Yes I know, I am slow. So very slow. ^_^; I've had sooo many school days off where I coulda worked on this, but I've been working on a lot of stuff.

Heather Wan pointed out a pretty good idea. I might start working with that. I COULD actually do that suggestion pretty well, but it would make for a looong fic. Anyone opposed to a long fic?

Anyways, finally back to my fic.

Chapter Six

Amethyst leaned back in her chair and purred happily. She was quite pleased with herself. She thought that she had handled the whole situation with a lot of grace. The new 'Kim' and the new 'Ron' had left her house a little over an hour ago. Her sharp teeth gleamed through her lips as they curled back in a satisfied grin. She could just imagine the scene at their new respective homes as they tried to act like each other. The entire time they'd been at her house they had been trying their best, but considering the differences in their personalities, it wasn't quite that easy.

Amethyst's tail twitched as she thought, and her yellow eyes gleamed with a mischievous light. She giggled. 'This is going to be so much fun.'

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Kim was feeling pretty confident in herself. She had, so far, survived an hour trying to be Ron, and neither Ron's mother or his sister seemed to notice. They were eating dinner at the moment, and Ms. Stoppable's cooking was enough to put a good mood back in anyone. Kim finished off the rest of her plate as she thought, and Ron's mother immediately appeared behind her.

"Want some more, Ron?" she asked. "I've still got a bunch left."

"Well.." 'Ron' said. Normally Kim wouldn't eat any more than one serving or less of anything, but she'd have to make an exception. She was still hungry. "Sure."

Rufus rubbed his little paws together and immediately began digging into one half of Kim's plate as Ms. Stoppable dished it out. Rebecca giggled from her seat around the table.

"You two are such pigs," she said teasingly. Rufus stuck his tongue out, and Kim grinned a bit, more to emphasize being Ron than anything, because something was starting to nag at the back of her mind.

'Normally I wouldn't even think of eating this much, not even if it's Ron's mom' cooking..' Kim thought, twisting the fork around on her plate. 'I'm acting like Ron without even trying.' She grimaced. 'I can't really figure out whether that's a good thing or a bad thing..'

Rebecca watched her big brother. He was being way too quiet. She remembered the vision she'd had earlier that day, and wondered if it had anything to do with his odd behavior. She put her chin on her palm and stared at her brother, searching him for anything that might help her figure out what had happened. None of the visions she'd had before had ever been completely wrong.

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"I can't believe she's beating you!"

Jim was cracking up as Tim tried valiantly to defeat his older sister in the new fighting game they'd gotten a week before. "I mean, she's never even touched our games before," Jim guffawed as Kim continued to beat his twin into oblivion. Tim's health bar went down to zero as Kim's character performed a special kick, and he groaned in utter disbelief and embarrassment. He'd never be able to live it down if Jim beat her. He reluctantly passed his brother the controller, and the character selection screen flickered onto the television.

Kim was grinning. Tim couldn't help but think about how evil older sisters could be. She was doing this on purpose. His mind slowly came to the conclusion that she'd been practicing secretly, perhaps after he and his brother had fallen asleep, just to wipe the floor with them. She was currently doing the same thing to Jim as she had to Tim. It was unnatural.

Of course, all of the hypotheses that Tim had just made were completely incorrect, because he had no way of knowing that inside of Kim's body dwelt her best friend. Her probably wouldn't have taken it so hard if he'd known. Ron was, after all, a video game veteran as well, and older than the twins to boot.

Ron was having a blast. At home he'd always had Rebecca to play games with, and his mom on occasion (she enjoyed certain RPG series extremely), but it was a lot more fun having two people he'd never really played against before. He and Rebecca had gotten so used to playing against each other that it took forever for a fight to finish.

Once again Ron's character did the obligatory victory dance, and the screen switched back to the character selection screen. Jim dropped the controller, and both brothers twisted to stare at their sister. 'Kim' blinked. "What's the matter?" she asked.

The twins glanced at each other. Their minds share the same thought. This was not the Kim they'd been living with for the past ten years. This was not their older sister, and to them, that left only one logical explanation.

Their older sister's body had been taken over by an alien.

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"Good night, Ron," Ron's mother called as her 'son' shuffled into his bedroom.

"'Night," he said. Rebecca had gone to bed an hour ago, and he had been contemplating doing so himself, but there had been one thing he'd wanted to hold off for as long as he could.

Rufus scampered into the bedroom and crawled up the side of Ron's dresser, where laid his little makeshift bed. 'Ron' wanted to do the same, but he knew he'd never be able to sleep in the clothes that he was wearing now, if he could sleep as Ron at all. He sighed and began rooting through Ron's drawers for some pajamas. Not finding any, he pulled out a baggy white t-shirt and a pair of comfortable looking shorts to serve as a substitute.

Kim grimaced as she pulled off Ron's shirt. It was all too weird. She'd seen Ron shirtless a number of times, but it just served, now, as a reminder that she was stuck in his body. In a guy's body. She knew that taking off anything below the shirt would be worse, but she'd have to force herself through it. She'd gone through the worst of the transformation, going to the bathroom, earlier that day. Seeing Ron's boxers couldn't compare to that.

With the clothes changing over with, Kim pulled the covers back on Ron's bed and crawled in. Rufus muttered a 'g'night' from where he was, and Kim echoed it, switching off the lamp next to the bed. She spent a while trying to get comfortable. Ron's bed wasn't bad, but it wasn't the same as her bed. She shut her eyes and sighed, snuggling further under the covers until they were up to Ron's ears. She slowly dozed off into a restless sleep of bad dreams and an echoing laugh, one that sounded very much like Amethyst's.

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Ron was resolved not to look down at Kim's body as he pulled on her nightgown. He'd gotten yelled at for that already. It was pretty hard not to, though. He couldn't help but notice the new things about him. He sighed. Being a girl was a little bit tougher than it seemed. He hated Kim's bra with a passion, but had kept it on out of respect for her personal space.

He frowned. Kim's room was nice, but it was missing something. He glanced at Kim's drawer. 'Rufus..' he thought. It was lonely in the room without his little pink buddy. He sat down on Kim's bed, yawned, and stretched. Kim's bed was very bouncy and fluffy. He chuckled and laid back against it, cocooning himself in the covers as was his habit.

Ron had almost fallen asleep when a sudden crash caused him to bold upright. It had sounded right outside of his window. In alarm, he jumped out of Kim's bed and forced her window open, peering down into the darkness. Below the window were two tangled forms, Jim and Tim. They were arguing with each other angrily.

"It's your fault the rope broke, you're the fat one!"

"We both weigh the same!"

"No way! You weigh a lot more than I do!"

"Yeah right. I'm not the one who ate three helpings of dinner last night."

"It was my favorite!"

Ron leaned on the windowsill and a small smile spread on the face he was now wearing. He couldn't imagine why the twins had wanted to spy on their sister, but they were fun to watch.

Jim looked up suddenly, and noticing Kim, made a small 'meep' sound. Tim followed his gaze and made the same sound.

"Having fun?" 'Kim' asked, one eyebrow raised.

"Uh.." Jim began.


"We were just.." Tim continued.

Their older sister smiled. "Spying?"

"Of course not!" Jim said quickly.

Tim swiftly added, "Why would we be doing that?"

'Kim' stood completely up and said, "I have no idea, but I'd like to."

"It's definitely not 'cause we think you're an alien from a far off planet," Jim said, smiling sweetly.

Tim nudged him in the ribs and formed the same sweet smile on his own face. "Ignore him," he said. "He got bumped a pretty hard when we fell."

"Uh huh," Ron said in a tone he hoped sounded a lot like the normal Kim. "Well, whatever stupid little game you two are playing, you'd better get to bed before Mom and Dad catch you down there."

The twins both nodded and bolted away. As they left, they exchanged glances again. The alien had obviously gotten better at impersonating Kim.

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