"...then while Sarah was distracted we planned on rescuing you." DTH Jon/Jane finished his long and elaborate explanation of his adventure so far to Prisoner Jon.
Prisoner Jon stared at him blankly.
"It's a lot to take in." Karyn admitted.
"You were kidnapped by the government?" Zoe asked DTH Jon after listening to the story. DTH Jon nodded.
"We still haven't resolved that yet. There is a super intelligent version of me sleeping off being drugged in my bedroom."
"Wow." Zoe said.
Karyn sighed. "One thing is for certain. Since Jon created the DTH life hasn't been boring."
DTH Jon added. "I seem to be changing my clothes a lot too." He turned back to Prisoner Jon. "Anyway enough about me, how long have you been here?" Prisoner Jon shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, weeks, months maybe. Zoe can tell you." He turned to her. "How long ago was I reported missing?"
"You weren't reported missing." Zoe told him.
"Why not? Don't you care about me?"
"No not really." Zoe said. Prisoner Jon started crying.
"Calm down, " DTH Jon touched his shoulder, "it's just you don't actually exist here."
"That doesn't make any sense. I'm real. I'm more real than you. I think you are figments of my imagination." He pointed to DTH Jon. "A girl who claims to be me." He pointed at Karyn. "Karyn with blonde hair and a boob job." Finally he pointed at Zoe. "My heartless sister who for once in her life doesn't look like she just walked off the set of a vampire movie." He put his head in his hands.
"Jeez, am I a goth in every other dimension?" Zoe asked DTH Jon.
"It's looking that way." DTH Jon told her. He turned back to Prisoner Jon. "Yes, you are real in as much as you exist. You are currently in a different dimension where you were never born. Sarah brought you here with the stone, as bait for me, so she could get the DTH."
"The gameboy thing?" Prisoner Jon asked. DTH Jon nodded reluctantly.
"I explained all this. It looks like I'll have to go over the important points again. The DTH allows Karyn and I to travel to different dimensions. I can use it to take you back to your dimension. I created it with the stone."
"What is this stone everyone keeps going on about?"
"The stone your grandfather gave you after he died. It grants wishes, in a limited capacity."
"He's dead? He was alive before I ended up here. My life is passing me by." DTH Jon paused for a moment to think about this.
"So you don't know how Karyn got the blonde hair and the..." He waved his hands around in the general direction of Karyn's chest. She frowned at him, unhappy at the level of objectification she'd suffered since being locked up.
"No." Prisoner Jon shook his head.
"That is going to be a problem."
"Why?" Karyn asked.
"The DTH can only take me back to the day I showed you the stone. It's the origin point for the whole dimensional system. This Jon is from a point in time before that actually happened. I can't take him there with the DTH."
"Great." Prisoner Jon said sarcastically. Karyn moved to sit next to him.
"Don't worry. My Jon is really smart. He'll work something out."
"Why do you keep calling her Jon? She's clearly a woman." Karyn smiled.
DTH Jon pointed at himself. "This is just a disguise so I could get into the slumber party." He pointed at the ring. "Zoe made this with her stone. It swaps my gender. I would take it off and show you but..."
"He likes being a girl." Karyn said laughing. "We are the superior sex after all."
DTH Jon turned red with embarrassment. "I was about to say, I would burst out of these clothes because I would grow in size as I returned to being male."
"A likely story." Zoe added before pointing at his clothes. " Those pyjamas are pretty baggy. I think Karyn might be right. Who knows maybe you are destined to be female and you're the odd one out. Just like I'm not a goth."
Their joking was interrupted by the basement door being opened.
