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“No!” I bellowed.
But the electric charge was no longer on me. I wasn’t dangerous for her to touch.
She grabbed me and planted a kiss on my lips. I kissed her back.
She’d never tasted so good.
“I love you!” Ivy said. “I love you, I love you, I love you!”
“I love you too.”
“There’s something I need to tell you, something you need to know—”
The Supervisor yanked Ivy off me and pressed a device to her neck.
“Yes, yes, yes. It’s all very lovey-dovey. But if you don’t mind, we’re not hanging around here. The guards will come and they will finish off what the others failed to do. Nothing has changed.”
He backed away, toward the padded room where they’d been keeping Ivy.
“We’re going to wait in this room for the guards to arrive now, thank you very much. I think you and your girl have made quite enough of a disturbance today.”
I struggled onto my feet.
“Ah-ah,” the Supervisor said, pressing that device harder into Ivy’s neck. “If I pull this trigger with a whole bunch of nothing in the canister, you’ll have to watch your girl and your baby die.”
That made me blink.
“Baby?”
Tears rolled down Ivy’s cheeks.
It was true. It was what she wanted to tell me a moment ago. She was pregnant and… was that what this whole plan was about from the beginning? To have my child?
“Why?” I said. “Why my baby?”
“Because you were a failure and you didn’t have any special abilities. At least, that’s what I thought. Now I can see you’re much more powerful than I ever expected. You and your species. Your stories were only half true. Your species don’t only have one ability, they have them all! They adopt the powers of others around them! I should have seen this before but every time you performed your ability, our machines mistook it as coming from the original alien! This is just what I was looking for. A way to complete my work.”
He was a foot from entering the padded room now, and then there would be no chance of getting Ivy out of there.
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IVY
I hated that damn device pressed to my neck. And I hated even more that the damn Supervisor had ruined my surprise pregnancy revelation to Kren.
We were heading into that damn padded room again.
Damn, damn, damn!
I refused to enter it. I had already assumed the calm the ability my baby wielded inside me, and felt that familiar throb in my belly.
Up for it again, little buddy? I said. You can sleep until you’re ready to come out and say hi to us. Okay?
There was no response, save for a warm throb in the pit of my belly. I took it as confirmation.
“See you soon!” the Supervisor said, and he eased us inside the room.
I threw my arm out and slammed my palm on the control box. Sparks hissed from the little box—meager and pathetic compared to the bolts of lightning Kren could summon—but it was enough.
