I am not, nor will I ever be a physician. So if any of my ideas are
wrong, please forgive it under the terms of science fiction. Also any
relation to real events that will or have happened are completely
coincidental and if this does really happen it would be extremely weird.
Thank you.
The Invaders: Cue the Cheesy 50's Sci Fi Music
Coal, Oil, Iron ore; all these natural resources had been used for two
centuries before mankind realized the folly of its dependence. The
Twentieth Century started the conservation movement to try and limit the
use of Earth's limited resources. Governments made small attempts to
follow the recommendations that scientists said would lesson the crisis.
Years passed with the problem only growing larger as more and more
resources were consumed. The problem building and building until the dam
finally broke.
The year had been a centennial. People celebrated a hundred years of
peace and prosperity that was unrivaled in any period of history.
Natural resources that were predicted to run out in the middle of the
previous century; lasted far into this one. Medicine improved, with
equal rights for everyone making it possible for true legal fairness.
The delicate nature of this peace collapsed when oil wells and coal
mines around the world went dry. All of a sudden the resources that
drove the economies of almost every country were not falling in a
handful of numbers, but in the hundreds. Oil wells in the Middle East
disappeared as if by the hand of god. This large depletion of the
resources divided the Earth. Many knew that in order to survive they
would have to switch to other methods of power, construction, and
economic trade.
The question that arose in every government of the world was how long it
would take to convert from the past world order to the new one. The
death sentence came in a report put out by the European Union and the
United States. A mutual investigation by social and physical scientists
worked together to put a date on the conversion. It would take 10 to 15
years for the world to switch from its old methods of production to the
new one. The problem being, the Earth only had 4 to 5 years of resources
left at its current use.
The Fuel Race began in earnest a year later. Countries that were once
allies for centuries turned on eachother to acquire resources.
Governments toppled as more conservative institutions that did not wish
a military solution were voted out of office or physically removed by
revolution. Millions of Americans, Africans, Europeans, and Asians
marched in the streets as they pressured their governments to war. No
quarter would be given to the enemy that threatened their way of life.
Preservation of culture turned into the new ballad for death and
destruction.
The Middle East was the most tragic story. Having no defense against the
larger powers looming over it, the Arab populations were slaughtered by
the large Western and Eastern nations as they divided the land amongst
themselves. Mexico could have suffered the same fate at the hands of the
United States, but for a last minute referendum by the president of
Mexico, giving the USA full rights to its oil fields. This saved it from
being invaded.
Strong countries will prey upon the weak. It is the undeniable truth.
Once the oil fields and coal centers of the Third World had been
occupied, the larger countries set eyes upon their counterparts. The
status quo had become the mission of the state. People desperately
wished to keep themselves from being the weaker country that was gobbled
up by the stronger. Riots began in the streets of countries that refused
to use force to obtain resources.
Beth Anniston sat at her desk, rubbing her temples with her fingers. She
had all of this to worry about and more. Beth was the youngest person of
her station at 32, as well as being the dream of every feminist in the
country by becoming the President of the United States. Women flocked to
the streets to celebrate her oath into office. Beth would have rather
been in her Vice President's seat at the Senate than being in the Oval
office. She also wished she had not arrived in her current position
because of a death. Mrs. Anniston ran with the then Governor of
California; Joseph Conners. She only joined the election because the
opposing parties' candidate happened to be a woman and her party wanted
to appeal to the women voters.
Joseph Conners occupied the president's seat for a little over a year
before he died of a stroke three days before Beth was sitting in the
oval office. She took her oath of office at her youngest daughter's
dance recital. A long sigh passed her lips as her long blonde hair fell
before her eyes. She remembered a time when women were the gentle ones,
where men had been the brutes and women their moral superiors. The girl
baby boom of 20 years ago destroyed that premise. In that generation 3
girls were born for every 1 boy. At the current time she could count 7
countries at the top of her head that contained populations of over 70%
female majority and some that went as high as 85%. According to some of
the women of the past century, the world should have been in peace with
women at the helm.
Beth laughed to herself.
"Madam President?" Her secretary asked as she saw her laugh.
Beth simply waved her hand in front of her face. "I was just thinking of
what I remember hearing my grandmother tell me when I was a little girl.
How women dreamed of putting a woman in the presidency. How the world
would be at peace with us directing it. Now I am directing this country,
and the loudest voices that want me to continue the war for the next 4
years, when we'll have completely converted, are women. SO much for
peaceful."
Her secretary raised her eyebrow. "I think you misunderstand. Most of
them have lost their husbands, brothers, sisters, and mothers to the
war. They don't want it to have been all in vain."
Beth let out one long sigh. "So why do they continuously run bills
through the Legislature that limit the amount of oil and coal our
military can use. We've been cut down so much that air strikes are down
to 1%, ships are limited to troop transport and nuclear vessels. Have
you seen some of the reports from the front?" The secretary gave a curt
nod. "Good. Do you realize that they are fighting in a manner that
suited the First War of the World (World War I) 200 years ago? Artillery
and infantry have once again become our greatest forces." She rubbed her
temples again, the stress giving her a headache.
"Ma'am. I believe that there is a more pressing manner at hand." Her
secretary pulled out a long folder.
Beth waved her hand back and forth, pulling the stray hair that had
gotten in her way back onto her head. She hated looking in the mirror in
the morning when she thought about what they were forcing her to do. A
draft that would institute woman as front line soldiers. Those women
who'd been killed already were caused by accidents or other reasons
besides direct combat. Most other countries already instituted such
drafts as their male supply was extremely low. Men in her country had
been unwilling to give the job of fighting the war to women. For the
first 3 years; they got their way. However, when the war proved more
brutal than modern war normally was, when the average body count rose
from dozens to hundreds and then to thousands; the population of women
to men rose with it, making it 75% female majority in the US and then to
80%.
In order to survive and continue to procreate, she had to bring the men
home and replace them. The problem was male pride. Men, now boys since
the age for drafting men into the army had gone down to 16, did not want
to be pulled back because of their gender. They preferred to be wounded
or die than be relieved of duty and sent home. Large groups who were
sent home before by President Conners started riots in major cities.
Her eyes wandered too the picture she transferred to this new desk. A
smile passed on her lips as she saw the three figures contained within
it. Her oldest daughter had just turned 15, her hair split into two
pigtails with red ribbons. She stood with her arm around a young boy.
Beth chuckled at the thought of how much he looked like his father. She
cared about her nephew as much as she cared about her daughters. Her
littlest one adored her cousin and literally hung around his ankles due
to his height. A long sigh escaped from Beth's lips. Alex's father and
mother were killed three years apart from eachother in work related
accidents. He was taken care of, but he always seemed rather distant.
Beth was given custody of the boy and had decided to leave him to his
own devices. He'd been well behaved and gotten good grades in school; so
she thought of him as macho, but not obnoxiously.
She wondered if he would get bad influences from where he was now. He'd
been drafted when she was still the Vice President. She'd been able to
pull a few strings and have him assigned to a battery of artillery. Beth
wished she could have kept him in an even safer location, but she didn't
have the power to do it when he'd joined. By now he knew his job well
enough to not appreciate his aunt interfering with his life.
"Madam President." The secretary said louder than before to get Beth's
attention. "I believe you have to make a decision." Beth leaned forward
with a sullen look on her face and started to read the paperwork. Her
eyes roved over it, trying her best not to think what it would bring to
the country. "Sometimes I wish that we still had those antiquated
patriot missiles.
Her secretary raised an eyebrow. "You might as well fight with swords.
Nuclear devices?" She scoffed. "Besides it would destroy the targets
with the enemy. We don't want to annihilate the resources do we?"
Beth took out a pen and fiddled with it as she read the paper. "I know
that. Now let me read." She got a curt bow from her secretary. Reading
without having her mind wander was a completely different story. "I
wonder how Alex is doing." She said to herself.
"DAMMIT BOY!!! Get your ass over here and get some grub before Sam here
eats it all." Smitty said as he ran his hand through his gray beard.
Alex stood with his hands on a can of grease, running it through the
barrel of the howitzer he and his friends worked on. He ignored the
older man's shouts; making sure he checked every single part of the gun.
When he decided he had given it a proper check; he walked over to the
campfire.
"Damn, I swear you spend more time on that gun than the battery
commander does. And I thought he was anal." The old man laughed to
himself as he held out a hand for the boy's mess kit. Alex didn't mind
the older soldier's teasing. He'd been serving the gun for over a year
and by now Smitty accepted him as one of the team. He thought about how
much the two of them contrasted. Smitty had silver gray hair and a long
beard that seemed to be spotless. It was rather confusing since the old
man chewed tobacco and could always be seen spitting it into the fire.
Alex on the other hand was only 17 years old, his sandy brown hair being
cut to a crop so that only a long point came in front of his head and
then curled in front of his forehead. They both were filthy with dust,
the dirt, and sand showing what could be found instead of water in the
desert. Without black gold, Alex would bet his entire pay that they
would never even think of coming to this hellhole. Of course his pay
wasn't that much to put on a bet, but it was all he got.
Alex took a seat on a nearby stool, handing his mess kit to the older
soldier and getting it in return; filled with soup. The term soup should
be considered a very loose term as it had to be mostly broth with a few
carrots and meat thrown in for flavor. "You know why I am so attentive
to the gun." Alex said as he took out a salt shaker and started to salt
his meal. He slipped his jacket off in the process with the other arm.
Then he switched so he could continue doing both.
Smitty spat on the ground. "Boy you still going on about that? So you're
aunt happened to be the VP when you were recruited. So what? I think
anyone who still dwells on that has an ass for a head." Sam simply
nodded. Sam confused Alex. Smitty was just a bitter old man. Sam on the
other hand seemed to have his spectacles imbedded into his brain. He
always analyzed everything he saw and usually was in charge of
positioning the gun. He never talked unless asked a direct question, and
he never did anything without being told. Though when he was given a
direction, he made sure to do it to the best of his abilities.
"Well you know what they say." Alex said as he ate his meal.
Smitty's eyes sparkled as he smelled a debate. "Well than if you think
they question your ability as a soldier. Maybe they have some ground to
stand upon." Alex's eyes flared at the old man. Smitty's smile showed
several yellow, crooked teeth. "Now don't get yourself into a fit. Leave
that to the women."
Sam looked up from his food, asking without words what Smitty meant. "I
didn't mean getting into a fit was what women do. I mean it's there job
to get you into a fit." Smitty pointed the spoon at both his gunmates.
"See back when I..."
Alex let out a long moan and rolled his eyes. "Oh please not one of
these stories again. You got any new ones?"
Smitty grunted. "This is about women back then. You heard all the other
stories of mine. So you need to hear this one. Now back when I was
young. God 40 years now. Well back then there was almost the same amount
of men as there were women. I'd say about 57% women and about 43% men.
Not too far a majority, just a little one. Well then we got that big
boom of girl births. I remember that. I was a young man at the time."
Both younger men scoffed at that. Alex sneered, "You were a young man
once? Don't make jokes now."
The old man growled. "Now you stop being insolent. Anyways I was going
to say that back then we used to be men."
"Uh aren't we still men? Last time I checked, which was last night I
believe, I still had a dick and two balls." Alex smirked at his own wit.
Sam snorted and fell over, still by some miracle not spilling his food.
"I meant we were raised to be TRUE men. Do you know what I saw when I
went home on leave a month ago? Well I will tell you. I came home and my
grandson looked totally uncomfortable. I asked him what the problem was.
He answered me and said that he normally wears dresses and skirts when
he's at school and home and that he didn't understand why he had to wear
the coarse, nasty boy clothes whenever I came home." He seemed to be
almost burning with animosity.
Alex shrugged as he leaned his hand into his pocket. "Well guess you got
a problem then."
Smitty shook his head. "It isn't that he's different. In fact every boy
his age wears them. Their mothers dress them up like little girls. Sure
their very few boys in school now, but most of them that are young
enough to stay at home are being feminized already. So I ran to his
mother and almost tore her apart. And she told me, listen to the nerve,
that that was how the world went nowadays and that I should stop being
so old fashioned."
Alex pulled out a lighter and lit a cigarette. He coughed a bit as his
lungs got used to the smoke and sucked in a deep breath. He hadn't
really started yet, though the bad habit was beginning to take root into
him. "Almost makes you want to turn the guns on them back home huh?"
Smitty gave another one of his crooked smiles. "Nah. You see this is how
I see it. We are fighting the enemy right now for resources right? We're
told that it's to continue our way of life; for survival. But that's a
pipe dream. Our way of life will die no matter what we do. So if we
fight to keep it, and kill the enemy long enough for women to start
taking our place, well we get to go home. What do you think millions of
fighting men are going to do when they find their sons dolled up? We'll
rebel and take our rightful place again. I don't want to put women down,
but I don't want to have my grandchildren sissified either."
Alex pulled his jacket on and stood up, taking out a small canteen and
washing his mess kit out. "Whatever. I grew up with a school uniform
that had a skirt and a bow. Believe me they dolled us up. I looked like
a girl from age 10 to age 16. But when they threw me into boot camp and
taught me the hell I was going into." He paused to shake the water out
of his kit. "Believe me; I grew up to be a man real quick after that. So
I don't think we'll be sissified as long as we're killing. Besides the
enemy right now is mostly female. We're already killing the
establishment." He placed his kit into his satchel and started walking
towards the gun. "Well we better get ready or the commander will chew us
out. Besides the next radio call from infantry is ours."
The crew reluctantly got up from their meal, throwing their mugs of
coffee into the fire to put it out. They had been standing and
monitoring their sector for the past seven days and their forces still
couldn't take the three eastern oil fields. Smitty took out a small
collapsible table from next to the gun. He then reached into his pocket
and pulled out a map. Written all over the piece of paper were different
coordinates and relative unit locations. A relatively tall man chose to
walk next to him at that moment.
"I see you decided to grace our battery with your gun crew." All three
men stood at attention and saluted. Captain Holster was not one to miss
any military pomp. He would make them sorry if they failed to show him
what he saw as his due respect. Smitty would have a few harsh words to
say about that at supper time.
"Yes sir. We just finished our meal and are prepared to..." He paused
for a second when a drop of water hit his nose. Another dropped followed
and soon the rain came in one huge downpour. "That's odd sir. No weather
report on rain in the damn desert. This is odd."
The captain of the battery gave him a look of utter disdain. "No matter.
It does RAIN in the desert after all. If it didn't there would be no
cactus. We have a report for a fire mission on these two sectors here."
He reached his long pointy finger towards the map. The captain always
discussed the specifics with Smitty. Alex simply loaded the gun. He
wondered how such a wiry captain had been given command of their
battery. His nose twisted in an odd direction, probably broken when he
was younger. Alex guessed that wondering about the captain's looks
weren't really his concern, but Holster just didn't seem like a person
who stuck out in assignments. He reminded Alex too much of a reed for
that.
"Do you have it?" The captain looked at Smitty as he smartly saluted.
"YES SIR!!" Smitty responded as he handed a set of levels to Sam.
"Alright kid ram one in and we can get this started until the radioman
leads us to a different area."
Alex nodded, lifting the oddly colored shell. Plastics had made a huge
jump from the previous century. No plastic could have survived escaping
from an artillery muzzle before. Now it helped lesson the dependence on
metals. Thankfully, and as Alex learned from one of Smitty's long
lectures, they didn't need any natural resources to make the plastics
anymore like they did in "His day."
He rammed the shell into the casing, the hatch closing along with it
automatically. Alex then pulled back, covering his ears as it went off.;
only to repeat the process as the gun fired into landscape. After a few
shells it became automatic, leaving him to think. The rain and
everything else not disturbing his mind.
"You're going to be late." A voice yelled from downstairs. Alex fixed
his hair, pleating back the skirt that went to his school uniform. He'd
allowed his hair to grow out to a pretty good length, all the way to the
middle of his back. The bow on his sky blue uniform making his skin look
pale; just the affect he wanted. He posed in the mirror, blowing it a
kiss and then walking downstairs. How carefree those days were back
then. The very thought of them reminded him how far his fall from grace
was.
Of course home seemed to be miles away; literally and figuratively as
Alex kicked an empty shell casing out of his way.
Another set of eyes watched the ensuing battle that raged around the oil
fields in some random desert on earth. She'd seen the Earthlings fight
over it a dozen times. She'd listened to their government broadcasts and
seen them evolve into this the past 20 years. Being on an observation
mission she hadn't been able to do much about it. She wondered what her
father would have said about this current state of affairs. Probably
nothing or maybe everything, since her father had seen the exact same
things when he looked on the small blue planet. She swirled in her
chair, staring into the picture that formed on the northern wall of the
ship's bridge.
"Atmospheric pressure seems to be reacting to our presence here ma'am."
The woman next to her said as she checked a small pad on her shoulder.
The girl didn't appear to be that much different from the aliens down
below them. Her body had the same proportions; she had a small cute nose
and a pair of dark blue eyes. Of course her hair was also dark blue and
her commander could tell by her uniform that she owned a larger than
normal fleshy tail poking from the back of her pants. Except for the
hair color and the tails though, Serin, the commander, didn't see that
much difference from the Earthlings.
She let out one long sigh. There was something else she wished was
different from her planet and the Earthlings below. She'd just learned a
year ago, only a year, that her ship was the last survivor of her
planet. The home world began a resource war of its own. The starships
they built to monitor the galaxy needed a specific mineral to run them.
When that mineral ran short, they reverted from a thousand years of
peace, to all out war. That war exterminated the race as a win all or
nothing campaign began. Now the city sized ship, about a million people,
was left. They received the message to return too late to do anything,
but bury the dead.
"We are a rather large ship. I would think it was a given that we would
cause disturbances." She rolled a strand of pink hair in her finger.
Serin would have also wished one other thing didn't hold true for her
current predicament. Everyone on the ship was only one gender. After her
daughter's generation died out, they would be extinct. It also seemed
likely that if the earthlings were left to their own devices, they too
would be extinct.
"How many have died in this current conflict down there?" She asked the
girl next to her. The girl looked at the device on her shoulder. A few
minutes passed with Serin getting impatient. She looked up at the girl.
The girl fiddled with the machine, obviously nervous. "Oh here it is
ma'am. The current toll is around 43 million killed by either famine,
war, or other reasons above natural death toll."
Serin annoyingly rapped on the arm of her chair. She quickly stood up.
"Alright. Keep monitoring from our current cloaked position and I will
make a decision in a few hours."
"A decision on what?" The girl asked, seriously confused.
Serin sighed as she walked outside of the bridge. Oddly enough the rest
of the ship was huge. She didn't know who designed the bridge, but they
obviously cared more for the rest. She stepped into a platform, pulling
her cape behind her, and kicking her long boots. "Take me to my
quarters."
The platform made a sharp whooshing sound as it started to move forward,
gliding on endless space out of the long hallway. It then met thin air
as the city held within the ship came into view. A dozen lights glared
off into the black canopy that held the insides of the ship. She sighed
and put her hand to her forehead as it whisked her to one of the smaller
buildings at the top of one of the tall skyscrapers. The door in front
of the platform disintegrated as she walked towards it, the door
rematerializing behind her as she stepped into the room.
"Annie?" She yelled into the room. Serin still had no idea why she named
her daughter an earth name. A girl stuck her head from behind a wall and
smiled.
"YO HO!!" She yelled and jumped in front of Serin with her hand raised
into the air. The difference between the two could be told the instant
one looked at them right next to eachother. Serin had dark pink hair
that came just to the back of her shoulders, her clothes a dark red
color with a long flowing cape, and a skirt that came just to her knees.
It was clearly a uniform. Annie on the other hand, wore a strange dress
that was cream white with lace around the neck that came up around her
long light pink hair.
The difference in clothing and hair wasn't the only difference. Serin
was tall, around 5'11, with large breasts that jutted from her uniform.
Her long legs also made her an endearing figure. Though she did wish
that she had a longer tail like the young girl who had been giving her
information earlier. Annie was almost a foot shorter than her mother,
her tail being long enough to need to be curled around inside her dress.
Thankfully her figure hadn't pushed itself outward yet, or Serin might
have decided not to bring her on the current mission. She thanked the
heavens that she'd decided to do so. Maybe if she'd brought along the
girl's poor mother they'd all be here and happy.
Her mouth turned into a frown at seeing her daughter's welcome. "You've
watched too much of that Japanese programming haven't you." Annie turned
her head to the side at her irate tone. Normally her mother would just
pat her on the head and they'd both eat dinner while talking about their
day. Something was bothering her.
"What's wrong?" Annie's big pink eyes asked questioningly. Serin smiled
at her daughter and patted her on the head.
"It'll be alright. I just have to think." And with those words she went
to her room, sitting in one of the chairs. She rubbed her temples again.
What would she do with this planet below her? She'd been ordered not to
interfere with the Earthlings and to only observe them. Now the people
who gave her the orders were dead and she just happened to be the ruler
of the single ship of survivors.
Not only did she have the concerns of her own people to worry about, the
Earthlings also must be considered. Currently the Earth contained a low
male population, which they happened to be in a fervor to deplete even
more, and a war over resources that could end in the same manner her own
planet's had. She rubbed her chin. Of course taking away the self
governance of the Earth so that she could procreate her own species and
supposedly save them could have its negative consequences too. She could
threaten them with complete annihilation. Her ship had more than enough
firepower to annihilate the Earth.
What to do then? She mulled over the thoughts in her mind. More of her
wanted to interfere, while at the same time allowing the Earthlings some
solution to their problems. Her ship could last another century on its
power supply. But they would have to realize that they could work
together. And if they didn't she'd have to force them. Who would be
Earth's representative though? That would be another problem she had to
solve now that she decided to interfere. For in the end she really never
was allowed anything to decide. Well maybe luck would be the best way to
choose.
A plan started to mull through Serin's mind. The plan had to be done
quickly though and without hesitation. If she maintained any
reservations about it, she would not be able to accomplish her goal, and
possibly two species would die for nothing.
Serin walked out of her room, seeing Annie as she passed by. She turned
around, putting her arms around her daughter in a hug. "I'll need you in
a bit. Stay here so I can contact you. We're going to do a little,
experiment once I take care of some things." Annie looked at her as if
she had just sprouted another head from her shoulder. Serin giggled to
herself as she reached a communicator next to her wall. She'd have a
drawing. She'd send a message by phone to every countries leader around
the world and the person who picked up first would be the Earth's
representative. A lucky draw of who picked up the phone. "Serin you are
a genius." She whispered to herself as she turned the machine on.
Beth paced back and forth inside her office; her hands shaking and her
face as pale as a sheet. It had only been a week since the phone rang
that night. She'd been putting on her jacket to leave when her secretary
picked up the phone to make a call. She'd picked it up before it could
ring and subsequently caught the person calling in. The secretary walked
in with an odd look on her face. "Someone is calling for you Madam
President. She says she's an alien or something like that. Its just
unsettling that she sounds so calm and sure about it."
Beth wanted to call the operator to trace the call and commit the person
on the other end. She'd found that they were still on the line and
telling her that she'd just won a contest of sorts for her planet. She
slammed the phone back on the receiver. Some people couldn't know worse
times to joke. She had a war to fight that the people were stuffing down
her throat and here someone was playing practical jokes.
She hadn't taken three steps towards the door before a bright light
enveloped the room and three people appeared from out of nowhere. The
Secret Service Agents drew their guns and covered Beth physically before
she could raise a hand and stop them. The woman's dark pink hair flew
past her face and she stood at a height that made Beth feel
uncomfortable. She felt even more uncomfortable when they informed her
of their demands.
Of course they expected her to answer their demands as a leader of the
entire Earth. She thought at the time that the rest of the world's
nations wouldn't listen to her at all. That had been her error. When the
aliens informed the other nations what they would do to them if they did
not follow her directions, they became more than willing to listen. They
hadn't proven their abilities yet, but everyone agreed that if they
could travel the galaxy, they could probably destroy the Earth in the
blink of an eye. So the role of Earth's representative was thrust upon
her.
The demand that the war stopped was easier than most thought possible.
Just the introduction of an alien ship appearing over the main opposing
armies made them stop of their own free will for a de facto armistice.
With that out of the way, Beth just had to capitulate to the other
demands that they made upon her. She never questioned how they were able
to communicate with her, or how she hadn't needed a translator with the
places on earth that didn't speak English. Well she didn't want to think
about that.
There were three more demands presented. The integration of the aliens
into the human society didn't seem that bad. The last two demands were
what made her so distraught. How could she do such a thing to them and
to him in particular? Her own flesh and blood.
"Ma'am?" The secretary shocked Beth into jumping out of her skin and
back a few paces. She held her hand to her chest. "I'm sorry if I
startled you. I just wanted to help you with your decisions and I have
the paperwork to have the young man reassigned."
Beth sat down on her desk, her eyes staring at the floor. "He's my
nephew. How can I turn my own flesh and blood over to them when I know
what they are going to do to him?"
The secretary placed cold eyes upon her. "Well, they plan to do the same
thing to them all don't they? It's really beyond your control. Since the
decision isn't yours to make, then their is no blame."
"DAMMIT!! It's not that simple. I'm helping them. If I sign this
paperwork and bring him here for them to take him, than I am handing him
to them. Why can't they pick someone else?" She slammed her hands on the
desk as she wheeled herself over to her proper seat.
The secretary let out an exasperated sigh. "They want an offspring of
their leader to mix with a child of our leader. Since you have been
designated the representative of Earth and since you have no sons, your
nephew was the next logical choice. I believe they have a second reason
for wanting the pairing. After all if they can't breed these two
together in the manner they want, than breeding between the species will
not be viable. They're taking care of it. We were already doing it
psychologically to them for years now. It's inevitable that it ends like
this."
"Just leave me alone." Beth placed her head on the desk and waved the
lady out. She wrapped her arms around her head.
"What's that boy?" Smitty said as he ate a whole piece of bacon in one
bite. The entire crew used their gun as a chair now since the aliens had
arrived. Fighting a style of warfare that died a hundred years before
you were born seemed pointless when a ship the size of a city hovered a
few miles above your heads. The fighting ceased and now the men enjoyed
the time off.
Alex looked up from what he was reading. "It's a letter that tells me to
report to DC."
"The Capitol?" Smitty said with a bit of shock and almost choked on the
piece of bacon he had eaten whole.
"No the old comic series that went out of business fifty years ago."
Alex joked.
"Damn fine comic COMPANY." Smitty corrected. "And why would they want
you to report to DC for?"
Alex shrugged. "Beats the hell out of me. But it says that I leave today
in about an hour."
"AN HOUR!??" Smitty said in shock. "Damn do they cut these things short.
Not that you have much to pack. Well you'll be going back to the land of
dresses then."
Alex coughed. "Yeah right. If the drill sergeants didn't beat dresses
out of me when I came to boot than nothing on earth ever could. I swear
all of us in a line, dressed to the gills in lace and ruffles like we
learned to wear in school. We all got hit five times by the sergeant for
being pansies the first day. I'll be damned if I ever wear a dress
again."
"Yeah right. Bet you can't wait." Smitty retorted.
"Yeah to leave your smelly butt behind. Now I gotta get packed so I can
leave hell and get a good meal for once. Rancid bacon isn't exactly my
favorite meal."
"It ain't rancid." Smitty yelled back as Alex ran to his kit. He didn't
want to show it to anyone else, but he just happened to be ecstatic that
he was going home. Being in war for a year made him realize what a
wonderful place home was. He didn't have a mother or father, but his
cousins made up for that. Not that he wanted to be back in a dress;
which he knew most schools were making everyone wear despite gender. If
he had to, then he would wear it. Living in the grime that he'd lived
while in the artillery battery taught him that clothing meant nothing.
An hour passed in a matter of moments, a driver coming to pick him up.
Alex thought the machine looked rather odd with the solar panel on the
back, but he didn't argue with protocol.
"Well Smitty. Well Sam. I want to say its been fun fighting with you
both. But it really hasn't been fun at all. I'll say I've learned a lot
from both of you and I hope to bring the truth we've learned here back
home."
Smitty snorted and then spat a cloud of brown juice onto the sand.
"Don't talk about foolish things. We aren't going to get anything out of
this that's good. I know I'll die before it happens, but the era I hoped
for is going to fly right out the window. Mark my words that those
aliens have something planned for men. What they'll do to the women is
beyond my intuition. I just know we're done for. I feel it in my bones."
"Always a joker to the end old man?" Alex shook his head and then shook
both men's hands. "I'll say hello to the civilized world for you. And
don't let them get away without firing a few shots." He pointed to the
ship in the sky.
Leaving wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. It had started when he
turned on his heels to join the driver and culminated with him sitting
in a chair while he waited for his aunt to let him into his office.
Something must be up. No soldier would be called by the president. He
gulped the lump in his throat. Maybe the aliens wanted to do an autopsy
on him for that century old Alien Autopsy they'd done.
"You may come in now." Someone said next to him, making him jump out of
his chair and try to jump under a table. He stopped himself before he
could throw himself down onto the floor. Being under artillery barrages
forced him to be jumpy. Alex exhaled. This would be a long day.
He followed the secretary down the hall, his boots clacking against the
wooden floors. He wished he was given more time to clean himself up. His
uniform was streaked with sand and dirt that still covered it like a
thin mist. He'd been able to polish his boots, but not much else. Being
presented like this made him feel self conscious despite what the
military happened to weed out of him. Maybe dresses weren't useless
after all once one entered normal society.
The secretary led him to the door to the office. He stopped at the edge
of the door. "I'll tell them your here." She said as she entered the
room. Alex thought on that word: them.
She stuck her head out of the door again. "You may enter."
Alex walked forward, entering the room and then stopping in the middle
of the floor. He smartly clicked his heels and saluted. "PRIVATE FIRST
CLASS ALEXANDER A?" He was interrupted by Beth's hand as it waved in
front of her face.
"We don't need any of that Alex." She walked forward and then wrapped
her arms around him in a firm hug. "I'm glad you're safe." He stiffened
a little in her grasp. A cross look passed by her face. If things had
gone on as they appeared to have gone and all the men returned home, she
supposed that all home comings would be something like this. The men
originally were a lot more feminine than their forefathers and war
forced them to change quickly. Mother's waiting for their sensitive sons
to come home would find that they had disappeared and replaced by hard,
proud men.
A long sigh, much like ones she let slip before; passed Beth's lips.
"Well I suppose we should start introductions and explanations." She
waved her hand towards the two women to the right of her desk. Alex's
eyes followed her hand, his head staying in place. The older woman's
hands crossed in her lap and he could tell she was sizing him up. The
girl on the other hand didn't appear to be paying attention to him at
all. She simply stared out the window at the tree that graced the back
of the office.
"You know you can go at ease." Beth said as Alex still happened to be
standing tense and rigid at attention. He relaxed slightly, only
stepping a bit to the side at parade rest. "As I was saying," Beth
continued, "They are the commander of the alien ship and her daughter. I
believe you call yourself Serin and Annie correct?" She looked for some
agreement on their part.
"Correct." Serin said as she turned and made a small circle around Alex.
He kept to his position, not budging an inch. She rubbed her chin as she
made a few more passes. "He'll do rather well I believe. Well your
nephew is a rather fine specimen and will do nicely."
Alex raised his hand. "What does she mean do nicely?"
Beth sighed. "Well you see they wish to experiment on interbreeding with
their species and ours. They wish to take you up on their ship and have
you mate with this girl. As the representative of earth my offspring has
to be offered. Since I have only girls and you are the only male, they
requested you."
Alex bit his teeth together to keep silent. He'd jumped at the word
experiment. "May I speak freely ma'am?" He asked.
Beth nodded her head, knowing this would most likely be a long and
colorful speech.
"I would like to ask the Madam President if she is completely out of her
mind. I am not a sheep to be bred to see if our species may mingle with
theirs. Cattle are treated better due to recent legislation. I will not
do as requested and prefer to be shot than be subjected to such a
travesty. How am I to know what they will do once I am on the ship? I'd
rather have a fighting chance here than with them."
"PRIVATE!!" Beth said as the yelling had given her another migraine that
she kept with her dozen other migraines. Alex went back to attention
when his rank was called. He knew that he just happened to be the lowest
rank in the military and that the president before him just so happened
to be at the top. As an artillerist he had a sense of pride in his work,
but then he would have never gotten that chance without his aunt. He
didn't like it, but his outburst hid the fact that if he was ordered to,
he would obey.
Beth knew this as well. She could see that indoctrination had been
drilled into the boys mind. The sense of male pride oozed from his pores
at having dealt with combat for so many months. She wanted to mother
him, to hug him, and make sure he stayed home exactly where he belonged.
But it would eventually happen to them all no matter what she did. As
much as her heart broke to order him to do so. "Private you will take
your things from outside and report to their transport outside to
disembark."
Alex saluted smartly, a little too smartly as it were and did a complete
about face. His eyes bore into his aunt from behind as he walked back
out.
Serin grinned until it seemed as if her smile would slip off her face
and onto the wall. "He is high spirited isn't he? He'll be fine,
healthy, and happy when he returns. No blame will be put on you for
doing what is beyond your power." She put a hand on Beth's shoulder.
Beth shrugged it off, she may not be able to control the chain reaction
she now found herself in, but that didn't mean she had to enjoy the
process.
Alex cursed to himself as he walked towards the platform that would take
him into the unknown. He couldn't imagine what horrible tests they were
going to put upon him. Annie walked next to him, leaning on him and then
looking up at his face. She'd been nervous to meet the person who would
eventually be her mate. After a few changes of course.
"I'm Annie." She introduced herself properly to him. His eyes rolled as
he reached into his dusty jacket and pulled out a cigarette. He lit it
under his hand to keep the wind from blowing it out and then took a long
drag.
"I don't care what they want us to do. I'm not going to enjoy this or
cooperate beyond what will get me in trouble." Serin got onto the
platform herself.
"Now be nice to your, what was that word? Oh yes, be nice to your
fiancee. She's going to be with you for awhile and needs you to help
her. I hope that our two species can intermingle and have peace
forever." She said as she clasped her hands together and then kicked the
platform. It started to float up into the air.
"Not if I get you over open sights I won't." Alex said in comment before
the platform whisked itself towards its home. Before Alex could count
the seconds on his fingers, he was inside the brightly lit ship. The
wall seemed to glow and glitter with life. They appeared to be moist,
but when his hand glided over it, the texture proved to be soft and
pliable, but definitely dry. "Holy shit." He said under his breath.
Serin smiled as the platform stopped in front of a long hallway. "You
see as our guest for now you will have a private room. When everything
for tomorrow is arranged, we will summon you and prepare for your
coupling. Of course that will take some time to fabricate. Now Annie
give him a tour and let him eat and then the two of you can spend the
night getting to know eachother." She watched, knowing she wouldn't have
to set up anything if her daughter did her duty.
"Yes mother." Annie said as she wrapped her arm underneath Alex's and
started to drag him away. Alex cursed himself for doing what he'd been
ordered to do. Of course if he resisted to what they had told him, he'd
end up doing it anyway by force. The pure powerlessness was all to well
known to him. The tour itself did prove to be rather interesting. The
machinery and the actual proportions of the ship would shock an
earthling engineer. Of course after awhile the size of everything ran
thin on Alex's sense. There were only so many hallways he could be
dragged through before the whole experience tried him. The one part of
the ship that did interest him, the bridge, proved to be rather
disappointing due to it being a very small room in comparison to the
rest of the ship.
"Uh, Annie was it?" He asked as she began to show him another set of
programs that ran the automatic platforms. She looked up at him. "Can we
retire to the room I was assigned to? I wish to get out of my dirty
clothes and go to sleep. This whole day has just been one long nightmare
and I wish to get it over with. Perhaps I'll wake up tomorrow in my
foxhole and find out this was one long horrible dream."
Annie looked hurt that he appeared to dislike the tour she had given.
The hurt look made him pull back a little. "Well if you want to stay and
talk I suppose that will be fine too." She perked up, jumping a little
so that a small strand of her pink hair got in front of her eyes. She
blew it back onto her head and grabbed his arm again. He tried to resist
and could feel his arm almost wretch from its socket.
She dragged him down one of the many hallways the ship sported in this
section and then quickly stopped in front of a large door. "Here we
are." She said as the door quickly disappeared when she neared it. It
quickly reappeared when they had entered and she let go of his arm. The
room looked as if it had been transplanted from one of the upper scale
hotels on Earth. Their was a large screen TV, which didn't work to
Alex's dismay, a large bed with satin sheets, and mahogany furniture.
The best accommodation it sported was the balcony that seemed to suspend
itself over the dome that held the major part of the ship.
Annie twirled until she caught herself on the rail. "Nice isn't it?" She
giggled and leaned against it. Alex simply grunted in his throat and
slipped his jacket off and started to throw his clothes on a spare
chair. The sand and dirt dribbled onto the thick carpets as he slipped
out of his boxers and threw them on the chair along with the rest of his
clothes. "I'm taking a shower." He stated as he found the bathroom,
slamming the door shut.
The bathroom happened to be as fancy as the rest of the apartment. Each
bit of porcelain gleamed from its cleanliness and could be easily
mistaken for marble. He didn't care as he checked his reflection. His
hair still curled in front of his forehead, his eyes dark brown marbles
in his head. He ran a finger past a scar he had at the edge of his left
shoulder. "Damn shrapnel." He commented to himself. Close calls were to
be honored and scorned at the same time. He scratched at his leg. After
all his body hair grew, he found any itch to be trifling.
Annie waited til the shower started, the water dripping onto the floor.
Slowly she reached into what looked like the side of her dress,
inserting her hand into a pocket that no one would have guessed existed
unless she placed her hand within it. Her hand clasped something, a
large bulge of nervousness passing down her throat.
Alex looked straight into the mirror again. Well now he was clean.
Drinking water would probably not be wise while he was on the ship.
Thankfully he had stored some water in the pouch in his jacket. They
wouldn't be able to find it to drug it if they tried. Even if they did,
he'd find tampering. "Remember trust nothing." He reminded himself as he
wrapped a towel around his waist and walked out.
"DINNER!!" Annie said as she pulled a tray out from a small cart. Alex
eyed it with as much distrust as he could muster in his eyes. She looked
down at the tray of steak and mashed potatoes and gravy. "What you don't
like meat?"
Alex's stomach grumbled. All he'd eaten was a small biscuit on the way
to the capitol and that biscuit had been moldy when he acquired it.
After that he'd been rushed so quickly on the ship that he couldn't get
a bite to eat of "safe" food. He owned water, but living without food
could sap him of strength on its own. Well if it was still hot, she
wouldn't have been able to dissolve it completely into the food. A roll
lay right next to the steaming hot food. He quickly grabbed that and
yanked the outer crust off to leave only its white insides. His mouth
quickly allowed him to devour this and then scratched the edge of his
nose with his fingernail.
Annie's cheeks pouted outward at his clear distrust. It wasn't that he
didn't have cause. After all being sent home from war, he'd found he was
to be mated to a complete stranger. Not to mention that complete
stranger just happened to be an alien. She leaned over the food. "Don't
be mean and eat."
His eyes simply roved over to the tray. The smell wafted up his nose,
making his stomach growl even more at the fact that he hadn't allowed it
to intake more than a small amount of bread. He quickly lit a cigarette
with his free hand and took another horrible puff. Occupying himself, he
decided to get dressed. Anything to take his mind off of food. He slid
back on the boxers and pants. The rest of the clothes were too filled
with sand to be of any use after he showered.
"That smells nasty." Annie covered her nose with her hand and tried to
disperse the smoke with her other.
He smirked a little and then threw it off the balcony. The thing
disappeared rather quickly as it flew into the darkness "Better?" He
said. Annie answered by doing something that seriously confused him. She
ran over and then wrapped her arms around him and kissed him deeply. He
grabbed her shoulders and then pushed her off of him. She rubbed her
shoulder as he threw his hand to his neck. "You scratched me with your
nails. What are you aliens? Insane?"
She shook her head and smiled. "Nope."
He shook his head at the scratch. "Never mind. Just promise not to do
anything like that again and you can stay. And can you please get rid of
the food. I'm not hungry." She shrugged, leaning over and then picking
the food up. It easily fit in a slot that appeared in the wall and
disappeared from sight.
"And why shouldn't I kiss you? We're supposed to mate. Don't mates kiss
eachother out of love?"
"We're not in love." He retorted.
She thought about it for a second and agreed. "You're right. You're too
distrusting and loud. And you're mouth tastes like that thing smells.
Besides I hope you know the food was perfectly fine. You could have had
a very nice meal. Well mother was right, humans are very distrusting of
others. So sad really."
"I've had enough people shooting at me for me to ever trust anyone. It's
kept me alive." She appeared in front of him faster than he thought
possible. Her eyes shook and she clasped his hand in hers. "What are you
doing?"
She looked up at him with those large pink eyes, leaning forward on his
side. "It served you well then, it won't here."
His face contorted for a second. "What's that?" He looked down at her as
she leaned up against him?
"What's what?" She asked. He narrowed his eyes and then grabbed onto her
wrist, pulling her slightly to the side. He did a good job of not
hurting her, though she found it a rather odd position to be held up by
one arm to the side. "What are you doing?" She seemed more confused than
anything.
The edge of her dress pressed up against her front, making her appear
smooth. He grabbed the edge of the dress and hiked it up, looking under
it.
He turned a sheet white and let go of her hand as if it had suddenly
turned hot. "What the hell? You have a.. a.. a." He paused to take a
breath. He'd seen it. "You have a penis. You're a male."
Annie looked confused for a second. "Male? OH!! That? Yes I do have a
penis. I guess no one told you, but all of us on the ship are designated
male under your species I suppose since we have sperm. But on my planet,
the males and females physically resemble eachother perfectly. You can't
tell except by scent." She smiled when she said it, almost as if she
were teaching a small child about anatomy.
"But if all of you are like that." He was against the wall. "Then why do
you call her mother? Or even her?"
Annie giggled as she pulled down her dress and covered her mouth with
her hand. "Well she is my mother. We use the formal terms for parents
when we are like me, and the more informal term when we deal with those
who give birth."
"But you have breasts, how do you look like a girl, and yet it was
perfectly healthy. Estrogen makes it shrivel. How the hell?" His mind
went in a dozen different directions.
She touched the edge of her face. "Well yes I suppose if we had the
human equivalent of that hormone you'd be right. Ours is a little
different and we all have it. At least we did when mama and the rest
were alive." She looked depressed after that and cast her eyes at the
floor.
Alex could give a little sympathy on losing ones parents, but one
question instantly appeared in his mind. "But if you carry the sperm and
they want us to procreate? That means that I'd be the one."
Annie nodded her head. "You figured out most of it." She giggled as if
it were the most normal thing in the world. Alex jumped into the
bathroom, sticking his finger down his throat. Annie looked annoyed. "I
told you that the food wasn't poisoned. You could have enjoyed a hot
meal without any trouble or worry. Such a stubborn boy."
His hand instantly shot to his neck. She closed her eyes and then leaned
forward; nodding her head. He stood up, walking towards her, while
holding his neck. He wavered a little, the walk nothing like a charge.
His eyes fluttered a little, his body going limp and then falling into
her arms. Annie caught him, getting pushed back on top of the bed by his
weight. "It'll be only three days." She said as she pulled him up onto
the bed.
Alex felt nauseous, the feelings of sickness only getting worse with
every breath. He flew between life and death, simply muttering at
sliding his body from side to side. Annie quickly pulled his pants off
to cool him down. She hated administering the virus into his body. Her
own race had built immunities to the viral strain centuries before she
was ever born. Humans on the other hand seemed to get extremely sick
when it was administered. The early experiments with humans caused many
of them to die. Of course the other experiments filled the long list of
Jane and John Does that filled hospital beds as it was necessary to wipe
their memories. Without any ID they'd milled around Earth in their new
forms, never knowing the events transpiring before their lost memories.
Of course they wouldn't have to do that with her new mate. She wondered
if it proved more or less cruel that he would keep his memories. Annie
checked the machine installed over the bed that constantly monitored his
temperature. If it went over 100 she would have to call in an emergency
team. Of course that rarely happened now adays. As the body rejected the
old cells, it immediately replaced them. That helped to prevent the body
from degenerating like the first subjects. The only threat now would be
the rejection of the new cells by the old ones. If only the immune
system would just give up, nothing would happen at all and the
transformation would be painless.
Alex's mind traveled to other places while he lay in bed. The most
unpleasant being where he'd spent the last year. Though as time flew
past his mind, he seemed to be traveling back in time rather than going
forward. Then it stopped at the earliest defining moment he could
remember.
"Oh what a pretty little girl." The old woman said as she looked at
Alex. His mother had dressed him in dresses since he turned 10. Of
course to most people that seemed to be a rather late date. They'd
chastised her for not getting him in dresses earlier. Some tried to
feminize their sons at birth. Her mother simply waited for his father to
agree with it. At 10 he'd met the wrong end of the pavement from a 30
story drop. The window that went outside his office hadn't been
strengthened when he decided to put his head on it. Normally windows do
not break when someone leans their head against it. This one was
extremely old and while trying to use his hands to remove himself from
it, the crack had widened and he fell right out.
The company compensated for the loss, but his mother still had to work.
Of course it solved the problem of dressing him in a dress. He'd been in
lace ever since, despite his earlier reservations. The old woman stood
in front of him, marveling at how cute he seemed in the adorable pink
dress.
"Yes my son is cute isn't he?" His mother responded to the compliment.
The old woman instantly stood up from her half leaning posture. Her eyes
narrowed and opened at his mother. Obviously she was much older
fashioned than the new generation, who disapproved of the dressing of
boys in petticoats or dresses. Her voice became frosty and cold. "You
madam and your generation are sick." With those words she stormed off.
Alex's mother simply shrugged her shoulders. She knew she could never
convince or please everyone. She thought it would be a good idea to put
her son in normal clothes for once instead of dressing him like his
grandparents would have wanted. She sighed as she leaned her hand to
wrap around her child's. What a strange world they lived in.
Annie peeled an orange that she acquired from the president's office
when she visited earlier. Watching Alex's body bored her to tell the
truth. By the time she stopped checking the monitor and actually looked
at his body, the transformations had already begun.
Alex's dormant form shrunk slightly, the boxers being spread outward and
to the side by his widening hips. He seemed softer and though he hadn't
been exceptionally hairy before, the slight down of hair he did own had
fallen off and shriveled on the bed. The hair on his head grew fuller,
though not really lengthening. Her curiosity peeked, Annie reached her
hand over and touched his side. The muscles he sported from hard work
lifting shells disappeared into a more plump shape. His appearance now
seemed to be that of an adolescent boy who still retained his baby fat.
Annie checked the timer on the monitor. "Only 7 hours." She put the
knife she peeled the orange with to her face, making sure not to cut
herself. "I think." She thought a little harder. "I think I'll get
another orange. The knife clacked against the table as she rose to get
what she desired.
Alex thrashed about again, his mind wandering to the next moment when
his life changed dramatically.
George ran up to him, his wide blue eyes even wider as he tried to grab
his friend's arm. "Alex." He yanked on the top sleeve of the light blue
Sunday dress Alex was wearing for his school pictures that day. They
were thirteen and Alex spent the whole day trying to get his hair just
right. George, who probably spent even more time on his hair, yanked on
Alex's arm again.
"WHAT??" Alex got irate at his friend as he was ruining his clothes.
Being 13 at the time, he didn't need another person ruining his
clothing. George's face turned white as he gulped back something. "They
want you in the office. It's.." He couldn't go any further before Alex
ran past the long line and out into the hallway. Getting called to the
office on news that had turned George white wasn't going to be anything
good.
Alex slid past the door to the office, which happened to be quite a feet
considering the shoes he was wearing. Low heels were never meant to be
slid with. That didn't concern the 13 year old though. The news he heard
in the office did.
The compensation for the death of his father hadn't been enough to
completely raise a son on. The prices rose very sharply during that time
and his mother was hired by a reality company. Unlike his father, she
hadn't been killed directly at her company. Instead the electric train
she rode, twisted off one of its tracks and crashed into an embankment.
The track being about 20 feet above the before mentioned embankment, and
the fact that it had been going at a very high rate of speed; meant that
there were very few survivors. Less than a dozen people came out of the
train alive and of those, only 5 lived a day past the accident. Alex
couldn't move.
George felt guilty for being the messenger of the tragedy and tried to
console his crushed friend. He always stayed sensitive and caring for
the rest of his life. Of course the war and drafting of younger and
younger boys didn't do him any good. The last Alex had heard, he'd put a
gun in his mouth due to the stress during training and pulled the
trigger. It surprised him that more boys didn't do it. The rigors of the
military and the complete difference on how they were raised at home
should have caused more shocks than it did.
Alex woke up from his thoughts and memories, gasping for air. His head
pounded and his throat felt like knifes were shoved down inside it. He
tried to get up, finding that he could barely roll his body. He felt
nauseous, his stomach churning. The ground felt cold as he rolled off
the bed onto it. Only able to crawl, he made his way towards the
bathroom.
The toilet proved to be as high class as the rest of the bathroom. The
thing that Alex cared about was that it was clean enough. It contained
water and a flushing capability; that proved important too. Alex's mind
whirled around the room. Odd that he appeared to be lighter and heavier
at the same time. He must weigh less due to the sickness, but did that
mean he lost muscle mass too? His hands roamed to his legs. They were
rounded and fat. The edge of his chest also jutted outward slightly. If
he guessed, he'd say that he was starting to sprout a set of breasts.
Losing weight did not make one grow breasts. He looked down at his
stomach, it happened to be slightly pudgy, but nothing to suggest a
reason to having two swollen lumps on his chest. They didn't look odd
and he didn't remember much of his conversation earlier, so he didn't
link the two together.
Another wave of sickness passed over him like a tide, his face bulging
slightly, his eyes rolling upwards, and his body falling back against
the cool floor.
Annie walked back into the room carrying a wet rag and a glass of water.
She'd gotten thirsty and also needed something to keep down his fever.
The cold bedsheets did some of the job, but the machine proved worthless
at making him more comfortable. Primitive methods, such as a wet rag,
had to be used. She hated having to be sent around like a chicken with
its head cut off. But it relieved his suffering a little, so she did it
anyways. Her head twisted back and forth as she noticed he wasn't in the
bed. "I take my eye off you for five minutes and now you're lost." She
pouted.
She placed the two items she'd gotten on the table and looked in the
bathroom. The small form lay with its face down on the floor. Annie
moved forward slightly, kneeling down by Alex and then hefting him onto
his side. He weighed considerably less than when she'd dragged him to
bed two days before. By now he'd lost almost 6 inches in height, from
5'11 to 5'5. He'd lost about 50 pounds as well. Now as she held his face
in her hand she could see how soft his face had become. A sharp pointed
nose resided on his face, though it wasn't as wide as before and the
eyes were more dainty and set.
Annie wrapped her arms around his chest, using what were clearly a set
of A-cup breasts to support her. The boxers slipped off past the hips
and down to the floor. Alex winced as Annie tried to grab them, touching
his stomach as she went knelt. Annie's eyes wandered down to where her
hand was. Alex still retained what had defined him as male since his
birth; though barely. The organ hung limply to its owner, shriveled to
the point of being useless. The two companions that nature intended for
them to be joined with had long since drawn up into his body. Annie
shook her head. Getting him onto the bed must take precedence over her
random observations..
The duty of dragging him back to the bed proved much simpler with the
drastic difference in weight from before. She dropped him onto the bed,
pulling