fandomhighdorms | Roof and possibly the surrounding sky, Monday evening

So everyone kept assuring her that this was still temporary, and Momoko believed them. Really she did. But just in case, she'd climbed up to the roof, Power Compact clenched tightly in her larger-than-usual boy hand.

She'd spent a few moments, just breathing and trying not to panic at the thought that maybe she couldn't transform anymore. And then finally she swept her ring (it barely fit her pinky finger now!!) across the Compact. She could FEEL the transformation happening, and she nearly yelled with joy.

Ah ah! She was wearing a skirt again! It felt so... weird. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a mirror.

"So I'm still a boy? Even transformed and in a skirt?" She stared at the mirror for a few minutes, tugging at her still short hair and wondering why she seemed so familiar... "AAAAAH! I LOOK LIKE BRICK!!!"

She nearly dropped the mirror in her shock. "Oh no. What if I have his powers? What if I can't FLY?!" She walked to the edge and looked out into the sky, feeling the wind. If she lost that...

[open! Blossom/Momoko looks like her Rowdyruff boy clone, Brick. In the Blossom costume.]

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"Well, falling can be fun, too, if you do it right!" Blossom chuckled. "It's a totally awesome feeling just letting go. But then I can stop myself from hitting the ground."

She looked back out over the ledge and into the darkness that hid the town. "If I could, I'd offer to take you up."

He raised an eyebrow at the offer. "If you could, I'd take your offer."

"Really? Because it is fun, flying. And I wouldn't drop you." Blossom struck her palm with her fist. "I should try it, right? I should just jump and try to fly and see if it works. Maybe Dinah was right and that part of me hasn't changed?"

Yes, she was seeking encouragement from James; desperate times called for desperate measures. Besides, he'd been a good partner in the Leda rescue, even if they had argued a bit about how to go about things.

"You should try," he said, encouraging her to see if she (he?) still could because James was a Good Friend like that. It was something she seemed to focus on, if her abilities still worked while trapped in that form.

"I do not think you should start by leaping over the edge. Right here on the roof with the building underneath should be enough to see if it still works."

And then leap off the roof. Because James was a Good Friend like that.

He wasn't going to give her a push?

"You just don't want to have to take another friend to the clinic in case they get suspicious, right?" Blossom chuckled. "But I think I could do that. I mean, try it. You'll watch, right?"

He was not malicious, really, just aware that life can be cheap.

He grinned, then turned serious. "Suspicious? Yes. I do not want to stand out as the student who has incautious friends. They might suspect me of something." He tilted his head. "I'll watch. What do you have to do?"

This was silly. Blossom was superhero! She shouldn't be hesitating!

"I just have to throw myself at the ground, or in this case the roof, and miss!" Blossom chuckled as she climbed back up on the ledge and looked down; it was only a foot or so, not really enough to cause more than maybe a broken nose. She hoped. "I think. I mean, I've been flying since I was thirteen. I just jumped up and was flying. Which was good because there was a lion."

She drew a breath and jumped forward. And stuck.

"I can! I still can! James! I can still fly!" She zoomed around him laughing. "I look like Brick, but I'm still me!"

"The hard part is not missing," he said pointedly. He blinked rapidly at hearing the end of her speech. "A lion?"

He twirled, watching her zoom, laughing. "You did it!"

Blossom came to a stop, floating in front of him. Her face all smiles.

"A lion! He'd been released from the zoo and wanted my food."

"Lions will do that," he said sagely, matching her smile.

She laughed. "Not in the middle of a park in Tokyo City, they don't. Not normally."

James laughed with her. "Normal things do not always happen to normal people. Especially lions."

James was unaware that a lion would come into play in his own life in a decade or two.

"True! And normal is totally boring anyway, right?" Like the flying boy-who-was-supposed-to-be-a-girl really knew what 'normal' was?

"I don't see a lot of 'normal' here on this island," he said to the flying boy-girl-boy.

Blossom nodded. "That's totally what makes me like it so much! Everyone is different, and that means different is normal!"

He blinked. "I guess that means it does!" he said, realizing that statement.

Roof and possibly the surrounding sky, Monday evening

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