Clean version! Story by  automata

"Oh, thanks for the gift," I said, holding up the couriered package that had arrived earlier in the week. I hadn't wanted to open it up while he wasn't there.

"Package?" my boyfriend asked, pausing from the doodling I had been watching him do until I'd remembered about the package sitting underneath the desk where I'd put it for safe keeping and had promptly forgot about.

"Yeah, I assumed you sent it to me," I replied, holding up the package, "since I haven't ordered anything for a while."

"That's funny, I got one this morning too," he answered, disappearing from the webcam for a moment and out the door of his bedroom. I sighed, twirling the package in my hand, wishing I was there in what would eventually be - but not quite yet - our first flat together.

He returned a few seconds later, showing off the sides of his package. It looked to be about the same size as the one that I had received. It was the same style of box as well.

"Huh," I said a moment later. "Well, I guess we should open them, then," I replied, picking at the tape that was holding the flap of the box closed. Glancing up, I saw he was doing the same thing with his mysterious item's container.

The tape came off after a while - I had an advantage over him as I'd left my nails grow a bit longer - so I was the first of us to be looking at the contents of the package: a large half-folded card and a black leather dog collar with the name FIDO written on the name tag.

Grinning, I looked up and dangled the collar in front of the camera.

"Nice," I grinned, opening the collar and putting it around my neck, the golden tag dangling down. It itched a little, so while my right hand went to pick up the card, my left started to scratch at the skin on my collar.

"Cool, I got one too," he said. looking at my computer screen, I saw that he, too, had a similar collar around his own neck. He grinned, adding, "You look very handsome with it on."

I blushed as I looked down to read the card. It had a message printed in what looked to be gold leaf, while having an oddly pleasant eggshell smell:

Hello,

I hope you the present makes you and Blue very happy. Hopefully I'll be seeing the two of you together soon!

- A Mutual Friend

"It doesn't say who it's from," I noted, still vigorously scratching. Maybe it would be better to have cleaned the collar first. Who knows what kind of chemicals the collar had had on it?

A shocked gasp snapped my attention, and I glanced back at the webcam feed. "What?" I asked, my mouth starting to feel a little funny.

"Your face!" he exclaimed, a mixture of shock, fear and... arousal on his face. I looked at my face; noticing the growing fur on my hand and neck for the first time.

"Gah!" I exclaim startledly, already feeling the change spreading throughout my body. My clothes felt tighter under the strain of additional fur that was rapidly sprouting from several small growing patchs on my body. My muscles and bones began to reshape. Lengthened feet stretching my socks, ears sprouting bigger, face erupting into a canine muzzle, and even a tail's tearing of a hole in the back of my underwear; all these things were simultaneously happening to me as the form of a husky slowly but surely replaced my human body piece by piece. It didn't hurt, thankfully, and it was definitely exciting, but still a little shocking to have to suddenly deal with. Hopping onto my hands and knees, I circled around on the bed.

I felt stressed, that was true, but there was something pleasant about it, too; something calming when I realized nobody really expects much from a dog, and a dog can't do very much. It would be a nice change from the everyday stresses and hassles of being a human. The only thing that worried me was being trapped half a world away from the man I loved.

I tried to call out to him, but my mouth no longer could form the suitable words. My socks had torn open, the clawed hindpaws of a husky bursting through the admittedly already use-worn socks.

As more of me transformed into a husky shape, I looked through the camera to see my boyfriend as he underwent his own transformation. He still looked very handsome and cute, I grinned to myself, before my thoughts began to wonder at what he smelled like. I barked and whined to get his attention, trying my best to get a message of love to him before I forgot how to.

My thick furry husky tail wagged from side to side as I saw - through rapidly altering vision - my boyfriend seeing my hastily-pawed message of love. I sat on the bed forlornly watching him as best I could while appreciatively sniffing around my room before my bedroom door swung open and the smell of a delicious doggy treat tempted me into a rather comfortable-looking cage...

...to be continued, perhaps.