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The Magic Pen: Dave saves using the Pen for later

added by Bahamut626 9 years ago O

In the end, Dave decided it would be better to wait a while before using the Pen again, he’d already used it quite a bit lately. With Jenny and Joe Kangaroos, his secretary being a snake, his Boss a lizard, two lionesses, a lion, a panther, a monkey, two zebras, a cat, an alligator, a cheetah, and himself now a lizard. Plus his hasty changes to stop what could well have been a fatally explosive situation and having to send someone perhaps off the planet! It had been quite a day, and he wasn’t in any real rush to add more to it, at least for the time being.

That’s why the Pen and notepad were in his coat pocket now, as he closed it up again for the remainder of the ride home. The people that came on and off were the usual type for this time, some sharp-dressed businessmen and women, a few more casually dressed ones from other jobs, and the odd random commuter. All oblivious to the lizard, panther, and lioness that they shared the bus with. A smile etched onto Dave’s face as he set his eyes onto the pages of his book, one on business economics so if anyone looked his way, they’d likely assume that it came from what he was reading.

Some time, and three chapters later, his stop finally came, and as he stood up to leave the near-empty bus, he noticed that the lioness from earlier wasn’t on now.

‘Her stop must have been earlier.’ Dave surmised, as he stepped off and made the short walk over to his home, a draft that worked its way under his coat reminding him of his lack of clothing under it.

‘This nudity could be more irritating than I expected.’ He wondered. ‘Then again, Jenny and Joe kept their tops on, so having some clothes on shouldn’t be too odd. Or I could just deal with it.’ He considered his options, aware that with the Pen, he could fix it without too much trouble so long as he kept the wording right.

His home resided within the low-rise apartments of the aspiring lower-middle class, decent quality, quite safe, not the best but certainly far from the worst, and was what he and Ashlee could afford with their combined incomes. And that brought a realisation to Dave that stopped him for a moment. Right now, she wouldn’t be any the wiser to what he’d been doing with the Pen, and certainly wouldn’t see anything wrong with his scales. While that did make things look safe, the fact that she didn’t know about the Pen meant that if she used it without realising it, who knew what could happen as a result. And simply hiding it was something that felt to carry too much risk for Dave’s liking. In any case, hiding something like this from her felt rather, wrong to Dave.

Inside and working his way up to the third floor, Dave was still thinking about whether to tell Ashlee about the Pen or not, weighing the ups and downs in his head. It was only when he got to the door, needing to open his coat again to get to the apartment keys that were in his leg-pouch, that he finally made up his mind. Inside and hanging up his coat before kicking off his shoes, now completely in his scales, save for the pouch, slipping the Pen into the pouch for the time being.

“That’s me home now.” Dave called out.

That’s when Ashlee exited her home office. Actually, it used to be a second bedroom, but she’d had it converted into her home office since it made the best place to have it. As she came into view, she showed…


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