This choice: Go to her dinky little apartment in town • Go Back...Chapter #6Go to her dinky little apartment in town by: DougTF   Melanie's mind is still that of the recent college grad, and her responses still rooted in human emotion and thought processes. She thinks that she needs to get out of here and get home, but then jumps a little as her hand starts dissolving into seeming nothingness right bef....
And before her mind can finish processing it, her whole body disassembled itself into bosons, smaller even than photons, and moved at the speed of light to her apartment downtown, reassembling her just as fast, her mind, slow to catch up, at least for the moment.
...ore her very eyes. But then a mental lurch as she realizes she just formed in her own apartment, though someone has been in here. Nothing was taken, but there are some police flags about....the authorities searched her place, but why? Going over toward her computer she pauses, seeing the date on the screen saver. It's four days later (she has no idea it took a full day for them to figure out what happened to her, nor that the lab was shut down for three days before she came back) but she doesn't recall anything other than cleaning the collider strike plate and that hum.... Her eyes widen, her human mind knowing enough about high energy physics to have an idea what must have happened, and how it could explain her moving instantly from the lab to her apartment. She looks around, and considers a test, concentrating on being in her bathroom. Being aware and paying attention this time, she feels the tingle as her body completely reduces itself to subatomic particles, nearly instantly reassembling itself in her bathroom. Gasping at the realization, she opens the door and goes into her bedroom, staring around the room. "Holy crap....I... I'm made of bosons, well, I mean, like my awareness controls them? So I can teleport anywhere? I need to get changed into more casual clothes" she says this aloud and thinks it, but her mind is still not quite up to speed with her abilities. She collapses, her body turned into skinny jeans and tank top with a sorta casual blazer, the clothes falling to the ground where she has been standing. She would shout in panic, but of course, she's clothing now and shouting is not on the menu of things a cute casual outfit can do. Looking up at the ceiling, feeling herself in three pieces, and how different she feels, she pieces together what happened, and why her thought about changing into this outfit now means something very different. If she had a human body she would likely have hyperventilated and passed out, but being clothing prevented that, so she is fully aware and able to think about her situation. If she really is made of just bosons and can disassemble and reassemble herself anywhere, then what is there to say what she has to reassemble herself as? Apparently nothing, which is how she wound up as clothing. Taking a moment to consider, she concentrates, wanting herself to assume her human form, but wearing the outfit she had envisioned for herself. Sure enough, her form disassembled itself and put it back together, now standing in her bedroom wearing the jeans, top and blazer she envisioned. Running her hands over herself, Melanie realizes she isn't just wearing the clothes: she is the clothes in addition to her human self. The bosons that make up her body formed the clothing as well. Smacking herself in the side of the head, she chuckles...of course, that's why when she teleported she wasn't naked. Her lab clothes got zapped with her, and her mind simply controls the particle of that stuff as well, just assuming it into herself.
Her mouth opens, eyes widen, as the totality of what happened to her and what she is just hit her. She can teleport anywhere and become anything....unsure if there are any limits at all. She needs to test this, and could use someone to trust, but at the same time, is there anyone she could trust with this sort of secret? Considering it Julie comes to one of two conclusions:  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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