What Are Men Compared To Rocks And Mountains

Posted on Thu Sep 24th, 2020 @ 3:35am by Captain Rueben Gregnol & Chief Helmsman Eden Bowers

Mission: Mission 12 - Railway
Location: Captain Quarters
Timeline: MD02 07:30
795 words - 1.6 OF Standard Post Measure

Eden opened her eyes and instantly frowned. Something was wrong. Had she fallen asleep in some weird spot and Jake had draped a scratchy blanket over her? It would have been thoughtful of him if he had, but she didn't remember going to sleep any other place than her bed and the ceiling above her was all wrong, not to mention this was not the color of her bedspread nor was it the right texture. "Whas goin on?" She mumbled outloud, poking the person next to her. "Did we go drinking? Why does my head hurt?"

"Reu... I've just got into bed." Jeassaho mumbled sleepily nuzzling her husband's shoulder before she blinked sleepily in the darkness. The accent of the sleepy Russian sounded all wrong. "You okay?" She wondered not moving away from him, he was warm and snuggly and she was super tired after the night shift.

"Whoah," Eden jumped about a mile but didn't bolt from the bed. "I'm not Gregnol I'm Eden," the voice that came out sounded distinctly male, however.

Jeassaho sat up and looked at Gregnol and frowned more. She really did not feel awake enough to have her husband suddenly decide to get a sense of humour. She frowned and laughed. "Course you are Reu and I am Dixoho." She muttered turning away from him to go back to sleep.


"Noooo," Eden said very seriously, scooting away from the other woman as far as she could. "I am Eden." Eden glanced down at herself for the first time and received the shock of her life. This was not her body, no wonder the woman was confused. She was in the wrong body! How did she get in there? It wasn't as if she could try it on and have it be an easy misunderstanding. "Okay," she said taking lots of deep breaths. "I'm in the wrong body, and I'll prove it. Let's go find Stan. Gregnol hates Stan right? He's not going to want to pick him up?"

Jeassaho froze in her wriggling to get in a comfortable position and whirled around wrapping the blanket around her. "Eden?" She yelled stunned and embarrassed by Eden seeing her half naked. "Why do you look like Reuben?" She demanded.

"That's a very good question and I wish I had an answer but I don't. I woke up like this. So I guess we need to go to sickbay now?"

Jeassaho frowned and looked at the man who's mannerisms were just wrong. This was so weird and where was Gregnol if the woman was in her body. "Yes!" Jeassaho commented on rolling to retrieve her clothes that she had been wearing just moments before she had attempted to go to sleep.

"Could you uh, turn around while I find some pants?" The whole thing seemed so ridiculous that Eden started giggling, which made her laugh harder as she'd never heard Gregnol giggle before and coming out of his, no, her mouth, it was hilarious. Then it dawned on her, who had her body? Gregnol she supposed and that made her quit laughing. There was no telling how he might react.

Jeassaho looked at the woman and grinned. Her mind flashing back to the shy security chief she had commandeered to show her around. It was amusing but she did turn around and busy herself with finding something she could wear properly. This was hilarious and worrying at the same time.

Taking deep breaths to quell the laughter and her racing heart Eden dressed at top speed . . . needing a few more seconds to figure out how exactly to dress properly given that she had new equipment. "Okay, I'm ready. This had better be good. Waking up in someone else's body was not on my to do list for this week."

"I just worry where Reu is." Jeassaho wondered suddenly. If Eden was there where was her husband? He would be annoyed and angry if he was in Eden's body as was the logical route of thought.

"Uh . . . possibly waking up next to Jake?" Eden really began to worry about that. "Maybe we should look for them first?" She stood there in Gregnol's body clearly in distress over the whole thing and trying to decide what to do.

"Hmm... they are friends or at least professional together," Jeassaho said having no worries about her husband waking up beside his executive Officer. It was just unnerving knowing that he was not going to be himself but he might be a little more respectful of things that women do and need.

"That's true." She pouted, which she imagined looked very different when it wasn't her real face. "Alright, sickbay it is. Maybe you better lead the way in case I suddenly lose my mind or something."