Bears Like It Hot

Fran Caputo of the Lenape District Attorney's Office looked at the 2 men sitting in her office and then looked at their files.

Anthony "Lou" Abbott, 5'5", dark brown hair (she noted "Lou" had gone bald since the photo in the file was taken), 185 lbs. probably should up that to 230, white, cook at Captain Eddie's Resturant.

Antonio "Bud" Mendonca, 6'3", light brown now gray hair, 160 lbs. maybe 175 lbs. seeing his large beer gut. Also a cook at Captain Eddie's. Both 43, hmm, same birthday, May 29.

"Lou" had a mild juvenile record, nothing major. "Bud" had a drug possession charge against him 21 years ago but had cleaned up his act and was now a solid citizen.

"Bud" & "Lou" looking at these two, short fat round faced Abbott and tall, skinny pointy nosed Mendonca she saw how they got their nicknames.

She spoke, "Gentlemen, you're here because you're agreed to testify that on the afternoon of October 21 you heard your employer, Edward Ferrari, order his nephew, Chistopher Ferrari, to kill his business associate, Rauol Garcia. Now 4 months from now you two will have to testify in court against Edward and Christopher Ferrari; however, there may be a leak in the police department so we will have to take unusual steps to protect you. Have either of you ever heard of morphing?"


LOU: I can't believe I let you talk me into this, Bud.

Lou looked around the seedy Nevada efficency suite the witness protection agency had put them in and then looked at Bud's new body before looking at his own. Both of them had full heads of thick black hair, appeared about 25 years old and carved like Greek statues.

Bud, while still skinny at 6'2", now had the build of an Olympic diver. His previously small brown eyes were large and black. At 11:30am, he already had a dark 5 o'clock shadow.

Lou, however, had the body of a 5'11" middle-weight bodybuilder. His eyes, which were the same size and shape as Bud's, were blue.

LOU: And I can't believe that just being shot with some drug made us queer, and now we are supposed to fraternal twin brothers.

BUD: The doctor who gave us the Morphing Juice told me that the clinic that made it wasn't involved in this investigation, and she was only able to get one sample of DNA to the cops for the both of us. She said it was extra stuff made for her brother-in-law, some Greek name, Omelokronos, Omelokouskousp--I don't remember.

LOU: You know I think I saw something about this in the headlines of the National Enquirer, but I didn't believe it. How did they keep it a secret?

BUD: The doc said they were going to make an announcment in a few months, but there have been internet rumours they haven't been able to suppress.

LOU: And why did the Juice have to make us gay?

BUD: The doc said the Juice always does that, and they haven't been able to change it not that they would. She also said that any animal they morphed and tried to get offspring from never had the babies that made full term, and the fetuses were deformed. So us not being interested in women means we won't be getting anyone pregnant. She also said all the new bodies come out super-muscular. Now remember she said that we will return to our old bodies unless we have sex with each other and then the change would be permanent.

LOU: As if I'd have sex with a man.

BUD: Lou, you known me since we were 9, and you know I've never wanted to have sex with a guy, but remember the guy in swim trunks at the pool when we came in, the one who looked like a young Scotty from Star Trek?

LOU: Bud, you're such a Trekkie.

BUD: Whatever. I'm waiting for Agent Schmidt to check us in and noticing he looks like Scotty, then I notice he's taller and that he's wearing a Speedo, and then I notice I'm getting a boner.

LOU: I always said you Trekkies were half-fag.

BUD: That's Trekker to you, sir, and as if you comic book fans are any better, always looking at pictures of well-built men in spandex.

LOU: Speaking of superheroes, how about these new bodies? You know I have no hair below my neck, and I swear my dick has grown an inch, and I've got a foreskin now.

BUD: One inch! Three inches for me, but you had a horsecock before so I guess you didn't need to grow as much. Already had a foreskin, but I only lost half my bodyhair.

LOU: Well, you were a really hairy guy before, but if the Juice was supposed to make us look like twins, why do we look so different?

BUD: The doc told me told me that unless we make the full change there's still a bit of us in the DNA mix, and eventually we'd change back to our old selves unless we had some kind of fluid exchange, you know, like they talk about in AIDS prevention. The DNA the doc shot us with would take full effect, and we'd look just like that Greek guy I told you about. She said that most people choose better-looking versions of their younger selves when they Morph, that's what they call this change, but the bodies always become super-muscular. She also said the guys almost always program in a bigger dick. Did you see me going through the change when the Indian lady doc shot the Juice into our asses? I swear you looked like Mr. Fantastic or the Hulk only red instead of green.

LOU: Nah, she made me take my contacts out first so I couldn't see anything till the end. Heard both of us yelling, and I think you yelled louder than me. Next thing I know I'm seeing everything clearly with no lens or glasses, and I saw you shrinking and turning into fucking Greg Louganis with body hair.

2 weeks pass and the guys start getting cabin fever.

BUD: What you want to do tonight, rent some new movies?

LOU: No, I'm sick and tried of hanging around this place every night, and we can't go into Vegas again until our bodyguard cop gets back from his wife having a kid. Besides, it's getting too hot to wear my fat clothes.

BUD: You heard what the cop said about keeping a low profile. Hard enough when you consider that all the other guys on the bus going to this place from Vegas were headed to the local whorehouses. I heard they call this area "Hooker Flats".

LOU: You know that gym the agent let us join just so we'd have something to do? All the women there are pros from the legal brothels, and all the guys are from the retirement homes around here. We're the only guys there under 60. The working girls are calling us the gay guys from the Suites.

BUD: Well, the doc was right about us being gay now because the girls do nothing for me, and there's this old guy looks like Alfred Hitchcock with a bad wig who keeps hitting on me, and I'm so horny I'm considering sleeping with him.

LOU: Remember, if the two of us have sex, we'll be gay for keeps.

BUD: Might almost be worth it with these new bodies. I've been eating like a pig since we got here, and I haven't gained an inch around my gut.

LOU: Yeah, but you've gained at least 3 inches on your chest, and your arms and legs are bigger. I've been eating just as much as you and haven't gained any weight even with us going to the gym everyday. Considering what we've been eating, we should look like Sumo wrestlers.

BUD: It's having these new bodies; they burn everything up or turn it to muscle. You know I always felt bored when I went to the gym before, but now I feel so good after working out I can't wait to go back.

LOU: You've noticed we can't hold our booze anymore? With my old body, I could drink three shots and not feel it. Now I drink only half a can of beer, and I'm totally buzzed.

BUD: Me too, but Lou, I saw you signed yesterday with your real name at the gym, but you used an erasable pen so I changed it to "Luis Escobar" before the desk girl noticed.

LOU: These names they gave us, Manuel and Luis Escobar, we sound like Mexicans.

BUD: Hey, my aunt's brother-in-law is named Manny Escobar, and he's Portuguese like me.

LOU: Yeah, but what do I do when someone tries speaking Spanish to me. You know I flunked Spanish.

BUD: Just tell him you were born in Jersey and never picked the language. It drives my mom crazy when she talks to my brother in Portuguese, and he can't understand half the words she's saying.

LOU: Couple of guys moved into the rooms on the other side of the building so be careful what you say. A black guy and a white guy; both big like football players. The white guy has a shaved head.

Next day, Bud and Lou are going into the gym locker room, and a 6' tall white man comes out looks at Bud and says "Honey? Oh I'm sorry I thought you were someone else."

Bud and Lou go out on to the gym floor and sees the bald man working out with a dark skinned black man with a short afro. Both men are apparently in their 50s and have large muscular bodies. Bud remembers seeing a poster for a Masters bodybuilding show and wonders if they were contestants. Lou recognizes them as the men from the next suite. Both guys notice them checking Bud and Lou out.

The guys return to their rooms and start doing laundry.

LOU: Anything else you'd like washed?

BUD: Yeah, the shirt off my back. Here ya go.

LOU: Holy shit! Your workouts are paying off. You must have gained 4 more inches on your chest alone. You remember when I said you looked like a swimmer? Now you look like a WWE wrestler.

BUD: It's the Juice again. All that food I've been eating is turning into muscle. You know I never liked fish before; now I'm eating tuna like a hungry cat. And catsup, which I used to like, tastes terrible.

LOU: You too? I thought the bottle had gone sour, but when I bought a fresh one at the store, it tasted just as bad so I thought the store had just gotten a bad batch. By the way, Bud, look at your chest. Don't you get any sun?

Bud's body was milk white except for his head, hands and upper forearms, which were dark brown.

BUD: Old habits. Remember my skin cancer 8 years ago?

LOU: Why is it we've been living in the same room for two weeks in this heat that this is the first time I've seen you without a shirt?

BUD: Didn't want to tease you. I figured if I look half as good to you as you do to me, you'd probably jump me.

LOU: I can restrain myself, but here we are two gay guys who like and want each other, and we can't do anything about it.

BUD: Lou, I've been thinking the doc when she gave us these shots said the changes become permanent when a fluid exchange like sex or a blood transfusion occurs between two Morphs. It should be safe for us to have sex with regular gay guys.

LOU: Hey, I just noticed the tattoo on your back is still there. I lost all my tats in the Morph.

BUD: Guess the Juice effects people differently. How does it look?

LOU: Faded, like it's 30 years old, but still looks a broken heart.

BUD: It's 17 years old. I got it when my ex, Nat, married the Nerd.

LOU: Got an e-mail from my mom. Natalie is pregnant again with kid number, what is it this time, three?

BUD: Four, not counting my daughter, Tony. There's Ben Jr., the twins, now this kid. You know I call Nat's husband, Ben, "the Nerd," but I must admit he's been a great father to Tony.

LOU: Remember when I told you not to name your kid Tony? Half the guys in school were Tonys, that's why we all had nicknames.

BUD: What about your first kid?

LOU: Antonia is not same as Tony.

BUD: I remember when Eddie Ferrari first called us "Bud" and "Lou" in the 3rd Grade after I moved from East Providence.

LOU: It was better than my old nickname, "Hey Ab-batt".

BUD: Remember when Janet found out we had the same birthday and said that since we were Gemini we always be together?

LOU: I miss Janet.

BUD: Me too, Lou, she was the best.

LOU: Remember those cheap Zodiac necklaces she gave us for Christmas, the ones with the II symbol?

BUD: Then Nick said that if we wore matching necklaces that meant we engaged and that we wanted to suck each other off.

LOU: Guess that jerk is right now.

BUD: Funny how we all stayed in the neighborhood. Eddie getting my sister pregnant, me married to Nat, how she related to you, again?

LOU: My mom's sister is married to her mom's brother. Now your nephew, Eddie, is going to marry my kid, Tony. You know if Eddie wasn't pressuring Tony to go into the business, I never would have gone to the cops. You know what Eddie will do to us if he found out.

BUD: I thought Eddie was safe since she was with my girl, but we didn't figure on him wanting to find someone smart to watch Chris's back because he was such a dumb thug.

LOU: You didn't have to go through this with me, you know.

BUD: You said it yourself, and the cops agreed that Eddie wouldn't suspect you of ratting on him if we both went off together. He'd just think we ran off to Florida again and come back when we run out of money. Eddie's aunt, Juliet Lavatola, told my mom and me that brains in Eddie's family skip a generation. Eddie's grandfather, Carmine, who started the business was real smart. His son, Eddie Sr. wasn't too bright but made friends easily. Carmine lived long enough to put the Eddie we know in charge. Now Eddie caught the mumps when he was four and can't have any more kids. Aunt Juliet says Eddie's so-called nephew, Chris, is his grandpa, Eddie Sr. without the charm.

BUD: I thought Chris was Captain Eddie's kid.

LOU: Captain Eddie, Captain of the Good Ship Lollypop. Nah, Eddie's father liked guys and when Eddie got this black girl pregnant when he was sixteen. Eddie's dad brought the kid, Chris, in the house and told people he was his kid to look more straight.

BUD: Captain Eddie was gay? Andt how about Eddie's sister, Sophia, and his brother, Father Carmine?

LOU: Arranged marriage. Aunt Juliet says Eddie Sr. never touched her sister after the third kid which is one of the reasons she hated Eddie Sr. and she don't like Eddie Jr. much either. Aunt Juliet still considers us family despite the divorce, and she's my mom's best friend.

BUD: Yeah, Juliet likes to talk, and your mom likes to listen so they're a prefect match. But you said Chris's mom was black. Didn't he once beat up a girl for telling him he had a dick like a black man.

LOU: He doesn't want anyone to know to know but most people do. Eddie's the same way about his father being gay. Eddie got a temper but he's smart enough not to hit anybody when anyone else is looking. Chris is a nasty stupid piece of work who once hit a cop in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. When he heard Tony was going into law school he decides he can take over for Goldman when he graduates.

BUD: Moe Goldman is still working.

LOU: Yeah, 72 and as sharp as a razor, but he won't live forever. Anywa, to change the subject, the hotel manager says there's a convention booked here the first week of August, and we're paid up till September. He wants to know if we'll move out, take a refund plus a bonus.

BUD: We'd have to talk to the cops first. You heard from Schmidt on the computer yet?

LOU: Yeah, his wife had an 8 and a half pound girl, and his backup is still out with the flu, and they still don't want to bring anyone else in.

BUD: How can they afford all this? The rooms for 4 months, the computer with the special line which makes it look like we're in Florida, the food and clothes?

LOU: The new Mayor really wants to nail Eddie. He figures if he can get Tony, he can play that into the Governor's Mansion. They're sending the money through an account in the Cayman Islands, and it looks like plain embezzlement to anybody who checks. Business as usual for Lenape.

BUD: Speaking of money, we're getting low on petty cash. Schmidt set up accounts at the supermarket and the gym so they're taken care of, but I've been growing, and the clothes they gave don't fit, and your clothes are too large.

LOU: They sell clothes at the gym maybe we can use the account there.

Next Day.

LOU: The manager said we can use our account to buy clothes.

BUD: But have you seen them? They're all this heavy metal shit--zebra and tiger stripes, leopard spots, spandex pants--and anything I'd want to wear is way too large.

LOU: It's their slow season, and they restock next month. Also, with a 35" waist, you're real skinny by local standards. It's just for a couple of weeks, and, look, they got cute little gold Speedos for you to wear around the pool.

BUD: I didn't think anybody wore Speedos anymore. Even the swimmers on the Olympics wear these full length spandex pants.

LOU: They're suits for guys in bodybuilding contests.

Later.

LOU: Come on out Bud, you promised. I got my suit on.

BUD: OK, hey! Your suit is bigger than mine.

LOU: Aw, don't you look cute. I couldn't fit into any of the smaller suits that had a squarecut. But what did that salesgirl mean when she said it showed off my bubble butt. Does that mean I got a fat ass?

BUD: No, you know J-Lo and those black ckicks on MTV, how they dress to show their cushy butts? I think that means the same thing only on a guy.

LOU: Oh, you mean she thought it looked good. What do you think?

Lou turned around, bent over and stuck out his ass. He's wearing what looked to Bud like a dark purple 1950s-style form-fitting bathing suit that covered his lower waist and all his hips.

Bud had known that Lou had a great body now but seeing bent over in front of him wearing a tight swimsuit, he only now realized what an incredible body it was. Looking at Lou from behind, Bud was reminded of an image from an internet site Lou had shown him. The site included drawing of gay versions of cartoon characters, and Bud thought Lou looked like Bluto who had been wearing a black swimsuit similar to the one Lou was wearing.

Bud thought to himself, "Yeah, massive shoulders, extrememly wide back, waist wider than mine but looks smaller compared to the rest of the body."

Bud noted Lou's baseball-sized calves, huge thighs and that ass. Almost a prefect circle, he mused.

BUD: I see why they call them bubble butts. The way they stick out so round, they look like they'd burst if you pricked them with a ...

RIP!!!

BUD: What the hell! The seam in my suit just burst!

LOU: Your dick, manl it's like the Incredible Hulk. "DON'T MAKE MY DICK ANGRY,YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE IT WHEN IT'S ANGRY."

It was so silly Bud started laughing too. As they calmed down, Bud put his hand on Lou's shoulder to steady himself, and they both looked at each other and Lou kissed Bud, hard, then he pressed Bud against the wall and started rubbing against him faster and faster. Bud pulled down Lou's suit and touched Lou's large erect cock and Lou came all over Bud's stomach and chest.

LOU: Quick, get in the shower now and wash it off as fast as you can.

After both men had showered. "Good thing all the rooms in this place have two bathrooms." Lou thought.

BUD: God, we were all over each other like a pair of drunk teenagers. If you hadn't shot off like you did it would have gone down my throat.

LOU: These bodies are only a month old and in prefect health, our brains aren't used to their hormones, yet, like young teenagers, I guess. Also I haven't had sex since I broke with Mary I don't usually get off this fast.

BUD: You broke up with Mary over a year ago. You havn't had sex in all this time.

LOU: It was a bad breakup. Now since you didn't Morph again I assuming that none of my sperm got into you so you should be safe.

BUD: How do you know so much about safe sex and hormones too?

LOU: I put four teenagers through high school in six years. Jane and I read everything we could about sex education, birth contol, and STDS. We got to be more careful and I don't think jerking off alone is going to cut it. We may be able to get by with safe sex if this only lasts another month.

BUD: Excuse me four kids in six years and I know Janet was two months pregnant at the wedding.

LOU: Janet and I were sleeping together for four years before she got pregnant with Antonia.

BUD: You and Janet started at 15! But you told me once that Janet got pregnant when you two lost your viginity together.

LOU: Our technical virginity and you know Billy was adopted.

BUD: And the twins, Fred and Francesca?

LOU: You remember the two weddings of your Aunt Laura's kids, Connie and Sam.

BUD: Yeah, I met Nat at Connie's wedding.

LOU: Connie's husband, Karl, his family wanted to serve this fancy German wine at the wedding, six years later Karl gives Sam a case of the same wine to serve at his wedding. Stuff a lot stonger than you'd think and you know how I act without thinking when I'm drunk. Janet and I used to joke it was a good thing your Aunt Laura only had two kids. Next morning at the pool. Nice of that salesgirl to exchange your Speedo for those triathlete pants.

BUD: Yeah but it feel weird like I'm not wearing anything sometimes, are you sure you're not suppose to wear a jock with these things.

LOU: No remember the salegirl said there's a bit of padding in the suit and it acts like a jock. Why you choose the Canadian pattern? Being Portuguese I thought you'd choose Brazilian.

BUD: First Portugal and Brazil are two separate countries with the same language. Second, I figured of the choices the red and white would be cooler in this heat. Third, you saw that suit navy blue and kelly green, I don't think so.

LOU: Just because you're gay now doesn't mean you know anything about clothes.

BUD: PAH-LEZZE! I was straight not color-blind. And who are you to talk Mr. I havn't wore anything but black in the last ten years.

LOU: I happen to like the one color look and black is the easiest to find, besides black jeans just look cooler than blue jeans.

Just then the two men from the next room walk past going to the parking lot and the're checking out Bud and Lou again this time in their suits. Lou feels their stares and blushes causing the white man to smile. Lou thinks "Handsome face to go with that great body. Looks Italian too much character in his face to be a leading man movie star. Type that usually plays the star's boss, or father, or "daddy'".

LOU: You really liked the way the bald guy looked at you at the pool earlier.

BUD: What are you talking about?

LOU: Oh please, you were looking at him the same way looked at Mrs. Vyas, the French teacher in Ninth Grade.

BUD: A lot of guys had crushes on Mrs. Vyas, you remember what she looked like, that hair, those eyes, those boobs.

LOU: You were so crazy about her you took both French and Spanish in High School. How did you manage that?

BUD: I told my parents I was trying for a scholarship but you had be able to speak three languages.

LOU: How did you explain when you didn't get the scholarship?

BUD: I told them my other grades were too low, besides, French and Spanish were the only classes I always got A's in and I'm the only one of mom's kids who can speak flunent Portuguese.

LOU: And I know that you want to fuck the bald guy because he looks like Capt. Picard, Trekkie.

BUD: He doesn't look at all like Patrick Stewart and knock off the Trekkie bit.

LOU: I saw you last night jerking off to Stewart in 'Safe House'.

BUD: Why you, you, son of a bitch, just like when we were kids get something on somebody then save it for ammunition.

LOU: And that's not even Stewart in the shower sceen they used a body double.

BUD: And how do you know that?

LOU: Had to see what you were beating off to, more ammunition, you know.

BUD: Another reason for us no to have sex together. We know each other too well. You can't be fuck buddies with someone like that you gotta marry her or him in this case.

LOU: Let's face it we know each other better than our wives did.

BUD: You know you are the only guy I've ever seen with a hard on in person, the old you I mean, and you realize we have had sex together before remember "the Cuban Sandwich".

LOU: Goddamm! You know that the first time I ever had sex with anybody but Janet.

BUD: My first and only threesome, I think I might have been been drunker than you were, surprised I could get it up I was that drunk

LOU: It helped me get over my depression when Janet died.

BUD: Well that's what friends are for.

LOU: Straight friends don't have sex with each other.

BUD: It all depends on how drunk they are. Remember the mating call of the Long Island closet case: "Oh, I am so drunk."

LOU: And of course the mating call of the 50 year old Long Island closet case: "I said 'Oh, I am so drunk.' "''

BUD: At least if do marry each other we'll get each others jokes. A few hours later Bud asks Lou. "How does this safe sex work anyway."

LOU: Those guys did make you horny.

BUD: Please, no I-told-you-so's, for whatever reason Iam so horny I got to do something or I'll rape you in your sleep or give in to "Hitch" next time we go to the gym and have sex in the gym shower. This is worse than high school, I got laid in high school.

LOU: Who? Tell me names.

BUD: I can't do that you still know some of them.

LOU: There was more than one, Bud, you stud.

BUD: We can't all meet the love of our life at the age of three like you did and only sleep with one person until she died.

LOU: The reason I started dating Janet when I was twelve was because you told me if I didn't ask her out you would.

BUD: I only told that because I could tell you were crazy about her but couldn't decide to date her or keep being her best friend, besides I like her myself but I couldn't see asking her until you two got each other out of your systems, obviously you never did.

LOU: Okay, okay, but I still want names, I want to see if I guessed right.

BUD: Only because I want to get back at you for the "Safe House" gag. I want the names of five

LOU: The Rock, Larry the Cable Guy, Cedric The Entertainer, Lou Ferrigno, and Danny DeVito.

BUD: Come on, no joke answers, Danny DeVito?

LOU: I'm serious I like big guys I found when I was looking for gay porn sites it's the bear sites and the big bodybuilders that turn me on.

BUD: But, Danny DeVito?

LOU: It's the broad shoulders and barrel chest and he looks like he'd be fun in bed. Okay, I spilled, now name names.

BUD: These guys are all actors. I want the name of someone we've met in person who makes you hot.

LOU: Your kid's gym teacher, Jim Novak.

BUD: Jim Novak with the broken nose, cauliflower ears, and missing teeth. Ex-hockey player, Jim Novak. You're not into good looking guys, then.

LOU: I like you.

BUD: That's only because I'm here, I got an idea I'll stand over here and you tell me what you like about my body.

LOU: Hey, put your clothes back on or you'll be the one who get raped, you fucking tease.

BUD: We both agreed we proably shouldn't touch each other so let's do it like phone sex without the phone. You take your clothes off and beat off looking at each other.

LOU: We are going to be straight again in a month will be able to look at each other then.

BUD: We got to do something and remember, "What happens in Vegas..."

LOU: This isn't Vegas.

BUD: You know nobody talks about what they did in Hooker Flats.

LOU: Okay, I'll start. Your mouth, when Iook at it I want to kiss you again like I did before. I want to shove my tongue down your throat so deep it will look like you got a tail. And I like the way your hairy skin felt against my smooth skin and I was surprised how soft it felt I figured I'd be all itchy afterwards but it felt like I was touching a warm blanket. And there's your smell I love the way you smell after you get all hot from the gym and I love the clean way you smell after you take a shower. BUD: Smells turn you on too. I think it must be pheromones. I never liked the way guys smelled before the morph, I wasn't crazy about women's smells either. I wonder if all gay guys and straight guys, too, are affected by smells like that but since the're born with it they don't notice it and we only notice it because we've gone from straight to gay. I'm going to keep talking, Lou, I've tasted my own cum for the first time this week. I've been jerking off since I was ten and I never even thought of doing that. If somebody told me about tasting their own cum I would have said that was just plain gross. I want to taste your sperm, Lou, get down on my knees and suck your cock until it's dry, then I want to lick you all over your face and neck and shoulder and back. When I get down to you butt I want to lick it slowly at first then faster and faster and fuck in the butt with my tounge and then I'll shove something else up that wide hard body of yours and fuck you until you beg me to stop and then fuck you some more. LOU: Bud, you're good at this, I can't believe jerking off feels so much better with a foreskin. BUD: Stroke that moosecock. Damm, you smell so good it's all I can do not to come over there.

Both men stopped talking as they watch each other masturbating. First Lou orgasms almost hitting Bud with his sperm all the way across the room, then Bud arching his back shoots straight up . A few minutes later as they recover Lou says, "Goddammit Bud, you got it on the celling, I'm not cleaning that up."

Next morning Lou asks Bud, "What you planning for dinner tonight?"

BUD: Since I seem to like fish now I thought I'd try my mom's recipe for Codfish Fritters.

LOU: But it'll stink up the whole apartment and don't you have to soak bacalhau overnight to get the salt out.

BUD: Mom used to soak and drain about five times to get the salt out but since Doctor Shah said therse first Morph bodies need more salt than our old ones I figure twice is enough. As for the smell we can fry them outside on the grill.

LOU: You're eating a lot of stuff you wouldn't touch before.

BUD: I'm always hungry like when I was a teenager after I ate all my food I started eating your's, only thew stuff that smelled good to me. Next thing I know I'm eating fish, pickles, carrots, prunes all the stuff I never liked and I can drink milk without getting the runs.

LOU: How did a picky eater like you become a cook?

BUD: I took the job at Captain Eddie's after the dom com I worked for went belly up and Eddie only hired because my niece, Eddie, asked him. The only reason I learned how to cook was to make food I liked, I'm not a chef like you.

LOU: You're too hard on yourself you do fruit and vegetables better than me and you're a better baker.

BUD: That's only because I was trying to become a vegetarian fifteen years ago. I couldn't find a better paying job than Captain Eddie's you could get a chef's job anyplace if you tried.

LOU: Yeah, but after Janet died I went into my depression and lost the restarant now I don't want to work under anybody else anymore, at least at Captain Eddie's I could use my own recipes. What else was I going to do second shift at Charlie Brown's or IHOP, I'm too old for that shit. Later in the late afternoon the guys are frying at the grill when the two men from next door come by and the white man asks "Are those codfish cakes I smell?"

BUD: Yes, would you like some.

JOHN: Thank you, yes. I'm John Amici. This is my partner, Beck Darden.

Beck says "Hello" in a deep base voice that makes Lou weak in the knees. John and Beck introduce themselves as webdesigners who are attending a trade show in Vegas.

LOU: Why are staying out here there must be plenty of places in Las Vegas available.

BECK: John and I are attending a convention at this place in five weeks and a friend of ours asked us to check it out to see if the management was cleaning things up like he promised.

LOU: The manager said something about that because we're paid through September. Bud here is going through a messy divorce and he needs to establish residency in Nevada to keep some local property. I'm just here for moral support. Lou hoped he remebered the details of his cover story right.

JOHN: If you want to stay during the convention I'n sure we'll make you feel welcome.

BUD: What kind of convention is it?

JOHN: We're a social group called "The Gunderson Bears".

LOU: Isn't Gunderson the nude beach at Sandy Hook?

JOHN: Yes, we're not an official group but a bunch of us who hang around the Beach wanted to get away together and we needed a name to get the Convention Rate.

LOU: This is a gay group, right.

JOHN: I hope you aren't offended but I assumed you were a gay couple by the way you looked at us.

BUD: Well yes we are gay but were not a couple, my brother and I havn't been around any social groups before.

JOHN: Two good looking men like you I'm surprised, and brothers from the way you talk I would have guessed you were an old married couple.

JOHN: When I first saw you, Lou, I thought you looked like someone I know are you Mexican from Texas.

BUD: No, we're Portuguese from New Jersey.

JOHN: Really, Beck and I live in Plainfield

LOU: Is everybody here from Jersey, that's weird.

JOHN: I originally from Massachusettes but after I met Beck I moved in him and I help him manage a rental property he inherited.

BECK: We're leaving tonight on the overnight to Newark and we got to go pack and get ready for our flight.

JOHN: Sorry to be leaving so soon but maybe we'll see you at the convention.

BUD: I don't think so but thank you for the invititation. After they left Bud says "Well we're not sleeping with those guys and I saw you giving the black guy the eye when you thought no one was looking."

LOU: I told you, I like big men and hey you never told me the girls you slept with in high school.

BUD: And I'm not goiing to to, telling you my secrets is one thing, bringing other people after all these years is another.

LOU: Not even if I guess one of them was Alice O'Connor.

BUD: Too easy, half the school slept with Alice can you believe she's a nun now.

Later after Bud and Lou go to bed Lou wakes up finds the air conditioner off, the lights not working, and sees Bud in the main room with a flashlight.

LOU: Power failure? Must be eighty degrees in here.

BUD: Yes, I see some lights by the pool maybe it's the manager with emergency instructions. When the guys go to the pool they find John and Beck sitting there drinking screwdrivers and stark naked.

BECK: Hello, there.

LOU: I thought you guys would have been gone by now.

BECK: We were about to leave when the power went out and phoned the airport, our flight cancelled. The airline was overbooked so they offer us a flight three days from now and they pay our hotel bill too.

JOHN: We're the only other guests here tonight so for tonight only until the August convention this pool is clothing optional, care for a drink?

Bud and Lou know their new bodies have a low tolerance for booze but they decide one drink should be okay, the're not driving.

Now if Bud and Lou's bodies had not particularally vunerable to vodka this story might not have finished like it did but they were and it did. Bud and Lou sipped their drinks and were feeling pleasantly buzzed when John mentioned that their room had an emergency generator and they were welcome to stay in the guest room.

As they went into John and Beck's suite Lou said, "Your rooms are much larger and nicer than ours."

JOHN: You got one of the economy rooms and we sprang for a deluxe suite. This place was built to be a legal whorehouse which is why they all have two bathrooms, but the backers got caught for back taxes and the state tried to recoup by converting this place to a retirement home but there was too much competion so they sold it for cheap to one of the local brothels with the stipulation they could not use it as a whorehouse. The owners set it up as a hotel for their johns. Does some business in the winter but nothing between May and October that's why we were able to get it no questions asked for the August party.

Beck shows Lou the kitchen while Bud and John go into the bedroom for sheets.

Bud goes into the main bedrom and sees a red box on the nightstand picking it up he reads, TEX'S CUSTOM-MADE CONDOMS "Cause one size does not fit all" Made for A. BECKFORD DARDEN.

"See you found the anniversy present my friend, Honey, got Beck and me a couple of weeks ago. Have a box here made for me, Giovanni Amici, havn't used any yet shame to waste them."

John starts taking off Bud's clothes, lay him down on the bed, and hands him a condom to slip on his cock.

Lou thinks, "I want to do this he's really good looking, that face, that body, that oh my god, I got to be drunk, it can't be that large."

Lou asks for another drink first and starts to think, "This is going to hurt, well most of the girls I've known told me they didn't enjoy it the first time. I'm already thinking about the next time! Come on Bud if you don't do this now you'll always wonder what you missed."

John thinks, "The old ask-for-a-drink-stall-for-time bit guess he's a bit scared of the old Monster, kid looks scared, eager but scared. Oh, he's trying to put the rubber on my dick but his hand is shaking too much, better do it myself."

John takes the condom and says, "Are you sure you want to do this?" Bud mumbles, "Yes."

John slips on the condom, put some lube in Bud's ass and enters Bud slowly.

Bud thinks, "This doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would, no it's starting to hurt, ouch, pain, ripping me apart."

Now the first six inches didn't hurt much, it was the next six and the two after that. John looks down at the young man squirming below him and thinks, "I never get tired of that, thanks, Honey, for the extra four inches."

Meanwhile.

Beck hears Bud's screams and thinks, "Sounds like Johnny's having fun, my boy has better manners, he don't talk with his mouth full."

Lou had discovered he still acted implusivly when he was drunk. While crouching to inspect hte guest bed he found himself face to crotch with Beck's giantic dick and without a thought stated sucking.

Beck thinks, "I know I'm safe because John and I had HIV tests last month but tommorow morning this boy getting a lecture on safe sex, ber a shame for a fine boy like this to do something stupid and regret it."

Beck was surprised that Lou could deep throat him, wouldn't be the first time a boy's eyes were bigger than his 'stomach' as his father used to say. He thought, "Not coming up for air, yet, maybe John was right."

Lou began playing with Beck's ass like he remembered his wife doing and had liked, sucking slower, then faster, then slower,then fast again unti Beck shot a load down his throat.Beck

Beck said after he caught his breath, "Young man, you ever heard of the Beeman Clinic."

Before Lou could answer they heard John shout, "Beck come here quick, he's morphing." Beck ran over with Lou following

A few minutes before Bud started to enjoy John's constant pounding and his dick started to get hard. John grabbed the base of Bud's cock and said,"Not yet, kid, I want this to last."

Lou was startled by John's stopping him from but there nothing he could do while he was under the larger and more powerful man.

That was when he would later say "Things got weird." Bud couldn't really explain what he felt inside his butt but he didn't feel it was something he was supposed to be feeling. It felt good, really good but strange. As for John as he felt the condon being pulled off his cock inside Bud excaimed," You sucked my cock with your ass just like ..."

Then Bud started to feel the same pain he had felt before when he had first Morped and John's eyes opened in surprise and recognition.

Beck run into the room followed by Lou who said', "That's not supposed to happen for another month." And then Lou also began to change. Beck and John cleared a space on the floor near Bud for and watched them both first expand and then contract. Lou had been pajama bottoms and with the expansions they brust to sheards and left him naked.

BECK: "They both look like Honey."

JOHN: "I told you so."

Bud and Lou recovered almost at the same time.

LOU: "Are we back to normal?"

BECK: You better see for yourself.

Lou looked at Bud taking him all in and focusing on his mouth. When before he had looked at Bud's mouth he had wanted to kiss it, now when he looked at Bud's mouth he wanted it around his cock. Bud looked at Lou and thought, "Now he reaaly looks like Bluto."

While his cheekbones were not that wide and his chin was not that broad he could see how a cartoonist could exaggerate these features to resemble Bluto. The neck was slightly longer than average and the head slightly larger, but they looked slender and smaller compared the huge upper body. The waist which he estimate between thirty-eight and forty-four inches looked small between the massive chest and the tree trunk legs. The mouth was wide and thick and he thought the face looked Hispanic. Lou's face was covered with a dark shadow of hair which Bud could see would grow into a thick beard. He felt his own face and was surprised it felt smooth. Bud looked down at his body and then at Lou's body and asked, "Why does Lou have body hair and I don't?"

Lou had a fair amount of hair on his chest, back, face, and legs which looked thicker because the hair was so dark.

Bud however had no hair on his face, a thick head of straight black hair and sparse hair around his pubes and armpits.

BECK: "Let's calm down boys, I think some of my clothes might fit you. Now let's sit and find out what happened here tonight."

John and Beck revealed that they too were Morphs and had met in the early procure testing four years earlier.

JOHN: We wanted to be Morph Buddies, that's what they call people who help each other go to final stage Morph.

BECK: I thought the white hair made him look classy,boy was I wrong. But the doctors at the time insisted on using blood transfusions to make the final change.

JOHN: The people at the Beeman Clinic later found that people get physical traits from their first sex partners after the Morph, particularly if their partner was also a first-stage Morph.

LOU: Is that why I got a beard and Bud doesn't. We got it from you two.

BECK: I don't think so you don't look at all like I do now or like I looked before. I always thought my original face looked like Lionel Ritche.

BUD: Dr. Shah told me Morphers usually got handsome versions of their younger selves.

BECK: They hadn't "fine tuned' the process yet when I got it, that's why skin is darker and my features more African. John looks a lot like he did at fifty but he didn't have that body and he was naturally bald.

JOHN: I shave me head because Beck likes me like that.

Beck smiles like he knows something.

BUD: Lou take off your shirt and come here, please.

Bud first looks at of Lou's back and at the top of his head.

BUD: I had a hunch, Bud you have a birthmark your left shoulderblade and the hair around the crown of your head is slightly thinner than the rest of your hair like mine was and like my kid, Tony's is.

LOU: But we never had full sex together only safe sex.

JOHN: I used to be a science teacher twenty years ago, so I ask a lot of questions when I go back to the clinic for my regular check-ups, the doctors want to study the long term effects of Morphing. One of the things I learned is what we call Morphing Juice uses a virsus to tranmit the new genetic code to the injected subject and the stuff is containgous until the final stage. Even prolonged skin contact could cause DNA exchange. Bud exclaims, "Oh my god!" and tells John and Beck abouy the dry humping incident.

BUD: But I was the one who got covered in sperm not Lou how come Lou got my hair and not the other way around, I was hairy in the first stage not Lou, Lou had no hair on his body then.

JOHN: You said you showered immediately after and before Lou kissed you, that's proably when the exchange took place.

BUD: Lou I was bleeding a bit because you kissed me so hard didn't pay attention because it healed within an hour, could that be the exchange Lou getting a bit of my blood in his mouth.

JOHN: Could be.

BUD: Does this mean Lou or maybe the both of us might of morphed anyway.

JOHN: Not necessarily, until one goes through the final stage, the body treats the DNA from the Morphing Juice like an infection and tries to reject the alien DNA and you would have returned to your original form without the "booster shots" the second dose of Morphed DNA provides. I believe when you two kissed, Lou was infected by Bud's DNA enough to have the final effect, if you had avoided final stage Lou's system might have fought off the secondary infection. There's still a lot of stuff they don't know like where does the extra mass come from. Never been able to explain that.

As the sun rises the four men continue talking, and John talks about a celebrity he met who went through Morphing.

LOU: But isn't he in his eighties and married?

JOHN: One of the main reasons to go through Morphing is to be young again. I'm seventy-four and Beck's eighty-one. We both look like we're in our fifties but inside we have the bodies of thirty year olds. His wife was the reason they both went through Morphing. She was already on the list to go through temporary Morphing so she could have an operation. Had a stroke and underwent emergency Morphing with male DNA being the only strain on hand, afterward it was determined she now he proably would not survive chaging back to normal. Somone, a fan of the husband, snuck the husband a sample of Morphing Juice, and they had sex before the staff could stop them. He's and his spouse, I guess that's the right word, are still together say he looks like Tony Stark with Superman's body and his mate looks like Conan the Barbarian. Some people suspected Honey might have been the one who gave them the Juice but never could prove it.

LOU: This guy, Honey, is that his real name, you said we look like him now, Dr. Shah said the sample came from her brother-in-law.

JOHN: Must be Ramesh's sister or sister-in-law, it's a large family. Honey real name is Dionisio Omelissokomos, his family calls him Dion. Told me he got the nickname Honey because his last name means beekeeper in Greek and he worked at the Beeman Clinic after he was fired he told me it was because when it was discovered that if two Morphers had sex together it made the Change permanent he compared Morphers' sperm to royal jelly that turns worker bees into "big old queens" that totally pissed off the higher-ups. Honey was a genetic engineer and computer programmer who helped write the program that detemines a Morpher's final appearance. We met when the team was helping us decide our final look and we decided we'd be more comfortable as middle-aged men instead of tweny-five year olds like most Morphers. It's only cosmetic, the gray hair and wrinkles, inside were around the same age as you. Honey was fired after his lover, Ramesh, got in a car accident and had a stroke, they were afraid there might be brain damage. Honey had been working on a Juice strain to use on himself someday when it might be legal, grabbed that and a sample from the lab and injected himself and Ramesh. After that he got fired. I think his boss at the clinic, nasty homophobic son-of-a-bitch was out to get him. Honey and some others told me that he hadn't wanted the Juice drug tested on humans until they worker out the "design flaw" that turned all the users gay. Tried to keep me from Morphing because I had early stage Alzheimers, which is why I wanted to Morph in the first place, said I wasn't competant, my chidren overruled him, forunately. Tried to get Honey arrested too but his bosses said they couldn't do that and keep things secret.

LOU: If his last name is Greek how come you asked if we were Mexican?

JOHN: Had a Greek grandfather, rest of the family is Tex-Mex from Brownsville, TX. First met you, Lou, thought you looked a lot like his nephew, Carlos, thought you might be family. Before the Morph, looked a lot like you, Lou. Older, bald head, three inches shorter, double chin, but same face. Decided to go the no body hair route because he thought it made him look more Mexican, was playing with the strain didn't really plan to use it.

BECK: Tell about the "non-standard features".

JOHN: Figured if Morphing ever went public he had this idea that he could rich by including some "special additions'.

BECK: When we were together I noticed you could hold your breath a lot longer than most people and very few guys can deep throat me. You may have noticed your long necks,Ramesh swears Honey designed that in so he could accomadate thes extra long dicks we guys are fond of giving ourselves.

LOU: What's Ramesh like?

BECK: Nice guy has an Indian book and DVD business on the internet Honey works with him since he was fired. Family was shocked when he Morphed into a bald, blonde guy, but all the ones who would have cared were estranged from before when he came out of the closet.

JOHN: Well hard to blame them then the rumors were just starting on the internet and even fewer people knew about Morphing and here went from looking like, who was that tall fat British actor from the Indiana Jones movies?

BECK: John Rhys-Davis, no, you're just saying that because he has a British accent. He was much darker and had more Indian features.

JOHN: Whatever, went from looking like that to looking like a bald Viking warrior, caught baldness from Honey during the final Morph met his "brother" who used the same Juice strain has a full head of hair. By the way, remember when we were together and the condom got pulled off, another "added feature". You two can talk about with Honey if you stay for the Convention, guess we can't tell you now that the Gunderson Bears are really a cover for the male branch of a support group for people who gone through Morphing. The women use the cover name "The Women's Power-Lifting Society" because the're also musclular like us, there's talk of separate group for transgendered Morphs starting up.

BUD: Just one thing what happened to the condom?

JOHN: It should come out in a couple of days.

BUD: Damm, that's gross!

Later after the power comes back on Bud and Lou return to their rooms.

LOU: Computer line still down have to wait to e-mail Schmidt and the cops and tell the what happened.

BUD: Think we'll still be able to testify at Eddie's trial?

LOU: Have to find out about that after we talk to the cops. Now that were stuck like this for the rest of our lives, what do we do?

BUD: Well there was worse things than young, incredibly well-built, and gay. John told me that the animal tests indicate we may have these bodies for at least hundred years. I for one don't miss having flat feet and ringing in the ears.

LOU: And I don't miss having to put in contacts or my arthritis. Well you still think I got a nice butt?

BUD: You still have a Bluto butt, I mean bubble butt.

LOU: You too, sailorman. You don't have your broken heart tatoo, anymore.

BUD: Oh, I was over that broken heart even before the Morph.

LOU: What were you and John talking about with the condom?

BUD: Come here let me show you.

Next at Beck and John's suite, John is listening to the vent in the laundry room and hears, "Oh my god, you're even bigger than John."

BECK: Stop listening to those boys, you pervert. They're getting to know each other.

JOHN: You didn't stop me last time when I opened the door and we heard the end of their dirty talk session. And I win the bet for the next week. Your ass is mine.

BECK: Okay, you were right when you said we could those boys in bed if we tried. Think they believed us when we said the airline was paying for our rooms.

JOHN: Well the airline already offers us a bonus to leave three days later, we decided to take the extra three to get "to know the boys better" when the blackout hit and the timing couldn't have been better. Even when I was straight always wanted to have a threesome with goodlooking twins.

BECK: And where am I in this scenario?

JOHN: Holding the video camera.

BECK: You are a total lech.

JOHN: And you'd be seeling the disk over the Internet by the next day, Mr. Director. Now where were we, by next week your ass is going to look like the Holland Tunnel.

BECK: At least until your next shaving session.

JOHN: Not that again.

BECK: Everytime I start shaving you, you get so turned on by the end you got your ass sticking out like a bulldog in heat.

JOHN: Are you saying I'm your bitch?

BECK: I'm saying I should put a collar and call you Lassie.

JOHN: How about another, double or nothing. You start shaving me, and I try to resist your so-called manly charms.

BECK: Loser has to wear a dog collar all the time during the Convention.

JOHN: You're on.


Afterword I: Bud and Lou's new friends pointed out to the police that they were the ones who had the men take a powerful drug that was not government approved. The police agreed to let stay in their rooms in Nevada until the payment and helped them set up new identities.

They currently run a small restarant in South Jersey. They are now members of the Gunnerson Bears and have recently forgiven John and Beck for selling a DVD they were told was only for private viewing over the internet under the title "Muscledaddy Sandwich". John and Beck are trying to talk the guys into a sequel staring them, John, and Honey called "Triple Decker".

Afterword II: Without Lou and Bud's testimony, Eddie and Chris Ferrari were not convicted of Raoul Garcia's murder. The district attorney was able to convict Chris on another charge where he turned state's evidence against his "uncle" for a lesser charge. Eddie Ferrari is currently serving a twenty year sentence for racketeering. Chris Ferrari was released after two years for manslauter and soon afterwards disappeared under "suspicious circumstances".

Afterword III: John to wear a dog collar to the convention.

Afterword IV: The condom came out two days later.

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