I'm Mated To What?!

IX

A few days have passed since our first mating session. Prince Scai'ian told me that if I didn't become pregnant this first go around that there would be plenty more times that we'd be able to mate with each other. The thought of one: becoming pregnant, scared me and two: more mating sessions with him. I'm not sure if I'd be able to survive another mating session with him. 

Today Prince Scai'ian was busy with talking with his father. I guess something was going down with their neighboring species. He wouldn't go into great detail with me, but just said that it could be really important to stay on high alter though. I was allowed to walk around the garden, looking at all the trees and flowers. 

"I see he's treating you well." I turned to see Grazux standing there. He was dressed in his best. Kyle was with him. I guess no one has accepted him yet. 

I smiled. "Yes the prince is treating me very well." He walked over and hugged me. Kyle stood back and only waved to me, so I waved back to him. "What brings you by?" 

"I brought your things. One of the maids took it to your and the prince's room." He looked around for a moment, then looked back at me. There was more he wanted to say, so I motioned for him to. He smiled and chuckled a little. "Nothing gets by you," he said linking his arm with mine and we walked through the garden together. "I just wanted to come and see you. You are and always will be my favorite." 

Wow I felt so special. "Thanks." 

He laughed bringing me closer to his side. It felt like the days when I was him and the others. Good times, when you were on his good side. We talked for a good long while, laughing and just talking with one another. Something I hadn't really done since coming here and becoming the mate of the prince. 

We stopped when we reached a beautiful tree. It reminded me of how willow trees looked back on Earth. Those unlike willow trees, this tree had a very beautiful flowers and this pinkish white fruit on it. Grazux told me that they're really sweet in a taste, that it grows sweeter the longer it's allowed to grow on the tree. My mouth watered. I wanted to try it, but I just stood there and listened as he continued to talk about the tree. 

"I see you've marked and mated," Grazux said changing the subject all of a sudden. He tilted his head to see my mark more clearly. 

"Yes," I said nodding my head. I thought it was strange for him to ask. But I went along with it. 

He ran a finger over it. It was still sensitive to the touch, but I didn't move to find that fact. "I see," he said looking at the tree once more. "Was he gentle on you?"

Gentle. No, he hadn't really been that gentle with me. But why did he want to know that, it really wasn't his business. So why was he asking me just a question? "Yeah he was gentle," I said lying through my teeth. I wasn't going to tell him that Prince Scai'ian was rough and being insensitive about it being my first time.

"May I ask about the Hiveah?" I asked. I mean since he was asking questions, I figured I'd counteract and ask one of my own.  

For a moment Grazux just looked at me. Kyle hadn't even moved from his spot, but looking at the two of us. "The Hiveah is a pregnancy enhancer," he said sitting down on one of the black stained marble benches. A pregnancy enhancer. I slowly sat down across from him and waited for him to say more. "Every female that is brought to our planet is given one... It allows them to be able to accept our type of pregnancy since ours are very quick growing." 

I nodded. Quick growing. I wondered if that meant I was going to get pregnant from just that first time. "Will I become pregnant from our first time?" 

Grazux sat up straight. "Not necessarily," I said reaching his hand over to me and placing it against my stomach. The Hiveah didn't move like when Prince Scai'ian would touch there. "When you mate with one another The Hiveah gets infused with two the female's genes and ours, the male genes. But depending on how long the Hiveah has been in your body, it starts to break down over time and becomes less effective. So the earlier you mate. The better the chance is to become pregnant." 

"You are only a couple weeks with the Hiveah being in your body," Grazux said sitting back on his bench once again. "You are perfectly fertile for the prince. So yes, you have a higher chance at it. You being human, you also have a higher chance at having twins or even triplets."

I jumped up from my bench which startled Grazux. "Woah, woah, there. Twin?? Triplets??" 

"Yes," Grazux said softly standing. He ran one of his hands down my arms. "Please let me explain." I looked up at him and nodded. "Humans, like yourself, have heat cycles that happen every month." I nodded again. I knew this. "Well we do not. That is where the Hiveah comes into play. It allows us to reproduce through that themed. It arouses both the females and males of our species. But when coming from a female of a different species, it enhances the feeling of us males. Now..." He paused for a second to look around. "When coming to humans. If you mate with during the high time of your cycle, it is possible for you to release an egg and with the Hiveah inside you. You could become pregnant with twins and in rare cases, triplets. If and only if the egg that is produced by the human splits into twins and the Hiveah is also accepted."

It was so much to take in. I couldn't believe that the chances were so much higher than their own chances of having twins or triplets. I accepted the thought of having one. Yeah one was great. I'd be a great mother to one child. But the thought of having more than one, wasn't comforting in the slightest. 

"Thank you are talking with me, Grazux," I said stepping away from him. He nodded and allowed me to leave. I just headed back to my room and laid down in the soft, cool bed and feel asleep.