There is some strong self coming out stuff in this and it got...... a little too much of my own life in this, but yeah enjoy
“Coming up next on the Diadem Network A Lonely Heart at Christmas” Robert turned off the TV not interested in watching some more saccharine Christmas fluff. He had been single for 38 of his 40 Christmases. No girlfriend or wife, no children either, just his brothers and aging mother. Which he got along with fine, but even they were probably getting sick of him.
He mostly sat alone at home every night either watching a movie or TV cooking himself and his dog dinner and then falling asleep in his big, empty, but thanks to memory foam, very comfortable bed. He worked from home, mostly due to the pandemic, at a decent paying civil service job that although had a glorified title, really was just people calling to retrieve copies of important documents and whine about how government was slow or some other way. It was minor cuts but the cuts to his psyche was there and it really was beginning to wear him down. He'd actually caught COVID and had spent a good while recovering from it, so it made him scared to go out much until he new it was safe. Most of his life was putting on a brave face so no one around him saw how very broken he felt. Christmas was no different.
He finished off his mountain dew and decided to play some games on his PC before calling it a night and ending his 40th Christmas. He went to his room with his dog and pulled up some new game he got on Smoke. He hadn't turned off the TV so the Lonely heart or something movie was still playing in the background.
He was just getting the game started when he heard a knock at the door. “Excuse me” said a woman, much clearer than the TV should. Robert turned his chair around to see dressed in a Christmas elf costume, a petite woman, her hair was a blue hair buzzed on one side and had on black leggings and big thick chunky black boots covered in metal. She, turned around to reveal the nose ring connected by a silver chain to her left ear, both ears covered in piercings and both eyebrows were double pierced. On Her elf costume in sequins it said “Temp Elf in charge of Holiday video productions” Under that written smaller was “Got that? TECH VP, that means I'm running the show deal with it”.....there was a lot of writing on it OK?
“Who the fuck are you lady? The ghost of Christmas craft services?” Robert said with disdain.
“I'm Ravyn and Look you left the movie playing meaning you by proxy, agreed to the terms and conditions. We need a lead now and you by agreeing to the Terms and Conditions are now required to fill that role, or face financial penalties. And they are severe bucko, so I would just go back and get into that damn movie!!” Ravyn said.
“What the fuck...” Robert started to say as the room started to fill with snow. He felt his body start to stretch as he got pulled towards the TV. His vision was filled with white and he didn't notice we was now in a chair in front of a mirror.
He was naked but covered by a large cape, like you would use at a barbershop. The room seemed to stretch into forever in all directions. He heard footsteps coming up behind him and the woman from his house came into focus. “Now let's get you into makeup and costume. So this role will be your perfect self meaning you might not even have admitted to yourself this is who you truly are.” She said
“What does that even mean?” Robert said. He said trying to move but really not wanting to expose his out of shape body.
“Well for starters this” Ravyn snapped her fingers and long red hair grew out slowly removing the brown and Grey from his hair. It grew down to the middle of his chest.
“Really, my true self is long hair, that is weird but not sure why.” Robert said nervously. He in the back of his head thought he might know where this was going. That little door in the back of his head, you know the one you figuratively throw all the things you didn't want to admit to yourself, it opened a crack. The thought in his head that he had denied himself, for his whole life demanded to be respected.
“That is it you hear it in there don't you? The reason you never push yourself to date anyone. The reason you feel that well of sadness when you see the mirror. The reason you would longingly look at the girls in your high school. Not because you were attracted to them, but because you knew you should be with them. Your kind soul is in the wrong shape.” She said as Robert began to cry. “Your body was a prison that even you wouldn't admit.” She hugged the sobbing mess in front of her and whispered in Robert's ear “say it out loud you need to admit it to yourself Hun”
“That I am not a man” Robert said, like a weight they forgot they were even carrying it rolled off them . “that I'm a woman and always have been, that I accepted my body was never going to look different, that in my need to conform I never wanted to admit it, not even to myself, but your right in my mind I've always known”
“That is harder to do than you know. So if it was possible you would like the outside to match the inside?” Ravyn said.
“God yes,” Robert said through tears.
“OK” She said and painlessly and quickly the 6 foot 300 pound man was reshaped, his becoming round but with a pointed chin. Eyes that stayed the same brown but became warmer some how. His weight reduced to 129lbs and his height to 5'2”. Her frame became slim and athletic, with small perky boobs. Lastly her genitals finished changing her into a fully fertile woman. “Costume!” she yelled and clothing appeared on her new body. First was a pair of green tights and red shoes. Then a green turtleneck and a red vest covered with Christmas patches and embroidery. Last was the green elf hat and rubber ears to match. “and......action”
With a flash she was back in her house. Her room looked the same but with new clothing. She was still dressed as a Christmas elf. She looked for a wallet and found one showing her new name as Regina and they gave her back 10 years of her life as she was only 30 now. She wondered what happened to the movie, but she thought better of it. She was about to log off and go to bed when the door opened. Revealing a tall brunette. “Can I help you with something?” Regina said nervously as she now was much smaller than this lady.
“What? Gina can you help me...?” She said then laughed “come here you cutie” She leaned down and kissed the new woman softly and deeply. As they stopped she said “we'll be late, I don't know why you volunteered to give out gifts at the homeless shelter, but if you didn't you wouldn't be the woman I married”
Regina's hand felt cold as a tungsten wedding band appeared on her small hand. This was Sara her wife, they had been married for 3 years now. Memories poured into her head, how she was always the most kind and fun of her family. She loved Christmas, how she had met Sara, a lawyer from the city, of there meeting, Regina realizing she wasn't straight, coming out to her parents as bisexual, but also how much her mom loved Sara. Her father had cut her off but he was a jerk in both realities any way. They had finally kissed in the snow in front of the town Christmas tree......wait was her life a Christmas movie
As they walked out the door, Regina happened to see the closing credits of the movie play. She smiled “that's a wrap people” and walked out the door holding her wife's hand.
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