Jess did not like this at all. It had gone too far, and she decided to look for Mary to get help. But Mary was still in the bathroom, and she thought she could hear her making some noises that sounded like a moan. Jess turned around and began to walk toward the box on the bed.
"Hey, " said the left head. "What are you doing?"
"You KNOW what I am doing," said Jess, the center head of the Cerberus. Her right head smiled and began to play with the ears of her right head.
"But this is what we wanted, " pleaded her left head. "I love how I look and how I feel, and I know you do, too. Finally, we are beautiful. You may not want to admit it to anyone, but you crave this."
Jess slowed. The left head was correct; after all, it was her, with the same thoughts and feelings, just in a different position. She did enjoy her new form, and she was not eager to return to being sad little Jess. The left head seemed to sense her hesitation and became a little more excited. Jess felt her shared heart beat a little faster.
"If anything, " the left head continued. "We want more power. We need to be more like a real Cerberus. Even larger, and stronger. Something even the gods will fear."
"Yeah," said the right head dreamily.
This shocked Jess out of her daze. No, she thought, this is not what I wanted. I wanted to be the one in control, not some puppet. She picked up her pace and quickly reached the box of potions. Concentrating, she gained control of her left hand and began to shuffle through the potions. She carefully began examining the potions in her left hand as her left head berated her.
"You weak coward. We could have been so beautiful, so powerful. We could have been a god. But, no, your petty fears keep you from getting what you really want." Jess knew it was true, so it made it more difficult to focus on her task. "You're never going to find anything to reverse it. This is just what we are now. You don't really want to reverse it anyway, " said her left head.
Jess stopped looking and turned to her left head. "Just shut up, " she growled.
"Oooh, did I touch a nerve? Hit a little too close to home, get a little too real?" said her left head with a smirk.
Jess was really angry now. Her mouth formed an angry snarl. "You're not even real!"
"I'm as real as you! I have thoughts and feelings, just like you! How do you know I'm not the real one, and you aren't something else" said the left head angrily.
Jess was about to respond when she felt a cool liquid drip down her throat - her RIGHT throat - to her stomach. Both Jess and her left head turned to the right, who was smiling and appeared to be holding an empty vial in her claw. Evidently, Jess was too preoccupied with her argument to notice what her right head had been doing. She couldn't read the vial, or even tell if she had used more than one vial, but she doubted it was something good. She began to feel a warmth building in her stomach, slowly spreading out toward the distal limbs of her body.
The left head could also feel the potion beginning to take effect. "Oh boy," she said. "This is going to be fun!"