Figuring It Out

Author's note: Heyheyhey everyone! I'm really sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter, things have been pretty crazy lately, not and excuse but a reason. Okay so hope you like it! Oh and there seemed to be some confusion as to wether they were in eachothers bodies or just in eachothers worlds.Well they did a Freaky Friday type thing so in eachothers bodies, but hopefully this chapter will explain that:) Luv you guys! Read and Review! ;)

Disclaimer: The only thing I own is Ingrid, Hannah, and Meredith, the plot but other than that it all belongs to the beautiful Tamora P.


Hannah woke up shivering. Sleepily she pulled the covers closer around her. She was still freezing so, she snuggled closer to the warmth that was nestled up against her.

"Mmmmm..." Murmered as deep voice. An arm snaked around her side. Half asleep she turned to see who it was. Lips pressed against hers. Her eyes flew open. To her surprise a man in his forties was kissing her.

"YOU PERVERT!" She screamed kicking him where it would hurt and slapping his face. She pulled away from her captor and ran out of the tent. She looked behind her as she ran, not looking where she was going. At that same time Ingrid came screaming out of the tent opposite from Hannah's, also not paying attention to where she was going. BANG! They ran right into eachother.

" Oww..." They lay in a heap on the sandy ground. " Are you okay?" They both asked. " He- I- Just," They stammered. The two men came confusedly out of opposite tents.

" Alanna?"

"Daine?"

They didn't pay attention to the names that had been used to address them, they just started to blindly kick and scream at the men.

"I'm sorry!" They yelled as they kicked. "I didn't mean...I know."

Meredith stumbled out of a different tent" What the hell is going on you guys?" She asked sleepily.

" They-we-just!" They stammered as they ran over to Merry. They coward behind Meredith as their assaulters looked at them baffled.

"Okay," Meredith said calmly. "Ingrid, Hannah, one at a time what happened?"

"He" The both started. " You go first! No you!" This wasn't working Meredith decided to intercept.

" Ingrid you start."

" I woke up and he-he KISSED ME!" She pointed towards a dark skinned and haired man staring at her in bewilderment.

"Oh!"Meredith said shocked. " Okay, Hannah, what is your story?"

"They tried to rape us!" Hannah accused. The two men looked alarmed.

"Alanna!" Hannah's captor came towards them. Ingrid and Hannah let out yelps.

"Now calm down you guys-What did you just call her?"

"Alanna?" Hannah's captor, who turned out to be George repeated.

"Did you guys hear that?" Meredith asked turning towards them. They shook their heads nervously. She turned back to George.

"One moment please!" She didn't wait for their reponse. She led her friends a litte farther away.

"Don't you guys get it?" Meredith looked a them with anticipation. They shook their heads slowly.

" Geez!" Meredith through her arms in the air in frustation. "A couple of dudes, who happen to George and Numair, kiss you and you spaz out! You can't even put together the simplest things!"

" HEY MISSY," Hannah started. " WAITWAITWAITWAIT! Did you just say George and Numair?" Meredith nodded excitedly.

"OH MY GOD," The two of them screamed.

"Okay, what should we do," Meredith asked. " We need a plan!"

" We could just act like nothing happened!" Hannah suggested.

" Right," Meredith snorted. "Like that will really work after the scene you two made!"

" Well excuse you!" Hannah was offended. " What do you suggest we do then?"

" Um...well..." Meredith stammered. " Um...uh..."

"We should faint!" Ingrid had been silenly watching them until now.

"Huh?" Meredith asked. Hannah seemed to understand, though.

"Why?" Meredith asked.

" Because," Ingrid started. " Then they'll think that the reason that we're acting strange-"

"Is because of a medical condition., while buying us some time," Hannah finished for her. Meredith shook her head violenlty.

" Please Merry?" Ingrid and Hannah asked sweetly.

" Nope!" Meredith protested. " Not happening!" Hannah had a way to get her to go along with the plan.

"But Meredith you're SUCH a good actress! We could never get along without you!" Meredith straightened up and smiled at the complement.

" Like in the school play when I had to faint? Remember that? Ha! That was so funny cause" Ingrid covered Merry's mouth to shut-her-up.

" Yes Meredith," Ingrid said with a note of irrtaion. " We remember...Okay we're going to faint back on the count of three...one..two...three!"

They all fainted but apparently Meredith, with her infamous acting skills, thought it would be better if she fainted forwards, onto Ingrid.

"Meredith!" Ingrid hissed. "I said backwards!"

" Oops," Meredith was saved from the wrath of Ingrid, when Numair and George rushed to their rescue.

Hannah opened one eye.They were in some sort of community tent because both Ingrid and Meredith were there with her. They were lying on mats with blankets piled up on them. Ingrid was on the mat next to hers and Meredith was next to Ingrid. There was empty mats all around them. 'Maybe this is like their "tent of healing" or something,' Hannah thought. After realizing that their was no one else in the tent she opened both of her eyes. Her head spun. " Wow," she rubbed her head. " What was that crap?"

She vaguely remembered drinking some sort of nasty liquid but after that everything went black. She scooted over to Ingrid. She put her face right by Ingrid's, hovering over her.

" Ingrid, wake-up," She whispered. " Ingrid..." She said in a sing-songy voice. Ingrid rolled over so her back was facing Hannah. Hannah crawled around so she was facing her, again.

" Ingrid..." Ingrid rolled over again as doing so her arm flew up and hit Hannah in the nose.

"Ow!"Hannah yelped. Ingrid sat-up abruptly.

"What?" She looked around dazed. "Oh no Hnnah!" She screamed when she saw Hannah holding her bloody nose.

"Shhh..." Hannah hissed. "They would have- " Light poured into the tent as Numair barged in.

" Ahhh," both girls winced as the light hit their eyes. Meredith stirred but remained asleep.

" What is it?" He asked in a panic. " Is something wrong?" At that moment George came through the tent flap bumping into Numair. Numair tripped towards Hannah who jumped(to avoid Numair) right into George's path as he clumsily fell over Meredith and towards the ground. Instead of hitting the ground he landed ontop of a very startled Hannah.

"Well," He smiled at her. "Here we are again!" He leaned down to kiss her. Just at that moment Kara walked in.

"Um..."Hannah pointed towards Kara. He realized what she was saying, blushed, and stood up.He reached out a hand to help her up. Kara, and Numair held back laughter. Ingrid, or as they thought, Daine, too chocked down laughter, but for different reasons. The idea of her friend being seduced by a forty year old man amused her greatly. This was so weird.

" We'll go get you some water...and a washbasin so you can get that sand out of your hair, what were you doing in the desert anyways?" Numair asked after along silence.

"Uh..." Ingrid and Hannah looked at eachother nervously.

" You can tell us about it later," Kara said, saving them." We'll get some water and food." She walked out. George and Numair nodded and followed. Hannah breathed a sigh of relief.

Ingrid was about to burst, she couldn't hold back any longer. Her eyes started to water and it took all her concentration to focus on whatever Hannah was babbling about.

" ...And...so," Hannah babbled on. Ingrid couldn't help herself.

"Hahahahaaaaaa!" Ingrid laughed.

"What?" Hannah shot her a angry look. "Whats so funny?"

"Nothing," Ingrid said wipping away tears (of laughter).

"Doesn't seem like nothing, Com'on Ingrid tell me! Whats so funny?"

"He-he was trying to seduce you!"

"SHUT-UP!" Hannah yelled , but then she smiled and started laughing with her. "Did you hear what he said?" They both started to laugh even harder, if that was possible. When Kourrem came in with towels and food Ingrid and Hannah were in hysterics on the ground.

"Alanna?" Kourrem asked. Hannah, not usually called Alanna, just kept on laughing. "Are you alright?"

"Umm..." Hannah realized she was being spoken to. " Yes, thank you."

" Alright," Kourrem looked at her with concern. "George will be here with the water in a moment." True enough just as she said that, George came in with a small basin and a bucket of water.

"Atleast you can wash your hair and face." He said as he set it down. Ingrid and Hannah looked up at them silently waiting for them to leave. Kourrem took the silence as her hint and walked outside. George, started to follow when he remembered something. "Numair wanted me to tell you that the potion should be wearing off on Kel soon." With that he turned and walked out. Ingrid and Hannah breathed a sigh of relief.

" So thats what that shit did," Ingrid said. " Make us sleep!"

"Yep." Hannah giggled.

They decided that Hannah would wash up first. The water basin was small enough that it would fit in her lap. She leaned down to stick her short blond hair in the water to wash it. She caught a glimpse of her reflection. She did not have short blond hair but instead long red hair. ' My eyes must be playing trick on me,' She thought as she starred, wide eyed into the water. She rubbed her eyes and looked again. The same reflection starred back at her.

"Ingrid?" She asked. " What color is my hair?"

" Blond" Ingrid replied.

Hannah took a deep breath and starred back into the water. No way was her hair blond, And her facial features were different too, older. She screamed and through the basin into the air. The basin remained in her hands but water came flying out, drenching Meredith.

Surprisingly enough Meredith acutal woke-up this time instead of sleeping through it like she had everything else.

" Shit" she cursed sitting up abruptly. "What the hell?" At the same time Hannah was running around like a chicken with its head cut off yelling:

" Ahhh! I'm Alanna!ahhhh I'm Alanna!"

Ingrid watched both of them. " You guys calm down," She said. They kept running around. " Please!" They still did not listen. " SIT YOUR ASSES ON THE GROUND! NOW!" They looked at her like deer in the headlights and sat down.

"Good, thats better now we can actually talk and figure out whats going on"

The trio sat down to talk. They talked for the whole day. A couple of times Numair or George came in with food or just checking on them but took their hints and left quickly. By the end of the day they barely came back at all. The sun was just about to set when the girls finally thought they new what was going on.

" So we're in the characters bodies?" Ingrid asked.

"Yea, like in Freaky-Friday," Hannah answered.

"I mean how else could we explain what is happening to us? I mean Hannah looks nothing like Alanna and their are enough differences in Kel and I and you and Daine that they would tell."

" But Hannah looks like she always does to us." Ingrid pointed out.

" Maybe we see eachother how we really are because we are the ones going through it.I mean we're the ones that were switched. They see us as Daine, Kel, and Alanna." Meredith suggested. The sun set and Ingrid yawned.

"Yea! That make perfect sense...I'm so tired" Ingrid couldn't keep her eyes open. Hannah and Meredith also started to drift off. Before long they were all fast asleep. When Numair and George came to say good-night they found them spawled out across the tent, asleep.

"Goodnight Maglet,"Numair said as he kissed 'Daine' on the cheek.she stirred slightly and murmered.

" Night..."

George covered upAlanna, he bent down to kiss her but something about her seemed different. 'What have I done' He thought of her 'flashing' away into the desert.They had found them there, unconcious, and brought them here. When they woke up...well...

Numair and George slipped silently out of the tent after covering up Kel. Numair didn't think there was anything weird about Daine. Maybe it was George's Sight that gave him a glimpse of what was really going on.