aien mpreg drabble

“big brother has a kit in his tummy, like a grey-wing mommy.” shen quietly declared to his brothers. “I could hear her move inside him.”
“does daddy know?”

Rae felt ill, and he wasn’t sure why. He just wanted milk and rice, anything greasier or heavier made him nauseous. He felt bladed too, and his waist was steadily thickening. Maybe he caught a stomach bug, or ate something bad… blah, he wanted to just curl up with the nestlings and sleep.
Actually that sounded like a great idea. Might as well, the nestlings were very happy to snuggle up to him. Shen especially, he curled up in the curve of rae’s waist, laying his head onto the swollen stomach in a protective gesture.
“watcha doing, shen?” it was curious.
“listening to the kit!”
“silly shen, I don’t have a baby in my tummy. I’m a boy.”
“you have a kit in your tummy! And it’s a girl. She’s iiiiiitty biiiiity.”
“shen, I can’t have a ki- a baby. I’m a boy. Only girls can be mommies.”
“but you’re a mommy. You smell like jiiri’s big sister before she had eggies.”
Either shen was very good at putting the nausea and bloating together with pregnancy, or he really was…. No way. No way.
“shen I need to talk to marik…”

Apparently marik thought rae smelled like he was brooding too. He easily agreed to take him to the doctor, without even being told a reason. But walking over there… marik kept an arm around him tightly, glaring or even growling at any other male that looked or got too close to his pet. it wasn’t even conscious, rae hadn’t mentioned anything other then not feeling well. So he couldn’t know he was pregnant, and marik never acted like this when they went out…

“so… doctor… am I pregnant?”
“raemond, there is no possible- damn, how did that happen?” he glanced at the test. “you’re pregnant.”
“how did that happen?”
“honestly, I don’t know. I’m sorry. I think I can write a paper about this… maybe being exposed to pheromones from the aien females changed your chemistry to match them. You said that the nestlings could recognize you were pregnant, so you must be giving off the same scent…. Hmm. Lets get an ultrasound. The only thing I’m worried about is that you might miscarry from how different human and aien gestation is.”

“rae, how did it go?”
“marik, master… I think I’m going to be a mom.”