What Nature Screwed Up.

Chapter One

"Duo, we need to talk."

By god, those words had to be the worst in the universe. Especially when they were coming from your girlfriend. Duo paused and put the milk back into the refrigerator. Slowly, he took a step back, closed the door and turned towards her.

She was sitting by the kitchen table, back straight, eyes down on her tightly clasped hands. He slowly walked over and pulled out the chair on the other side of the table. Reluctantly, he sat down. What ever this was about, he knew that he was not going to like it. Meilan wasn't one for deep conversations, and if he had done something wrong she would just tell him, loudly. So, this 'we need to talk' thing freaked him out big time.

She ran a hand through her short, shaggy black hair."I don't know how I'm going to tell you this..."

'Shit, this is going to be bad.' Duo thought in dread, as his stomach took a sky dive.

"I've tried to tell you before, but I just-" She laughed sadly. "I guess that I'm just too much of a coward."

Duo bit his tongue to stop himself from crying. 'She found someone else, I just know it.'

"But I finally got the green light for... it. I've been waiting for such a long time. You might not understand, I hope you will, but I want you to know that this is something that I have to do." She took a shaky breath. "So, I just needed to tell you that I - I'm getting a sex change."

'Wait... what?' Duo's depressed thoughts came to an abrupt stop. He stared with his mouth open at his nervous-looking girlfriend. "I'm sorry, what?"

"I'm getting a sex change." She said in a scratchy voice. Her fingers were turning white on her tightened fists, her short nails digging into the skin.

Duo slowly shook his head as if he were in shock. "Did- what?" he stammered.

The woman turned her face away. "I am regretful that I did not inform you about the situation before, it was unfair and disrespectful, and for that I apologize."

God damn, Meilan always used the stiff speak when she was serious. But fuck no, she couldn't be serious. "I know you're not like this girly-girl, but a -sex change- ... isn't that taking it a bit too far?"

Meilan shook her head. "No, I know this is right. I should have been a man and I intend to live like one."

Duo suddenly had the crazy mental picture of Meilan, wearing a suit in front of a white pickled fence next to a woman in a frilly dress "A man?" he repeated. "What, with a wife, 2.5 children and a dog?"

She shook her head. "No, I'm gay."

Duo stared, eyes wide in confusion. "What? Did you change your mind, just like that, like right now? You're a lesbian now?"

Meilan glared. "No, you asshole. I just told you, I'm not a woman, I'm a gay man."

Duo rubbed his hands over his face uttering a frustrated sound. "You have got to be skiting me, a gay man? Do you seriously expect me to buy this?"

He could see the anger growing in her eyes. "Yes. I expect you to do just that."

"Mei, seriously. What the fuck?"

"I've thought a lot about this and I know that I should not have been born this way. I'm going to fix what nature screwed up." She met his eyes straight on, steel-hard determination staring back at him. "So all I want to know is: are you going to support me?"

Duo pushed his chair back, getting to his feet, as if putting physical distance between them would somehow make a difference. "No! Are you out of your mind? You need to get some fucking therapy or something, because this is insane!" Even as he said the words, he knew it was the wrong thing to say. And it was.

The whole thing ended in a disaster. Meilan wouldn't speak to him since "he was an insensitive asshole" and Duo refused to to bend, quite literary, just because she gotten in to her head that she wanted to be a guy. They reached an stalemate. In the end, Duo packed up his things and left not only her, but the town as well, never to set his foot there again.

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This started out as a part of my Fanfiction cliché project as a gender bender but the subject was just too serious to rush through.

Now, a note for the people reading my other fictions:

I'm sorry that I have not been updating, it has not been by choice. My computer has more or less been possessed by a demon who enjoys making me suffer. To make a long and frustrating story short, I've been waiting for my betas to send me the chapters back, wondering why no one answered any of my emails while my beta readers were wondering why I didn't send them anything.

I wish that was it. Unfortunately, it's not. Last night, things got a hell of a lot worse. I don't even know how to explain it because I don't know what happened. For some reason, my writing program (open office) crashed and burned. Now I can't open most of my documents, the rest looks like they are written in a alien language. I don't know if it's permanent, but if it is... I honestly don't know what to do. We are talking about almost a 100 pages that I don't know if I can re-write.

But on the up side (inget ont som inte för något gott med sig!), since I waited so long for my beta readers I, when I finally got a hold of them, sent them more then I normally would have done. So, the fictions that are going to be updated as soon as I get them back is; My dark eyed wallflower, What nature screwed up, Fanfiction cliché, What's my favourite tea (epilogue) and Ménage á trois - for love and the need of therapy.

Now, if it wouldn't be too much to ask, would you leave me a review before you go? I could use some cheering up.