Work Place Accident part Two

Curtis, that's how he still thought of himself, leaned against the glass of the ice cream freezer. Tracey's body was allergic to alcohol so the next closest legal outlet for his stress was ice cream. Of course the last couple of days had proven that "he" wasn't Curtis at all. Once he visited his body in the hospital he found that Tracey wasn't in it, that his body also thought it was Curtis! The Curtis in the hospital described feeling that his whole life flashed before his eyes in such vivid detail before passing out. Curtis/Tracey went back to the lab that night and tried to go over any data he could find about the accident but was discovered by the project head, Doctor John Frink. Curtis tried to fast talk but it was for not, Doctor Frink had already figured out what had happened, "You aren't Curtis. You think you are but you aren't." The Doctor had a hint of sadness to him as he settled in to a chair opposite Curtis/Tracey. He had been harboring a crush on Tracey since he had started working at the lab but had never had the guts to ask her out. According to his analysis, he might never get the chance, "The power circuit was faulty on the high speed transfer device, so as soon as it got power it went to work. With you and Curtis, the original Curtis, the closest sources of data and receiver it essentially over wrote your brain with Curtis' memories. Essentially making you a copy." Curtis/Tracey was shocked in to silence so Doctor Frink Continued, "I think I can scan your brain to see if Tracey's personality is still in there but if it isn't. She's gone forever." Now Curtis/Tracey was openly crying, "So you are saying she's dead. But can't we get some help, some neurological experts?" Frink shook his head, "If we tell any one about what has happened here, you and I will disappear along with the research. They will dissect you and they will force me to figure out how to make this work again and again. Can you imagine this becoming reliable science and falling in to the wrong hands?" Curtis/Tracey had to agree with Frink's logic.Together they worked after hours scanning to see if any thing was left of Tracey's mind. Tomorrow would be the day to look at all of the scans and find out if the original Tracey could be restored. Curtis/Tracey knew that it meant he would be gone but was glad to be sacrificed if it meant the "real" Tracey could return. Since this could be his last night of existence he was going to go out with at least four Klondike bars in his belly. He had been working hard to not get familiar with his new body but was worried that he wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer. He found himself taking longer and longer showers and the last two nights he had "inappropriate" dreams about Frink. The sooner this all could end, the better.