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Kat has always seemed the type that was too shy to interact with people, hell it was like a month after I started working at my job till she was open or comfortable enough with me to joke around. By world standards, she was by no means an ugly woman but yet she wasn't a show stopper either. Most people would consider her plain but in my eyes, she was gorgeous. She had an amazing sense of style. One day she might being wearing jeans, chucks and a t-shirt and the next she might be wearing a office casual flowing summer dress. Her makeup was minimal, basically just mascara and a little blush. This is why I thought she was cute, she didn't hide her natural beauty but embraced it. She was a normal height, about 5 foot with the skinny body of someone who didn't workout but watched what they ate. All this being said, I guess I was surprised after I dropped off my papers for the day, she got up as I was heading out the door and followed me out in the parking lot. "Hank!!!" I look over my shoulder and see her walking quickly after me, looking around as one does to make sure nobody was watching. I stop and turn, waiting for her to catch up. My mind was already at home but for her I would wait hours if she needed something done. "Yeah, I was wondering if you could do something for me. You could totally say no, it's well out of the realm of work..." She pauses glancing from her hands, up to my face and then back to her hands. I chuckle, her nervousness amusing to me. I was a big guy, muscular and a little chubby, who towered over girls like her, so I guess I could say I was use to it. But for some reason, this was different. So my chuckle dwindled down a comforting grin, "What can I do for you? You know you've saved my ass at work more times than I can count on my fingers, so I owe you." She just gives a sheepish grin, "Oh, this would make us even ten times over. So let me tell you before you go about agreeing to anything." She pauses for a moment, giving a sigh as if she was collecting her thoughts. " Hank, I found out yesterday from a doctor I can't get pregnant. At least not in the normal sense I guess it turns out." I just look at her, shifting my weight from one foot to the other as I wondered where she was going with this. "I called my mom after I got done with the appointment and told her the news, turns out that all of the women on my mom side is like this. The only way we can reproduce is by...how can I put this in a way without freaking you out... absorbing someone? I would slide your head up my...lady parts and my body would secrete a fluid that would shrink your body wherever it came in touch with. I guess it's how they went about doing those shrunken heads things, only with those they would be-head the person instead of continuing with the process. Once you whole body was inside, you would shrink or regress till you were an embryo and then start growing again." I just look at her, wondering when my boss would pop out from behind a car to catch me in HR complaint. "Sooo...if this was true, I would cease to exist?" She gets a bright smile, "That's the good part, you would still have all of your memories and stuff. The only thing would get reset you could say, is your body." I just look at her, "What's in it for me?" "Have you ever wished for a do over? Not in the sense where you would forget everything you know but go back in time or at least age and do everything over? This would be it." She got my attention with that. Every day I thought about my life, wondering where I went wrong and what I could of done different. "Does it hurt? And I'll retain everything I know?" She nods her head, locking her eyes with my own. I let out a sigh, "Sure, when do you want to do it?" She jumps up in my arms, wrapping her arms around me neck. "Tomorrow!!! I have to get some stuff ready, stuff for down there. Back in the day, the did it in away that was painful for both parties but we've learned to eat and drink some stuff beforehand and our bodies will preduce the juices I was talking about." I just shrug my shoulders and step towards my car, still half believing it was a joke and half thinking how my life was going drastically change tomorrow.