this he was cursing himself in his own head "Gods damnit Jack! You just couldn't keep it together could you? What happened to being more cautious? Damnit."

Of course his internal monologue didn't reflect on his expression at all, he very quickly wanted to get past this and re-establish his center, luckily thanks to his little tease Michael helped him do it by replying "Hey! You kissed me back after all!"

Jack had to concede the point obviously he did do just that, just not for the reason Michael thought, and he definitely wasn't going to tell him that, so he simply replied with a light smile, "yes, yes I did. As a thank you for, you know, getting me out of my own head."

Micheal put a paw on his shoulder and replied "and I was glad to do it, but I'm sorry I caused it. I shouldn't have asked what you two were talking about."

After that Michael looked down in shame but Jack wasn't having any of that quickly putting one of his own paws on Michael's shoulder and saying "hey don't do that. You had every right to know, especially considering your obvious interest in me. This info would have had to come forth eventually anyways, so it's better if it was done now. If any one should be apologizing to me it should be Evelyn, she didn't need to go past my parents and tell you about my scars."

At the mention of his scars Michael backed up a little, removing his paw in the process and timidly said "I want to see them."

Jack could have said no easily, but part of him didn't want to, so instead he softly replied "okay."

Jack started by taking of the red flannel over shirt, shortly before he boarded he had rolled the sleeves done so when the shirt was removed it reveled the claw scars on his left arm.

These were instantly noticed by Michael who uttered out "my gods.."

Jack simply smiled sadly and replied, "it gets worse."

Jack then proceed to slowly lift his white shirt over his head exposing all of his scars on his abdomen and chest for Michael to see who adopted a look of mild horror on his face, barely uttering out a "how?"

Jack decided he'd stick with the cover Elkerton gave him and with another sad smile replied "Simple explanation for now, one word, vigilante...And it's worse on my back."

Michael had sort of a none reaction to Jack's explanation already accepting it in his head but putting it on the back burner as a topic for later, there were more pressing matters to him at the moment as he slowly circled behind Jack to see what he wanted to see. Once he was finally behind Jack he felt like he wanted to cry seeing all of the scars there, moving closer Michael slowly traced the dozen lash scars on Jack's back while Jack looked down at the ground.

Once he was done Michael hugged Jack from behind lightly, paws around his waist with his head resting on Jack's right shoulder, after a moment he whispered right in his ear "I'm sorry this happened to you."

After that Micheal removed his head from Jack's shoulder and kissed him lightly on the cheek before putting his head back on the previous spot.

These words and actions caused a warm smile to appear on Jack's face and an idea to form in his mind that he immediately voiced. "You know, mammals say the best way to not be affected by bad memories is to have good ones replace them."

Michael immediately got the implications Jack was getting and removed his head from the spot it was resting and his right paw went off Jack's body leaving just his left paw on Jack's hip.

Smirking at Jack he replied "Oh is that so? And just what did you have in mind?"

Turning to face Michael he smirked in reply and said "the bathroom scene."

He kissed Michael after that and clothes were quickly shed after.

(Evelyn, after Micheal took Jack into the bathroom)

Evelyn had her ear on the bathroom door. After Micheal had stood to go give Jack a hug she noticed a sudden change in Jack's behavior, when she saw him start to shake that's when she really became concerned. She quickly stood when Jack began to sink to the ground and Micheal rushed to grab him, Evelyn recognized the signs that Jack was having a memory based PTSD attack. She immediately felt guilty because she knew she was the cause of it happening, telling Micheal more than she should have in Jack's presence.

As Micheal dragged/carried Jack by her she took a step forward ready to offer her expertise and aid, not to mention wasn't exactly sure he could handle this situation. But when he waved her back she respected his wish and stepped back. She watched as they went down the plane towards the restroom, several agents she knew that had medical experience also standing which Micheal also waved back. They sat down of course and began conversing amongst themselves and looking to the bathroom Micheal had taken Jack into with concern.

Once the door was shut Evelyn stood and quickly walked over to the group of agents and spoke. "He will be fine, he's just having a PTSD attack. It's my fault it's happened, but my colleague can bring him out of it no problem…I am the fox's psychiatrist so trust me. If you are concerned how this will effect his work it won't, this very rarely happens and only certain things can initiate it, things that he won't be exposed to. I was telling my colleague about him and that's what triggered it because I over stepped."

Once she was done speaking a few of the agents nodded and the rest simply considered that matter settled. This wasn't their field of expertise and they had other things to do, they new Evelyn was a top shrink so if she said it would be fine, it would be fine. Satisfied she'd belayed their concerns she swiftly walked over to the bathroom and put her ear to the door.

She heard everything that transpired on the other side. The way Micheal brought Jack out of his own head wasn't how she would have gone about it but it worked apparently. She has to put a paw to her mouth to stifle her giggling at her friends blustering. She could easily imagine Jack teasing her friend about his choice to kiss him, sadly though that meant Jack was already deflecting what had just happened.

Hearing that Jack had kissed Micheal back was a surprise for her and she couldn't quite explain it, it would be something she'd have to ask about if she actually became his shrink. She wanted to coo when Micheal had started to beat himself up about what happened and Jack immediately wasn't having any of it, quick to reassure him that she was to blame. She wasn't all that surprised when Micheal asked to see Jack's whip scars on his back, she had noticed Micheal had fixed on Jack's back after she told him about them.

Judging by Micheal's reaction, there were way more scars then just those. When Jack said he was vigilante came as a shock, she'd have never guessed that, she had guessed he would have been some sort of assassin, a dark agent…but she guessed dark agents were a myth after all. As they continued conversing though, it shifted to a direction she wasn't expecting. "Oh. Oh my. Erm, ah..I suppose I should leave them be now, wow." She took her ear off the door and quickly walked by to her seat, a blush upon her face.

(Micheal Fangsworth, twenty minutes later)

Jack and Micheal were getting re-dressed after the impromptu 'session' they had. When they had started Jack had quickly taken control over being more dominant, which Micheal hadn't minded in the slightest. But now that they were done all of those questions that had been circulating in his head were back now, and he was also questioning if what they had just done had truly been the right move all things considered.

Micheal kept glancing at Jack, he had his back to him and was busy putting his pants back on and stumbling around. It was adorable and funny, but still, those questions still nagged at him. He also had thoughts of his own to sort through on his own actions, he normally wasn't this impulsive. Maybe Eve was rubbing off on him. Maybe it was because it was the start of mating season. Or maybe it was because he always had a thing for foxes and red wolves, and this fox in front of him was smoking hot. He couldn't tell which it was.

(Jackson Hunter, same time)

For Jack's part, he had quite enjoyed what had just occurred, but sadly he was already starting to regret having done it. He felt he used Micheal to delay inevitable things and questions, it didn't feel right to do that. He was so distracted by that thought that he was having a hard time putting his pants on. He internally cursed as he stumbled around like an idiot trying to get his other leg in and could see Micheal trying not to laugh through a reflection. But he also saw the quizzical look on his face.

Finally getting his pants on and secured Jack said, "I can almost feel that expression on your face Micheal. So, what's on your mind?"

Micheal sighed and replied "it's just..we just met, and I have all of these questions about you. Some of them pretty damn important. So I…"

Jack was pretty sure he knew what Micheal was hesitant to say so he finished it for him. "Think you may have jumped the gun on this considering you know just my name and a little but of my severely fucked up history? But at the same time you wanted to make a sad mammal feel better and went along with his suggestion on just how to do that?"

Once he was finished speaking he turned to face Micheal and snagged his white shirt from the ground between them and started to put it on. Micheal nodded a couple times and said, "heh, took the words right out of my mouth…but yeah, while what just happened was amazing, I..I don't think this was the right time. I mean come on, I know basically nothing about you and the same goes for you, and I was JUST investigating you to find out if you were and agent or not. Not to mention we're on a MILITARY plane for Karma's sake! Then there's the fact that you said you were a vigilante! I don't even know how I feel about that! Not to mention what kind were you!? Anti-hero like the Dark Night or like Red Hood? And so many questions! So many!"

Micheal was panting in panic of his own and Jack swiftly walked the short distance to him and took his shoulders in his paws. "hey. Hey. Look at me. Breathe. "

Micheal looked at him and followed the commands he was being given, once Jack was sure he was claimed down he back up a little. "There you go. Look, I agree with you. While what happened was indeed amazing, and I totally just joined the mile high club with an attractive wolf, I agree this definitely wasn't the right time for it…I have so many things in my head to sort out about my life, so many conflicting thoughts…and you're right, I know basically nothing about you. Then there's the fact that I feel like I used you as a distraction from all of it, which isn't fair to you at all, and I'm sorry for it…as to my V status, that should wait at least until we're back at our seats and aren't half naked, well in your case, nice underwear by the way..didn't think you were a polka dots kinda guy."

Micheal looked down at his underwear, black boxers with pink polka dots, and back up at Jack, then lightly shoved him back. "Hey polka dots are nice! Besides I didn't think I'd be taking off my pants today and taking a, ah, erm… Anyways I'm was wearing a suit, that's more clothing than you!"

Jack couldn't help letting out a chuckle and a half grin at Michael's blush and blustering reply. Micheal lightly shoved him back again playfully. "Yeah yeah laugh at the flustered wolf. Anyways I suppose you're right about waiting about your, V status? That's a weird thing to call it, but yeah we should wait until we're back in our seats…and I should put on my pants."

Once Micheal had his pants on and secured he smiled at Jack before walking towards the door. Before he could open the door though Jack quickly grabbed his arm. "Woah there Micheal! You might wanna take a whiff of yourself. Because to me you smell like fox and sex, especially on your lower area..and you could maybe use a mint."

Micheal took a sniff of himself and leaned back, then his breath.. "Yeah, you do have a point. *sniffs* and you foxy smell like wolf and sex…don't suppose you have any MuskMask?...or a mint?"

Jack raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "What just because I'm a fox I carry MuskMask around?"

Micheal didn't fall for the tease. "Well do you?"

Jack dropped his arms and eyebrow. "You're no fun…yeah I do, and some mints. But they're in my bag. But!"

Jack turned and walked over to the wolf sized sink and started rummaging around. "But there is normally some cans of MuskMask on military planes, or so I'm told. Lots of mammals, smells, lack of bathing, etcetera. At the very least there will be some air freshener we can spray ourselves with. The mint can wait until we are back at our seats."

After a few moments Jack found a can of MuskMask under the sink. "Ah ha! *he shows the bottle* told you."

After a few minutes of spraying themselves, using up the whole bottle, they no longer smelled like sex and each other. Now back in front of the door Micheal put a paw on Jack's shoulder, prompting him to look at him. "Alright, let's get back, we have a lot to talk about."

Done! So yeah like I said, implied sex scene. As seen directly above, again sorry if you all were hoping to read the smut from me but I have no talent or will in that department.

Another disclaimer. I get that potentially some of you might not like the I guess slightly gay theme of this chapter, but I say tough shit. It's 2019 and I like to keep my story and characters progressive. Don't like it? Stop reading it or skip those parts I don't care. If I lose readers to this to bad, so sad. I can't please everyone.

Next time on A Father Figure! A new web of lies is formed and Jack's V status is dicussed

That's it! So until next time this is TheConcernedF0X signing off! See you next time!