Chloe, Slimegirl and Medical Gel

You awoke hours later, lying in a hospital bed. That's odd, you thought. Particularly since you felt perfectly fine.

You sat up in your bed, glancing down at yourself. As far as you could tell, you had maybe a few bruises from the collision with the wall, but that was it. It was actually pretty miraculous that you weren't in worse shape, given the size of that explosion.

You flexed your fingers, wiggled your toes... everything still felt normal. You were Jason, through and through, or so it seemed. You glanced over toward the window of the small hospital room you'd been assigned, looking at a blonde woman from behind--spending an extra moment looking at her curvaceous rear.

Something suddenly felt like it was pinching your cheek, though there was no one there to grab you. "Ow!"

Startled, the blonde turned around, and you recognized Dr. Walker's face. "Ah, you're awake, good."

"Dr. Walker, thank goodness, I--"

The blonde woman held a hand up, and you went quiet in response. "Thank you. First off, I'm not going to waste your time dancing around this, because the truth is going to be strange to hear. I am not Dr. Walker, I am her assistant Amanda."

You tilted your head. "She has a body-double as an assistant?"

"No, that's not it. Dr. Walker is not human, but she uses my body frequently in the presence of others to appear so. I may be her face, and occasionally will pretend to be her, but that's all."

"...Wait." Your hair stood on end at how Amanda described the reality of who she was, though you didn't believe her. "Is this some sort of psych evaluation after trauma? Doc, can't you just give me the test where I recite the alphabet backwards and touch my nose?"

"Firstly, that's a sobriety test, not a psychiatric evaluation. Secondly, you should take this seriously, because otherwise the next part is going to be a considerable shock."

"Alright, fine." You swung your legs over the side of the bed, feeling like the hospital was entirely unnecessary for you. "So, should my next question be 'where' or 'what' is Dr. Walker?"

You felt a strange tingling in your hand, and you glanced down to watch what looked like an indentation form in your palm--it went deep! You wanted to look away, but you couldn't, as that hole seemed to form a throat, with teeth and lips. You yelped as it began to speak, even! "I can answer both of those questions at the same time, in fact! Because my slime body is keeping your body alive from the inside."

Amanda was right, this was such a shock that you immediately passed out from what you just saw.

A few minutes later, you felt a light tap to your face, as you woke up to Amanda patting your cheeks. "I warned you! Stay awake this time please, I really have to be somewhere and I don't want to have to keep making sure you don't faint your way onto the floor."

"B-but... mouth in... in my hand..!"

Amanda tapped your cheek again with her hand, a little more forcefully. "That's Chloe, so be nice! Because she's doing you a huge favor despite it disrupting our own schedules beyond repair at the moment. Chloe, I think you should calm him down."

You looked back down at your palm, still seeing a pair of lips--closed at the moment though. A little bit of nausea came, and then suddenly went. In fact, your shock and panic just seemed to wash away... you felt calm, unusually so, like you'd been ****. This time, when the mouth on your hand spoke, it didn't cause you to faint again, though you did softly wail as it felt so weird for something on your palm to be moving like a mouth would.

"Long story short, Jason. My real existence is as a slime being. I'm designed originally to heal internal damage and illness as my primary function. Oddly enough, even after so many years, you're my first patient in an uncontrolled environment! That explosion knocked you away from any serious external injury, but you inhaled some pretty deadly stuff. Not your fault, of course, but there was a mixture of dangerous gases that was going to block your airways, destroy your nervous system, and cause organ failure to just about every internal structure within you. Not to frighten you or anything, but you were about thirty seconds from going past the point of no return. Fortunately, I entered you and was able to stabilize you."

"Wh... wait wait wait. You're a slime, you're in my body, you fixed me? Why not get out of me then?"

Your palm-hand sighed, the feminine voice escaping these extra lips adding extra bizarre vibes to everything. "I said I stabilized you, not that I fixed or healed you. Right now I'm like scaffolding holding your guts, lungs, and brain together. I can accelerate your healing, but there's no quick fix with this. I have to stay in your body for probably a month before I can leave."

You shook your head, and then buried your hand into the blanket next to you, squashing Chloe's temporary lips into the fabric and hearing her muffled complaints as you turned toward Amanda again. Amanda just shrugged. "Talk to your hand, Jason. Accept this so you can move on to the next part."

You blink. You've heard that a slime being is in your body healing it from toxic chemicals and who can apparently manipulate your physical form, what else could be worth discussing? Eventually you lift your hand up again, so you can listen to Chloe's words again.

"THANK you. Now... Amanda is right. There's no scenario that ends with me leaving your body and not killing you in the process until thirty days from now. And listen, I want to make this as painless and comfortable for you as possible, because admittedly this being my first real use of my abilities is a bit of a thrill. And I like you! ...As in, um, you're a good intern and I value your contributions to our team, so I'd very much like to make sure you stay alive. So, trust me when I say that I'd have happily just hid inside your body the whole time, while you healed, you wouldn't even know I was here. But..."

"But?"

"Well, there are complications with this predicament, and we're going to have to work a few things out in order to get through this upcoming month."

You didn't like the sound of that, regardless of the cause. You didn't really like the sound of any of this at all, but it was going to be a long time to process any of it at all, so you might as well get all the info you could right now.