Pregnancy

The topic came up in a forum discussion; this came out of it.

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Zeus approached the scientist from behind on the crowded streets, her hurried pace frantic as she called out to marines too worried by their mission to humor her. She clutched at her waist, eyes scanning the heights, searching each face with morbid dread.

She knew she was being hunted; not that it mattered, not that it would spare her another breath.

He gripped her by the neck, a sudden motion that froze the moment until her screams propelled action, bullets eating at her flesh as the marines turned their rifles on the helpless sight in their panic to slay the dragon.

With a leap, Zeus cleared a van and collided against a building, each footstep dug into glass and brick, raining chips of broken history. As he reached a rooftop, his target swung wildly as she bled out, her shrieking whines ignored as he punched into her chest. Blood propelled from her mouth as her eyes grew wide in shock, the snap of rib and spine competing with the squelch of organs slipping from their place, the burst organs weaving gory patterns unto Zeus' face as they disappeared into the black mass.

The rest happened in comparative silence, the woman's eyes in pained denial as tendrils pulled her into the organic abyss.

The memories came then, flashes of microscopes and McMullen, conversations that barely hinted at new developments, a man's smile as he rested above her, the giddy insecurity of a pregnancy test, planning, hoping, worrying...

Then a faint wisp of thought, contentment and security, warmth and protection, encased in love, nurtured by muffled voices that spoke of dreams and then pleas and warnings, screams and adrenaline from the mother that spiked the daughter, a final silent wail as black monsters invaded the safe haven and ripped and shredded and tore.

Zeus vomited then, his retching removing the small mass of the baby. He rarely consumed women for a reason. He hated the reminder of what purity of emotion feels like.

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