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AU: Body Swap
Requested
Tags/Warnings: Dancer! Gender Neutral! Reader
Word Count: 600+
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Lev could feel it, another bad day creeping around the corner. Unfortunately, he had been plagued with bad days as of late, but at least that didn't outway his good days.
This particular bad day started with volleyball practice, which surprised him because volleyball usually stayed as the highlight of his day, that and his daily lunches with (Y/N).
While he was hooking the net to the pole, he stepped on a stray volleyball and fell, twisting his ankle. And just like that, he was out of volleyball practises for the rest of the week, per Kuroo's decision.
"It's better to rest now," Kuroo had said. He clapped a hand on Lev's shoulder. "You don't want to make it worse by pushing yourself. Tons of athletes push themselves too hard when they have an injury and it just makes it worse."
That led him up to here, sitting on the sidelines with his leg elevated watching the practice instead of participating. Kuroo told him that he didn't have to stay, but Lev insisted. He didn't want to miss anything, and even if it might not be much, he could still learn despite being on the sidelines.
Lev rested his against the wall and closed his eyes.
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A bright light blinded Lev's eyes. The pain in his ankle faded slowly, but it was still there. That caused him to stumble, but he got up quickly without realizing it. In fact, he was standing up and his arms were stretched out, and his feet glided across the floor in a movement he didn't know. Another second passed when it clicked that he was in (Y/N)'s body, standing under a bright spotlight in the middle of a stage, in front of a large crowd.
Shit.
He let (Y/N)'s body guide his motions, hoping that the momentum of their past movements would lead into the next. He wished that (Y/N)'s muscle memory of the choreography outweighed his own brain's actions to stop and run off stage.
Lev pressed his eyes tightly together again, he wouldn't mess up this performance for (Y/N).
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Lev caught himself before he tumbled down the last few steps of the stairs. He leaned on his good leg and caught his breath.
He wasn't in the gym anymore. He looked around. The stairway he was standing in led to the school auditorium.
Picking himself up, Lev slowly made his way down the staircase.
He was almost to the entrance when a crowd came through the doors of the auditorium. The performance was done. He ducked through a side door and followed the path to the back stage. He could hear the rustling behind it.
He knocked.
Haru opened the door. They were still in their performance clothes and sweat matted their hair to their forehead. Haru glanced at him up and down and turned their head back into the room. "(Y/N)! There's someone here to see you."
(Y/N) stepped through the door and closed it behind them. "This body switching thing is getting kind of annoying."
Lev laughed. "You're telling me. The sheer panic that went through me when I was standing on stage."
(Y/N) glanced at his ankle and then their own. "Let's sit down."
Lev nodded and braced himself against the wall, sliding down until he reached the floor. (Y/N) followed suit and stretched out their leg in front of them. "I didn't know something like pain could transfer with body swapping."
Lev cringed. "Does your ankle hurt?"
(Y/N) smiled. "It's not your fault."
Lev took (Y/N)'s hand and held it tightly. "From what I could tell, your performance was amazing."
Throwing their head back with a laugh, (Y/N) said, "Thanks. You would know."
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It's a short one because school is kicking my ass, but there will be better (longer ones) coming your way.
So.....there is another schedule change. It might be a little difficult to grasp, Bacon and I are still working out the details, but it's a schedule that'll work better for me (the struggling uni student)(NOT ME, I'm a lazy 13th year! -Bacon).
The one shots will be in like tiny bursts. We'll take a break from posting after next week's one-shot (for a couple of weeks) and from that we'll mass write when we can and then we'll announce/post for a certain amount of time after that depending on how many one-shots we produce.
Also, that takes into account requests. Requests will stay open, but please know that with this new system your request might be delayed by a lot depending on when we post. (They are anyways).
With the revamps, they might be posted in the schedule because editing old ones is easier than writing new ones. So, they'll be a part of the regular posting whenever that is.
Hopefully through this it'll help us produce better quality one-shots in the time that we write.
Also, this may or may not be the same for the summer. That depends on whether we have to do things during that time, but it is definitely what's going to happen during the school year.
Thank you - Kiwi and Bacon
(PS, I'll probably continue writing like normal, just not posting right away and working on longer multi-parted stories if I come up with any) -Bacon
