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When Cassie woke up as a boy, again, after freaking out with and then calming down Cissie, she knew there was one thing that she had to do for the next few days.

Avoid Sam like the plague.

She had good reason too after all! Last time, Kon had barely been able to look at her, so she’d gotten completely drunk and ended up getting kissed by her gay friend. None of that was anything she wanted to repeat so avoiding Sam it was. Cassie kinda felt bad, because it wasn’t Sam’s fault, but she figured better safe than sorry. She’d make it up to him later.

Granted, even as a boy, who was taller and a bit heavier in stature then she normally was, her identity was kinda given away by the Golden Retriever with the rainbow collar following her on her morning jog. A Golden who normally wanted nothing to do with anything male.

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Sam had been looking all over the island for Cassie the last few days. He figured that she had been turned 7, or worse, some sort of horrible pre-teen/early teen age where she felt about 100 times more awkward than normal. At least, that was Sam's experience with it. He was slightly pissed that she was hiding from him, especially after their honest talk, but he was pretty sure they'd talk it out.

He'd decided to try for a bit of a jog that morning and while he had to go extremely slow because of his wound, he still managed to go at a fair pace without hurting himself much. He stuck to the trails close to the beach for the most part, but toward the end he decided to push himself and run along the sand. Heading out of the tree line, Sam was lost in his thoughts and almost didn't notice the other guy and the dog on the beach until it was too late.

As it was, Iris's growl and bark startled him enough that he let out a bit of a scream. With a burst of energy, he started sprinting toward the water where he'd have an advantage over the dog. He didn't even wait to see if Iris was following after him or wonder why Iris was with a guy, that sort of delay could land him with some serious wounds.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. No, no, no, no, bad dog!" he shouted as he plunged into the waves.

There was honesty and there was your girlfriend turning into a dude. Cassie wanted to give Sam the benefit of the doubt but after Kon’s reaction last time…she really didn’t want to risk it.

When Iris took off, Cassie just sighed and kept running. This sadly was a common occurrence. But when she saw exactly who her dog was chasing into the surf, she ran to intervene. The dog had thankfully stopped at the water’s edge so it was easy for her to catch her collar. “Iris! Stop it! Leave him alone!”

"Oh come on," Sam said, staring at the dog as it snarled at the water's edge. He would have thought that by now Iris would be used to him, but it seemed that the dog hated him even more than ever.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Iris? Crazy dog."

Sam was too busy worrying about the jaws of death that were snapping at him to notice the guy that ran up to grab hold of Iris. He almost never saw Iris without Cassie, but he saw Cassie plenty without the dog, so he assumed someone must look after it, maybe this dude was the one guy that Iris liked that watched her for Cassie sometimes.

Iris didn’t like any male who got close to her girl. Though Sam was lucky she didn’t hate him as much as she hated Kon. Close was better than those her made her cry.

Forgetting her current condition for a moment, Cassie glared at Sam in the water as she kept pulling Iris back. “Don’t call my dog crazy, Sam!” Then she caught herself, and continued as if she hadn’t misspoke, “Cassie won’t be happy when I tell her what you said.”

Sam's head snapped up when the guy called Iris "his" dog. There's no way Iris would let anyone make that kind of mistake about who owned her, and the tone used was all too familiar.

"Oh no," he said, pointing a finger at her. Him. Cassie. "No, no, no. We did not- we did not totally have a huge, huge talk about trust and telling each other things for you to go and hide the fact that you're a guy and then act like it's not you. No. Just- no."

Iris finally allowed Cassie to pull her back, though she continued to growl at Sam from behind her girl's legs.

At Sam's outburst, Cassie just rolled her eyes. "Oh come on Sam. I was doing you a favor! I knew you wouldn't want to have a boyfriend for a weekend, so I stayed away from you. Give it another day or two and things will be back to normal." She tried to play it cool, like this was for Sam's benefit. She really didn't want to admit that it had been Kon's reaction last time that had made her hide.

At least she wasn't getting drunk off her ass this time.

"You think I like hanging out with you just because you have breasts and a vagina?" Sam asked, half glaring at her and half looking wounded. Sure, he wasn't going to be making out with her today, but the fact that she just wrote him off was upsetting.

"That's real, great, to know you think so little of me. You think I'm so shallow I can't handle you being a guy for a few days? Seriously?"

At the look Sam was giving her, Cassie had to look away from guilt. She hadn't meant to lie, she really had thought it was for the best. "I don't think that at all Sam!" She said a bit helplessly, not knowing how to explain.

Finally, she decided to just blurt it out. "Last time this happened, Kon wouldn't even look at me. I couldn't...I couldn't stand it if you did the same, okay?"

"I'm. Not. Kon."

The fact that she thought he would react that way just because Kon had was upsetting. He would have hoped by now that he didn't have to prove things like that. By the same token, he could see that she had been really hurt by what had happened last time.

"Look, I'm not going to freak," he said, voice softening as he stepped out of the water and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I mean, other than the freaking I did because you didn't tell me."

“I know you’re not.” Cassie said softly. And she really did.

It was just…being a boy was against everything she was. She was Wonder Girl, adopted Amazon and little sister of the Amazon Princess. It was hard for her to be this way and Kon’s reaction had just made it worse. There was a good chance she would have hidden either way but it was easier to use the incident with Kon was an excuse.

When Sam walked out of the water, Cassie kept her eyes on the sand by his feet. “I am sorry. I hate this…when the island messes with us like this.”

"I know, but we don't have to let it mess with us," he said, gesturing back and forth between the two of them to indicate what he meant.

"You're still you in the ways that really count. And I cannot believe I'm saying that because I really liked the parts of you that got changed, but it's true. Everything I liked about you most is still the same."

Cassie couldn't help it. She smiled. She couldn't believe how lucky she was have to such a great and understanding guy, who dealt with all her hang ups in ways Kon and Chekov never could. "I really want to kiss you right now but I hope you won't hold it against me if I don't."

"Oh good," Sam said with a sigh of relief. "Because I was totally building up the courage to kiss you just to prove how okay I was with this, but I am seriously okay with not doing that."

It wasn't that he was afraid he would suddenly turn gay if he kissed Cassie as a guy, or that he'd end up liking it or anything, it would just be too much like kissing someone else.

Cassie held up her hands and then motioned for Sam to walk with her. "Oh no. I can't let you do that. I should tell you a story, about when I did kiss a boy last time this happened."

She wanted to take his hand but she refrained, instead putting them in the pockets of her shorts, kept from the last time this happened. "A gay friend of mine wasn't effected last time this happened and his friends from home held a party. I was so miserable that I went and got completely drunk. My friend, Eric, wanted to take a walk and while we were walking, he kissed me. Apparently, I was the perfect boy to him."

Cassie shrugged with a small smile. "Needless to say, it didn't end well."

"You will seriously just kiss anyone and anything if you're not sober, won't you," Sam teased. He knew that it was a serous subject, but he really couldn't help it.

"I'm sorry though, that must have been difficult for you and really put a strain on the relationship."

"Hey! He kissed me!" Cassie said defensively, even as she smiled. That had been the one thing about the whole situation Kon had taken well, though she heard from Eric that there had been some posturing later on.

Then she shrugged. "It all ended up being okay in the end thankfully. But yeah, still not up for repeating it. I'd like to be myself when I kiss my boyfriend."

"I really prefer you to be yourself too," Sam admitted. Just because he would have gone through with it doesn't mean he would have enjoyed it, or that he wouldn't have freaked out about it later.

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