Chapter 4

A/N Day 5 of Mordecai's change.

(Musical montage: imagine the song Teenage Dream playing in the background with this scene playing out)

Mordecai is raking the leaves with Rigby. Benson comes up to check on them and slips a note in a Mordecai's hand as he walks away. Mordecai looks at it (Do you like me? Tick yes or no) He watches his boss walk away, slightly weirded out.

Its in the afternoon. Mordecai is checking the fridge for something to eat. He sees something sticking to a plate with a PB&J sandwich on it and picks it off. He sees it's another note, this time with a picture of him and Benson and sticks out a tongue. He drops the paper, shuts the fridge and walks off.

When he's brushing his teeth for bed, he has Benson suddenly join him at the sink. He puts his brush in the toothbrush holder and walks out, irritated.

He wakes in the middle of the night to hear music playing outside. He gets up, annoyed, and goes to the window. Benson's standing there, playing Party Tonight and singing the lyrics, looking up at the window and when he sees Mordecai, he smiles. Mordecai goes back to bed and throws himself on the mattress. He groans loudly.

(End of montage...)

Mordecai is up to his whits end about this. He slams the bedroom door and sits on the bed. Soon, Rigby comes up after hearing the door shut and when he sees Mordecai just sitting there with his head in his hands, he gets confused and stands there for a moment.

"Dude?"

Mordecai slips his hands down his face. "Yeah?"

"You ok?"

Mordecai puts his hands back over his face and groans. "No Rigby. I'm not."

"Why? What's up?"

"BENSONS SLOT!" He blurts out angrily

Rigby jumps back then stares at the blue jay as he drops his hands by his side. Mordecai lets out a really frustrated groan and falls back onto the bed. "Okay, I take back what I said. We gotta go see Skips to get the antidote for this stupid potion."

"Stupid? Since when did you think this potion was stupid? If I remember correctly, you were the one who said you wanted to ride this out for as long as it takes."

Mordecai sits up. He glares at the raccoon, "Yeah, I'm also the one who said they wanted to change back! I've had it with being a girl. And I don't care how good these girls clothes look on me! I want to go back to being Mordecai."

Rigby goes quiet. He's thinking it over. "Why the sudden...outbursts?"

"BECAUSE BENSON'S FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ME!" Mordecai screams in frustration and jumps off the bed, "Our boss has fallen in love with me Rigby. Me. His employee. Ugh it's so wrong. I just...he won't leave me alone! He's left me notes, he keeps flirting with me everytime I talk to him or we make eye contact and he just...he's been acting really different and...I don't like it. At all. Please can we get an antidote?"

Rigby waits. He sees the desperation in Mordecais eyes and he sighs. "Fine. We'll get an antidote."

Mordecai grins, despite Rigby's little complaint. "Yay! Thanks Rigby!"

Rigby rolls his eyes. "Ugh whatever."

Mordecai opens the door and they bolt downstairs. But they run into Benson before they can get to the bottom step.

"Where do you think you two are going?" Benson asks Rigby sharply but when his eyes land on Mordecai, he softens and his eyes go glassy: "Nevermind. You can go."

Benson's more love drunk than usual, Mordecai thinks as he follows Rigby out the door.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay like a girl-OW!"

Mordecai stares daggers at him as Rigby rubs his arm. They continue on to Skips' house.


After Mordecai got over the initial shock of finding out the Skips knew the entire time, he sat next to Rigby on the yetis bed. Mordecai explained the entire story to Skips about Benson and the wise man nodded. Along with the gender transformation, he had also known of the gumball machines sudden love struck to this new employee.

"...so do you have an antidote to..." Mordecai paused to motion to himself. "this?"

Skips nodded and the blue jay smiled.

"Great. Where is it?"

"It's in the back of my van. But it's not finished yet."

"What do you mean?"

"An antidote like this doesn't just take a few days. It may even take at least one more month to finish."

Mordecai stared at him. "WHAT?! Are you serious?! I can't stay like this for another month!"

"Well, you're gonna have to until the antidote's completed."

"Ugh!" Mordecai groaned then collapsed on the bed. After about a minute, he sat up and looked at Skips. "What am I gonna do about Benson then?"

Skips paused.

"Like do you have any antidote for his...love drunk...ness?"

Skips shook his head, making Mordecai sigh irritably. "What is going on with him is on account of his own emotions. It's what he's feeling towards you that makes him behave like this. If it were a potion however, I do have an antidote but because this is just Benson, I'm thinking he's not gonna get over this feeling until you change back."

"So I'm gonna have to live with that, plus being a girl, for the next month?!"

Skips nodded. "I'm afraid so Mordecai."

Mordecai groaned. He felt tears come to his eyes. "But I can't live with this! Benson's already serenading me and he keeps leaving notes in our room with pictures drawn of him and me. It's just weird."

"How long has this been going on?"

"Ever since I was changed into a girl."

Skips stopped. "I'll have a talk with him about his behavior towards you. Hopefully he'll be able to control his emotions around you."

Mordecai sighed, relieved. "Thank you Skips." A thought struck him and his chest got tight. "You won't mention my change will you?"

Skips shook his head. "No. It would freak him out and honestly I'm not sure how he'd handle the news."

"Thank you Skips." Mordecai repeated. He stood up and turned to the raccoon. "Come on Rigby. We gotta go rake those leaves before Benson finds out."

Rigby jumped off the bed and followed the blue jay out the door.