Chapter 2,
A chance at love
He walked to the corner market one morning to get some coffee, that was when he met "her" Her family owned the corner store and she worked the front. She was about 30, her blond hair tied in the back, she was no beauty but her eyes were so compelling, he couldn't stop starring at them. After that first meeting, he seemed to run into her all the time. When he got up enough courage he asked her what her name was. This was not easy for him. He had no experience with women, he had no experience with people at all for that matter. Ever since he could remember all he was interested in was science, which left little room for friends. She seemed to find his quiet, shy personality attractive. After that introduction they seemed to spend much of their free time together. He had never been so happy in his life, she was the only thing he thought about, all the past memories of Shinra, and the lab were forgotten. Eventually he stopped the Mako injections, his health got back to normal. He loved her with all his heart, he wanted to be "right " for her. They talked of marriage, he was concerned that since he was sterile he would never be able to give her the children she seemed to want so bad. She seemed not to care, her only thoughts were being with him. But still it gave him pause. He thought that would be unfair of him, to deprive her of having a family, but he knew from his days at Shinra that he would never have a child of his own. That is why , when he saw her that day he was so suprised. She beamed, he had never seen her look so
happy. She had something she wanted to say and couldn't hold in, even for the moment it took for him to walk through the doorway. "I'm pregnant" "Were having a baby!" He was to shocked to say
anything but "how." She looked at him unable to understand why he
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wasn't as happy as she was. It just didn't make sense. It was a miracle. He should be happy! Instead he just walked out the door with a look of horror on his face.
He walked about a mile before he could begin to make sense of any of his thoughts. Pregnant! How? Someone else? No, must be mine, How? How? Mako? Did the Mako make me fertile? Something he had never thought of before. The Baby- the Mako, No! What will it do to the baby? Abortion, no, he couldn't, she wouldn't . What have I done? What I was so against, human experimentation, now unconsciously contributing to it. What have I done!
He returned to his senses and realized there was nothing he could change now, his only hope was to pray that the baby was born normal, but how could it? Wasn't the Mako the only reason the baby even existed? He needed to continue his research, so he can help the baby, he needed to go back to Shin-Ra, as much as he loathed it.