He grins. “Absolutely not.”
I roll the box over and over in my hands.
“Well?”
There’s a lump in my throat, and I have to swallow to clear it before I can speak. “I’m terrified,” I admit.
He frowns.
“Do you not want to have a child?”
My breath is coming fast, and I take a deep breath to slow it down.
“I don’t know. I mean, I didn’t, when I was a slave and I’d have to give it away, and, well, this world we live in, it’s not really a place for children, is it? All the demon attacks, all the chaos.”
He shrugs. “Then we have to make it a place for children. We have to bring in new life, and teach them all that’s good in the world, so that eventually, all the good young people, will outlive the damaged old people, and the world can become good again.”
I nod.
“But what if it’s negative?” I glance up at him. “What if the test really is negative. If we do one of these tests hourly for a month and they’re all negative?”
Sidney gives a little chuckle, and pulls me in close, wrapping his arms around me to press his lips, again, against my forehead.
“Then I still have the most beautiful, amazing woman in the entire universe, right here, with me. If you’re not pregnant, then nothing has changed, has it? I thought my chances of another child were over, and if it’s negative, then that just confirms it. We still have each other.”
I nod again, my head slowly tilting up and down.
I take another deep breath. “Okay.” I push the covers back, and climb out of bed.
“Okay, let’s do this.”
In the bathroom I fumble with the box, and then the instructions. I’ve never actually seen a pregnancy test before. They’ve been far too expensive, for such a long time. I remember when my sister fell pregnant it was a matter of waiting. Was that daily illness a sign of pregnancy, or just something she’d eaten? The nausea lingered, and we were so sure, and yet somehow still not sure, and even as first one period and then another was missed, and then she started to put on weight, maybe it was still just other factors we hadn’t considered? But then, finally, that amazing day when she announced she’d felt movement! It was confirmed – she was pregnant! And yet it still felt like forever before the rest of us could feel movement, too.
To know, in an instant, that I’m actually growing a baby, I almost can’t believe it’s possible.
The instructions are easy enough to follow. Squat over the toilet, and hold the stick under the flow of pee.
I do it, lifting the stick when I’m done to watch the liquid spread along the little tag bit, and up to the result area.
Sidney taps on the door. “How’s it going in there?”
I open it up and show him the stick.
“We have to wait a few minutes,” I say.
As we watch, first one line, and then another appears in the little test result box.
“I can’t remember what that means!”
Sidney is grinning, he obviously knows what it means, but I’m so nervous his expression doesn’t really register. I rush back to unfold the instructions, scanning for the example results.
“Two lines. It means I’m pregnant.”
I glance up at Sidney in shock. He’s still grinning.
“You’re having a baby,” he says, stepping towards me, his arms out wide.
I fall into his embrace, and as I do it hits me.
“I’m pregnant,” I squeal, looking up at him. “We’re going to be a family.”
I start jumping up and down, so much so that Sidney has to let me go, and he’s laughing and I’m squealing, and I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so happy in my whole life.
I’m free, I have my powers, Sidney is going to find my family, and I’m having a baby with the man I love, and who loves me in return.
Life could not possibly get any better than this.
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