And another story draws to a close. Yes I am well aware that I took yet another massive hiatus while writing and the Borrowed Wings saga seems fated to stall shortly before the last chapter, and end with a far too short cliff hanger. It was never really my intention to leave everyone hanging and it probably cost me my audience, but I got distracted by both the Freed and something shiny. It happens a lot.

Anyway as has become traditional I'm going to do all the author's notes that would have gone along with the story but I never write. First though, I'm sad to announce that it is unlikely that I'll be doing a sequel, mostly because I want to start writing my own projects and so many of my stories on Fan Fiction will be coming to a close. It's actually a shame because I have the plot of the next story hashed out, though I probably shouldn't tell people that.

Anyway, now for the comments.

For Not Human it was very much my aim to make a character that was the literal opposite of Soph and, while I did just let Kit grow on her own, it was always my intention to make a character that could actually look after herself and wouldn't be overly distraught about her transformation. While Kit probably takes this to extremes a little, you may notice that while Soph always focuses on the fairly insignificant changes in her personality, Kit tends to focus on the physical things. Oddly the more superficial physical changes bug her more than the fact she's now mostly tiger, specifically her feet, but Kit's weird like that.

Now you can probably read too much into Kit's apparent lack of concern over her transformation; while she doesn't like it she's well aware that she almost certainly wont be getting back to normal (Soph probably knows this intellectually but prefers to hope). Kit is very much an immediate person that very rarely dwells on the past. This attitude's partly due to the changes in Kit's personality and partly because she was always like that, I'm not entirely sure exactly which one is more relevant. I suppose in the end Kit is Kit and always was Kit, and as far as I know her overall personality didn't change much because of the treatment. She definitely wasn't another Soph before, but the bloodlust is not really due to any changes in her personality.

That sounds weird I know, but what actually changed about Kit were her instincts and that's why she finds it so hard to notice anything different about herself. How do you measure how much your ruler shrunk with the same ruler? This is why Kit tends to do some odd things, for example killing Erasers. She doesn't actually see any problem with killing them as they're trying to kill her, or worse, but she doesn't really go out of her way to hurt them. Technically, it's about fifty-fifty whether she actually kills an Eraser or not, and it's mostly based on if it's faster to knock them out or tear out their throat. There's no particular aggression in her intent but from a human perspective she comes across as just a touch bloodthirsty.

To use a different analogy for how Kit's thinking has changed; she is asking all the same questions: fight/ flight? hide/ run? but getting totally different responses as her subconscious has been replaced by that of a tiger. She struggles with allowing people to help her because big cats are essentially solitary animals, she empathises only on the intellectual level for the same reason, she even naturally attacks from behind which is something tigers will always endeavour to do. Her conscious thoughts are all the same but she's getting entirely new messages from her subconscious and that's why Kit ever so subtly acts 'not human'.

Now onto some of the content. One of the running themes of Not Human was that everyone was still willing to help Kit; despite the fact she now looks like a horror movie star and in all honesty the Erasers are more human. Why people trust her over the rather less blood stained and more official looking Erasers I'm not exactly sure, I really should wave it off as a plot device and leave it at that but I cant help feel that there's something deeper that I haven't quite figured out yet. Oh well.

Anyway, Not Human and Borrowed Wings have a couple of common features; notably the final car crash and an abrupt ending, and oddly I never actually intended this to happen. I only really realised that there was a crash in both stories shortly after finishing Not Human but I suppose they do happen for totally different reasons and Kit does have the chance to be badass afterwards. Once again I do apologise for making the final part of each story so short but they both kind of just end quietly after all the action. Home for Soph and Kit is a peaceful place and tends to stay that way, or at least it will until the Erasers start hammering on their door.

Now a few final things I should mention. First Kit's physiology. Now I am very bad at doing character descriptions and it's actually rather difficult in first person, you very rarely do a full description of yourself and Kit especially has reason not to mention her appearance. Again simply put, Kit looks like a large bipedal tiger, (actually she's a little skinnier than a real tiger though that's mostly due to most of her muscles being underdeveloped because there wasn't enough of her to begin with - she'll bulk up). Its something I think I struggle to put across very well, Kit doesn't look like a slightly tiger-y person, like say the Erasers who look a bit like wolves, but a five foot six cat standing on its hind legs. It really makes me wonder why people react so well to her.

A few other random facts. Kit is fully quadrupedal and really it's just up to her whether she stands upright or on all fours, mostly she fights on all fours simply because she can move faster and she's at thigh biting height, though as you're well aware Kit usually goes for the throat. And now let's see: Kit does have some problems balancing while upright but that's mostly a practice issue as she had to get used to her feet, due to the adaptations to her hands she can't hold objects nearly as well, and there's also her arms which are now hinged completely differently, but that's fairly redundant as Kit compensates and so they never shows up in the story.

Now one final thing, which is a spoiler, but I realised I may never actually get round to explaining this within the story so here it goes. The lab has very little to do with Soph and Kit's healing powers, it is a latent gene from within their family line which the White Coats accidentally switched on and this gene is responsible for their ferocious internal defences. In a nut shell it induces hyper rapid cell division in a trauma area and as genetic replication isn't really possible at those speeds, it also repairs any damaged or incomplete DNA.

This is the only reason Soph and Kit were able to survive having their genes overwritten, unfortunately for them their bodies started defending themselves with the new code rather than the old and that's why the Lab is after them so badly. There's also an ulterior motive for the Lab wanting Kit and Soph and not just for completing their 'recoded' program. This is because, and only one person in the storyline has realised this, Soph and Kit wont age beyond about twenty six and unless killed are practically immortal.

And with that revelation I'll give a few thanks and bid you adieu. So thank you everyone who reviewed:

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And anyone who was anonymous

Also thanks go to my Beta, and apologies to anyone I growled at while writing Kit.

Thanks for reading.