"I'm sorry," Kyle whispered as he knelt over Jeff, making sure he was okay. Jeff breathed steadily, but he'd probably have a good bump in his head and headache when he came to. Nothing the Chronivac couldn't fix.
Kyle stood up. He knew he would lose Jeffery, that no matter what was said, once he got the Chronivac working again, Jeffery would cease to exist and it would just be straight Jeff... who would have no interest in Kyle. The captain of the football team was torn. He knew what he was doing now was wrong, he wasn't giving Jeff a choice. But he told himself he couldn't stop himself.
He kept telling himself that as he used the Chronivac via its new holo-optical interface to make himself a quick study on the unit, so that he could then adeptly create a few profiles of his own. Finally he was done, and he was about to initiate his plan for good... but he stopped. Tears ran down his face, he wanted Jeffery so bad. But not like this. Jeffery had to want to be with him, of his own free will. But Kyle knew that as things stood, that would never happen.
But Kyle did allow himself to make one some modifications to Jeff before waking him up. He put the slider for Jeff's sexuality at 50 percent, along with several other sliders such as how dominant/submissive he was, if he was more apt to be selfish or selfless, and lowered Jeff's sex drive to what Kyle's intelligence considered fair, so that Jeff would be freed of sexual desires enough to be able to make a rational and mature decision of whether or not to be with Kyle from a neutral stance. He then made Jeff telepathic and empathic, so that Jeff could read Kyle's mind, intent, and emotions - and could control how much he experienced each of them - choosing to block Kyle out altogether or go all the way in, if he chose to.
Kyle hit the enter key, and went to rouse Jeff. A minute later, Jeff roused up, rubbing his head. "What happened?" he asked Kyle groggily.
"I'm sorry," Kyle said. "I cold-cocked you."
"What?" Jeff asked sitting up and immediately more with it. He felt panic, had Kyle made him gay again? He looked at Kyle and didn't think so. "Why?"
"I... I'm ashamed to say I was going to make you Jeffery again.... not my finest moment," Kyle said apologetically. "But I couldn't do it to you. I couldn't do something against your will to you, not if I really love you." He helped Jeff up to sit on the side of the bed. "I'm so sorry, Jeff."
Jeff rubbed a sore spot on the back of his head where Kyle had smacked him. "Damn dude... love hurts."
Kyle looked guilty. "I could have taken the pain and the bump away, but I didn't want to do that, not until I say what I've got to say." Kyle then went on to say how he changed Jeff, trying to give him a sexually neutral grounding to be able to think through the situation and then decide if he wanted to be with Kyle or not. "Now I know after what I did you probably think I'm crazy thinking any part of you would want to have anything to do with me... what I did - or was going to do - was really low and I was being a real creep. But please consider I'm giving you the choice. You will revert back to your own normal self once the hour is up, if you choose to. Or there are two profiles on the Chronivac I created... one will make you Jeffery again, like you were earlier today... with a few modifications you can go through... the other will make me forget about you, becuase I can't bear to live without you with all the memories I have in my head - I have my own memories of wanting to be with you for so long, and then I restored the ones of us together today with all of the history of that. Or you can change me however you want - even punish me, I deserve it after what I started to do."
Now it was Jeff's turn to feel guilty. This had all started as a prank. He had hurt people. Really hurt people. Not the least of which was Kyle.
"I want you to look inside my heart and soul and mind... only as much as you're comfortable doing... with the changes I made to you, you can do that now. You can see how I feel about you, you can see my memories, everything I've ever thought and done... all my hopes and dreams, and how much you mean to me. If you decide you don't want to be with me, then I'll accept that and never bother you again - even if you leave me with all the memories." Kyle looked longingly at Jeff, but with hope. "If you do decide to be with me, you'll know I'll do everything in my power every day of my life to make you happy."
Jeff sighed. He closed his eyes, and used his new abilities to look at what Kyle was offering to share with him.