Flight of the Katana
Chapter 1: The Birth of a Defect
Year 2449
Mandy Alston stepped onto the cool scale in the midwife emanation room, she frowned. She hated being overweight. It was worth it though. Mandy had never been able to have a child. Pregnancy was her happiest time of her life. Jeff Alston red a magazine of "Parents to be" in the waiting room. Mandy laid down on the "chair" in the testing room. The nurse pulled up her shirt a little above her navel, and placed a stethoscope on her inflated belly. Ten minutes later Jeff and Mandy Alston left the midwife center.
When they arrived home Mandy laid down on the sofa. "I am so thankful for those pills" said Mandy. "They have given hope to infertile women every were"
"Just think Jeff, our very own baby boy". Jeff sat beside her head and ran his fingers through her crimson hair. "He is going to be a perfect child". They kissed and lay down together on the couch.
Little did the Alstons know, there son would not be perfect.
Three days later Mandy was being pushed in a gernie to the pregnancy room of the midwife center. The gernie was pushed passed the light swinging doors. "You will have to stay in the waiting room Mr. Alston", stated the nurse in a purple scrub. Jeff stumbled into the waiting room.
His eyes were weary, he needed sleep. He couldn't sleep now, so Jeff paced. He paced for 1 hour, then 2 hours, then 3 hours, then the nurse with the purple scrub came out of the room and said to Jeff, "Mr. Alston, may I speak with you?" Jeff got up and walked with the nurse to a room with a big chair inside. "Please sit down Mr. Alston". "I would prefer to stand". The nurse heaved a large exhale. Mr. Alston your child has been delivered but your wife has slipped into a coma. "What!?"
Yelled Jeff. "No!!! She is strong she'll pull through". "Mr. Alston your wife's heart rate is slowly decreasing. I'm sorry Mr. Alston I know how this is for you I-""I don't give a damn what you know!!"
Jeff grabbed the nurse by the wrists. "You make sure my wife lives!" The nurse jerked herself free of Jeff's grip and walked out of the room. Jeff sat down and cried.
For 1 hour he cried, until a male doctor came in with a sad expression on his face. "Mr. Alston?" Jeff looked up with puffy red eyes. "Mr. Alston I am sorry to say... Your wife is dead." Jeff buried his head in his arms and continued to cry. "I'm sorry but there is another sorrow to strike your family." Jeff kept his face hidden but stopped crying. "Mr. Alston, your son has a defect; none of us have ever seen anything of this sort. The doctor continued. "He is a very lucky boy to survive, you are a lucky man to have such a-"Jeff cut him off. "Lucky? You think I'm lucky? Me, the man with a dead wife and a defected son? If that's lucky then ill be a damned son of a-""Mr. Alston your son is still alive. Just because he has a defect that doesn't make him dead". Jeff Wiped his eyes with his sweaty palms and sat up. "Were is my son?" The doctor pressed a button on his belt and a nurse wheeled a small gernie in. Jeff peeked over the edge. In the incubator was a small pink baby. He immediately saw the defect. The baby had no neck, fore arms, or thighs. "Holy Shit" Jeff sat back down and buried himself in the chair.