Taken

Chapter 21

Win gawped at the doctor as he slowly lowered himself back into his chair. Bright's heart thudded in his chest so hard he couldn't hear anything. He tried to see the blob the doctor said was a fetus on the monitor, but he couldn't see shit, it looked like a black and white hurricane map. 

"A fetus?" Win gasped. 

The doctor straightened his collar and pointed his finger to a white blob in a sea of grey and black. "That...that little impossible thing there is a fetus growing inside a male body." 

"The aliens implanted that thing in me?!" Bright whispered in horror, his throat clicking as he swallowed. 

Dr. Saetom glanced between Win and Bright. "If your relationship is as I suspect it is...then I think Win is the one who implanted it in you." 

"I would never!" Win exclaimed. "I wouldn't even know how!" 

The doctor's brows shot up. "Well, usually when you ejaculate inside someone and they're capable of producing eggs and no precautions were taken-" he gestured at the screen "- this will follow." 

"Eggs?" 

"You've taken biology courses?" the doctor asked, beginning to sound doubtful. 

"Yes, but Bright is a male." 

"Something clearly changed inside him after he was taken." The doctor said. "I've been taking results from him for months now and looking back..." he went to get Bright's file and flipped through the rather thick document. "There are some noted changes in his physiology in a rather stable pattern of 2-3 weeks where his temperature rises and that fluid that comes from his anus becomes copious in it's presentation. I don't doubt he's also more demanding in the bedroom during those times?" 

Win met Bright's eyes and they both nodded. 

"Some sort of heat cycle," Dr. Saetom murmured in wonder. 

"Like a-a cat?!" 

Win stood so he could wrap his arm around Bright's should as they both looked to the doctor for answers. 

"There are a number of animals that go into heat, yes. Even humans experience it to some degree. Why would anyone do this?" He chewed on his lips. "Why change your entire system?" 

"Are you sure it's not something the aliens implanted in me?" 

"It looks the size and shape of a typical human embroyo around the eight week mark." 

"Eight weeks...two months..." 

The doctor looked at their pale faces and could tell they were overwhelmed. He could barely stand on his feet from the shock, he couldn't imagine how they  felt. "How about you boys go home? I'll print this out for you and give you a book or two and what you can expect as the embryo grows." 

Bright gripped Win's hand where it sat on his shoulder. White noise whirled through his brain. Someone was talking to him but he didn't hear anything. Something was growing inside him. It couldn't be true. It made no sense. 

The doctor wiped the gel off Bright's stomach and pulled his shirt down for him. "I'll call you two a car, I don't think it's safe for you to drive while you're thinking about this. I can get my son to drop your car off tomorrow, how about that?" 

"Yeah...yeah that's fine. That's good. Yeah. Thank you." 

Dr. Saetom got the information together for the boys and sent them on their way then went back to his office and rested his hand on the thick file containing every bit of information he'd managed to get about Bright over the past few months.

A child conceived naturally between two cis male partners. What could aliens possibly need to gain from doing this on a human planet? 

He shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. That wasn't his concern. Bright, Win, and that growing embryo were. They would need him a lot over the next few months and when or if it managed to reach full term, he'd need a plan to get it out. 

Dr. Saetom dropped his head to his desk and knew he's need to ask the boys' permission to reach out to someone. This was no longer something he could handle alone. 

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"Do you think he could be wrong?" Bright asked, staring at the sonogram. The doctor had kindly circled the white fuzzy spot so they'd no where to look, but it still didn't look anything like-

"He's one of top doctors in the world. I think he knows what he's doing." 

"What if it's a tumor or some old toy I swallowed?" 

"Really?" 

"Well?!" 

"He tested your urine, your blood, he did the scan. He did everything more than once just to be sure. I don't think he's wrong." 

Win looked at his boyfriend sitting on the bed with his shoulders slumped, bags under his eyes from stress and exhaustion. 

He's pregnant. Win suddenly realized. He's carrying our baby. He's...he's going to have a baby...

His knees suddenly felt weak and he dropped to the floor in front of Bright, placing his hand on his thighs. He took the image from Bright and sat in on the bed beside them. "We're having a baby," he whispered. 

"What?" 

"He said the words but it's like they didn't register. Fetus. Embryo...Baby." 

Bright pushed him away and shot to his feet, leaving Win on the floor. "I can't do this. This makes no sense and this was never supposed to happen." 

"Bright?" 

"They changed everything!" he shouted. "They kidnapped me and they experimented on me. I'm so different that I can even get pregnant now, who knows what they did to my mind?!" 

Win slowly got to his feet and tried to touch his boyfriend but Bright stepped out of his reach. "How do I know any of this is real?" 

"What are you talking about?" 

"What if I'm still on their planet or their ship or whatever? What if this is some sick, twisted game? And you?!" 

"Me?" Win wanted to hold Bright and calm him down but Bright's was on the edge of hysteria and Win didn't want to make things worse by making him feel trapped. 

"I never even liked men until whatever they did to me." 

Win's heart cracked in his chest. 

"How do I know what I feel for you is even real, and this thing-" He pushed a fist against his stomach - "this thing growing in me, I want it out. It's too much!" His voice broke as tears that had only threatened began to fall. "It's too much!" 

Win pulled himself together even though it hurt and went to the man he loved. "We'll talk to Dr. Saetom tomorrow and see if there's anything we can do, okay?" he asked softly as he pulled Bright into his arms and stroked his hair. "You've been through so much. Come here." He lead Bright to the bed, pulled back the covers and slipped them both under. He shut off their bedside lamp then rolled back over to wrap his arms tight around his man. 

"Shhh," he soothed. "No need to think of anything else for tonight, okay?" 

Bright nodded and sank into him. 

"I love you," Win told him. "No matter how this started and no matter how this goes, I want you to know that." 

Bright shuddered and rolled over to press his face against Win's chest. Win kissed the top of his head and held him like he never wanted to let go.