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The ambient sounds of chirping birds flowed through the open living room windows. The early fall afternoon sunlight cast it's light glow on the serene scene framed by the wooden viewhole of birds and squirrels scrambling around the large trees that can be seen through it. Sly stepped through his house with a spring in his step. He walked through the living room on his way to the kitchen with lemonade on his mind. It was his favorite drink and Maneki had made a fresh pitcher just this morning.

Suddenly midstep he froze in place. a pulse of pain shot through him and seemingly into the room itself. Quickly he grabbed his head and hung on as another pulse ripped through his body, followed by another, and another. Groans of pain emitted from the wolfox male as this continued without stop.

The throbbing feeling persisted as the wolfox moved his hands from his head down to his left knee. The feeling worsened as seconds ticked by. He knelt on his right knee and held his left in a desperate effort to stop the pain, but it seemed to do nothing to help. His groans of pain echoed off of the walls, barely laced with a new sound, a light beeping. The beeping sound continued to grow until it overtook everything else.

Low groans came from Sly as he opened his yellow eyes tiredly. He was on his back on his bed. He had awoken from slumber in his room. The pain from his dream was present as well coming from one of the incision points where he'd had surgery on his knee. He groaned as he reached for the pained joint before feeling another hand come to his own and stop him. He looked at the white furred hand and followed the arm back behind him. He now noticed that he wasn't lying completely flat on his back. And his head lay nestled between a couple things softer than he remembered his pillow being.

"Poor Master. You look so helpless after your surgery." came a very familiar voice behind him. The wolfox smiled at the recognition of the voice and settled back a little against the warm red collared body of one of his Pets, Maneki. She was seated behind him on his bed. Her hand left his and pulled back to join her other in pulling his upper body a little tighter against her chest. "Don't worry. We'll take good care of you." she said soothingly.

"We?" asked the male intrigued.

"Yes. Sakura went to get you some water to take your pain pill with when we heard your alarm going off." explained the calico feline next as the door to the male's room opened slowly. Sly's right eye raised with interest as a pink female figure entered the room next. It wasn't the sight of the twin tailed vixen that surprised him, but what she was wearing. It seemed his adoptive younger sister had raided her cosplay outfits and chosen a simple sexy nurse one. It was cut low in the front and showed off her cleavage easily. She wouldn't wear this to a costume party.

"Is the patient awake yet Nurse Maneki?" asked the vixen as she closed the door behind herself.

"Nurse Maneki?" asked Sly in thought as he turned to look at the red collared feline behind him. She reluctantly moved out from behind him to show that she too was wearing a sexy nurse outfit.

"Yes he is. And he's ready for us to take very good care of him. Isn't that right?" asked Maneki as Sakura placed the glass of water on the nightstand next to Sly's bed next to his pill bottle. Sly smiled at the pink furred vixen appreciatively before turning the same look to her accomplice.

"Thank you both. You don't know how much this means to me." he said solemnly as he held out his arms to them. Both females moved up to Sly and were pulled into a group hug before he planted a kiss on each of them.

"Of course Master. We love you. We want you to be as comfortable as possible." replied Maneki truthfully.

"And once you take your pain pill we can take your temperature, change your bandages, and maybe even give you a sponge bath." added Sakura with a mischievous smile.

"You'd like that wouldn't you?" asked Sly with a small chuckle. as he ruffled the younger vixen's hair softly. Her blush darkened a little as she returned a shy nod.

"To be fair I would enjoy that too." chimed in Maneki next as the pair snuggled closer to the male.

"I love you girls." said Sly as they did.

"We love you too." said both girls together in return. Maybe being laid up in recovery won't be that bad after all.

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So yeah I am in the recovery stage of my post-op. I wish I had even a fraction of what Sly has to help him recover. I only have the ability to commission artwork that makes me feel better. My writing mojo seems to be very slowly recovering. This took me about four days to write. Hopefully I'm back up and running soon.

Art by:  wrytergirl

Maneki was Originally Designed by:  MingChee and adopted by me.

Sakura was Originally Designed by shana and adopted by me.

Sly is mine.