A Family Affair
Chapter 10: Oh Baby
"Let's see...death? No, too quick. I suppose I could always make it slow. No, don't think I have the patience anymore. Um....kidnapping and torture? Nah, she always gets away....."
Ames White sat at his desk in his super secret NSA warehouse scratching out ideas on his
Ways To Kill 452 list.
Ames didn't like to admit it but he had to. He had tried everything against 452 and yet she still always got away. Ever since White had met 452 his life has sucked. His wife was dead, his son was missing, and the Conclave was getting more and more pissed off at his failures. First it was the blundered Jam Pony raid, and then the first meeting with 452's future brat, the ruined hospital evacuation, in which he found himself tied up AGAIN. And now his little psychotic break a while back. An X38 transfusion...what the hell had he been thinking? Oh right: KILL 452!
Why was it that nothing ever went Ames' way? Just once he'd like to have it his way. Just once!
He sighed and threw his pad and paper down. He needed a drink. Badly.
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Max and Alec's apartment:
"Max would you just go to the doctor?"
"No! I'm not pregnant and this is gonna prove it!"
Original Cindy rolled her eyes from the other side of the bathroom door. Max being as stubborn as she was, refused to go see Dr. Carr unless she absolutely had to. Still believing it was too early for her to be pregnant, Max had stopped and picked up three pregnancy tests from the store just to prove Cindy's prediction wrong.
Cindy sighed and went to sit down on the couch. A few seconds later, a fidgeting Max joined her.
"Boo just..."
"Shhh! I don't want to hear it, just give me three minutes...."
"Max."
"I thought I'd have at least two years! Rachel should have said it was a carry over year..."
"Well at least your boy asked you ta marry him before he found out."
"Found out what? There still may be nothing to find out."
"Max, why you trippin? I thought you'd want your girl here?"
"Her nineteen year old self was fine, but now we have to raise her...she, she...OC she's going to be helpless. She won't be able to defend herself. And what if we get attacked by White? When I'm nine months pregnant? How am I supposed to fight? How..."
"Max, Max you gotta calm yourself down girl. First off, you did raise her. You saw how fine she turned out, and she was fine. Meaning if anything happened to your future-previously-pregnant-self, nothing happened to Rachel Boo. And you know that Alec would protect the both of you so damn well. He didn't spend twenty odd years in Manticore just to forget all that training. If you can't fight he'll do it for the both of ya."
"But what if..."
"And stop your what iff-in'! Alec got himself a letter from his future self didn't he? So apparently he made it too."
"But OC, Jesse said they might create a different time line and they did! The TransFamiliar War never happened and..."
"And if it had, it would still be goin' on now and you'd still be pregnant. So that means in Rachel's future, you were pregnant AND leading an army at the same time. Somthin' you ain't having to be doing now," said Original Cindy, "Just relax and breathe, you also might want to put some more faith in you and Alec raisin' a baby. If Gem's doing it then so can you."
"And so is Jeice and her girl....I wish her and Tinga were here...."
"You got Jondy back..."
"Yeah," laughed Max tearfully, "who won't be pregnant for at least another two years...lucky bitch."
"What happened to your if of denial Boo."
"Shut it OC."
Max's watch beeped signaling the three minute time limit was up. She and Cindy got up to go check the pregnancy tests. Walking into the bathroom and picking up the tests, Max looked at the three of them, looking more and more confused by the minute. Glancing at the boxes again she turned to Original Cindy
"OC this can't be right."
"Well that cuz it ain't," said Original Cindy, "Max let's just go over to that doctor's."
Max sighed and looked at them again.
The first test she tried promised "Blue if you're pregnant, Pink if you're not!" It turned Green.
The second test promised "A line if you're pregnant, two lines if you're not!" Max got a circle.
The third test said "A 'yes' if you're expecting, a 'no' if you're not!" Max got a 'ynoes'.
Max tossed the three tests into the trash and sat down on the edge of the bathtub.
"Girl you get 'yo ass up and outta this house."
"But..."
"No buts, you just want to wait and see if you balloon?"
"Let's go," Max got up and marched out of the bathroom. Cindy shook her head and smiled before running off to catch up to Max.
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Dr. Carr's Office...
"What's taking him so long?"
"Max you're fidgeting again."
"Well you'd be fidgety too if you thought you were pregnant!"
"Which will never happen."
Max rolled her eyes and turned her head towards the door as it opened. Dr. Carr stepped in with his medical chart in his hand.
"Well?"
"Well I guess you just want the straight answer?" asked Carr.
"She failed three tests get on with it already," said OC.
"Well the tests failed probably because of your genetic make-up Max." said Carr, "But anyway, your tests came back positive. You're pregnant Max."
"Oh?" said Max weakly as she laid herself down on the examination table she was sitting on, "Oh."
"So," said OC smirking, "when we be tellin' soldier boy?"
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A/N: Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Reviews are always greatly appreciated(^,')
But anyway, Max is now 100% officially pregnant!
Stay tuned for Chapter 11: Telling Alec