When you regain consciousness you hear your mom talking to your dad, your eyes still trying to adjust to the light.
“Look he is waking up, honey how do you feel?” you hear your mom
“My head hurts a little bit” you reply
“Oh it must be because of all the painkillers”
Your mom leaves a cup of coffee over a small desk, then she walks towards you and check on both of your eyes with a small lantern.
“Looks like everything’s alright”
Then you try to stand up but your body feels numb and your neck stretches a bit.
“Mom, I don’t feel my body, why can’t I move? “
“Oh silly” she said smiling
“That’s because it’s not your body son, its mine” said your dad next to you.
You look at your right and hit your face with your dad’s.
“whoa calm down Max, easy there”
“What… why.. You said I would have a new body” you start yelling.
“I know what I said son, just let me explain” said your dad covering your mouth with his hand.
“I’ll take this honey, this time you are the patient” your mom grabbed her laptop and showed it to you. “ Max, your dad and I though about this for quite some time, but in the end we came to the conclusion that we had been neglecting you for a while and decided that it would be a good idea to spend more time with you. I know that with your dad as a surgeon and me as a scientist it’s a bit difficult to have time for you and Kenneth.
“Believe me when I say that we really think this through, besides we couldn’t find a more suitable body” say your dad
“That’s right, you might have a hard time learning how to control a robotic body, and there were no willing donor’s and it wouldn’t be hygienic to use one from the morgue.”
“But why attach my head to dad? I can’t even move!”
“Because my blood type is different from yours, and your brother is way too young to submit him to this procedure so the best suitor for your temporary body was your dad, this way you could spent some quality time with him, also because head transplant was part of my new research and this was the perfect opportunity to test it” your mother seemed more concerned about her research than your own well-being.
“don’t look so sad buddy, you get to spend some time with your old man and remember this will only be temporary until your body is restored” said your dad.
“Apart from that, you won’t have any problem with your daily life since we have solved everything. Now let me explain you all the details about the head transplant, first we worked with your circulatory system by attaching your carotid arteries to your dad’s aorta, as well as your jugulars to his brachiocephalic vein to keep oxygen flowing through your brain and saving you the need to breath since your dad would be doing it for both of you”
“I have some strong lungs son” said your dad hitting his chest with a fist
“Yes honey you do, and that’s why we could use them for joining Max trachea to yours.” Then your mom looked at you “you see Max, breathing is an unconscious act as you have noticed, and even if you don’t have the need of breathing, you brain would still do it and that would cause us serious problems if your windpipe didn’t end by joining with a lung since you would be inhaling air amassing it between tissue. This way you can breathe without any side effect.
Then we covered your need to ingest food, of course you won’t need to eat since all the nutrients are carried through the arteries but at some point you would have the need to chew and swallow something, that’s why we took part of your esophagus and attached it to your dads stomach, avoiding the risk of infection from a stuck piece of bolus.”
“Don’t worry son, I have that covered up for us” and your dad tapped his belly.
“And finally we kept your cervical and part of your thoracic vertebrae to keep your head from hanging like a doll, as well as most of the muscles that are meant to give your neck movement.”
“Oh my god, I’m like a Frankenstein! Mom what did you do?”
“Nonsense Max, you would have to be dead for that”
“Yeah son, besides, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist not the monster.”
“Dad how come this doesn’t affect you?”
“What do you mean Max?”
“We are one of mom’s experiments and that doesn’t bother you at all?”
“he he, no son, you see, both your mother and I agreed to this, not just because I could spend more time with you but also because we get to be the first two headed father and son! We are making history in the name of science and this could bring a big change to the world!” your dad seemed as enthusiast as your mom regarding to the experiment.
Your mom then gave your dad two glass flasks with a blue liquid.
“Don’t forget to take your medicine”
“What’s that?” you asked
“It’s a serum that helps your body heal faster to recover from the surgery, no drink it, both of you”
Your dad drank his, and then helped you to drink yours since you were just a head in your dad’s body. He had full control over your actions and you were just along with the ride. You wished for this to end soon as you drank the blue serum that tasted like berries.