"Wow, this base has some serious security," Eli says as they pass the fourth checkpoint. An SF salutes the young men and says to Ty, "Sir, your father has asked me to escort you to the infirmary, Sir."
"At ease, Airman," Ty says.
"Just when I had started to get over the fact that your parents were both Generals…" Eli mutters.
A few minutes later the pair finds themselves in the infirmary, and are greeted by Shelby. "I hope you don't mind. I switched with another nurse so I could help you with the ultrasound. I just couldn't wait to see how your little kiddo is doing."
Eli gives her a skeptical face, and she leads the two of them into one of the isolation rooms. Ty hops up on the table, and pulls down his shirt like he is an old hand at the process. Shelby squirts some gel on his stomach, and moves the wand over it.
The beating of the heart reaches Eli's ears a second before the grainy picture of a big headed baby comes on screen. Eli faints.
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When Eli wakes up he is in the hospital bed, and Ty is sitting in a chair next to him. "Shouldn't you be the one in the hospital bed?" Eli asks.
"I'm in the midst of a perfectly normal pregnancy. You're the one who fainted."
"Men pass out, and it's not a perfectly normal pregnancy, because men don't get pregnant!"
"Not normally no," Ty agrees.
"Not ever!"
"My dad actually gave birth to Hannah."
"What?" Eli screeches.
"In his case it was an accident. He was dealing with a group of people who had been doing male pregnancies through science for years. They gave him some medicine which made it possible without him knowing it. I did it on purpose."
"But how is it possible? Where is the baby growing? Men don't have any way for a fetus to get the nutrients that it needs!"
"Well, there is a medicine that you take that lets you grow some female parts."
"How many freaking female parts!" Eli says.
Ty giggles, "Nothing visible to the naked eye, relax. Just an internal womb. With my dad he was implanted by mom's egg during…well, close to the natural way. With me it was all artificial. I didn't have sex with anyone."
"Livy's egg?" Eli guesses.
Ty nods his head.
"So you're telling me that you are pregnant with your ex-girlfriend's baby."
"That's not what even close to true," Ty says raising his brows at his husband.
"Ty, she was in love with you once, and I don't think that all of those feelings have left."
"She had a crush on me once, back when we were practically infants. She was over it like a second later."
"I can't believe you're pregnant," Eli says shaking his head.
"I know, I hope this isn't too much to handle," Ty says nervously.
"I'm not thrilled about hour our baby is entering the world, but I'm really glad it is. It is our baby right? I mean, I can consider it our baby?"
Ty grins at him, "Definitely."
There is a knock at the door, and Ty goes to open it revealing his father. "I heard there was a medical problem involving civilians. Are you ok?" he asks his son.
"I'm fine, Eli fainted," Ty says.
Eli jumps off the bed he was placed on, and starts at attention, "I'm find, sir."
"Good to hear it," Jack says with a slight giggle, "Passing out is the understandable reaction to finding out that your husband is pregnant, and people you've known for years actually travel to other planets, don't worry about it."
"Funny, sir," Eli says.
Ty flinches.
"Oh, you weren't going to tell him the part about aliens?" Jack asks in surprise.
"Not exactly."
"See, I thought when you asked for full security clearance, you were going all out."
"Nope."
"What exactly are you two talking about?" Eli asks.
"Well, a long time ago, in a country far far away…." Ty begins, while Jack slips out the door with a sheepish look on his face.
When the whole story has been told, Eli looks at his husband and says, "So you're telling me that aliens made you pregnant?"
Ty nods.
"Why didn't you just tell me that?"
"Because it's a little hard to believe."
"You told me that you were pregnant from some strange government experiment. How is pregnant by aliens that much stranger?"
Ty shrugs.
"This is like an episode of the X-Files: either the aliens or the government made Scully pregnant, and we're not sure which. Except, of course, for the fact that Scully was a woman, so it was all a great deal less strange."
"I'm sorry I wasn't honest with you," Ty says, capturing Eli's hand.
"Do you have any other big secrets? Is your dog really bigfoot?"
"Well… maybe a werewolf."
The Next Day
Olivia still knew Blaze's schedule by heart. Even with that it took four tries to run into him by accident. Her mother was right, it was time to get her life sorted out. She didn't still want to be sharing a room with her sister when the baby came.
Three's a crowd.
"Olivia," he says when he sees her from a distance. He stops cold, like he's seeing a ghost, and for the first time since their relationship hit the fan she is sure that he was hurt, and not just her.
"How are you doing, Blaze?"
"Ok, and you?" he asks.
"Really great. I'd like to have coffee with you, and talk about a couple of things," she says.
"I don't know if that would be such a good idea," he says, tentatively taking a little step back like she was a snake who might bite him.
"It's just coffee, Blaze."
"Ok," he agrees, cautious.
-0-
Olivia and Blaze are sitting under a tree a little while later.
"You invited me out for coffee, and then you're not even going to have coffee?" Blaze asks.
"Well, a smoothie is healthier, and the idea of coffee is was symbolic."
"What was it a symbol for?" Blaze says.
"Well, maybe not a symbol, but… a cultural convention, maybe even a cliché. I thought we could share some stuff that's going on in our lives."
"Well, it turns out that I'm actually going to graduate this spring. My roommate smells like a gym sock all the time."
"I'm pregnant."
Blaze stares at her in a silence for a couple beats before he says, "Ok, you win."
"Blaze, I should explain…"
"Tell me you didn't do it on purpose, Liv! I mean, I thought we were all doubled up on the birth control, and supper safe. So I'm hoping you didn't let this happen."
"I got pregnant on purpose, but…" Olivia begins.
"Jesus Christ, Liv! We are so not ready to be parents!"
"Blaze, it's isn't yours."
"Then why are you telling me?" Blaze says, looking away and taking a deep breath of relief.
"It's a test tube baby. I just wanted you to know that I'm becoming a mother."
"You're not ready. I told you that you weren't ready, and you should have listened."
"I am ready!"
"No, you're not," Blaze says with a shake of his head, "Where are you living? Still at your folks place?"
Olivia nods, reluctantly.
"Do you know anything about how to raise a kid? Do you know what you're going to do with it after it's born? Are you going back to work? Are you staying home with it? Do you have a day care lined up?"
Olivia protests, "I have months to get ready for the baby."
"When you plan for a baby, you should be ready before it comes along. Liv, who is this baby's father?"
"I told you, I had the baby through a sperm bank."
"It's Ty's, isn't it?"
Olivia doesn't say anything, but he doesn't need the confirmation. He nods his head, "Like it wasn't bad enough that you were in love with your best friend who is gay. You had to have his baby, too."
Olivia starts to protest, but Blaze stands up. "Look, I'm done with this conversation. Let me tell you how this is going to go down. You've been reading too many Janette Oke novels. Having a baby doesn't result in guys falling in love with you. Dudes are terrified of babies. Your pregnancy does not mean that we get back together. It does not mean that Ty will magically become your straight love monkey. It doesn't mean that your life gets a fairy tale ending. I hope to God it does mean that you grow up and start making better life choices, that poor kid deserves it," he says as he walks away.
"I have now been told to get my life together by a former space pirate and a guy who only owns one pair of underwear."
-0-
"Where is Olivia?" Daniel asks his wife.
"She's up in our room, and she's not coming," Anne says.
"Well, that's mature," Daniel says with a role of her eyes.
"We can't let her do that. She's pregnant, she needs to eat," Vala points out.
Daniel hands her a plate.
"Why do I have to take it to her?"
"You're the only one in the room with previous experience with pregnant mood swings," Daniel points out.
Vala glares at him, but grabs the plate.
"Olivia, I brought you some food."
"I don't want it," she mopes from behind the door.
"Well, my granddaughter does."
Olivia opens it up, and takes the plate out of Vala's hands. She doesn't slam the door in Vala's face, and that's all the invitation that Vala needs she comes in and sits on the bed.
"You okay, sweetie?"
"No, I'm a loser who isn't ready to have a kid, and is endangering it by not eating," Olivia says.
"Wow, you're hard on yourself."
"I'm paraphrasing you and Blaze."
"You talked to Blaze?"
"Yeah," Olivia says despondently.
"How did you think that conversation was going to go? You didn't think that you were getting back together with him?"
Olivia finches.
"Oh, Livy. How did you think that having a baby with another guy was going to make him decide he wanted to have kids and be with you?"
"I thought that he would fall in love with the idea of having a baby," Olivia says.
Vala sighs. "Okay, so, kiddo, so the honey didn't trap the bear, what do we think of the honey now?"
"What?" Olivia asks.
"You tried to trap you boyfriend with a baby. It didn't work. What about the baby?"
"I didn't just have a baby to get Blaze. I love it."
"Good."
"Even though I'm really unqualified to take care of it."
"No parent has ever been qualified to take care of their kid, ever. You'll be fine."
"I'm going to need some help."
"And that is what family is for."
"I'm going to move out. I'd like you to help me find a good place."
"You don't have to move out, you know. I know that I was annoyed with you last night, but I was just trying to help you get ready to grow up. I love you, Olivia; I want you to stay here."
"I need to leave. It's the grown up thing to do."
Vala sits down, and wraps her arms around her daughter, "It's going to be okay. Everything is going to be okay, love."