Who: Rapunzel and Bo Dennis as Laura What: Body swap shenanigans Where: Rapunzel’s apartment When: Friday morning (4/22) Rating: PG-13 Status: Complete
Her morning alarm was going off and Rapunzel let out a groggy groan as she reached over to turn her phone off. Ugh, why did she have to have classes on a Friday morning? All she wanted to do was just snuggle in against Laura and stay there for the rest of the day. Once her head was clear enough she managed to turn it off and then rolled over to find Laura beside her. They were both just wearing tank tops from the night before and she reached out to gently shake her arm. “Hey, babe, we gotta get up and get going to class. Wake up,” she murmured as she gave Laura a couple more shakes before crawling out of bed and heading towards the bathroom to wash her face and wake herself up in the process.
The alarm had jolted Bo awake a bit, and she idly wondered why one was set. She didn’t need to get up, and she hadn’t thought Lara needed to get up and be anywhere this morning. So she was going to ignore it and go back to sleep. At least until someone she assumed was Lara started shaking her arm gently. But the voice was decidedly not Lara’s. Bo’s eyes shot open and she bolted up right.
“What the hell?” She asked, though as soon as she popped upright, two claws extended from both of her hands. Luckily they didn’t stab anyone, but Bo grimaced as they hurt coming out. “What the fae is going on?” She asked as she stared at the claws, then she looked at the girl who had woken her up.
“Uhhh...where am I? This is not where I fell asleep…” Smooth Bo, smooth. But her heart was pounding and she had no idea what was happening and suddenly she had claws that came out of her hands like the Wolverine?
The bolt out of the bed and the telltale sound of metal claws coming out of her body made Rapunzel turn around quickly and stare in confusion at her girlfriend. This kind of thing hadn’t happened in quite a while since they first stayed together and Rapunzel had learned how to wake her up and Laura had learned how to calm down a little bit.
But then came the words from her girlfriend’s mouth and her brow furrowed even further, “What? What do you mean, Laura? You spent the night last at my place. It’s not like we got drunk or anything last night, so you should at least remember that much. And why aren’t you retracting your claws yet?” This was not normal. Not at all. Was this some sort of OC thing happening right now?
As much as Bo was hoping she’d simply stepped into the Twilight Zone or that she was still dreaming, perhaps this was an OC thing happening. She stared back at the claws like they were going to bite her. Which they probably would if she moved her arms in the wrong direction. She then looked back at the young woman. Who had called her Laura.
“Okay, first of all, I’m not Laura. Well, at least not in here,” she carefully gestured towards her head. “My name is Bo Dennis and while I did fall asleep with my girlfriend last night, my girlfriend is Lara Croft. So, uh, I think the OC is at it again?” She was trying to keep herself calm. “So, do these claws like, retract on their own or something?” And then just as she said that, they did retract. “Holy shit,” she muttered and flexed her hands. Yeah, those things hurt.
“Shit,” it was a simple word said in a breath as she reached up to run a hand through her hair. Yep, this was definitely something OC going on right now. So, was Laura currently in this Bo person’s body? Waking up next to Bo’s girlfriend and being just as confused as Bo was. A small frown deepened as she watched Bo and then her eyes went a little wide when she managed to get the claws to retract.
“You’ve got a healing factor, it won’t hurt so bad. If the pain doesn’t go away let me know and I can help heal you,” Rapunzel explained, “But, alright Bo, I’m Rapunzel. I should probably put some pants on. Do you want me to take you back to your place? I can skip classes.” She made a move to grab some shorts that she had thrown in the corner earlier. Probably better to fully cover herself up in front of a stranger.
“That’s good to know,” she responded about the healing factor. Though of course when Rapunzel mentioned she could help heal her, Bo’s definition of helping to heal was the, uh, chi-sucking ability she typically had. Which...wait. If Bo was in Laura’s body and having Laura’s abilities, that must mean that Laura was in her body with her powers.
“Oh shit, I have my own clusterfuck of powers that Laura will be waking up to.” That was possibly not going to be good, especially on top of Lara probably taking poorly to a stranger being in her bed. “I’m totally sorry about this.” Not that it was Bo’s fault, but she felt like apologizing anyway. “Though you don’t have to take me back if you don’t want. It’s not that much trouble to catch the bus or take a taxi or something. Plus school is important.” So said the woman who hadn’t finished high school.
“Oh no,” Rapunzel’s face fell when Bo made a declaration like that. This wasn’t a good situation and Rapunzel was not enjoying the idea of anything happening to anyone because of something like this, “Do I want to know about your powers?” Rapunzel quickly waved off her apology because it wasn’t her fault. The OC was once again making a mess of things and Rapunzel felt useless in her ability to properly help her girlfriend. She found her pair of shorts and wiggled into them hoping Bo didn’t mind being flashed for a moment, but at least they hadn’t woken up completely naked beside each other.
“I can totally do that. Don’t worry, I can miss a couple classes,” they were probably just refresher classes anyway and she can make up whatever was going on, “I can take you. I don’t know how Laura would feel about someone else riding her motorcycle, and I’m not going to make you take a taxi. Let me find her clothes from last night.”
Bo flexed her hands a bit, almost afraid to move her arms much. She wasn’t sure what triggered those claws to come out, and she didn’t want to accidentally stab herself or stab someone else. “Uh, well, I’m a succubus. I feed off of chi, or life energy, during sex. I don’t have a good handle on how to control myself while doing that yet. I can kill people very easily when I don’t have control over myself or my powers. Though when I feed off of chi, any wounds I have heal. That can be triggered just by a kiss. So, uh, just be careful when you see her? I don’t want you to get hurt or anything.” Bo took a breath. This could be very bad, and now she was even more worried.
And she was seriously hoping that nothing bad was happening back at Lara’s. Lara at least had ways of dealing with the chi-sucking if Bo couldn’t stop. It just involved either a taser or the old alarm clock to the head trick.
“Oh jeez, I’ve never driven a motorcycle before so I wouldn’t even consider trying to drive it. But thank you. This is definitely not an ideal situation. But it could be worse.” At least she supposed, anyway. Mutant monkeys could be attacking the city again. Or something worse along those lines.
“Oh….” Rapunzel’s lips formed that O-shape and stuck with it for a while, her eyes a little wide and crazed, and listened. That sounded like an interesting power to have and she was a little nervous that Laura would cause issues with it since she wouldn’t have a handle on it. She had heard of a succubus before in myths, but never actually ran into one or expected them to be real, “Okay….good information to know. Kinda scary. You may want to give her a crash course so she doesn’t kill anyone.”
“Yeah, it’s never an ideal situation when the OC decides to strike. Let me grab my keys and we can head over. Laura’s clothes are in a pile over there,” she pointed as she went to grab a shrug to put over her tank top and grab her purse so they could get into the car, “Let’s get you back to your own home.”
“I will. Could you give me her cell number? I’ll call her later once I’m a little more together.” Bo also needed a crash course in those claws and how to not accidentally stab anyone. But until then, she would ensure to not point her knuckles at anyone, including herself, to avoid anything unfortunate happening.
“Oh, thanks,” she said, then went and retrieved the clothes. Bo seriously felt awkward. She wasn’t as top-heavy as she was in her own body and she was shorter. She pulled the clothes on, not bothering to do anything with her hair. Right now, she just wanted to get back home. “Thanks for like not totally freaking out or anything.” Bo gave her a slightly awkward smile. It was quite a jolting way to wake up, that was for certain. With any luck this wouldn’t last all that long.
“Yeah, let me write it down,” She grabbed a color pencil that was lying on the ground and found a scrap of notebook paper as she jotted down the phone number. It was the least she could do since the two were going to have an in depth conversation about the switching of powers.
“I’ve seen a lot worse,” Rapunzel admitted with a smile. She didn’t mind this weirdness since Bo seemed like a really nice person and she honestly just wanted her girlfriend to get back into her own body soon. She dug around for a moment and found her purse with her keys and held it up triumphantly, “Perfect, got my purse, let’s get out of here and reunite the two of you and you can awkwardly stare at your original bodies.” Yeah, this would be a crazy reunion, but Rapunzel knew it came with the territory as she led the way out of bedroom and out of her apartment.