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Vala Mal Doran (goddessforhire) wrote in mtgolfiersfolly,
@ 2011-01-17 22:10:00

Entry tags:

body swap

Body Swap, waking up
Who: Vala
Where: Inside the inn
When: In the morning
Open to: Eric
Thread: Single

It was early in the morning, Vala could tell by the bright light streaming in through the window and right into her eyes. "Eric, close the bloody curtains," she grumbled, turning over. She tried to go back to sleep but something wasn't quite right, something about that was off.

It took a moment but then... light! In Eric's house! She flailed and sat up but Eric wasn't next to her and it wasn't his house nor his room she woke up in. "What the--" she broke off, her eyes widening. That was not her voice. She looked down at her body and it was not her body. There were parts missing that she remembered having the night before and new parts she didn't remember ever having.

She stood up and moved to the mirror over the nightstand, Sam's face was staring right back at her. She reached out and touched the mirror and Sam did the same. She frowned and Sam's face frowned; she reached out and touched her cheek, poking it and Sam did the same.

"Oh fuck me," she breathed.

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	viking_sheriff 2011-01-20 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	"I think you're right," Eric agreed. "Let's keep moving." The next room looked- and felt- like a jungle. It was hot and humid and filled with lush green vegetation. Monkeys swung across vines and through tree limbs. "Definitely not useful," he muttered, closing the door again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

goddessforhire
2011-01-20 11:07 pm UTC (link)

"No, but the monkey was really cute," Vala added, watching the animal as Eric closed the door. "Anyways right! Next one!" Vala bounced down the hall and placed a hand on the doorknob, about to open it. Suddenly, her head started pounding, blood rushing through her ears as a vision swam before her eyes. Her fingers released their grasp on the doorknob as she staggered slightly, needing to lean on the doorframe.

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	viking_sheriff 2011-01-20 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	Eric followed his lover down the hall, instantly alarmed when he saw Sam's form stagger. "Vala?" He rushed over to her and wrapped an arm around Sam's waist to steady her. "What happened? Are you alright?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-20 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	She shook her head, grabbing onto Eric's arm and using him instead of the wall to steady herself. "I ... saw something?" She asked, looking over at Eric as if he would know the answer to what was going on. "Almost like a vision? Sam gets visions??" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-20 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know," Eric murmured. "I was not aware that Sam had any psychic talents but I suppose it's possible. Might explain why he told me that the supernatural had fucked up his existence." He brought his free hand up to Vala's face, stroking along Sam's jawline with the pad of his thumb. "What did you see, Vala?" he asked gently. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-21 12:51 am UTC (link)
	Vala blinked slowly, turning her head to Eric, resting her cheek in Alcide's calloused palm. "I saw two men, I don't know either of them but they both seem to have an unhealthy admiration for flannel. They said something about hunting, thats all I saw." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

viking_sheriff
2011-01-21 01:35 am UTC (link)

Eric considered that, trying to make some sort of connection between the vision and what he knew of the Folly. He glanced down at the flannel shirt of Alcide's that he was wearing. He couldn't think of anyone else on the Folly who wore flannel on a regular basis though, and he didn't picture Alcide to be the hunting type. Well, unless you counted squirrels and rabbits on the night of the full moon. "Do you think it was something from Sam's reality?" he asked.

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goddessforhire
2011-01-21 01:40 am UTC (link)

Vala took a moment thinking about it before nodding. "I've never seen either of them before and I don't think I recognised where they were either. That part doesn't say much though, there are quite a few places around here I wouldn't recognise. Maybe Sam knows who they are... Should we mention this to him? I assume having visions isn't new to him."

She sighed and shook her head, "In any case, we should probably keep searching. No matter what it was I saw being in different bodies isn't going to be useful." She gave Eric a wide, easy smile and reached again for the doorknob, pushing it open and entering the darkened room.

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viking_sheriff
2011-01-21 02:42 am UTC (link)

"It probably wouldn't hurt mentioning it to Sam," Eric said in reply to Vala's question.

Eric entered the room just behind Vala, once again cursing his inability to see in the dark in Alcide's body. There were a number of different gizmos and gadgets, some on tables in the middle of the room and some on shelves lining the walls. "Now this looks promising," he murmured. He began investigating the items in the dark.

When he reached the third shelf, he saw something that made his mouth fall open. He squinted at the label to make sure that he was reading it correctly. "No way. There's no possible way that it's going to be this easy," he thought. Out loud he said, "Vala, come over here. I think you're going to want to see this."

In front of him on the shelf was a machine with the words Body Swapping Device engraved in it.

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	goddessforhire 2011-01-21 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Vala came over and looked at what Eric had found. Cocking her head to the side, Vala stared at the device before breaking out into a giggle. "You think its really that easy?" She asked, confused as hell as to how everything else in the folly could be so hard and difficult and make no sense at all but that this would just have its name written out like this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-21 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Eric smirked. "I'd wondered the same thing myself when I first saw it a moment ago. I don't know whether to trust it or not. But if this isn't what we're looking for, then why the hell would they label it like this?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-21 03:35 am UTC (link)
	"To confuse us?" She muttered with a shrug. "How come this is labeled like this when his damned mechanical sea monster is controlled in ancient babylonian? And his portals! Which remain with no instruction at all. I swear, this man, is a sloppy scientist." She nodded to emphasis the fact but grabbed at the machine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

viking_sheriff
2011-01-21 11:27 am UTC (link)

Eric simply shrugged at Vala's rant. He didn't know why things were they way they were on the Folly. When Vala picked up the machine, Eric checked the shelf underneath of it to make sure that they weren't leaving anything behind. The shelf was empty. He supposed it would be too much to ask for a set of directions telling them how to operate the conveniently labeled machine. "Seems like we found what we came for," he said, turning to his lover. "Shall we head back?"

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goddessforhire
2011-01-21 07:29 pm UTC (link)

Vala nodded. "We might as well, stay too long in this castle and you don't know what may try to set you." She shuddered, remembering the mechanical lake monster. "We should take this to the tavern, have everyone look at it and see if there are any among us who have any fucking clue what this thing is." Val a highly doubted that part, but it never hurt to at least try.

She looped her arm into Eric's, walking in step with him back aout the castle. "What happens if we can't figure it out? We just stay like this do you think?"

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	viking_sheriff 2011-01-21 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	Eric nodded at Vala's suggestion that they take the device back the the tavern. It would be better to have several people trying to figure out how the device worked rather than just the two of them. Eric's eyed widened at Vala's question. "I fucking hope not. I refuse to be stuck in Alcide fucking Herveaux's body forever. I'd rather be dead." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-22 12:39 am UTC (link)
	"Don't you fucking say that," Vala snapped, grabbing and jerking onto Alcide's arm, spinning Eric around to face her. She wasn't used to being able to push and shove Eric around and the feeling was kind of nice. "Don't you dare say you'd rather die." She added a glare for good measure, hoping that it came out alright from Sam. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-22 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Eric hadn't expected such a strong reaction from Vala, nor had he expected her to be strong enough to be able to jerk him around. He was weaker than his usual self in Alcide's body. He gave her a sheepish look when she snapped and glared at him. "Sorry," he muttered. "I did not intend to upset you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

goddessforhire
2011-01-22 01:28 am UTC (link)

Vala stopped walking and waited for Eric to catch up with her. "I know you didn't intend to darling. I ... reacted badly, I'm sorry." She sighed and looked over at him; reaching out, she cupped the side of his face with her hand, her thumb running over the stubble that was there. "You're just... You're human now. And I don't like to think about the idea of you dying."

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viking_sheriff
2011-01-22 02:14 am UTC (link)

Eric sighed and reached up to thread a hand through Vala's hair. He had meant it when he said earlier that he missed Vala's long hair; Sam's wasn't nearly as much fun to play with. "Not quite human," he thought to himself, thought he didn't say anything out loud. Even if he didn't particularly like Alcide, he wasn't trying to give away his big secret. "I understand," he murmured. "I don't want to think about anything happening to you, either. The only dying I want you to do is at my hands, when I drain you and then bring you back as a vampire."

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	goddessforhire 2011-01-22 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Alcide's hands were large like Eric's but she couldn't look up at Eric like she used to and his hands felt hotter than she was used to. She smiled at Eric's words, as morbid as they might sound to some, they were almost comforting for her. "I know darling," she whispered, leaning into his hands and pressing a kiss on the closest finger she could reach. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-22 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Eric smiled and slipped an arm around Vala's waist, and then nodded in the direction that they'd been walking before. Silently he took a small step forward, gently pulling Vala along the path toward the town. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-22 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Vala wrapped her own arm around his waist and followed him, letting Eric guide them back down the mountainside from the castle. "So what should we do with this? See if anyone knows how it works?" It was an unlikely plan but it was the only one that she had. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-22 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I suppose so. Otherwise it's just going to sit around and collect dust and we're never going to get back into our regular bodies." Before long they were back in town, and Eric guided them toward the main square in town. "Did you want to take that thing to the bar now?" he asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goddessforhire 2011-01-22 03:56 am UTC (link)
	"We could," she agreed, looking back over at the tavern behind her. "Unless you had something else you'd rather be doing... during the day... With the sun out." She grinned slowly an idea beginning to form in her mind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	viking_sheriff 2011-01-22 04:11 am UTC (link)
	Eric knew that look very well, though it was sort of odd to see it on Sam's face. It meant that Vala was plotting something, probably something that involved no clothes and would be lots of fun. Eric loved seeing that expression on Vala's face. "What did you have in mind, my lover?" he inquired with a curious smile. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)