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Author's Note: hey hey hey! The wait is finally over! Chapter Eleven is finally up! Sorry it took so long. I have really high standards and for a while this chapter didn't met my standards. Here ya go!
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"I don't believe this..Fiona's been acting so weird lately. What is her problem? Doesn't she know that careers come first? She's damn lucky that everyone likes her or else she would be on the streets right now!"
"I'll say, I wonder what's wrong with her she mentioned something about a crisis earlier, before she..yeah.."
Toni sat in the corner of the stage while she watched Kay and Evan battered comments back and forth. She brought her knees to her chest and laid her arms upon them. She shouldn't be here, not with the likes of those people, who had something to offer to the world. Not rotting away in a pathetic little corner while two strangers talk trash about the one person who had shown her kindness. It wasn't right.
But then again, Fiona had been acting very strangely. When Toni had gone to see her earlier, she had shot her a dirty look and acted like she wasn't in the room. Toni didn't know Fiona very well but it didn't take much to know that Fiona was a gentle, kindhearted woman. And Toni considered herself to be a good judge of character for that matter. Something was very different about Miss Fiona.
The blonde watched as Kay flipped her long regal mane with one graceful turn of her wrist. As much as Toni hated to admit it, she was jealous of Kay's glorious hair how did she get it so smooth and shiny? She sighed; she supposed that was just one of the world's unsolved mysteries.
"Who are those people anyways?" Evan asked, placing his hand on his cheek in a thoughtful manner.
Kay paused her pacing just long enough give him a tired look. "Well the black haired guy said he was a good friend of Fiona's, so did the others. But if memory serves correct his name is something like Anthony Lee or something."
"Do you think the show is still on?"
She had never thought about that; Fiona had said she wanted the show to be back on schedule and then she passed out..did that mean the show was still going as planned? Her pacing never faltered for she refused to let the bass player know her weakness.
"I suppose, but I'm telling ya if Fiona gives me attitude one more time I'm going to explode!" Kay announced dramatically throwing her hands in the air. Evan nodded in agreement.
Toni watched all this with minor amusement and tried to think of what she'd be doing if she wasn't here right now pretending to be invisible. When nothing came to mind she sighed and gave up.
Kay's eyes darted across the stage and fell upon a certain young blonde teenager. She immediately tore her gaze and turned to Evan.
"In case you're wondering, Kay, Miss Priss is by the snack machines," Evan said.
Kay nodded and proceeded to walk in that general direction. Minutes later, Evan departed as well leaving Toni all alone. But she was usually alone so that didn't bother her. What bothered her was that she couldn't put her finger on what was wrong with her friend. Deciding that sitting around musing about what could be the problem wasn't the answer; Toni stood up and brushed the dirt off of her blue jean caprice.
Most of the crew and random personal had gone out on break, leaving the perfect opportunity for Toni to slip into the starlet's dressing room unnoticed. It was empty and the air smelled dimly of roses. Or at least Toni thought it was empty until the couch started moving.
She froze as the couch groaned and a blue blob appeared from underneath a mass of dark blankets. Her breath caught in her chest..
The blob groaned and turned revealing that it was a woman not a er blob, this woman had cerulean hair that was messily held in a ponytail. Her crystal eyes were clouded with weariness and confusion.
"Who are you?" the blue haired woman asked.
"Toni," came the meek reply. "And you are?"
The woman slowly pulled herself into a sitting position, the blanket slipping off of her shoulders, and Toni noticed just how thin this woman was. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and ran her hands through her blue hair probably in an attempt to straighten up. When she was finally done trying to look decent, she looked up at Toni and gave her a small smile.
"I'm sorry," she apologized softly. "I haven't been myself lately."
Toni returned the smile and nodded. "That's okay.um, what was your name?"
The woman looked at her sharply as if she had uttered the most horrible curse word known to man. This made Toni uneasy, the woman's gaze almost made her feel terribly guilty and scared at the same.
Silence consumed the rose scented room. Toni shifted uncomfortably, her eyes darting from the floor to the woman's face. The icy silence was beginning to get maddening so Toni took it upon herself to induce conversation.
"Er.." Great way to start a conversation! "Forgive me if I have offended you in any way. I was just curious that's all."
The woman's face softened almost instantly and something flashed through her blue eyes that looked oddly familiar to the teenager. Toni studied her further, there was definitely something very familiar about this woman but she could have sworn she had never seen her before. It was her eyes, they shone with gentle light just like..
"Fiona!"
Toni lunged closer to her so their faces were only a couple inches apart, staring into her eyes. The woman jerked back in confusion.
"What?"
"Fiona, it's me Toni! You remember me, don't you?" Toni asked as eagerly as a child that had been promised a trip to the toy store.
"I...er..." Confusion was still evident in her features but suddenly her eyes widened with comprehension. "Toni!" she cried and embraced her young friend.
Fiona finally pulled out of the embrace a minute later and smiled and got a better look of Toni.
"Fiona, that's an um, interesting look your pulling off," Toni said with a grin.
Fiona frowned in confusion. She leaned in the direction of the vanity mirror and to her horror she found the face of the blue devil staring back at her. She raced to the mirror for a better look and every movement she made Reese did the same. She waved her hand over her head so did Reese.
"What is this madness!" she exclaimed, clamping her hand over her mouth in shock.
So she wasn't imagining things, Reese really was being nicer.because Fiona was in her- wait what? Her mind mulled through all the possibilities of this occurrence but nothing came even close to satisfactory. Finally, she pulled a lock of her hair and found that it was indeed blue. Oh. My. God. She was Reese.
Shock has a funny way of diverting all of the blood from your head, thus making you feel as light headed as can be. Disbelief is another strange emotion, when mixed with shock it is a deadly combination. Fiona didn't know what was worse; the fact that she was in Reese's body or the fact Reese was in her body. Oh God, Reese could be with Van right now..
She shut her eyes tightly in the hopes that when she opened them she would find a blonde haired girl staring back at her. She slowly made a mental countdown while Toni watched on in confusion. Ninety seven.ninety eight..ninety nine....one hundred!
She cracked open one eye ball and slowly opened the other, wholeheartedly expecting to see her reflection. She saw a reflection alright, but it didn't belong to her nor Toni. Try the blue devil.
The teenager sensed her obvious distress and struggled to come up with something that would soothe her.
"It's not that bad, Fiona," Toni said comfortingly.
Fiona bit her lip or was it Reese's lip? Oh screw it; this was getting way too confusing for her liking. Toni was right, she decided, Reese was an attractive woman things could have been worse. Much worse..or could they?
"Really its not, please you look great.you just don't look like yourself..that's all but don't worry!" Toni added quickly, waving her arms in the air. "I'm sure your kindness will be obvious to the others..?" She trailed off thoughtfully.
Why didn't she realize this sooner? Fiona wondered. She had thought that she was in her own body and only noticed the strange changes in Reese, could it be that she was witnessing herself changing into Reese without knowing it? This was all very complicated. But one thing was for sure, she had to find Reese and put an end to all this chaos.
"Say, has anyone been complaining about my odd behavior? By 'my' I mean my body," Fiona asked as nonchalantly as possible.
Toni just nodded. "Yeah, so I guess this Reese person is a real bioytch?"
Fiona couldn't help but laugh, the sound of her voice was foreign to her ears. This whole different body switcherroo thing was going to take some getting used to.
"I suppose so," she said, smiling. "Reese is.um, not the friendliest of people. But she is a good person at heart."
"Don't you think you'd better talk to her?"
Fiona just stared at her, she was just getting to that! Shesh! "Of course! I need to talk to her, she'd probably know what happened."
Fiona grabbed a brush off the vanity and pulled out the hair thing and ran the brush through the tangled blue mass called hair. Man, and she thought her hair was hard to manage!
"Do you know where my body's run off to?" Fiona asked, wincing as she tried to pull the brush out of a perticulary thick mat of hair.
Toni was thoughtful. "Uh.. Yeah! It was heading to the snack machines, I believe."
"Grr..ow..oww.." Tried as she might, the damned thing refused to budge. By the time she'd have the brush out the back of Reese's head would be bald! Fiona now gripped it with two hands and pulled, she immediately regretted the action. The back of her head now ached in horrible, miserable, infuriating pain. Finally, after what seemed like hours Fiona won the battle with the brush. It release it's strangle hold, but not without taking several locks of blue hair with it, and was promptly thrown across the room.
"Great!" Fiona exclaimed, acting like nothing had happened.
She placed a determined fist into her other hand, her eyes falling upon the door. With one final glance at her loyal companion, Fiona marched out of the door and strode down the hall. Her heart skipped a beat as her target came into sight. There was her body leaning against the wall, sipping on a can of coke a cola. Several crew members were watching her like she was a lioness about to strike in the blink of an eye.
She looked bored, like no place in the world was good enough for her. Fiona believe, or maybe she refused to, that that was Reese inside of HER body. Who knew what kind of chaos she could create in there! Or what she had already done! Aye dios mio! Then again, Fiona thought with a mental sigh; Reese was a good person at heart. Maybe she'd go easy on...
Just then Kay walked right up to Reese and Fiona immediately sensed trouble. Kay looked angry and probably for a good reason too; she was a real chatter box but had a rather short fuse. A dangerous combination if you asked Fiona.
Kay tapped the Ancient Zoidian on the shoulder
(A/N: ya'll do realize it's Reese who's inside of Fiona's body and vice versa right? Because I am really confusing myself here, I hope your not confused too! But ya'll catch my point right?)
She tapped the Ancient Zoidian on the shoulder and demanded an explanation for her recent rebellious behavior. Reese opened one sunset eye, looking totally and utterly bored, and said something that Fiona couldn't hear but was obvious an insult because everyone gasped.
Kay was fuming now. "Look, Fiona I'm just trying to show you that if you keep up acting this way your gonna screw up your whole damn career. How stupid can you be? First you beg for forgiveness then you act like you don't give a damn, what's up with that? What has gotten into you? You better get your ass in gear or I'll..."
Reese lowered the soda can, revealing a smirk upon her lips. "Or you'll what?"
Fiona gasped and scrambled to stop the disaster that was about to happen. She jumped in between them and placed one hand in front of each one of them. She looked them straight in the eye, one at a time.
"Kay," she said as firmly as she could. "Please excuse Miss Fiona, she has no idea what she is talking about. It's all of the stress..it's uh, gone to her head! She's been through a lot, and the stress, oh god the stress, has made her terribly irritable. You know how it is, the stress and she handles it badly. Very badly," Fiona finished with a venomous look in Reese's direction.
Kay just made a 'hmph' sound and stalked out of sight, muttering curses as she went. Fiona let out a sigh of relief, that was a little too close for comfort. She then looked Reese in the eye.
"What the hell did you think you were doing?" she hissed.
It all happened so fast; she suddenly found herself twisted around facing Toni who standing right behind her. She vaguely heard a loud smack sound, her cheek burned. Fiona clutched her flaming cheek in shock, but quickly regretted it because the touch further increased the pain.
She looked back at Reese, her eyes wide. Reese narrowed her eyes and shoved her to the ground. She fell back into Toni, who almost lost her balance.
"Fiona!" Toni cried and grabbed her arms.
Reese loomed over the fallen girl, murder and rage written clearly in her eyes and features, and raised a shaking fist to her face. "Don't-you-ever-ever-talk-to-me-like-that-again, you hear me?" she finished in a barely audible voice that trembled with rage.
Fiona did nothing but stared at her in shock. She didn't know what scared her more; the fact Reese had slapped her across the face or that to any bystander it looked like it was she who was overwhelmed by rage and had attacked someone. Fiona wanted more than anything to cry, "She's not me! I swear!" but the weird looks she'd get wouldn't be that great.
How could she get Reese to give her the time of day to even listen to her? The said girl maliciously attacked her for nothing! Let alone come over for a chat with her over a cup of tea.
Reese threw her one final venomous look and turned her back to her and started to walk around. Fiona scrambled to her feet, while Toni was trying to help her up. But that succeeded in both of them crashing into the ground, limbs intertwined.
/No! Wait!/Her mind cried as she threw her out in front of her as if waiting for someone to grasp it. Reese sudden halted. Encouraged by the motion, Fiona said in her head, /Please, don't go. We must talk! Something horrible has befallen us, and it takes the both of us to reverse it. Whatever it is. Please, we must met somewhere and solve this problem together./
Perhaps just perhaps, Reese's ability of telepathy stayed with her body and if that were the case that meant that her powers were at Fiona's disposal.
//As you wish.// came the response in her head.
Fiona couldn't believe it, it worked! It actually worked! Her theory was correct afterall! Wow. /Smashing! Let's met somewhere say the dressing room in ten minutes. Sound good?/
Reese gracefully titled her head over her shoulder and smirked. //Perfect. See you there.// With that, she starting walking again until she was out of sight.
Meanwhile Toni helped the Ancient Zoidian to her feet and frowned as she saw the smile on the other girl's face. Didn't that Reese person just smack her? Maybe she hit Fiona a little too hard.
"Fiona?" she asked, worry and confusion mixed in her tone.
"I knew it would work!"
Fiona whipped around, brought her hands to her face and squeled like a groupie at a rock concert. Then all emotion drained out of her now pale face. She grabbed Toni's wrist.
"Let's go back to the dressing room," with that she dragged her away.
!*Back in the dressing room*!
Toni was worried now; Fiona hadn't said a thing since ushering them inside. She was dieing to know what exactly happened because it seemed that she messed a big part of the conversation. She'd thought Fiona would be a little disappointed, maybe even a little upset but overwhelmed with joy and then..no emotion at all didn't even cross her mind.
As if the whole body switching thing wasn't difficult enough to swallow, Fiona left out the really important part that she wasn't like Toni or anyone else except for Reese. Did she believe Toni was going to follow her like a blind loyal dog? Sure their friendship meant a lot to the teenager, but to the point of absolute trust not even Toni could answer that question.
"What makes you so sure she'll come? She slapped you for crying out loud! And for no reason too! I seriously doubt that she'll be all buddy buddy with you after whatever happened."
"She'll come alright. Reese would lie unless it suited her," Fiona replied. "And she has nothing to gain by lying to me now."
Toni let out an aggravated sigh; for someone who was older than she, Fiona sure was naïve. One would think someone like her in the business she was in would know about the atrocities of Men. Then again, Fiona was unlike anyone else on all of Zi.
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"Fiona! Wait up!"
It all made perfect sense; the strange visions, the confusion..it all fell into place. This wasn't her. She knew when she came to earlier something was horribly wrong, but her mind was so blank and so full of nothingness that she thought of nothing. She wasn't Fiona Alisi Lynette the raising starlit; hell she didn't even have blonde hair! Maybe that was why all of the personal were so surprised at her bad attitude.
The wind felt good against her face it seemed to just take all of her worries away. It was a cloudy day, the kind of days that made you have to wear a coat just to protect yourself from the harsh winds and cool weather. Alas, it was only time that summer melted into fall. She had on neither a coat nor a long sleeve shirt for that matter; she was dressed in a pink tank top and black sweatpants. But she was not cold; the whirlwind that was her mind consumed most of her thoughts while the rest of them concentrated on the fact pink was never her color.
Fiona obviously had a passion for pink for it seemed that whatever she wore had the color on it in one way or another. Her uniform in the Guardian Force was pink, and legend had it that when she was discovered by one Van Flyheight back in the ruins years ago that she was also dressed in pink. What was it with that girl and pink?
Speaking of the devil...a voice in the back of her mind kept shouting 'Fiona!'. But she wasn't sure if it was her imagination or something else.
She strained her thoughts once more, trying to gather memories that truly belonged to her. She had no idea what was hers and what was Fiona's. Fiona was the lucky one, she concluded, for she had everything intact. What could remind of her past? The man she loved perhaps? Who did she love, she found herself wondering.
She put her face in her hands and rubbed her temples. "Who am I?" she whispered.
"Fiona! Please! It's me, please hold up! FIONA!!!"
The man she loved..two images came to mind. One had dark feathered hair while the other had a kind aura about him, both their faces were blurred. Ok that obviously didn't work, she tried again. What would remind her of who she really was? Hmmmm...
"FIONA!!"
Enough was enough. Reese whirled around, fuming, and shouted, "What the HELL do you want with me?!"
A man came running up to her, he had spiky black hair and her heart nearly skipped a beat. She knew that face, she knew that face. He bent over with his hands on his knees and panted.
Finally, he straightened and smiled at her. "Hot damn, Fiona, you can sure get away when you want. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. I just wanted to talk to you that's all, you've been acting strangely today and I wanted to make sure you where okay before I go.."
Her breath caught in her chest. She wanted more than anything to tell him that she wasn't who he thought she was that he would never love for who she was, that someone already loved her. But the words would not form.
At her silence, Van grabbed her hands with his. He brought them to his face and gently ran his fingers across them before placing a kiss on her fingertip. He felt her whole body tense and felt horrible. This was such a horrible time to leave her, but he couldn't abandon Jade either. Her safety was important to him, he would never be able to live with himself if he let anything happen to her. But his heart belonged to Fiona, who desperately wanted something from him only they both did not know what it was.
"I'm so sorry.." He muttered before meeting her eyes. "I'm so so sorry, Fiona. But I must leave only for a while then I promise I'll be back for you. It kills me to do this, the timing is impeccable. I hope you can someday forgive me."
Van planted another kiss this time on her forearm. And just like before she said nothing. She must really be angry with him, he decided. But there was nothing he could do.
"Fiona, please you must understand it's not your fault. I have to go because I must. Please get some rest, won't you? These past couple days have been chaotic and you should take advantage of all the free time you have so you can be a big success at your concert."
He pulled her into his arms and wrapped his arms around her. And surprisingly she did not fight. Reese knew this wasn't right, but she didn't have the strength to retaliate. Besides, she reasoned, she was simply making Van feel better about his relationship with Fiona. Yeah that's it. Van kissed her forehead and ran his hands through her hair.
"I love you," he whispered huskily into her ear.
Van pulled back and titled his head to get a better look at the girl in his arms. She was so beautiful but there was something different about her, the air around her was different. A sadness lingered around her.
Her body shuddered because of either the cold or his embrace, Van didn't know. All he knew was that he would go crazy without her, how she survived without him was a mystery.
"What are you thinking?" he asked.
Reese looked down and then met his gaze. Why did it feel so wrong lying to him? "Nothing."
"You sure? You seem troubled."
"I'm just tired, that's all," she lied.
Van pushed a stray strand of hair from her face. "Oh ok, will you be angry at me if I told you I have to go for a while?"
She shook her head. "No, I won't. I can't dictate your life for you."
"Thanks," their faces were now several inches apart. He titled her chin and pressed his lips against hers. Van broke the kiss and pulled away with a content smile on his lips, his hand lingered with hers for a while.
"Please get some rest, okay? I'll check in with you as soon as I get there. And try not to get into anymore fights."
Reese nodded and wrapped her arms around herself. She gave a small smile. "I'll try, no promises though."
He laughed softly. "I guess that's all I could ask for, I'm gonna go. Goodbye..I love you."
With that he walked away with a wave, leaving her left to wonder. She gingerly brought her fingers to her lips.
"He kissed me."
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Author's Note: Yes, I'm finally done with chapter 11! I'm so so so sorry it's taken me like what? Three weeks to update? I'd like to take this time to thank my good friend Taltos who had the idea to bring Toni back since I accidentally wrote her out. And it worked out pretty good, don't you think? One of the reasons it's taken me so long to update, was because I keep getting grounded off the computer and only the computer. It's so gay! But whatever. I don't mean to rant, but please review! R and R everyone!
Peace out!
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Author's Note: hey hey hey! The wait is finally over! Chapter Eleven is finally up! Sorry it took so long. I have really high standards and for a while this chapter didn't met my standards. Here ya go!
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"I don't believe this..Fiona's been acting so weird lately. What is her problem? Doesn't she know that careers come first? She's damn lucky that everyone likes her or else she would be on the streets right now!"
"I'll say, I wonder what's wrong with her she mentioned something about a crisis earlier, before she..yeah.."
Toni sat in the corner of the stage while she watched Kay and Evan battered comments back and forth. She brought her knees to her chest and laid her arms upon them. She shouldn't be here, not with the likes of those people, who had something to offer to the world. Not rotting away in a pathetic little corner while two strangers talk trash about the one person who had shown her kindness. It wasn't right.
But then again, Fiona had been acting very strangely. When Toni had gone to see her earlier, she had shot her a dirty look and acted like she wasn't in the room. Toni didn't know Fiona very well but it didn't take much to know that Fiona was a gentle, kindhearted woman. And Toni considered herself to be a good judge of character for that matter. Something was very different about Miss Fiona.
The blonde watched as Kay flipped her long regal mane with one graceful turn of her wrist. As much as Toni hated to admit it, she was jealous of Kay's glorious hair how did she get it so smooth and shiny? She sighed; she supposed that was just one of the world's unsolved mysteries.
"Who are those people anyways?" Evan asked, placing his hand on his cheek in a thoughtful manner.
Kay paused her pacing just long enough give him a tired look. "Well the black haired guy said he was a good friend of Fiona's, so did the others. But if memory serves correct his name is something like Anthony Lee or something."
"Do you think the show is still on?"
She had never thought about that; Fiona had said she wanted the show to be back on schedule and then she passed out..did that mean the show was still going as planned? Her pacing never faltered for she refused to let the bass player know her weakness.
"I suppose, but I'm telling ya if Fiona gives me attitude one more time I'm going to explode!" Kay announced dramatically throwing her hands in the air. Evan nodded in agreement.
Toni watched all this with minor amusement and tried to think of what she'd be doing if she wasn't here right now pretending to be invisible. When nothing came to mind she sighed and gave up.
Kay's eyes darted across the stage and fell upon a certain young blonde teenager. She immediately tore her gaze and turned to Evan.
"In case you're wondering, Kay, Miss Priss is by the snack machines," Evan said.
Kay nodded and proceeded to walk in that general direction. Minutes later, Evan departed as well leaving Toni all alone. But she was usually alone so that didn't bother her. What bothered her was that she couldn't put her finger on what was wrong with her friend. Deciding that sitting around musing about what could be the problem wasn't the answer; Toni stood up and brushed the dirt off of her blue jean caprice.
Most of the crew and random personal had gone out on break, leaving the perfect opportunity for Toni to slip into the starlet's dressing room unnoticed. It was empty and the air smelled dimly of roses. Or at least Toni thought it was empty until the couch started moving.
She froze as the couch groaned and a blue blob appeared from underneath a mass of dark blankets. Her breath caught in her chest..
The blob groaned and turned revealing that it was a woman not a er blob, this woman had cerulean hair that was messily held in a ponytail. Her crystal eyes were clouded with weariness and confusion.
"Who are you?" the blue haired woman asked.
"Toni," came the meek reply. "And you are?"
The woman slowly pulled herself into a sitting position, the blanket slipping off of her shoulders, and Toni noticed just how thin this woman was. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and ran her hands through her blue hair probably in an attempt to straighten up. When she was finally done trying to look decent, she looked up at Toni and gave her a small smile.
"I'm sorry," she apologized softly. "I haven't been myself lately."
Toni returned the smile and nodded. "That's okay.um, what was your name?"
The woman looked at her sharply as if she had uttered the most horrible curse word known to man. This made Toni uneasy, the woman's gaze almost made her feel terribly guilty and scared at the same.
Silence consumed the rose scented room. Toni shifted uncomfortably, her eyes darting from the floor to the woman's face. The icy silence was beginning to get maddening so Toni took it upon herself to induce conversation.
"Er.." Great way to start a conversation! "Forgive me if I have offended you in any way. I was just curious that's all."
The woman's face softened almost instantly and something flashed through her blue eyes that looked oddly familiar to the teenager. Toni studied her further, there was definitely something very familiar about this woman but she could have sworn she had never seen her before. It was her eyes, they shone with gentle light just like..
"Fiona!"
Toni lunged closer to her so their faces were only a couple inches apart, staring into her eyes. The woman jerked back in confusion.
"What?"
"Fiona, it's me Toni! You remember me, don't you?" Toni asked as eagerly as a child that had been promised a trip to the toy store.
"I...er..." Confusion was still evident in her features but suddenly her eyes widened with comprehension. "Toni!" she cried and embraced her young friend.
Fiona finally pulled out of the embrace a minute later and smiled and got a better look of Toni.
"Fiona, that's an um, interesting look your pulling off," Toni said with a grin.
Fiona frowned in confusion. She leaned in the direction of the vanity mirror and to her horror she found the face of the blue devil staring back at her. She raced to the mirror for a better look and every movement she made Reese did the same. She waved her hand over her head so did Reese.
"What is this madness!" she exclaimed, clamping her hand over her mouth in shock.
So she wasn't imagining things, Reese really was being nicer.because Fiona was in her- wait what? Her mind mulled through all the possibilities of this occurrence but nothing came even close to satisfactory. Finally, she pulled a lock of her hair and found that it was indeed blue. Oh. My. God. She was Reese.
Shock has a funny way of diverting all of the blood from your head, thus making you feel as light headed as can be. Disbelief is another strange emotion, when mixed with shock it is a deadly combination. Fiona didn't know what was worse; the fact that she was in Reese's body or the fact Reese was in her body. Oh God, Reese could be with Van right now..
She shut her eyes tightly in the hopes that when she opened them she would find a blonde haired girl staring back at her. She slowly made a mental countdown while Toni watched on in confusion. Ninety seven.ninety eight..ninety nine....one hundred!
She cracked open one eye ball and slowly opened the other, wholeheartedly expecting to see her reflection. She saw a reflection alright, but it didn't belong to her nor Toni. Try the blue devil.
The teenager sensed her obvious distress and struggled to come up with something that would soothe her.
"It's not that bad, Fiona," Toni said comfortingly.
Fiona bit her lip or was it Reese's lip? Oh screw it; this was getting way too confusing for her liking. Toni was right, she decided, Reese was an attractive woman things could have been worse. Much worse..or could they?
"Really its not, please you look great.you just don't look like yourself..that's all but don't worry!" Toni added quickly, waving her arms in the air. "I'm sure your kindness will be obvious to the others..?" She trailed off thoughtfully.
Why didn't she realize this sooner? Fiona wondered. She had thought that she was in her own body and only noticed the strange changes in Reese, could it be that she was witnessing herself changing into Reese without knowing it? This was all very complicated. But one thing was for sure, she had to find Reese and put an end to all this chaos.
"Say, has anyone been complaining about my odd behavior? By 'my' I mean my body," Fiona asked as nonchalantly as possible.
Toni just nodded. "Yeah, so I guess this Reese person is a real bioytch?"
Fiona couldn't help but laugh, the sound of her voice was foreign to her ears. This whole different body switcherroo thing was going to take some getting used to.
"I suppose so," she said, smiling. "Reese is.um, not the friendliest of people. But she is a good person at heart."
"Don't you think you'd better talk to her?"
Fiona just stared at her, she was just getting to that! Shesh! "Of course! I need to talk to her, she'd probably know what happened."
Fiona grabbed a brush off the vanity and pulled out the hair thing and ran the brush through the tangled blue mass called hair. Man, and she thought her hair was hard to manage!
"Do you know where my body's run off to?" Fiona asked, wincing as she tried to pull the brush out of a perticulary thick mat of hair.
Toni was thoughtful. "Uh.. Yeah! It was heading to the snack machines, I believe."
"Grr..ow..oww.." Tried as she might, the damned thing refused to budge. By the time she'd have the brush out the back of Reese's head would be bald! Fiona now gripped it with two hands and pulled, she immediately regretted the action. The back of her head now ached in horrible, miserable, infuriating pain. Finally, after what seemed like hours Fiona won the battle with the brush. It release it's strangle hold, but not without taking several locks of blue hair with it, and was promptly thrown across the room.
"Great!" Fiona exclaimed, acting like nothing had happened.
She placed a determined fist into her other hand, her eyes falling upon the door. With one final glance at her loyal companion, Fiona marched out of the door and strode down the hall. Her heart skipped a beat as her target came into sight. There was her body leaning against the wall, sipping on a can of coke a cola. Several crew members were watching her like she was a lioness about to strike in the blink of an eye.
She looked bored, like no place in the world was good enough for her. Fiona believe, or maybe she refused to, that that was Reese inside of HER body. Who knew what kind of chaos she could create in there! Or what she had already done! Aye dios mio! Then again, Fiona thought with a mental sigh; Reese was a good person at heart. Maybe she'd go easy on...
Just then Kay walked right up to Reese and Fiona immediately sensed trouble. Kay looked angry and probably for a good reason too; she was a real chatter box but had a rather short fuse. A dangerous combination if you asked Fiona.
Kay tapped the Ancient Zoidian on the shoulder
(A/N: ya'll do realize it's Reese who's inside of Fiona's body and vice versa right? Because I am really confusing myself here, I hope your not confused too! But ya'll catch my point right?)
She tapped the Ancient Zoidian on the shoulder and demanded an explanation for her recent rebellious behavior. Reese opened one sunset eye, looking totally and utterly bored, and said something that Fiona couldn't hear but was obvious an insult because everyone gasped.
Kay was fuming now. "Look, Fiona I'm just trying to show you that if you keep up acting this way your gonna screw up your whole damn career. How stupid can you be? First you beg for forgiveness then you act like you don't give a damn, what's up with that? What has gotten into you? You better get your ass in gear or I'll..."
Reese lowered the soda can, revealing a smirk upon her lips. "Or you'll what?"
Fiona gasped and scrambled to stop the disaster that was about to happen. She jumped in between them and placed one hand in front of each one of them. She looked them straight in the eye, one at a time.
"Kay," she said as firmly as she could. "Please excuse Miss Fiona, she has no idea what she is talking about. It's all of the stress..it's uh, gone to her head! She's been through a lot, and the stress, oh god the stress, has made her terribly irritable. You know how it is, the stress and she handles it badly. Very badly," Fiona finished with a venomous look in Reese's direction.
Kay just made a 'hmph' sound and stalked out of sight, muttering curses as she went. Fiona let out a sigh of relief, that was a little too close for comfort. She then looked Reese in the eye.
"What the hell did you think you were doing?" she hissed.
It all happened so fast; she suddenly found herself twisted around facing Toni who standing right behind her. She vaguely heard a loud smack sound, her cheek burned. Fiona clutched her flaming cheek in shock, but quickly regretted it because the touch further increased the pain.
She looked back at Reese, her eyes wide. Reese narrowed her eyes and shoved her to the ground. She fell back into Toni, who almost lost her balance.
"Fiona!" Toni cried and grabbed her arms.
Reese loomed over the fallen girl, murder and rage written clearly in her eyes and features, and raised a shaking fist to her face. "Don't-you-ever-ever-talk-to-me-like-that-again, you hear me?" she finished in a barely audible voice that trembled with rage.
Fiona did nothing but stared at her in shock. She didn't know what scared her more; the fact Reese had slapped her across the face or that to any bystander it looked like it was she who was overwhelmed by rage and had attacked someone. Fiona wanted more than anything to cry, "She's not me! I swear!" but the weird looks she'd get wouldn't be that great.
How could she get Reese to give her the time of day to even listen to her? The said girl maliciously attacked her for nothing! Let alone come over for a chat with her over a cup of tea.
Reese threw her one final venomous look and turned her back to her and started to walk around. Fiona scrambled to her feet, while Toni was trying to help her up. But that succeeded in both of them crashing into the ground, limbs intertwined.
/No! Wait!/Her mind cried as she threw her out in front of her as if waiting for someone to grasp it. Reese sudden halted. Encouraged by the motion, Fiona said in her head, /Please, don't go. We must talk! Something horrible has befallen us, and it takes the both of us to reverse it. Whatever it is. Please, we must met somewhere and solve this problem together./
Perhaps just perhaps, Reese's ability of telepathy stayed with her body and if that were the case that meant that her powers were at Fiona's disposal.
//As you wish.// came the response in her head.
Fiona couldn't believe it, it worked! It actually worked! Her theory was correct afterall! Wow. /Smashing! Let's met somewhere say the dressing room in ten minutes. Sound good?/
Reese gracefully titled her head over her shoulder and smirked. //Perfect. See you there.// With that, she starting walking again until she was out of sight.
Meanwhile Toni helped the Ancient Zoidian to her feet and frowned as she saw the smile on the other girl's face. Didn't that Reese person just smack her? Maybe she hit Fiona a little too hard.
"Fiona?" she asked, worry and confusion mixed in her tone.
"I knew it would work!"
Fiona whipped around, brought her hands to her face and squeled like a groupie at a rock concert. Then all emotion drained out of her now pale face. She grabbed Toni's wrist.
"Let's go back to the dressing room," with that she dragged her away.
!*Back in the dressing room*!
Toni was worried now; Fiona hadn't said a thing since ushering them inside. She was dieing to know what exactly happened because it seemed that she messed a big part of the conversation. She'd thought Fiona would be a little disappointed, maybe even a little upset but overwhelmed with joy and then..no emotion at all didn't even cross her mind.
As if the whole body switching thing wasn't difficult enough to swallow, Fiona left out the really important part that she wasn't like Toni or anyone else except for Reese. Did she believe Toni was going to follow her like a blind loyal dog? Sure their friendship meant a lot to the teenager, but to the point of absolute trust not even Toni could answer that question.
"What makes you so sure she'll come? She slapped you for crying out loud! And for no reason too! I seriously doubt that she'll be all buddy buddy with you after whatever happened."
"She'll come alright. Reese would lie unless it suited her," Fiona replied. "And she has nothing to gain by lying to me now."
Toni let out an aggravated sigh; for someone who was older than she, Fiona sure was naïve. One would think someone like her in the business she was in would know about the atrocities of Men. Then again, Fiona was unlike anyone else on all of Zi.
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"Fiona! Wait up!"
It all made perfect sense; the strange visions, the confusion..it all fell into place. This wasn't her. She knew when she came to earlier something was horribly wrong, but her mind was so blank and so full of nothingness that she thought of nothing. She wasn't Fiona Alisi Lynette the raising starlit; hell she didn't even have blonde hair! Maybe that was why all of the personal were so surprised at her bad attitude.
The wind felt good against her face it seemed to just take all of her worries away. It was a cloudy day, the kind of days that made you have to wear a coat just to protect yourself from the harsh winds and cool weather. Alas, it was only time that summer melted into fall. She had on neither a coat nor a long sleeve shirt for that matter; she was dressed in a pink tank top and black sweatpants. But she was not cold; the whirlwind that was her mind consumed most of her thoughts while the rest of them concentrated on the fact pink was never her color.
Fiona obviously had a passion for pink for it seemed that whatever she wore had the color on it in one way or another. Her uniform in the Guardian Force was pink, and legend had it that when she was discovered by one Van Flyheight back in the ruins years ago that she was also dressed in pink. What was it with that girl and pink?
Speaking of the devil...a voice in the back of her mind kept shouting 'Fiona!'. But she wasn't sure if it was her imagination or something else.
She strained her thoughts once more, trying to gather memories that truly belonged to her. She had no idea what was hers and what was Fiona's. Fiona was the lucky one, she concluded, for she had everything intact. What could remind of her past? The man she loved perhaps? Who did she love, she found herself wondering.
She put her face in her hands and rubbed her temples. "Who am I?" she whispered.
"Fiona! Please! It's me, please hold up! FIONA!!!"
The man she loved..two images came to mind. One had dark feathered hair while the other had a kind aura about him, both their faces were blurred. Ok that obviously didn't work, she tried again. What would remind her of who she really was? Hmmmm...
"FIONA!!"
Enough was enough. Reese whirled around, fuming, and shouted, "What the HELL do you want with me?!"
A man came running up to her, he had spiky black hair and her heart nearly skipped a beat. She knew that face, she knew that face. He bent over with his hands on his knees and panted.
Finally, he straightened and smiled at her. "Hot damn, Fiona, you can sure get away when you want. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. I just wanted to talk to you that's all, you've been acting strangely today and I wanted to make sure you where okay before I go.."
Her breath caught in her chest. She wanted more than anything to tell him that she wasn't who he thought she was that he would never love for who she was, that someone already loved her. But the words would not form.
At her silence, Van grabbed her hands with his. He brought them to his face and gently ran his fingers across them before placing a kiss on her fingertip. He felt her whole body tense and felt horrible. This was such a horrible time to leave her, but he couldn't abandon Jade either. Her safety was important to him, he would never be able to live with himself if he let anything happen to her. But his heart belonged to Fiona, who desperately wanted something from him only they both did not know what it was.
"I'm so sorry.." He muttered before meeting her eyes. "I'm so so sorry, Fiona. But I must leave only for a while then I promise I'll be back for you. It kills me to do this, the timing is impeccable. I hope you can someday forgive me."
Van planted another kiss this time on her forearm. And just like before she said nothing. She must really be angry with him, he decided. But there was nothing he could do.
"Fiona, please you must understand it's not your fault. I have to go because I must. Please get some rest, won't you? These past couple days have been chaotic and you should take advantage of all the free time you have so you can be a big success at your concert."
He pulled her into his arms and wrapped his arms around her. And surprisingly she did not fight. Reese knew this wasn't right, but she didn't have the strength to retaliate. Besides, she reasoned, she was simply making Van feel better about his relationship with Fiona. Yeah that's it. Van kissed her forehead and ran his hands through her hair.
"I love you," he whispered huskily into her ear.
Van pulled back and titled his head to get a better look at the girl in his arms. She was so beautiful but there was something different about her, the air around her was different. A sadness lingered around her.
Her body shuddered because of either the cold or his embrace, Van didn't know. All he knew was that he would go crazy without her, how she survived without him was a mystery.
"What are you thinking?" he asked.
Reese looked down and then met his gaze. Why did it feel so wrong lying to him? "Nothing."
"You sure? You seem troubled."
"I'm just tired, that's all," she lied.
Van pushed a stray strand of hair from her face. "Oh ok, will you be angry at me if I told you I have to go for a while?"
She shook her head. "No, I won't. I can't dictate your life for you."
"Thanks," their faces were now several inches apart. He titled her chin and pressed his lips against hers. Van broke the kiss and pulled away with a content smile on his lips, his hand lingered with hers for a while.
"Please get some rest, okay? I'll check in with you as soon as I get there. And try not to get into anymore fights."
Reese nodded and wrapped her arms around herself. She gave a small smile. "I'll try, no promises though."
He laughed softly. "I guess that's all I could ask for, I'm gonna go. Goodbye..I love you."
With that he walked away with a wave, leaving her left to wonder. She gingerly brought her fingers to her lips.
"He kissed me."
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Author's Note: Yes, I'm finally done with chapter 11! I'm so so so sorry it's taken me like what? Three weeks to update? I'd like to take this time to thank my good friend Taltos who had the idea to bring Toni back since I accidentally wrote her out. And it worked out pretty good, don't you think? One of the reasons it's taken me so long to update, was because I keep getting grounded off the computer and only the computer. It's so gay! But whatever. I don't mean to rant, but please review! R and R everyone!
Peace out!
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