Witness Relocation: The Best of a Bad Situation

Naomi Washington was getting ready for a day at the beach when she stopped to look out of her dorm room  window at her fellow students at Alson University hustling to class, playing frisbee and the obligatory fool playing acoustic guitar for a gaggle of female freshmen. "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Naomi was enjoying her second time through College much more than she had her first. Her first time she was a he, Charles Winchester the Sixth. As the head of Neurosurgery at Columbia University he had discovered a conspiracy of illegal organ harvesting and sales. He received death threats but drawing courage from the example of his Grandfather, who was a surgeon in the Korean War, Charles presented his evidence to the authorities and became the star witness in a massive federal prosecution. Being a man in his sixties, a divorcee and with all of his children grown he was a perfect candidate for the witness relocation program but he scoffed at uprooting his life. It wasn't until his car exploded in the parking lot of  his country club while he was eating with his oldest son and his family did he understand how serious his pursuers were. Having more resources than the average witness Charles was offered an opportunity by one of his closest friends to disappear completely. Doctor Theresa Mendelsohn was an experimental Geneticist who had developed a way to completely reconstruct DNA. Charles would be making medical history. With co operation from the Marshals service Charles' death was faked in another car bombing and Naomi Washington was born. Charles knew that they had to make him physically as different as possible from his original form and knew that he would end up young and African American but becoming female was a completely unexpected side affect. He was angry at first but eventually he came to terms with the fact that he was the very first person to undergo this kind of transformation He was just glad he didn't have three legs. Naomi was a junior pre med, honor roll and Dean's list of course, but with out the pressure of living up to the Winchester legacy Naomi also joined social clubs and went to parties. She enjoyed playing Quidditch and hanging out with her room mates and eating terrible pizza while drinking cheap beer. She even began to date, a fine young man who was very handsome and sweet and who would more than likely be Naomi's first sexual encounter as a woman. Naomi would sometimes think of her old life, she would get updates from her handler at the Marshal's service on her children and grand children, they were safe now because Charles was dead. It was hard not being in their life but deep down Naomi was a Winchester, and Winchester's always persevered.