“You heard me,” said his brother. “Jars of human organs. Livers, hearts, lungs, testicles, a few penises, ovaries, uterus, and what we think might be half a brain. No jokes please. It feels wrong.”
“Yeah,” nodded Luke. “It is wrong. What the fuck are they doing with body parts?”
“I don’t know, brother. I think we have to let the medical team take a look at them but maybe they were testing levels of the drugs in the body after death?” he shrugged.
“Get some sleep. With any luck, tomorrow being Sunday, they won’t know we were there until Monday which is when the committee members are supposed to be in town.”
“Maybe we should do a formal meet and greet for the committee before they get to the Butch and Helen. They may not know what or who they’re meeting,” said Carl.
“Yeah. Let me think about it,” said Luke. “Get some sleep.”
“Wait,” said Hiro.
“Hiro? What the fuck are you still doing up?” asked Carl.
“If you’re up, we’re up,” he smirked. “We don’t go to sleep until you guys are back here safe. Anyway, I’ve found some records on our sibling pair. They are twins. Fraternal twins but still, twins. Butch, the one who is Butch now, shit this is going to get confusing.”
“Just go with it,” said Luke rubbing his eyes.
“She was the first to go through major transition. Involuntarily,” said Hiro. “The old man loaded her with so much juice she naturally started changing when she was just ten. I found her pediatric records. There were signs of her female genitalia elongating.”
“Elongating?” frowned Carl.
“Yes. Her labia and other areas were beginning to form in a male-like formation.” They stared at Hiro and he shook his head. “Look, I don’t know how to explain this. The drugs were causing her to grow a penis or what looked like one. We see this sometimes in children born with both male and female genitalia. The pediatrician thought it was strange but wrote in the record he believed it would change over time. It obviously didn’t because the old man was feeding into it.”
“Fuck. Ten-years-old. She didn’t understand and was probably being forced into the body,” said Luke.
“She, I mean he,” he said shaking his head, “had gender reassignment surgery in South America about ten years ago. Breast removal, penis implant, restructuring of the bladder, urethra, all of it.”
“I cannot even fathom how painful that would have been,” said Carl.
“Excruciating,” said Hiro. “She nearly died on the table twice but Helen, alias Butch, instructed them to continue.
“For him, it was a bit different. Part of the abuse his father delivered to him was because she often wore her brother’s undergarments. She was beaten and punished for it.”
“How do we know that?” asked Luke.
“Again, the pediatrician suspected physical abuse. When he confronted Vladim, he said that he was teaching his daughter a lesson. From the records I’ve been able to find, Butch, now Helen, had breast implants but has not completed the gender reassignment.”
“I wonder why?” frowned Carl. “I mean, they both seem awfully committed to this insanity. Why not go through with it, especially if the sibling did it?”
“I don’t know,” said Luke. “I can’t think anymore. Get some sleep and let’s meet tomorrow after breakfast. With any luck, it will be a quiet Sunday.” Carl laughed at his brother.
“Well, you just jinxed that.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Helen stared at herself in the mirror, admiring the perfectly round breasts and dark, rosy nipples. She was enjoying the appendage on her body but when she reached her waist, she knew her image would change.
The penis, although shrunken and lax, was still there surrounded by hair, the two testicles dangling below.
She’d put it off for so long, not wanting to give up everything. She referred to herself as ‘she’ because that’s what the doctors now classified her as. She had more estrogen in her body than testosterone. Technically, she was chemically a woman.
But why couldn’t she have both? Why couldn’t she have breasts and male appendage? She’d visited bordellos in Thailand and other countries where many of the men had kept their penises but added breasts to their bodies.
“You can’t stay that way,” said Butch standing in the doorway. She reached for the towel, covering her body. She wasn’t sure why. Her brother had seen her naked many times. “You have to transition fully.”
“Why? Just because you did doesn’t mean I have to as well. I like feeling as though I belong in both worlds,” she said wrapping the towel tightly around her breasts.