Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Stars of Fate ❯ Chapter Thirty Four ( Chapter 34 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Yori seemed visibly uncomfortable as his sister doted over him and rubbed his stomach.

"I was so excited when I heard. Well, actually I was pissed...but then I got excited." She smiled and pulled the bag that she'd got. "I can't believe you finally got knocked up. I bought you all sorts of stuff for when you get bigger! It's going to be so much fun!"

She was practically beaming as she showed him some of the stuff. "That's...great," he said softly. His dad was coming in with a drink and a smile.

"So, how are you kids doing?"

"We've been better," Yori admitted. "Uh, dad...could we speak to you in private?"

Mirori's ears fell lightly as she heard this. Setting her outfit down, she looked upset.

Alana looked away. She couldn't even look at them. They were so loving, so caring. Because she had no family like that, she didn't bother to even think of how important the baby might be to them. She had been selfish and let her own feelings get in the way. Her plan was to have to baby to unite the two races, but she didn't think of what the baby would mean to Yori's family. She hugged herself then stood.

"Please excuse me a moment. I think I just need some fresh air," she said and walked outside, leaving Yori and her coat, boots, and scarf.

Great. Leave him there alone to face his family. Real great. "Listen, dad, I'm worried about whatever those guys stabbed into me. It's been making me feel weird. Weirder than usual."

"Is the baby alright?" That was Midori's first question, and Yori fell silent.

Alana felt like she wanted to drown herself in the snow. It was freezing and she hated the feeling but it was better than being in there with his family. He ditched her once, making her explain to his father about hers and his relationship, couldn't she ditch him? No...because she wasn't like him and this was important. She owed his family respect after everything she put them through. Walking back in, she shook the snow off her and sat next to him again, but kept her eyes from them and her mouth shut tightly.

"The baby is...." Yori looked at them. Why was this hard? He didn't want the kid. He didn't care about it, but he did care about his family. "Well, I don't know. Like I said my body has been weird, and it's hard to tell what's going on."

"We'll get you checked out right now," his father said, ushering him to his back office. "Midori, grab my scanners."

"Right." Midori looked at Alana who was barely moving. "Are you okay? I'm sure the baby is fine. If it's anything like Yori it's a fighter."

Alana said nothing. Why was Yori lying to them? If Blue Yori had his way, he would be screaming at them with the truth, calling her and Golden Yori murderers. And at the moment, as she listened to his family, that was how she felt. Standing, she followed Yori to the other room. She ran her tongue over hand fangs and debated whether or not she wanted to run.

As his dad started for the scanner, Yori took his hand. "Dad, I don't think it's such a good idea." He couldn't look them in the face. His sister seemed to deny it, and his father just nodded slowly.

"Tell me...what's been going on?"

Yori explained to him the symptoms he'd been having. "My head hurts too, a lot. I don't know what they put into me...and Alana has had side effects as well."

His father leaned back and looked at the two of them. "Well, I took a blood sample. We should be able to find out what's wrong with you....but your symptoms sound like typical pregnancy issues."

"Yeah," Yori said. "But the baby is...it's gone."

Midori let out a gasp as she shook her head. "What? How can it be gone? What happened to it?"

Alana looked at the scanner. "Maybe...we are wrong," she said trying to hold on to the hope Midori was relying on. Of course, there was no way there was a baby in him since they had already scanned him and the genetic neutralizer never failed. It was 100% accurate. "Scan him...to make sure."

Yori sighed. He didn't want them to do this. Couldn't they just accept it. Midori's hands were shaking as she tried to scan him. Taking the device from her he ran it over his stomach. "See it-" He stopped as it beeped. That wasn't right. It didn't beep earlier. He ran it back over his stomach and it beeped again.

"It's okay!" Midori said through tears before she slapped Yori. "Don't you scare me like that!"

"B-but...no." Yori started to press the button to neutralize it.

"What are you doing?" Midori grabbed it from him.

Yori looked at her and at his father. He wasn't good with this stuff. He hated it, but he was going to have to deal with it. "I don't think that it's a good idea for us to have the kid. That's the reason I'm going to neutralize it."

"How did you think you lost the child?"

Yori looked up at his dad, but he couldn't say. Midori slapped him, leaving claw marks on his face. "How could you? This is your child," she told him. Her entire body was shaking as she shook her head in disappointment.

Alana growled. She lunged at Midori and pushed her hard against a wall. Her eyes flashed golden as she bared her fangs. "Do not hit something that does not belong to you!" she snapped.

The room went silent. Yori quickly moved and pulled Alana back as his father moved between Midori and her. "Okay, son. We'll talk about the child later," his father said slowly. "Right now you should explain to me why Alana has fangs, golden eyes, and the possessive nature of an Eldarian."

"Bad cat nip," Yori said as he pulled her back. "Sit down and keep your fangs to yourselves."

Midori just looked at them, her eyes hurt and accusing as she stood in the doorway.

Raize took his scanners and ran them over Alana. "Sit still. This will only take a second."

Yori could barely focus. Why wasn't the kid gone? Why had the scanner said it was and now it said that it wasn't? He pushed that thought from his head. It was easily fixable. "So, what's the deal? Bad cat nip?"

"First off, Eldarian cat nip is highly addictive to humans. While there's been cases of strength increase and animal tendencies, eyes, fangs, and obsessive nature isn't among them."

Alana shook her head. What had gotten into her. Her eyes turned back to brown and she looked at Yori's sister. "I'm so sorry, Midori. I don't know what got into me," she said. Looking at Yori she reached out and took his wrist. "Why are you still pregnant?" she whispered.

"I don't know," he said. "But we can fix that."

"Murderer," Midori hissed, turning her tail she left without saying another word to them.

Raize checked Alana's eyes. "I've got a theory about the child, but right now I'm more worried about Alana." He didn't want to talk of them killing off his grandchild. That news could wait.

Turning his back to them, he began mixing something together. It was a powerful substance that smelled fowl only to Eldarians. He ran it under Alana's nose to see what kind of reaction she would have.

Alana moved back, jumping out of the chair and covering her nose. "I'm not taking that if that's what you think! It smells horrible!" She looked back at the doorway where Yori's sister once stood. How could she be so cold when she didn't know everything?

Yori exchanged glances with his father. "Alana...you shouldn't be able to smell that," he told her. He looked at his dad. "I gave her some fresh cat nip, but that shouldn't do this, right?"

"No, it shouldn't," his father sighed. "We'll do a nanite test on both of your blood, but I won't have the answers till tomorrow."

Yori nodded, but his father still didn't like this. Taking his hand, he whacked Yori upside the head to see if Alana would still have the same adverse reaction that she had to Midori.

Alana growled at Yori's father. She pushed Yori away from him and glared harshly at him. "Hands off," she warned.

Raize wrote down her reaction and looked at Yori. "Well, I think it's safe to say that her condition is degenerative," he told them. "She seems to be acting more like an Eldarian than a human. Fangs. Eyes. Extremely possessive nature over her mate. Hopefully we'll know more tomorrow."

"Great," Yori muttered, rubbing the back of his head. His hand went down to his stomach and he looked at his dad. "Dad we..."

His dad held up his hand. "I'll talk to your sister. You two have been through a lot, and I've asked quite a bit of you. I think it's only fair that you decide what to do with your lives...and the life of your child."

Great guilt trip. Really.

Alana stepped back and pushed her back against Yori's chest. "It's not...I'm sixteen. I have a lot on my plate and so does Yori. Bringing a kid into this life just because it will help to unite our races is wrong." She looked up at Yori then at his father. "There is a lot we considered about this and right now...not having this child is best for the both of us. It's selfish and maybe even wrong, but I think I should have a chance to be a little selfish in all this. I've fought for alien rights for months now. I just want a chance to live a normal life with the person I care about."

Raize nodded. "As I said, you can do what you wish. No matter what you do I will not look down upon you. I'm certain that Midori will come around to it as well. Let me send your blood samples off." He excused himself, leaving them there alone once more.

"Well that's great. You're turning into cat girl and I have to kill my kid again. He's a persistent little thing," he said as he reached for the neutralizer. He was going to take care of this right away.

Alana looked away. Part of her felt it was wrong and the other part felt that it was wrong just to keep it because of guilt. She didn't want to resent it later on down the road. She was just too young. They didn't even have their own house or a hover car. The only only they had was what she took from her aunt and the trust fund she had but couldn't use until she turned eighteen. Everything would have been fine if they just used protection. But wasn't it his sister who had said to use a neutralizer?

Yori ran the device over him. It beeped. Taking a deep breath he pressed the other button to destroy whatever was in him. "That should take care of that," he told her, wincing as he heard fish boy. Twice he had to go through this with him. It was starting to get old, and he was tired and hungry.

"Well. Let's go home fang girl. No point in staying here."

She ran the scanner over him one more time just to make sure. Nothing beeped. "Ok. Let's stop at the drug store on the way home and get some...protection. I don't want this to happen again for a long time," she whispered.

"It won't," he told her. "I think I'll just neutralize myself so we'll never have to worry about it."

"No, I don't think Blue Yori can go through that. I'll just got one of those shot things that last six months. They sell them over the counter."

Yori looked at her, rubbing her head to make certain she hadn't grown anything on him. "Yeah. He's pretty emo over all of this. I think it's going to be a while before he wants to take control. Not that I'd let him with all this going on."

She nodded. Taking his hand, they walked back to the living room and put on their coats. She put on her boots and scarf then turned to his family. "I'm...um...sorry I'm always hurting your family," she whispered to them.

Yori's little sisters ran up to hug his legs. They looked like they'd been crying. "Is it twue? Is ow libble kid gone?"

Yori couldn't deal with this. He stiffened and turned from them. "It's true," he told them as he started for the door.

"Yori, the Yori I knew, the Yori I helped to raise would have never done that," Midori said. She picked up the bag she had and tossed it at him. "We would have helped you every step of the way. We're family! It's what we do! We don't just turn our backs on family."

"Midori!" Raize walked in and hugged his daughter. He looked at Yori and Alana, a pained expression on his face. "I'll contact you in the morning."

"Yeah, whatever." Yori pulled his coat tight around him as he hurried out the door.

Alana couldn't help but take one more look at the family. "You are not being fair. It's not all about you or the fact that you would help us. We needed to think rationally," she said then followed Yori out.

Hesitating she took his hand as they started walking to town. "I can't help but feel like I just ruined everything between you and your family. I wouldn't be surprised if you hated me."

He shrugged it off. "The family loves fish boy, not me," he told her. "Fish boy is all they've known. They'll deal with it and move on. What happens from that happens. No use crying over it."

She looked up at him. "I love you, Yori," she said. "And I know what it's like to not have family behind you, but I'll stick by you for as long as you let me."

"Yeah, well that's gonna be a while. I'll end up proposing to you one of these days. Then we'll get all old and gray. You'll probably have a tail and ears by then. Kind of kinky now that I think about it." He shrugged and kept walking as if everything that they'd just done had been an everyday occurrence for him. Fish boy cried and dealt with emotions like this. He just pushed them aside and replaced them with sex. They each had their coping mechanisms, his was just more fun.

Alana pulled him to an alley way in town and pushed him against a wall then pushed her lips to him. She dipped her tongue in his mouth then nibbled his bottom lip lightly before pulling back. She then went back onto the street, pulling him with her and straightened herself. "There's the drug store."