A World Without Ji-Woo (Date Pt. 2)

Authors Note: A summary of everyone's TFs can be seen here.

Years Prior

A boy stepped out from the balloon-decorated house with a neutral expression. A few feet away, his mother's car awaited him.

"Did you have fun at Elena's goodbye party?" his mother asked, as Levi got into his seat.

"I was able to not cry," the boy admitted. However, moments later, this claim was undone as he began to tear up.

"Oh, honey," Jenny Summers said sympathetically, reaching over for a one-armed hug.

"I don't want to lose my only friend," Levi said, crying.

"You're not losing her," she offered. "It's so much easier for people to stay in touch than it was when I was your age."

Levi shook his head. "But who will I talk to at school?"

"You're young. There are so many other people in class who would want to be friends with a wonderful boy like you."

Levi shook his head again. "None of them will be like El. Talking on the phone's not the same."

Mrs. Summers shrugged. "Well, we'll just have to visit her then. I've always wanted to see San Francisco."

"What? When?" Levi gasped. "Can we meet her there after she leaves?"

Jenny laughed. "Hold your horses, kid. Give them some time."

"Ok, but when then?" Levi asked, growing more excited.

Jenny considered for a moment. "I'll talk to your father."

"Promise?" Levi asked.

She winked. "Promise."

---

Present Day

Levi wasn't sure why he was remembering this moment as he marched Ji-Woo into the home theater. However, he quickly absorbed it into his ever-present spite for the woman behind him.

'We never did take that trip,' he thought, remembering how his fathers affair had been discovered less than a year after. 'Because she tore us apart. Just another thing she stole from me.'

"Get in there," Levi ordered, opening the theater door. Ji-Woo nodded nervously and took a seat, not daring to hesitate, lest her brand punish her again.

Levi was about to take his seat when he recalled that the other DVDs, aside from Nora's, were still in the kitchen where Alison had originally left them.

"You wait there," Levi commanded. "Don't you dare leave or try anything funny."

"I wouldn't dream of it," Ji-Woo muttered.

Levi narrowed his eyes dangerously. "You watch that tone," he warned, before slamming the door.

Ji-Woo bit her lip.

---

Elena Mendez

"Excuse me, princess," a fairy said, its speech wavering nervously as it fluttered into the dining hall, wringing its hands. "But we received word from the witch. She says she will be departing in an hour."

“The witch? You mean Azure?” Nora asked.

The messenger nodded.

“Fine, we were about done here anyway," Elena sighed. "Come on, everyone."

One by one, each guest got to their feet, following the princess out of the dining hall and into the window-lined hallway.

As Elena looked out the window, she saw that the final embers of sunset faded. Her pupils dilated at the sight of nightfall.

"No, not now—"

But before she could react, she felt it. The surge of strength rushing through her blood vessels, swelling and hardening her muscles with an exhilarating energy.

“Crap! Crap! CRAP!” she yelled as her nighttime transformation took over. She grasped at her dress as it burst at the seams, her bulk rapidly surpassing the fabric's ability to contain her.

"Wow, bad timing," Tomoko commented.

“Ah! Oh god!” Nora suddenly shouted, causing all attention to snap to her.

Like Elena, Nora felt her body begin to change as night overtook the sky. Panic surged through her mind as she fell to her knees, her muscles igniting with an intense sensation.

"No... f-full moon?" She barely managed to say, words mangled by her shifting jaw.

“Okay, REALLY bad timing!” Tomoko cried.

Nora could feel every inch of her skin crawling as black fur erupted from it, and terror mounted with each prickling sensation. Her face elongated into a muzzle, and her breath quickened; her human grunts transformed into animalistic growls. Fur erupted from her back, and her body expanded, causing her howl to shift into a moan. The pain she experienced gradually transformed into waves of euphoria.

Tomoko and Sophia, along with the fairies, stood frozen, looking back between the two transforming women, both equally startled and aroused.

“Crap… I… didn't realize how long we were here,” the muscular Elena groaned in annoyance, naked and on her knees. She looked up at the fairies. “Any of you have any clothes?”

The spirits did not answer, all blushing furiously, openly drooling and mesmerized by their nude, buff goddess. “Yo!” Elena said, snapping her finger in front of them to get their attention.

“Oh… uh… yes of course, your majesty!”

“I don’t know. I think she looks fine the way she is,” Nora said in an unrecognizable, sultry voice. Fully transformed into a wolfwoman, her sweater skin tight against her enhanced body.

“Oh God, those rippling muscles,” she growled, her gaze locking onto Elena with a fierce intensity. Slowly, she licked her snout, the movement both predatory and seductive, before gracefully lowering herself onto all fours and inching closer.

As she moved, a fragrant and intoxicating scent began to fill the hall, the air thick with her pheromones. Immediately, Sophia, Tomoko, Elena, and the observing fairies felt heat radiating between their bodies, especially between their legs, from the aroma.

Two of the pixies, already excited by their naked princess, let out a cry and fell to the ground as they reached their peak, their tiny bodies shaking in climax.

"I've never done it with a woman before, but I could make an exception," Nora growled, continuing to crawl toward her target. "God, that six pack."

“Mrs. Wolf, please, calm down,” Tomoko urged, rushing between the two with her arms outstretched. Nora suddenly froze in mid-stride, her heart pounding in her chest as she faced the striking Japanese beauty. The intensity of her Closset Key curse hit the werewolf like a train, enhanced greatly by her new, animalistic urges.

"Don't!" Elena shouted, but it was too late. With a fierce howl, Nora lunged forward, her eyes glinting with fantastic energy. Her razor-sharp claws sliced through the fabric of Tomoko's top, slicing it to ribbons that exploded off of her, her braless breasts shaking as they were exposed.

Before she had a moment to react, Nora was already on top of her, pinning her to the ground. The wild creature, filled with unrestrained energy, licked her face with a rough tongue. meanwhile, her furry, clawed handlds fondled every inch of her with raw, primal energy.

"Leave her alone!" Elena roared. With a surge of adrenaline, she lunged forward, gripping Nora tightly by the neck and yanking her away from Tomoko. Nora thrashed violently, letting out a primal roar as she fought to break free from the unyielding hold of the Amazon.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" the still-floating fairies cried. In a synchronized motion, they lifted their hands, channeling a blinding flash. From the illumination, green vines erupted, shooting directly at the werewolf.

In a mere moment, the tendrils coiled themselves around Nora's waist and pulled her off the Amazon, slamming her to the ground, before coiling around the creature's limbs, binding her arms back and legs together.

The beast struggled against the restraints, which, though only a few millimeters thick, were as unyielding as thick ropes. With each attempt to break free, the bindings constricted more tightly, twisting and forcing her arms up and behind her head.

"Wow, uh, good work," Elena said to her fairies, her compliment making them swoon. "I didn't know you could do that."

"Of course, your majesty. Anything to keep you safe?" the nearest fairy nodded.

"I thought you had a food crisis," Sophia pointed out. "Can you just make plants?"

"You don't eat weapons, you silly girl. You want to break your teeth?" the fairy scoffed. "Speaking of weapons, shall we execute the wolf, your highness?"

"What?! No!" Elena cried. "Just keep her like that."

"Oh my, you're so rough," Nora purred flirtatiously, coming down from her feral lust, yet not losing any of her arousal. "Never thought I'd say it, but that's really doing it for me."

She licked her muzzle. "I'm so vulnerable, you know. Why don't you come and show the teacher a lesson?" she drooled.

Elena shook her head in annoyance, going over to Tomoko. "Are you okay?" she asked, offering her a hand.

Tomoko nodded as she took her hand and got to her feet. As she did, she let out a groan of discomfort as she got to her feet, Nora's fondling having jostled the developing milk in her bare jugs.

"You two... might want to put something on," Sophia blushed, looking away from the topless Tomoko and naked Elena, Nora's pheromones driving her gayness into overdrive.

"You don't have to, of course," one of the fairies said, utterly failing to hide her ogling of the princess's body.

Elena bit her lip. "You got anything that can fit me?" she asked the fairies.

"Absolutely," one responded. "We have a full wardrobe for both of your forms."

"What about Tomoko?" Elena added, noting Tomoko's shredded top.

The fairies' smile fell. "We... could resize one... if that's truly what you wish..."

"Fantastic. Take us then," Elena ordered. "Come on, Tomoko."

"Sure," Tomoko nodded, ignoring the fairies' look of discomfort at including her.

She walked beside Elena as they went down the hall, nearly falling over as the Amazon unknowingly smacked her on the ass, an act that no one else noticed.

"I'll just... stay with Mrs. Wolf then," Sophia called out awkwardly.

Nora looked up at the girl and licked her muzzle again.

---

Ji-Woo Summers

Ji-Woo sat silently in the dark theater, the events of the day replaying in her head.

"Contestants are rewarded for pleasing their Master," Alison had said. "It does not matter if that pleasure comes from affection or from the joy of tormenting them. Either way, they are fulfilling their purpose."

She shuddered, recalling the humiliations Levi had put her through. Whether it was the utter domination he had over her during his angry rutting of her that morning, or the humiliating display he forced her into just minutes before, the memories weighed heavily on her.

But weighing even harder was the knowledge that those acts had awarded her more points than everything else she had done combined.

‘Every time I try to get him to forgive me or to like me, he either retreats or it explodes in my face,’ she realized. ‘Is it better for him to hate me and... encourage his sadism? To rely on being his victim?’ She clenched her fist, shuddering even harder.

"Okay, I'm back," Levi announced, holding up a DVD case. Flipping it in his hand, he read the title. "What if Ji-Woo hadn't involved herself with Levi's father?"

"You really trust that thing?" Ji-Woo asked. "You know Azure will just make up what she wants."

"It's not from Azure," Levi snapped back, recalling how Alison had explained it. "It's from alternate timelines, from like cosmic beings outside of time and space."

It was a testament to the sheer insanity of the show that this even remotely sounded plausible.

"Look, I already tested it once," Levi hastily added. "Trust me, once you experience it, you'll know it's real."

"As you say, Master," Ji-Woo sighed.

After a few moments of adjusting the DVD player, Levi took his seat next to Ji-Woo. He pressed several buttons on the remote, causing the theater screen to light up.

Immediately, the sight of Olivia eating dinner alone in the dining hall filled the screen. Levi rolled his eyes, noting that it was still set to her from when he had spied on her and Tomoko's sex earlier that day.

Levi hastily changed the input, before Ji-Woo could ask, and pressed play.

The movie began on a black screen, ominous music playing as a narrator spoke. "Today's story is one as old as time. A love triangle that ended in tragedy. A promise broken, whose shards cut deep."

"Is that Morgan Freeman?" Ji-Woo asked, recognizing the voice.

"Shush," Levi rebuked.

"It's a story of one man, Scott Summers, father and husband, torn between two women," it continued, the black screen fading to Levi's father in his office.

Levi felt his blood freeze at the sight of him. He realized that this had been the first time he had even looked at a picture of his dad in years.

"Then, on a mundane day at his mundane job, he met a not so mundane person. A refugee that the winds of fate had brought into his office. Ji-Woo Chen."

On the screen, the first meeting between Ji-Woo and Scott was portrayed. Both Levi and Ji-Woo shivered, remembering how Azure had forced them to reenact it at the opening ceremony.

"Though the two kept it professional at first, things escalated, as they so often do," the narrator said ominously, as a short montage of the two played, showing them working progressively closer together, before embracing in a hotel room, luggage on the ground unpacked.

"Before they went beyond the point of return... as people so often do."

Levi let out a scream and nearly retched as the video cut to his father fucking Ji-Woo over a desk. He covered his eyes as the sound of his dad's grunts mixed with the woman's squeals.

Ji-Woo was equally disgusted. Yet, she couldn't help but feel a sense of vindication at seeing Levi so distraught at the very thing he had insisted they watch.

"Clever Ji-Woo was a genius when it came to keeping it hidden," the narrator continued. "She scheduled the right excuses and organized the right venues to keep their rendezvous a secret. For years, no one knew."

"Unfortunately, the secret couldn't last. Eventually, his wife found out. And all hell broke loose," the narrator said sadly, as a silent scene of Levi's parents screaming angrily at each other took over the frame.

"The family was broken, but Scott didn't want to lose it. At least not all of it," the voice continued, showing a sobbing Levi. "A custody battle broke out, leaving the poor boy in the middle. And with his only friend, Elena Mendez, having moved away months prior, he had no one to turn to."

'I told him not to involve him like that,' Ji-Woo thought, seeing the crying kid.

"But what if things had happened differently?" Not-Morgan asked. "What if Ji-Woo had kept things professional and not gotten involved when interest came her way?"

Levi braced himself, knowing what was about to happen next.

"Let's find out."

The screen flashed, and he and Ji-Woo felt their consciousness ripped from their bodies, sucked into the blinding light.

A Dining Room

Both Ji-Woo and Levi looked at their hands through the same eyes. They were both Levi, in a kids body, sitting next to his parents at the dining room table, barely listening as he ate his spaghetti.

"Are you sure everything is okay, dear?" Jenny asked, noting Scott's look of agitation.

"Yes... well... no..." he sighed. "It's just been a stressful day. I had to let some people go."

"Oh no," Jenny said. "Why?"

"Budgets," he replied simply. "They told me how many to cut, and then left the buck on me to pick." He dug into his food. "I had to cut Ji-Woo."

"What?" Jenny asked, shocked. "Why her? I thought you said she was above and beyond what you expected from her role."

Scott looked away. "She'll find a better job," he said dismissively.

"But you just had that business trip with her? And you always said she was one of your best workers." Jenny insisted. "I mean, why her? Did something happen to..."

Scott pounded his fist on the table. "WHY DO YOU CARE?!"

Levi looked at his father, alarmed. He had never heard his dad shout like that. Jenny was simultaneously taken aback by this outburst.

"I... uh..." He cleared his throat. "Sorry, it's just been a stressful day." He got up. "I'm not very hungry."

"Oh... okay..." Jenny replied, watching him leave the dining room.

An Office

"This is where your dad works," Scott said proudly, his eyes sparkling with excitement as he pointed toward the bustling office.

"Wow, so you come here every day?" the boy asked.

"Most days," Scott grinned. "Why don't I show you how cool your old man's desk is?"

"Do you have your own room?" Levi asked in wonder, noting how everyone else was in cubicles.

"That I do, my boy," he nodded, gesturing for Levi to follow.

As the two entered, the father's face fell as he saw a woman sitting on the desk.

She was a graceful Asian woman, her dark hair neatly styled into a bun that accentuated the curve of her neck, and bright lipstick that highlighted her smile. Her pink shirt had the first few buttons undone. She paired it with a fitted pencil skirt that hugged her figure.

"Hey, Mr. Summers," she winked. "Got a report for you, sir," she said, putting a cooing emphasis on the last word.

"Oh, Shao Su, hello," Scott cleared his throat. "Meet my son."

The woman's eyes widened slightly. "Oh, h-hello." She got off the desk and to her feet, unconsciously redoing one of her buttons. "A-anyway, here is your report, Mr. Summers," she said, placing an envelope on the desk.

"Thank you, Sh... Ms. Su," he said, awkwardly.

Levi blinked a few times, not sure what that was all about.

A Bedroom

Levi was jolted awake by the sound of screaming downstairs. As a second, even louder voice shouted back, he got out of bed and followed the noise.

"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" his mother hollered. "HOW COULD YOU?!"

"How could I?!" He yelled. "HOW COULD YOU? You had no right to go through my work emails!"

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Jenny laughed in disbelief. "You're seriously THAT desperate to make me the bad guy?"

Levi rounded the corner and saw his mother sitting at the dining room table, next to an empty bottle of wine. His father stood at the doorframe, still in his work clothes, despite the late hour.

Neither of them noticed their son watching.

"It was a violation of privacy!" Scott insisted,

She slammed a palm onto the table. "I didn't even NEED to read your fucking emails. Everyone in your office knew! You couldn't even last three months!"

"Look, you're drunk and not thinking clearly," Scott groaned, gesturing to the bottle. "Why don't you take the night to sober up, and we can talk in the..."

Jenny jumped to her feet, so quickly that her chair fell back behind her. "FUCK YOU! Why! Why her! I did everything for you!"

"Everything?!" Scott laughed. "Is that a joke! You know, maybe if you had actually tried to understand me, you wouldn't have pushed me to her!"

Jenny let out an inhuman cry, throwing the empty bottle at him. It missed his head, shattering against the wall behind him. Levi screamed at the shattering sound, causing both parents to turn in shock to their child.

"Levi? This... this is nothing," Scott stammered. "Please, go back up to bed and..."

"Your father is fucking another woman!" Jenny yelled, pointing at him accusingly.

"DON'T TELL HIM THAT! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

Jenny only yelled louder to be heard over Scott. "HE FIRED PEOPLE JUST TO KEEP HIS SLUT AROUND!" She shook her head wildly. "All those 'late nights working?' He was at her house, fucking her!"

"STOP SWEARING IN FRONT OF OUR SON, YOU BITCH!"

Levi let out a scream, all the anger too much to bear. He turned and ran back up the stairs, towards his bed.

"Wait... honey... come back!" his mother called out, sobbing.

A Different Bedroom

"Your parents are getting divorced?" Elena exclaimed. The young girl sat on her bed, watching her friend in disbelief.

"I... yeah... I mean... that's what they said," Levi sobbed, still unable to process any of this. Less than a week ago, he hadn't even known what divorce was.

"I... wow... that's... jeeze man..." Elena said, unsure how to even respond. "I'm sorry. That... sucks."

Levi removed his glasses to wipe away his tears. Elena looked around awkwardly.

"Is... there anything I can do?" she asked.

"Do you think... I can spend the night?"

Elena nodded without hesitation. "Yes! I mean... I'll ask my parents... but... yes!"

A Party

Levi and Elena were sitting together, temporarily managing to find a room away from the rest of the latter's goodbye party.

"Are you sure you're going to be okay without me?" Elena asked.

"No," Levi admitted, the wounds still not havi. "But not much we can do about it."

"I will call you every night," Elena insisted, determination shining in her eyes. "And if I ever forget, I want you to fly to San Francisco and kick my ass."

Levi laughed. "I'm not going to..."

"Promise me!" Elena insisted.

Levi realized she was serious. "Thank you, El."

A School

Levi felt the wind knocked out of him as he was shoved against the locker.

"Pathetic," John Booker sneered, a cruel smirk stretching across his face. "You’re a year ahead of me, but you fight like a middle schooler."

"Fuck you," Levi snapped, as he spat defiantly at John, the saliva splatting against his shoes.

Suddenly, Levi found himself roughly thrown to the ground, the unforgiving floor meeting him with a thud. Pain radiated through him as John’s boots connected with his ribs.

A Room

"You seriously can't do anything about him?" Elena asked through the Skype call.

"I'm nearly graduated," Levi sighed, rubbing his side. "Better to not antagonize him by getting others involved."

"And this Lauren bitch?" Elena added. “You’re not going to do anything about her either?”

Levi clenched his fist, remembering. Lauren Peterson, a Junior yet queen of the school. Who could, and did, destroy anyone on a whim and a rumor.

For whatever reason that he couldn’t fathom, she had set his sights towards him in his freshman year. He remembered bitterly how she had somehow learned he had a therapist, and twisted it into the idea that he was a dangerous psychopath.

"Her family is rich," Levi responded. "She could probably get her dad to blacklist me from any college she wants." He swallowed hard, "and I don't want anything standing in the way of my acceptance to SFSU."

Elena smiled. "I'm so excited to be starting college with you, Levi. I've missed you."

"I missed you, too."

A Kitchen

"No! You can't go to his graduation!" Jenny yelled into the phone. A male voice shouted back, barely audible.

"Your son?!" Jenny repeated. "You lost the right to call him that when you tore this family apart!" She slammed the phone down before breaking out into sobs.

Levi sat in the other room, listening to her cries, not daring to make a move that would have alerted her that he had heard.

A Dorm

"We alone?" Levi asked, shutting the dorm room behind him.

"Yup, my roommate is out for the weekend," the 22-year-old Elena purred, lounging on her bed in shorts and a top. "I have you all to myself.

Levi blushed, licking his lips. "So then, what do you want to do?"

Elena grinned, slowly pulling her top over her head.

"Any other questions, Li?"

"None, El."

A House

Levi gently shut the door behind him, careful not to let the falling snow inside his mother’s cozy home. Twinkling Christmas lights and colorful ornaments adorned the room. As he removed his jacket, he heard hysterical laughter from the dining room. Following it, she found his mom, her face red, with a glass of wine.

"Oh, hey, honey," she giggled. "I have news about Scott, and it's so funny."

Levi felt his heart drop. It had been years since he had heard him say his name.

"You remember that Su slut?" Jenny laughed. "She called me... ME... crying, saying she found out that Scott was cheating on her, too." She threw her head back, wheezing. "She said she wanted to talk. That she finally realized what it was like. Can you believe that?!"

Levi said nothing. There was nothing he could.

"What the hell did she expect? People like him... bastards like him... It's never enough. He could have a fucking dozen whores and not be satisfied."

She downed the rest of her glass. "Nothing was ever good enough for him. Nothing."

---

Levi Summers

The blinding theater screen went black, as both Levi and Ji-Woo felt themselves thrown back into their bodies.

Levi stared at his hands, seeing them tremble. 'This wasn't... wasn't how it was supposed to...'

He looked over at Ji-Woo. The woman was utterly frozen, mouth agape, staring into the darkness. Not moving. Barely even blinking. Her brain was utterly frozen.

"This... I..." Levi stammered, unable to process what to say. "This... doesn't change anything. You... I mean..." He swallowed hard before speaking more assertively.

"Here, in this world, you still did it. It doesn't matter if he still would have... I mean... You still... FUCK!"

Levi got to his feet, flinging the remote off into the darkness, and stormed out of the theater.

Ji-Woo didn't respond. She just sat there in the darkness, unable to find the words, save for one.

"Scott?"