This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
All work is fiction intended for fantasy only, regardless of content, and consent must always be acquired when engaging in any sex act with another adult.
Please note that all characters are clearly over eighteen and written as such in all stories.
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Victoria sighed, the silver-toned fox shaking her head at the door. Of course, it was her son, Alexander, but she didn't want to see him. That may have made her look like a bad mother, but, really, what else was the vixen to do? She was taking a short break from her acting career, though, more honestly, she needed a break from her son.
Alexander, though she liked to call him Lexi, had moved out...and not gone very far. He was always around, always broke -- and she'd thought she'd really done her best by him! At every turn with Alexander, she was tripped up, finding him acting out, not using the connections she'd given him, even if Vicky did not think that she had babied him either. He never seemed to manage to hold down any job, regardless of her trying hard to find him something that he liked -- at least giving him options to try out, to find his passion in life and the direction that would make him feel whole.
Yet...it hadn't come to anything, no. She sighed, brushing off her paws and headed to open the door where, yes, her son stood. In his tawny fur, he was a softer, more subtle shade, than her, rubbing the back of his neck, pretty and sweet, as he had inherited her delicate facial features.
"Well?" She groaned, stepping back to let him inside, for it was not as if she was really going to keep him out. "You'd better come in then... Is everything okay, Lexi?"
Alex groaned, flicking his tail.
"Mom, c'mon, I've asked you not to call me that, how many times do I have to ask?" He shot back, not realising that he was being a little snappy for someone who was coming to his mother to ask for help. "Look, mom... I've lost my job and I can't stay in the apartment either, Tay says that I've got to pay rent or he'll look for someone else. Can I stay here? Just for a bit?"
He didn't even say please and Vicky's brow furrowed, blowing out a sharp breath of air through her nostrils. Maybe a change needed to be had...
"This can't keep happening, Lexi."
She used the name deliberately, staring him down until Alexander groaned and looked away. She smiled minutely. Maybe things would come right after all...
"There have to be some rules now, Lexi," Vicky said, the door closed behind Alex but it no longer felt like a safe place to him. "I don't want you to ever be without a roof over your head, but this can't keep happening. You are going to get back on your feet, find a good job that works for you and grow up. For now, you can stay here, on the condition that you are my maid."
Alexander's head jerked up, lower jaw falling slack. That had never come up before! Sure, his mother had had a cleaner and he hadn't seen her around or her car in the driveway that day...
"What, like Sally?" He blurted out dumbly. "I can't... I don't know how to!"
"And you probably don't want to either," Victoria confirmed, knowing her son better than, honestly, she thought he knew himself. "If you stay here, you will both work hard at keeping the house clean and assisting me, of course, in any way that I require. You don't have to wear Sally's uniform -- but I do have a French maid outfit that I think would sweeten the deal."
The younger fox gaped at her, shaking his head, ears flopping, but it didn't do anything to clear his mind. She had to be joking, right? There was no possible way his mother couldn't be winding him up! But Victoria was deadly serious and he drew back, barely resisting making a rude gesture as he scoffed.
"Yeah, right, you're only saying that so it looks like you're being nice but you're not really," he shot back at her. "I'll go with..."
Yet he trailed off. Go with...who, exactly? He'd burned too many bridges and, as his car had been repossessed too; there was no one at all, other than his mother, who would take him in!
And that was not a good thing, no, not at all, not as he whimpered and folded his ears back. He didn't want to sleep on a park bench...and his mother couldn't be serious about the outfit, could she? He could sort of clean around a bit until he got his own place again, surely?
"Yeah, alright then..." He muttered, avoiding her gaze. "I'll do it."
Victoria hid her smirk, though could not deny the leaping in her chest, how her heart pounded as if in triumph. Alexander merely averted his eyes.
It would only be for a few weeks, Alex told himself. He'd get out and it would be fine.
Everything would be fine.
*
Everything was not fine.
The outfit... It was the worst part. Even more than getting down on his paws and knees to clean the kitchen floor, trying fruitlessly to get the mop under the freestanding oven. Alex muttered and cursed to himself under his breath, trying to keep his butt down, for the frills of the outfit kept wanting to flip up around his buttocks, exposing rather more of himself than he wanted to show off to his mother.
But she had been ruthless! It wasn't just light dusting and moving things around, trying to make a pretence at tidying up around the place, oh no. It was far more than that, scrubbing the floors, washing the exterior walls, even trimming the garden bushes! Yet the majority had been inside and he had been allowed, somewhat, to complete the exterior tasks when no one else had been around, which was a tiny blessing.
Still, he found shortcuts in whatever it was that she told him to do, for Vicky could not stand over him at all times. He used the wrong cleaning fluid (what did he know of what it was called?) in the mop bucket, bleaching some of the kitchen floor tiles; he left glass circles on the coffee table; the living room carpet was left with bits of lint stuck in it. Even though he liked things clean himself, he didn't want to do it for himself. After all, his mother had done it for him and he had been okay with "good enough" when he had had to keep his room and clothes clean, way back when he had lived with his mother full-time.
Vicky, however, noticed, stewing more and more. She snapped at him and pointed out his mistakes -- yet she was not a fool! She saw that cheeky little grin that her son was giving, thinking that she would give up more easily, let him off with his punishment, even though it was only the black and white French maid outfit that was a punishment, really. The rest was just a part of keeping a house tidy -- and it was about time that he learned that and learned it properly. She wracked her brain, trying to work out when her teachings of him had gone wrong, but, before, Victoria had just thought that she and her son had had different standards of cleanliness.
Laziness, however, should not have factored into that. Not one little bit.
"Lexi!" She admonished him, tapping the toe of her shoe on the hallway floor as he swept his feather duster along the top of picture frames, barely even touching them. "If you're not going to do it properly then what is the point in you doing any of it in the first place? This is a job as much as any other, and part of looking after a home for yourself too. I would show you again, but there is only so much to dusting, Lexi."
He grumbled, ears pinned, sullenly clamping his tail down.
"Don't call me that..." He muttered. "Mom, this is embarrassing, you can't expect me to do more than this. It's fine, it's all fine."
"There's dust everywhere, Lexi."
She ignored his wish to be called by another name. She'd caught his squirm, something pulling deep inside her, a need to put him in his place. Vicky frowned and ran her fingers across the top of the wall-hanging picture frame, bringing up a thick layer of dust that almost looked like her son had managed to add more dust instead of taking it away.
"That's it," she said, her heart dropping an octave, muscles tensing, thighs locking up. "You're going to be punished, Alexander. Or, here is the ultimatum: you can either be fired and leave this house right now, or you can submit to a spanking. If you're going to act like a fox-kit, you can be treated like one."
"And you won't leave here with your clothes either," Vicky added hurriedly with a tiny smirk as he baulked visibly, eyes widening. "Oh no... Those are in the wash and you won't be hanging around for them either. You'll leave here in the maid's outfit and the heels too, looking all cute and pretty, if you don't agree. The choice is yours, boy, but it's time you learned discipline."
Maybe Vicky had been too soft on him, all that time when he had been growing up, but it was too late for the vixen to do anything other than correct the course of it. She just wanted to see her son up and doing well in life, though there was something about the French maid's outfit that had made her weak at the knees too. It was not something that the silver vixen would have ever wanted to wear for herself, but it set off his dainty, fine features, the hue of his tawny fur, even the white tip of his tail when it flicked back and forth. The slightest shift of the younger fox's body set the frilly material rustling lightly and her ears twitched, adoring the sound, such a simple sound. And yet it could be so potent.