Chapter Eight

"What are you doing?" Xena asked seeing Gabrielle and William blow up something. They'd just gotten back from their boat trip. During the fourth of July they'd had fun. Hope was already playing with a few. Jeremy ran over to play too. Xena set down the diaper bag.

"Oh well Hope wanted to play with some balloons, so I hope you don't mind, but I went in your room and got them." Gabrielle said." Here's the last one."

"The last one, you mean you blew up every one." Xena said.

"Well yea. We blew up a few yesterday, but they all popped." Gabrielle said.

"Look I'm drawing faces on them." William said. A.J. was just shocked when he came in.

"Monica those aren't the balloons." Xena said.

"Oh really they work just like them." Gabrielle said.

"Yea, we've noticed." A.J. said. When they got them away from the kids. They popped them, and threw them away.

"Baby come here." A.J. said. Xena came out of the bathroom brushing her hair.

"What's up?" She asked.

"Look at this." A.J. said. She came over and sat down on the bed. He turned up the television. They watched in silence as companies that manufactured condoms and any type of birth control were bombed. They kept replaying it over and over until a live video feed showed up on the t.v. The new leader of Iraq had planned it all. He planned on killing off most americans by getting them pregnant or giving them aids. Pregnancy would slow down women less of them would join the army. And well people with aids not everybody can afford the medicines.

"That's fucked up." Xena said.

"Fucked up?" A.J. said."No, it is beyond fucked up. Its so beyond fucked up that I don't think anybody knows what to call it."

"God." Xena said."And she just used every last condom except one to make balloons."

"I'm going to the store perhaps they have more." A.J. said.

"Good luck." Xena said doubting they'd even get any. He came back with three boxes of condoms. They hid them.

"Pure luck." A.J. said."I just missed the rush of people afriad of pregnancy and diease. We're going to have to do the other ways of parent planning, so we have to scedule sex now."

"Yay my dream come true." Xena said rolling her eyes.

"Unless you remember ways to present pregnancy in the past."

"Even back than there was a herb to prevent it, but not dieases." Xena said.

"Oh well." A.J. said.