Everyone was worried. Thad hadn't really spoken since Hunter told him he sounded like a girl. Hunter kept mocking him when Matt wasn't around, clearly not eager to get a second black eye.
One morning Thad left early, his father taking him to his first appointment.
While Thad was nervous, his father was fascinated by it all.
When they were taken back to a room, Thad sat nervously. It was okay if he sounded like a girl here, right? They already knew he had been one.
After a few minute wait, a man walked into the room.
He looked like the absolutely chillest doctor Thad had even seen. He wasn't very old, maybe in his early thirties. He had shoulder-length or so dark hair pulled up into a ponytail at the back of his head.
"You must be Thad," he said, shaking Thad's hand. Seeing the expression on his face, he chuckled. "Something surprising?"
"It's just that all the other doctors I've ever seen call me by my birth name," Thad explained.
"Well, welcome to the place where we call you by your actual name."
The sides of Thad's mouth quirked up in a smile, nervous as he was.
"You can call me Jason. So, Thad, you've been binding with a proper binder, correct? And it's your size?"
He nodded. "I've never used anything else. I just kinda wore looser clothes."
"Good. Binding incorrectly can cause permanent damage, so that means you should be able to get top surgery, if you wish."
"Should be?"
"We'd still have to check, to be one hundred precent sure that it's safe," he explained. "Have to started taking testosterone?"
"Um, yeah, a bit ago."
"Have you noticed any changes yet? Increased sex drive, irritability or aggression, anything like that?"
"I'd say irritability, yeah. Either that or everyone just got more annoying. But not really aggressive."
"Increased sex drive?"
"I'm asexual. So, no."
"What form do you take it in?"
"Um, it's like a lotion."
Jason nodded. "What would you say about a different method that might work quicker?"
"Like what?" Thad asked cautiously.
"A shot, every two weeks."
"A shot," Thad repeated.
"You don't have to, of course. It's just another option."
Thad's mind was fighting with itself. Part of him was terrified of shots and knew he'd be freaked out, and the other part just wanted to physically be a guy as soon as possible.
"I'll do it," he said before he thought about it too much and psyched himself out.
"Thad, you hate needles," his father reminded him.
"I don't care. I'm doing this," Thad said determinedly.
"If you're sure."
"I am."
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Back To Our Roots, Book One
FanfictionThad hasn't had the easiest life. It doesn't help that he's been called a 'she' for most of it. After attempting to end it, he enrolls in Dalton Academy. Meeting an old friend whose life he saved without knowing it, his old friend's boyfriend who i...
