Authors note: I will be sticking with calling Merida 'she' instead of switching to 'he' just to keep things from getting to confusing both for me and for you! I hope that doesn't detract from the story to much! I am not exactly sure what I am going to do with the next chapter but I highly doubt it will be the last, so hang in there with me, okay? :D

Chapter 2

"You want me to turn you into a what?!" The witch asked in disbelief.

"A boy!" Merida said sternly, giving the witch a look that could almost burn a hole into her.

"Are you unwell, lass?!" the witch blurted in reply "why on earth would you want that?!"

Merida furrowed her eyebrows seriously and said "This is the only way to keep my family and my…" she trailed off "My true love."

The witch rolled her eyes as she took a firm hold of Merida's wrist and lead her out the door of her cottage "True love." She muttered "all it does is make naive princesses like you do foolish things."

"You have obviously never been in love!" Merida replied defensively.

"Ha! Me? Love?" The witch laughed as she did a small spell to turn her cobbling shop into a witches cottage "Dearie, I know better than to let myself fall in love."

The two of them walked back into the cottage and the witch started to pull a colorful assortment of bottled liquids from a little shelf next to her cauldron. "In all my years of being a witch I have seen my share of foolish lovers coming to me to 'change their fate'…. Fools."

The witch started to carefully pour exact amounts of liquid from each bottle into the cauldron. "Every time I helped them, hoping for the best, but it always ended badly." She said, stopping when a small, colorful explosion occurred. Then she quickly went back to work. "Ever wonder why I stopped selling spells? Love. That is why. Too many unsatisfied customers." A small sad frown appeared on the witches face as she stared intently into one of the bottles as if lost in thought.

"Then why…. Why are you helping me?" Merida asked softly.

The witch turned to her and said in a sarcastic tone "Because you threatened to sick your father on me." Then she again went back to creating the spell for Merida "Plus, I am a crazy old woman. Maybe I still have hope for true love."

Merida awkwardly folded her hands in front of her, unable to think of a reply. Suddenly the witch looked up to her and said "Cover your eyes". Merida obliged and quickly covered her eyes with both of her hands. She faintly saw a bright white light flash between her fingers just before the witch told her that it was okay to uncover her eyes.

The witch scooped out a glob of purplish goop and poured it onto the table. As the goop sank down a small, thin sugar cookie appeared.

"Why is it always food?" Merida asked, half curious and half grossed out.

"Do you want my help or not?" The witch said with a frown

"I do!" Merida said, suddenly not caring about the origins of the cookie.

"Fine. All you have to do is eat this cookie and you will get what you have asked for. You will turn into a boy." The witch said cautiously.

A Merida went to grab the cookie the witch reached up and stopped her hand.

"When you eat that… I won't be able to change you back… not even my magic could do that. Are you sure that you want to go through with it?" The witch asked.

Merida bit her lip and crunched her eyebrows for a moment before puffing out her chest in a determined way and saying "Yes. I am sure." and grabbing the cookie. She slowly lifted it to her lips and paused uck! This smells awful! She thought. She held her nose and quickly placed the cookie in her mouth. As she chewed the flavors spread all over her tongue; she had to place her hand over her mouth to keep herself from spitting it out. Her stomach started to churn more and more with every bite and she had to hunch over onto the table to steady herself. As soon as the cookie was fully chewed she immediately swallowed, it was a hard clump of who knows what and it felt to Merida like swallowing a large rock.

When she had finally swallowed she opened her mouth and took a deep breath "That was awful!" She said loudly to the witch. She gasped and reached up to her throat, wrapping her hands around it feeling a large unfamiliar lump on it. "M-my voice!" she shrieked in a deep, masculine tone.

"What did you think would happen dearie? You're a boy now." The witch stated matter-of-factly.

Merida let out a small breath "It worked…" she said, cracking a small smile of relief "it actually worked!" Merida reached up and stroked her now short mop of curly red hair and then moved her hands down to her now flat, slightly toned chest.

"Well, you clean up nicely if I do say so myself!" the witch stated, admiring her work.

Merida smirked cockily and put her fists on her hips "I am a boy" she said in 'cool' voice that sounded more dorky than smooth.

After a moment of basking in the surrealism of her transformation a realization hit her "Elsa…" she said to herself. She quickly rushed over to the witch and said "I have to go! I have to go find my love and fix everything!" and then rushed over to the door and waved goodbye "Thank you for all of the help… it means everything to me" before running over to Angus and riding away.

"Good luck dearie… you're goanna need it." The witch said before changing her cottage back into a wood carving room.

"Elsa!" Merida shouted as she approached her and Elsa's special tree. It had been a few hours since she had so selfishly left her in the forest, but she didn't want Elsa trying to change her mind. All she could do was hope that Elsa was still at the tree. As Merida reached the tree she let out a sigh of relief when she saw Elsa sitting at the base of it. Then she noticed something else. Elsa was crying… She quickly ran up to her and bent down to sit on the ground in front of Elsa. Her face was swollen from all of the tears and her eyes were stained with streams of mascara and smudges of purple eye shadow.

"Elsa! Hey bae… don't cry…" she told Elsa, resting her now much larger hands on Elsa's shoulders.

Elsa looked up quickly, realizing that someone else was with her. She flinched and pushed herself up against the tree, jerking her shoulders out of Merida's grasp "Don't touch me!" She screamed

"Elsa… it's me!" Merida said frantically

"Just stay away from me!" Elsa continued, looking at Merida fearfully.

Merida's eyes welled up with tears and her hands dropped into her lap "Elsa please… It wasn't supposed to be like this…" Merida said as the tears started to spill out of her eyes "Please don't shut me out…"

Elsa's eyes softened and her eyebrows rose slightly "M….. Mer?" she whispered softly.

Merida's face suddenly lit up "Yes!" she said quickly "It's me, bae!"

Elsa smiled widely in relief, but then frowned and furrowed her eyebrows "What did you do?!" She asked in a testy tone.

"I…. I uh…" Merida stuttered "I had the witch turn me into a boy…"

"YOU WHAT?!" Elsa shouted, hitting Merida lightly on the shoulder "You idiot! Why did you do that to yourself?!"

"This is the only way! This is the only way that we can be together!" Merida protested

"What do you intend to do? Use this as a disguise to run away?! Guards will still come looking for me! Especially when you go missing!" Elsa said angrily, tears still glistening in her eyes.

"That isn't what I am going to do!" Merida replied loudly. She took a deep breath and gently reached down and picked up Elsa's hand, caressing it between her two hands "I plan to take you back to the castle. I am not a girl anymore! We can have it all! Our families and each other!"

"You think your mother will just accept this?" Elsa asked, obviously stressing out.

Merida reached up and coddled Elsa's cheek in her hand, leaving the other to hold Elsa's hand "I don't know… but I don't intend to give up on us… on this without a fight." Merida replied softly

Elsa thought about this for a moment, closing her eyes and leaning into Merida's hand. Eventually she opened them and said "Okay… okay let's do this. Let's go to your mother and ask for her blessing. Maybe when she sees what we are willing to do for each other she will change her mind about us."

Merida smiled widely and said "I know she will!" optimistically before quickly drawing Elsa in for a passionate kiss.

"Okay, okay lover… Err…." Elsa said, looking Merida up and down "B-boy… let's head back to the castle. I am sure that your mother will come looking for you soon if you do not return."

"Alright" Merida said with a smile, grasping Elsa's hand and leading her towards Angus "Let's go!"