The Equalizer: Family Affairs
Ch.1 A Little Spy Broke Past The Lines
Robyn held her hand to her naked belly; it was aching all night and her waist had been expanding despite her normal healthy diet.
"Baby you alright?" Her husband detective Marcus Dante.
"I think I know what this is. I've been through it once with Dee, but it felt a little different with her."
"Good thing your appointment with the doctor is today huh?" he said placing his hand on her exposed tummy.
"I don't trust a privatized or government funded medical care system especially with the overturning of Roe V. Wade plus the CIA could use it to their benefit. I'm trying to keep my DNA and reproductive status secret. For God's sakes I'm not an incubator."
"Easy captain. I'm just being a concerned husband and possible father to be, "Marcus retorted.
"Yes, but the last thing we need is for this family to feel like CIA property. They already have been encroaching on our work like we are government property."
"They have been doing that to our people for four hundred years. We won't go back to that and if there is anyone in there we have to make the world right for them."
"Precisely that's why I'll have my team evaluate me. We knew we can trust them with our little one like I trust them with Dee," Robyn said with her head turned and ready to kiss her husband.
They kissed releasing a smacking sound before Dee entered the room to find them standing before the bathroom mirror.
"Oh Gosh, no I wasn't supposed to see that!" Dee said dashing out the room.
"We're keeping it PG you don't have to feel traumatized," Robyn called jokingly.
In the lab of her comrades Robin laid on a cushioned examination table with her legs in stirrups and her belly exposed.
"I hope we are pregnant Rob. It would be nice to have something else in our lives that has nothing to do with our work," Marc admitted.
"So do I. Dee never had any siblings you know it just wasn't in the cards with my ex but babies are like a new beginning."
"Alright, let's see if we have a little spy hiding among us," Melody said before getting the probe want and squirting gel on Robyn's tummy.
"Guess it's the moment of truth huh? If you are pregnant can I be the God-dad?" Harry asked walking in with coffee and donuts.
"Sure," Robyn said rolling her eyes with a smirk.
"Well, it's official you have a breach that got past your security lines Robyn. You're gonna be a Mommy again."
"Yeah! God dad for the win!" Harry said before spilling hot coffee on his pant legs and yelling out an expletive.
"Wait what's this? There's more than one baby!"
"How many we talking?" Robyn asked.
"Let's count. There's one then two. But let's see I found you number three, do I hear four? Yes. Then there were five. Yep that's it!"
"Oh, my Lawd! Five?" Marc explained.
"Yes well Black women are the most genetically pre-disposed to have multiples then we women release more eggs the older we get so, voila quintuplets."
"That's gonna be some baby shower," Robyn quipped.
"Baby, think about that college admission I'm gonna go back to trying to ghost writing movie scripts again on the side."
"I will be working too," Robyn said.
"Umm baby maybe being a stay-at-home mom for the first few years of their lives may not be such a bad idea. I mean it takes a special woman to bring up such a family." Marc said buttering her up before kissing her head.
"Whatever do, we have to keep this on lock until I start showing and the pregnancy is undeniable," Robyn said.
"Don't know how long we have babe with five babies your stomach gonna be huge," Marc said.
"True dat," Robyn said looking down at her bloated tummy.
Just then the CIA broke into the lab with tasers and tranquilizers in their holsters.
"Agent Robyn and Marcus Dante. We are forced to Baker Act you to our medical facilities where a maternity ward has for you both to stay in your exposer to a rogue manufactured pathogen could be helping spread a new strand of COVID-19 ," CIA director Laila Robins said.
Marcus touched his gun in his holster "I advise against that Marcus. Think about the fact you are a husband and a father to be. I'm sure your wife and unborn kids don't need your pregnant wife stressing out in her delicate condition." Laila responded. She then worked at Melody and Harry the said you two can come along as well since you want to play vigilantes and are now a contamination liability. Let's go!"
Robyn accepted a cloth to rub her stomach dry before pulling her shirt down and being helped up to her feet."
"Well ain't this a bitch, pretending to be dead then not being able to be seen with a computer but now this," Harry said as he was ushered into the long ambulance with everyone else.
Marcus held onto Robyn as a last defense of protecting her. Then he noticed a scar he believed to be a site for a tracker placed in the back of Robyn's neck. It was then that he realized that the car, the house and even his beautiful wife were bugged. "Damn! Damn! Damn! Our bodies still don't belong to us as Black people," he thought.
As for Robyn , a nurse with a syrupy sweet tone said, " Alright Mommy to be, I'm gonna have to ask you to lie back on this gurney and relax then I'm gonna put to you to Beddy Bye for a bit to prepare you for a low risk endoscopic examination back at the facility but first I must give you an ultrasound right before your nap."
"Do I get to lift my shirt myself or will you ask me to remove my pants for a pelvic exam and invade my body further?" Robyn retorted.
"I'm not the bad guy I'm just an OBGYN passionate about pro-life rights for Black and Brown babies. Do you know your people could be rich if every abortion actually paid you to murder the children you should be treasuring?!"
"You know what you may want to put me under now before I get rid of you." Robyn retorted.
Then, another EMT, a Black woman with obsidian skin said, "That's enough Karen I will handle her procedure and care. You're racist comments will stress her out and could cause her to miscarriage."
Karen skulked off to examine the other members of the crew.
Then Robyn noticed the ID on the nurse read, "Tanisha"
"I like your golden braid rings," Robyn said.
"Thank you just got my hair laid at the shop," Tanisha replied.
"I can tell it looks good."
"Alrighty Sis, Do you mind lifting your shirt up for this sonogram before I give you some sleeping gas?"
"Ok," Robyn said with reservation.
The sonogram was done swiftly and then the anesthetic gas was slipped on her face making everything fade to dark.
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