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74 Hormones

"I have the results from the tests," Vlad said once Danny had gotten comfortable.

"What?" Danny asked, blinking.

"The blood samples—I have the results."

"Which are?"

"It's as I thought might be the case—the shock short-circuited your hormone regulation. You have none of the normal levels of sex hormones for a girl your age circulating through your blood, which is why you have remained more or less neuter. You have two options—you can remain as you are, or I can start you on hormone therapy in hopes of jump-starting the natural process. I'm not even sure that'd be possible, though..."

Danny blinked rapidly, jaw going slack.

Well. That explains a few things.

"So...I'm not really a girl?"

"Depends on how you wish to define 'girl'," Vlad replied smoothly, buffing her nails against her suit jacket. "Do you identify as having a female self-image?"

Danny shifted in her seat. "Well, yeah. I mean, I might not like what people call 'feminine' stuff, but...I wouldn't want to be a guy either," she finished, wrinkling her nose slightly. "So, I guess I'm a girl."

"Do you want to look like one?"

Danny shifted in her seat. "I'd like to be mature. Being this way occasionally makes life...difficult."

Vlad blinked slowly before her eyebrows rose slightly. "I see. If you decided to undergone therapy, there's a chance that it might not work. If it did, you would also be dealing with all the things that girls your age have long been used to now."

"Yeah, but you'll help me through all that, right?" Danny asked hesitantly.

Vlad looked honestly surprised. "I wouldn't have thought you would ask."

Danny gave her a wobbly smile. "You're the one who would be paying for this—it would only make sense..."

Vlad gave Danny a half-smile and sighed. "Take the weekend to think on it. Tell me Monday whether or not you decide to go through with this. There are risks involved—as there is with anything that changes your body."

Danny ran a hand through her hair. "I...well, okay. I'll think about it. Talk it over with everyone."

"Everyone?"

"Well, yeah. Best for it to not be a surprise."

Danny was surprised and suspicious when Vlad smiled faintly. "I see. Well, then. Time to get back to work."

Danny scowled and grumbled something about frootloops that made Vlad quietly snicker.