There was a knock at the front door, Simon went to answer it.
Simon's high school friend Pete was at the door. Jeff, having made the proper adjustments, he hoped, was ready to hit execute.
He wanted to wait until Simon got back, but instead Pete walked in.
"Woah!" Pete said, "Simon told me you'd grown hairy, he didn't tell me you'd become a grizzly!"
Pete could never grow a beard, had little to no body hair and had real self esteem issues about being a near hairless man.
I told ya Pete, freakin' incredible, isn't it?
"Oh man! You two are SO lucky..." Pete said, scratching at his patchy day old red stubble. "I wish I had you're problem. Simon told me all this great fur you've grown has you down." Pete placed a hand on Jeff's shoulder. "If I could trade places with you, Scooter, I would."
Jeff smiled, only Pete could call him Scooter, "If only you could."
This was perfect, he'd be doing Pete a favor, be giving him something he'd always dreamed of having, was made fun of for not having. He'd even throw in some body mods like he did for Simon, make Pete a solid chunk of bear in addition to the pelt. Jeff had always liked Pete, he'd stuck up for Jeff when the bullies picked on him and had been a real friend in many other ways... Yes, this was the hand of fate, he'd make Pete into a big, burly, fully bearded, full pelted red grizzly bear! Raise his confidence and make him happy. Once the Chronovac was working again, he'd fix everyone's memory so that it appeared natural for Pete to have been this way all along... he'd even give Pete a nice Hawg... just like his uncle Mike's.