Just Who’s Closet is it Anyway? Part 2 — The Twin Dilemma

The strange closet machine continued it’s humming, the device in the center of the control consol rising and falling hypnotically. Danny reviewed his predicament calmly and out loud.

“One: I was a boy whose older sister just left for college. Two: my name is and isn’t Danny its Danni and if the man in the odd coat is correct, my sister isn’t Penny; I am Penny, at least some of the time. Three and this is important: I’m a freakn’ girl, no doubt about It.” he said touching him/her self to make sure. He/she found an antique floor standing mirror and had a look at him/herself, turning from side to side to get different views.

“I’m definitely a girl and from the way my baby dolls hang, I’m built.” he/she smiled as he now she looked at her cute face and long curly auburn hair, delicate ears and gorgeous, intensely blue eyes. She was amazed; she was much taller, from her pretty face down past her long, slender neck, high ample chest, tiny waist, curvy hips, round firm bottom and long dancer’s legs. “Oh my, I’m a fox! No I’m a boy, how can I be a cute chick?” he said louder.

“Danni, you’re usually not obsessed with your looks and what’s all this about being animals?”

“This is what’s wrong!” Danni said lifting her firm, ample breasts while pouting ever so sexily, she thought. “Why did I just think that?” Danni thought. Danni felt queasy, “Must be the effects of that drugged mirror dust I inhaled.” she reasoned.

“Danni, you’ve traveled with me for over a year now elapsed Earth time and I’ve never heard you doubt yourself. As humans go, you’re remarkably clear headed, bright and open minded, you remind me of my late wife at a similar age.”

“But Mr. Sir, I’m a boy and I remember Penny as my sister and my sister as not Penny; I’m so confused.”

“Call me Doctor, Danni, you always do.”

“But I don’t remember you, I’m only fourteen but I’m sixteen, no I’m not. Oh lets split the difference and assume I’m fifteen, Mr. Doctor Sir.”

“Danni, you were seventeen when I rescued you; you’re eighteen now and very mature for your age mentally and physically. Can you look at yourself and honestly say you’re a fifteen year old boy?” Danni looked in the mirror again and ran her hands along her attractive frame.

“You’re right; I look as old as my sister. I could be her twin, her prettier twin but I know I’m a boy.” she smiled at the thought she was better looking than her twin; twin?

“Ok, you tell me what happened today.” the Doctor said. Danni described everything including the mirrored dust falling all over her, her inhaling some and the intense light she saw coming out of mirrors afterward. “Wait right here, Danni; don’t move.”

Unlike most companions Danni knew to do what the Doctor said. “Why do I know to trust him, I never met him before today or did I?” Danni wondered. Danni felt silly standing there half naked it that skimpy baby doll. She felt oddly unwell but was fascinated by her body. “Man, am I hot.” she said looking again in the big mirror. “I think I must be a girl, I sure am a babe, so why do I remember being a boy?”

Danni definitely felt ill, sick to her stomach. “I’d better ask this ‘Doctor’ about that too.” she thought. The strangely dressed Doctor came back and waved an unfamiliar meter/scanner thing along Danni’s body. The Doctor muttered something like, “Praise Rassilon she’d unharmed,” as the meter/scanner passed Danni’s lower abdomen.

“Danni, you’re the victim of a trap intended for me. Those mirrored particles were an anti-chronotonic compound mixed with a genetic destabilizer. When you stepped in the TARDIS — that’s the machine that looked like a closet to you — the transcendental field that separates the outside universe from the inside pocket universe activated the compounds causing the boy mind and body of your timeline to merge with the young woman mind and body of your alternate timeline. That’s why you’re suddenly as old as your sister, in this timeline you’re fraternal twins, while in your timeline you’re her younger brother. The genetic destabilizer was meant specifically for me, a Galifrian; if I’d triggered the trap I’d be a female toddler now, unable to reach the TARDIS controls and barely able to retain much of my memories or speak. Because you’re mostly human, it fused your male and female bodies into one. I’m sorry; the resulting mismatch of genetic materials resolved itself by your being a girl. There’s no way back for you Danny.”

“That’s ok Doctor, I always was a girl and a boy. I remember being a girl but I still remember being a boy; does that make sense? Doctor, you said the genetic destabilizer only affected Galifrians, so why did it affect me. Hey, you said I was mostly human!”

“You are the sum of both - Danny with a ‘y’ and Danni with an ‘i’ - you both existed, so both sets of memories are valid. In your distant past an ancestor of your’s was of my race, since the percentage of Galifrian genetic material was small it only knocked a few months off your physical age. The fusion greatly increased the percentage, but you are still mostly human and a young woman. From now on you are Danni and if anything a prettier, smarter and healthier version, I suspect. Who’s Penny?” he asked without warning.

“When we were little, my sister Penny and I looked enough alike to pass for each other, since then whenever I want to try something naughty, I call myself Penny. Wow, so Penny is my alias and my twin sister; this is so kewl Doctor!” Danni skipped over to the Doctor and kissed him on the cheek. Then she grabbed him and kissed him hard on the lips, their bodies pressed together. It felt a familiar gesture, why?

“I’m glad you remember who you are, Danni.”

“My sister wouldn’t do this, she must be in trouble. Ghod we only have Mom, Dad died when we were little. I feel sick Doctor, excuse…” Danni bent over with a violent stomach cramp and struggled to a bathroom were she threw up. She did this several times, and then she felt better. Danni rinsed her mouth out and returned.

“Feeling better now Danni?” she smiled back at him in response. “What did ‘Dad’ look like?”

“The one who drove with Mom and Sis to the college?”

“Who else? You’re smarter than that, Danni; concentrate for me, please. The effects of the transformation should be wearing off, fight them.”

“The Master, he hypnotized them and left me to bait the trap in Danny’s timeline, not knowing I’d trigger it and become Danni.”

“Smart girl, let’s go to college and save our family, my dear.” Our family? My dear?

“Crap I forgot, we’re married and I’m carrying our child!”

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To be continued?

Well, that should inspire someone to clean up the mess I’ve made. The Doctor, a Human/Galifrian woman, married and pregnant; good grief — of course there is his granddaughter, hum?

Have fun. Tina, are you reading this?