Lesily looked at the father and wondered what to do with him. With Joshua in a hypnotic state, she had the do something the can change his life.
Thinking through, she came up with a really good idea. Looking towards the audience she smiled and said, "As you can see ladies and gentlemen, Daniel is now a full grown man with huge opportunities. But what to do with the father? There has to be some way in changing him right? So I was thinking that now the Daniel is an adult, he needs the experience that only a family can bring, and I think we can fix that up."
She approached Josh and whispered into his ear.
"Josh, can you hear me?" she asked.
Josh answered in a sleepless state, "Yes..."
She then continued with her show and said, "Good. Now I know that you love your son and take good care of him since his mother's passing. You want him to have everything he can to have a good life, is that correct?"
"Yes, Leslie," Josh answered, "I would do anything for him."
"Anything?"
"Anything..."
Leslie had a coy smile on her face and smacks her hands together eagerly before she begins her next act. "Good, very good indeed... Now listen Josh, I want you to think back to when you were a little younger.”
The grey streaks in Josh’s hair began to fade as Leslie spoke, Josh began to look more rested and fit as he went from his thirties to his twenties and quickly approached college age.
“That’s it, younger, back to before puberty.”
And the speed with which Josh began to grow younger seemed to accelerate as the muscles that had firmed up on his younger body began to shrink, deflating like a balloon until he was left looking like a rather lean, though still somewhat athletic teenager, but that lean look soon became even lankier and gawkier as his muscles shrank even further. His height was the next thing to go as the lanky teen began to go through puberty once again, this time in reverse, as shrinking spurts brought the tall young man down in height by a foot and a half at the very least. Standing there then was a rather cute looking preteen on the cusp of puberty, but looking far more of a boy than a man.
“Wonderful, but you’re not done yet, Josh. You’re still a little too old. I want you to think about when you were just starting school for the very first time, now.”
Josh’s height seemed to shrink far more rapidly, and the skinny boy seemed to begin to put on a little bit of weight from baby fat, not enough to be called chubby by any means, but enough to have rather plump cheeks to pinch. As Josh settled into the age that Daniel had begun at, Tia could see that the resemblance to his son was astonishing. Aside from a few minor details, it was hard to distinguish Josh from the young Daniel that had come on stage earlier.
Leslie looked between Daniel and Josh before saying, “Still too old, I want you to remember when you were learning to become potty trained.” The baby fat increased as Josh shrank to about knee height of his former son, growing ever cuter and his bottom thickened as his little boy briefs turned into training pants beneath his overalls that he now wore.
“Stop.” Leslie then took Josh’s hand and put it into Daniel’s and said “Daniel, this is your son, Josh, Josh, Daniel is now your father.” Suddenly the two's grip on each other's hands changed, seeming to know how to hold on to each other far better.
When I snap my fingers, you’ll both awake and think you’ve just come up to volunteer for the show, but when I say “Nap Time”, you’ll both return to this state, understood?
Both Josh and Daniel nodded their heads and Leslie snapped her fingers. Instantly Daniel and Josh awoke, blinking their eyes a few times. Josh, seemingly shy, hid almost instinctively behind Daniel’s leg.
Daniel sighed, exasperatedly, “Oh, Josh, there’s nothing… excuse him, he’s not normally this shy. I think it’s just being up here in front of all these people.”
Leslie shook her head and said, “That’s all right, I think the audience understands, am I right, audience?”
A general applause was let out in the next second, which was cut off when Leslie waved her hands.
“So, what are we going to volunteer for? Am I going to become Josh’s son or something kooky like that?” asked Daniel, after which some of the audience couldn’t help but laugh, which seemed to confuse Daniel and only cause Josh to hide even more behind Daniel's legs.
Leslie waved her hand again to calm the audience, and replied “Oh, we’ve yet to begin just yet, but I’ll need another volunteer.”
Leslie then turned to the audience and asked, “Is there any young lady willing to join this family as Josh’s mother and Daniel’s wife?”