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Maru knew from the start that Dynamite would be a terrific mother.
He watched her. Everytime the topic of foals came up, she'd smile softer than that one time he caught Drip sweet talking ice cream. She'd talk about how she'd love a foal of her own, but then the topic would change and she wouldn't keep going with it. When she said it, it was how she said it that had Maru wondering if she wasn't able to. She said it very… wistful like.
So Maru did a little investigating of his own. He brought Blackout in first, like he was on some kind of crime-investigation show, and sat him down for a little chat. He asked Blackout if Dynamite had ever brought up the topic of having foals, and he had shook his head.
"No. She has told me her genetics are a little funky though."
"Funky?"
Blackout nodded, "She said she had low estrogen levels running in her family, and her mother was lucky to have had as many foals as she did."
"I'll have to ask her about that, then."
"So… can I go now?"
Maru nodded, then smirked. "Got someplace to be?"
Blackout stuttered for a moment, then went quiet and Maru snorted. "Please, just don't be too loud. You two go out into the forest or somethin'. I don't wanna hear any of you-"
"Alright!! I got it!" If Blackout could've facepalmed, he would've, Maru was sure of it.
He snorted again when Blackout all but bolted out of the med bay, presumably to go cause trouble with his fellow jumpers. Or just Dynamite, and it really depended on what your definition of trouble was when it came to her and him in a room together. Alone.
Maru turned back to his cabinet where the team's medical sheets were. It didn't take him long to find Dynamite's, considering how small their team actually was.
He pulled out the file and flipped through it, muttering to himself as he did.
He enjoyed talking to himself. He was, after all, the best horse he could go to to get advice or keep himself some company. Besides, it wasn't a great idea to get Blade or Windlifter involved in a conversation unless he planned to give them his full attention. As much as they wouldn't admit it, they both were sarcastic gremlins that enjoyed making Maru suffer.
"Aha!" He hadn't meant to say that so loud. He quickly looked up to see if anyone had heard him.
Clearly not, as nobody was sticking their heads out of any door to eye him. Either that, or they gave up questioning him.
Probably the latter.
Reading through the blood test results that he'd acquired when Dynamite had first become a member of the team, he found what he was looking for.
Blackout was right. Her estrogen levels were very low for a filly of her breed and age. His eyebrows raised as he continued scanning the page, reading that her prolactin levels were almost 0. Not good for a mare wanting a foal.
He hummed to himself as he put the file back. If she was serious about wanting a foal, he could induce her with estrogen and prolactin to increase her chance of receiving and carrying a foal to term. There were a couple risks, and he'd have to talk with Dynamite about it first.
He poked his head out of the med bay. He didn't hear or see any of the jumpers, so they must've gone out.
"Hey Blade!"
Said stallion stuck his head through the main hangar door, along with Cabbie. He motioned for them to come over before walking inside and back towards the file cabinet to retrieve the file for them.
"What's up?" Blade let his head hang low, clearly relaxed. Cabbie was right behind him, his head also pretty low.
Maru snickered to himself. The two looked as relaxed as a cat on a catnip crash. And that was probably due to the lack of smokejumpers on base.
"I believe Dynamite would be interested in having a foal," he started, and he suppressed a mischievous grin when both stallions eyes widened, "but her estrogen levels are too low. Meaning she wouldn't conceive and if she did, wouldn't carry it to full term. She'd lose the baby. So I figured I'd ask you about the possibility of inducing her."
"With estrogen?"
"Among other things to keep her other body functions correct, but yeah."
Cabbie and Blade glanced at each other. Cabbie shrugged, and Blade turned back to Maru. "If you can somehow get a hold of it, then I don't see why not. As long as It doesn't affect her health and work negatively."
"I won't. It'll just increase her ability to produce foals."
"Alright then. Go ahead."
After a talk with Dynamite about her low estrogen and low possibility of reproduction, and then the possibility of a foal, Maru began the search to find what he needed and make Dynamite the mother she wanted to be.
A/N: Some of this information is probably wrong XD I have a very limited knowledge on mares with low estrogen levels. There's a lot more to it than just what I've stated here.
