Who We Become

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

DUNCAN

It was very difficult seeing Oscar cry as hard as he did when I had shown him my mark. I knew that he was going to get emotional over it, I mean he had gone weeks thinking that I would never bare his mark and suddenly I had it. It must've been his pregnancy that made him as emotional as he was.

I was laying in bed, two days after I got my mark. It was very difficult trying to talk to Oscar about the research he did when every time he laid eyes on my mark he either cried tears of joy again or wanted to get us into bed as soon as possible. But I wasn't going to let that talk wait any longer, we had to talk about it, I had to know what he found.

We had to decide what we were going to do about the pack and this pregnancy. Oscar's scent was beginning to change, not so much that others would be able to tell, but that time wasn't far away.

I smiled down at Oscar as he stirred from his sleep. His eyes fluttered open with a smile while he looked up at me. His eyes glided down my face and landed on my neck, hunger glazed over his eyes as he reached his hands to wrap around my neck.

"As much as I love this side of you coming out, we need to talk about what you and Sam found."

Oscar nodded and sat up from his laying position. He pulled out a notebook from his bedside table and kept it on his lap. "So male-male werewolf couples have been having pups together since at least 2019. Actually, they go through a process that is very interesting, their bodies grow a uterus."

"Woah, I had never heard of that. Though I'm not surprised, my father was quite homophobic so he probably either kept the information to himself or refused to believe it in the first place." I watched as his face changed to one of concern as he nodded. "Anyway, what did you find on human/werewolf pregnancies?"

"I actually didn't find much about human/werewolf pregnancies, but thankfully, because of the catalogs Sam was able to find more information." He said as he looked down at the notebook. "In 2020, not too long after the first discovery, a case was found of a male werewolf getting a male human pregnant. Looking further into that, we found that the process that the human goes through is the same that male/male werewolf couples go through. The only difference is that with two werewolves, both can go through the change, but with a human and werewolf only the human will change."

"That's amazing! That means that Sam and Luke can have pups." I said with a grin while Oscar mirrored my happiness.

"So just to be 100% sure, I looked into whether the male pregnancies affected their testosterone levels. Thankfully, their levels never changed outside of the normal, so that means that I don't have to stop my shots. But we should go to the doctor."

"Why? Is everything alright? Is it Bun?" He giggled at my concern and shook his head.

"Everything is fine. It's just that when we got together, I had an IUD put in and I want to make sure that it won't affect Bun in any way. Sam found that human birth control doesn't do anything to prevent werewolf pregnancies."

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"You promise that we are safe to tell the doctor everything? We can just go to my normal doctor, I'm sure it would be alright, we'd just have to wait for the appointment." Oscar said as we left the apartment to go to the pack doctor.

"I promise that you are safe. Dr. James is actually mated to another woman, so there's nothing to worry about." I had already mind-linked the pack's doctor and confirmed that we had to go in.

"Okay, I trust you. Let's do this." He said as I took his hand and led him to the pack doctor's office.

I smiled as we got closer and saw Dr. James waiting for us outside the front door. She had square wire glasses that sat on her small button nose, light brown hair that was cut into a bob, and pale green eyes. "Welcome Alpha, Lunar. I went ahead and cleared my schedule for the next few hours to give you my full attention. Would you like to head inside and get started?"

I watched Oscar as we walked into the clinic, he looked nervous but seemed to calm down when I would squeeze his hand. Dr. James led us through the clinic and stopped at the first exam room.

"So, Alpha Duncan vaguely told me what you were wanting to do today but why don't you tell me what's going on." Dr. James began as Oscar got situated on the table and I on one of the chairs.

"I'm sorry if I'm a little nervous. It's just you're the first person in the pack that I've told." Oscar began, he took a breath and nodded. He looked so nervous while filling in the Doctor about everything, he explained his medical history, that he was trans without bottom surgery. All the while, Dr. James looked calm and professional while taking notes and writing in Oscar's new file. Once everything was said, she nodded and stood up from her chair, and stepped toward Oscar.

"Alright, based on what you've told me I have no doubt that you are pregnant. But I'd like to be 100% sure so please allow me to do an ultrasound. After that, it'd be best to take out the IUD. I understand if you want your normal doctor to get this done, but please know that due to the number of humans in our pack, I am educated in gynecology."

Oscar nodded as there was a knock on the door. A nurse rolled in the ultrasound machine. I stood up and took my place next to Oscar as Dr. James set up the machine and had Oscar pull his shirt up. I watched as she squirted a blue gel onto his stomach and began to move the wand around.

Time seemed to freeze as the sound of a heartbeat flowed through the room. I had never heard a more beautiful sound. It was like instantly falling in love all over again but this was a kind of love that was a whole new level. I looked at Oscar to see his reaction and it made my heart squeeze, he was tightly holding my hand as tears flowed down his face.

"I-I already knew that I was pregnant. But hearing Bun, actually seeing that there is something inside of me. It just made it so much more real. Duncan, we are having a baby!" He smiled up at me with glassy eyes.