[joeberan]

--Conclusions and Epilogues--

They headed home. They left a lot of stuff behind. They'd brought supplies for a week, which they obviously wouldn't need. Other stuff was more painful to leave behind. It was like leaving behind a part of your identity.

Alex left the most behind. She carried back nothing. In fact she didn't even carry herself. Rebecca did that, keeping the tiny woman in her breast pocket. Alex shouted directions up to Rebecca as they hiked home. She'd led them to the mansion, the least she could do was make sure they made it home.

Ben left the next most behind. All his kit and camping gear and clothes were abandoned. All he came back with was Rex, his once pet and now mate.

Tim left behind little, and in fact had something extra to carry. He tied Jane onto his back and brought her down the mountain.

Jane, if she could still be thought of as a living being, left behind her cares, her clothes, and her mortality.

John and Kim now Ellen and Ken left behind little more than their names and clothes which no longer fit them. Unfortunately their new bodies weren't the same size as their partners old one's, so it was an uncomfortable hike.

Rebecca left behind Mandy's clothes. She had lost her lover, but gained something else. She was suddenly wildly conscious of her body. She was going to have a baby. She had to be careful.

Rebecca had told them all what Mab had said to her. `The fae always protect their guests, even when they've gone.' They'd all scoffed. The fae were cruel, wicked beings. Only Tim and Rebecca's lives were largely unchanged. For the rest of them their lives ended that night. Why would anyone capable of such cruelty look after them when they'd gone?

Rebecca didn't have an answer. But she had hope.

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When they got home all of them decided it would be best if they stayed together. They rented a house together and tried to be supportive of each other.

John and Kim, now Ellen and Ken, were the first to move out. Once they'd managed to get new identities life for them wasn't too difficult. The hardest thing for them was not having sex during work hours. They solved this by doing it anyways.

Rebecca had her baby Mark eight and a half months later. There were no complications with the delivery and the doctors all said it was the smoothest they'd ever seen a delivery go.

Tim was the next one out. He decided he needed to do more with his life than fuck the doll Jane every night. He got an apartment across town and still went and still saw everyone regularly. He eventually found a nice girl and got married.

Jane wasn't completely abandoned by Tim. He donated her to his old fraternity house. She got used multiple times a day and felt more satisfied than she ever had as a human.

Ben had her first litter of puppies just before Mark was born. Rebecca joked about them almost being delivery buddies. They had developed a crude form of communication, but Ben let Rebecca know her joke wasn't funny by taking a dump in her slippers.

Alex had no where else to go. There wasn't a place for a eight inch tall woman in the world. She stayed with Rebecca. The two of them found out they actually had a lot of chemistry as lesbians and they took great joy in the pleasure they could give each other.

Mandy, now Mark, grew up into a healthy boy. As soon as he could speak he let Rebecca know that he remembered everything. Life got easier then. It took him awhile to master his loose bowels, but at least him and Rebecca could communicate again. They loved each other more as mother and son than they ever had romantically.

And in the Court of the Fae the beings called faeries kept watch on their victims. The jury was still out on whether or not the changes had been just. The humans had intruded on their summer home after all, some justice was necessary. Perhaps one day some of the more extreme changes might be undone, but the days are long in the Court of the Fae.

--Fin--