The Love Slaves

A week later the pain was gone and instead I was so incredibly weak I couldn’t move. I was taken in one drugged stupor to the nearest mutant hospital where experts looked me over and took so many samples that Julius was afraid they’d discover my change and tried to discourage mother, telling her that only Arthur could help me, not normal Doctors. However mother said that until he showed or the cops found him the Doctors were all they could do for now to help me and try to understand exactly what was happening.

The lead Doctor came to mother; Bonnie; Robert and Julius after four long weeks of hard, long and some even painful examinations. He stuck some x-rays up in the lit board and started to talk. “Her skeleton has been extending, growing longer so she will be taller as well as her entire system is mutating. There is very minute traces of metal around her heart and brain and signs of healed recent damage to those areas despite the extent of it. A normal human woman her age wouldn’t be able to heal this well from such damage but SHE is.

To compensate for her less and less lack of food and water her system now seems to absorb electricity directly-and only the sort you get in a human body. These tubes you see…” he tapped a finger to the x-ray where the bones and grizzle of the long tubes were sheathed under the skin of my arms were visible. “…Seem to be how she developed a way of getting it.” He then pointed to the small mounds on my wrists “these are small and appear to be of no use-just unassuming deformities as we first thought but they came up like this on the x-ray and we discovered them. They are the exit points for the tubes. Watch this picture we have which happened while we were examining her.”

He took them to a DVD player in the corner and they watched the image on it as one Doctor felt along my arms and wrists. He was startled as one of the mounds opened and a blood-red tube slid out, the needlepoint just missing his own arm as it homed in on his energy by pure instinct.

The Doctor backed off with a gasp of horror and the tube stood up in the air and wavering, seeing the energy I needed. Every time someone came near it too close it would waver in their direction, but wasn’t long enough to get at any of them.

Three of the Doctors decided on getting it, two coming forward to confuse it and the third to grab. The tube wavered between the two and unsure which to go for, confusing it long enough for the third to grab it and fight to get it down while a forth jabbed a needle into the base of it where the new veins were visible.

I screamed in pain and my eyes flew open, back arched off the table. The tube quaked a few seconds then fell to the table top, twitching in small spasms as if it was dying. I relaxed onto the table in a faint and for a few minutes they got a good look at the tube before as they were about to do some tests it slid back into my arm, mound closing and it was gone.

He switched the player off and turned too them “since then either haven’t drawn out once as if it has it’s own intelligence and knows to come out would mean to be hurt again.” Julius said something softly and they looked at him in surprise and shock “you KNEW about these things!!”

He nodded to them with looking at them “Juno and I have been letting her feed from our energy. That’s why she was improving before HE got her. She wouldn’t otherwise-she would have died because no one else believed her.”

“Is there any traces or marks left from them I can examine?” the Doctor said and Julius nodded, pulling his long sleeves up to show the puncture marks that were fading slowly, one or two recent ones.

The Doctor lead Julius away and after about an hour he returned. “It seems your assistant has changed as well though only slightly. I had to look very carefully otherwise I would have missed it. His heart and other muscles have received a boost of strength, he’s stronger and more supple than a normal man his age. He has informed me this unusual burst of strength started a certain day when she somehow gave part of her own energy to him as a thanks. Since she is no longer a normal human girl her age it is only logical she gave him part of her own power, her unusual strength which bonded to his own cells and muscles and made him also stronger.”

“What about her womb, Doctor? Is she pregnant and what exactly is wrong with her?”

“Unfortunately she IS pregnant. To what we don’t know but her weakness is from those…things she has growing in her womb. They are slowly absorbing the energy from her as they grow.” He shook his head, horror and disgust on his face “I don’t know how to say this but I have never in my twenty long years as a Doctor of both human and mutant biology’s seen such…such…I can’t even begin to describe it. Two of our younger Doctors were sick when they first saw what was inside her. I barely kept myself from doing the same.”

They exchanged looks and said softly “Well? Can we see it?” The Doctor looked reluctant, frowning and saying “I don’t know if I should. I…”

“Please, she’s our family!” they protested this “We MUST know! Please show us!”

“Alright” The Doctor said softly “Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.” They shook their heads as the doctor lead them away to a room where most the doctors who were working on me were seated around a pile of ultra-sound photos, talking and arguing as they tried to figure out what they were.

They gasped in utter horror when they saw them, instead of a small and cute fetus with a nose, arms and hands and legs appearing there was at least three long worm-like creatures with almost human but disfigured heads, sharp teeth and mouths attached to the wall of my womb. “Oh god!” Bonnie cried out in horror, again burying her face into Robert’s shirt. Robert looked to the doctor and cried “can’t you do anything! There has to be SOMETHING! Surely you can abort them!”

“No, I’m sorry we can’t” the doctor shook his head sadly, “we can’t without killing her.”
“Why!” Bonnie wailed, mother buried in Jules’s arms as well.

Another doctor came up and joined them “The…fetus have attached her life force to themselves. As well as draining her slowly of life they also have a strong hold on her body functions. If we try to abort them we have found that there are small poison sacks in them like a snake, which we theorize will be pumped into her blood and kill her should we try to remove them. The three of them have enough poison between them to kill her in a matter of minutes should we try to remove then. The poison is like nothing we’ve ever seen before and we have no existing antidote-we could not even start to develop one. I’m so sorry.”

“You mean she’s gonna give birth to these things and die! That there is nothing we or anyone else can do about it!”

“I have sent samples to centers around the world including the PADD themselves but until we can get an antidote or something similar in time I’m sorry. She will ‘give birth’ to them in about four months only-the way they are growing.”

“Oh god!” Bonnie wailed again, sobbing into Robert’s shirt and mother asked “can we take her home with us? Can she stay with us while we wait for a reply?” and her voice showed the edge of tears. “I would prefer she stay here with us but since we can’t do anything else for the time being, yes, you can take her with you.”

“Thank you” mother said and while Robert lead Bonnie away Jules and two orderlies carried me out to the car.

As they expected Harold Bankers was waiting outside the property. I stirred again, sensing the unusual yet familiar energy I needed. Mother was in the back with Jules and I when it happened, Robert driving with Bonnie in the front when they noticed. Mother only frowned, remembering my reaction to the doctors but Jules knew it was something unusual to drag me out instead of just the tubes reacting and cried out to Robert “stop!”

“What?” the man asked, slowing down and Jules cried again louder and more desperately “just trust me and do it!” My soon to be brother in law stopped the van and both he and Bonnie turned to look at him “what is it Julius? We have to get Lisa inside and…”

“Look, look at her reaction” he told them “she’s coming out, something is bringing her out.”
“It’s so many people outside” Mother said to him with a frown “the energy…”

“Made the tubes react but not her” Jules finished her sentence “she’s waking up not just the tubes reacting, something or someone out there is what she needs desperately.”

“What do you mean?” Bonnie asked him. “You mean someone’s energy out there would be strong enough to help her? Even give her a boost before those things kill her, even kill them itself?”

“Maybe” Jules said “but what if it was simpler than that? What if its Arthur out there and she needs HIS energy to get rid of them and heal?”

This immediately interested them “Arthur? Her Arthur? The man she’s in love with?” When he nodded they moved to the sliding door to look outside for this figure. They saw Harold Bankers again, pushing his way through the crowd of reporters towards us and the closer he got the more I reacted until he stood silently at the door and I was almost awake.

Jules slid the door open wide enough for them to eye each other suspiciously, the other man obviously worried he was going to try and bundle him off the property again, but Jules just moved aside wide enough to let the reporter and ONLY him inside, needing Roberts help to close the door against those attempting to follow the man inside. “You finally figured it out,” the reporter said to them all “that I knew what was wrong and only I can help.”

“You’re her Arthur?” mother asked but he shook his head “I’m only one of his spies. When he began to suspect where Doc had sent her to be safe he contacted me and told me where you live and asked me to see and if she was to get in and protect her should the Toooilan locate and get too her before he could.”

“And we prevented that because we couldn’t trust anyone else to her care. Now her condition is OUR fault” Bonnie said with a tear and a sniff “If I had just let you in that time…” The reporter nodded and said to them “I could have explained to you all and prevented the conception that is now killing her.”

“Can’t you stop it?!” mother asked in horror and fear and he spoke as he started to remove his gloves finger by finger “I can’t, I don’t have the proper medical knowledge but I know someone who can.” When they all asked who he answered their curiosity “Doc.”

The others frowned and said in confusion “her Doc? But he’s dead-she saw him killed to save her.” And Harold shook his head slowly “He is not, he was just badly wounded. However he has only just come out of surgery and confirmed where he sent her.”

Mother frowned at him “Will Doc and Arthur come here? Do we get to meet them?” and Harold nodded “Doc will most definitely come-to remove the Toooilan young-despite his own injuries and my King will come, he will want to see she’s alive and be there for her when she awakes and become aware. He will probably bond his energy with hers again just to make sure she survives. Since Doc has made friends with Lisa he has trusted her to no one else’s care.”

“Sounds like this Doc cares very deeply for Lisa.”

“He does, more than you could imagine. Since they met they have been bonded-but differently to her and my king. They were both used by the Toooilans and forced to have intercourse, both felt they were loosing themselves and becoming nothing but machines or toys to use and both feel in love with a fellow slave and both are mated to the one they love and were rescued by them. They love each other as brother and sister and would protect each other with their lives, you probably guessed that by the fact the Doc was nearly killed protecting Lisa from the Toooilans. He loves her and would do anything to protect her from those since he knows all to well what would happen if they got her back.”

Mother and the others nodded and suddenly Bonnie gasped. When they looked at her she motioned at the man’s hands and wrists, now bare of the gloves “you’re like she is becoming!” For there on his wrist and over the closest surface vein was a little raised mound the could have been a mole or wart. He yanked the sunglasses of with one move and his wide strikingly violet eyes glared at her “of course I am! I told you I’m one of my King’s people!” and mother frowned “why do you keep calling him your King?”

“Because he is, what do you think he is?” he looked around at their confused faces one at a time then asked in disbelief “you don’t know, do you?”

“Lisa didn’t tell them the whole story” Jules said to him “only I know. She knew they wouldn’t believe her and would probably choke it up to either her imagination to cope with the situation or some sort of delusion.”

“What whole story?” mother and Bonnie glared at Jules, he was keeping secrets from them to do with me. The assistant looked to Robert and said “Get us back to the house and I’ll explain everything. If we sit here much longer those other guys will get in and there’s no telling how many are Toooilan warriors or spies in disguise.”

Robert nodded and slid behind the wheel again. As he drove Jules looked to the reporter\spy as his own tubes slid out and buried themselves in the flesh below my own and asked him “will that help her? Won’t the things in her take that from her as well?”

“No, you see right now she is a human with Valori characteristics. Myself on the other hand are an….”

“Full breed?” he asked but the figure shook his head “no. My father was pure Breed Valori but my mother, like you, was human. You see as a half-breed the young wouldn’t know how to absorb it-it would be just enough foreign to confuse them but enough like what she is so her own system would accept it. That’s why my King choose me to find and help her.”

“Why would Arthur need spies on Earth in the first place? I can understand the Toooilan because of humans being their sex slave source and also directly because of Zimmer, but what about the Valori? What reason do they have for associating with Earth-other than us being your people’s distant relatives?” Jules asked him.

“You don’t think that the lives of humans mean as much to us as any other race those evil son-of-a-bitches decide to victimize? How could you think that when as you said our races are so closely related? Besides, what truly good race could let something like that happen to a woman, let alone a girl?”

“What do you mean related?” mother interrupted them “and what do you mean by ‘associating with Earth’ and Zimmer?”
“I’ll tell you but just remember, you asked for it” Jules said as he took a deep breath “here goes.”

When he had finished they were all horrified and shocked and mother spoke first “so these guys are really aliens, like that guy Zimmer long ago, the same race as him and that because of his experiments on humans like us the others were able to develop this liquid drug they used on Lisa and her Doc?”

When both men nodded she went on “and that we-as humans-are actually the descendants of one side of this race fighting them called Valori-Lisa’s Arthur is their leader and King and by changing as she is she’s not really changing as too awakening the side of her Valori inheritance that we all have, that YOU, Harold have stronger than anyone else here because your father was a pure breed instead of human like us.” Both men nodded again. “But didn’t the Protectors reveal long ago humans are descended from the Fire Race and that Guy Tommas Genarld’s people?”

“Yeah but do you remember where he came from, where BOTH came from?” And mother frowned at him “what do you mean?” The man looked at them intently and asked them “What’s the name of Tommas Genarld’s race?”

“It was….” Robert started but Bonnie interrupted, eyes widening “Child Of Valori, he’s just like Arthur!”

“Not exactly but close enough” the figure said as Robert parked in the garage carefully. While he and Jules carried me inside towards my room-Harold still attached to me by tubes-the others followed and mother finally asking “what do you mean by, not exactly?”

“Tommas Genarld is not only the first Earthling to be born on this planet he is also different to us, to you and to my King’s kind. He was changed during development in his mother’s womb by the new environment, the gases and atmosphere of a new Earth. He is one of my king’s people, but also an Earthling like you and me.”

They understood this and I was placed on the bed, Jules grabbing a chair for Harold to allow him to sit beside the bed. As he did he spoke “it is a bad situation, especially since you went to the hospital, now it means I will have to go back and get the records myself.”

“But why?” Bonnie asked in confusion “if it means they can find a way to help her?”

“You don’t get it do you? You don’t need them, Arthur and Doc will do that with ease when they get here. Once I’m done here I will have to go and do it myself.”

They realized he was right, who better to abort the things inside me then someone who knew what they were doing and how to prevent anything terrible happening. However Robert had to defend their actions “we didn’t KNOW you were here to help and they would be coming themselves!” One look from him shut him up though for they could see the next words in his eyes “And who’s fault is that?”