This choice: ...one of the children gets transformed. • Go Back...Chapter #6...one of the children gets transformed. by: Unknown "Put Kimmy down!" Tessa said in a firm voice.
She'd walked into the room, dragging Robbie along behind her, to find Billy standing on the dining room table. The eight-year-old boy was forever in the habit of climbing up on anything and everything, so that wasn't what had alarmed her.
And the porcelain statuette he was holding hadn't seemed all that alarming, either.
The small pile of clothing - Kimmy's clothing - on the table next to him...that was alarming.
That and the transformation device next to it. Very alarming.
"Look!" said Billy, grinning and holding out the delicate doll, "she's a ballerina!"
"That's nice, Billy," said Tessa. "Now put her down!"
"NO!" he yelled, suddenly rebellious. He clutched the porcelain ballerina tightly to his chest. There was a muffled cracking sound and the upper torso of the ballerina fell onto the table top. The head and one arm popped off, the head skipping across the table and onto the floor.
"CRAP!" said Robbie, chasing after his sister's head.
Billy looked at the remains of the doll in his hands - its tutu and long, slender legs had also parted ways. He began to cry.
"She said she wanted to be a ballerina!" he wailed.
"What's going on in there?" they heard their mother ask from the other room. "Your father is sleeping."
"It's okay, Mom!" Tessa called back, trying to keep from crying herself as she gathered up the pieces of her broken sister. Then looking up at Billy: "Don't worry, we'll fix her."
"I'm not sure," said Robbie, looking stricken. 'I can't find the head." He looked around. "And there's little shards all over the place."
"Shit," said Tessa. "We'll just have to try with what we have, then."
She picked up the transformation device, imagined Kimmy, closed her eyes, and pointed it at the little pile of shattered porcelain.
She heard a loud exhalation of relief from Robbie and a nervous giggle from Billy.
"That was cool!" exclaimed Kimmy.
She opened her eyes and saw Kimmy being embraced by Robbie. Tessa quickly joined the hug, then let go of the pair so that she could examine her sister.
Kimmy appeared complete and intact.
She was also buck naked.
"Put your clothes on young lady," she growled without much animosity. And you get off of the table, you jackanapes," she said to Billy.
"Amazing," murmured Robbie.
"It is," replied Tessa.
"No, look," he said gesturing around them.
All of the porcelain shards were gone. Reincorporated into Kimmy, it would seem.
Kimmy, putting on her clothes now, said, as though she were reading their thoughts: "my head went down the heating vent."
"You could tell what was happening? You were conscious" asked Robbie.
Kimmy nodded. "But it was dark. Being broken felt totally weird."
"I can imagine," said Tessa, picking up the transformation device.
"Well, actually, I don't suppose I actually have to...."  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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