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But I knew deep in my gut he hadn’t. And I hadn’t stopped it from happening either.
We were so involved with each other, so engaged in our mutual feelings of pleasure I hadn’t even noticed.
Neither had he.
“We’d like to offer you our sincerest congratulations,” Dr. Liok said. “It’s not every day we see a pregnancy.”
The smiles of the surrounding scientists were warm and welcoming.
I didn’t want their smiles or their warmth. Not now, not when it was too late.
“I… I have to go to the Prize Pool,” I said. “Lily… She… I need to speak with her…”
She would know what to do.
I struggled to sit up in the oversized chair.
The doctor pressed a hand to my chest and held me down.
“I’m afraid I can’t let you leave. Not right now. First, we must check the baby’s health.”
I knocked his hands aside but his arms were surprisingly steadfast.
“I can’t be here. I can’t…”
I didn’t have the words because I didn’t know what I was meant to say. I only knew I wanted to get out of there. Being in the Prize Pool wouldn’t have helped much either but at least Lily was there. As cold and distant as she was, she had been here a lot longer than me and she would know what to do in such a situation as this.
“You need to be careful,” Dr. Liok said in a sterile tone of voice I didn’t care for. “You’re carrying very valuable cargo.”
Cargo?
Was that what I had become? A cargo carrier? Couldn’t they see I was my own person?
“I need to get out of here,” I said. “I have to speak to—”
I felt a sharp stab in my arm and immediately felt woozy.
“Easy,” Dr. Liok said as he helped lower me back down to the chair.
“I can’t stay here…” I repeated. “I need to go…”
My eyes drifted shut and as hard as I tried, I couldn’t keep them open.
I awoke, blurry-eyed and unsure where I was. I lay on a floor and pushed myself up, a thick line of drool hanging from the corner of my mouth from where I’d been dribbling.
I was too faint and fuzzy to care. As I pushed myself up off the floor, my arms felt a little distant, as if I’d been injected with anesthetic and it dulled every one of my senses.
My eyesight was fuzzy around the edges like an old movie reel found in a damp closet and a roaring rush vibrated in my ears.
I found myself in a room painted a soft white, the edges bulging inwards like I was trapped inside a monster. I leaned against it and found it soft—much softer than the floor I’d been sleeping on.
I pulled my legs up and hugged them. It took me a moment to recall what happened to me.
I’d been in the science laboratory and I’d gotten the test and… I was pregnant. Yes, that’s right. I was pregnant and I felt a pinch in my arm. I reached back and felt where I’d been bitten and found nothing there.
No blood, no lump, nothing.
Then what was I doing in this room?
