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“Mark?” MJ said with a worrisome tone in her voice.
“Yeah?”
“Are you okay?”
“I'm having a few cramps this morning but it is natural after all I ate last night, other than that I feel fine, why?”
Disclaimer:
"This is fan fiction for the Whateley Academy series. It may or may not match the timeline, characters, and continuity, but since it's fan fiction, who cares?
In the end, my parents got the guest room, my sister got to share with MJ (talk about unfair) and I got the five star luxury treatment, my own very special sofa to sleep in. Fortunately it was big enough so I could lay down comfortably. I thought it would take me a long time to be able to fall asleep but I guess it came as soon as I got my head on the pillow because I don't remember anything after that.
Thursday, February 15 2007
You might notice that I put the date up now, because I just noticed that I didn't do it yesterday. I had too much on my mind and never thought about it until now. Thankfully it is just one day and I won't go back and add it. (yeah, I'm lazy like that.)
Anyway, MJ woke me the next morning with a kiss and let me tell you, what a great way to wake up, waaaaaaaaaay better than my heart attack inducing alarm clock.
“Good morning, beautiful.” She said to me.
“Good morning.” I said back rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. “What time is it?”
“A little after 6.”
“Why did you wake me so early?”
“Because I have school today and you need to get ready for your powers testing.”
“What? I thought you were going with me to my powers testing.”
“I can't, I asked my mom and she said I had to go to school.”
“Man, that is so unfair.”
“I thought so too, but after she said we needed to know how things are at school, I decided to go. It’s especially important because your sister will be there too and my mom wants me to protect her if something happens.”
“But why does she have to go?”
“I'm not sure, but it seems to have something to do with maintaining appearances, making people think everything is normal. If she doesn't go today everyone will know something is up.”
“I'm still worried about her. Keep an eye on her for me, okay?”
“Will do.” She said and gave me a quick kick on the lips. “Now get up and get ready. I'll make breakfast.”
“Breakfast made by you? I'm up, I'm up.” I said jumping off the sofa, hoping today would be a better day than yesterday. I couldn't be more wrong.
“Mark?” MJ said with a worrisome tone in her voice.
“Yeah?”
“Are you okay?”
“I'm having a few cramps this morning but it is natural after all I ate last night, other than that I feel fine, why?”
She didn't say anything just kept looking at my groin area and that made me look down. The first thing I noticed is that my (sigh) breasts were even bigger than last night and I had to bend down a little to be able to look at where she was staring at. Let me tell you, THAT was a mistake as the next thing I remember was waking up on the floor with MJ calling me.
“W...what happened?” I asked.
“You passed out.... again” MJ said.
“Did I?”
“Yeah, it is becoming a habit for you, isn't it?”
“It is not my fault that things keep happening to freak me out. So what was it this time?”
“Are you going to freak out again?”
“I will try not to, but I can't promise you. Is that good enough?”
“That will have to do. Congratulations, Mark.”
“For what?”
“You are a girl. I think you are just having your first period.”
“WHAT?????” I practically yelled and looked down and I was a bloody mess. Yeah, I was almost freaking out again when MJ hugged me and I started to calm down. (That means cry like a baby).
“Why does my life have to be so screwed up? What I'm going to do now?” I said between sobs.
“First you are going to take a shower and clean up this mess, then I'm going to get you something for you to deal with your period.”
“Oh God. I'm having a period that means that I have a... a....”
“A vagina, yes.”
“Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm not ready to deal with this yet.”
“Unfortunately you will have to. Now go have a shower.”
I reluctantly went upstairs and into the shower, and before you ask, yes, I did undress first. The shower water hitting my skin was very pleasant and there were several foreign sensations that I was trying very hard to block out and I just went through the motions. Let me tell you when I had to clean my nether region I almost freaked out again. I so miss my little friend, the new configuration feels disturbingly odd and that's all I’m going to say about it.
I was finishing up my shower when the bathroom door opened. I thought it was MJ but to my horror was my mother that came inside.
“Mark? How are you feeling?” She asked me. Thankfully the towel was wrapped around me.
“M.....mom? What are you doing here?”
“MJ said you are having some problems.”
“Problems?”
“Yes, female problems.” She said and I went beet red.
“Did she tell you? Why?”
“I saw the blood on the sofa sheets, went looking for you thinking you were hurt and found MJ about to come in here with a box of tampons. I made her tell me everything.”
“Oh. So what do I do now?”
“First, let me take a look at my new daughter and then you are going to have to put the tampon in, I wanted to give you a panty liner but there are none in this house, at least not the kind used for periods.”
“Is there more than one type?”
“You'll see.” It was all she said.
The next few hours (okay, it was only a few minutes, but it felt like hours) were the most humiliating in my life so far. Not only did she have me stand naked in front of her, she actually made me put in the tampon while she watched me. And to make matters worse she thought I had to get the ‘birds and bees’ lecture from the female perspective. Let me tell you, it was not fun at all and I was so hoping that I would freak out again to escape that, but I think that after discovering you are having a period on your first day as a girl kind of makes it hard to freak out about other things.
My next problem was clothes, because, let's face it, there isn't anything I own that would fit me anymore. I don't think I lost any height, at least I don’t think I did. My mom measured me and together with the other females in the house, managed to get me something to wear and I swear my sister wanted me to put skirts on. In the end I was wearing a pair of jeans and a pink t-shirt, MJ had in her closet. I just put the dammed thing on because everyone said, it was the pink t-shirt or go topless, at least it wasn't a Hello Kitty one. No, I’m not wearing a bra, because none of the ones available would fit me. Apparently I’m bigger than MJ or even my sister up top, but not as big as my mom. My sister seemed jealous, saying it was unfair that her brother had bigger breasts than she did.
Okay, I think I talked too much about clothing already and I am uncomfortable enough as it is. Of course I was about to get even more uncomfortable and I didn't know it.
“You look so cute in that.” MJ said when she saw me.
“I don't want to look cute.” I said and did something that looked disturbingly like a pout.
“Cute does seem to agree with you, sis.” Lisa told me trying to hold her laughter.
“I'm glad I amuse you so, sis.” I said angrily at her. I turned to the others and said. “So, what do we do now?”
“I guess we should think about your name, you don't look like a Mark anymore.” MJ said it.
“Melody.” I heard my mom say.
“What?” I asked.
“Melody, that's your new name.”
“I like it.” MJ said and my sister nodded.
“Don't I have a choice in that?”
“No, Melody was going to be your name if you were born a girl and now you are one, so I call the parental right to name their children and name you Melody.”
“B..b..but mom, I don't want to be Melody. It's too girly”
“No buts young lady. It is your name now so get used to it. You didn't have a choice the first time so you don't have a choice now. If you want you can change after your 18th birthday.” My mom said with her no nonsense voice and I knew the discussion was over.
“Come on Mel, let's get some breakfast before my dad eats it all.” MJ said, grabbing my hand and pulling me along with her.
“Mel?”
“Yes, it is your new nickname.” MJ said and kept dragging me downstairs.
Downstairs things weren't much better. As soon as I arrived at the table, the dads' mouths looked like they were going to fall off and their eyes bugged out.
“M..Mark? Is that you?” My dad asked, not believing his eyes.
“H...hi dad.” I said blushing.
“Melody, you can sit at the same spot you did last night.” MJ said.
“Melody?” My dad asked and looked at mom that was just arriving.
“Yes, hon. Melody. That's the name we agreed on if she was born a girl, remember?”
“But changing his name already?”
“Why not, our daughter is having her first period so I thought I was appropriate for her to have a girls name.”
Hearing that, my father's face went green, probably more about the word period than the fact I was now named Melody.”
“P...period? Does it mean the changes...”
“Are complete? I think so.” My mom said interrupting dad.
“That was too fast. Thankfully we are already going to see a doctor right after breakfast.” MJ's dad said.
“I thought I was going to have my powers tested?” I asked him.
“That and a complete medical checkup. Don't worry, my friend has everything he needs in his private clinic.”
I don't think I need to tell you how much I ate, right? Let's just say that I have no idea how that much can fit inside my stomach as it looks physically impossible, but then again I could ask the same thing about MJ's or her father's. I think that my parent's and my sister looked a little sick seeing us eating like we did.
After breakfast MJ and Lisa went to school while my parents and MJ's dad went with me to the doctor.
Arriving at his clinic, it didn't look like anything special. We parked and went inside. The receptionist looked at us and then at MJ's dad recognizing him and said. “Good morning, the doctor is waiting for you.”
“Thanks Elaine.” He said and we went to meet the doctor.
Entering his office, a middle aged man greeted us. He had a full head of hair that was starting to go gray on the temples giving a distinguished look, he was also very fit and didn't look much like a doctor, he looked like he should be in Hollywood making movies.
“Good morning, so this is the young... lady you told me last night?” The doctor asked.
“Yes, this is her Dr. Paine.” MJ's dad said.
“Doctor Pain?” I asked wondering why would he have such a name, was he a super-villain or something?
“No, P A I N E with and e at the end.”
“Oh, sorry. For a moment I thought that was some sort of super-villain name or something.”
“Actually my old super-villain name was Dr. Pain.” He said proudly.
“You mean you are a super-villain?” I asked and glared at MJ's dad. How could he take me to a super-villain. I was worried I would be tortured now. I looked around and saw the same worried expressions from my parents.
“I'm retired. I got tired of having the law after me and frankly I make more money legally than I was able to when I was a super-villain. I just couldn't live up to my name. I found out that I hate to make people suffer.”
“Oh, okay.” I said with a sigh of relief.
“At least when I'm not dricking out.” He finished.
“Dricking out?”
“I am a Devisor and unfortunately I suffer from Diedrick's Syndrome, that's a fairly common syndrome among devisors but can be controlled using medication.
“Diedrick's Syndrome? What is that?” I asked.
“Think about the classic super-villain attitude, the megalomania, the paranoia, the delusions of grandeur and irrationality among other things. Those are classical symptoms of it. When I was a super-villain I wasn't on medication so I was constantly dricking out.”
“Oh, I see. So most master-minds are suffering from it?”
“Some yes, others just are like that. But enough about me, we are here to talk about you and your mutation.” With that, everyone but my mom and I left the room.
“I was told that you started to change yesterday and you were are a boy, right?”
“Right.”
“You seem to be changing very fast, faster than anyone I’ve ever seen.”
“I...I don't think she is changing anymore, Dr.” My mom said.
“You mean the changes are complete? How do you know that?”
“She started her period sometime during the night.” She said and I tried to hide my face behind my hands ashamed.
“Incredible. What other things happened to you during that time?”
I told him everything that happened and he just kept nodding his head. After I finished he asked. “When you picked up that toothbrush, did you have control over the hand?”
“What do you mean?”
“Did you control it or it just did that on its own?”
“I think it did on its own. I was just watching what was happening, as surprised as my sister was.”
“And what about when you blasted that kid?”
“I just wanted him to leave me alone. I never thought about blasting him or anything.”
“That's strange. Most of what you told me sounded like the Typical TK superman stuff with external use of telekinesis with a good degree with dexterity but that requires a high level of control, something you don't seem to have yet. Do you hear any voices inside or head, see images or have strange feelings?”
“Voices no, pictures no, feelings? Every time I move I feel strange feelings but other than that no. Why do you ask?”
“I was wondering if you might be an avatar. Not that the fact you didn't experience those things yet means you are not one.”
“An avatar?”
“Mutants that host a spirit in a symbiotic relationship. Avatars maintain and feed spirits the energy they need while the spirits give avatars some or all of their powers.”
“What kind of spirit would give me pink powers? Or pink hair, or make me a girl?”
“I have no idea. Whether you are an avatar or not, it doesn't mean the pink aspect is part of that, it might be just part of your mutation. The only clue we have about it so far is that your external TK seem to be somewhat independent of you, just reacting to what you want and doing it independently. We will explore that more later, first we should go and have the physical exam.”
With that he directed me to the examination room and gave me a pink hospital gown for me to change into. (Yeah, I know. Couldn't he give me a blue one?)
So I changed, was measured (It seems I am still 5”10'), weighted (no I'm not going to tell you my weight) and made me lay down in a table that had something metal protruding from it at where my legs are supposed to rest and it was so humiliating, even more than when my mother explained to me how to use the tampons. I was completely exposed to a stranger and WHY DOES WHATEVER HE USED, HAVE TO BE SO COLD? (and yes, my mom was with me the whole time.)
Finishing up what I learned was a pelvic exam, he called a nurse and she took some blood without problems and the doctor seemed surprised at that.
The nurse was leaving the exam room with my blood when I heard a few pops and the nurse yelled.
“What happened?” The doctor asked.
“I.. I don't know. One moment the blood was in the vials and then it seemed to vanish and the vials just imploded.” She said nervously.
“Fascinating.” Was all Dr. Paine said.
He turned to me with a syringe and took some more blood, noticing that when the needle left my arm the wound appeared to heal very fast, not letting a single drop of blood escape. He looked at the syringe and waited for a few seconds when suddenly the blood inside seemed to just vanish and the syringe sort of broke inwards like it was imploding.
“Simply fascinating and very disturbing too. It seems we won't be able to do a blood exam after all.”
“Disturbing? Why?” I asked him.
Because it seems that when any of your blood leaves your body it simply ceases to exist after a few moments.”
“I don't understand.” I told him.
“I don't either, but I will figure it out.”
To be continued….
Please comment, give your opinion and suggestions. Your ideas might just end up influencing the path the story takes. If you have read to this point, you KNOW that Andrea writes REALLY well. Please leave a comment so she can see how well you write. (H.E.R.)
Comments
Pink? Why Pink? - Part 07
Love the Doctor's name.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
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I'm sassy DEAL WITH IT
now im loving every word an hanging onto the edge of my seat!!!!
her blood vanishes?
wouldnt that happen to her period too? if not, there is a source for blood for testing.
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
period not entirely blood
during your period you are shedding the lining of your uterus. While there is some blood it is mostly blood engorged tissue.
but the stuff that ran down her buttocks and soaked into the sheet on the couch was definately the blood part.
so if her blood disappears... her period show have been a bunch of tissue... who knows what colour that would be when the blood dissappears.
but perhaps uterine blood is different than veinous blood.
Dayna.
ps. I'm willing to overlook the apparent discreprency.
Playing with theories
And a period is supposed to happen whereas getting a small steel tube stabbed in your arteries isn't exactly natural.
And of course, having that continuos vacuum effect in your underware would be ... strange.
There is yet another possibility about the blood
It might have to do with the distance the blood is from her body. The clothes in the morning were tight against her body so might have been within her aura. Where-as the blood in the syringe was moved away from her body and so couldn't maintain itself when not within her aura.
BUT - it is Andrea's story to tell and I'm sure she will do so.
with love,
Hope
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
And yet another...
...possibility might be that "dead" blood cells do not exhibit this behaviour, only living ones. Menstrual fluid is mostly water, mucus, endometrial lining tissue... and only a bit of actual blood (from the capillaries in the endometrial lining). The fluid only appears vaguely "blood like" because the other things are largely colourless -- which makes the red from the iron in the few blood cells the dominant "colour" of the fluid as a whole. While "most" of the blood cells that are shed would still be living -- and hence, I would guess that they would "disappear" shortly after leaving the body -- there would still be a percentage of "dead" cells, too... which I presume would still be enough to give the flow at least a somewhat reddish tinge. [Although the author may wish to throw in some vague reference to the flow being somewhat paler than normal, if she wants to adopt this pseudo-explanation. Grin. More of a "pinkish tinged fluid", rather than it being a true blood red. At least, *after* it has completely left her aura...]
Speaking of which, I do like Hope's aura thing, though. There are various metaphysical thoughts about aura's... but personally, I tend to think that they actually do exist -- but that they are mostly just the electromagnetic field that a living organism produces. That field extends a little ways beyond the body. (More than far enough that menstrual fluid would remain "red" while on her pad or clothes, even not-particularly-tight clothes... or even on her bedding, at least until shortly after she left the bed, when it would likely fade to pink...).
As for the comment about "uterine blood" being "different than veinous blood" -- as a matter of fact, it very much *is* different. Menstrual fluid, as already mentioned, is mostly other things than actual blood -- and what little blood there is, is partly living, and partly dead. The presence of all the breakdown products of the dead tissues, as well as the mix of other "ingredients", make menstrual blood pretty useless for lab work. You could extract DNA from it, but that would be about the only useful test I can think of that could be done with that particular fluid. [Well, other than examining its exact composition to help assess her reproductive health... but I somehow doubt she is trying to conceive a baby right now... LOL.] Menstrual fluid is normally regarded as a contaminant to be avoided whenever possible, not something worth collecting, for almost all lab purposes...
Smile. Of course, the whole thing is just idle speculation, purely for amusement. It is fiction, and the author can invent any medical weirdness that she wants. LOL. Read some of the other Whateley stories -- the central premise of the whole series is *fantasy*, not really reality based...
If we want to nitpick about "oopsie" moments... it is extremely improbable that Melody would even *have* a flow, when she did. [I suspect the author has been mislead by typical charts of a menstrual cycle... which usually show a woman having her period on day one of her cycle. Those charts are misleading, however, in that the period shown is actually discharging fluid from the *previous* menstrual cycle -- which in Melody's case would not exist, what with her not even *having* a uterus prior to that night. Not to mention that in actuality, girls often have little or no discharge on their first few cycles...].
Another goof was the imploding syringes -- those things are engineered to be able to contain a vacuum (necessary for some of the things they are used for), so the blood disappearing out of them would not have caused them to collapse from atmospheric pressure. At most, there might be a slight "pop" sound, as air rushed in through the needle to fill the sudden vacuum. Smile. Of course, we do not yet know the exact mechanism by which Melody's blood disappears -- maybe it "distorts" the space-time around it when it goes, momentarily weakening the nearby syringe's structure a little... or some other pseudo-explanation for why the syringes broke. Grin. It's fiction, so anything is possible...
[By the way... this story follows a practice I have noticed in most (not all) of the fiction I have seen on this site, which still tends to have doctors drawing blood samples with syringes. That is an increasingly outdated practice in most parts of the modern medical world. Look up "vacutainer" on Wikipedia, if anyone is curious about how phlebotomists most commonly draw blood samples these days...]
But as I said, the author can do whatever she wants. I may have smiled when I spotted those errors -- and blinked when I read MJ give Melody "a quick kick on the lips" before breakfast [rather than the quick kiss I was expecting to read about...] -- but those trivial details did not really detract from my enjoyment of what is truly an excellent story.
Kudos. I can't wait to read more...
Very good stuff and now I'm curious about
the teleporting blood. Although I was half expecting it to have come out pink.
Very Well Done stuff.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Maybe she uses Pink Essence too?
Oh she may not be a magical type. She is a mystery though. The blood thing could be magical or it could be technological, like nanobots maybe?
Curiouser and curiouser.
Kim
huh?
Pink Essence??? whats that?
OK Holly, here's one. Oh, ya want me ta say something?
I really like this. I'm puzzled by what's happening with her powers, but (im)patiently waiting to learn more. You've certainly created an interesting character, and I want to know a LOT more about her.
Wren
(PS-Sam & Jess?)
W.
Teleporting
Bailey's the first one to mention it. As soon as I read what happened to the drawn blood, I figured that, with her TK power, she just (subconsciously) moved it back into her body. It could leave a (Partial) vacuum, but it doesn't disappear. Sorry! It does cease to appear in the vial, but it doesn't cease to exist.
>> “Oh God. I'm having a period that means that I have a... a....†--- “A vagina, yes.†<<
Now, that wasn't the body part that was in my mind! (It's just that...) I've had a vagina for 20 yrs and never had menses. I thought that the word would be "uterus", although it could have been a "female reproductive system".
A very interesting story, thanks for posting it here!
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
on the way out
Uterus *might* have been the operative beginning location (for the blood) but it has to get out somewhere so her logic does stand to reason.
oh come on guys
Give the girl a break guys. Fiction is fiction.
After all do we (the transitioned/transitioning) freak on you non-transitioned people for assuming boobs throw off your balance, or nipples harden at the slightest of touches (or even notice them that much for all that matters) or other such silliness? No, we skip over it. (and MAYBE roll our eyes a bit but that is about it.)
Like I said this, like the SRU series (just to name an OBVIOUS ONE) is fictious, as are all other stories here.
Like a bandaid
“Are complete? I think so.”
Like taking off a bandaid, it's best done quickly. Dragging it out over months like Fey did certainly wasn't any fun for her. This gets it over with and any comments done just as quickly.
Something about her regen maybe what caused her to change so quickly.
Chris
Dr. Paine
At one time I was seeing a Doctor Payne on a regular basis. He went by his first name. I kept thinking that there was a blues song in there somewhere. "Going to see Doctor pain again cause you done me wrong again."