Author's Notes: Once again, this part was kinda hard to write. What, with all the confusion going around. Just picture a super genki Brad (Shigure from Fruits Basket? He's kinda genki. Okiayu does both their voices, that's why I set Shigure as an example) and just picture Tot being serious. I know, some of the stuff that Tot does while in Brad's body, I cannot picture Brad doing on his own unless he was drunk/drugged... Oh yeah, this is the semi-serious "yes-I-do-have-a-plot-to-go-with-this-story" chapter. I promise more humor in the next chapter, but that also brings lots of OOC-ness. Of course you readers don't mind, do you?
Disclaimer: These bishounen do not belong to me. *sobs* They belong to Takehito Koyasu *swoons* and Project Weiss and whoever owns them that I didn't list here. Speaking of which, I'm sure someone has written something similar to this (I mean there's like 2,681 Weiss fics on FF.net alone, like someone hasn't conceived this idea). I don't plagiarize fics. I didn't copy this from someone else's work, so if it looks similar, don't email me with a 'You %#^%$&%*-ing copycat' message or something.
Also, I want to thank Rinny, Koyuki Aode, K-chan, Link621, Pink Bunny, BlackWind, Kachikara, Ayan for reviewing! *glomps* Oh, and as for the Omi/Nagi pairing, I don't think Weiß is going to be in this...so there won't be any O/N. Gomen ne, BlackWind!
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Brad's Worst Reality Chapter Two
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"Hang on..." Takatori leaned forward, in his desk chair after he stopped laughing, "Repeat that again?"
Brad closed his -well, Tot's- eyes and sighed. This was unreal. It had to be some kind of twisted nightmare.
Yes, I'm going to wake up now...perhaps in a cold sweat. Schuldig is going to be hovering over me, smirking and asking me what I was dreaming about. That damn German is probably creating this nightmare with his telepathy! Very funny Schuldig, very funny. As soon as I wake up, I'm going to make your day hell.
When he opened his eyes, Takatori was still sitting at his desk and Schwarz and Tot were still in his office. He wasn't dreaming. This was indeed a reality. They had left the Schreint mansion as soon as everyone had figured out what had happened.
The explosion was actually rather small and didn't actually do much damage...excluding the fact that he was in the wrong body and a psycho girl was in his. Brad demanded that they find a way to fix the problem immediately.
The entire way to Takatori's office (which was also where Masafumi was) seemed to take forever. Unfortunately, they had taken Brad's car on the way to Schreint mansion. Tot's body was too petite to allow Brad to comfortably drive, so he opted for Schuldig to drive instead. But not without the constant threat that if the German got one scratch on his car, Brad would skin Schuldig alive.
Also unfortunately for our poor American...Schuldig and Farfarello, even Nagi found great amusement in Brad's misfortune. He had to threaten them a million times to shut the hell up and stop laughing. Eventually Tot even joined in.
He would just kill them all after he was back in his own body. Yes....slow, painful deaths and torture for those who dared to mock him...although he'd have to come up with something different to make Farfarello suffer too... Even still, there went all his dignity and pride flit-flit-flit out the window.
Why hadn't he ever Seen this coming?
Before they had left the Schreint mansion, Brad made Tot show where her bedroom was so that at least he could get out of Tot's ridiculous assassin costume. The girl's closet had been full of clothes, all different types. Some outfits he saw in there were, in his opinion, worse than her poor excuse for an assassin's outfit.
He fished through and finally found a half-way decent outfit --a blouse with pants. That's when he remembered he would have the female anatomy to deal with. Which also made him remember that she would have his...anatomy to deal with.
It was still very odd though, to see himself from a different perspective. It was almost like looking at a mirror, but then again, not quite. Tot was a very hyper-genki girl, even if she was in the wrong body. And it had been odd...very odd to see a smile on his face and his voice expressing innocent joy. It'd been far too long since he'd seen such expressions on his face.
He looked up at Takatori who was still expecting for him to explain what the hell had happened. He chose the words in the simplest manner he could think of, refraining from acting as if he were speaking to a small child by using gestures.
"A lab explosion," Brad spoke slowly and carefully, enunciating every word, "Caused some sort of chemical spill or gases to be released which resulted in two minds and two bodies getting switched around."
"So although you look like Tot, you are really Brad Crawford?" Takatori asked.
Give the koala-man a prize, Brad thought bitterly, "Yes, Mister Takatori. That is correct."
"Ah...are you sure you didn't just...hit your head or something?"
"I assure you, my head is perfectly fine, Sir."
"Can you prove that you are Brad?"
Brad twitched, "Prove?"
He turned around and pointed to Tot who -in Brad's body- was playing with the branches of a plant in the corner of Takatori's office.
"Mister Takatori, have you ever seen me act oddly like that?"
Takatori nodded, "Yes. When Crawford first came to work for me, I had him inspect my room, to check to see if it was bugged. He inspected everything, even the plant."
Brad shook his -Tot's- head.
"I found a bug!"
Tot turned around to face the group whose attention was focused on her. She opened her -well, Brad's- hand and showed everyone.
"See? Caterpillar!"
Schuldig shook his head, trying to suppress a laugh. It was too weird seeing this type of stuff acted out in Brad's body. Farfarello gleamed, pausing in his knife licking to stare at the bug. He'd love to squish it in his hand. Nagi calmly walked over to Tot, picking up the caterpillar and placing it back on it's leaf.
"Leave it alone, Tot. Why don't you sit down?" Nagi asked.
"Nagi-kun, Tot doesn't want to sit down! Tot wants to go home and get out of this stupid man's body! Papa can help Tot and Crawford can't he?" Tot whined.
Takatori sat back in his chair, "Okay...I'm convinced."
"Mister Takatori, where is Masafumi?" Brad asked.
"There is another office down the hall. He should be there."
Down the hall was another office. In fact there were four offices. Brad sighed inwardly.
"Schuldig, which office is that bastard in?"
"He is located behind door number two!" Schuldig said in his best game show announcer's voice.
They entered the office demanding answers. Masafumi however, only had questions.
"It really worked? You two switched? My research, my experiments, my chemical combinations were a success! I must go to my lab immediately!" Masafumi cheered.
Brad tapped his -Tot's- foot impatiently, "And the chemical combination that undoes it?"
Masafumi looked slightly confused, "Hm? Oh, I haven't gotten to that part yet. This research alone to develop this took five years. Who knows how long it would take to fix a combination that reverses the effect. Could be days, months, weeks, even years."
Brad felt himself falter. Years?
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Author's Notes: I wasn't too pleased with this chapter... x.x Severely lacking in shounen-ai and humor... *sighs* The next chapter will be better, honest! I need to need to get out of my sudden angst mood and eat some candy to get all hyper-genki to write this fic or it'll be boring at the rate I'm going.... ^^;;; Oh, and reviews still mean a whole lot to me, so keep them coming. I need the encouragement. I know this fic has a lot of potential, and I don't want to let anyone down!