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"Ooh, my head." I moan as soon as I regain consciousness.
"Wait a minute. My voice." I say holding my throat.
I sit up and look down at myself. I see a chest that has breasts attached to it, and as I look further down, I can see that I've regained my womanly figure.
"I'm me again!!!" I scream in my high-pitched voice.
Thierry wakes up beside me and then stares around him in disbelief.
"What happened?" He asks one of the oldest questions in the book.
"Thierry?" I say, shuffling towards him.
He looks over at me wide-eyed and then down at himself.
"We…we're…" he starts.
"We're back in our own bodies again." I scream at him.
"You're right." He says, inspecting his own body. "Thank the Goddess of Life."
"Nila? Thierry? What's going on?" Hannah asks, looking at us confused.
"We've got our own bodies back." We say to her in unison, hugging each other.
"You mean…it worked?" She asks bewildered.
"It must have, otherwise we'd still be in each other's bodies." I reply to her question.
Mother Cybele, Aradia and the others come over to us, and grin then burst out laughing.
"I told you it would work." I say to Thierry, his chest muffling my voice.
"You were right." He says, then leans down and kisses my cheek.
"What was that for?" I ask him afterwards.
"Just my way of saying 'Thank You'." Thierry replies.
"For what?" I ask befuddled.
"For letting me be seventeen again." He replies. "And…sorry for stripping earlier."
"That's all right." I reply. "Just don't do it again, the next time we switch bodies."
"Hopefully there won't be a next time." He says, his arms still around me, he squeezes me even harder.
"Thierry?" I ask.
"Yes?" he asks.
"Oxygen becoming an issue." I squeak out.
"Sorry." He says, letting me go.
"What now?" I ask.
"Now you and I have some serious quality time together." Miles says.
"Fair enough." I reply.
Miles and I walk out of Thierry's private library hand in hand.
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Later on, Miles and I are in the rec room with Ash, Mary-Lynnette, Maggie, Delos, Thierry and Hannah.
I still have four weeks left before I have to go home, so I may as well spend it with my soulmate.
"Miles?' I ask, cuddling into his chest.
"Yeah?" he replies holding me closer.
"I need to talk to you." I say, lifting my head from his chest.
"What about?" he asks.
"Not here. Come with me." I get up ignoring his protests.
We walk hand in hand out of the rec room and end up going outside the back, where we sit on the walls of one of Thierry's many limpid blue fountains.
"What is it?" Miles asks.
"Well, it's just. I'm leaving in four weeks for Cairo. But I don't want to leave you." I say looking him in the eye.
"I don't want you to leave either." He says, wrapping his arms around me.
"What am I going to do?" I ask.
"Well, I'm coming twenty in a couple of months, why don't I come back with you?' he asks.
"I don't want you to leave Maggie." I explain.
"Maggie has Delos, she doesn't need me.' He points out.
"What will my dad say? I left for here on my own and then I come back with a soulmate." I say, imagining what my father would say.
"Do you think that he'll let me live you?" Miles asks.
"I suppose he would. I mean I don't think that he'll tell you to go away." I point out.
"Come on, let's get inside." Miles gets up and helps me off the wall.
We walk back inside and up to my room.
"Can I kiss you now?" Miles asks. "You said that I could when you got your body back."
"Of course you can." I say chuckling.
He leans close and kisses me passionately. He ends up moving his hands up my top and caresses my breasts.
After he takes my underwear off, he looks down and gasps.
"Nila?" he whispers. "I…um…I think you better see this."
"What is it?" I ask leaning over and looking at what he's pointing at.
I throw back my head and let out a blood-curdling scream.
I am some sort of mutation; the top half of me is woman, the bottom half of me is man.
"I have Thierry's manhood still." I gasp. "I knew something was gonna happen."
Five minutes later I hear another blood-curdling scream, only this time it's male and not coming form Miles.
"I think that Thierry has just discovered that he's missing his manhood." I gasp to Miles.
"I think he has too." Miles agrees.
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A/N: ::laughs like a maniac:: Hang on, cause I'm working on an alternative ending. Will Thierry ever get his manhood back? Will Nila ever get her woman hood back? Tune in next time for the alterative episode ::clears throat:: ahem, I mean, part of 'Who Are You?'
Please review. I just had to put that ending in. HA HA HA HA HA HA ::coughs, splutters:: ha ha ha ha ha ha ::Chokes, turns purple, you get the idea::