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“Don’t touch the wall,” I said. “It could be dangerous.”
“I know that. I’ve been beating on it for days.”
“I know. I’m sorry. I couldn’t get here before today.”
An awkward pause passed between us.
“I’m sorry about earlier,” I said. “Even if you escaped from here, there was nowhere else you could escape to.”
“I was coming to run to you. I guess you saved me a trip.”
I didn’t know what to say to that.
“How are you doing?”
“I’ve been better.”
“I… have something for you,” I said, bringing my fist around. “It’s a pill. It will… fix everything.”
“That’s it?” Harper said, her face curling into an ugly mask. “Is that your best shot? You thought you could come here dressed as him and get me to take that black pill? Humans might be lower lifeforms but we aren’t stupid.”
“What?” I said, surprised at her outburst. “I thought you might want to take it.”
“I wouldn’t take anything from you,” Harper spat. “Now, why don’t you turn into your real self and we can talk like adults.”
She stepped back, folded her arms, and rested them on her bulging stomach. She appeared to be waiting for me to do something. It took me a moment to realize what.
“I’m not Annas,” I said.
“Sure, you’re not.”
“No, really. I’m the real Trayem.”
She looked me over and then pursed her lips.
“Prove it.”
“How?”
“What was the thing you gave me the first time we met in your room? If you’re the real Trayem, you should be able to answer that.”
“Chocolate. I got it out of the trunk under my bed and offered it to you.”
The superior smile faded from Harper’s face but did not disappear. She scanned my face, her disbelief shaken but not broken.
“Trayem could have told his buddies about that night,” she said, sounding a little unsure.
I pressed my hand against the wall and sparks hissed from it. I didn’t care.
“I rescued you from four gang members in the champion’s room when we first met. You took me to see a beautiful view out of a window on the other side of the prison the last time we met and one of your previous… clients came up to us. We escaped to my room. We made love and there were multiple copies of me and every single one fell madly in love with you the first moment we met.”
Her smile had vanished and she looked up at me with incredulity. Tears sparkled in her eyes.
“How could you do this to me?” she said.
The smile of success now sank from my face and I lowered my hand from the forcefield. It’d given me minor burns having rested my palm on it for so long but it was nothing to the pain tearing my heart apart at that moment.
“I never meant for any of this to happen,” I said. “You were never meant to get pregnant. I wanted to keep you safe, away from the other fighters so they wouldn’t impregnate you.”
