CHAPTER HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
I was reprimanded by my mom for over ten minutes, her words hurting with each breath.
But it was obvious Xavier had changed them.
It was strange, my parents were protective of us, loving and caring so I didn't understand this version of them.
“Mum?” I called her attention from her rants, “When's my birthday?”
She paused and looked at me in confusion.
“Twenty first of April,” she replied, “why do you ask?”
“I think she's suspicious we've been replaced by some robotic figure created by her husband,” my father finally joined the conversation. “And I wouldn't blame her either. You've turned into someone else since this whole thing,”
My mom looked at him as though he'd stabbed her in the back.
“You can't be serious!” She yelled at him, “You're saying it's okay for her to abandon her home and take her sister on some wild goose chase over something that could have been easily resolved? What if they'd gotten hurt or worse, killed?”
“Mom you didn't hear him talking about me like I wasn't even a living thing!” I snapped, fed up with the bullshit. I loved my Mom to death but once she's set on an idea, she holds onto it so tightly it'll only take someone equally tragic to set her free of it. “You are aware that these aliens aren't completely compatible with our planet, what if I go back there and there's no oxygen? Are you aware that your beloved Xavier has been shipping millions of humans to gods knows where with no explanation whatsoever? What's to say I won't be thrown into the same situation? How are you okay with throwing me away to another fucking galaxy?!”
She seemed to have gotten the message but I was too livid to be in there so I turned around to walk away.
But the doctor was at the door and it seemed he'd heard everything I'd just yelled to my mother.
Great! There goes my element of surprise because he was definitely going to tattle to his boss.
“Your highness, you need to rest please,” he said as I made to walk away from the room.
“I feel completely fine doc, please come out from the door,”
My voice was filled with the rage I felt and he was standing between me and the tiniest bit of freedom I could have in the circumstances I'd found myself in.
“I'm sorry but I still need to check you and the baby. His Majesty insists you rest well,” he said and I looked at him like he'd grown a second head.
I looked back at my parents and they had the same shocked expression on their face.
“What on earth are you talking about? What baby?”
“Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you already knew, you're pregnant with the future prince,” he announced with glee, “so please lie down so I can check you properly.”
I mindlessly complied, my mind overtaken by confusion and fear.
A baby?
In the midst of all this chaos?
“Your temperature is quite high, we'll need to stabilize it,” he said to me, unaware of the turmoil in my head.
How was I supposed to proceed from here? I was already disappointing the Resistance by not being able to kill Xavier anymore but being pregnant?
That meant only one thing; I had to stay back.
I took my phone and sent Anna a message so she'd be aware of why nothing was happening from my end.
I didn't even know if they'd successfully done what we'd set out to do.
I turned around again to my parents who were talking to the doctor as though I wasn't here but I was more concerned with how messed up my future was.
I was a fighter, I didn't accept things life threw at me. I always found a way to get results and effect change but this was beyond me.
I curled into myself on the small bed, my eyes leaking tears that I couldn't stop.
“Tessy?” My dad ran over to me, “are you alright? This is good news, isn't it?”
“Yea, you can tell your sister to come back and we'll all be together again,” My mom added and I had to stop myself from snapping at her.
She was still on that hill she stood on and I wasn't going to pay attention to it any longer.
Thankfully I was grown now and didn't have to follow everything she said.
I was more bugged with the idea of carrying a child for a monster.
I thought I'd avoided it, I took the drugs Roe gave me.
Was this another tactic by Xavier to keep me trapped? I wouldn't put it past him to get the doctor to lie to me.
My father still held my hand in worry but I wasn't in the right frame of mind to say anything. I didn't even know how I was feeling.
In all of the chaos, the only sure thing was that I couldn't go back to the forest.
Could I be any useful to them inside here? Just like Corbin, maybe I could help them with whatever they needed, finances, distractions or information but I knew all eyes would be on me now so I quickly picked my phone and deleted the correspondence between Anna and I just in case someone decided to go through it.
“The King will be here to see you soon,” the doctor said to me after he was done with strapping an IV to my hand, “try to rest because the baby, although healthy, has gone through a lot of stress. We don't want anything to happen to you or the baby, okay?” His smile after the last sentence seemed creepy but I refused to give it any more thought.
“She'll rest, stop hovering over her like that,” my Dad scolded the doctor.
“Honey, he's just doing his job,” said my mom who was beginning to piss me off.
“Thank you Ma'am,” he gave my Dad a look. This doctor sure did have an attitude. “Please I'll need you guys to leave her for now so she can rest. I couldn't help but overhear her outburst earlier and none of this is good for her health,”
My dad made to protest but my Mom had already gotten up.
She was oddly compliant with whatever was pro-Xavier.
I touched my Dad, getting his attention.
“It's fine, go on,” I told him with a smile and he bent over to kiss my head.
“I'll be back in the evening to see you, okay?”
“Thank you Dad.”
I watched with shallow breaths as they left
The doctor gave me a once over before going out as well.
It felt like he had commanded the doctor to keep me contained in here because I heard the door click as he left.
Wow, nice one Xavier.
I'd went from experiencing freedom to becoming a prisoner again.
Only this time, I was fucking pregnant.
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