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It was all academic if I couldn’t get out of this damn room first.
“The baby is fine,” Junic said. “And it appears he’s already beginning to show.”
That caught my attention. So, I was right.
But, wait…
“How is that possible?” I said. “I’ve only been pregnant a few days. It usually takes months before I show.”
“That’s a human pregnancy,” Junic said absentmindedly and focused her attention on her handheld device with its blinking numbers and flickering lights. “This is an alien pregnancy. Not all creatures have such long reproduction cycles. The baby looks very healthy. Would you like to see it?”
I gulped. Would I?
Under normal circumstances, I would, but this… this was madness.
I was surprised to find myself nodding.
“Yes. Please.”
Please? Ugh.
I should never utter that word to these people.
Junic turned the device to show me. It was nothing like the ultrasound scans we had back on Earth. This device showed me a three-dimensional image of the baby inside the womb—my womb!
For a moment, all concerns of attempting to escape slipped from me and I could barely believe what I was looking at.
A baby.
My baby.
It stared straight back at me, its arm waving. At least, I thought that was what it was doing.
“Hello, little guy,” I said, reaching out and touching his extended hand.
With tears in my eyes, I looked up at Junic.
“How did you…? I’m not supposed to be able to have kids.”
“I did a little poking around and fixed your problem,” she said. “It really wasn’t that difficult.”
I turned back to that floating image of my curled-up fetus of a baby. It really was a miracle of life, that something that size could develop and become like the other complex life in the room.
But what sort of life was it going to have in this place if I couldn’t get free?
Everything fake-Lily had said before had most likely been bullshit—about me going home and taking the baby with me. They wouldn’t go to all this effort if that was the case, and why refuse to allow us to have birth control?
It didn’t add up.
The shifter girl cleared her throat behind Junic.
“Are we done now?” she said, turning away and bored to tears.
“Almost,” Junic said, taking the device from me and checking the readouts one last time. “According to the results… You’ll be giving birth within the next two days.”
My jaw fell open.
“Two days? How long was I unconscious before?”
