Color - Mutant Recovery 02 (Patreon)

Story by Leena (@MyLifeIsARPG)

Recovery day 2

It feels like I was hit by a truck. The doctors assure me that’s just the anesthesia wearing off. I’m a little loopy, but mostly I just don’t want to move.

They told me what was “wrong” with me. I have the mutant gene. Rather, my mutation has already begun. My insides are changing. The thing is, I guess I had a few undiagnosed problems lingering inside me and when I started mutating, it exacerbated them. Small things like kidney stones or ulcers can apparently hurt a lot when your organs are changing shape, ripping apart, and moving around.

Usually mutations are completely safe, they tell me. It’s just that they still know so little and every so often something like this happens. It’s why mutants always have to go through rigorous medical checkups shortly after mutating. They say I’m sort of… stuck… not really human... not really mutant… but somewhere in between, where my insides are changing but my outsides aren’t.

They said I could go home after a few days if my vitals check out, but they didn’t recommend it. There’s a chance that I would be fine. A chance that I wouldn’t ever need to come back in. heck, there was a chance I wouldn’t even mutate further. But since my insides were so… jumbled up… not human… they said that I would be taking a major chance. I might end up in worse pain… or even in a medical emergency.

My other option… take a medical mutagen… an accelerant. Basically, trigger my mutant gene so I can get to a point where my body is operating normally again. I’d be given it slowly, and I’d change slowly, under medical supervision.

The only catch? The same catch there is for any mutagen. If I mutated naturally, I might just change my hair color, or get an extra finger, or something. If I take the mutagenic treatment… my mutation will be drastic… safe… but drastic.

What a choice to have. Stay human but put myself at risk, or mutate wildly and be safe.

It wasn’t a choice at all. I told them to start the treatment.