It started so innocently.. and then grew into an Omake Theatre..

At 03:24 AM 6/25/98 PDT, you wrote:
>
> Hello! Okay, now this came up in a recent debate in the wee hours of 
>the morning a few weeks ago when Chibi-Michiru and i where a bit 
>hyeractive. 
> Ahem, so this is it;
>                      " What would Haruka do if Greenbeans and Michiru 
>like, swapped brains through no fault of their own?"

Whoa.. um.. what are you guys on to come up with *that* question o_O;

Okay.. lemme see what I can come up with P: 

>Chibi-Michiru and i thought of a few answers but I wanted to see what 
>you'd think. :P

Thanks for sharing the fun ^^

>C-ya!
>Chibi-Haruka.

Beans

-----

It was late at the small house Haruka and Michiru 
shared.  At the early hour, no one noticed a weak 
flash 50 meters away from the lot the house sat on.  
The event went unnoticed, but its effect did not.

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College Life
Omake Theatre 1: Freaky Friday

by Greenbeans <gbeans@tyrlen.org>

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"Haruka?"

"Yes, Michiru?"

"What am I doing here?"

"Michiru?"

At this point Michiru had a terrified expression on 
her face as she looked at the naked Haruka next to 
her.  The only thing keeping Michiru's eyeballs in 
her head was the fact the her partner had the sheets 
pulled up over her breasts.

"Michiru?!  What's wrong?" Haruka leaned forward, 
letting the sheet slip down.  Michiru rolled over 
quickly to avoid the flash of Haruka's talent.

"Put on a shirt, Haruka!" Michiru almost squealed.  
"Why am I in bed with you?!"

"You've never objected before," Haruka said dryly, 
raising out of the bed to find a nightshirt.  She 
pulled a robe off of the back of a nearby chair and 
tossed it to the bed's other occupant.  "What's 
gotten into you, Michiru?"

"I am *not* Michiru!"

Haruka blinked.

"What?" She asked finally.

Michiru had slipped into the robe by then and walked 
into the bathroom.  A scream soon followed.

"Michiru!" Haruka rushed into the small room.  
Michiru was seated on the toilet sobbing.  Her 
partner immediately wrapped her arms around her love, 
trying to comfort her.  "Tell me what's wrong..." she 
crooned softly.

"I'm not Michiru," she said between gasps of air.  
"I'm Beans."

*****

Weak light filtered into the room as the pre-dawn 
blazed into the full glory of the day.  Beans laid on 
her bed and calmly counted the number of glow-in-the- 
dark stars attached to the ceiling.  42.  There were 
42 stars on the ceiling.

That was 42 too many.

Beans lifted her head to look over at Alex.  She was 
sound asleep.  The only sounds in the room were the 
hum of the lake god's fish tank and Beans' computer.

She rolled over onto her side and considered her 
situation.  In less than an hour, Alex will wake up 
and expect her know the morning routine.  The point 
that she didn't know the morning routine was a minor 
one.  The real problem was if she was in Beans' room, 
and judging by the long hair that her head was 
cushioned in, Beans' body, how would she get back to 
being Michiru?

She already had a sinking feeling that Beans was 
experiencing the same problem as her.  She blushed as 
she considered the rude awakening her friend will 
get waking up in her body.  Especially if Haruka was 
being her usual self and had Michiru half pinned 
under her in a tangle of limbs and sheets.

Beans got out of bed then.  There really was nothing 
to be done until she could get to Haruka and.. ahem.. 
'Michiru'.

"It's awfully early for you, Beans," Jeff's head 
poked out from under the blankets.

"Go back to sleep," the woman in question whispered.  
"I'm getting an early start today".

"That's a first," he mumbled before nuzzling into 
Alex and returning to sleep.

"There's a first for everything," Beans muttered 
softly before searching for a towel to take with her 
to the shower room.

*****

Michiru fidgeted during the ride to the tech school.  
She was dressed in a totally un-Michiru-ish outfit of 
trousers, button-up shirt and vest.  It looked more 
like an outfit Haruka would wear.  In fact, it was.  
The pant legs had been a little long, but some pins 
in the hem was a quick fix to the problem.

"You are *not* Michiru," Haruka mumbled as the woman 
next to her continued to wring her hands.

"I think we've established that much."  It was 
Michiru's lovely voice, but not her words.  The tone 
was harsher than Haruka was used to.

"You're still upset about this morning?  It wasn't 
like I wanted to be sleeping with you..."

"Shuddup! Just shuddup, I was *not* sleeping with 
you, got that!"

Haruka decided that it was not a good idea to press 
the point with Beans/Michiru/whoever was sitting next 
to her.  The frown only deepened on her companion's 
face.

"Don't worry," Haruka's softened voice broke the 
silence a few moments later.  "First we find Michiru, 
and then we'll get this all straightened out," she 
smiled slightly, trying to put a cheery face on it 
all.

"Jeez Haruka, you act like I've lost a text book.  
This is a little harder to fix," was the sarcastic 
response.

Haruka's eyebrow twitched.  

"How do you know that?  Just because you're in 
Michiru's body doesn't mean that it requires some 
long drawn out process to get you.." her words 
trailed off at the ice-cold glare she received.  
"Perhaps this is a *tad* more difficult," she amended 
with a hesitant laugh.

"Just a *tad*," Michiru glared out the window.

*****

Beans looked disdainfully at the selection of morning 
foods that the cafeteria presented.  'I don't see how 
anyone could live off of this,' she thought to 
herself as she selected a safe looking apple.  That 
and a carton of milk made up her breakfast.

She paid for her meal with Beans' food card.  She 
didn't think the other would mind the used points, 
and if she did, more could be bought easily enough.  
A table that gave good view of the cafeteria was 
selected.  Haruka would find her here.

*****

"Aren't we going to go up to my room and look?" 
Michiru protested as Haruka tugged on her sleeve 
slightly.

"She won't be there.  It's almost 7am.  She would 
have gotten something to eat by now.  She certainly 
won't be at any classes since she couldn't do any 
better at your programming class than you could at 
her violin one," Haruka reasoned.  She led them into 
the college union building.

*****

Beans looked at Michiru.

Michiru looked at Beans.

"So, who am I going to sleep with tonight?" Haruka 
asked innocently.

Michiru stomped on Haruka's foot as Beans laughed 
into her hand.  "You'll sleep alone, you pervert," 
Michiru hissed.

This did not go unnoticed as a couple of geeks looked 
at them from the next table.  John looked to Beans, 
who quickly shrugged to discourage him from coming 
over.

"What are we going to do?" Michiru insisted once 
Haruka stopped hopping around on one foot.

"Live with it?" Haruka backed away from the now-
violent Michiru.

Beans discreetly scooted between the two of them.  "I 
don't think you could survive living with Beans in my 
body."

"And I don't want you doing any ecchi adult things in 
my body," Michiru inserted her protest.

Beans eyeballed Michiru's choice of clothing for 
today while humming softly.  It was to be noted that 
Beans was not looking her usual self today.  Her 
choice in clothing, and general style and grace had 
jumped several notches overnight (literally).

"We don't even know what caused this," Beans cupped 
her chin with her hand.  "Pull out the Deep Aqua 
Mirror and take a look," she suggested.

"Huh?" Michiru blinked.

"Do you think she can do it?" Haruka joined Michiru 
in looking confused at Beans.

"We'll never know if you don't try."

Michiru tried.  And failed.  And tried.  And failed.

Losing patience with the entire process, Beans stuck 
her hand into Michiru's dimensional pocket and pulled 
out the mirror.  Michiru's eyes went wide.  "How did 
you..?"

"Lots of talent," Beans patted Michiru's arm 
reassuringly.

"'Mirror, Mirror, On the wall..'" Michiru intoned.

"Cute," Beans intoned.  The mirror brought up an 
image of a fish tank before dispersing again.  "I 
think we should go speak with the lake god," she 
concluded.

Haruka showed her agreement with a brisk nod.  The 
three of them trooped up to Beans' room where they 
discovered that Beans had forgotten to grab her room 
keys before leaving to eat breakfast.

"How could you forget them?" Michiru asked while 
sighing.

"Why would I remember them?" Beans countered.

"As fun as it is to stand in the hall and discuss 
this," Haruka cut in, "there is a lake god in there 
who has some answers.  Where do we get another key?"

"The RA," Michiru answered promptly.  She then led 
them on search for a RA that was not in class who 
could let them in.  

20 minutes later they were standing in front of the 
tank.  Beans stuck her hand in and pulled it out 
again.  She nodded for Michiru to try.  "I'm deaf to 
it," she said as Michiru put a testing finger into 
the waters.

'Yes.. you hear..' a voice reverberated in her head.

"AHH!!!" Michiru backed away quickly from the tank.

"What are you afraid of?" Haruka scolded.  "You've 
only lived with it for several months."

"It.. spoke.. in my head!" Michiru stuttered.

Beans rubbed the bridge of her nose between her thumb 
and forefinger.  "Of course it did.  How else do you 
think I was talking to it?"

"Well, I dunno," Michiru frowned.  The expression was 
as foreign to Michiru's features as a cowboy would be 
in Times Square.

"Will you get on with it already?" Haruka prompted 
after Michiru stared at the tank for several long 
minutes.

Michiru nodded slowly before sticking a hesitant 
finger into the tank.  The waters burbled around it, 
caressing her flesh before the voice came back 
softly.

'No hurt.. help,' it said.

'How?'

'Do as you did before.  Make tonight as last.'

"It says to make tonight as last," Michiru repeated.

Beans thought about the cryptic message.  "I think it 
means that you spend the night with Haruka and I'll 
be here tonight.  Perhaps when we wake up, everything 
will be normal again?"

"It can't be that simple," Michiru protested.

Haruka nudged her in the ribs.  "Told ya so."

"Byte me."

"I'd love to," Haruka growled.  This earned her both 
a jab from Michiru and a glare from Beans.  'They are 
no fun to flirt with when they're like this,' Haruka 
pouted.

*****

Haruka looked at the stiff form lying besides her.  
Michiru was fully dressed in flannels with a bathrobe 
wrapped around her, then the covers.  She had wanted 
Haruka to sleep on the couch tonight, but the lake 
god had said to repeat, so that meant that Haruka got 
to stay in her own bed.  Of course, neither Beans or 
Michiru would let her totally repeat the last night.  
They really were no fun.

*****

Alex wondered if Beans was feeling all right.  She was 
up early this morning, and is going to bed an hour 
before midnight.  Definitely not like her.

*****

"I'm not going to touch you," Haruka sighed, annoyed.  
She really wanted Michiru back.

"I know you won't," Michiru whispered.  "I just want 
to be me."

"Me too," Haruka agreed.

*****

That night there was a weak flash not far outside the 
residence of Haruka Ten'ou and Michiru Kaioh.  Of 
course, they weren't awake to take notice of it.

*****

Michiru blinked to get the sleep from her eyes.  She 
rolled her head over to see Haruka sleeping on her 
side of the bed, no where near her.  The rest of 
Michiru's body followed her head as she turned to 
face Haruka.  She pulled herself closer to Haruka to 
plant a soft kiss on her forehead.

Haruka's eyes flew open at the slight touch.

"Such a gentleman," Michiru drawled while taking note 
of all the clothing they were wearing.  "It's a bit 
warm."

"Indeed it is," Haruka helped Michiru out of her 
robe.

*****

Beans counted the number of glow-in-the-dark stars on 
her ceiling.  42.  As there should be.  She stretched 
before looking to see what time it was.  10:07am.  
Ah, it's nice to have things back to normal.

********** (End) **********


I must point out that this story in no way effects the 
regular plot line of College Life, nor will it ever be 
referred to in the series.
