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Warnings: mPreg, slash, present medical items and devices, bullshit medical terms mixed with factual ones.

I'm not a fan of mPreg – steps in front of Favorite Stories – I was told by my wife to write it. We just found out we are expecting number two earlier this week and currently I'm making a DVD to send to to our families who won't be at her family reunion on the 26th. So, while I was in the mood I went ahead and started it.

Of Venus and Mercury

The Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

"...Oh may the Gods thus keep us ever join'd!
Oh may we never, never part again!"

Metamorphoses

By Ovid

Darryl Shane Curtis didn't know what he was expecting when the doctor called him back into the room they had ran him out of not even ten minutes earlier. When he looked at his youngest brother, sitting there on the examining table looking pale and more frightened then he had ever seen him, he knew it wasn't good.

Ponyboy looked at him and then away, shamefaced and embarrassed.

Darry starred at his brother for a long second before turning to the youngers' pediatrician, a reminder on how young his brother actually was.

"Darryl." The doctor started, nervously biting his lower lip for a moment before composing himself, the man had been his when he was a kid. "We found what is wrong with Ponyboy here." And then he turned to another person in the room, who Darry noticed for the first time was even there. It was a woman, she looked kind enough, very young with tired eyes, but Darry was more distracted by the seriousness of her face.

She cleared her throat, "My name is Dr. Joanna Burley," She started and turned to pick up a clipboard from the table sitting behind her, "Dr. Higgins, first contacted me and sent me the blood work and other tests that he had done for your brother and to say the least, I was just stunned. After conducting those same tests and others of my own, its hard to miss the truth."

Darry sat there listening to the woman, just wanting her to finish and tell him what was wrong. When he looked back over to his brother he noticed that he had started crying. He moved over to his younger brother and awkwardly threw a around around his shoulders. "It's gonna be okay buddy." Maybe. He hoped, but he wasn't good at the whole comforting thing, especially when he didn't know what was wrong.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry but what type of doctor are you?" Darry finally asked, thinking maybe that knowing that much would help him know what direction this was going to take.

"Oh, excuse me. I am a obstetrician gynecologist." She gave him a smile that seemed, sympathetic?

Darry starred at her blankly, that sounded familiar but it felt like it had been a long time since he heard it.

"She's a lady doctor, Dar!" Ponyboy blurted between sobs, "She works with women and their...things and that stuff! She thinks...they said..Oh God!" He brought his hands to his face, his sobbing broke his brothers heart.

"What...whats going on?" He turned his attention back to the doctors standing in front of them.

"Mr. Curtis, during the blood work and urine tests we noticed something was there that, well shouldn't. He is producing high amounts of hCG, which is a hormone that is produced during pregnancy. And those levels are getting higher and higher." She flipped to another page, not noticing the confused look that was being sent her way.

"At this stage, I wish we could get a trans-vaginal ultrasound done, so I could check his mIU/ml levels. Oh, that means milli-international units per milliliter, its how the hormone is measured. But given that he is well...mostly a he that is impossible." She finished and put down the clipboard, "Any questions?"

"Yes ma'am." Darry turned to his brother who had been gone silent during the last part of the doctors explanation, he now sat there silently with tears spilling down his face. "Don't think I'm dumb or nothin' but, what does any of that mean?"

Dr. Higgins spoke up then, thankfully. "To put it simple, Darry. Ponyboy is...he's pregnant." The older man took a step towards him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

Darry sat there in silence, gawking at the two doctors who he thought had just lost their marbles. It wasn't possible, there was no way this could happen. Pony is a boy, a young boy...a boy! Boys don't just go around getting pregnant.

"What the hell are you talkin' about!" He yelled when his brain finally started working out words again.

Ponyboy brought his knees to his chest and wrapped his arms around himself. He knew his brother was going to be angry. For many reasons his brother was going to hate him and not want him anymore now.

"I'm a freak." He whimpered burying his face in his arms, "They say they think I have both parts or somethin'."

"What?" It seemed to be the only think Darry could say today.

"I don't know if you remember Darryl, but when your brother was born he had some...complications."

Of course he remembered, he'd never been more scared in his life. His brother had been born long before he was due and had been so tiny and sick. Their mother almost bled to death before they go to the hospital. That time was the scariest moment of his life.

"Well, there was something that your parents never talked about because they made a decision and stuck with it. You see, when Ponyboy was born he had a penis but his testes were under developed." Ponyboy made a noise, an embarrassed sob. "We thought it was because he was born so early, but as he grew and they didn't -" Pony made another noise, "we knew something was wrong but back then we had no clue what."

"Your brother is what we call a hermaphrodite." Dr. Burley cut in. "He has both male and female reproductive organs."

"Okay." Darry took a deep breath in and out, that was not what he was expecting what-so-ever. "Okay."

Okay.

Ponyboy looked up at his oldest brother, eyes swollen and red, "Okay!" He screeched, "How is it okay! I'm a freak Darry!"

Darry didn't know what to say, he wished Sodapop was here he could at least comfort Ponyboy while he went to get answers. Darry was good at getting answers but comforting people, no that wasn't his thing.

He did the only thing he could think of, he picked up his little brother and held in in his arms. One thing at a time, he could work on it one at a time.

First came his little brother.

Answers would have to wait.

To be continued.

Who should be the other parent? I don't know how to post a poll on my profile, I made one but its not working. Give us your ideas.

1.

Alright, Venus and Mercury of course is referring to Aphrodite and Hermes. They had a son Hermaphroditus, the diety of bisexuality and effeminacy. According to Ovid he merged bodies with a water nymph known as Salmacis becoming a "creature of both sexes."

2.

Yes, I know undescended testicles do not make someone a hermaphrodite, it's one common thing in premature boys but for the sake of a crappy explanation of this story, I'm doing it this way.

I'm writing this for my wife as long as she wants me to. Like I said, we're expecting number two and couldn't be more excited. Our relationship was very rocky there for awhile but things are going great now. We're building a new house; breaking ground a week from today!

Life = awesome.