Authors Notes: Two more chapters after this one. (But I've got five parts written. Thats 30 chapters on the back burner.
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Cry Little Sister
Chapter 8
Pollution
Danny held her shirt over her nose and mouth. Midnight's bar wasn't too far off and luckily it did have a filtration unit on it. But they had to revise all of their menu items to be fully droid since no human would be caught dead in the city anymore. Even the Borgs left and were living in another city all together. Cryptor had decided to join the military. Min followed shortly after. Much to both their mothers discontent. Which meant that Danny was now the owner of Borg industries.
Danny ran her fingers over her belly. She wasn't feeling too good at the moment. The two hour car ride had her feeling sick. She figured she'd sleep, but her stomach said otherwise. She yawned and sat up as the jeep pulled in.
It took Spencer a full hour of the ride to explain to Inky that Danny didn't eat a baby, it was growing inside her. Inky was now reading a book on pregnancy. Luckily it was choosy on other things.
"Has no one at least attempted to stop the pollution?" Danny asked, putting her forehead on the window.
"Yes Borg did work on it. There was a plant they found that would work, but it needed fresh air to grow and well...the project was abandoned because no one outside the city wanted to work for Borg because they caused the pollution and they didn't want droids outside the city working. So...war."
"It's spreading quickly too. According to my analisis it'll be another fifteen years before it reaches our grandparents farm." Danny climbed out of the car. Her eyes watered up and she started to cough. A pair of strong arms picked her up and carried her into the bar. She was placed down in a chair and Dareth patted her back.
"Danny...it's so polluted here that humans can no longer live here. It's droid land now." Spencer pulled her mask off. "They even closed the university. I've had to open a small college outside the city for anyone still wanting to learn. Not many droid doctors now." Danny turned her head a little
"All the more reason to keep going with what I need to do mom. If not for Dareth, then for our child." She put her hand over Dareths. She could tell he was scanning her. A glass of ice water was placed in front of her. Zane helped her drink it. She did not look good.
"Got any charcoal?" Danny asked Archie. He made a weird face.
"You know that stuff is bad for you right?"
"Well yeah but…I'm kind of a mobile suit right now so...I don't think it counts." She told Archie. Archie shrugged his shoulders.
"Well we could always pump her stomach if something happens." He pulled out a blender and scooped a few things into it and then a charcoal rock." Danny gasped and smiled standing up and went to the bar to sit in a chair. Only to realize she couldn't even hop up anymore.
"How far along are you?" Archie asked.
"Five months." Danny said.
"But you were gone for four...how does that work?" Spencer asked, looking at Dareth and Zane too.
"It's the incubation. More than likely this kid will be born in another month or so. But that's what we were told." Zane said.
"But wait...you mean...a hybrid child can be born within a few months less than a human?" Spencer narrowed her eyes.
"No...I will not be your experiment. I've been documenting on my own. Its my book. Go away." Danny stuck out her tongue. Spencer burst out laughing as Danny picked up the charcoal malt and sipped it before downing it entirely. No brain freeze or anything.
"Um…" Archie looked up at Dareth.
"So...what's the plan?" He asked his brother. Obviously unsure of what to make of his wife all of the sudden as she ran her finger along the edges and licked it like she was starving.
"We rescue her, of course."
Danny looked up at Archie who narrowed her eyes.
"Don't look at me that way. Midnight and I were...I don't think love exists." Archie picked up the cup and started to wash it. Danny put a few dollars on the counter and sighed.
"Whatever you say...but I see the way you look at her when she giggles."