Clover lay there in bed as Bill merged into her. It was just like her parents had described. Bill was silent now, his face was no more. He was literally inside her skull. According to mother she probably had about an hour to wait until Bill’s brain merged with her own and he learnt how to operate her optic nerves and her vocal chords. Until then she was essentially on her own.
She checked her feet and saw they were now merged. They were still bigger than normal but she should be able to walk. She climbed out of bed and made her way to the bathroom mirror.
Her face was her own but her body was distorted. She looked like some sort of alien. Her skull was extra thick, Bill’s ears were still visible behind her own. She guessed he might be able to hear her so told him what she was up to.
‘Hi Bill. The Merge is proceeding nicely. I hope you can still hear me. Our legs are now merged so I’ve got up and are looking in the mirror. We are not exactly a pretty site. I won’t be answering the doorbell if it rings.’
‘At the waist we look almost normal, well normal for me, but our legs and arms are extra thick as is our torso. Our head is the worst bit now. I essentially have the back of your skull fused into mine. At the moment we have four ears but that won’t be for much longer. You will soon lose your hearing. I’ll take some photos so I can show you later’
She felt so full of power. It seemed she was gaining Bill’s energy as well as her own. She collected her phone and began to take pictures. She also massaged her breasts, thinking Bill might like that experience as well. She decided there was time to take a shower while the merge completed.
…….
Some time later Bill began to see light. The brightness slowly cleared up. He was looking at Clover’s reflection in the bathroom mirror. Clover was drying her hair. She was in a lilac bra and panty set and had wet hair. She looked totally the normal Clover.
Clover paused the hairdryer ‘Are you back yet Bill? If you are you will need to learn to communicate with me. Dad told me the easiest way is to blink. Concentrate on blinking so that I know you are there. I’ll try and cede you control of my eyes’
Bill could hear her but he could not control her eyes he could not make the reflection blink.
‘It just takes a while for our brains to integrate. Keep trying and you will figure it out. Just let me do my mascara then try again’
Bill watched as the reflection applied black mascara to her eyelashes. It was real. He could feel the brush touching his lashes. He was the girl in the mirror. ‘Amazing!’
‘Bill? Was that you? Did you just say Amazing?’
‘I did’ Bill found he could talk. It was Clover’s voice that came out of his mouth, or should that be “their” mouth.
‘You can talk!’
‘It seems I can’
‘Recite the alphabet’
‘absdefg..hijklmnop..qrst.uv..wxy and z’
‘Yeah!’
‘This is amazing. I’m inside you’
‘Welcome back! It was lonely here for a while’