Inner Child

Chapter 1
Dan & Suzy

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Chapter Description: Our couple opens up and tells the group their experience.

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Chapter 1 - Dan & Suzy

Dan and Suzy were quietly waiting in a room with a few other people sitting in a circle of chairs. Besides them, there was a portly man, a woman probably in her 30s, and a young woman with a baby in her lap. The two were nervous, everything that happened the past two days was too much for the young couple. Dan would’ve walked out before the meeting started if Suzy was not squeezing his hand for support. As they waited, a woman entered the room, sitting down in one of the empty chairs.

“Good evening everyone, as most of you already know my name is Debra and I’m one of the coordinators for these IC meetings. Today, it looks like we have some new additions to our group. Would you two like to introduce yourselves?”

“My name is Dan and this is my girlfriend Suzy. We’ve been together for about 4 months now and…” with a heavy sigh Dan continued, “…and we met something that…changed us.”

The two then slowly brought their hands to the back of their necks. Each pulled slowly, pulling the skin and stretching the skin on their faces. Their eyes seemed to roll into their sockets as their faces became limp and loose. Hands raised they brought the mass of flesh that was their faces to their laps. With their ‘masks’ off, Dan revealed the head of a little girl with brown hair wearing a pink headband while Suzy had the head of a blond hair baby. With a disconnect between their smaller heads and the skin of their neck, their bodies seemed like a large suit.

“We…we never thought something like…this could happen. I-It’s just fucked up,” Dan said with a higher voice that matched his head.

Debra leaned in, placing her hand on Dan’s knee.

“I want to let the two of you know that everyone here in this room knows how the two of you feel. If you feel comfortable enough, I’d like you two to share what happened.”

Dan looked to Suzy nervously, a hint of embarrassment in his face.

“It’s otay, Dan. It’s ta whole weason wea hew.” Suzy affirmed in a baby voice.

“It started out as just a late walk through a park near our apartment when we found something…”

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“What is it, babe?” Suzy asked.

“Dunno, looks like some kind of little bronze pot.”

Dan continued to inspect it. As he rubbed it ever so slightly, a mass of smoke emerged, forming into a pink corporeal man floating above them. The being’s eyes glowed a bright pink with a long mustache and mane of pink mist for hair while his legs were missing unless you counted the mass of smoke under his sash. After a few seconds of dumbfounded confusion, the being bowed and spoke.

“Good evening, my name is D’osen noe, a jinn. For awakening me from my rest, I will grant one wish.”

“Only one? Thought genies were supposed to grant three wishes,” Suzy spoke up.

“There’s no set number for wishes that all jinns need to grant. Some grant three, some stay with their ‘master’ until they are satisfied or die, and I am one that grants only one,” the jinn answered. Wafting his mustache, he continued. “However since there are two of you, I’ll grant a single wish for each of you.”

Dan turned to Suzy, trying to hold back a look of disbelief. “This can’t be real. That must have been some kind of old bong and we’re just high right now. This guy can’t possi—ow!” Dan yelped as Suzy pinched his arm hard.

“Real enough?” Suzy said. “Whether we’re high or not and this…jinn is actually just some homeless guy there isn’t any harm in telling him what we wish for. We can just wish, see if anything happens, and go home.”

“Actually, neither of you need to even speak your wishes aloud. Simply say your wish in your mind and I will grant it.”

The two pondered for only a moment, figuring no harm in it, the two then closed their eyes to make their wish.

As the two opened their eyes, Dan looked to Suzy, but something seemed off. That’s when he noticed that he could start to see through her!

“Dan! I can see the lamppost through you!” Suzy screamed.

Frightened, Dan looked at his hands and could see through them!

“D-Dan?!? What’s happen—“ Suzy said before disappearing in a poof of smoke as her clothes dropped in a heap to the paved sidewalk.

“Suzy!!! Suzy wha—“ Dan could only say before his clothes dropped down into a similar heap next to where Suzy once stood.

With an amount of pink smoke fuming from the piles, the clothing remained motionless until small movements of something inside each pile could be seen.

From Dan’s clothes, emerged a little toddler girl with long brown hair, while out of Suzy’s clothes was what looked like a blond baby boy.

“Dan?” the baby spoke.

“Suzy?” the toddler replied.

“Wha-wha did you wish for?” Dan continued.

“I-I wish faw…ah wittle giwl,” Suzy spoke slowly.

“And…I wished for a baby boy,” Dan said.

“With all my power, I cannot take nor create new life,” the jinn spoke up, “So, to grant both your wishes, I made each of you into the wish of the other.”

The jinn brought his hand to waft his mustache again before speaking again.

“I suppose this wasn’t exactly what either of you had in mind, but a wish granted for both of you nonetheless. So, with that I bid the two of you farewell,” the jinn said as he shot back down into the bronze pot, disappearing in a flash of pink.

The two looked back at each other speechless.

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“We somehow managed to make it back to our apartment with no one stopping us, despite how strange it was for me as a little girl wearing just a large button-up carrying a baby wrapped in a woman’s dress.”

“Neither of us had work had work for a few days, luckily. So, we could try to figure…something out,” Dan continued.

“How did the two of you manage?” the woman across from them asked.

“We had some food in the fwidge tha Dan could still weach am some diapews that wew weft over when welatives of mine came ovew with un of theiw kids. Dan had to help me a wot wif my food and changing me. I pwetty much jus eithew sat, ate, or pooped for the whole day.”

“We didn’t have any glimmer hope until Sunday afternoon.”

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With heavy eyes, Dan looked up at the clock on the nightstand, blinking 10:23 AM. After a feeble attempt to hold up pair of boxers as he dropped down from the now very large bed, Dan let the boxers fall. leaving him naked til he threw over one of his shirts as a makeshift dress.

He walked into the living room, looking over at Suzy still napping on the couch in nothing but a diaper as she sucked on her thumb.

Dan tiptoed his way to the fridge, opening it slowly to see what they had.

“Making bweakfast?” the groggy baby Suzy said as she rubbed her eyes.

“Yeah, trying to see if there is anything soft enough that you can eat that I can still reach. If I use a chair, maybe I—“ Dan said before he was interrupted by a loud pounding on their door.

Silence followed, the two scared to make a sound.

The pounding continued until a man spoke.

“Hello? Hello, is anyone in there? We’re part of a magic response team. If anyone is in there, we’re here to help.”

“Yes, we ah inside. Ta door ish open!” Suzy yelled.

A large man in a grey overcoat walked in with two other men wearing the same outfit.

“Not very safe to leave the door unlocked.” the man spoke up.

“Would’ve locked it if I could reach the lock,” Dan pouted.

“Anyway it’s nice to meet you two. Tell me, did you two come across anything…peculiar within the past two days?”

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“He told us that they were a scout and recovery team for victims of ‘magical mischief,’ looking to help people like us. After we were processed they made special suits for us so we can have a way to look how we were,” Dan said as he finished their story.

“Birthday suits they are called,” the young woman with the baby spoke up.

“Yeah that. Anyway, they gave us a place to stay in this facility, told us to come to this meeting, and here we are I guess.”

“Well, I’m glad the two of you could join us today. We’ll do everything we can to make you feel welcome and help the two of you through this,” Debra said.

“Help us through this! I’m a fucking toddler girl and my girlfriend is a baby boy for fucking sake! How the fucking hell could coming to this group possibly help us!” Dan yelled.

“Cause you and your girlfriend ain’t the only people this kinda thing happened to, idiot.” the portly man exclaimed.

It took a moment, but Dan realized the group seemed unfazed with their story or their much younger looking heads.

“Wha do you mean?” Suzy asked.

“I think it’s better if the rest of the group shared their story,” Debra said.

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