The Birth
The ceiling was a dusty grey colour, and the walls a pale beige. Doctorial equipment was scattered all around the room. A sink and a preparation area in the far right corner of the room, with 3 apron pegs on the wall, of which only one had an apron on it, as the other two where being used. At the side of the bed was an aluminium wheeled table, with an assortment of doctorial equipment on it. To the right side of the bed was a drip, and just behind the bed was an oxygen canister, encase a patient couldn't breathe, for any reason during an appointment.
"Ok, you can push now Ms Rico" the nurse said eagerly.
As Kiera Rico pushed, she let out a controlled moan of discomfort. The nurse was at the side of the bed to aid Kiera through the birth of her baby.
"I can see a head, your doing very well Ms Rico. Just a few more pushes and it will all be over with" the midwife exclaimed.
After a few pushes, the midwife pulled the rest of the baby out from Kiera's womb, and cut the umbilical cord. The baby didn't cry or scream. The midwife doing her job slapped the baby on the bottom, to make sure that it was breathing correctly, but he didn't cry or scream. He seemed to make a clicking sound at the midwife. Visibly seeing that he was breathing, the midwife continued to clean the baby boy. She handed him to Kiera.
"It's a boy Ms Rico. The only concern I have is that he didn't cry, yet he did make a funny clicking noise. There should be nothing to worry about as he is breathing and moving normally"
Looking into his pale green/blue eyes, Kiera could visibly see the hunter side of him. Even at such a young age, he seemed to have a muscular build, which came from his father, unknown to the rest of the population on Dakota Alpha 231. The midwife walked over to the far right side of the room where to sink was. She stripped the gloves from her hands and then removed the apron and tossed it into the bin at the side of the sink. She then proceeded to wash her hands in the sterile sink. When she had finished she pulled a few paper towels from a dispenser on the wall, and dried her hands off. She then proceeded to open the door to a closet in the room, which housed a container that resembled a cradle. Inside this container there was a soft white pillow and a blue blanket. The midwife came over to the side of the bed with the cradle like container. "Ms Rico can I take your child please, I need to put him with the others. Don't worry he has his name on the end of his cradle so u can Identify him when you want to hold him or see him in the baby room"
"Yes, of course. When can I see him next" Kiera asked.
"You can see him when ever you feel Ms Rico. All you have to do is ask" the midwife said answering her question.
Kiera nodded, and watched as the midwife picked the baby up fro her arms and put him into the cradle like container covering him up to his belly with the blue blankets, after which the midwife left the room to take little Jay Rico to the baby room to sleep. The nurse was now standing in the far left of the room by an aluminium table containing a few items of stationary and bits of paper. She reached down and opened the 2nd draw down on the desk and picked up a birth certificate from a plastic paper wallet, writing down the necessaries. Born; 14/01/2032 at 0012 hours. Location of birth; Dakota village hospital, Dakota Alpha 231. Name.
"What is his name going to be Ms Rico?" the nurse asked.
"His name" she paused for thought for a moment. She wanted do discus his name with Dachande but he was not here to decide with her. "Jay, his name is Jay" she acknowledged.
Knowing that Dachande would want a Yautja name for him, she decided to give him a human name and discus a Yautja name for him later on. That way he would fit in with the local community and not have anyone query his name.
As she lay on the bed with jay in her arms, she thought of what qualities he had from Dachande besides his muscular appearance and his multi coloured eyes. Maybe he had his strength and agility or he might grow to be seven or eight feet tall. The one thing that was running through her mind was why he didn't have any of his fathers Yautja appearance. He didn't have the skin tones or patterns; he didn't have the large dome head shape or the four mandibles by his mouth. He looked like a normal human baby, but slightly muscular and with green/blue eyes. Other than that he was normal.
"Who is the father Ms Rico?" asked the nurse from across the room.
"His father" she said hesitantly.
"Yes the father of the baby you have in your arms, what is his name?" the nurse asked.
"Oh yes. Well his father disappeared in the night, about a week ago. He said he was going to go for a quick drive, and he hasn't come back. So as far as I am concerned he has no father, if that's how he wants to react about it" Kiera replied.
When the nurse came back over to the side of the bed, she looked slightly worried that Kiera Rico had to look after this baby by herself. "Here is the birth certificate for little Jay Rico. I have also listed a few child support groups for you too, in case he becomes a bit of a handful for you and you need a little bit of help. Is that ok?"
Still looking at her little boy, she said "Yes, thank you for your help and care. We should be fine, but thank you anyway"
Diverting her attention from little Jay, she turned to the nurse "So what is on the menu for dinner tonight, all of this has made me hungry?"
"I am not entirely sure what is on the menu tonight, but you will have a menu in your room when you get back. We don't normally served food so late, but if you call for me I am sure I can make an exception for you" the nurse said as she walked over to the door.
The nurse opened the large double doors and put door stops under the doors to keep them open. She then walked back into the heart of the room, and walked behind the bed. With a clicking noise, the brake released for the bed and it started to slowly move towards the open doors.
As Kiera was being wheeled towards her room, she noticed a man in the waiting room, holding his head from an injury he acquired earlier that day. The blood was still seeping through his fingers slowly as he was trying to contain it. She noticed that by his feet there was a small pool of crimson blood where he had been there for so long. Behind him Kiera caught a quick glimpse of a glimmering figure on the outside of the window. Although it was like staring through a glass of clear liquid she recognised the figures shape, it was Dachande, her Yautja mate. As she closed her eyes for a quick second the figure had disappeared and she had turned down another corridor. On the left side of this corridor were patients waiting to be seen by there doctors for their injuries or illnesses. To the right side of the corridor, where to doctors offices ready for their patients. At the end of the corridor they came to a lift, big enough to have 2 hospital beds in it. The nurse pressed the button to call the lift. When the lift arrived, the nurse wheeled the bed into the lift and pressed the button for floor number three. When the lift stopped we exited the left and went left just on the corner of the T-junction of corridors by the lift, we stopped and the nurse opened a door and wheeled me in. "This is you room Ms Rico, hope you like it. If there is anything I can get you just press the green button on the hand set and I will come to you. If you need a member of staff in the case of an emergency, press the red button and we will come as quickly as possible to you. Is that ok?" the nurse insisted.
Kiera nodded, "Yes that's fine thank you".
The room was easily big enough for one person to live in. the walls were the same pale beige as the walls in the operating room and the ceiling was a very light grey, with a ceiling fan and light on it. Over to the left of the bed was a window overlooking the village and the vast emptiness of Dakota Alpha 231's desert like terrain. On the right side of the bed was a small cabinet, to keep patients personal belongings in whilst they stay in the room. To the left of the bed was a leather chair for visitors to sit on when they come to visit a patient. To the front of the bed on the left was a door that leads to the toilet and washing facility for the room.
As the nurse left the room, she turned the lights off and closed the door behind her. Kiera turned around from lying on her back, so now she was lying on her side facing the window. As she stared out the window, she jumped when the glimmered figure of Dachande appeared at the window. Dachande pushed the semi-open window slightly and it opened enough for him to slip through, Dachande climbed through the window and came into the room. As he uncloaked himself, there were flicks of blue electric like light and then he appeared visible for Kiera to see him.
Dachande had all the common signs of being a Yautja. He had the large domed head, the long cascading dreadlocks that surrounded the back and sides of his head, the four finger-like mandibles by his mouth concealing his inner mouth, the large muscular body with his unique patterns and skin tones, and his arsenal of high-tech weaponry. Dachande was bigger than most other hunters of his race, that's probably why he hardly had any confrontation to take his position as leader whilst he was on his home planet, a little while back.
After Dachande uncloaked himself, he walked to the side of the bed where Kiera lie and knelt down besides the bed, and opened his wide spanning arms. Kiera sat up and shuffled into his open arms. She wrapped her arms around his large torso, and put her cheek onto his warm chest. He closed his arms and put his chin gently onto the top of her head.
"We had a boy. I have given him a human name so that there would be no confrontation in his name, but I Know that you wanted to give him a Yautja name. His name is Jay. Around out dwelling, we shall call him what you wish, but around the village we shall call him Jay. So what did you want to call him?" Kiera enquired from the grasp of Dachande.
"Although I have not seen him, I can tell he will do great things, and will be a good one for hiding from his prey and stalking them out . His hunter name shall be Sha,dar,rio" Dachande said proudly.
"Shadow…Sounds mysterious. The only thing that I find strange is, that he is not like a Yautja he is all human. He has no physical Yautja qualities, like the mandibles or the skin tones and colours. He does have the multi coloured eyes, they are green and blue and he has a slightly muscular physique too, similar to yours" Kiera said as she rubbed Dachande's stomach.
"Well my mate you needn't worry, he is still our pup and he shall be taught in both Yautja and ooman ways. As soon as I fix my communications beacon and Sha,dar,rio is old enough, we shall go back to the home world and live our lives happy and with the clan" as Dachande said that Kiera look up at him.
"I have never been to your home world, how would they treat me. From what you have told me they would hate to have me there, either that or they would kill me. It would be hard for me to fit in"
"When I first laid eyes on you, you killed that giant beast with only a small knife, which is what attracted me to you. In my eyes you are a warrior, and you are my mate. It will be hard at first but it will all turn out for the best" Dachande insisted.
"Ok as you wish my love. I am pretty tired, I think I am going to go to sleep" Kiera put a hand on each side of Dachande's face and brought it down to her face level. She kissed him on his mask. With that, he slowly lifted her from where she lay and into his arms, and gently hugged her. Softly he put her onto the bed, and pulled the covers over her. He pulled the leather seat closer to the bed, and sat by her side and softly stroking her head until she fell asleep. Whilst Kiera was asleep Dachande turned on his cloaking device, and climbed out of the window and pulled the window closed. And ran into the desert and back to his and Kiera's dwelling.