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Hitchhiker Chapter 14
The three boys had limped their way through the hospital doors over an hour ago, and now, TK and Ken were now waiting outside in the waiting room for Davis' check-up for his ankle to be over. As they waited, TK stared off into space out the large window they were next to, watching as the wind blew the tree branches the this way and that. Every now and then he would glance up at the television screen up in the corner of the room.
Ken on the other hand, sat several chairs away from him, staring off at the floor next to his feet, his hand resting on his stomach. Frowning, Ken rubbed it a bit, deep in thought.
TK glanced over and watched as Ken did that, frowning as well. "What's the matter? You have a stomach ache?"
"You could say that..." mumbled Ken, his eyes not moving from their spot on the floor.
Tk went silent after that, not knowing what else to say. The two boys sat there in though for another twenty minutes until Davis finally wobbled out of the room on crutches.
"Davis!" cried a worried Ken. He jumped up from his chair, immediatly hugging the taller boy.
Davis laughed. "Hey! Hey! Watched the handicapped!"
TK walked slowly up to the two boys with a grin on his face. "Handicapped, Davis, I think they are going to need to come up with a whole new word for you" he snickered. Ken looked at the blonde with a laugh as Davis glowered at him.
Grumbling, Davis started using his crutches and made his way towards the door. "Come on, let's go before TF starts cracking more of his lame jokes..."
"Davis?"
Davis turned his head to look at Ken, TK doing the same thing, for Ken had been walking behind them.
"What is it Ken?" asked Davis, concerned. "You're not hurt too are you?"
Ken shook his head, looking down at his wringing hands. "No...Um..." He glanced up at TK, who was also listening. "Um...Could we talk...later...in private?" That said, Ken blushed a bright red.
Davis blinked. "Ah, sure Ken! We can talk. Heck, we can talk now if you want."
Ken shook his head as they started walking out the hospital doors. "Um...No..." He looked at TK again, who was looking straight ahead. "Later...please..."
Davis shrugged. "Alright dude, whatever floats your boat."
TK and Ken then managed to help Davis down the steps in front of the hospital and into the back seat of TK's car, which drove away minutes later.
"Dr. Kido. You have a phone call" spoke a small woman's high voice at the front desk.
A man with long shoulder length blue hair and large glasses walked up to the front desk, a clipboard in his hand and a pencil sitting on top of his ear. He looked over at the woman and smiled.
"Thanks Nancy, I can take it in my office" he spoke.
Joe Kido, one of the eight original digidestined, walked into his office and closed the door, picking up the phone and sitting on his chair.
"Hello?" he said into the phone.
"H-Hello. Dr. Kido?" came a timid guy's voice. Joe's eyes widened when he heard the voice. He knew that voice from anywhere, there was only one person he knew with that commanding yet shy voice. Ken Ichijouji.
"Ken?" asked Joe into the phone.
"Y-yes. Yeah it's me Joe" replied Ken, a little startled that Joe knew it was him.
"Hey Ken! How are you? I haven't heard from you in a while!" marveled Joe. Ken cleared his throat, making Joe from rambling on more about how they haven't seen each other. "Oh! Sorry ken! Uh...What is it that you need? A check-up?"
"Uh...Well yeah Joe. But this isn't going to be a normal check-up...at least...not the last time I checked...
considering I'm a boy..." ken festered. Joe's eyebrows knotted together in concern, not following what ken was saying.
"Ken? What's the matter? Are you okay?" demanded Joe, concerned.
"I'm not sure..." mumbled ken on the other side of the line.
Joe sat straight in his chair and started flipping threw his desk for his calender, he found it, and ran his finger down the dates to see when he was next available for Ken.
"Umm...Are you free Tuesday Ken? Tuesday at three? That's two days from now. Can you wait that long for a check-up?" asked Joe, hoping it was enough time.
"Well...I suppose" Ken sighed.
"I'm sorry ken, but I can't get you in until then. I've got daily clients. Look, whatever it is, I'm sure it's not serious, now just drink plenty of fluids and get plenty of r-"
"Just answer me this then!" Ken cried, not letting Joe finish. Joe listened. "Is it possible for a guy to get pregnant?"
There was silence on both ends as Joe tried to comprehend what Ken just asked him. Joe fumbled with his words.
"Uh...well...hmm...uh...Well,the odds are EXTREMELY slim, but some can, depending if they were born wrong or developed incorrectly while in the mother's stomach...Yes, I suppose...Why? It's really not likely Ken? Are you sure it's okay? Ken? Ken?" Joe looked at the phone, being able to hear only the dial tone, meaning that Ken had hung up on him.
The Motomiya household was unusually quiet for a Sunday. Davis and Jun were usually neck and neck with each other while Ken stood at the sidelines trying to break them up. But not today. Jun was at a friend'shouse and Davis was playing with Demi-Veemon.
Wormmon and Ken both sat on Ken's bed. Wormmon was eating a strawberry Ken had given him, while Ken himself flipped through several of Jun's magazines.
Davis looked up from Demi-Veemon, catching his boyfriend looking at his sister's magazines and frowned.
"You know, Jun is going to so kill you if she finds out you've been looking at her stuff" he commented.
"You're one to talk Davis" Ken muttered, flipping the page, his legs crossed. "At least I don't steal her make-up and try it on when no one's looking."
Davis froze, turning a bright red all over. Demi-Veemon looked up at his partner from his lap and smiled. "Davis! I didn't know you wanted to become a girl! But being a girl means having to live with mood swings and times of the month!"
"W-Who told you that?" demanded Davis.
"I heard you're sister talking on the phone about stuff like that..." replied the little blue creature.
Ken had gone silent throughtout the whole scene, watching the two closely. He watched as Davis took Demi-veemon by around the waist and started throwing him up and down, cursing Jun for saying that kind of stuff for his digimon partner to hear.
"Ken? What's the matter?" came Wormmon's voice from Ken's side. Looking down, Ken considered whether or not to tell Wormmon or not. Sighing, he decided to do it later, when davis wasn't near. He didn't want Davis to get all upset before his check-up with Joe. He didn't want to make a mountain out of an anthill just yet.
"N-Nothing's wrong Wormmon, I'm just tired is all" replied Ken. He tried to change the subject. "Did you enjoy that strawberry?"
Wormmon smiled. "Oh yes! Very much so! May I have another?"
"Sure!" Ken got up and walked out into the empty kitchen to get some more strawberrys for Wormmon,and when he came back, he found Davis sitting where Ken was, reading Jun's magazine. Ken froze at the door. Davis looked up and grinned. "What? You can look at these things, but I can't?"
Ken just shook his head.
The two days went by painfully slowly for Ken. He was constantly on pins and needles for every time he ate or his stomach twitched in hunger, he was pressured and worried by the fact that he could possibly be with child.
But Tuesday finally came, and while Davis was out helping his mother grocery shop at three o'clock, Ken snuck out of the house, into his car and drove to the hospital, where Joe was going to give him a check-up.
Joe walked into the blank looking room with a single bed, Ken sitting nervously on top of it. Ken hated hospitals, he always felt sick in them, and dirty, as though he didn't belong there.
Joe smiled at his friend, taking the pecil off his ear and started writing on his clip-board.
"Afternoon Ken. How are you? Any better from the other day when we spoke on the phone?" Joe began, still writing.
"No" mumbled ken truthfully, his hands on his lap.
Joe shook his head. "Okay, well, let's just start with the basics then shall we?"
Ken waited as Joe went through all the steps, hoping that there was something else causing his problems other than a pregnancy.
"Let me see inside your ears..." Joe whispered, looking at Ken's ears with an instrument.
He then looked inside Ken's mouth, then eyes, and then tested Ken's knees.
Everything was fine.
"Well ken. That is a check-up and nothing seems to be wrong. Maybe it's just all up in here" he said, tapping K
Ken lightly on the head. Ken shook his head.
"No! Joe! I'm pregnant!" cried out Ken. Joe just looked at him for a moment, then felt Ken's head. He looked down at his clipboard again.
"Maybe I did the check-up wrong..." he muttered.
"No Joe! I was kidnapped!" Ken blurted out. Joe looked at him seriously.
"What?"
"The other day, we went to the digital world. I was captuered by these strange digimon. Not like any we've ever seen before. They poured this liquid down my throat and told me that the next person I saw, would be the father of my child. I didn't believe it until I started feeling cramps like a girl would. Davis was the first one I saw and I haven't felt the same since!"
"That's quite a story you have there Ken, are you sure it wan't just a dream?" asked Joe.
"Yes! I'm sure! Cause Davis hurt his ankle while he and TK were trying to save me, and today he's on crutches!" cried Ken.
"Davis was in here the other day...?" asked Joe. "Hm...that explains all those missing lolipops..."
"Please Joe! You have to belive me! Isn't there some kind of a test you can do to see if I really am?"
Joe sighed. "Well, there is one that girl's take to see if they are pregnant, but...you're not going to like it..."
Ken cocked his head to one side as Joe leaned in a whispered something into Ken's ear.
"WHAT? They do that?" cried a shocked Ken after Joe told him the test he would have to take. Joe nodded.
"Yep, it has something to do with their u-"
"I DON'T NEED TO KNOW THE DETAILS!" shouted a hysteric Ken. Joe walked out of the room for several moments, then walked back in with a stick looking thing.
"Here, this is what you use, the bathroom's right over there..." instructed Joe.
Ken walked back into the room six minutes later, handing Joe, who was now wearing gloves, the stick. His face was full of disgust and humiliation. Joe looked at the stick as Ken sat down on the hard bed, waiting for the results.
"Positive..." whispered Joe.
"Hmm? What?" asked ken, having drifted off into space.
"It's positive..."
"Well what does that mean?" demanded Ken.
"You were right. You are in fact pregnant" spoke Joe, dead serious.
Ken's eyes widened in fear and shock. "A-Are you sure?"
"These tests don't lie Ken. And considering that you're a guy, there's even LESS chances of it lying" Joe answered.
Sighing, Ken looked into his lap. "Well, I guess...I'll just have to do it..."
Joe looked up at this. "You don't want an abortion?"
"What's that?" asked Ken, confused.
"Abortion? Abortion is when a woman kills the baby inside her before it can grow and be born" replied Joe.
"So...Murder, basically" sneered Ken at the very thought.
Joe nodded sadly."That's pretty much what it is, but Ken. It's going to be really difficult for you to have this child, since...you're not meant to have one, you don't have the right organs and you're body just doesn't work that way."
Ken shook his head. "Yes, but I refuse to kill it. I've killed enough in my life..."
Joe knew he couldn't agrue with that. He had killed many digimon as Digimon Emperor.
"Alright then. I'll help you in anyway I can Ken. We'll get through this okay. For now, just get some rest, stay away from smoke, no drinking, and be very aware of odd food cravings."
Ken cocked his head to one side again, not understanding the last little bit.