The Power Of Cithrí - A Chaol Westfall Fanfiction

Freak pt10

Increased risks of cancer. Mood swings. Depression. Hot flashes. Anemia. Cardiovascular diseases.
I sighed and scratched my temple. I was home alone trying to get some tasks done on the laptop, I had to find a job - my one at the stables coming to its end - and sort out a heap load of emails. And somehow, in my frustration at the government for taking so long with my Visa, I had got on to this horrifying list of side effects.
It had all started when Chaol and I had discussed our use of contraception whilst lying in bed unable to sleep from the howling wind outside. Chaol had expressed that he would rather not use condoms now. Whilst we were both certain that neither of us had any STDs and weren't going to go around getting them, we were both dead set on not having children. So I had been to see the doctor, and well, the whole thing had been a disaster.

I had driven a few towns over to see the doctor, being too awkward to go see our local one in fear that I might see her on a night out.
I had the afternoon off, so had planned up a few things to do, but as I sat in the waiting room watching the clock tick past my appointment time I began to sweat. I was meant to be having coffee with one of the girls from the stables after this. My knee bounced as I ticked away the minutes, and after having been sat there for an hour I had to shamefully call her up amongst the dead silent packed waiting room, and cancel.
Then an old woman with a younger girl holding her arm came and sat next to me.
I had purposely chosen to sit away from everyone else - I was terrified of visiting the doctor and it had been years since I had come alone. Ever since I started dating Vikki she had always insisted on coming to any form of appointment with me: doctor, dentist, optician. I would sit in the room, and she would do everything, explaining all my symptoms and concerns, the best treatments. All I ever had to do was sign the concent forms. I had asked Chaol to come with me today, but he had a lifeboat training session and with his new higher ranking position he could exactly not turn up just because his girlfriend was afraid of a standard appointment.
I shuffled in my seat trying to ignore the two women. The younger woman excused herself and went off in search of the toilet. I should have brought headphones, I thought as I sat there sweating like a mad woman.
The elderly woman turned to me with a delighted smile, and my heart pounded in my ears.
"You here to have a baby?"
My eyes went wide, and I gave her the best smile I could produce. "Sorry?"
"You here to have a baby with your girlfriend?"
Oh god. My knee bounced faster and my keys rattled in my handbag. "No."
"You already got kids?"
"No."
"My wife and I had three sons, they're all grown up now, with their husbands and children." She was smiling away, but it only made me feel worse. If she knew I had a boyfriend, and not a wife or girlfriend, she would spit in my face and move to the other side of the waiting room.
"Sounds lovely." I replied.
"It is. It is." Thankfully that was it, and she went to sitting straight forwards. I could relax now, looking back to the clock. The doctor came out his office and called in yet another person that wasn't me.
"You here to have a baby?" I jumped. It was the old woman again, smiling cheerfully.
"No." I stated getting more frustrated now.
"Oh, you already got kids?"
"No! Ok, I haven't got kids. I'm here to see the doctor about my relationship, with my boyfriend!" I shouldn't have snapped, and slouched in my chair regretting it immediately. I worked up an apology and was about to say it when I saw the horrified face of the woman. Oh god.
"Oh no, that isn't right." The woman mumbled. "That isn't right at all. You can't raise a child with a mother and father."
I gave up! Resting my head against the wall and praying for a meteorite shower to strike right now.
Thankfully the young woman came back to rescue me. She took one look at my face and bursted into an apology. "I am so sorry! Has she been bugging you?"
I shook my head, really wanting to tell them to leave me alone.
"Poor Jane's had dementia ever since her wife died. She doesn't remember though, and always goes on about her family."
I smiled and shook the woman's hand as she introduced herself as the elderly lad's carer. However just before she delved into conversation, the doctor came out his office.
"Y/n?"
Finally! I cried, jumping to my feet and racing in after him.