The Switch
Part 2
by Blue Violet
"Uh, can you pass me a mirror," she asked urgently. She felt herself sweat some more. Now that she thought about it, her voice sounded a lot like Duo's.
"Why? Afraid you don't look handsome anymore?" asked Quatre teasingly and Trowa handed her a mirror.
Relena took the mirror with a shaky hand and prepared for the worst to come. She looked into the mirror...and screamed.
"Kyaaaa!!!!"screamed Relena as she clutched at her face. Duo's face. "I look like Duo!"
The others were looking at her strangely.
"Duo, is something wrong with you?"asked Quatre worriedly.
Relena opened her mouth to say that she wasn't Duo but suddenly she was cut off by a scream that came from the next room. Her scream.
"Hn. It's that annoying girl screaming," sniffed Wufei. "They should just gag her."
"I'm telling you, I'm NOT Relena!" screamed 'Relena' from the next room. "I'm Duo! I'm Duo Maxwell!"
Heero smirked. "That girl must have gone loony after getting struck by lightning. Now, we can happily send her off to the loony bin."
More shrieks came from the next room. "I'm telling you, I'm not Relena!" shouted Duo as Relena. "This has gotta be a bad dream." Then, "Ow! What did you do that for? You didn't have to pinch me!!!" A doctor's voice can be heard saying, "You said that this is all a bad dream. I'm proving to you that it isn't."
Quatre was giggling. Trowa had a small smile on his face. Heero and Wufei were snickering. And Relena felt uneasy and weird.
"Uh, I think it isn't very nice to laugh at Relena," said Relena quietly.
Heero looked at her with a surprised expression. "I thought you liked to laugh at Relena, too," said Heero.
Quatre cleared his throat. "I think I should go check on Relena," he said. "It would be very rude if I didn't."
Then he walked away followed by Trowa. Wufei said, "I'm not going to see Relena but I'll leave you guys. I'm not in the mood to talk to you, Maxwell." Then he went out also.
In the next room, Duo was fuming on his bed. He was shocked to find out that he was in Relena's body as soon as he woke up. The first thing he did when he woke up was to see if his hair was still in perfect condition or not. But when he touched his hair, it wasn't in his usually braid but it was much shorter, had two small braids dangling at the back, and it was in a different colour. And when he checked his reflection in a mirror, he saw Relena's face and not his.
Then he started screaming and decided that maybe it was all a bad dream and then that stupid doctor had gone and pinched him. He frowned, looking at the bluish mark on his arm but then remembered that this was Relena's body and brightened up a bit.
There was a knock at his door. "Come in," he said in a dull voice.
The door opened and Quatre and Trowa walked in. "How are you, Relena?" asked Quatre politely. Quatre and Trowa sat down on the chairs beside the hospital bed.
Duo sighed. "I feel weird. I'm in the wrong body. I want my body back!"
Quatre and Trowa exchanged looks. "Hontou ni daijoubu desuka?" asked Quatre.
"No! I'm not OK!" said Duo in a frustrated voice. "I'm really Duo and I'm stuck in Relena's body!"
"Maybe you should see a psychiatrist," suggested Trowa in a monotone. "It would be better for you."
"Fuck you! Fuck everyone!!" shouted Duo. "Why the fuck doesn't anyone believe me!?"
"I believe you," said Quatre quietly. Duo couldn't believe his ears. "Eh? Did you say that you believed me?" Duo asked.
Quatre nodded his head. "I believe you, too," said Trowa. "Relena would never use obscene words."
Duo flung his, uh Relena's arms over Quatre's shoulders. "Oh thank you, thank you!" he cried happily. "Finally! Some people who believe in me!"
"Of course we believe in you," said Quatre in an assuring tone. "We're your friends after all. We know you better than anybody else!"
"I hope that Heero believes that I'm Duo stuck in Relena's body, too," said Duo warily. "Where is Heero, by the way?
Quatre and Trowa exchanged another look.
"Well?" prompted Duo.
"Uh, Heero's next door. With your body. With Relena."
In the other room, Heero was all alone with Duo who was actually Relena. Duo was very quiet and that made Heero worried especially when Duo was never ever quiet in his life.
"What's wrong with you," asked Heero. "Are you really OK?"
"I'm fine," whispered Relena. Then she asked, "Do you love me, Heero?"
Heero smiled. "Of course! You know that I will love you forever. I hope you didn't forget that, Duo."
Relena felt sad. When she asked Heero that question, she had forgotten that she was in Duo's body. "Do you love Relena?" she asked.
"Relena?" asked Heero laughingly. "Duo! How many times have I told you, I love only you!" Heero gave Duo (Relena) and assuring hug.
"He really does love Duo," thought Relena with dismay. "He has no room in his heart for me." Unexpectedly, tears began to roll down her (Duo's) face. Heero saw Duo crying and wiped away the tears with his hands.
"Shh, don't cry," whispered Heero. "I'll always be here for you. Don't forget that." Then he planted a light kiss on Duo's lips.
Relena was practically swooning. "If getting stuck in Duo's body means getting all the love I can get from Heero, then I'm definately staying!" she thought.
She wrapped her arms around Heero. And kissed Heero deeply. Heero didn't respond to the kiss but instead stiffened and suddenly a voice yelled, "Hold it right there!"
Relena turned her head towards the voice. There in the doorway was Quatre, Trowa and her body!
"Stop it right there!" shouted Relena who was actually Duo. "How dare you kiss Heero!"
Relena as Duo smirked. "Don't you remember Relena? Heero all ready told you that he's mine," she said remembering the dialogue at the park that day.
"Quit playing games with me!" shouted Duo. "I'm the real Duo! And I'm stuck in your stupid body!"
"That's right," said Quatre. "Heero, you have to believe us. Somehow Duo and Relena have switched bodies! According to what I heard from uh, Duo here, maybe the switch happened when they were struck by lightning!"
Heero was quiet. He turned to Duo (Relena) beside him and said, "You're really Relena, right?"
"What makes you say that?" said Relena indignantly. "Can't you see who's in front of you?"
"I can see who you are!" snapped Heero. "It's Duo's body all right. It's also Duo's voice I hear speaking to me. But inside, I think you're really Relena! I could feel that you aren't Duo when you kissed me."
"You must be mistaken," said Relena, feeling worried that her cover would be blown. "Why are you listening to 'Relena'? Why don't you believe in me?"
"I don't know what to or who to believe! But I believe in Quatre," said Heero. "Quatre would never tell a lie."
"Well, you never know!" snapped Relena. "Besides, Relena could have paid him to play along with such a ridiculous story."
Heero didn't know what to believe. And he was getting a headache. Of course, the part of Duo and Relena switching bodies were hard to believe but Quatre couldn't possibly have lied to him, right? But what if he was mistaken? And what if this whole situation was true?
He didn't have to think much longer because the next second, Wufei stepped into the room.
"What's with all the commotion?" asked Wufei. "I can hear you guys shouting in the hallway. So what's the trouble?"
Quatre quickly filled him in on the details. "So you see, Duo is trapped in Relena's body and vice versa. But Relena does not want to admit that."
Wufei nodded his head slowly. "Sou desuka. This is quite hard to believe. You people could be playing a trick on me for all I know. But this is Quatre who's telling me all this!"
"You know you can always trust Quatre," said Trowa smiling at Quatre who was beside him. Quatre smiled back at him and hugged him. "Arigatou Trowa," he said.
"Oi, Wu-man. You'll believe me when I say that I'm actually Duo, ne?" Duo asked Wufei with pleading eyes.
"Don't listen to her," said Relena in a haughty voice. "I'm the real Duo Maxwell, all well in my own body."
"Err..."
"Come on Wu! You gotta believe me!" pleaded Duo. "You have to believe me when I say that I know all the secrets you ever told me. Like the part where you always dissappear to secretly meet Treize."
Wufei was blushing bright red. "You're seeing Trieze?" asked Quatre in surprise. The others also had surprised looks on their faces. Except for the person who claimed to be Duo but was stuck in Relena's body.
"Urusai! It was supposed to be a secret you baka!" hissed Wufei. "You're not supposed to blab people's secrets!"
"Sorry but if I didn't do that you'll never believe me!" said Duo. "You do believe me, do you?"
"YES!!! Now don't go around blabbing more of my secrets!"
"No problemo. Shinigami always keeps his word!"
"So, who are you going to believe now?" asked Trowa in his usual monotonous voice. "Us, or that person beside you?"
Go on to Part 3!
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