A/N: eek! Sorry for the fakeout update earlier today, this one is for real honest! There was an error on the site that didn't let me see the latest chapter and I thought I'd not uploaded the last one, so I'd only just uploaded it to find out that I had! So here's a new chapter to make up for it, I'm sorry I've left this so long but I've only just gotten re-inspired to write this again after a few helpful prompts from fans, so here you go.
Sam and Tucker watched Danny incredulously as he or rather she scarfed down the remains of his second nasty burger.
"Jesus Danny, where are you putting all of that?" Tucker half laughed half gawped.
"Gimme anotver!" Danny ordered spraying moist crumbs everywhere.
"Yes ma'am." Tucker said warily as he took the five dollar note that Danny had slammed down on the table in front of him. Sam waited until Tucker was out of earshot before speaking,
"What is with you Danny? You can't just keep scarfing food down like that." Sam said watching as Danny struggled to swallow the giant mouthful of burger that he'd been working on.
"And why not?" He asked after taking a long draught of lemonade.
"Well for a start eating three consecutive nasty burgers is grounds enough to get a person sectioned, and secondly, you can't eat like that as a girl." Sam said lowering her voice.
"Pfft, that's bull." Danny snorted rolling his eyes disdainfully at such a notion.
"Nuh-uh, an adult woman is only meant to have 2000 calories a day, that's 500 less than men. I'm not saying you should be obsessed like the damn calorie counting cheerleaders over there-" Sam said jerking her head in Paulina's direction who Danny noticed was drinking a diet soda and eating a nasty salad, something that Danny had always thought of as a really pointless activity. "But you can't keep that pace up."
"Watch me." Danny said poking his tongue out as Tucker returned with the glorious third burger.
"A moment on the lips…" Sam smirked in a sing song voice.
Danny woke up the next morning begrudgingly to the sound of his alarm, he growled and slammed a slender hand on it violently and much to his distain the alarm wouldn't stop going off, Danny fumbled for the button before settling on making the wall intangible and throwing the damn thing though it. With a small satisfied sound he listened to the fading sound of the alarm before the crash as it hit the floor several stories down. Reluctantly he stood up and stretched and wandered across the room to his dresser, he supposed the day wasn't going to leave him away and there was school of course. Danny selected some underwear that didn't look like it was going to cut him in two if he pulled on it too hard, he pulled on some jeans feeling at least somewhat grateful that his wardrobe hadn't changed all that much from when he was a boy. After a few minutes struggling with his bra clasp and successfully getting into it he walked to the mirror to grab his shirt from yesterday that had been casually thrown on top of it.
"What the hell happened?!" He yelped staring at the reflection that he'd just started getting used to. He looked… huge! Danny jumped closer to the mirror and turned sideways on to inspect himself, he stared in dismay at what he saw, it looked like he'd put on a stone overnight at least! Shakily he tugged on the waistband of his jeans, they seemed no tighter than yesterday, but still he looked huge.
"Holy crap… Sam wasn't kidding." He muttered pulling on a shirt and acting surprised that he managed to pull it over his now huge frame.
Danny dejectedly stuffed his books in his locker and silently vowed never to go anywhere NEAR nasty burger again in his life.
"Morning Danny." Sam greeted him as she rubbed her eyes, evidently still tired.
"Morning." Danny replied sullenly.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked noticing the change of mood in the usually chipper boy.
"I should have listened to you about Nasty burger, I've put on like, twelve stone overnight. How on earth did you ever eat there before without this happening to you?" Danny moaned gesturing as his gargantuan body.
"You look the same to me…" Sam said after carefully looking the halfa up and down.
"Oh so what, I'm always this huge?" Danny snapped angrily.
"I- what?" Sam blinked confused.
"Nothing… I just… you really can't see any difference? I swear I've…" Danny trailed off hopelessly as he realised how silly he was sounding.
"Nevermind, I'll see you later." Danny muttered as he headed off to the bathroom as the bell went, he could afford to be a little late to class. Danny looked around the bathroom and with relief noticed that it seemed to be empty, he turned and examined himself in the mirror. There was no denying it, he definitely looked bigger than he had yesterday. He squeezed his eyes shut and tried to think about the whole thing rationally, he wasn't really used to his new female form and he knew that he was much curvier around the hips now that he was female but it had seemed that he still weighed the same so it was probably just more delayed shock about his body change rather than an actual change in his appearance. That and his jeans fit the same as they did the day before and Sam has said he looked the same.
Reluctantly he opened his eyes and looked at himself again, it was no use, regardless of how rationally he thought about it he just looked at himself and the back of his brain screamed the word 'fat' at him, he cursed Sam for putting the idea of gaining weight in his mind yesterday.
Danny's musings were interrupted by an awful retching sound that made him jump, it was coming from a stall behind him, someone was throwing up and quite violently from the sounds of things.
"H-hello? Are you okay? Should I go get the nurse?" Danny asked shakily edging towards the stall.
"No!" A slightly raspy voice snapped at him, Danny frowned with the raw edge to the voice taken off that almost sounded like…
"Paulina?" He asked cautiously.
"No, the pope." Paulina muttered before the flush of the toilet cut her off, a few seconds later a slightly pale looking Paulina emerged and stood in front of the mirror and inspected herself.
"You should really go to the nurse if you're ill, I saw you at Nasty burger yesterday, they had a round of food poisoning a while back, maybe you've got that." Danny offered feeling concerned, Paulina shot him a look that could kill from the mirror.
"I'm not sick you idiot." She growled at him as she fished around in her bag and pulled out a bottle of mouthwash and took a swig.
"I think if you're throwing up that's a pretty good sign you're sick." Danny replied a little more coldly, he'd forgotten how nasty Paulina was to him as a girl, Paulina spat the mouthwash in the sink and glared at him again through the mirror.
"Listen to me you little freak, read my lips: I'm. Not. Sick. Now, you tell anyone about this and I'll crucify you." Paulina growled at him before pushing into him and exiting the bathroom.
Danny stood in the bathroom for a few moments feeling baffled until his brain hit upon the idea that if Paulina wasn't sick, as she'd been quite insistent on, then she'd meant to throw up. The word 'bulimia' burned it's way into Danny's brain as he stood slack jawed in the bathroom. His figure in the mirror caught his eye again, sure he might think that he looked huge today for some reason but he'd never go as far as that.
'but imagine a lifetime of feeling like this, still so sure?' a voice in the back of his head whispered. Danny burst out of the bathroom and ran as fast as his legs would take him to class, feeling shaken.