Chapter Two
Jack had utterly frozen. His own feminine manicured hand, with long bright pink talons on the end of each finger, rested against his plump, glossy, wide-open mouth. What the hell had they done to him? Was there some kind of mix-up? Was it a case of mistaken identity? No, it couldn't be; the doctor had said his name. The more Jack allowed his mind to reel off every possibility, the angrier he got. Eventually, it was too much for him to contain.
Screaming with his new high-pitched voice, he didn't hold back. "What the fuck have you degenerates done to me? Do you know who I am and who I have in my pocket? I am going to sue the living hell out of this place. You will be camping in a tent on the street before I am done with y-"
The doctor had had enough. "Candi Doll, sit down and don't speak until I give you permission."
When the doctor finished his interruption, the strangest sensation ran through Jack's newly feminized body. His glossy mouth closed, and he found his ability to talk muted. He still had an entire hoard of insults to hurl at the doctor, but no matter how hard he tried, his mouth would not cooperate. To enhance his anger even further, Jack felt control of his body disappear as he sat down demurely at the end of a medical bed.
"That's better." The doctor continued. "My name is Doctor Franks. I'm sorry I had to take these measures, but we must handle this delicate situation carefully, I'm sure you understand. It will do us no good to us if you scream the building down."
Jack's gorgeously crystal blue eyes narrowed, his arched eyebrows pointed higher on his head, a scowl appearing on his gorgeously cute face, but words continued to fail to escape his lips. Had the doctor drugged him? They could do many borderline-magical things with science these days, but controlling someone's body against their will remained in the realm of fiction as far as Jack understood.
"We thank you again for choosing the Life Assurance program with us at The New U Clinic. However, we didn't expect the demise of your original body so soon after you signed the contract." Jack had no choice but to sit patiently and listen to the tall man in the white coat. Jack wasn't entirely convinced that the man was all that tall or that he was just that much shorter than he used to be. Jack still only managed to comprehend half of what the doctor was telling him, using the rest of the time to envisage ways to bring the clinic to its knees when this was all said and done.
"It actually takes about 12 months to fully form a clone body. Clones are made from fully biological matter and don't just grow overnight. I do have some good news though, Mr Thorne." Through everything said so far, Jack doubted that any news coming from the doctor's mouth would be all that good. "Due to the unique nature of your case, we have expedited the growth of your clone, and it should be ready for you in about 6 months."
One year? Six months? Jack's seething anger was growing inside his nubile body. Why did they not explain this when he signed up for the program? It seems like some pretty important information that they conveniently forgot to deliver. What has happened to him now? What happened to his original body? Why the hell can't he yell out these questions? His thoughts zoomed at their usual million miles-per-second rate, and it was all the more frustrating that he couldn't verbalize them.
"But nonetheless, this has put us in a precarious dilemma. It is doubtful that you would have survived if we had put you in a coma in your original body for six months. The damage was just far too great. Your mind would only last about 2 hours in our 'Mind Transferral Pods' before it would start to receive major brain damage." Jack followed the man's explanation as best as he could, but questions and comments speeding through his mind meant that his brain often drifted off elsewhere.
"And so that puts us where we are now. Unfortunately, due to the massive expense of creating a clone body, we had no backup to transfer your mind to. We needed to act fast before your mind started to deconstruct, so we transferred your mind into the best available vessel."