5% [visual | location: Kaylee's bunk aboard the Serenity]

[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

A terrified looking Kaylee appears on your tablet screens, her hair a mess and her face like she's just seen a ghost. She's clutching a shirt to her naked chest.

"I-I-I think there's some kind of problem here. T-This is Spencer Reid, but I seem to have... woken up in this female body. I-I don't understand..."

He runs a hand through his - or Kaylee's, rather - hair, appearing as though he's about to have some sort of panic attack or worse.

"I just.. I'm trying to get out of here - I don't even know where 'here' is, actually - a-and I need to get dressed because um.. apparently this woman doesn't sleep in much. But, I found some clothes and I'm trying to put them on, but I can't... I can't..."

Now Spencer-as-Kaylee's face is bright red as he stares down at the floor, mortified to ask the question he's about to ask.

"H-How do you put on a bra?"

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[couldbeawillow.livejournal.com]

"Uh-"

...Wow, what a question. Willow had been pretty sure she'd seen some odd things, but this? This is the strangest. Her (His?) face is bright red as well as she tries to explain.

"Make the cups face your chest, slide your arms through the loops, a-and try to clip the hooks behind you. If that doesn't work, you might have to clip them in front of you and then slide it around the right way."

...Oh, right, might want to explain who she is.

"Oh, uh, this is Willow."

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer-as-Kaylee stared back at the man on the tablet. Why was a man telling him how to put on a bra? Then it hit him. Her name was Willow.

"Willow, I-I don't think we've had a chance to meet yet..."

And this was certainly quite ridiculous circumstances.

"...but are you saying that you got transformed into someone else as well?"

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[couldbeawillow.livejournal.com]

Willow was of the opinion that "ridiculous circumstances" was putting it very mildly.

"I, uh, know Kaylee, but I don't know if I know you, whoever you are. This isn't how I normally look. I just woke up like this. I guess you did, too?"

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I went to sleep in my apartment and woke up... in this... room. I appear to be on some kind of grounded aircraft..."

He clutched the shirt more tightly to his chest.

"Oh uh.. let me try your suggestion about the bra..."

He searched for where he had left the bra on the bed, then held it up between his thumb and forefinger as though it were a diseased object. Spencer wrinkled his nose, his blush deepening.

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[couldbeawillow.livejournal.com]

"I'd suggest, uh... not doing that in front of the tablet? I-I don't think Kaylee would want everyone to see her like that."

Among other things.

"I think I'm still in the Castle, but this definitely isn't my room..."

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[wantstwolegs.livejournal.com]

While she doesn't look anything like herself at the moment, Kara can't help but reply. «Spence? Hey, it's Kara. Don't worry, you're not the only one that's been swapped.»

She'll never admit it out loud, but damn if she isn't grateful there's someone freaking out about this. Helping someone, trying to calm them down, is doing wonders for shoving away her panic for a time when she could actually deal with it.

And then the last question registers and Kara is glad for the fact that she no longer has a mouth since it means she can't smile like she wants to right now. «See if there's a sports bra anywhere around, that'd be one without any clasps. Those you can just slip over your head like a shirt.»

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer jumped slightly at the vision on his screen.

"Kara? What are you? Has everyone turned into someone else?"

He stood up and turned back to the drawer where he had found this bra, attempting to find what Kara had described.

"Sports bra? I don't think she has any..."

Spencer felt like a pervert, ransacking this poor woman's underwear drawer.

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[wantstwolegs.livejournal.com]

«I'm in someone else's, body, Spence, and that person just happens to be an alien.» Never before has she been so grateful that her own body looked human on the outside.

But, really, what girl didn't own a sports bra? Maybe Kara just hung out with weird people back home. Yeah, that was probably it, considering her only friends were in the cape community or knew about it.

«Alright, then take a normal bra, clasp it and then try and slip it over your head that way. It's not how you're supposed to put them on, but for now it'll do.»

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer had to admit that while becoming a girl was pretty terrible, he was still pretty thankful that he hadn't turned into... whatever the heck Kara was.

"O-Ok, I'll try that.."

He turned away from the tablet and clasped the bra with shaky hands, then stretched it and tried to slip it on over his head, his arms getting a bit tangled in the straps.

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[wantstwolegs.livejournal.com]

Kara looks away from her tablet, not really wanting to accidentally get an eyeful of some random person's body. «Just treat it like a tank-top. The straps are the sleeves and the cups go in the front. It's just... smaller and shaped differently.»

Okay, not her most helpful advice ever, but she needed to be saying something and bras could be pretty tricky. Poor Spencer.

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[not-so-magical.livejournal.com]

"Oh. --Oh."

It's extremely weird, Kaylee is finding, to not only wake up a man, but to also look into the closest tablet and find your own panicked face staring back. Man-hands fumble to connect with the tablet, and she stumbles across the apartment to get to a table where she can lean over it properly.

"Alright, s'alright, calm down--you're me, and...Oh shénme tā mā dì dìyù."

Wow Chinese didn't feel right with this mouth.


[[ "shénme tā mā dì dìyù" = "what the fucking hell" ]]

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer nearly fell over at the sight of himself on the tablet. He gawked at his bedhead. Is that really what he looked like in the morning?

"What? Is that Chinese? Anyway, uh... I'm sorry... about this... I-I'm trying not to look at your body, if that's any consolation..."

Spencer then realized that she would probably have to look at his and his blush deepened.

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[not-so-magical.livejournal.com]

"Chinese, yeah. Mandarin." Kaylee hasn't had a chance to find a mirror just yet, but just out of nerves she reaches up to smooth the hair down a bit. She's dreading what might happen if it comes to the bathroom. It's not like she's never seen certain things before, but this guy...he seems like he'd be plenty embarrassed about it.

Hopefully this doesn't last long.

"Given the circumstances...go ahead and look. Might make it easier. Or just go without the bra, if you really can't get it. Should all be in the top drawer there..."

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer looked up at her, his eyes wide.

"Y-you're ok with me looking at you? I considered not wearing a bra, as your breasts are rather small and would probably not need the support that a bra offers anyway."

It doesn't cross Spencer's mind that referring to Kaylee's breasts as "small" might be insulting.

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[not-so-magical.livejournal.com]

"You wouldn't be the first to see 'em. Gotta say, though, for all the times I've woken up with somebody I don't know, this is the first time I've woken up as them. If this...is you, I mean."

She's just assuming, because if it's not than she has no clue at all who she's in.

Kaylee actually laughs at the size comment. "Easier to squeeze into smaller spaces with 'em, I'll tell you that much."

[noheatnikki.livejournal.com]

The first thing Kate does before responding is to check the mirror to make sure she looked like herself. With a relieved sigh, she picked up her tablet.

"Reid? Seriously, don't even worry about a bra."

[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer's blush deepened even more when he saw Beckett. But how had she managed to get out of this?

"Y-You're still yourself..."

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[noheatnikki.livejournal.com]

Kate shrugged.

"Yeah, I don't know what happened. Are you here at the apartment?"

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

"No.. I'm wherever this woman lives. Some kind of... aircraft or boat."

He shivered, realizing that he was still shirtless.

"The bra. Yes, this woman's breasts are quite small so it might be possible to still feel comfortable without one."

Spencer eyed Beckett.

"Your breasts are small as well. Do you find that to be the case?"

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[noheatnikki.livejournal.com]

Kate smirked.

"Are you looking at my boobs, Reid?"

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[cealaigh.livejournal.com]

That is definitely not a look River is used to seeing on Kaylee's body, but today seems to be a day of firsts.

"You don't know?"

Excuse the accent, and the fact that this large vampire is assuming Spencer would somehow already know how to put on a bra. Or that he should know that he's on a spaceship, whichever. It's hard to tell, and she's just a little too out of her element right now to clarify.

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

Spencer stared back at the man who appeared on the screen now and he held the shirt more tightly to his chest. He was trying hard not to expose Kaylee to complete strangers.

"I'm a man. I've obviously never worn a bra before. Even if I had such knowledge, I would have no need to practice it."

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[cealaigh.livejournal.com]

"You're Kaylee," emphasis on Kay, trialing off absently on lee. "Oh."

Well, this is awkward now that the confusion and assumptions of normalcy are out of the way.

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[not-so-natural.livejournal.com]

"Yes, it appears that I am for who knows how long... Who is this?"

Spencer had a pretty good idea, but he wanted to be 100% sure.

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[cealaigh.livejournal.com]

"River."

Paaause a second while she considers the circumstances, and it's probably strange how unconcerned she is with the whereabouts of her own body.

"You're in a spaceship." Duh.