An aging overweight man who plays too much online gaming receives a gift from Freya, the
goddess of love, lust, beauty, sorcery, fertility, gold, war and death.

Freya's Gift

Chapter 5: Connecting to the Past Pt 1

from Freya's point of view:

Now that I had a phone I knew what my next step was going to be. I had to reach out to Katie! I felt if I didn't, my heart would stop beating in my chest. Thinking of my niece brought tears of joy for the love I had for her from the day she was born. But also tears of sadness over the grief she must be feeling for the loss of her favored uncle.

But what to do? As I've only the past two days at being a woman, really only one day to be honest, I need her help if I am to survive in this seeming sea of unknowns that my life had become. Calling might not work cause she may not want to hear me out first. And a text couldn't convey what I needed to say. So the best choice was to send a video message. Now to find a quiet place in the mall to make my recording.

The mall was not very busy at this time of day and there was an empty sitting area that had the look of a small park with some trees and bushes to provide some needed seclusion. Composing my thoughts I began recording my message, "Katie, I know you wont recognize me, but I DO know you. I know how much your heart must hurt right now over your uncle. That is what I must see you about, I have information about him that you must know, and I need your help to help him. I know you just got back from summer break and start back to school soon, with pre-season practice starting next week. If you can spare the time, could you meet me at the mall on the east side of town, the one on the road you'ld take to head to Willamette State Park? I need to see you as soon as possible. Thank You!" Ending the recording and saving, I dialed Katie's number and sent my message. I was so very scared she wouldn't answer back. So I at back and waited....

from Katie's point of view:

Just as I get back to my apartment that I share with one of my teammates, my phone vibrates. And as I look at it reaching to unlock the door I don't recognize the caller number sending a video message. I figure it must be my roommate with a new number because she is always loosing her phone.

I hit play and see this woman that looks somewhat familiar but can't place her. She has bright green eyes that sparkle with an aura of amusement, and beautiful auburn hair. Her eyes are slightly slanted as though she was of Asian descent, and her ears looked pointed, stirring some vague memory. Her message says: "Katie, I know you wont recognize me but I DO know you. I know how much your heart must hurt right now over your uncle. That is what I must see you about, I have information about him that you must know, and I need your help to help him. I know you just got back from summer break and start back to school soon, with pre-season practice starting next week. If you can spare the time, could you meet me at the mall on the east side of town, the one on the road you'ld take to head to Willamette State Park? I need to see you as soon as possible. Thank You!"

With my keys still in the unlocked door I am drawn by some need to look at old txts from my unlce Mike that I missed so much. Looking back over the past few months messages I find one of a picture he sent that was a screenshot from the game he was always playing. The picture was of his latest character, a female elf gunner. The only thing is, she looked a lot like the woman who I had just got the message from.... It took me all of a nano-second to decide I must see her. Typing my response back to her....

from Freya's point of view:

Just a few minutes pass and I get a txt response from Katie, 'I'll be there in fives minutes or so. I see that you're in the little park area inside the mall, I'll meet you there. Katie.' What a relief! She would be here soon and I could hardly contain myself.

After a little while I see Katie appear at the entrance to the park area and I stand to greet her. Smiling I said "Hi Katie, call me Freya."

She looks me square in the eyes and says "Be honest with me, I know this may sound strange but you look like a screen picture my uncle sent me a while back of his new player in the game he plays. Did he use you as the model for his character?"

"No I...."

"I don't know how but I.... I think you're.... somehow my uncle, am I right?" She says. Not sure of what the look is in her eyes, she is unreadable.

Smiling back at her I said "Well, technically now, I would be your aunt." For a second I wasn't sure she wouldn't run away from me, then.... she reaches out and grabs me in a fierce hug and I hugged her back just as fiercely.

With both of us in tears we sit down and she asks, "How is this possible? You died back in your house. They found your body still sitting in front of that game. Why?"

"Well a few days ago I had an experience in the game. I was greeted by FREYA, who told me that for all that I had done that she would grant me a gift. I thought at the time it was just part of the game and nothing else. That is until the next day when I reached a milestone in game I had another visit from her. After that when I woke up yesterday I found myself in a modern cabin in the woods beside a lake as you see me now. But she did more than just make me a young woman, she gave me abilities and a task to protect the Willamette range. But I need your help desperately!"

Katie stared, shock all too evident on her face, "You are changed by a goddess into a woman and given powers to perform a task she gives you and YOU need my help! What can I possibly do to help you? Not that I wouldn't, I care to dearly for you unc.... aunt Fre... Freya, that's going to take time to get use to, but I love you and will do all I can to help!"

"Thank You sweetheart! You have always been the heart of my heart!" I start crying again and she holds me in her arms crying too.

After a moment to gather our selves she asks "So what's first".

"Well, it seems I have been set up with a life. FREYA gave me a job as a park ranger at Willamette State Park, a home in the park by a lake with all the money that I had made in the game to tide me over."

"That sounds great" she says, "So what's the problem?"

Smiling sheepishly at her, "Well I never thought about being a woman, and now that I am one, I don't have a clue what to do. Could you help me to find some clothes and things to get settled? I know once practice begins next week you won't have a lot of time available. And I have both an doctors appointment and a meeting Friday with my new boss for my new job, then a week before I start the new job."

from Katie's point of view:

My uncle Mike had always seemed so sure of himself, he always told me that I could do anything I put my mind to, even be the President of the United States, not that he could understand why someone would want such a thankless job. Now here was this woman, my new aunt and seemed unsure of what to do. "You KNOW I will do anything for you, I love you so much. Of course I'll help you. Untill you called me I wasn't sure I wanted to stay in school, not sure where I wanted my life to go."

She looks at me with shock in her eyes and tells me that I can't give up on school and that the team needs me. She says, "I know you were going to find a job to help with expenses to get out from under your parents thumbs. I'll make you a deal. You are majoring in criminology at school, you love the outdoors and had said you wanted to be a desert ranger so you could do all the things you loved when we went to the desert. How about this, a park ranger is still a ranger even if it's in the woods and not in the desert, right? So I'll find a way to get you a spot in the park, like a paid internship, how does that sound to you? And I will help you so you can avoid your mom, but especially your dad. OK?"

Wow! Then I screamed "Yes, it's a deal".

from Freya's point of view:

I'd made my pitch, she caught it and nailed the runner at second! "Let's start at Wal-mart and get the basics, ok? Then some things more specialized". She agreed, and we started for the other end of the mall.

On the way there we came upon a Victoria's Secret, Katie looked at me and saw something and said "Why don't we start here? A girls got to have some nice undies, now doesn't she?" I blushed bright red as I allowed her to drag me in by the arm. Once inside surrounded by all the many beautiful pieces of intimate apparel, Katie calls over a salesgirl.

I looked at her and she is very attractive with long raven hair down to her very shapely rear end, not what you'ld call stacked, but prefect for her 5'4" height. She asks how she can help, Katie says, "Yes, my aunt here just moved here and wants to get an all new wardrobe, a fresh start so to speak".

She says "Nothing like new undies to make you feel like a new person, right?"

I respond "You don't know the half of it", with a smirk on my lips.

"Do you know your sizes?"

"Well why don't you take my measurements to be certain, ok?"

"Sure, will do. My name's Lauren, I'm the owner, will you follow me, Please!"

"Thank you Lauren, my name is Freya, and this pert young one here is my niece Katie, she's a student at OSU taking criminology so she can become a ranger like me". She leads us to a dressing area and takes my measurements and writes them down. Handing me the slip I see that I have a 40DD bust, 33in waist and 36in hips. I was stunned.

Then Lauren said "With measurements like yours I would think you would be a model for us or something instead of a park ranger with your bust size". Katie smiled as I blushed. Lauren blushed then too, "But your size is perfect for your height. Did you ever think of modeling?"

"Me, no, no way, I don't think I could. I'd be too self–conscious over my ears, being as how pointed they are".

"Non-sense", Lauren yells. More quietly, "Your ears are so adorable, I just didn't want to say anything, I just thought you were into cosplay or something like that".

"No", I said, "I was born this way, it's a genetic abnormality, very rare."

Lauren then adds "Don't worry about it, like I said They're very cute and exotic looking. I think lots of men would find it so. You could start a whole new trend in fashion if you posed as a model for someone like Victoria's Secret! My franchise rep comes next week and if you don't mind, I'd like to show some pictures of you to him in couple of our sets. Please!"

Feeling I needed to divert some attention from myself, "If you choose it, and let me think about it for a bit.... well, maybe?"

She runs off, "I know just the things, look around while I get them, Please".

Katie looks at me, a light in her eyes, :Unc.... um.... aunt Freya.... I thought you liked women? Do you like guys now? When did this happen?"

"As a man, I never looked at other guys as anything other than an obstacle to get passed of the way to meet the right girl. You know, I was never that popular with women, ever, but I still loved women. The way they walk and move with such sure confidence in them selves. But now as a woman I think I could be attracted to men, if it were the right man".

Katie says, "We're all looking for the right man. I mean women that is. Did you meet someone already that made you think this way?"

"Well, the salesman at the iPhone store was cute and flirted with me, and he seemed to like my ears, kind of like Lauren suggested." Now feeling more embarrassed, "So what about you, Katie, any new boys since you dumped that kid last year who pined over you being so far away?"

Not having the desired effect, she just says, "No, you of all people know that my school and softball come first aunt Freya." I smiled at her and she said "What?"

"Oh, nothing, It's just that is the first time you've called me 'Aunt Freya' without thinking about it, and it fills me so full of warmth to hear." I hugged her until she said she couldn't breathe and was squeezing her like a big momma bear. And started crying again.

"Now what?" "You called me Momma Bear!"

"But that's the way you have always made me feel around you! It's only fitting now that the goddess FREYA has made you my aunt isn't it". I squeeze her hand to let her know how I feel as Lauren returns with these amazing pieces of lingerie, all diaphanous and green.

"I chose this color because it matches the way your eyes sparkle with so much fire and passion. Did I hear you talking about the Goddess FREYA a moment ago?"

"I was just reminding Katie that I was named after her in her honor. And that is something I can never forget, with the gifts she has given me."

"That's quite a legacy to live up to!" Lauren says.

"With Katie's help I will have no troubles meeting those expectations."

"I'm sure of that, she seems a very capable young lady. Here, take this into the changing room and then I want to get a picture of you, okay!"

Katie goes with me and helps me change, noticing the bra and panty set I had on, "I thought you need help choosing things like this, seems you made a good choice with this set."

"Well I chose it because of how it felt when I saw it in the drawer and how it feels against my skin," coloring slightly.

"That's ok, we all want to feel special and you deserve to feel so too."

"Thank you 'sweetheart', I love you too." And that warm feeling goes though me again. Now, I had feelings when I was a man, and not always able to keep them from showing like society believes the way men should. But now it was acceptable to let those feelings show through, because I was a woman. And was taking more pride in the fact because I had a niece who accepted me as I was now and I had a GODMOTHER who showed she had enough faith in me when I didn't feel deserving of it.

Katie give me nodding approval, "Aunt Freya, you are so beautiful, I only hope I can someday be as pretty as you. You'll have no trouble getting a man when you're ready for one."

"Katie, you are already as pretty as I because of your heart shines so brightly! May FREYA bless you always!" I take her hands in mine and give them a squeeze, when out of my hands a soft glow travels up her arms encompassing her in its radiance.

"What's happening to me? I feel.... strange and.... wonderful!"

The glow fades and I look and say, "Oh my goddess, your skin is so flawless now, the little bit of acne you had is gone and your skin glows like you've been in the sun all day, turn and look in the mirror!"

She turned to see herself, I said "this is the way I always see you, now manifested to the world for all to see. Oh, thank you FREYA for this further gift of your kindness!" Katie couldn't speak. SO, she just accepted that now there was an active goddess in our lives. Then she helped me dress in Laurens garments.

After putting on what there was of the outfit, I stepped out of the changing room to show Lauren, she smiled and asked me to strike a few poses. I felt a little silly, but giggled and did so. She got her pics and asked me to try the other one. Back inside the changing room and only takes a few seconds to strip and put on the other one. I stepped out and both Katie and Lauren gasp in unison, thinking some things wrong with the way I had put it on, asked what was wrong.

Lauren said "Nothing is wrong, It's more like what's right."

Katie says "She right aunt Freya, you look amazing in that, you soo need to get it!"

And Lauren says taking my picture again, "It's on the house and I won't take any argument about it! And so you know I already talked to my rep and told him I was going to send photos of you. So now, give me your best smile and pull your hair away from your ears. That's IT, perfect!"

I was so overwhelmed I kept my mouth shut. I changed back into my ranger uniform and Katie and I spent sometime choosing a couple bra and panty sets, as well as a few chemises, choosing colors Katie felt suited my fair skin and bright auburn hair. After an hour or so we made our way to check out, all while forcing Katie to pick some things for herself, my treat. When Lauren took over from the girl ringing us up and before telling me the total she said, "Like I said before, that Chantilly Lace Baby Doll is on me, as owner of the place, I am also giving you a 40% discount, we'll call it a Parks & Rec special."

I didn't know what to say! Lauren said, "Just give me your number so I can call and let you know how much the rep likes your pics."

I agreed, "But only if you agree to gave dinner with Katie and me next week at my cabin by the lake!"

Fine with me", she said. I paid it thinking I was cheating her somehow, thinking I'll make it up to her somehow. Katie and I walk out thanking Lauren and waving good-bye. Katie notices that Lauren keeps her eyes on me as we go.

She says "Aunt Freya, I think that Lauren really likes you."

"Well, I like her too, sweetheart."

Then, "NO, I mean she 'really-really' likes you!"

I blush thinking about that and said "I've got no problem with that," then, "do you?"

"No 'Momma Bear', I only want you to be happy, Whatever that takes!"

"Thanks 'Baby Bear' I love you too! Now, I'm starved, let's get something to eat."

"Ok 'Momma Bear'."

End of Chapter 5