The Dying

5

"Sorry, Lady Aurora, yes, now back to your story. My father finally realized the dire situation he and the other males have created once my mother had my youngest brother and there were no more females. War had decimated our people. Males were forced to take over even the few things that women had still reined over. 

"But there was one thing that they couldn't do, they couldn't have children. For the first time in my life I saw my father turn white when he fully realized the situation our people were in. My mother had told me about it more than a century earlier. No one ever said that we were the most intelligent people. In some things we are unparalleled. Even in our decimated ranks we could have destroyed Earth and taken the ones we wanted. The leaders of Earth were smart enough to understand that and so gave up the people with out a fight.

"While there, father chose a female for his own, but she was not yet of age and so he left her there to be picked up when the ship came to bring them here.

"She never stepped foot into the ship."

Aurora starts at this. "That's not possible."

Marcus gives her a small bitter smile, "I assure you it is. She died before the ship even arrived. Terrified that the Earth would be destroyed with her death the humans used her DNA and some from the sperm specimen my father left behind. The scientists wanted confirmation that it would be possible for cross breeding, I suppose. They created a clone, but also used my father's genetic material. Your mother was born and was about a fourteen years of age when the ship finally arrived at Earth. So once your mother entered the ship they artificially inseminated her and she had you. She was too weak to handle the pregnancy and birth and so she died. My father took you as his bride believing this whole time that you were the pure human that he selected back on Earth. It never even crossed his mind that you were far too young to be the same female. Not that it would matter, you looked like her and that is all that would have mattered."

"You are saying that my mother wasn't human, that she was some sort of science experiment and that I am myself a science project?"

"If you wish to take it that way, yes. Your mother was a genetic miracle and you were as well. The first female Lockheart born in centuries."

Aurora is beginning to look a little sick. "That means that your father is also my..."

Marcus had been waiting for the words to make sense to her. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that we share a parent. It's not just Margaret that is a full blooded Lockheartian. You are as well, Aurora. I don't know who named you. There is no record of the name of the female my father chose, so we have no idea, I'm sorry I don't have better information for you."

"I'm full blooded Lockheartian. I still don't believe it." She truly doesn't, it just doesn't make sense.

"Haven't you ever wondered why you and your daughter look like twins? The only way to tell the difference between you are the eyes. Princess Margaret retains her innocence in the world. You had the innocence ripped away when my father so brutally took you with you not knowing what the hell was going on."

Still in shock Aurora speaks. "All I remember of that time is the incredible pain. Then I blacked out. When I awoke I was in pain and weak, so very weak. I was informed by the doctor that I nearly died and that now I was pregnant."

"Yes, that ass father of ours was unnecessarily brutal in his taking of you. Rather than be gentle in the initiation he just forced himself in and tore you up rather badly. We heal rapidly, but what he did caused you to bleed. You were bleeding rather badly, far more than you should have. Father threw over his shoulder as he left the room with the males that were invited in there to watch him violate you, that you were under my care.