Chad was coping with his new deafness, and upgraded senses of taste and smell. His vision seemed different too. He was cold, and covetously coiled around his former body's torso. He had to play along with Jack.
Chad's thinking was on a different baser level now. He understood the leather trenchcoat transformed the wearer. He had worn the coat, and become a snake. Jack wore the coat after Chad and became Chad's clone. Presumably, a snake had been inside the coat before Chad wore it. Chad expected that Jack would use the coat to change back and forth between Jack's and Chad's bodies. If Chad could get inside the coat when Jack was Jack again, he would be himself again. He would leave the coat for Jack, and get himself a pet snake as a bonus. Then he'd burn the coat, probably.
Chad wondered what it might be like to experience Jack's body. It might make it easier to affect the steps necessary to reclaim his body, and punish Jack a little. His coils tightened around the warm torso.
"Yeow, not so tight, Chad!" Chad's voice shouted tugging at the boa constrictor. Then he smiled, "Oh, I bet you're just cold and hungry."
He lifted the boa off his shoulders and carried Chad the snake over to a huge terrarium. Chad could sense the heat radiating from the terrarium, and instinctively moved its head toward it. Chadjack opened the lid and guided Chad as he slithered into his new home. The heat seemed to help Chad think better too. He quickly snaked around his new home there appeared to be just the opening through which he entered the glass enclosure. But there was a small pool and a heat lamp, so there should be access panels to service them. Chad's tongue darted about as he surveyed his prison, and plotted his escape.
"Squeak!" shrieked something above.
Chad looked up, his former hand came through the lid door with a squirming shrieking white rat in it. Then Jack dropped the rat near Chad the snake saying, "Dinner is served."
Then he closed the lid and Chad heard the metal bolt slide across to lock it. Chad glared at the panicky rat. Then instinctively he lunged. Soon the rat's bones were cracking and crunching as Chad's body coiled around the furry mammal.
G-g-g-g-g-g-u-u-u-u-u-l-l-l-l-p-p-p.
Chad's jaw unhinged and he swallowed the unconscious dying rat whole. He should try to escape, but he felt lethargic. He crawled over to the rock pile by the pool, and coiled in the tiny cave opening.
He was vaguely aware of his voice laughing, and then lights outside his terrarium going dark. He hissed softly, and went to sleep.
Jack laughed as Chad seemed to accept his new life as his pet snake by eating the rat and coiling up and going to sleep. He did another once over examining his new hunky blond body. Oh, yeah, this is the life, he thought as he flexed his new muscles, the life of Chad.
He adjusted his clothing, and headed out to enjoy the life of an MVP and BMOC. The former owner of that life drifted off to sleep.