<a class="postlink" href="http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/be09a5871bf9328ea02e1b67031d846e1350621.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>The night cool air felt nice against her heated skin. She felt like she was burning up a fever. She pulled at the collar of her shirt, exhaling a harsh sigh as she waved the color of her shirt in front of her. Sweat made her shirt cling to her skin and scrunch up. Her pants were sticking to her legs and making her itch and warm up more. It wasn't even a hot night, there was a cool breath, yet she couldn't seem to cool down and she only grew hotter until she felt like she was steaming.<br/><br/>Wait... she<span style="font-style: italic">was</span>steaming. Aubrey stopped for a minute and stared down at her hands. Steam raised from her hands. She lifted her hands higher to stare at them as they seem to just create more steam. She touched them together, poking her hands. It didn't feel hot but she was burning up all together.<br/><br/>Aubrey concentrated on her hands, narrowing her eyes at them. Until a sudden burst of flame exploded from her hand.<br/><br/>"WOAH!" Aubrey screeched, falling back again. She breathed heavily on the cool cement, her hands flat against it as more steam seemed to float up into the sky from them until it slowly dissipated. She sat up, glancing around the dark street. No one seemed to be around. She gulped slightly, and stared at her hands. The steam faded away and she shivered, feeling the sudden cold wind against her heated skin.<br/><br/>Aubrey sat there for a minute, breathing slowly to calm her racing heart when she heard a soft meow.<br/><br/>Her hazel eyes darted towards an alleyway to find a cat purring up against the edge of a building. It's bright hazel eyes landed on her, giving her a loud meow and sweet eyes before turning back into the alley way and prancing off. Aubrey blinked, feeling a sudden urge to follow. She quickly got up onto her feet, leaving her purse and lab coat on the ground as she followed down the alleyway.<br/><br/>It was dark, but the sudden darkness seemed comfortable. She continued walking, starting to feel a bit hot again. She wanted to shed. Shed her clothes off. Or shed... something off. Her body was all tingling and on alert like something was about to happen. She heard another meow in the alleyway and her head jerked towards the sound, her eyes now slit like a cat and she began to claw at her shirt.<br/><br/>The sudden need to be naked consumed her and she tore off her clothes, groaning in slight pain as she tugged and teared. Fur began to grow along her skin.<br/><br/>After a few minutes of more groans and bones cracking into places. Her clothes laid on the ground in a lump, until that lump started to move. A small meow came from that lump until a cat with short red fur and hazel eyes appeared, a scrap of clothing still hanging off it's head.<br/><br/>The cat shook it off and meowed, scratching behind her ears before she blinked around. Aubrey looked down at the paws below her and meowed softly as a test.<br/><br/>So, now she was a cat. Aubrey's cat eyes blinked as it sat in the middle of her torn clothing, wondering what the hell just happened. But then again, it felt kind of nice. Aubrey shook her fur, meowing quickly before she began to walk forward and then pounced up on top of a trash can. From there, she step back a few and pounced up onto a fire escape. She climbed up the fire escape until she appeared on a certain floor. She scratched at the window of the apartment she stopped at, tilting her head and contemplated for a minute. She scratched at the window again with a loud meow before she stood there, staring at the window with narrowed eyes. Her tail flicked behind her.<br/><br/>Aubrey thought slowly. Even though she was a cat, she seemed to be able to think like herself. She thought back to the moment when she first transformed and she concentrated on herself. She felt another urge to shift and soon she stood in front of the window, butt naked, as a human. She sighed as she stood there, shivering slightly as she pulled up her apartment window and slid in.<br/><br/>A few minutes later, she sat on her couch, sipping some warm tea and wrapped up in a blanket. With clothing on this time. The tv was running on the news, but she wasn't paying particular close attention. So, she could create fire from her palms and could transform into a cat. Or was it just a cat? She felt like she could do more. Not only just cats or other animals but people as well. She could shift into another person. Maybe only gain their physical traits and keep her personality and thoughts, but she could still look like another whether it could be a cat or a person.<br/><br/>The fire thing she was still confused about, but at least she got a sense of what it was a bit. She shook her head and sipped at her tea, frowning at it when she realized it got cold.<br/><br/>"On another related news. Those who fainted or experience any other weird circumstances tonight to visit Dr. Pope at University of New York..." The woman continued on, and Aubrey stared at the tv. She glanced at the click below and saw it was way past midnight. She was worn out and tired from the long night and decided it was time to hit the hay. The last words from he news reporter echoed in her head as she fell into bed and went fast asleep.<br/><br/>The next day, Aubrey stood in line in front of Dr. Pope's office. She had no idea why she was here. She remembered getting up in the morning in a crappy mood, feeling like shit, having another heat flash and sitting under a cold shower for an hour until she was puny and still miserable. Finally, after she accidentally burnt her own breakfast<span style="font-style: italic">after</span>she cooked it, she decided enough was enough, found her purse the other day and coat in the same area from last night (that was surprising), and ended up here in this spot.<br/><br/>She glanced around, noticing a man walk up and stand right behind her. She eyed him for a second, noticing a slight dirt mark on his face and almost chuckled before looking forward as the line began to move.