So mean!
Teri gets asked an awkward question...
Transmigrated Teri is a WIP that is part of a “post 200 words a day during July” challenge issued by
. Episodes posted daily will be of various lengths and sometimes will stop in the middle of the scene. You have been warned!The set up:
Teri Travers, a nearly-50 bitter “office lady” who has not led a happy life gets in a massive car accident after being sent home on the first day of COVID lockdown in 2020. She (and her dog) wake up in a strange new world that is also strangely familiar…that’s right, she’s been transmigrated into the world of her favorite 1990s fantasy novel series, the massively popular, critically disdained, and incredibly tropetastic Allisar Fireborn Chronicles by the infamous Chadwick Jarvaldson, aka “Fuckin’ Chad” to all his very annoyed fans who are still waiting for the final book to be published.
Previously: Teri narrowed her eyes at him, and he stepped back. It was very gratifying to think that she still had it. “This isn’t a hospital at all, is it?”
The woman gasped and clutched her pearls again, her eyes going wide. “Milady! We would never dare take you to a lowly hospital! You are here in—”
She stopped talking as soon as the doctor held up his hand, his own eyes narrowing.
Maybe Teri did not still have it after all.
“Milady. If I may ask: can you tell us where you are, right now?”
Home home home!
“We are not at home!” She snapped at Theo.
More gasping from the woman, and the doctor’s hand dropped. “Do you know who I am?”
“Not really. I heard those kids call you Doctor Dourwin, but I don’t know you.”
“Those kids?” The doctor repeated weakly.
The lady pushed past him to lean on the bed. “Milady! Do you not know who I am?”
Teri looked at her for a moment, dragging it out as she thought of every answer she could give that would not be in some way wrong, and possibly inflammatory. There was none.
“I have never met you before in my life.”
The woman collapsed on the bed, wailing, and it was the doctor’s turn to gasp in horror.
You really upset them! Why are you so mean?
Teri fell back on the mattress and yanked the cover up over her head, only for Theo to grab the edge of it with his mouth and pull it down.
Hide and seek? He looked so damn hopeful.
“No!” she snapped at him and he scooted backwards quickly. She only had a moment to feel a twinge of guilt before the doctor cautiously approached the bed again. He had apparently stuffed the weeping woman back into the chair she had been sleeping in.
Teri eyed him warily. “What?”
“I fear there has been some…ah…memory loss?”
I love Theo!!