She was waiting when he walked through the door. Wearing a white
oversized cable sweater and grey sweats, the only pants that would
still stretch around her swollen stomach. She held out an open beer
bottle as he came towards her. "I cleaned the house, like you said.
Can we go now?"
Eric looked at Amy again. She wasn't wearing make-up, and had her
hair pulled back into a low ponytail. "Did you read to our baby?" He
watched her face darken. "Did you take your medication?"
"I can't think when I take that stuff and I don't need it anyway."
"Amy, you're pregnant. You need it for the baby."
"I can't get pregnant. You know that Eric." Eric moved towards her
with anger in his eyes. At six months pregnant, Amy was in no
condition to run from him. So she simply cringed as he towered over
her and roughly grabbed her arm. "Please Eric, you're hurting me!" He
led her upstairs to the bathroom and forced her to sit down on the
toilet as he unlocked the medicine cabinet and promptly extracted a
blue pill from a bottle.
"Take it."
"But I don't need it, and it makes it hard to think. You promised to
take me for a walk if I cleaned the house. This place is spotless.
Can we go please?" Amy stood up and tried to walk out of the
bathroom. Then she felt his hand at the back of her neck and she
cringed away. "No!" But it was too late. His finger traced a line
down the nape of her neck. Amy felt the fire ignite and she knew
there was only way way to put it out.
Early in the year of 2015 a plague struck America. Something which,
despite all the measures of the Homeland Security Act, had slipped in
under the radar. Over the proceeding years after what was known as
9/11; terrorists had become increasingly high-tech and viscous in
their attacks. But the final blow was to become known as The
Reckoning. Al-Queda forces had successfully kidnapped a prominent
German Biologist. Then, under the threat of death to his family, he
was forced to create a pathogen that would strike to the very core of
the American Bourgeois Society.
It's women.
Their plan was pure - absolute genius. Removing the Great Satan's
ability to procreate would in turn remove the Great Satan itself.
Canada and Mexico would be forced to close their own borders with
America. And Americans would become unwelcome pariahs all over the
globe.
The plague was released in over two hundred malls across the country.
The German Biologist had given the terrorists exactly what they
wanted. The average time period between a woman's menstrual cycle was
28 days. And the virus had been engineered to become active when
certain hormones were released into a woman's body on the 28th day...
The panic that ensued was on a biblical scale. Riots broke out across
the country and healthy women became more valuable than gold. But the
virus was airborne and it spread across the continent like a thick
blanket. Infecting and eventually killing every single female in the
populace who was capable of bearing children. Including the President
of the United States.
The succeeding male Vice President turned to the only retaliation
available. A full nuclear response. The entire Middle East was wiped
off the face of the Earth in exactly 28 minutes and 56 seconds. The
exact flight time for the first Tomahawk cruise missile to reach
downtown Riyahd. The world suddenly became a very quiet place.
The all-male United States turned inward, shutting itself off from
the rest of the globe and saving the other countries the effort. The
government immediately launched a massive research program on how to
rebuild their society. Fully aware that in less the five generations
what was left will have completely died out. Something had to be
done.
That's when Gender Re-designation Technology came about. And
something else that had long been forgotten about. The Draft. The
only difference now, was that draftees were pulled at 16 instead of
18; the age at which the reassigned draftees were optimal for child
bearing and female indoctrination...
It was as if the sound had been sucked out of the room it was so
quiet. The image of the Presidents face switched to the face of the
local news anchor, who began speaking about the speech the President
had just given. But no one was listening. The three boys looked at
each other in shocked silence, each trying to process the information
they had just received.
Every male at the age of age of sixteen, with a birthday before June
16th was to be drafted. The draft was to be activated in two hours
and all were expected to report in, those who didn't would be rounded
up shortly thereafter. Ryan spoke first.
"No fucking way. There's no fucking way that they can get away with
this, right?" He looked to his two friends, who held a look of total
uncertainty. They were both his seniors, both eighteen. They had
nothing to worry about since they were too old, but today was Ryan's
birthday. His sixteenth birthday. The date was June 15th. "Guys?"
David offered his best smile, "No way dude. Everyone knows that guys
can't have kids. Even those transsexual freaks can't do it. It's only
been a year since The Reckoning, there's no way the government can
work that fast, especially now."
Ryan wasn't buying it, "Guys you can't let them do this, you gotta
help me."
It was Eric's turn. "I dunno, maybe it wouldn't be so bad." Ryan
stared at his older friend with a blank look.
"They want to turn me into a girl, didn't you catch that part?"
"Yeah, I'm just saying it might not be that bad. I mean what if the
President's right? That would mean that in our lifetime we would
cease to exist as a country."
"I don't care! I'm not gonna get knocked up by some faggot!"
David stood up and went to Ryan's bedroom closet where he began to
pull random clothes off their hangars. "Ryan calm down. Tell you
what; why don't you come over and stay at my place. We'll call your
dad later. At least that way you won't be here when they come looking
for you."
Ryan looked between his two friends. The same two that he'd
practically grown up with. The mere thought of what the government
wanted to do with him almost had him in tears. "Okay."
They all drove towards David's house in silence. Every now and then
they would pass another vehicle; and almost everyone of them carried
a father and his sixteen year old son. A boy who always looked as if
the world had just caved in on him; which it had. Ryan sat low in the
back seat. There were soldiers out as well- driving around in large
covered trucks.
"What the hell?"
Ryan came out of his thoughts as he felt the car slowing down and
looked over Eric's shoulder to see a road block set up. "No fucking
way!" It was called Flight or Fight Syndrome. When an animal finds
itself cornered, or trapped and in danger it will first try to escape
then if unable; fight. Eric and David heard the back door open
suddenly and both turned to see Ryan bolting from the car.
As soon as his feet touched pavement he was off like shot. He ran
back down the line of waiting cars. There was a group of soldiers at
the rear end of the line, waiting for just such an occasion. One of
them carried a tazer rifle and he knew how to use it. Ryan never knew
what hit him and before he knew it he was being picked up from the
ground and loaded into the back of a waiting van.
He turned to his assistant. "They've all been injected?"
Dr. Jacobs looked down into, what was morbidly called the "holding
pen". This was the third group to be processed and he had managed to
waste all of his pity on the first two. But still it gave him no joy
to do this to America's young boys, but the survival of his country
depended on it. And if all went well, in about three generations
America would come roaring out of it's isolationism and reestablish
itself as the most powerful nation in the world. One could only hope.
But to accomplish that, he had to turn 16 year-old boys into 16 year-
old girls.
"Yes sir, that last one only five minutes ago."
"Well time for the speech then I guess." Dr. Jacobs turned again
trotted down a flight of steps to another door, where a large soldier
in fatigues stood. On sight of Dr. Jacobs he turned and punched in
the code to the door then opened it.
Everyone turned at the sound of the opening door. "Good morning, my
name is Dr. Jacobs. You're all fed and rested? Good. Now we all know
what you're here for so I won't waste time on that. I will tell you
this. You've all been injected with a serum. It takes three days to
activate. On the third day you will all change. We will be watching
on monitors and at the onset of frank symptoms you will be moved to
another room. Then your indoctrination will begin. You will learn
everything there is to learn about being female. Do not fool
yourselves into thinking that you can fight it. You cannot. Your
minds will adapt to its new body and you will find that there is no
resisting the urge to gush over something you may find especially
pleasing or cute. There is more but that will be saved for after the
transformations have been completed. Any questions? No? Good." With
that, he turned and walked out of the room, knowing that as he did
three days of ever increasing panic would be left behind.
A sudden yelp of pain came from across the room. The lights were
dimmed and the crying caused the others to wake, and slowly heads
raised to see who it was. To see who was crying in pain, in a girls
voice. It was Jason, someone Ryan had befriended on the second day.
He was writhing on the floor, clawing at his abdomen.
The others were moving away from him, but yet staring in horror at
what was happening to him. Is this what they had to look forward to?
Then another of the boys let escape a feminine scream; it pierced the
room, the door burst open and four large men rushed in and quickly
removed the both of them. The boys looked at each other. Who was
next?
Slowly, one by one their number dwindled until it was Ryan and
another sitting on the floor opposite each other. Backs against the
wall and staring at each other. "What do you think happened to them?"
"Same thing that's gonna happen to us, I suppose."
Ryan stood up and walked to the water fountain mounted on the wall.
"I swear to God the first chance I get - I'm so fucking outta here."
"Will you do it?" The other boy stood up as well.
"Do what, Mike?" Ryan stooped and took a drink.
"You know? What they want us to do?"
Ryan fixed him with a dead stare. "Never. There is no way I'm gonna
sleep with some faggot and get preg--"
Mike watched Ryan's face suddenly go pale. It felt as if every vein
in his body had ruptured. Ryan's body crumpled to the floor and he
gripped his stomach in agony. Somewhere in the distance he could
hear a high pitched feminine scream. His eyes managed to focus on
Mike who had a look of absolute horror on his face. Ryan felt hands
on him then being lifted and carried out of the room.
The room was silent as Dr. Jacobs entered. All twenty of the intakes
were transformed. In the middle of the room was a large wooden table
with simple black bags on it. It was a circular room and there were
twenty doors. "Ladies, good to see that you all safely made it
through. Telling you that you had a 13% chance of dying in the
transformation would not have helped." The twenty girls looked at
each other dubiously.
"Now. On the table is one bag for each of you. In them you will find
clothing to fit your new gender. You will put them on. Also included
are hair products, make-up and all the things you need to make
yourselves pretty. There are instructions to tell you everything you
may need to know. Behind you are changing rooms. Go ahead, I will
wait. There is much to discuss." No one moved. It was bad enough they
were now in these bodies, but now he wanted them to dress the part
too? "You can dress yourselves or my men can dress you by force."
They began moving. Slowly at first, but eventually they all took a
bag and walked into the changing rooms, all except one. Dr. Jacobs
smiled as his eyes landed on Ryan, who remained. Defiantly glaring at
him.
"I realize you probably hate the sound of your own voice, so just
listen. I was waiting for someone to step forward, someone who felt
the need to have themselves made an example of." Dr. Jacobs motioned
to the two soldiers behind him. "These men will now escort you to
another part of the facility. Thank you by the way; you've just made
my job somewhat easier."
Jimmy tugged on the sleeve of Mike's dress and pointed to a beautiful
blonde girl that had just been led into the room. "I think that's
Ryan." But something was different about him. For one he actually
looked good. Of course everyone looked like they had never even
picked up a tube of lipstick in their lives before; but Ryan looked
as if he'd used it for all his life. He couldn't have been the one to
do it to himself.
Some of the others tried to approach him, but Ryan did his best to
keep them away. "What did they do to you?" But he refused to answer.
Then Dr. Jacobs walked in with two soldiers and Ryan suddenly tried
to put distance between the two of them. But one of the soldiers was
very quick to grab him.
"Well it's good to see that you all know how to follow instructions.
Over the next few weeks you will all learn to do you're make-up as
well as Ryan here can. That will be one of the many things that you
will learn. But first it's time that you all understand exactly what
your positions are in the new social order." Dr. Jacobs saw that his
last statement made them a little uncomfortable. Oh, well. "Pursuant
to the Gender Rehabilitation and Social reconstruction Acts of 2015,
you are no longer free citizens. You are still citizens of the United
States, but you will never be free to do what you choose again."
"When you are finished here, you will be selected by one of twenty
young men. You will be married to these men and from then on you will
technically belong to them. They will be able to do anything they
want to you except cause you any kind of pain or death, therefore it
will be important that you keep your husbands happy. Which brings me
to why you all are here in the first place. To make babies, and lots
of them.
Your bodies are biogeneticly engineered which means that the way you
look, act and sound is exactly what we wanted it to be. It means that
no matter how hard you try to fight there are somethings you can't
resist. For instance," Dr. Jacobs moved to where Ryan was being held.
The others saw the terror in his crystal blue eyes as Dr. Jacobs
approached. Terrified enough that Ryan found his voice.
"No! Stay away from me!" Ryan tried to pull himself free, but Dr.
Jacobs was soon standing right behind him and slowly gathering his
long blonde hair to the side. "Not again! I did what you wanted,
please!" The others were getting scared now, Ryan had been the most
resistant among their number, and in the two hours he'd been missing
he must have experienced something really bad they all thought. Now
he was pleading to be left alone. More than that it was almost as if
he was begging for his life.
"Why Ryan? I thought you liked it. Or at least that's what it looked
like anyway." Then to the room. "Your purpose is to breed, to have
children. And so to make sure that you won't deny your future
husbands or the country their right to raise children..." Using the
pad of his finger tip, he traced a single line down the nape of
Ryan's neck.
It was like flipping a switch. The whole room watched as Ryan began
breathing very heavily as a deep blush spread across his body. His
nipples stiffened so quickly they hurt. And then the fire ignited.
Deep in his stomach, a burning sensation that seemed to consume him
whole. Leaving him with the sudden desire to be filled, to be mounted
by a man. Who would drive himself into her over and over finally
depositing his seed deep in her womb. She could feel her need for
that sensation returning. She needed to have sex, Ryan couldn't focus
his mind on anything else. The first time a soldier had been nearby
and able to help Ryan with his problem.
But even as Ryan reached for the tall man in fatigues Dr. Jacobs
prevented him from doing so. So Ryan instinctively reached for him,
quickly locking a hand behind Dr. Jacobs neck and trying to pull him
down into a kiss. But he deftly extracted himself and pushed Ryan
towards the group. Then spoke to them. "Ryan here has already lost
his virginity to one lucky soldier. Look at him it's all he can think
about. For you sex is like a drug to which you are highly addicted.
Once turned on, the only thing that will satisfy you is sex with a
man. Not masturbation, not lesbian sex, nothing but a stiff hard cock
cumming inside of you will satisfy your thirst." Dr. Jacobs saw them
flinch at that, it helped that Ryan worked his way back over was
groping all over him while he said it.
A simple look in Ryan's eyes and one could see the revulsion and
misery there. "Fuck me." Dr. Jacobs smiled. "Please don't leave me
like this." He was pleading.
"First you will pick a new name for yourself."
"Wha-what?"
"Pick a new name. A feminine name."
"But-"
Dr. Jacobs snapped his fingers and the two soldiers in the room
quickly grabbed Ryan and pushed him back towards a wall. One of them
produced a set of handcuffs and quickly clicked them on his wrists.
Then they raised her arms and hooked the chain between her wrist on a
hook coming out of the wall. Ryan was on his toes and couldn't get
free. Then he turned and addressed the others.
"Like I said; you cannot resist. The most resistant of your group has
already given in once and look at him now." The others did not like
this development at all. Ryan had been something of an anchor for
them all, but seeing his deprived state was extremely demoralizing.
"All of you will pick a new name, if you don't?" Dr. Jacobs looked
over at Ryan. Who was writhing as the fire continued to burn in his
veins. He was even rubbing his thighs together, trying to alleviate
the burn, but only making it worse. Only one thing was going to put
his fire out and Dr. Jacobs wasn't going to let him have it. Not for
a while, anyway.
"Let this be a final warning girls. Your friend Ryan doesn't even
know the name of the man who took his virginity. I want each one of
you to have a new name when I return in two hours." Before he left
the room he went to where Ryan hung from the wall and they all
watched his hand disappear up Ryan's skirt. He gasped and clamped his
thighs around Dr. Jacobs hand.
"Yes, yes. More please!" Ryan was completely out of his mind, and the
only thing he could focus on was the burning in his loins. He
clenched his eyes shut as his second ever orgasm began to build.
"Please gimme more I'm almost there!" But Dr. Jacobs pulled his hand
away. Ryan mewled as if he was in agony.
He said to the others, "Two hours." Then left the room.
Ryan heard the door opening and looked to see a soldier enter. Her
hopes soared, maybe he was here to kill the fire that was still
raging inside, then Dr. Jacobs entered. He wrinkled his nose as the
aroma in the room hit him. Ryan's secretions had thoroughly soaked
everything from the waist down. Including the carpet beneath her. The
others quickly got up from the floor on which they'd all been
sleeping. "Are you going to fuck me now?"
But Dr. Jacobs ignored Ryan and addressed the others first. "Since we
were all sleeping I should hope that everyone has settled on a new
name for themselves. You first." He pointed to a petite girl with
black hair in a white sun dress.
"K-Karen."
"Why did you pick that one?"
"It was my baby sister's, she died on her first period."
"I'm sorry to hear that. Good choice. You," he pointed to another
brunette. "What's your name?"
"Michelle."
Dr. Jacobs furrowed his brow. "What was your male name?"
Michelle shifted nervously and looked at the others first. He wasn't
the only the only one to try this. "It was Michael."
"Nice try. Your name is now Lucy. If there's anyone else that tried
the same trick,you'll end up like your friend on the wall." And so it
went and soon he was standing before Ryan, his hand up her skirt,
doing nothing but making her suffering worse. "And what is your name
going to be?"
It came out as a whine, "Amy."
"Why Amy?"
"It was my mothers middle name. Fuck me now, please. I've done
everything you wanted. Please make it stop."
"Will you behave yourself and cooperate?"
"Yes, I promise!" Dr. Jacobs smiled and motioned to the lone soldier
in the room. Amy saw the erection in the mans fatigues, and felt his
pulse quicken as he released her from the hook and led her away.
They fell silent as she came into the room. She felt her eyes boring
into her as she kicked off her pumps and sat on her large four poster
bed with her back to them. "Amy--"
"What do you want, Lucy?"
Three months had gone by since Amy's second and last episode. But
where everyone else had had the opportunity, today had been Amy's
first day out of the compound, unescorted. The experience had not
been pleasing. She had forgotten that a lot of men had not seen a
young female in almost a year.
"We were wondering..." Amy knew this was coming, just not when. She
was the only one out of all of them that had ever had sex. Not once,
but twice. And yes, she had enjoyed it... at the time. And only
because she had been out of her mind. Well his mind, anyway. Ryan had
successfully hidden himself inside a female persona. Amy had become
known as a very quiet and gruff person, but to juxtapose that was the
fact that, she could do her hair and nails better than anyone else.
Amy was the most feminine (and beautiful) draftee yet. This suited
Ryan just fine, as long as Dr. Jacobs was getting what he wanted,
Ryan was left alone. As long as Amy jumped through the hoops, Ryan
didn't have to suffer. "What's it like?"
She tried stalling, as much as Ryan didn't want to, girls were
expected to talk about this stuff. As much as guys did really. The
problem was that in order for Ryan to stay safe in his warm cocoon;
Amy had to play along. Dr. Jacobs still kept a very tight eye on her.
She realized now that she had made a mistake by standing out in the
beginning. All the better if Ryan had been able to just skate by,
under the surface. He still intended to make his own way in the
world. But Amy knew her plans for life after this hell hole would be
torn asunder if she didn't play by the rules. Dr. Jacobs would be
certain to tighten the screws on Amy if he even had a thought that
Ryan was hiding inside.
But they were asking her to go back to something she really tried not
to think about. "Amy?" She opened the bedside drawer and pulled out
her journal. They had all been assigned one, they were expected to be
used. Amy knew hers was read on a regular basis, so she wrote about
anything and everything that Dr. Jacobs might find interesting. Even
going so far as to make some stuff up. The first thing she had
written about were her two experiences with sex. She wasn't, or
couldn't, going to talk about it to them. But they could read about,
as long as she wasn't in the room.
Amy got up from her bed and walked around to where the four girls sat
on Lucy's bed. "Here, it's my journal. It's all in there, okay?
Please don't ask me about it anymore." She dropped the book on the
bed then turned and walked into the bathroom and closed the door her.
They soon heard the shower come on.
They were all nervous. Most of them huddled in groups whispering
amongst themselves. All were dressed to the nines; some having spent
close to two hours on their hair and make-up. This was a very
important day. Today they were to meet their husbands. The men had
all been preselected to each girl; this to ensure that there would be
no personality conflicts between the two.
This actually gave solace to some of them. If anything else, at least
they knew they would get along fairly well. This was extremely
important since all draftees were forbidden from divorce. So the men
they were stuck with were the ones they'd be with for the rest of
their lives. Every man had gone through an exhaustive psychological
and general background check. It was very important that every man
selected was a very stable and honest person. It wouldn't be fair to
the girls if one of them got stuck with a husband that thought
beating his wife was sport.
Amy stood near a window, staring out into the wooded landscape and
nervously playing with the diamond pendant around her neck. Dr.
Jacobs had promised her someone extra special. Whatever the hell that
was supposed to mean. As soon as the situation allowed, Amy had every
intention a leaving the man she was technically already married to.
As Ryan she had saved over $6,000 in cash which was stashed in an old
humidor under the floor boards of his bedroom. Get home, get cash,
get gone. There was no way he was going to stay home it would be the
first place they went looking when she went missing.
But she too, was turned out to her best. Her dress was made of sheer
silk with a satin underlining. It was black with pink embroidered
roses down one side and strapless, clinging to her every curve and
the flaring at her hips into a very short skirt.
"I always did enjoy a blonde in black." Amy's heart froze in her
chest as she spun to find Eric beaming down at her. In shock, she
took a step back but only bumped into the window. The color drained
from her face and her breathing starting coming in short gasp. "What?
You're not happy to see me?"
"W-why are you here?" Eric smiled and held up his right hand. The
white gold wedding band around his ring finger caught the light in
the room. That's when Amy's breathing stopped all together. She was
the only girl who had been given a wedding ring made of white gold.
"But that would mean that we're..." Amy let the sentence trail off,
Ryan couldn't bring himself to say it. Not to one of his two best
friends. Eric smiled anyway and took her hand.
"Come on. Let's get you outta here." Amy couldn't get her eyes to
focus and her head swam. The rest of the husbands had been allowed
into the room and it was much like a junior high dance; boys on one
side girls on the others. Erica led Amy through the middle and out
the double doors to find Dr. Jacobs waiting.
"Mr. And Mrs. Webber, one more thing." he reached over to a nearby
cart and picked up a medication bottle. "This is for you Amy, it's
very important that you take one everyday, up to this point it's been
added to your food." Amy began to reach for it, but Dr. Jacobs held
it out to Eric. "It's very important that she takes these if you wish
to have children." he watched Amy's face darken and smiled. "I wish
you two a long and fruitful life."
Amy watched the bottle disappear into the inside pocket of Eric's
coat. Okay, first make that bottle vanish, then make herself vanish.
Well maybe, it depended on whether or not Eric actually intended to
have sex with her, or if it would be safe for Ryan to come out of
hiding. Either way Amy would know soon enough.
Amy felt some one shaking her shoulder, and slowly opened her eyes.
"Finally." Amy sat up in her seat and straightened her skirt as she
did so. Looking around, she realized that they were in a rather nice
looking neighborhood. She looked over at Eric, who looked very tired.
"Where are we?"
"Takes you forever to wake up and not even a hi."
"Okay. Hi, how long have we been driving?" Eric glanced at the clock
on the dash of the Suburban and did some quick math.
"Almost six hours now. There was an accident on the highway."
"Six hours? Where did you drive to, China?"
Eric smiled over at Amy and said, "Well Dr. Jacobs gave me the choice
of any house I wanted. San Diego seemed like a good place. And here
we are." Amy looked as Eric pulled into the driveway of a large four
bedroom two story house. "Like it?"
"It's just a house, Eric. Why did we have to leave Phoenix?"
Eric turned off the Suburban and turned completely in his seat to
look at Amy. "Look Amy, I understand you're not happy about what's
happened to you. But for Christ's sake! Let's kill the friggin'
attitude okay?"
Amy returned his look without emotion. "Well if you really
understand how I feel Eric, then then very least you could do is call
me by my real fucking name!" And suddenly Ryan's question on how Eric
was going to treat him was answered by a slap across the face. Ryan
had shrunk during the transformation and Amy was now almost a full
foot shorter than Eric and almost a hundred pounds lighter. She
realized this in less than a second and became extremely terrified of
her new husband. Ryan quickly retreated back into his cocoon.
Obviously this wasn't going to work out the way he hoped. And now he
was at least a six hour drive to Phoenix and his $6,000 dollars.
"I'm sorry this happened to you Ryan. This isn't easy for me either,
but I thought you'd appreciate the effort I had to go through to get
here. Keep in mind that Dr. Jacobs will be watching us and he does
have the authority to put you with someone else who might use your
switch like a toy. So gimme a break and lets try to adjust, kay?"
Eric opened his car door and got out, slamming the door in
frustration. Amy got out and slowly followed Eric up to the front
door. Looking up at the house as she did so and only seeing a really
pretty prison. but she followed him anyway and waited as he unlocked
the door and then turned to her expectantly.
"What?"
His anger now gone as quickly as it had come, Eric smiled sheepishly
and moved to pick her up. But Amy jumped back, out of reach. "Oh no,
you're not picking me up." Eric's smiled broadened and before Amy
knew it he had managed to scoop her up and was walking through the
door. "Hey, whaddaya think you're doing? Put me down!"
Which he did. Setting her down on the marble floor of the foyer.
"Welcome home Amy. I couldn't let my wife walk across the threshold
of our new home could I?" Amy swallowed her frustration and smiled at
him.
"I guess not. Why don't you show me around."
It was the first time she had heard it, two months living here and it
was the first time she had heard the doorbell to her house. There was
something else that was amusing; her house. She and Eric had managed
to settle into a very comfortable and non-sexual existence.
Comfortable to the point that Amy was wearing Eric's sweats and t-
shirts around the house. His shirts were so big on her though that
she had to tie them in a knot on her back to take up the slack and
she had to role the waist down on the sweats to keep them barely
holding on to her flaring hips. This sex appeal this gave off was
lost on Amy and had yet to figure out why Eric spent a lot of time in
the bathroom when he was home and she was dressed that way; which was
almost always.
The doorbell rang again. Amy slowly walked to the door making sure
that Eric's sweat pants weren't falling down as she did so. She had
her hand on the door knob before she checked the peep hole. But when
she did her heart stopped in her chest. It was Dr. Jacobs. "Open the
door, Amy."
Amy found that her throat had dried out almost instantly and she had
trouble finding her voice. "W-Why are you here?" She heard the back
door opening and turned to see two large men coming through the
kitchen. "No! Get out of my house!" But even as she said it she knew
this was bad news. Amy turned and ran up the stairs to the second
floor. The two soldiers went to the front door and opened to allow
Dr. Jacobs in.
"Go find her. She's hiding something."
The two men quickly made their way up the stairs and soon heard a
shout of surprise and the sounds of scuffling. Another shout, then
crying and then begging. Dr. Jacobs slowly climbed the stairs and
found Amy being held by her upper arm and practically standing on her
toes to ease the pain of his grip. "What do you want? I thought you
weren't going to bother me anymore!"
"That's a pretty flat stomach you have there, you should be at least
three months pregnant by now, right?"
"Please Dr. Jacobs don't do this to me. I swear I've been a good wife
for him. Look how spotless this house is and can't you smell the
roast in the oven?"
"Yes, it it smells very good. But a good wife sees to all of her
husbands needs." Dr. Jacobs made a motion and the man holding Amy
deftly pulled her arm back into a half nelson. Dr. Jacobs then gently
placed his hand on Amy's shoulder, his fingers just barely resting on
the back of her neck. Amy suddenly regretted keeping her hair in a
pony tail.
He looked into her eyes watched her tears erupt. "But I have! I
swear!" The other man came out of the bathroom and handed Dr. Jacobs
a bottle of medication. The seal was still on it.
"Really?"
"Eric said he doesn't want kids. Please-"
"He's ratted you out Ryan. I don't think you realize how badly you
tease him with the way you dress." Dr. Jacobs smiled as he watched
the color drain from her pretty face. "That's right he told me
everything. Especially about how you won't even share a bed with
him." Dr. Jacobs lifted a finger and traced it down Amy's neck as he
leaned in to whisper. "And he lied to you, Amy. He does want
children; three of them." She mewled and renewed her struggling
trying to get away from all three of these men, before she became
completely senseless. "One more thing, Ryan."
Dr. Jacobs pulled out a syringe and waited as the both men held her
still, then he jabbed the needle into her arm, causing her to whine
from the pain. "This is a highly concentrated version of the little
pills you should already be taking. You will catch a silver bullet
on this." Dr. Jacobs tossed the syringe onto the dresser and then
pointed to the bed. "Put her there and tie her wrist to the
headboard. I'm sure her husband would love to see her waiting for him
to come home."
"No, please! Don't tie me up, not like this please!"
"Don't worry Amy, it'll just make you all the more eager to get what
your body wants." he said this as he reached behind Amy and pulled
the rubber band from her hair. Letting it fall loosely around her
shoulders. "He likes it when your hair is loose, and I'll even take
the roast out for you."
Amy was brought out of her stupor by the sound of the front door
closing. "Eric!" No answer. But she could hear him coming up the
stairs and soon he appeared in the doorway. "Eric help me please."
Eric took in the sight of Amy on the bed. Her hands were cuffed to
the headboard above her head and he could see her wrist were
scratched and bruised from the steel bracelets. Her blond hair was
loose and framed her face with one strand covering her left eye. The
sweats she was wearing had pulled tight against her crotch and her
juices had soaked through the gusset of her panties and sweats to
leave a large wet spot on the bed beneath her. And if he looked
closely he could see that it was a constant flow. "Eric, please. Just
fuck me!"
But instead of running to the bed like she wanted, he slowly pulled
his tie loose and began to undress where he stood. Amy watched
helplessly from where she lay. The burn that had settled into a nice
hot smolder was now heating up once again. Causing Amy to begin
rubbing her thighs together.
In her normal state she had always managed to not see her husband in
a sexual way. But Eric worked out, constantly. With out his shirt his
body looked to have been chiseled from a solid piece of stone. He
turned his back to her as he slowly dropped his slacks and underwear.
Amy had always made a point of never seeing him naked and he smiled
at the audible gasp she gave when he turned around and displayed
himself. She moaned at the mere sight of his penis; sending her
beyond the capacity to speak. Eric was a "big boy", easily nine
inches long and thicker than her own wrist. It stood straight out
from the dark mass of his pubic hair. "Fuck...me...now!"
They climaxed together, Eric for his first and Amy on her ninth. He
could feel her muscles flexing around his shaft as he ejaculated, the
head of his penis pushed right up against her cervix, thus injecting
his sperm directly into her womb. He was smiling down at her when she
finally opened her eyes and the look they held went from pure sexual
bliss to absolute horror and disbelief.
His organ no longer felt deliciously supple and firm inside of her,
it was now painfully big and unwanted. She had to get to the bathroom
and rinse herself out before it was too late. "Get off me."
"No."
"Eric please-" Eric supported himself with one arm and slid the other
under her neck. "No! What are you doing!?" Amy pulled at the
handcuffs that still held her hands to the headboard. Ryan tried
getting his knees between the two of them in an attempt to push Eric
away. But Eric countered by pushing himself all the way in, making
Amy cry out. "Please Eric, not again. Let me go." He smiled as he ran
his finger down the nape of her neck. Amy came instantly.
She was avoiding him, to the point that she refused to stay in the
same room as him. She stopped cleaning and the house quickly became
an ant infested stye. She rarely cooked and when he did manage to
bully her into it the fare was more than lacking, and was barely
edible.
But it had been almost three months and again she was hiding under
his clothes. Mainly because her own dresses and skirts weren't
fitting anymore, Amy refused to consider anything else but weight
gain, even though she'd already missed three periods. The morning
(and evening) sickness was always just "bad food". Eric had other
ideas and was belated at the thought that his wife might actually be
pregnant, but he had to be sure and he knew it wasn't going to be
easy.
Amy stood in the corner not understanding how he had succeeded in
this. For three months she had prevented him from cornering her and
now in a moment of sickness he had taken advantage of the situation.
Much to her dismay.
Eric stood in the doorway of the bathroom, even in her disheveled
state Amy was beautiful. And he found her fear of him oddly arousing
especially the way she pulled the collar of her turtle neck sweater
up to her ears. "What do you want? I told you I didn't want to cook
today."
"That's okay, we might be going out to dinner tonight anyway."
"Why?"
Eric pulled a prepackaged pregnancy test out of his pocket and held
it out to her. Amy's breath caught in her throat. "What do you want
me to do with that?" Eric watched her eyes begin to water.
"Amy-"
"I can't get pregnant, Eric. I'm a boy remember?"
"Amy..."
"Why can't we be friends like before, Eric. I'm still Ryan inside, I
just look different-"
"Stop it!" Eric was tired of this argument and knew she was just
trying to piss him off with something else so he would lose focus on
what was still in his hand. "Take the fucking test, Amy!" He stepped
into the bathroom more and Amy got more scared, tears were freely
flowing down her cheeks now. "You will take this test or I will call
Dr. Jacobs. right now!"
Eric heard the door opening and turned in time to see Amy running
from the bathroom, with the applicator stick clutched in her hand.
"Hey!" Amy ran from the room and Eric chased her down the stairs
towards the kitchen. She had managed to pull the door open to the
incinerator when he caught her arm and wrenched her away from the
appliance. Amy cried out in pain and suddenly found herself pinned
with her back to the wall. With a very angry husband standing nose to
nose with her.
"Something you might want to show me?" Amy felt so small and helpless
as she looked up at his angry face. It wasn't fair! Ryan had just
begun to lift weights before he'd been drafted. His sixteenth
birthday was supposed to signify his coming into manhood but instead
the little white stick clutched in her left hand completely negated
everything he had ever learned. No! He screamed from behind clenched
crying eyes. This isn't fair! I'm a sixteen year old boy, I'm not
pregnant. I can't get pregnant. I can't, I can't, I can't...
Amy didn't realize that she was speaking out loud, but she did hear
Eric speaking into the phone. "Yes I need to speak to Dr. Jacobs
immediately-"
She began hyperventilating. Why didn't Eric understand? Why was he so
hell bent on doing this to her, weren't they friends? Didn't he know
that she equated Dr. Jacobs with the Devil himself? No, he didn't
care not about her anyway. In his mind Amy belonged to him now and
was his to do with as he pleased. Ryan had been closer to Eric than
David. They had been friends since Ryan was 11 years old. Why was he
being so mean to him?
Ryan had tried to explain to Eric about how he was still the same
inside, he just acted different because he couldn't ignore the
feminine side of who he was, because, well, he was female. But inside
he was still Ryan and Ryan didn't want to embrace what she now was
and everyone and their damn mother seemed to be hellbent on forcing
it on him. Forcing her to be more emotional than she thought
possible.
But if Dr. Jacobs came things would get even worse and Amy would be
happy if she never even saw his face or heard his name again. "No
Eric!" She held out the applicator to him. "Please don't make him
come." Eric looked down at Amy. Her eyes bloodshot and waterlogged
from crying. "Please. I promise I'll do anything you say if you don't
make him come."
Eric took the applicator and looked in the little window, but the
blue line had faded and it was now blank. She took a half step closer
and carefully reached for his hand, "I just want you to be nice to
me."
Anger clouded his face, he had tried being nice and it had still
gotten him nowhere. He hated using her switch, it felt wrong to him.
But he had no choice, if they didn't produce a child she would be
taken from him. He didn't want that for two reasons: First, the next
man might not be as nice as her and second, he loved her. But she
wasn't ready to hear that yet. Dr. Jacobs came on the phone, "Yes Mr.
Webber? What can I do for you?"
Amy squeaked silent and began to reach for the phone, desperate to
prevent this. "Eric..."
"Dr. Jacobs I need you to come over please."
Amy cried out and bolted from the kitchen she had to find a place to
hide. The bathroom was no good anymore, Eric had removed the lock.
She couldn't get outside, Eric had all those locks coded to his thumb
print. She had nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape to. No way of
getting free. Eric found her standing in the center of the large
living room and turning around slowly. She had a hand on her stomach
gentle rubbing it in an attempt ease the sickness that was rising.
Eric approached slowly and reached for her. She was mumbling
something under her breath and her eyes glazed over. But as he
approached her eyes focused and she screeched. Jumping back from him
and knocking over a lamp in the process. "Stay away from me!" Eric
watched her throat flex as she struggled to keep the rising bile
where it belonged.
"Amy-"
"Call him back, tell him not to come! Please!" Eric moved around the
coffee table and Amy moved to keep it between them unknowingly
putting herself herself in corner. "Stay away from me! Call...call
..." Amy put a hand to her mouth and dropped to her knees.
Wracking sobs mixed in with vomiting greeted his ears.
She was really sick this time and couldn't move from where she had
laid on the floor, the puddle of vomit nearby and now beginning to
soak into the carpeting. She had curled up into a tight fetal
position her eyes screwed shut and crying softly. Through the fog of
her sickness she heard the doorbell ring and the panic began to rise
again. She tried moving, she had to get somewhere safe to hide from
the evil doctor.
But even twitching a muscle made the sickness worse. she heard voices
approaching and suddenly someone took her chin and forced her to look
up. "Open your eyes, Amy."
Amy opened her mouth several times trying to speak, but each time she
had to swallow back bile. "Amy, I know your scared of me, but I need
you to open your eyes." Slowly she opened them and found herself
looking up into a very bright light.
As soon as she opened them Dr. Jacobs knew he had to take her in. Her
eyes were horribly blood shot and her pupils were dilated all the way
down to tiny specks. She was definitely pregnant and was about to go
through a painful miscarriage if he didn't get her to the hospital
soon.
Dr. Jacobs produced a hypo spray and pressed it against her neck. Amy
managed to lift a hand in an effort to stop him. The last time Ryan
had seen a hypo spray he'd been turned into a girl he had reason not
to like them. But she was so weak that Dr. Jacobs barely noticed her
touch. "It's okay Amy, this is just to make you sleep." he felt her
fingers barely move as she tried pushing it away again. She didn't
want to be put to sleep, she just wanted to feel better.
She opened her mouth in a attempt to speak but he pulled the trigger
on the hypo spray and she was out before she knew it.
This was a problem that had been discovered during the first round of
the draft. The test subjects for the technology had been willing male
to female transsexuals and while the thought that not all would be
able to accept and move on did cross their minds; they somehow didn't
realize that almost anyone forced to change and live as another sex
would be highly resistant. Some could be made to adjust and accept
their new lot in life but others, more then Dr. Jacobs and the higher
ups appreciated, would remain highly resistant and quite rebellious.
Over time they had found that childbirth was the straw that broke the
camels back. Evidently the act of giving life to something ones own
body created was the defining moment of final conversion and full
acceptance.
One of the main reasons it was sure that no husband had violent
tendencies was because the girls could die from a well placed strike
anywhere on their bodies. But another problem was that once they
became pregnant their hormones could nearly drive them insane. And
stress they could otherwise normally handle could be deadly to them
and the unborn child. Neither of which could be allowed; dead
draftees would defeat the purpose of drafting them in the first
place.
Amy's ankles screamed in agony as she slowly made her way around the
indoor track. There were others walking as well, but they were kept
separate by the guards that walked along with them. They weren't
allowed to socialize at all. The solidarity to be found there would
only increase their mental rebellion. It wasn't for lack of trying
that they didn't talk to each other, it was just that if they were
caught their triggers were hit and then left to suffer until their
respective husbands would arrive. For some that could leave them
writhing for up to nine hours. Eric had just left about an hour ago.
"My ankles hurt, can I stop now."
"No."
Amy looked up at the man in green fatigues walking next to her. "But
I already did six laps."
"Dr. Lessell says you do ten now. Walking is good for the baby."
"But..."
Amy was cut short but a sudden yelp of pain from the girl in front of
them. Her name was Sally and she was from a draft intake group ahead
of Amy, she was also nine months pregnant. Another side effect of not
being naturally female was that their were no warning signs of labor,
the first contraction was as hard and painful as the last.
Amy watched as Sally's knees buckled and she dropped to the floor,
crying in agony and screaming the word no, over and over again. What
was happening registered in the back of Ryan's mind; that he too
would soon experience the same thing. And he tried to turn away, but
his guard wouldn't let him. Everyone stopped and watched as two
orderlies appeared and place Sally on a stretcher and carried her
away. She felt a firm grip on her arm was pulled towards a nearby
door along with the others. "Where are we going?"
"To watch."
By the time they entered the observation lounge. Sally was laid out
on a table her arms fixed above her head by shackles at the wrists
and her legs locked into stirrups at the thigh and ankles. She was
crying relentlessly now and pulling at her bonds. This wasn't
supposed to happen.
Amy was led to a seat in front and forced to sit down. She saw how
they had Sally strapped down and grimaced: she thoguht it cruel. Dr.
Lessell entered the birthing room in green scrubs and went to a panel
on the side wall. After pressing a series of switches he turned to
watch as the table Sally was laying on began to move upright. Forcing
her into a sitting position and bring her knees almost to her chest
and opened at a forty-five degree angle.
She didn't want to watch this, neither did the others. Amy stood up
and tried to walk for the door but she was stopped along with
everyone else. "I need to pee." They all urinated a lot these days.
"Hold it." The guard roughly forced Amy to sit back down in the
chair. They couldn't hear Dr. Lessell, but they watched his lips move
and then Sally nodded her head as if to answer a question. As the
next contraction hit they watched her hands ball up into fists as she
began pushing out the very thing she had denied existed for the last
nine months. A cry escaped her lips as she followed Dr. Lassell's
instructions from between her legs.
Another nurse came to her side and began huffing and puffing away in
a pattern, encouraging Sally to follow her example. At this point
Sally was willing for anything to make this horrid nightmare end.
Even as she huffed and puffed through another agonizing contraction
she eagerly awaited the moment when John would sit bolt upright in
bed and all this would be over.
But all she got instead was another contraction and another step
closer to being completely female in mind and body. John could
already feel himself slipping away, with every push that Sally gave
to expel the object he refused to recognize the smaller and weaker he
became. He knew this was it, this was the final battle and he had
lost the war. He didn't want to go, this wasn't right, and it wasn't
fair! But another contraction came and Sally suddenly found herself
pushing as hard as she could. And as John lost his final hold on
Sally's mind as the baby slipped free into the waiting hands of Dr.
Lessell.
John faded to nothing as Sally opened her eyes to see what she had
given birth to and was greeted by the petulant scream and cry of a
newborn baby girl. And as they released her hands and she reached for
her offered child and she heard the faint cries of a masculine voice
fade to nothingness in her mind.
Of course the medical staff around Sally knew that she had finally
accepted everything that had happened and were certain when she bared
a breast and offered the nipple to her child.
The others didn't understand, Sally had been just like them but now
she was okay with it? With that thing they had forced her to push
out. The same thing that all thirteen of them had growing in their
own bellies. No! With just a cursory glance around the room, Amy
could tell she had just come to the same conclusion as everybody
else. She had to escape this place, even if it killed her. Surely
death would be preferable to what they'd just witnessed.
Amy didn't understand it. How was this happening?
Dr. Lessell smiled as he watched the monitor fed by the camera in
Amy's room. She was six months pregnant, the third and final
trimester, and the time when a pregnant woman's hormones have her sex
drive pinging right off the charts. Amy and two others were beside
themselves in frustration. Frustrated because they didn't know why it
was happening, frustrated because it was happening, frustrated
because they didn't want it to happen and worse of all because they
couldn't figure out how to make it go away.
Amy alone had masturbated three times today alone. Any other girl
that might have been okay for awhile. But instead each orgasm they
had only made things worse and although it wasn't as bad as having
her trigger hit, it still left her with the need of a man climaxing
inside of her.
Amy was sitting on her bed, fingers tightly interlaced together and
clutched to her chest as she slowly rocked back and forth. Sleep
seemed to refuse to come and take her, leaving her to rot in this
condition. Touching herself only made things worse, but she already
wanted to do it again. She was almost in tears from it all when she
heard the speaker overhead click on. "Amy?" It was Dr. Lessell's
voice.
"Yes?"
"Are you okay?" Amy swallowed the lump in her throat, she wanted to
scream no, to beg him for something to make this stop, but not what
she wanted and not what he wanted her to have.
"I...I can't sleep." Dr. Lessell glanced at the wall clock in the
monitor room; it was 3:30 in the morning. "Could you give me
something to help me sleep?"
"Why can't you sleep, Amy?" He knew damn well why she couldn't sleep,
she was too fucking horny!
"Please Dr. Lessell, I want to go to sleep. I've been good."
Dr. Lessell could tell she was on the edge of losing it. She had
first starting showing signs during her morning walk and that was
almost seventeen hours ago. The longest she had ever gone, to his
knowledge. Something he'd have to ask Dr. Jacobs. "Amy, would you
like us to call your husband?"
It took almost 45 seconds for her to respond, but Dr. Lessell watched
her head slowly nod on the monitor.
It took Eric just under three hours to make the trip from San Diego,
to just outside Phoenix. Because of his relation to the Program he
had been issued a special pass that allowed him unlimited speed to
wherever his wife was located. He enjoyed it immensely, it wasn't
everyday one had the opportunity to peg the needle on their
speedometer.
Eric smiled at the thought that Amy had requested him instead of him
just having to go and cool her off. Truthfully he had never really
enjoyed using her trigger, it was too close to rape in his mind and
made it difficult to perform. But this was different and even as he
was escorted down the hall towards his waiting wife his erection was
straining in his jeans.
The sentry opened the door and waited for Eric to enter before
closing and locking it behind him. Amy was standing next to the bed,
wearing only the lose pink top of her uniform and a pair of white
satin panties, which were soaked through. "Hi Eric."
"Hey Amy," he said with a half smile. Amy looked, other than
incredibly aroused, nervous and unsure. Which she was, this was to be
the first time she'd ever had sex without her trigger. Which meant
she had a clear mind and fully understood what it was she wanted from
him and she had to coax it out of him. Internally Ryan railed at this
injustice, but there was nothing he could do, he couldn't sleep until
he made love to his best friend turned husband. But she didn't know
what to do first.
Eric watched as she took a hesitant step toward him. She reached
behind her head and pulled her ponytail loose. In her mind she was
playing out the only porn movie she had ever seen, except this was
the part where Eric was supposed to drop his pants and screw her
brains out, but he wasn't doing that, yet. Instead he just stood
there staring at her with this goofy smile on his face; making this
harder than this already was.
Amy swallowed another lump in her throat and opened her mouth to
speak, when Eric suddenly closed the distance between the two and
picked Amy up off her feet.
She fell asleep around eleven in the morning.
Eric rolled in the small double bed, his arm out to clasp the warm
body of his pregnant wife. His eyes opened when all he felt was empty
blanket and sheets. "Get them to open the door, Eric." Amy was
standing in the corner of the room, directly under the camera so she
couldn't be seen. But it didn't matter because the little red light
wasn't on which meant they weren't watching. She was holding his
butterfly knife, but it wasn't open, yet.
Eric silently cursed himself, carrying that blade was such a habit he
forgotten he had it. "Amy what are you doing?"
"Don't call me by that fucking name you asshole."
Ryan.
"Just get them to open the fucking door." Eric slowly moved into a
sitting position and placed his feet on the floor. "I swear to god
Eric, you make one move towards me and I will cut your fucking dick
off." The fact that Ryan could still feel Eric's cum leaking down
his thigh made that a very pleasing idea. "Don't forget you taught me
how to use this thing."
Ryan dropped half the handle and let the blade fall out before
turning it and pulling the handle back together; just for emphasis.
"Get them to open the door. Last time I'm gonna ask before I give
them a reason to come running."
Eric silently studied this person he was in the room with. Obviously
it wasn't Amy. And if it was Ryan, then his good friend was very
upset. The fact that Ryan had yet to raise his voice was disturbing
at the very least. "Okay Ryan, can I get dressed first?"
"No. I need easy access in case you try something."
"Come on Ryan-"
"I said no! Now do what I said!" There was suddenly the sound of a
key in the lock and the door swung open. Ryan was wound so tight he
lunged at the first soldier through the doors. Sinking the blade all
the way through the mans kidney. He screamed in agony and then
everything went into hyper speed. The second man through reached for
Ryan but she took a step back into the room and kicked him in the
groin as hard as she could. Part of Ryan felt bad for that, but he
was on pure survival mode now. He'd just stabbed someone, that was
attempted murder. Escape was no longer a desire but a necessity.
He moved to exit the open door, when Eric grabbed him from behind.
Wrapping Ryan in a bear hug and lifting him from the floor. "Lemme
go!" In a lucky shot Ryan threw his head backwards and nailed his
husband dead on the nose with the back of his skull. Eric yelped in
pain and released Ryan who landed on his feet, then ran out of the
room.
It only took one day for Amy to realize that her swollen stomach was
like a sore thumb and invited more trouble than a whore house next to
a prison. Eric hadn't filled the tank of the Expedition and Amy was
only able to get about thirty miles out of Phoenix before she ran out
of gas. She had been able to hitch two more rides and was now within
twenty miles of the Mexican Border. But didn't know what to do, now.
Part of her plan had been to retrieve the money from her fathers
house. But she wasn't even able to get into the neighborhood they had
been looking for her so hard.
And that was just the beginning of her problems. She had run out of
water yesterday and hadn't eaten anything in two days. Already she
could see evidence of the beefed up border guards. No longer cops in
green, but Force Recon trained Marines in desert camouflage. Amy knew
these men were now the best equipped and trained soldiers in the
military. Their job was to keep the miscreants out and escaped
draftees in. It was certain they knew about her and that she was
headed their way.
From the hill she was standing on she could barely make out the
border wall. Another obstacle she hadn't even known was there. A wall
of steel and concrete that rose over sixty feet above the floor of
the desert and another forty feet beneath it, with various sensors
and monitors for at least five mile before reaching the wall itself.
Either way it was better to wait until night when it was much cooler.
Amy began working her way down the hill. Picking through the boulders
and joshua trees in an effort to find a large boulder to lay under,
one that wasn't occupied by snakes. Near the bottom of the slope she
found a table rock balanced on top of another. After throwing a
couple rocks under and around to be clear of snakes; Amy removed her
rucksack and climbed under the rock. The task made more difficult by
her swollen belly. But eventually she got situated with the rucksack
between her knees.
Sleep came quickly and mercifully.
Amy wasn't sure if it was the baby kicking or her stomach growling,
either way it woke her up. The sun had set and the heat of the day
was quickly dissipating. It took effort for her to sit up and that
act alone seemed to drain her of what energy she had gained by
sleeping. After attempting to stretch the kinks out of her back, she
pulled the backpack over and began to rummage through it. Hoping that
just maybe she hadn't eaten the last granola bar yesterday. But she
found nothing. So instead she pulled out the heavy jacket she'd found
in the back of the Suburban and shrugged into it, quickly pulling the
zipper over her swollen stomach and up to her neck.
And now she didn't know what to do. It was easy enough to plan her
escape from the United States. But that was before the knowledge of a
fifty foot wall that stood on the horizon like a steel belt running
across the planet. There was no way he was going to be able to get
over it. Not in this condition.
So what to do?
What to do?
Honestly, Ryan hadn't really thought this far ahead. For more than a
year now he had only been able to focus on escaping to Mexico but
never on how to do it. And now here he was, almost seven months
pregnant, thirsty, starving and cold in the middle of the Arizona
desert.
Ryan's situation finally struck home. Somehow he had convinced
himself that this whole experience had been a horrible dream, but the
chill that came through the jacket and sank to his bones told him
otherwise. He was filled with a heart crushing sorrow and he began to
weep. And that weeping became crying which soon turned into balling.
He was going to die out here. Alone. No friends. No family. Not even
Eric to help him.
Oh, Eric. The one person who had tried to be nice to him since this
whole thing started. The one person who had tolerated her irrational
fits during PMS and had actually held his hair back during the months
before his stomach started growing. Would it have been so hard to
swallow his pride and be the wife Eric wanted him to be? Even the sex
wasn't that bad. Just different and maybe if he had allowed himself
to get used to it she might have liked it even. It was possible. And
now because he had been such a bull headed ass, Ryan found himself in
a impossible situation.
"Help!" At the top of her lungs. "Please someone help me!" Amy didn't
want to die out here. She didn't want to die period. She climbed out
from under the rock and struggled to the top of it. Desperation
filled her chest. She wanted to go home, she wanted to apologize to
Eric and try to be the one thing he had asked of her. "I need help!"
Her voice only echoed back to her carried by the cold night air only
to be followed by still silence. In the distance she could see the
border wall, lit up by powerful spotlights.
Was this something she really wanted to do? How desperate was she
really? Ryan had heard stories of people surviving for weeks on just
insects and berries, but he was in the middle of the Arizona desert.
Where it could easily reach 115 plus degrees on a cool day and near
zero at night. That's when she saw them.
Two sets of headlights, one following the other up a dirt road in her
direction. Ryan's heart lept into his throat and he wasn't so sure he
needed to be rescued yet. With panic rising like a tide, Ryan climbed
down from the boulder and began moving up the hill as fast as he
could. But his sore and starving muscles rebelled and had nothing
left to give. Through the pain coursing through his body, Ryan
continued to climb up. Picking his way through the large rocks and
cacti, his muscles screamed out for relief; and with every step he
could hear the engines of the vehicles drawing closer.
Ryan's legs gave out and he collapsed to his knees. Huffing and
crying at the futility of this whole adventure. How did he actually
think he was going to escape? Why did he have to stab that guard? Why
did he have to get in that damn car with Eric and David?
Ryan slumped to the ground as a cold darkness slowly caved in on her.
Was this it? It felt like it. At this point death was okay with Ryan,
it