Warm greetings to all! Here's chapter 4 and 5. If you guys knew thetrouble I went through to get these chapters out of my head and onto paper, you wouldn't be so mad at me for taking so long. It's not as easy as you think, but I hope you like the progression of the story. And thank you all for your kind-hearted reviews. Keep them coming even if you don't like my story, just benice. Oh, and to all of you Stargate SG1 fans out there, be on the look out for my Stargate SG1fanfic. I'll post it real soon! Okay, I'm done...

Chapter 4

Nia could feel herself waking up, but she fought the urge to do so. She wanted to stay unconscious, to stay in the blackness of oblivion because here, there were no giant, reptilian-like monsters dragging her away from everything she knew. Here, there were no talking and intelligent robotic machines saying that her body could now do things that it couldn't do before. Here in oblivion, there was peace.

"I think she is coming around." she heard Jax say, but she didn't know if he was talking to her or to himself. She felt his cool, metal fingers squeeze her hand. "Nia, can you hear me?"

She moaned.

"You gave us quite a scare when you fainted." Jax continued. "I did not even realize that I could get scared until that moment. But that is besides the point, is it not?"

This isn't happening. Nia told herself. This is all a bad, bad dream. But that ridiculous robot wouldn't shut up and let her be.

"You bumped your head when you fell-" which explained why the back of her head was pounding. "-but fortunately you sustained no injury and the baby is fine as well." Nia's eyes popped open and she shot up straight in bed. Her head throbbed even worse because of that sudden action, but she ignored the pain as well as the feeling of vertigo.

"Okay, joke's over. I want out!" Nia exclaimed, swinging her legs out of bed and standing up.

"No, no, you must not get up yet." Jax protested, grateful, at least, that she hadn't kicked him in her rush to get out of the bed. "You had a nasty fall and the baby-"

"I'm not carrying a baby!" Nia screamed at him. "I'm barren. I can't get pregnant!" Unnerved by her screeching, Jax grasped her arms and urged her back down on the bed. Nia had a passing thought that he was getting very good at that.

"If you are going to yell, fine," he said sharply. "But you are going to do it sitting down. If you lose this baby Prae'tor will have my parts melted down and fashioned into a throwing glave, or something worse." The robot stooped down, clutched her feet and lifted them onto the bed.

"But I'm not pregnant." Nia insisted.

"Denial is a common human response to untimely and unwanted information." Jax related, settling himself into his own seat.

"No, you're not listening to me, Jax." Nia snapped. "I'm barren. That's human for 'my oven can't bake'!"

The robot actually chuckled. "You humans have such odd expressions. But I will humor you, if that will keep you calm. Why can you not get pregnant?"

Nia ignored the patronizing tone in his voice and said, "When I was three years old, I got really, really sick with some rare disease that I can't even pronounce. I almost died, but thanks to some kind of innovative drug my doctor found I pulled through, but not before the infection destroyed my ovaries."

"It is true that your ovaries were incredibly damaged due to the malady, Nia. Your human doctor got that part right." Jax agreed. "However, we were able to find several viable ovums inside you and we implanted one into your uterus, since your fallopian tubes are impaired as well."

"That's impossible. My doctor had ex-rays done on me just last year and he said that I had no healthy eggs in either of my ovaries." Nia countered.

"Well, maybe he was not looking hard enough." Jax replied snidely. "But I promise you that we found several. It was quite a search, but still-"

"I don't believe that my doctor was lying to me."

"Why?" Jax countered. "Is he an exception to the human species and is incapable of lying?"

"Don't be a smart-ass!" Nia snapped. Jax sighed.

"Listen, I know that all this may be hard for you to take in, especially after years of being told you will never be able to conceive. But trust me, Nia, you are pregnant."

"So, let me get this straight." Nia began, her voice heavy with disdain. "You people stalk me, kidnap me, drug me, cut me open…" she ticked each item off on her fingers as she spoke. "…did only God-knows-what to my reproductive system- all without my permission, by the way- and to top it off, you're telling me that I'm pregnant?" It was more of a statement than a question. Nia thought that she could almost see the gears in Jax's artificial brain churning as he contemplated her words.

"I do not like this expression cut open," he finally replied. "But other than that, your analysis of the situation is fairly accurate."

Nia sighed, shut her eyes and rubbed at her temples with both hands. All of a sudden, a thought that should have occurred to her at the beginning of this conversation struck her like a ton of bricks.

"Wait a second!" she shrieked. "Who's the father?"

The robot appeared shocked. "Why Prae'tor is, of course." Jax replied, as if the question was the dumbest he'd ever heard. He gestured to a dim corner of the room where a humanoid form stepped out of the shadowy area on the far side of the room by the entryway. Nia's eyes widened as she saw the monster that was the start of all this mess come into the light. Her jaw dropped in shock and in fright.

"WHAT?" she screamed, bounding up off the bed yet again. "You're telling me that…that…"she struggled to come up with an appropriate term. "…beast raped me and got me pregnant?" She heard a low grumbling sound and Jax shifted his mechanical eyes to regard the eight and a half foot tall Yaut'ja.

"Yes, she does have quite the flair for the dramatics." Jax agreed with Prae'tor and Nia's eyes narrowed at the robot in anger.

"You think this is funny?" she spat. "You're screwing around with my life and then have the nerve to sit there and laugh!"

"You are right. Now is not the time for teasing." he apologized, losing his grin just as fast as he'd found it. "But you are very high-strung, Nia. We need to work on that if you want this baby is to be born healthy. Now, please, sit down." Prae'tor took a step closer and she instantly plopped back down onto the bed.

"As I have said before, Prae'tor is a warrior of honor. He did not rape you." Jax revealed. "You were artificially inseminated with his sperm."

That, at least, explained why her feet had been placed in stirrups. Still, Nia couldn't stop her mouth from curling up in disgust. She clutched at her stomach and doubled over.

"The operation was almost ruined since you kept fighting the sedatives and waking up." Jax continued but to Nia his voice sounded far away. "The procedure was successful, nonetheless. You are approximately one week pregnant, by human standards."

Nia was still shaking her head in denial and rocking herself.

"No, no, no, no…" she whimpered over and over again. "This isn't happening, this can't be happening…"

Jax jumped out of his chair and rushed to her side. "Are you all right?" he asked. Even Prae'tor stepped closer out of concern. Nia didn't answer, she just kept swaying and mumbling to herself.

"Everything is going to be all right." Jax reassured, laying comforting hands on her arms. "You are going to be just fine."

Suddenly, she jolted straight up and clamped a hand over her mouth.

"What is it?" Jax queried, not knowing just what to expect from her next. Nia hopped onto the bed, scampered over it, then ran across the room and into the bathroom.

Seconds later, the robot and the Yaut'ja heard the female throwing up into the toilet.

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