🐺 ~PROJECT SAC-1~ ⚔️

Chapter 38 - Sometimes 2 At Once 🎁🤯🎁

The broadly grinning Doctor was unable to, or just plain choosing not to read the room.

Or maybe he did catch that little flash of excitement in Suu's eyes when she knew exactly what that little blob on the screen was before the big announcement. Her pregnancy now confirmed, Suu's eyes watered up as a wobbly smile slowly appeared, mixed with pure delight and excitement yet tainted with unsurety.

And then came the fear when the doctor squinted up at the screen. "Hold on a second."

'Oh no.' Suu hoped there was nothing wrong with the baby! And the mechanism sliding against her stomach to the right doing nothing to help with her stomach fluttering with fearful butterflies.

"Well, would you look at that?" Baffled, the Doc pointed to ANOTHER tiny blob fully visible, it being partially hidden behind the original.

Time screeched to a halt.

Heart rate dangerously spiking, Suu wanted to jump up and get as close to the screen as possible, but frustratingly had to stay where she was for the doctor to maintain a visual. So breathlessly she could only ask, "Is that another -?"

"Yes, you're having twins!"

It was a good thing Talla had a high pain tolerance, because when Suu's hand seized around hers, several of her bones definitely cracked from the pressure. Even so, she was too dumbfounded to register the pain signals from her limp hand. You could clearly see the two distinct blobs floating on the blue tinted, staticky screen perched on the cart next to the doctors chair: "Oh my Maker." The Agent breathed alongside Suu.

Meeting a crazy deserter and being on his protective wife's hit list; being stalked by their child. Finding out Hunter reciprocated her feelings; being on child patrol for half a day and getting her butt whipped in the process; forgiving that deserter because of finding out how hard it is to be a parent and finding out the protective wife, now her friend, WAS PREGNANT WITH TWINS -?!

This was not how Talla was expecting this trip to go.

"Looks like Baby #2 was hiding behind Baby #1." Dr. Bozeli chuckled, highly inappropriate during a solemn time such as this.

Talla ripped her gaze away from the screen. "... There's not anymore hiding in there, right?"

He chuckled again, clicking off the machine since the data had been successfully recorded. "Nope, just the two."

"'Just the two?'" Talla mocked, wanting to wring his neck because his cheerfulness was in this moment highly inappropriate, for Suu was visibly upset. But the Agent didn't because, well, Suu was upset.

There was a charged silence, slack-faced Suu's whirling mind making it difficult to actually comprehend and process the news. She came in fully expecting to be told she was going to have baby. She did not come in expecting to be told she was going to have TWO babies. Slowly, she had to turn her head away from the doctor and the screen. She released Talla's crushed hand, the tips of the Agents fingers red from the ungodly pressure. Slowly, Suu draped her arms over her face to block out reality. Slowly, Suu deeply inhaled through her nose to try easing her constricting lungs, nostrils burning from the fragrant gel coating her stomach and the reek of antiseptic covering everything... But her exhale was broken up by tremors shuddering through Suu's cold body when reality couldn't be escaped.

She was having twins.

Haphazardly motioning in the general direction of Suu, who's choppy breathing and visible chin trembled signaled she was fighting a good cry, woozy Talla could barely sputter out, "So i-it's confirmed she's - and they - t-this means she's going to have not one but TWO babies... at the same time?!" She needed to ask this again, to be sure this was all real, that this was really happening, because this was not only shocking news... but apparently shocking BAD news.