“FEMAIL”
by Layne Smyth
Cover by bela04

CHAPTER FIVE

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From: Sarah Kepler
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 4:06AM
To: Alexis Hughes
Cc:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Four

Alexis,

I need you to stay calm and know that everything is going to be just fine. We knew that this was a possibility, and now we just have to make sure we keep this in check. Any details you can give me about Gabe would help us a ton over here, such as his personal history or any illnesses that he has had in the past.

I know that this may be hard, but I feel that you should keep him at your apartment and watch over him. I know that you have feelings for him, but you’re going to have to trust me when I say that he’ll be just fine. When NES4 infected their husband, he just experienced a high fever while experiencing gradual changes over a twenty four hour period. NES4 medicated him with simple over the counter aspirin and kept him hydrated.

I know that it’s going to be hard witnessing the changes firsthand, but you must remember that the NanoRed does not have any influence on our minds. You control who you are, not the machines… and the same goes for Gabe. He may end up in a body like yours, but deep down he’ll be the same.

Then again, he may just have a spring cold...

Either way, get back to me as soon as you can with any update.

Sarah Kepler PhD

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From: Alexis Hughes
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 8:30AM
To: Sarah Kepler
Cc:
Subject: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Well, I hope that you’re right and this all turns out to be a cold. As of right now Gabe is resting in his bed, and he is still the man he was last night. His fever is still there, but he seems to be able to sleep soundly.

I know that you probably don’t want to hear this, and possibly don’t approve, but I stayed in bed with him all night. Nothing happened of course, but I just felt this need to be there for him in case anything happened. It feels really good to take care of someone, particularly someone who means so much to me…

Anyway, you wanted to know some more about him, and since he’s still out cold I’ll give you what I know. He was married for a couple of years to a woman named Fiona Engels, but they split amicably about a year ago. They had no children, and he never left the country to the best of my knowledge. Without going into too much detail, he takes very good care of himself with multiple trips to the gym and a fridge full of healthy foods. As a man all of that stuff kind of annoyed me, but now I find it very attractive…

Sorry, getting off of the point again.

Um, the only other thing that I think is important is the fact that he’s thirty years old. If there’s anything else you’d like to know, feel free to ask. Otherwise, I’ll keep an eye on him and hope for the best.

Alexis

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From: Sarah Kepler
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 8:45AM
To: Alexis Hughes
Cc:
Subject: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Alexis,

Thanks for keeping me up to date, and I know how you must be feeling right now. All you can do is hope for the best.

Sarah Kepler PhD

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From: Alexis Hughes
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 9:59AM
To: Sarah Kepler
Cc:
Subject: RE: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Sarah,

It’s beginning to happen…

It started with me noticing that he was sweating a lot more, and then I noticed that the hairs on his chest were beginning to fall out. After that I removed his shorts to find that his penis had shrunk considerably. I know that it may be wrong for me to have undressed him, but that was the only way that I could verify that he was actually… God, what have I done?

The man is becoming a woman because of me!!!

Even as I type this I can see his body reshaping himself. It comes it spurts, but there is no denying what’s happening. I never mentioned it before, but the guy who lives next door to us is a nurse. Would it be so wrong for me to got and get him to make sure that everything here is going alright? I mean, it doesn’t look like he’s in any pain, but what if something happens? What if the NanoRed turn on him, or make some kind of mistake that could…

His… His penis just got swallowed up in his pelvis… The man that I made love to only two days ago is…

How could you people not tell me that this may have happened!? I have just ruined Gabe’s life! You and your company can go right to hell.

Alexis

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From: Alexis Hughes
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 1:12PM
To: Sarah Kepler
Cc:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Sarah,

Really!?!?!?!?!?!?

You’re not even responding to me anymore!? In the last three hours I’ve watched as Gabe as contorted into different positions as he body reshaped. I could hear his leg bones breaking and reforming as he shrunk about six inches, and that’s nothing compared to what was happening to his chest! As his chest ribs narrowed it sounded like popcorn popping, but it was really his ribs breaking in quick succession.

As I sit here and watch I just can’t believe that this happened to me while I was sleeping. Had I known it was this violent I never would have signed up for this Goddamned Beta Test!

Now Gabe is looking like some misshapen experiment, half woman and half man... His body is all rough edges, like he was just in some sort of accident. Only he wasn’t in an accident…

This is all happening because of me.

Alexis

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From: Alexis Hughes
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 4:36PM
To: Sarah Kepler
Cc:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Sarah,

God, I’m so sorry for being a bitch to you! Just respond to me!!!

Gabe now has a modest pair of breasts on his chest, and all the rough edges I talked about have smoothed out. His hair has begun to grow like weeds, while his face has begun to slowly reform. He now looks like a young woman, with the last vestiges of the man I destroyed getting washed away every minute.

Now I’m beginning to think of what I can possibly say to him when he wakes up from all of this…

Please, I really need to hear back from you!

Alexis

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From: Alexis Hughes
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 8:43PM
To: Sarah Kepler
Cc:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Nano1980 Beta: Day Five

Sarah,

It’s done…

The last thing to change was his lips, and now Gabe is a complete copy of me. She’s still sleeping, but I have a feeling that she’ll be waking up any moment.

Where are you, Sarah? I can’t believe that you’d abandon me during all of this. You don’t know how many times that I was ready to walk next door and talk to my neighbor about all of this, but I didn’t. I didn’t because you asked me to, and I think that it’s pretty shitty of you to abandon not only me, but your freaking job as well. I’m in an impossible position that you could not even dream of, let alone understand. As I look back over our correspondence you talk about all of this as if you know what I’m going through, but you don’t. You’re probably sitting in your expensive house with your perfect husband waiting on you hand and foot, while I suffer here alone.

I think I loved him, Sarah… And just because I didn’t listen to you once doesn’t mean I won’t ever again…

God, just get back to me…

Alexis

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From: Sarah Kepler
Sent: Tuesday 4/5/16 9:15PM
To: Alexis Hughes
Cc:
Subject: NES4

Alexis,

I’m sorry that I haven’t responded to you all day, but I knew that there was little I could do for you at such an emotional time. Looking back on it I think I made the wrong decision, but I want you to understand my reasoning.

You see, I don’t and can never understand what you’re going through.

But as for your friend? I know exactly what he’s going through...

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To Be Continued...