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Chapter 32 The birth of a new Generation
Tucson/Arizona Two months later
Cindy was now panting for good four hours now. The sweat was dripping down her face and in every other place on her body. The cramps in her belly were almost unbearable and she just wanted to get her babies out of her. She didn´t care how, she just wanted it to happen soon or else she would sue this whole building. Her husband Jason was sitting besides her and held her hand or fed her icecubs. He didn´t know what he should do or what his wife wanted him to do. The only thing he could do was to be with her and he hated it. He hated that she was in so much pain and he couldn´t do anything against it. He threatened at least two doctors and four nurses to do something to ease her pain a little. So far no one appeared again and now they were waiting to get the green light for the delivery room.
" I can´t anymore. It´s too much for me", Cindy was on the brink to bite her arm off of her body and beat herself unconsciouness.
Jason brushed her hair from her face and smiled at her. " You have to hang on. You´ll see, before you know it everything will be over".
" You have to do something. I can´t bear this pain any longer", Cindy felt a contraction coming on again. Immediately she began to huff and puff like an idiot. But it didn´t help in any way. She could kill this guy from the prenatal classes who showed them the breathing exercise which should help them through every contractions. Someone should tell him that he should put his advice far up his ass. The prenatal classes was for shit.
Jason grimaced painfully at that. He still held the hand of his wife and she had a strong grip. He couldn´t feel his fingers anymore and he thought he heard a few bones break. Hopefully someone was coming soon and rescued him. " Honey, you´re hurting my hand".
Cindy relaxed again after the pain was gone. That was so far the worst she had to go through. Then she turned to her husband, which examined his hand. He was such a baby. " You think that is painful? When you push something from a size of a watermelon out of a whole from a size of a lemon then you can tell me something about pain. But until then shut your mouth".
" Excuse me? Why you´re attacking me now? I´m here, or not?", Jason couldn´t understand the change in her mood. He was warned that women have mood swings in her pregnancy and he was relieved that his wife didn´t show any signs of that throughout her pregnancy.
" You´re the one who got me pregnant in the first place! I wouldn´t be here if it weren´t because of you!", Cindy knew that it needed two persons to create a baby. And he wasn´t to blame alone. But she was in pain and her sanity flew out the window the moment the first contraction hit her.
Jason looked stunned at his obviously insane wife. Great, now he was the bad guy in this movie. Was it his fault that she was so sexy and he couldn´t keep his hands off of her? No. It was all her fault. However before he could say that, the door to the room burst open and a nurse came in.
" I have good news for you. It´s time for the delivery room".
" About time. I already thought you forgot me", Cindy was relieved that it was finally time for her babies to show themself to the world. She couldn´t wait to hold them in her arms and feed them. She turned to her husband. " Will you be there the whole time?".
Jason was confused again. She was like the girl from the exorcist. At first all sweet and cute and if you turned your head she was this monster. He would never understand women. " Of course Honey".
Cindy smiled at him before the nurse moved her together with the bed out of the room.
5 hours later
Jason, his father Bill, his mother Adele and his father in law Charles were standing at the window to the infant ward. Everybody was smiling at the little babies there. Especially the first two to the right up front. Michael and Tess Adams Dupree. They were so adorable. You just wanted to cuddle them all day long.
" They´re really cute, Jason. I can´t wait to spoil them", Adele regarded her grandchildren with so much awe. Finally her son had the family he always wanted.
Jason rolled his eyes. Oh boy his kids would be little brats when they got older. " Please Mum. Don´t do that. We´ll have to live with them".
" Balderdash. We´re the grandparents and we are allowed to spoil them rotten if we want", added Bill. It was a rule that they had to do that. And nobody would stop them. Especially not his son.
Now Charles had something to say. " And before you open your mouth. You can´t do anything to stop us. Clear".
Jason breathed deeply in. What could he say? " Crystal clear".
" I think we should look after Cindy. She must be exhausted", Adele took the arm of her husband and walked with him in the direction of the room of her daughter in law.
Charles took a last look at the tiny little creatures and then followed the other two.
Jason still stayed a little longer. He pressed his hands at the window and observed his children. They were so small and so cute. And they were his. Alright his and Cindy´s. " Don´t worry. They´re not that bad when you know them. Besides your mother and I are always by your side to protect you". A few minutes he kept standing there before he made his way to his wife, too.
After everyone was gone, two men appeared from a room. They positioned themself in front of the window and watched the two babies up front. One of them was looking like a librarian. He was wearing a light brown suit which fit his brown hair and his brown eyes. The other resembled more like a surfer. With his blonde hair and his blue eyes and clothes that looked like a rainbow puked on him. Carefully they eyed them closer.
" Are you sure that they are Ava and Rath?", the surfer asked.
The Librarian turned his head to his companion. Of course he was sure or else he wouldn´t have been here. " Don´t you trust me? I´m absolutely sure".
" It´s not that I don´t trust you, but it is kinda weird to see my best friend as a baby", The blonde guy made a face at the little boy. It was actually funny that he was now older than his former friend.
" It was your idea to do that, Larek. What did you expect? A grown boy shooting out of a human?", the older responded. Sometimes he wondered what he had done wrong to deserve the presence of this bonehead.
Larek faced his partner besides him. " No. And actually it was Mariannas idea not mine. Do you think I would suggest something like that, Nolak?".
" Yes. It´s your way of humour or rather what you call humour", Nolak turned his attention back at the two infants. They didn´t know it yet, but they were part of something big. Sometime in the future they were responsible for the surviving of an entire planet far away from here.
Larek felt insulted. Like he would get the idea to send them on another planet and watch them grow up. " Hey. Marianna always liked my jokes. She laughed about them".
" Yeah, because she had pity with you", Nolak looked at his watch. They had to go before someone noticed them here and asked what they wanted. " We should go".
Larek observed his surroundings. Yeah, the couldn´t risk to be seen. " Then lead the way. I´ll be right behind you".
With that they both walked out of the hospital without beeing seen.
Roswell New Mexico A month later
Amy Valenti was just in the process to put her new delivery in the shelfs when the first contraction hit her. She let the box with the alien dolls fall to the floor and braced herself against the wall with both hands. Immediately she tried to breath through the pain like her teacher had told her. Within seconds it was over and she thought it was just a cramp. Relieved she bent down to lift the box from the ground and continued her work. After that she went behind the counter to get the next box. Just as she got there another contraction came. This time it was more painful and she crashed to the floor. Instantly her breath quickened and she tried to think about something nice. But nothing helped at the moment. She made an attempt to get back on her feet to call an ambulance, when she heard the bell over her door ringing. Someone was coming inside.
" Amy, you want believe what just happened", Jim stepped into the shop to tell his wife his good news. But he didn´t see her at her usual place. Confused he looked around. No one was there. " Honey? Where are you?".
" I´m down here Jim. Behind the counter", Amy said through her breathing. Thankfully the contraction went slowly away. It was still painful, but not so bad anymore. Carefully she moved into a sitting position at the wall behind her.
Jim was immediately alarmed and walked quickly to the place she told him. When he got there he saw his wife sitting on the ground. Worried he kneeled besides her. " What is it? Is it the babies?".
" I think it´s time", Amy looked at her husband with a smile. Despite the pain she felt a few moments ago, she was glad that it was finally time to give birth to her children.
Jims face lost his colour for a few seconds before he jumped to his feet. " Oh my god! Do you mean what I mean you mean?".
Amy had to laugh about the paniced state of her husband. She should be the one panicing and not him. " Yeah. The kids are ready to be born".
" We have to get you to the hospital immediately. I have to inform the sheriff and your parents and my parents and everybody else. Oh shit what should we do first?".
Amy shook her head. She hadn´t see him that crazy before. And then the people meant she was a basket case. " Jim slow down. Firstly you have to help me back on my feet. After that we are going to the hospital and then you can inform anybody".
" Right", Jim bent down and pulled his wife up. What was up with him? He didn´t know himself anymore. He was usually so calm about everything. And now he felt like a headless chicken. " Are you alright?".
Amy patted his hand, which was lying on her arm. It was so cute to see him so worried. " Yeah I´m fine".
" Ok. Now we´ll move carefully to the car", Jim put himself behind Amy and held her at her hips. Slowly he guided her out of the shop.
Amy was almost at the car when she remembered that she couldn´t let her shop open. " Wait! My shop. I can´t leave it alone".
Jim didn´t care about that at the moment. He just wanted her to get into the hospital, so that she got the right treatment. But after he saw the expression on her face he gave in. " I´ll take care of it".
After he put her into the car, he ran in the shop again and right in the backroom. There he snatched the keys from the table and stormed back out. Then he closed the door and locked it. After that he jumped into the car. Without saying something he started it and put his move on the gas. With siren and his blue light he speed through the streets of Roswell. People stared shocked after it and a few of them even stopped in their tracks to watch what happened. Amy had to hold onto the handle at the door to keep her from falling from side to side. Her husband was driving like a maniac.
" Jim! Not so fast!".
But he didn´t listened to her. He ignored her screaming and her cursing and kept with his foot on the gas. In record time they both arrived at the hospital. Jim relieved that they finally made it there and Amy relieved that they were still alive. When her husband opened the door for her, the first things she did was smacking him with her hand repeatedly. How dare he to endanger her life and the lifes of his children.
" Amy. Honey. Stop that", Jim lifted his arms to protect himself from the beating. For a pregnant woman she had strength.
Amy wasn´t through with him, but a contraction disturbed her from kicking the ass of her husband. With a painful grimace she bent down and grasped with her right hand the first thing she could find. Unfortunaly she didn´t see what she clutched so strong and Jim screamed of pain really loud.
" Not there. Amy! Let go!", he tried to get her hand from his crotch. She was crushing his nuts together and he still wanted to keep them. Preferable attached to his body.
Amy didn´t noticed anything around her. She just felt this pain, like someone wanted to put her inside out. She tried to remind herself to kill her teacher from Lamaze. Because the things he taught were for shit. They didn´t help and didn´t lessen the pain. Minutes later everything was over again and she breathed deeply in. Slowly she moved into a standing position and turned to Jim. He was a little blue in the face and he seemed to be in pain. How cute, he was sharing their pain together. " You can relax again. It´s over".
Jim pointed at her hand without saying anything. Amy didn´t realize at first what he meant with that. But after she looked where he was pointing at, she immediately released her husband. Guiltily she tried to do damage control. Tenderly she stroked the place she hurt and her hand was instantly knocked away. " Stop that. We don´t have time for that".
Without waiting he half carried his wife into the hospital and snatched the first doctor he could find.
6 hours later
Jim and Amy were finally proud parents of a boy, which they called Kyle and a girl, which got the name Maria. The babies were in their eyes the cutest and most beautiful of the world. After they had been weigthed, bathed, clothed and feeded they were brought to the infant ward, to get their check up. Amy was wasted and decided to sleep, while Jim and the proudly grandparents went to the cafetaria to get something to eat or a cup of coffee.
Meanwhile Maria and Kyle Valenti were lying in their temporary sleeping places. Side by side and in the middle of the other babies. All the girls had pink covers and the boys blue covers. And again two men appeared at the window. This time they changed their appearance. Now Nolak looked more like a professor and Larek like his student. They both eyed the girl with interest. Just in that moment she opened her eyes for a second and the men were stunned about the colour. They were the lightest green they ever saw.
" She is the cutest baby ever", Larek made faced at her and winked with his hand. She was so tiny and sweet.
Nolak shook his head. They weren´t here to look after her appearance. She was still a baby and she would change in time. He turned his head to the boy besides her. It was still a mystery to him why Larek choose a woman with twins. " Why didn´t you take a woman with just one baby?".
Larek stopped goofing around and faced his partner. " I didn´t want her to be alone. Rath has Ava and Vilandra has Zan. I just found it fair to give her a sibling, too".
" But he is still human, isn´t he?", they couldn´t make a mistake. It was risky enough as it is. But to inject alien DNA in someone that had no purpose would be bad.
" Of course. I was careful to inject only the girl and not the boy", did Nolak think he was an amateur? Larek had been cautioness and he was satisfied with the outcome so far. He didn´t know if they would remember their past life, but he knew that they possessed the powers they had there. Only time would tell them if their everything went as they planned. Until then they had to wait.
Nolak brought his attention on the girl again. She would be the leader of this little group someday like in her past life. She alone would have the power to change something this time. And maybe the outcome would be different then. But that was all in the future. " We should take off".
Larek didn´t want to go. He still wanted to watch after Marianna or like she was called now, Maria. It seemed like she remembered him, because she opened her eyes in that moment he looked at her. Maybe this time everything would be different and she would fall in love with him. Larek put that thought out of his head immediately. She and Rath were meant to be and that wouldn´t change in this life and probably in another, too. " Ok. Let´s go".
And like the last time they walked calmy out of the hospital.
Santa Fe another three months later
Diane Evans and her husband were relaxing in their garden. She was sitting with her extrem round belly on a stable rocking chair, which Philip had cushioned with many pillows, so that she was comfortable. He himself was happy in his plain wooden chair with something cold to drink in front of him and his wife healthy besides him. It was Sunday and usually they drove around with their car to watch the nature or just to enjoy the time alone without disturbance through telephone or someone just dropping by. But since Diane was ready to give birth anytime soon they decided to stay at home, pulled the telephone cable from the socket and made themself comfortable on their porch. It was almost evening and it got slowly colder when Diane noticed a light strain in her back. But it was fast gone, so that she thought it was nothing to worry about.
" Everything alright?", Philip detected that something was happening. His wife made a weird face and usually that meant something was going on.
Diane turned to her husband. " It´s nothing. I just got a little strain in my back. But it´s gone now".
Philip wasn´t so sure that it was nothing. But he was a worryward and everything scared him. Especially now that his wife was pregnant. " Are you sure?".
" Absolutely. I just have to go to the toilet", Diane stood up with difficulties. One hand was supporting her body and the other was laying on her belly. She hoped that everything would be over soon. She missed standing up without needing a car jack. Suddenly something snapped and water was dripping down her legs. Startled she looked down and saw a puddle building at her feets. " Philip. My water broke".
Philip jumped from his chair so fast that he knocked it over in the process. After that he went to his wife and supported her. " Are you feeling any pain?".
" No. A little nauseou, but nothing unusual", Diane was used to feeling sick twenty four hours.
Carefully Philip brought her to the car, which was thankfully parking in front of the house instead of standing in the garage like it normally did. When he placed her inside and was sure that she was comfortable, he ran back into the house and got the suitcase they prepared weeks ago. Then he dashed out, threw the suitcase into the trunk and jumped in the car. With squeaking tires they raced in the direction of the hospital. Thank god that it was Sunday and it weren´t too much other cars on the road, because Philip drove like a race driver. He oversaw every red traffic light, he didn´t abide to the traffic rules and run over at least three stop signs. Diane had to do everything to keep her food inside. If he wasn´t more careful she would puke right in this car and she wouldn´t even regret it. She was glad that she wasn´t in pain at the moment and she wanted to keep it that way. When they finally arrived at the hospital, Philip parked his car right in the front of it and drove over a sign that said " No Parking". Quickly he got out and stormed through the doors.
" I need help. My wife is pregnant and her water just broke".
Immediately a doctor came to him. " Where´s your wife?".
Philip looked besides him. There wasn´t anyone, except a man with his hand in a bandage. Oh shit, he forgot his wife in the car. " Dammit. She´s still outside".
" Not anymore. Thanks for helping me", Diane was calmly walking through the hospital sliding doors with a pissed off expression on her face. How could he forget her? He would hear of this when they were home again.
Philip went to her and put his arms around her to support her. " I´m sorry. I´m a little disarranged".
" A little?", Diane didn´t want to know when he was totally disarranged. He would have probably forgot her at home and drove alone to the hospital. There he would finally noticed that someone was missing.
Philip didn´t have time to retort something to that, because in that moment the doctor brought a wheel chair and placed Diane in it. He was in the process to follow his wife, when a nurse grasped his arm.
" Excuse me. You have to fill in a form".
Philip watched his wife disappear from his sight. He didn´t want stay here, he wanted to be there for her. He would probably miss everything. But as a lawer he knew how important the paperwork were. So without making a big fuss he took the form from the nurse and started to fill it out.
7 hours later
Diane was lying in her bed. She looked exhausted and her face resembled an exploded tomato. But she was relieved that everything was over. Her babies were healthy and absolute perfect. They had ten toes and ten fingers and cute little noses. Philip was in tears when he laid eyes on his children for the first time. He was so happy that everyhing went smoothly. Now he was making a few phone calls to let their parents known that they were grandparents. Diane closed her eyes and slept a little. She was more wasted than she thought. While she went to the dreamland, two men dressed in hospital clothes stepped into the room. Both seemed to be jumpy and nervous. Slowly they walked to the little crib that was standing at the window. There were laying two babies. Like it was standing on their bracelett, their names were Maxwell and Isabel Evans. Nolak bent down to them.
" Now the plan is completed. The first part is done and now all we can do is wait".
Larek watched the babies with amusement. All his friends were so tiny. He felt like a father that looked at his children. Oh boy, when they grew up, he was much older than them. At least according to the years. Their human suits didn´t age like it normally did. They would always look like now. A wonderful invention from him. On the outside they looked like any human person, but in the inside they were one hundred percent alien. " And what do you think we do now?".
" I thought we would start a life here. We live like everybody else and keep an eye on our fosterlings", Nolak already had something planned for himself. He would look for an job and an apartement soon. But of course always near the others.
Lareks eyes almost popped out of his face. " Do you mean I have to look for a job?".
" Yeah. That´s what the people do here. They work and earn money to pay for their bills", Nolak wasn´t so surprised that Larek didn´t learn anything since they came here. He on the other hand studied his enviroment and tried to memorize it.
Larek grimaced at that. Great, now he had look for a job that was under his standard. He would bore himself to death, that was for sure. This planet was so far away from the technology on Antar. Before he could object his doubts, they were disturbed.
" What are you doing? Is something wrong?", obviously the mother of the twins woke up. Great more problems.
Nolak turned to her and put his serious face on. " Don´t worry Ma´am. We just looked after them. They´re fine".
" Is my husband back again?".
Now Larek stepped closer. " No. But we can let him now you´re looking for him".
" That would be great. Thank you", Diane had a strange feeling about the men. They didn´t seem like doctors. And why did they talk so weird, like they weren´t from here?
Nolak and Larek smiled at the woman and then made a hasty retreat. The moment they stepped out of the corridor they lost their hospital clothes and almost ran out of the building. That was a close call. If they weren´t more careful their disguise would blow off. When they arrived outside they stopped near the parking lot and breathed deeply in.
" That was close", Larek tried to get his beating heart under control. If he had to live here now he made a promise to get in better shape.
Nolak surveyed the surrounding and watched if anybody noticed something weird about them. Thankfully nobody was near them. " Yeah. Too close".
" Do you think she noticed something?", Larek could read her expression and it seemed like she detected that something wasn´t right.
Nolak shook his head. She was just human and not so advanced like them. " No. But from now on we have to be more careful. Therefore I think we should go seperate ways".
" And how do we stay in contact?", Larek like the idea. But what should they do when something went wrong? They weren´t on Antar and could speak with each other through the communicator they had there.
Nolak pulled two little square things out of his jacket pocket and gave him one of them. " That are mini communicators. One of the scientist gave it to me, in case we would lose each other".
Larek stared at his new toy in awe. Great, something to play with. But after he saw the stern expression of his partner, he put it immediately in his pocket of his jeans. " Alright. That means goodbye then".
" Don´t get all teary with me. Be careful and see you", with that Nolak just walked away.
Larek watched after his retreating back for a while. So now here he was, on a strange planet, alone without family and friends. Slowly a smile broke out on his face. Let´s see what this planet had to offer for a great man like him.
TBC