Unexpected News, part 2

Dylan came to in medical.

He looked up to see Beka standing over him, "You back with us then?" Dylan nodded, "I had the weirdest dream." Beka smiled, "If it's one where Rommie told you she was pregnant, it's no dream." Dylan got up and saw Rommie sitting on another bed, Trance and Harper running all sorts of scans on her. Her face showed a mixed look of fear and happiness. Dylan walked over to her, "How do you feel?"

Rommie smiled, "nervous." Dylan kissed her, then turned to Trance and Harper, "So what happened?" Trance looked at Dylan seriously, "Well, when two people like each other a lot they." Dylan stopped her, "I know that part. What I mean is: how did Rommie get pregnant? Did you build this into her Harper?" the engineer took a step back, "Wow their Dylan! I'm good, but not that good!" Dylan shrugged, "But then what happened?"

Harper took a deep breath, "What I think happened, and Trance here agrees with me, is this: Rommie's exterior, her skin, hair, nails, teeth, all of that, is organic, right. Well, to keep all of that in condition I used some nano-bots. The ones I happened to use where Nietzschean in design." He handed Dylan a flexi, "Now, Nietzschean nano's are designed to keep their owner physically intact. Rommie's organic cells contain artificial human DNA: I used a full human DNA strand from the gene bank as a template. What we think the nano's did was take this extra DNA, and use it as a template as to how Rommie should be. Being Nietzschean nano's, they decided that her reproductive system was most important thing, so went to work on that first."

Trance showed Dylan a scan, "Over the last two years they've slowly built her a full human-female reproductive system. We've stopped them before they do anything else, but Rommie now has the ability to reproduce." Dylan shook his head, "It's amazing! Who would believe it? What do we do now?" Rommie squeezed his hand and smiled, "Start thinking of names?"

Dylan looked at her, "What?" Rommie pulled herself back, "It's my body and my baby: I'm keeping it!" Dylan rested his hands on her shoulders, "That's not what I meant Rommie, I'm just a little shock up over this: we never even considered the possibility of having a family. But I want this more than I've ever wanted anything before!" Rommie smiled, "Good."

TBC.