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A 24 year old man sat in the waiting room, Arc.He sat there, and waited, he had been waiting for quite a while now.At least he had patience.He looked at a nurse, , he was almost certain she was looking at him.He stood up, and followed the nurse to Natalias door.Arc walked into the room, seeing Natalia.He walked over and stood at the side of the bed.He looked at Natalia.They were parents.He looked at the baby girl. His eyes teared up a bit, and a few tears found there way out.A smile on his face."She's perfect" he said.

SHe cradled the girl to her chest and then passed her to Arc, albeit reluctantly. "What... What should we name her?"

Arc looked down at the baby girl, trying to think of a name for her.

"You don't have to name her soon," a nurse said.
"Okay..." Natalia kissed Arc and closed her eyes.

A name came to mind."What about Melody?" He asked Natalia.It was hidden, yet obvious that he was thinking of Natalias love for music in that name.

"I love it. It's perfect!" she smiled adoringly at him.

He smiled back at Natalia."Now we're a happy family" he said.Family.Natalia, had a family now.

"I... I have a family..." she said and started crying, "I have a family!"

He smiled, and nodded.She had a family.She was part of Melody's and his's family.

She laughed and cried and clung to her family and closed her eyes.
Her career had taken off since they got Married and they had a good sum of money and Natalia had won a Grammy for being such a different individual.
"I never though my life could be so good."

"Well it is" Arc said.He looked down as Melody opened her eyes and looked up at him.

She nodded and lay back, "I love you both... So much..."

"And we love you to" he said looking back at Natalia and smiling.Arc held Melody, so Melody could see Natalia.Melody's blue eyes looked at Natalia."That's your mommy" he told Melody, even if she didn't understand.

She reached up with one hand and gently stroked te fox girl's cheek, "Hey Melody..."

The little baby girls fox ears perked up a little.The light that lit the room caught melody's attention a few seconds later.

Ten years later, Natalia sat quietly in their home, strumming her guitar idly. She had no shirt on but was in just jeans and a bra. She was looking down at the scar that ran up and down or chest, straight from her groin to the bottom of her neck.
"Arc, sweety?" she looked over at her beloved, "Did I ever tell you how I got this?" she asked. It was near the middle of the day and Melody would be at school.

He looked at her, and shook his head no.She never told him before, but he never was willing to ask.

She moved so that she was sitting next to him and she put her guitar on a rack then took his hand and pressed it against the scar, "When I was little... Maybe as old as Melody is now..." she began, "I... I stole an apple simply because I had gone two weeks without eating and I couldn't stand it anymore... So... I went to a farmers market... And I took an apple, just one. I ran away as fast as I could, eating it as I went... But then a couple human men who had seen me... They caught me and pinned me down, right there on the sidewalk... They cut me open and they took the apple bits right out of my stomach... And then they just left me there. Nobody stopped them... Nobody did anything until after they were long gone and I was just left bleeding in the streets when a cheetah woman finally came by... And she took me to the hospital and paid for my surgery... Then she disappeared and I never saw her again... It's sad because that's the closest thing to a mother I've ever had..."

He looked at her as she sat beside him.He felt her take his hand, and place it on the scar.He listened to each word carefully.Focused on hearing the story.From what he heard before from her about what humans had done to her, this topped the list.This topped what happened at the airport around 20 years ago.This topped Natalia getting made fun at school, and bullied....This story, if Arc was still 14 would have made him run to the bathroom and throw up in the middle of it.
Arc knew that when he was around 9 if people saw a starving man on the streets, they wouldn't spare a penny, they would just leave him for death.Human, or anthro.Wolf, or anything else.It didn't matter, people were just that self reserved and cheap.
"T-that was cruel..." he said quietly.He was doing good so far at not showing off a bad expression from the story."At least, at least your still alive.At least somebody was good enough to help" he said.
About 4 imagines flashed in his mind.All involving the middle of the story.Them cutting her open.The screams she must have cried.The pain.Just with the fact of imagining that, and the girl in that image being his wife, it was a little to much."Excuse me" he said, and ran out of the room.

"Arc?" she whimpered and ran after him, "Arc, are you okay?"