Changeling.
By: DekotaSkye
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters, the Jim Henson Company does, and.whoever else. I give credit to all the author of books I have read over the years that help teach me to tell a story. Just using the characters for a moment in fun and entertainment. Special thanks go to both of my great Betas for their great suggestions and hard work of keeping me on track. Rated: G-shippy
Author note: This is the second half of the four part series.
Part 1: What the.????
Aeryn paced in front of John. Giving a soft moan, she stopped and placed her hands on her lower back then stretched.
"Aeryn, are you all right?"
"No! My feet are swollen, my back hurts." She looked down at herself. "and.and look how big I've gotten."
John's gaze lowered to her overly round stomach. 'Yeah, he had to agree she was large.'
"Honey, you're carrying low this time."
"So, I carried low with Aeryanna but I wasn't this large!" She griped.
Reaching out his hand he pulled her to sit next to him. Aeryn went willingly into his arms, wanting to be held close. Kissing her on the cheek, John let his hand run down her belly in soothing circles.
"Honey, all I can tell you is that each child is different. I wish I could help you more then to just say I understand." Kissing her again he hugged her. "I love you more then life itself. Having a family with you has been one of the greatest achievements of my whole life."
Raising her eyes up to meet his, she gave him a soft smile that said it all. "I have become more then I could have ever dreamed.having this life.this family with you is the only greatest achievement in my life.I love you beyond hope."
Their lips met tenderly once.then twice. Aeryn was the first to pull back before their passion could flare between them. Clearing her throat she asked. "How did Ian take the news of his."
"Like the little warrior that he is. Don't worry, babe, he's cool with it." John chuckled. "He was eager to tell Aery.because it made him so special."
"But he does understand we love him.that he is our son?" She asked worriedly.
"Oh, yeah. He never doubted that for a moment. He's even glad he can pass the title of baby on to this little one." John said patting her belly.
Aeryn had gone quiet as she stared down at his hand. Turning his head sideways John studied her thoughtful face. "What?"
She started rubbing his arm. Right now she needed to touch him. to be touched by him. Strong feelings of uncertainty washed over her, causing her to shutter. Pulling her closer to him, he whispered in her ear. "Aeryn, what's wrong? Is it the baby?"
"I don't know I.it's just."
A tech interrupted them, "Excuse, the Diagnosan will see you now."
Aeryn stood still holding onto John's hand. Turning her eyes to him he could see the apprehension. He tried to reassure her by saying. "It'll be okay no matter what.we're in this together."
Giving him a weak smile; they followed the tech.
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John stood across from Aeryn as she relax on the examining table. The Diagnosan ran the scanner over her. He would mumble occasionally. His translator glanced at Creighton nervously every few microts.
Ignoring him, John watched every move the Diagnosan was making. Aeryn's apprehension had disturbed him.she had been upset one morning after waking from a nightmare. She couldn't remember what it had been about, but she had been frightful over the baby. Concerned, John had asked Pilot to search for a Diagnosan to help put Aeryn's fears to rest. Nothing really drastic had happened to them for the past six monens.maybe that was it. It had been too quiet for too long.
The Diagnosan walked around the table putting his instruments away. He started to talk, his translator Nosia listening before turning to them.
"Master Xian says that all is well with the children. Your pregnancy."
"Whoa.Whoa.What do you mean children?" John demanded as he moved over to Aeryn, who was attempting to sit up. Placing his hands on her back and shoulder, John gave her a gentle pull upwards.
"Master Xian doesn't understand your confusion. Surely you know you are having multiple births." The Diagnosan chattered rapidly to Nosia.
Aeryn gasped she as spread both hands protectively across her stomach, fear raced through her. She knew something had been wrong but.. that would explain so much.goddess what was happening to her and her children????
"Are you sure your diagnosis is correct?" she asked.
Nosia translated, "The instruments do not lie.Master Xian doesn't lie.you have a female and male.the gene pool is a strange combination but cohesive."
"I didn't mean to imply that.that you don't' know what you're doing," Aeryn swallowed hard to keep from crying. "It's just that before I came here we were expecting only one child.the female.I just don't understand what is going on."
The Diagnosan moved back around his equipment. Lights blinked and instruments hummed once more. The screen just above them flashed the image of the babies. Stunned into disbelief both stared with total fascination.
"God, Aeryn, would you look at that."
Two fully develop babies moved in a dance in their warm cocoon. One held up his hand, fingers extended as if he was waving. The other stretched and then brought her thumb up to her mouth.
They were so real yet.how.where did this little boy come from. A smile formed on John's lips. ' His daughter.his son?' Frowning he looked back over to the Diagnosan.
"Well?" he asked impatiently.
Nosia translated the fast questions being fired by Xian, "When did you start noticing changes?"
Shaking herself out of her stupor Aeryn said, "Ah.ah, about a monen ago."
"Aeryn.?" John looked at her in confusion, "You didn't say anything to me."
"I know it was just.you know little things over a length of time," She tried to pacify him.
"What changes?" Nosia asked.
"At first I had a sharp pain in my lower back- it radiated around to the lower half of my stomach. It only lasted a few microts. I thought it was something I might have eaten."
John's hand tightened on her arm. Patting it she looked over at the Diagnosan. "My appetite is greater then before.I have had dizziness.slower. and."
"Larger." John finished for her.
"Yeah, that too," She nodded her head in remembrance over Ian asking why Mommy was so fat.
"Don't you have a medical section on your ship to be examined?" Nosia asked, looking over at his master.
"Yes.no.I mean we have a medical bay but no real healer.at lease not now." John answered turning his gaze back up at the image of the babies.
"Are the children all right?" Aeryn whispered aloud, her fear starting to overtake her. 'Frell, these emotions.'
Sensing it, John put his arm around her shoulders trying to give her support and comfort. His own heart was racing; his mind was in a spin trying to take everything in. And here he was thinking how in the last few monens had been calm. He should have known.a frown marred his brow.
"Honey, don't you remember that morning you woke from a nightmare ---about a monen ago--- and how upset you were about the baby?"
'Oh no.'
The Diagnosan stopped what he was doing and inquired, "What dream?"
"I don't really remember it. I felt as if.I don't know as if maybe someone was holding me down and I couldn't." She turned to John and said. "I felt as if people were around us.talking. They were doing things to me.to the baby."
Shaking her head, she growled in frustration. "I don't know how to explain it. It wasn't like I saw or heard them. it was just a feeling ."
"There is no indication that you or either child had been experimented on." Nosia said. "Master Xian, has tested the cell structure of the male child and it matches the same time span of the female. He is sorry, but there is nothing else he can do."
"But the boy.he is normal like the girl? He's not going to be different.strange.deformed.or whatever?" John couldn't hide the exasperation he was feeling. "No, the child appears normal as the other." Nosia hesitated before asking, "Master Xian wants to know if you want to terminate the male? It will cause your other child to be born early but she is developed enough to survive. "
"NO!!!" Aeryn screamed coldly as she slid off the table, away from John. Taking a step back from the others, she threatened in a frigid voice, "If you touch my .either of my children I will kill you."
"Aeryn.baby, no one is suggesting you have to do this. He was just asking." John tried to calm her, shocked by her change of attitude.
Turning her attention to him and demanded, "And what do you want, John? It.he is.what do you want to do with him?"
"Alive. I can't.no, Aeryn, I want him alive. to be born with his sister. We'll deal with this.we'll get through this somehow, but I want him alive," John stated firmly.
Aeryn studied him. The desire---the need to protect this child was so great, but why? Goddess, what is going on-she knew John would be there for them and her as he always was, so why did she question it now?
"I want to go home to Moya," she cried.
Disturbed he just held out his arms to her. She melted into them as she silently cried against him.
To continue..
By: DekotaSkye
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the characters, the Jim Henson Company does, and.whoever else. I give credit to all the author of books I have read over the years that help teach me to tell a story. Just using the characters for a moment in fun and entertainment. Special thanks go to both of my great Betas for their great suggestions and hard work of keeping me on track. Rated: G-shippy
Author note: This is the second half of the four part series.
Part 1: What the.????
Aeryn paced in front of John. Giving a soft moan, she stopped and placed her hands on her lower back then stretched.
"Aeryn, are you all right?"
"No! My feet are swollen, my back hurts." She looked down at herself. "and.and look how big I've gotten."
John's gaze lowered to her overly round stomach. 'Yeah, he had to agree she was large.'
"Honey, you're carrying low this time."
"So, I carried low with Aeryanna but I wasn't this large!" She griped.
Reaching out his hand he pulled her to sit next to him. Aeryn went willingly into his arms, wanting to be held close. Kissing her on the cheek, John let his hand run down her belly in soothing circles.
"Honey, all I can tell you is that each child is different. I wish I could help you more then to just say I understand." Kissing her again he hugged her. "I love you more then life itself. Having a family with you has been one of the greatest achievements of my whole life."
Raising her eyes up to meet his, she gave him a soft smile that said it all. "I have become more then I could have ever dreamed.having this life.this family with you is the only greatest achievement in my life.I love you beyond hope."
Their lips met tenderly once.then twice. Aeryn was the first to pull back before their passion could flare between them. Clearing her throat she asked. "How did Ian take the news of his."
"Like the little warrior that he is. Don't worry, babe, he's cool with it." John chuckled. "He was eager to tell Aery.because it made him so special."
"But he does understand we love him.that he is our son?" She asked worriedly.
"Oh, yeah. He never doubted that for a moment. He's even glad he can pass the title of baby on to this little one." John said patting her belly.
Aeryn had gone quiet as she stared down at his hand. Turning his head sideways John studied her thoughtful face. "What?"
She started rubbing his arm. Right now she needed to touch him. to be touched by him. Strong feelings of uncertainty washed over her, causing her to shutter. Pulling her closer to him, he whispered in her ear. "Aeryn, what's wrong? Is it the baby?"
"I don't know I.it's just."
A tech interrupted them, "Excuse, the Diagnosan will see you now."
Aeryn stood still holding onto John's hand. Turning her eyes to him he could see the apprehension. He tried to reassure her by saying. "It'll be okay no matter what.we're in this together."
Giving him a weak smile; they followed the tech.
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John stood across from Aeryn as she relax on the examining table. The Diagnosan ran the scanner over her. He would mumble occasionally. His translator glanced at Creighton nervously every few microts.
Ignoring him, John watched every move the Diagnosan was making. Aeryn's apprehension had disturbed him.she had been upset one morning after waking from a nightmare. She couldn't remember what it had been about, but she had been frightful over the baby. Concerned, John had asked Pilot to search for a Diagnosan to help put Aeryn's fears to rest. Nothing really drastic had happened to them for the past six monens.maybe that was it. It had been too quiet for too long.
The Diagnosan walked around the table putting his instruments away. He started to talk, his translator Nosia listening before turning to them.
"Master Xian says that all is well with the children. Your pregnancy."
"Whoa.Whoa.What do you mean children?" John demanded as he moved over to Aeryn, who was attempting to sit up. Placing his hands on her back and shoulder, John gave her a gentle pull upwards.
"Master Xian doesn't understand your confusion. Surely you know you are having multiple births." The Diagnosan chattered rapidly to Nosia.
Aeryn gasped she as spread both hands protectively across her stomach, fear raced through her. She knew something had been wrong but.. that would explain so much.goddess what was happening to her and her children????
"Are you sure your diagnosis is correct?" she asked.
Nosia translated, "The instruments do not lie.Master Xian doesn't lie.you have a female and male.the gene pool is a strange combination but cohesive."
"I didn't mean to imply that.that you don't' know what you're doing," Aeryn swallowed hard to keep from crying. "It's just that before I came here we were expecting only one child.the female.I just don't understand what is going on."
The Diagnosan moved back around his equipment. Lights blinked and instruments hummed once more. The screen just above them flashed the image of the babies. Stunned into disbelief both stared with total fascination.
"God, Aeryn, would you look at that."
Two fully develop babies moved in a dance in their warm cocoon. One held up his hand, fingers extended as if he was waving. The other stretched and then brought her thumb up to her mouth.
They were so real yet.how.where did this little boy come from. A smile formed on John's lips. ' His daughter.his son?' Frowning he looked back over to the Diagnosan.
"Well?" he asked impatiently.
Nosia translated the fast questions being fired by Xian, "When did you start noticing changes?"
Shaking herself out of her stupor Aeryn said, "Ah.ah, about a monen ago."
"Aeryn.?" John looked at her in confusion, "You didn't say anything to me."
"I know it was just.you know little things over a length of time," She tried to pacify him.
"What changes?" Nosia asked.
"At first I had a sharp pain in my lower back- it radiated around to the lower half of my stomach. It only lasted a few microts. I thought it was something I might have eaten."
John's hand tightened on her arm. Patting it she looked over at the Diagnosan. "My appetite is greater then before.I have had dizziness.slower. and."
"Larger." John finished for her.
"Yeah, that too," She nodded her head in remembrance over Ian asking why Mommy was so fat.
"Don't you have a medical section on your ship to be examined?" Nosia asked, looking over at his master.
"Yes.no.I mean we have a medical bay but no real healer.at lease not now." John answered turning his gaze back up at the image of the babies.
"Are the children all right?" Aeryn whispered aloud, her fear starting to overtake her. 'Frell, these emotions.'
Sensing it, John put his arm around her shoulders trying to give her support and comfort. His own heart was racing; his mind was in a spin trying to take everything in. And here he was thinking how in the last few monens had been calm. He should have known.a frown marred his brow.
"Honey, don't you remember that morning you woke from a nightmare ---about a monen ago--- and how upset you were about the baby?"
'Oh no.'
The Diagnosan stopped what he was doing and inquired, "What dream?"
"I don't really remember it. I felt as if.I don't know as if maybe someone was holding me down and I couldn't." She turned to John and said. "I felt as if people were around us.talking. They were doing things to me.to the baby."
Shaking her head, she growled in frustration. "I don't know how to explain it. It wasn't like I saw or heard them. it was just a feeling ."
"There is no indication that you or either child had been experimented on." Nosia said. "Master Xian, has tested the cell structure of the male child and it matches the same time span of the female. He is sorry, but there is nothing else he can do."
"But the boy.he is normal like the girl? He's not going to be different.strange.deformed.or whatever?" John couldn't hide the exasperation he was feeling. "No, the child appears normal as the other." Nosia hesitated before asking, "Master Xian wants to know if you want to terminate the male? It will cause your other child to be born early but she is developed enough to survive. "
"NO!!!" Aeryn screamed coldly as she slid off the table, away from John. Taking a step back from the others, she threatened in a frigid voice, "If you touch my .either of my children I will kill you."
"Aeryn.baby, no one is suggesting you have to do this. He was just asking." John tried to calm her, shocked by her change of attitude.
Turning her attention to him and demanded, "And what do you want, John? It.he is.what do you want to do with him?"
"Alive. I can't.no, Aeryn, I want him alive. to be born with his sister. We'll deal with this.we'll get through this somehow, but I want him alive," John stated firmly.
Aeryn studied him. The desire---the need to protect this child was so great, but why? Goddess, what is going on-she knew John would be there for them and her as he always was, so why did she question it now?
"I want to go home to Moya," she cried.
Disturbed he just held out his arms to her. She melted into them as she silently cried against him.
To continue..