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Vex & Vax: Day 1, backdated to 3/25/19
Twinswap Plot, Day 1 Vex fucks up a teleportation charm. Vex and Vax swap bodies.
On Vex’s list of useful charms to make teleportation was high priority. There would be a day when calling Yana wouldn’t work out, and Vex needed her own way to get to Vax faster or vice versa. Open ended plane shifting seemed way too risky to dabble in, so she focused her efforts on a “bring me to this person” charm. Vax willingly parted with a lock of hair, Vex added a new charm to her necklace, and then she spent a few days focusing on the necklace and thinking of her brother.
With most of her charms, there was either a physical reaction or a sense when the magic took hold. As Vex sat on her bed, legs crossed, and eyes closed in meditation she finally felt that click of something insubstantial locking into place. Vex squeezed her fingers around the locket and thought, take me to Vax.
There was an instant of vertigo before she opened her eyes in Vax’s bedroom. “Shit, it worked!”
But no, no it really hadn’t worked.
Vax had been sitting on his bed in his room, quietly and discretely reading that new romance novel that Caleb had him on when things started to feel... strange. For a moment, he thought he might be getting sick or something, but after a quick wave of vertigo, the whole sensation eased, and he breathed out, looking down at his hands, only to find the book gone.
Frowning, he looked up...and blinked to find himself sitting on Vex's bed. Clearly located in Vex's room. Vaguely, he remembered something about her mentioning a teleportation charm she'd been working on, but he'd never figured it would just...happen. Just like that.
Vex dropped the book she was suddenly holding and looked around Vax’s room in confusion. Then she looked back down at the book, at her hands, at her legs...
“Oh. Fuck.” Vex dove for Vax’s phone on the nightstand. She dialed herself from the favorite contacts and put her face down on Vax’s pillow while she waited to connect.
Vex's phone was ringing. Only Vax was staring down at his chest...and the breasts located there. Blindly, he reached for the phone and brought it numbly to his (his sister's?) ear. "This is not what I expected you to do with that lock of hair, sister..."
“Oh no,” Vex said mournfully at the confirmation. “This is not what the spell was meant to do. What the ever living hell. Can you still shadow over here?” Or could she... “This is about to be a headache...”
"Stubby," Vax said slowly, as if trying to reassure himself that she was actually her since it was really odd hearing his own voice coming at him from the phone, "What did you do?"
“I fucked up a charm, clearly. It was meant to take me to you. Not. Trade me with you.” She looked down at Vax’s hand. As similar as they appeared, their differences were very obvious from this perspective. “We’ll fix it. It will be fine. The necklace is probably around your neck.”
On her...right. He touched the necklace at his rather slim and dainty throat, then pushed off of the bed to his feet, eyes widening slightly at the way he seemed to have lost about twenty pounds. And maybe a couple of inches too. He wobbled a step, then crossed toward the mirror on the opposite wall, staring at his sister's reflection. "Fuck me, this is real. I have breasts. Vex'ahlia, I have breasts."
“You do.” Amusement finally bled into Vex’s tone. “Congratulations. I mean, in some ways I guess this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Just no grabbing them in public. Let’s not shock anyone else.”
"This is not-" Vax was going to say 'funny', but he supposed on some level, it was. Instead, he focused on her second statement as he shook his head (her head?). "What do you think I am? Some kind of monster? Breasts they might be, but they're also yours. Besides, I'd rather get this turned around before either of us has to go out in public."
He reached up to the necklace again, focusing on it in the mirror. She'd added a new charm, he saw, in addition to Trinket, and he touched it thoughtfully. "So what should I do to activate this thing?"
Vex worried her bottom lip. She was going to have to think of it as hers because focusing on who’s hands who’s lips she was using right now was way too confusing. She was doing the action, this was a thing.
“Okay... so I focused on you. Bringing me to you. I guess give that a try?”
Vax frowned at the mirror. "Do I focus on you... or me?"
“It was designed to go to you, not me. It’s your hair in the charm. Maybe it will find your body?” Vex flopped back on his bed. “We may need to make a new one. But try.”
Try. Right. Vax took a deep breath and tried to ignore the way his breasts heaved upward as he did so, and closed his eyes, thinking about himself. His body. Him. All things shadow. For the love of all the fucking gods...
...but nothing.
After a long, awkward, silent minute of doing this, he instead tried concentrating on his sister. Take me to her. Her, everything Stubby. The infuriating one who had dabbled in enchanting and had trapped them in each other's bodies. But no. He let out a long sigh. "How hard is it to make a new one?"
Vex shut her eyes. “How hard is it to summon shadows?”
Vax leaned his forehead against the mirror. "Please don't say that we're stuck like this for the next six months while I try to learn your power."
“We’ll fix this sooner. I’m not the only one with magic, we’ll figure this out.” Vex lifted her hand. “But seriously. Tips for shadow traveling. Is it a focus thing?” They might as well both fail to try each other’s powers.
"No," he sighed, lifting his head and trailing back to her bed. "It's a... feeling. Embracing something in yourself. As long as the darkness is a part of you, you're a part of it. Then you can just reach out and take it."
Vex dropped the hand. “Oh, brother,” she said softly. “What on earth is wrong with us? I might be glad that you don’t have my powers.”
He frowned to himself as he lowered himself to the bed. “Why? How do youuse your power?”
It was so weird that now they were having this conversation, and it had never dawned on her to pry more details from Vax sooner. "It's a bit of a feeling and a focus. I'm pretty sure if I focused on objects and embraced the darkness of my soul all the time we'd end up with arrows that summon black holes. Try not summon any black holes while you're in there? Pretty please?"
"Well, I'll do my best, but no promises," Vax offered wryly. He realized that when she asked 'what is wrong with us,' she really meant 'what is wrong with you?' And honestly, he didn't really want to have that conversation yet, especially not when he was in her body. So he skipped right past that, and moved on to: "We need to talk to the Professor."
She sighed. “Yeah. Probably a good idea. Want to head down now? I’ll meet you at the end of the hall?”
Vax started to reach for the shadows, then shivered at the thought that they weren't there at all. Not for him. Not the way they usually were. He couldn't cloak or hide himself in them anymore. He definitely could not use them to move about the school without being seen. "Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. I'll meet you there."
“We’ll fix this,” Vex said, infusing as much confidence and assurance as she could into her tone. This was her fault, and she wasn’t going to leave her brother stranded in the wrong body. “See you in a minute.”
On Vex’s list of useful charms to make teleportation was high priority. There would be a day when calling Yana wouldn’t work out, and Vex needed her own way to get to Vax faster or vice versa. Open ended plane shifting seemed way too risky to dabble in, so she focused her efforts on a “bring me to this person” charm. Vax willingly parted with a lock of hair, Vex added a new charm to her necklace, and then she spent a few days focusing on the necklace and thinking of her brother.
With most of her charms, there was either a physical reaction or a sense when the magic took hold. As Vex sat on her bed, legs crossed, and eyes closed in meditation she finally felt that click of something insubstantial locking into place. Vex squeezed her fingers around the locket and thought, take me to Vax.
There was an instant of vertigo before she opened her eyes in Vax’s bedroom. “Shit, it worked!”
But no, no it really hadn’t worked.
Vax had been sitting on his bed in his room, quietly and discretely reading that new romance novel that Caleb had him on when things started to feel... strange. For a moment, he thought he might be getting sick or something, but after a quick wave of vertigo, the whole sensation eased, and he breathed out, looking down at his hands, only to find the book gone.
Frowning, he looked up...and blinked to find himself sitting on Vex's bed. Clearly located in Vex's room. Vaguely, he remembered something about her mentioning a teleportation charm she'd been working on, but he'd never figured it would just...happen. Just like that.
Vex dropped the book she was suddenly holding and looked around Vax’s room in confusion. Then she looked back down at the book, at her hands, at her legs...
“Oh. Fuck.” Vex dove for Vax’s phone on the nightstand. She dialed herself from the favorite contacts and put her face down on Vax’s pillow while she waited to connect.
Vex's phone was ringing. Only Vax was staring down at his chest...and the breasts located there. Blindly, he reached for the phone and brought it numbly to his (his sister's?) ear. "This is not what I expected you to do with that lock of hair, sister..."
“Oh no,” Vex said mournfully at the confirmation. “This is not what the spell was meant to do. What the ever living hell. Can you still shadow over here?” Or could she... “This is about to be a headache...”
"Stubby," Vax said slowly, as if trying to reassure himself that she was actually her since it was really odd hearing his own voice coming at him from the phone, "What did you do?"
“I fucked up a charm, clearly. It was meant to take me to you. Not. Trade me with you.” She looked down at Vax’s hand. As similar as they appeared, their differences were very obvious from this perspective. “We’ll fix it. It will be fine. The necklace is probably around your neck.”
On her...right. He touched the necklace at his rather slim and dainty throat, then pushed off of the bed to his feet, eyes widening slightly at the way he seemed to have lost about twenty pounds. And maybe a couple of inches too. He wobbled a step, then crossed toward the mirror on the opposite wall, staring at his sister's reflection. "Fuck me, this is real. I have breasts. Vex'ahlia, I have breasts."
“You do.” Amusement finally bled into Vex’s tone. “Congratulations. I mean, in some ways I guess this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Just no grabbing them in public. Let’s not shock anyone else.”
"This is not-" Vax was going to say 'funny', but he supposed on some level, it was. Instead, he focused on her second statement as he shook his head (her head?). "What do you think I am? Some kind of monster? Breasts they might be, but they're also yours. Besides, I'd rather get this turned around before either of us has to go out in public."
He reached up to the necklace again, focusing on it in the mirror. She'd added a new charm, he saw, in addition to Trinket, and he touched it thoughtfully. "So what should I do to activate this thing?"
Vex worried her bottom lip. She was going to have to think of it as hers because focusing on who’s hands who’s lips she was using right now was way too confusing. She was doing the action, this was a thing.
“Okay... so I focused on you. Bringing me to you. I guess give that a try?”
Vax frowned at the mirror. "Do I focus on you... or me?"
“It was designed to go to you, not me. It’s your hair in the charm. Maybe it will find your body?” Vex flopped back on his bed. “We may need to make a new one. But try.”
Try. Right. Vax took a deep breath and tried to ignore the way his breasts heaved upward as he did so, and closed his eyes, thinking about himself. His body. Him. All things shadow. For the love of all the fucking gods...
...but nothing.
After a long, awkward, silent minute of doing this, he instead tried concentrating on his sister. Take me to her. Her, everything Stubby. The infuriating one who had dabbled in enchanting and had trapped them in each other's bodies. But no. He let out a long sigh. "How hard is it to make a new one?"
Vex shut her eyes. “How hard is it to summon shadows?”
Vax leaned his forehead against the mirror. "Please don't say that we're stuck like this for the next six months while I try to learn your power."
“We’ll fix this sooner. I’m not the only one with magic, we’ll figure this out.” Vex lifted her hand. “But seriously. Tips for shadow traveling. Is it a focus thing?” They might as well both fail to try each other’s powers.
"No," he sighed, lifting his head and trailing back to her bed. "It's a... feeling. Embracing something in yourself. As long as the darkness is a part of you, you're a part of it. Then you can just reach out and take it."
Vex dropped the hand. “Oh, brother,” she said softly. “What on earth is wrong with us? I might be glad that you don’t have my powers.”
He frowned to himself as he lowered himself to the bed. “Why? How do youuse your power?”
It was so weird that now they were having this conversation, and it had never dawned on her to pry more details from Vax sooner. "It's a bit of a feeling and a focus. I'm pretty sure if I focused on objects and embraced the darkness of my soul all the time we'd end up with arrows that summon black holes. Try not summon any black holes while you're in there? Pretty please?"
"Well, I'll do my best, but no promises," Vax offered wryly. He realized that when she asked 'what is wrong with us,' she really meant 'what is wrong with you?' And honestly, he didn't really want to have that conversation yet, especially not when he was in her body. So he skipped right past that, and moved on to: "We need to talk to the Professor."
She sighed. “Yeah. Probably a good idea. Want to head down now? I’ll meet you at the end of the hall?”
Vax started to reach for the shadows, then shivered at the thought that they weren't there at all. Not for him. Not the way they usually were. He couldn't cloak or hide himself in them anymore. He definitely could not use them to move about the school without being seen. "Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. I'll meet you there."
“We’ll fix this,” Vex said, infusing as much confidence and assurance as she could into her tone. This was her fault, and she wasn’t going to leave her brother stranded in the wrong body. “See you in a minute.”
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...I also really, Really want Yana to come visit Vex. Except there's a strong possibility she'd try to "fix" things and make them 100x worse. ;)
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