The Child

Unaware of what Dr. Greiner and her intern had discovered the spies were busy. Sam and Alex came back from their day of classes and hoped that Clover would be better, that whatever meds had been pumped into her had run their course and she'd be fine. They also hoped that Nurse Terri Foster hadn't figured out that Clover didn't have the flu. Yawning loudly Sam turned the key to open the door to their penthouse and dragged herself inside with Alex following her like a zombie.

"Man, what a day! I never knew how complex and boring learning all about human evolution and all mutation of DNA could be! We just finish studying the effects humans and our pollution have on our planet. Now Professor Jack Hall wants to show how we came to be! Biology is really, really hard! My brain feels as numb as an iceberg is cold! I'm so not kidding, Sam! That was one tough class!"

"You think that was hard? I've do advance calculus homework! We also all have to write an essay, on mathematics genius John Nash if we want to pass, and if I can manage to get an A+ on it, it will help me greatly with extra credit. I guess I'll need to do some research on him tonight. But, boy are you right, Alex! College work can be so exhausting! How they expect us to keep up this pace and mountain of homework? I hope Clover is alright. Let's go check in on her."

They slowly walked to Clover's bedroom door and knocked. "Clover? Are you alright? Is everything alright? Can we come in?" asked Sam gently but she got no response. Glancing worriedly at Alex she nodded. She tried to open the door but it was locked. Consequently she took a hairpin from her long red hair she picked the lock and the door swung open. It was then when they got the shock of their lives.

Clover was in bed and she looked terrible. Her whole body seemed swollen, and she had devoured three packs of chocolate chips, plus five cups of ice. But the most notable thing was how big her belly was getting. It looked like she been crying for hours.

"CLOVER?! What the hell happened to you? You've never looked this bad. Even after all those freaky transformations you've undergone! What the heck going on?!" demanded Sam in a stunned voice. Alex tried to speak herself but it was like she had gone dumb.

"I don't know! It's been getting worse all day! My back is killing me, I've thrown up and pee so many times I'm surprised I have any energy left! And look at my belly! It's getting worse then the time I got hooked on Passion Patties. I cannot take it anymore! Something is super wrong!"

"Well, maybe by now Dr. Greiner has gotten some answers. Maybe we should go to Woohp and see if they're in," Alex started to say when all of sudden the floor drop out from and Clover was tossed from her bed.

"This isn't as much fun for us as it is for Jerry!" screamed Alex as the slid down the metal slide. They landed on the red sofa or at least Sam and Alex did. Something else had caught Clover in a nice very soft large comfy cushion.

"Okay, that's totally unfair! Why don't we get treated like a queen and she does?" demanded Alex as she straighten up off red sofa.

"Sorry, Alexandria and you too, Samantha. But we need to be careful with Clover if we wish to protect the baby within her." Dr. Greiner explained as she, her student doctor and Jerry came into view.

"Baby?!" exclaimed the spies in disbelief. Clover was the most in disbelief and almost immediately shouted at the doctor. "You've got some nerve to say that! I may be boy-crazy and I may've been on more than a hundred dates, or do many things to get a guy. But I swear to you I've never just given it away. I'm still a virgin!"

"I know you're still a virgin in that sense, Clover, yet you're pregnant and it was done through artificial means. You're raped in a manner of speaking. The test are incontrovertible. We found a number of fertility drugs inside you, as well as a number of other drugs we couldn't identify. Nonetheless, we ran both a urine and blood pregnancy test, and it came up positive both times. You are in fact pregnant. Congratulations!"

"Congratulations?! That's all you can say, when I've been violated in the most unforgivable way?! This can't be true! This just can't be true! I want proof! If you're so sure that I'm pregnant the show me the proof, like now!"

"We're gonna do an ultrasound to determine how far along you are, but it should be just a barely be noticeable, seeing how you're only impregnated a few days ago. So let's go to my medical lab, alright?" Dr. Greiner suggested as they went to her lab on the eighth floor. Clover rolled up her shirt and the cream was applied to her swollen stomach. Dr. Greiner moved the wand and then looked shock at the image. They could hear a heartbeat, one that didn't belong to Clover! Clover looked at the doctor and she was crying as she then glanced at her stomach. It was like conformation of her worst fears.

"I'm pregnant! This can't be happening! If the school finds out it will be all over for me! I'll have to move out the penthouse! And worse still what will Mandy do to me when she finds out I'm gonna have a baby?! She ruin my reputation and I'll be called a slut for sure! This cannot be happening!"

"Don't worry, Clover we'll figure this out. You've got nine months to figure out how to handle this. Don't worry. We'll be here for you. Everything gonna be alright, we promise!" Sam promised her and Alex nodded.

"We won't let you do this alone. Plus, we could just let you have an abortion. It's not like you'll never have another baby. I know it's controversial, yet it may be the only way out of this mess," Alex proposed gentle.

Alex herself didn't believe in abortion, but she knew it might be the only thing Clover to do. After all how did they explain to the school board that a virgin was kidnapped and impregnated against her will and knowledge? This was a bad situation no-matter how you looked at it!

"Sorry, Alex, but we cannot do that. This baby coming sooner than anyone expecting. She's already nearing the end of her first trimester. This baby gonna be born in less than 48 hours. Each trimester is gonna happen in 24 hours. So you'll be having this baby in two days. That must have been why the put those unknown drugs into you. So you'd have an accelerated pregnancy. And if we tried to abort you'll die too. Not just your baby, but you too."

"You've got to be kidding me! I'm gonna have a nine month pregnancy in just three days?! And if I try not to have this child I'll die?! What the hell are we gonna do?!"

"We prepare for this baby, Clover. Sam, Alex and Jerry can go get you the supplies you'll need, but me and my intern, Evan Green here will help me guide you through this pregnancy. It's not gonna be easy I'll tell you that right now. Right now the most important thing to do is how to help you get through this pregnancy. So start taking prenatal vitamins and you'll remain in bed here at Woohp for the next few days. I'll monitor you best I can. Now you three? Hop to it! We're having a baby soon!"

Surprise and worried they'd no choice but to get the things Clover would need to bring a baby into the world. Sam spent her time wisely by baby proofing the whole penthouse while Alex and Jerry did everything they could to get the stuff. It was found out by end of the day that Clover was to have a baby girl. As a result they got lavender, pink and green clothes.

"This isn't gonna be easy for us you know that, right, Sam?" Alex said as they work together to put together the crib. Jerry at the moment was painting a nursery wall.

"I know that our lives are about to be turned inside-out and upside-down, Alex. And Clover's life will never be the same again either. Yet will do the best we can and hopefully nothing major happens that we can't handle. But Clover won't be joining us for a while on missions once she has the baby. Let's just hope the school doesn't find out."

"Or Mandy! That would be the worst thing ever! I wonder what name Clover gonna give to her daughter? And how is she gonna explain this to her mom Stella on top of everything else?"

"Those challenges, spies, we'll deal when they come upon them. For now Woohp is doing all they can to help Clover out and track down Gelee and find out more about this experiment. For surely he wanted her to have this child for some reason. And we still don't know the full extent of all the drugs that he pumped into her. Still I'll do my best to help you protect the child." Jerry promised.

By end of day two everything was ready for the baby at the penthouse. Clover on the other hand wasn't in good shape. Seeing how her body was going through the changes at an accelerated rate it wasn't getting use to this little by little as most women would have. She hated it all, the swollen ankles, the backache, and she really hated the weight gain. She hoped she could lose the baby weight and fast once this child was born. Two days went by fast and by the earlier evening she was in full blown labor.

"Give me the damn epidural, please! I'm begging you! This pain is enough to make me want to jump out the window! Please give me something! I don't care what it is just give me some pain meds, please!" she pleaded as she got to LD.

"Let's see, Clover. Okay, we can give you one. Evan? Give her one but not too much." The intern quickly administered the epidural and checked the fetal heart monitor. He looked concerned at the blood pressure and heart rate.

"Doctor? She needs to have this baby soon, or she might have preeclampsia. Her blood pressure just keeps spiking. So either we do a C-section or try and get this baby out another way. So what do you want to do?"

"Whatever you two decided to do make it fast!" cried Sam as she held Clover's right hand. Alex held the left one and screamed. "She's breaking our hands! DO SOMETHING! NOW!"

"Well, she's not dilating anymore. So we'll have to do a C-section. Hurry!"

Clover couldn't argue with them she was knocked out after that since Sam and Alex weren't allowed in the OR they had to wait with Jerry in the waiting room. Two hours later Dr. Greiner came out and gave them the news.

"Clover in recovery. The baby is a girl, and she weighs 10 lbs. 12 oz. and is 21 inches long. So she's a big baby. Not surprising given how she was conceived and born in just three days. We've got her in the NICU at the moment checking her out and running tests. But you'll see both of them in a couple of hours.

Clover woke up three hours later with lots of balloons and flowers from all of Woohp facility. Her face was beet red from just everything. She then saw Sam, Alex and Jerry sitting nearby. They all lit up when they saw she woke up.

"Clover! How are you?" they all asked at once.

"Feel like I've gone through WWIII to be honest. Now where's my baby? I want to see her. Where is she?"

"Here she is, Clover. And she's completely healthy. We have more test to run, but we can let them do that later. Time to hold her for the first time. Here she is," Dr. Greiner said as she wheeled her in and placed her in Clover's arms. They all looked at the baby and where in awe.

The baby had a headful of blond hair with small streaks of ice blue zinging through it. Her eyes were bright blue and she was just the cutest thing they'd ever seen. "Oh, she's precious. So what you gonna name her, Clover?" her girlfriends asked at the same time.

"I'm gonna name her Aleena," she answered and for that few moments everything seemed okay. Still there were trying times coming all too soon. But for the moment new life overshadowed them all.