As Jon returned to the living room her found everyone already seated, and Dr Grant was stood by the fireplace. A large bag sat at her feet.
“Hello again Jon” she smiled sweetly, “take a seat, I’ve already got some results back from the lab that I’d like to share with you all.” she added indicating the only space left on the couch next to his mother. He dutifully sat and held his breath in anticipation.
“Ok, I think we’re ready Dr Grant” Laura said.
“Please, I’ve told you to call me Ruby” she smiled, “but sure, now you’re all here we can begin.” She added as she produced a tablet. She pulled up a series of charts and began to scroll through then.
“We’ll I guess I’ll just come right out and say this. After analysing the blood samples we took, we discovered something… interesting” she said.
“That we’ve got the genitals?” Mikey asked sarcastically, causing him to revive and angry look from Laura. Ruby just smiled sweetly and continued
“Actually, whatever is happening seems to be re-writing your DNA. If we compare the sample of say Jon’s blood, to the sample we took from Laura, his seems to have become a mixture of both his and hers, the same goes for Simon and Karyn, and so on.” She said as she showed them an image of several different DNA strands. None of them could make heads or tails of what they were looking at.
“So you’re saying in slowly turning into Jon?” Zoe asked in confusion.
“Not quite” Ruby replied, “actually you are becoming a kind of amalgamation of the two of you, part Zoe, part Jon.” She continued, receiving still more blank looks.
“Ok, so imagine you took some red paint, and mixed in a little bit of blue, the whole thing doesn’t become blue does it?”
“It becomes purple!” Karyn chirped.
“That’s right, it becomes something new while still keeping characteristics from the originals” Ruby smiled, “it’s my theory that you’re slowly becoming entirely new people, a merged version of yourselves and whoever’s genitals you’ve acquired” she finished. She looked around at them all, each of them wearing very bemused expressions.
“I know this is probably a lot to take in” she said calmly, “do any of you have any questions?” She asked.
“Can you change us back?” Mikey asked almost instantly.
“We’re still looking into it I’m afraid. If we knew what caused it, then we’d have a better idea of where to start looking for a solution” she said sadly, “not what you wanted to hear I know, but rest assured we are doing our best.”
“Is there a way we can at least stop the changes going any further?” Zoe asked. Ruby looked thoughtful for a moment.
“As I said, these changes seem to be happening on a genetic level, so again I don’t really have a definite answer. My only theory, and it’s just a theory mind you, would be suggest that you try and sleep in the beds you’ve been waking up in? Perhaps there’s something happening while you move in your sleep that we don’t know about” she said softly. Zoe nodded thoughtfully.
“That could be an idea?” Laura asked, looking over at Jon who shrugged. He wasn’t sure how he felt about sharing a bed with his own mother intentionally, but he could also see Ruby’s logic.
“I guess those are the big questions out of the way” Ruby said after a moment, if you all don’t mind, I’d like to give each of you another full physical examination?” There was a general muttering of agreement.
“Excellent, is there another room we could use? Just to give you all some privacy?” She asked.
“The red-room in the basement is pretty private” Simon replied with a proud smile.
“That would be perfect!” Ruby grinned, “now, who wants to go first?”
