Evolution

Chapter 8

Emma stood up out of the bed. She looked up at Alex; everything was back to normal at that moment. His hand felt the same as it did when they were human. He was in severe need of a shave and a haircut, but it was still her Alex.

“I love you,” she whispered.

“I love you too,” he said in return. It was nice to feel his same old Emma again. She looked more radiant. She had her hair pulled back in a long ponytail. The golden streaks intertwined with darker blond hair just like his. Compared to any other woman, Emma is a walking goddess in the eyes of Alex, but now she was far beyond goddess. Her full pink lips and legs the seemed to go for miles. Even her body filled out in all the right places including her chest.

“Our baby is healthy,” she said. “That’s all Vin can say. He does think that due to our size, the baby will be roughly the size of a human, maybe bigger.” Emma looked sad for a moment. “We have nowhere to go if the government lets us go. I want our baby to have a home.”

“I’ll build us a new home out in the country where you can have a garden,” Alex says.

“What’s going to happen when our child gets old enough to go to school? The humans aren’t going to let them mingle with their children,” Emma sobbed.

“We might have to home school our child,” Alex whispers. “Besides, they’ll be way ahead of the other kids anyway.”

Emma giggles. She looks up at Alex with her perfect smile. “Yeah, and think of all the school clothes they’ll be growing out of. We have a long road ahead of us. Don’t we, Al?”

Alex smiles at his perfect wife. He leans in and gives her a kiss. Emma giggle some more. “What’s wrong, sweetheart?”

“I can’t wait till Robin gets ahold of you. That beard needs to go,” Emma said looking into Alex’s light blue eyes.

“I have a feeling he’s going to have to deal with me from now on,” Ally said from the corner. “Seems you two have outgrown that poor woman’s gentle hands. She’s recruited me to be the complexes’ resident stylist,” Ally said with a frown. “I do much better dealing with test tubes instead of scissors.”

Alex and Emma laughed. They seemed much more at peace with themselves the more they got used to their oversized bodies.

A week later, Steve waited in anticipation for Melinda and Tommy’s arrival. He spent his days helping the techs in hangar three with the growing boy-man by the name of James Quinn. He helped the techs with taking blood and analyzing samples. James was following the same patterns as everyone else. Vin had decided to take on three more patients. Alex and Emma were making baby plans and plans to build their new estate. Caroline Honeywell began to feel the effects of the illness. She ended up being Vin first new patient in the new complex.

Steven and Vin worked hard to get the new complex started. With a large donation from Anderson Corporation, research began on making edible food sources for the newly evolved. Emma and Ally helped with this phase of the project. Emma had created plants that looked like something out of Jack the Giant Killer. Vin and the giants worked hard to create a safe haven.

Steve waited outside hangar two. He made it his home after Vin declared no cameras allowed in any parts of his complexes except for outside security cameras. He still shared it with Ally who lives on one side of it. A privacy wall spit the hangar in two. He heard a noise coming from Ally’s side of the hangar. It sounded like she had fallen. Steve! Come quickly! I think it’s starting!

Steve ran inside to Ally’s part of the hangar. Ally fell sick with the virus shortly before Steve. He knew it was only a matter of time. Alex and Emma left the complex for the day to help with the construction of their new home. Steve was the only giant close to adulthood around.