14: Discovery

Leilyn stares at the pink plastic stick in her hands with wide eyes filled with shock and disbelief. Around her, similar sticks bearing the same result lay scattered on the ground.

This… this can't be happening. This can't be real.

With batted and shaky breathe, Leilyn asks out loud, "How is this possible?"

Her question is met with silence.

"This shouldn't be possible. How is this fucking possible?"

In her hands, and around her, lay pregnancy tests. They all show that yes, she's pregnant. Fucking pregnant.

"I am as baffled as you are, Ms. Leilyn." Zoranne speaks up. "Not only do my updated scans show that you're pregnant, you're three month along."

Leilyn snaps her head up at the ceiling, eyes going wider.

Earlier this morning, Zoranne gave her the shock of her life; informing her she's pregnant. She thought it was a joke at first, but the A.I reassured her that it wasn't.

Zoranne has never lied to her creator. She has never lied to her, and the A.I sees no reason why she will start now.

Leilyn quickly order Zoranne to buy different boxes of pregnancy test. Leilyn waited with batted breath for them to arrive, and when the delivery man came, she ran outside as if the hounds of hell were after her. She grabbed the package through the bars and hurried back inside. She ripped into it and poured the six, small boxes of pregnancy tests on her floor. Each box contain two pregnancy sticks in them and Leilyn used every single one of them.

Now, sitting on the toilet seat, she sees that there is nowhere that different pregnancy could tell a lie.

What. The. Fuck?

"What?" Leilyn chokes out.

"Not only are you pregnant, you're showing signs of being three months along." Zoranne repeats.

Leilyn couldn't help but panic. She couldn't breathe.

"Ms. Leilyn! Please calm down!" Zoranne holographic form forms before her. Her face is twisted with worry, her hands outstretching as if to hold her Mistress. "Come on, breath with me."

Zoranne leads Leilyn through a series of calming breathes, and within two whole minutes, the rich caramel skin woman finally gets herself together.

"Thank you." She smiles tiredly at the A.I, who just curtly nods; a worried look still on her holographic face.

"How is this even possible?!" Leilyn jumps up and hurries out of the bathroom. She walks over to the full length mirror and looks at her form. Her stomach has added weight again.

"I'm afraid I have no answer to that, Ms. Leilyn."

"Not only have I been celibate for years, I am absolutely incapable of getting pregnant." Leilyn chuckles darkly. "For fuck's sake Zoranne, I am fucking barren! My fucking uterus is destroyed! Gone! Along with my fucking ovaries!"

The accident happened years ago, when she was developing the first batch of the Healer101. Some idiot fucked up and the whole lab went up in flames. Luckily, there wasn't much people there and they could all get to safety, except for Leilyn. Before she could get out, the emergency doors slammed shut in her face. Due to the chemicals in the lab, most of her organs were destroyed. Luckily for her, when she was rescued, they could replace her organs with perfect replacements, but unfortunately, her uterus and ovaries couldn't be replaced. Her body kept rejecting new ones, and after the fifth one, she just gave up.

Honestly, it's fun not having to cry monthly due to her menstrual cramps like before, but sometimes… she just couldn't help but feel so sad and depressed about it.

"I know that, Ms. Leilyn, and I'm confused as you are." Zoranne says in a calm voice.

"Oh my fucking god… this is a dream…" Leilyn walks over to her bed and sits down, hands gripping her hair. "Better yet, this is a fucking nightmare…"

A child? Out of nowhere? How?

"Ms. Leilyn, I know that you're freaked out by this, but please, do try to calm down. Your heartbeat is getting faster and your breathing is getting heaver. Please, this is not good for the child. Calm yourself."

Leilyn does as instructed, and in five minutes time, she's panicking a little bit less than before.

"Okay." She stands up and begins to pace. "This… feels like a dream. No, this is a dream." She pinches herself, winching when her nails draw blood. "Okay, not a dream. Oh men…"

She stops pacing, already feeling dizzy. She sits back down on the bed, taking deep breaths so as to calm herself and fight away the nausea that is creeping in.

"Zoranne, what's the time?"

"It's 12:30 PM, Ms. Leilyn."

"Okay." She blows out a calming breath, before slowly lying down on her bed. Not only is she feeling sleepy, but she's feeling dizzy. "I'm gonna get some shut eye." She yawns. "Maybe when I wake up, all this will fucking go away."

And with that, she dozes off.

Four hours and few minutes later, she wakes up with a moan. She stretches, which in turn makes her to feel the weight in her belly. With rapid pleading of it to be all a dream inside her head, she slowly looks down.

"Fuck."

"Welcome back to reality, Ms. Leilyn." Zoranne says with a cheery voice, which makes Leilyn to glare at the ceiling. "The time's 4:45 PM."

Leilyn lies back down with a groan, the back of her hand covering her eyes.

"I was hoping it was all a fucking nightmare." She sighs. "By the fucking Cosmos."

She removes her hand from her face, and stares up at the ceiling with unfocused eyes.

Once again, some fucked up shit has happened to her. First, devil worshipping idiots sacrificing her, now a second version of baby Jesus? What the hell?

'Wait… what?'

Leilyn slowly gets up, head tilting to the side as she tries to remember what just went through her mind.

'Devil worshipping idiots… sacrificing me? Where the fuck did that come from?'

She tries to remember how that thought came to be, but she gets nothing; only the usual blinding pain when she tries to force her brain to remember.

"Hmm… maybe I've watched too much weak ass horror movies."

With a grunt, she gets out of her bed. She removes her clothes and dumps them into the hamper, before heading into the bathroom. Seeing the sticks on the floor drives home that she's really pregnant and not currently carrying a tumor. Well, if you look at it, this fetus was a tumor. One that she needs to decided fast if she wants to get rid of it or not.

"But they're kind of a miracle." She mutters, hands busy picking up the sticks and disposing of them in the trash can, while the bathroom bots whirls up to the spot to clean up any residuals. She takes a quick shower, not taking up to seven minutes.

Leilyn cleans up – and seeing as her hair was left out of the bathing equation, it doesn't take much time to do so – and puts on a simple outfit consisting of a free flowing, royal purple gown with wide, transparent sleeves and wears a pair of 4 inches block heel black sandals to match. She releases her hair from its half hazard braid and combs it. She rubs a little bit of white powder on her face using her palms, and puts on clear lip gloss. She grabs her four favorite bangles – two gold and two sliver – and wears two of each on each wrists. She wears a generous amount of her over the top vanilla and sandalwood perfume. They are one of the last gifts given to her by Damien and R, before they walked to their deaths. She puts them on with a bittersweet smile.

With a nod at her appearance, she goes downstairs.

"Zoranne, I'm going for a stroll in the town." She says, picking up her Holo-Watch – deciding to forgo the CH Eye Contacts on the center table. She wears the watch on her left wrist and the Ear-Seed in her right ear. She doesn't blink an eye when Zoranne appears by her side. "When I come back, maybe I'd have decided if I want to terminate the… pregnancy or not. Cosmos knows that I have no strength for kids, miracle or not."

"Of course, Ms. Leilyn." Zoranne's holographic form nods. "Should I tag along?"

"No." She shakes her head. "I wanna be alone right now. See ya." And with that she walks out, the door closing shut behind her. She walks over to the garage, which Zoranne has already opened the door. She presses her thumb on the activation pad and gets in. She checks if she still has some money in the car, and when she see a stack of UPCs in their thousand, she nods with a smile.

Without further ado, she drives out of the garage and then out of the property.