Lead The Way (BL)

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What is this smell? It smells nice but...hm...

Gene was still muddle-headed when he woke up. His droopy eyes peered around the room, slowly taking in what he saw. White walls, flashing machines and a large tv on the wall across from him. There was also a slight mechanic drawl buzzing throughout the room. Gene blinked a few times when he saw a bunch of flowers arranged neatly on a table beneath the large windows. Why am I at the hospital? eh, what happened? When Gene thought this, only then did everything from the night before suddenly come back to him in a rush. His eyes drastically widened and his body shook when he remembered the crash and the out of body experience.

Gene raised his left hand to his face and his mouth fell open. Where there was suppose to be a burn mark on his pinky from when he was younger, now there was nothing. Not only that, but his hand looked a lot smoother and delicate looking. To confirm from one look at a hand, even Gene thought he was insane. But with everything that happened...how could he not believe it was true?

His lungs hurt and his muscles ached, but besides all that, Gene felt fine. In fact, he felt incredible. Gene winced when he tried to sit up and quickly gave up on that notion, the strong will of last night became a thing of yesterday. Scratch that, Gene felt better than he looked.

Feeling seriously drained, Gene opted to only moving his head around. He looked back at the flowers in thought. They were at arms length and so he reached out to grab a bunch. The flowers smelled nice and looked pretty, but Gene didn't care for any of that as he only wanted what was on the little card attached to them. He took the card off and returned the flowers to the table.

Gene fingered the card in his hands hesitantly and before he opened it, he took a deep breath. Only when he was ready, did he open the card and read the contents. His heart seized at what he read.

Dear Cia,

Hope you get better and we have that lunch date you promised me.

Sofia

Gene blinked. Cia? His name is...Cia? But...isn't that a girls name?

Dread filled his chest. When Gene was in his soul state, he hadn't taken the time to really look at the man whose life he took over. Even when he looked at himself in the mirror last night, he hadn't truly looked. He was only thinking about himself but now that he thinks about it, the man...or was it a woman?...made a hazy but very pretty image in his head.

Feeling suddenly scared, Gene made to stand up again. But the pain was against him and he fell gasping on the ground. All he wanted was to look in the mirror, to confirm the truth of his appearance. He didn't even think to see if his body parts had changed, because to him, that thought was as worse as peeping in on a girl when she was getting changed and if he was a girl now....he just didn't have the perverseness to commit such act and so that thought was instantly nulled. He also couldn't feel whether he lacked genitals all not because of all the medication that he was on.

But he could still feel pain.

Pain pain pain.

Gene couldn't move and his breathing became uneven and rapid. He wished he had the will he produced last night, but for the life of him, it wouldn't show itself. Gene couldn't help but think life was playing a sick joke on him right this moment and that he was going to die after just being resurrected because his chest started to hurt so bad. Just as these thoughts entered his head, the door to his room opened.

A pair of laes nurses and a female doctor rushed in.

"Get him up on the bed! Hurry but be gentle!" The female doctor demanded.