Doodles laughed. "I thought I was Doodles now? What's with this Malucci business?"
"It is.. Doodles Malucci.."
"And you're Sparkles Knight? Sounds a bit bizarre to me.."
"This is all quite bizarre Malucci, in case you haven't figured that out."
"Dr.Doodles.. That is the supreme of bizarre..." Grumbled Doodles.
"Oh cheer up.. You're a clown now." Quipped Sparkles.
"I don't want to be a shitting clown! I want to be Dr.Dave. I want to be back at County.. I don't want to be here in your stomach but not in your stomach.."
"You won't be for long. The transformation is complete. You're a clown now.. Through and through.. When you wake up.. You'll be Doodles.. It was your time to die Dave.. Your time to transcend.."
Dave's face rippled under Doodle's makeup and the fascade ripped momentarily. "NO!!!!! I don't want to be a clown!!!!!! It's not my time. It may have been yours.. But not mine. Is this what I have to look forward to? When I die? What about Heaven? We all get reincarnated as clowns?"
Sparkles' face and form returned to her human form and she shrugged. "Maybe it isn't your time. I never thought you'd react like this. About your question.. Yes and no. Yes there is a Heaven.. No we don't all get reincarnated as clowns. Have a nice life Dave.."
Lucy sighed and twirled her hand about to pinch Dave and wake him up.
"Wait!" Dave yelped.
Her hand stopped inches from the tanned flesh of Dave's shoulder. "What now?" Sparkles said exasperated.
"What do I tell everyone? The police. About how I got hurt??"
"Tell them..." Lucy sighed, hopped off the bench and paced the stomach. "Tell them.. The truth.."
Dave's eyes goggled out of his head. "Are you nuts!? You want to get me committed???!!!"
"No.. Tell them you were mugged. Tell them you took a short cut. Tell them the muggers had clown masks on and you didn't recognize them..." Lucy retorted and pinched him sharply on the arm, leaving a rather large painful welt.
"Oh. OW!!!!!" Dave howled and sat up in bed, still surrounded by machines, but they had gotten increasingly fewer since being moved from PACU. Cindy sat asleep at his bedside, her head propped up by a spare pillow, as she leaned on the side table. Quickly, he patted himself all over, looking for clown shoes, big hair and bad clothes. Dave was back to his old self. He sighed in relief and sat back in bed as a nurse came over. "Dr.Dave? You okay??"
"Uh huh.. Just fine.. Send in the officers now.. I think they want a statement or something.. Right?" Dave looked around and saw the cops at the door. Cindy murmured softly as she came to, and ruffled Dave's hair.
"Yeah.. I'm here honey.. Got your story straight?" She mumbled sleepily.
Dave nodded. "I think so. I had a friend straighten it out for me..
One thing though, Cin.. If you ever get the urge to roleplay in the bedroom..
I'll do anything but circus themes. I have an adversion to big red shoes."
THE END.