Extraterrestrial Lives

4

Waking up to Rafe's beautiful blue eyes was the best thing to happen to me in a very long time.

I never thought I'd see him again, especially after telling him I was pregnant. The look of shock was so complete that it was almost like disgust. Perhaps I judged him to harshly, but I hadn't judged his father too harshly. He didn't like me, even if he has need of me. Or had need of me. I'm not sure which it is now.

I'm still not sure what happened. I remember the institute and finishing the test or retrievals or whatever they call it. Hell the emotional pain from that alone is enough to make me never trust a single damn one of his people. Not hurt my ass.

But afterwards, Rafe was still so distant. He could tell I was in pain, before he'd always wrap his arms around me and hold me, but not now. Never again, especially after telling him about the baby.

I left, I didn't run I just calmly left the building. I walked to the bridge, I remember no one, not even Rafe, tried to stop me. I wasn't even walking fast. I couldn't, I was still too weak. I had to take breaks while walking even.

I wanted to die. I remember that. I have no place here, not after they got what they wanted. They all got what they wanted. The king and scientist's got my memories or whatever it is they wanted and Rafe, well he got sex. Now I was useless to them both and carrying an unwanted bastard. Not completely unwanted like I had been, but neither of us have a place here. It's better if we died now. That's why I was going to the bridge.

I climbed onto the railing when I heard him, Rafe screamed out in such agony that I couldn't help but look at him. He had collapsed, I had to get to him. I tried to get down but I slipped. That was the last thing I remembered until I woke up to his beautiful eyes looking down on me.

But then another thought pulls at me, "The baby?" I ask terrified.

Rafe shrugs, then tries to answer with his poor broken voice. What had happened to him? "The doctor's weren't sure if the baby would survive. It depended a great deal on you I think. You'll have to ask a doctor when he comes back to check on you."

"Rafe? What happened to you? to your voice?" I ask him not sure I want to hear the answer.

"Remember on the ship when they questioned me about poisoning your food?" I nod of course I remember. His mother had triggered something that put him in the infirmary for some time.

"I thought I had killed you. I had pushed you so far away that you killed yourself because of me. When I couldn't get to you in time the pain took over. I thought you died and I relived that every time I regained consciousness. Every time the pain and spasms, the agony would return until finally I would pass out from the pain. For over a week that would be the cycle, wake remember suffer excruciating pain fall into darkness.

"Then I saw you in my dream. You were still alive. I had to find you. The next time I woke up before I passed out I demanded that they find you.

"The thing is my father knew all along that you were still alive. He had you elsewhere far away from me.

"My mother found out two days ago and she was furious with my father. Making me go through so much agony. He even had my sister bring her daughter here. My father wanted her to hear my screams of pain. She's four years old, that would have scarred her for life.

"I really hate my father sometimes. I can't talk about it anymore right now." I am appalled at what his father had done. And I thought my family hated me.

There is silence in the room. Rafe needs time to gather his thoughts and I need time to understand just what a sick bastard the king is.

"They want me to take over the throne when my tour is finished." His words drop into the silent room like a bomb going off. I look at him in horrified disbelief. "My father is no longer fit to rule. What he did to me shows that more plainly than anything he ever could have done. That won't be a problem with my sister, she's never wanted to rule. But my older brother, Gearan, he's always lusted after the throne, always expected to inherit it from my father. He's always been father's favorite, just as my sister was always his baby girl."