Elina

It's been almost two weeks since Lazarus had to start working again and I have found an everyday routine that works for me. The first day I found a group of males that helped me out and showed me around. There aren't that many females here and the ones that are here tend to keep to themselves or their mates. But there is no problem about being friends with males for me anyway.

Since that day I have made a lot of acquaintances and everyone is interested in the human female so I have no absence of company. Everyone wants to help the helpless little female to feel welcome and enjoy her stay.

Fortunately Lazarus doesn't work everyday since there are four platoons that alternate their shifts. Today is a day when Lazarus is off and today he's going to find out that I am pregnant.

I'm pretty nervous about telling him since there is still a high possibility of misscarrige. But I also know that I can't keep it a secret anymore since this is what he's been waiting for. I just hope he won't be angry with me or Nim for not telling him when our suspicion proved right. Right now we are on our way down to the examination room to see Nim.

"Are you nervous? You have been more silent than usual when I have the day off." Lazarus takes my hand and gives it a squeeze. I have been nervous the whole morning and since we left our room I have been wringing my hands together.

"Yeah. I just don't want to disappoint you." I say in a low voice. Looking anywhere but at him. He places his forefinger under my chin and tilts my head up to look at him.

"It will never be you that disappoints me. If this experiment doesn't work out I will still be very glad that I have you." He leans down and gives my lips a gentle kiss. I nod at this but I still feel the fear of this pregnancy failing. Skillys has said that even if this pregnancy doesn't go all the way it'd still be a success because I got pregnant.

When we enter the examination room I don't greet Nim as I usually do. I immediately walk over to the gynecologist chair, remove my underwear and perch my ass on the edge of it. Nim told me yesterday that she wanted to do a vaginal ultrasound today to see if we can find the little bean (as I call it) and I'm so nervous about this that I can't function as a social being right now.

I can feel Lazarus' stupefied gaze on me. I'm definitely not acting like myself. "Good morning Nim." He greets.

"Good morning Captain Lazarus and Elina." Nim greets back and at the mention of my name my head snaps in Nim's direction and I remember that she is in the room.

"Oh, ehm. I'm sorry. Good morning Nim." I stammer at her and she gives me a knowing smile. I feel my cheeks blush with embarrassment.

"Thee can relax. Everything will be fine." Nim tries to comfort me. I just nod at her and soon I space out staring at the wall in front of me again. I told her yesterday that I was anxious about the revelation.

"She has been nervous and spacing out the whole morning. I had to remind her to eat at least ten times and even then she did not finish her meal." Lazarus' voice is concerned and because of the loud sound of my heartbeat in my ears I hardly hear him. I subconsciously register them speaking to one another and then suddenly Nim is in front of me.

"Me will take the blood samples first so me have the results when me start the examination." She has placed her thin hand on my arm to catch my attention. I nod and reach out my arm to her. Her eyes are concerned by my absentminded state. "Perhaps thee should lay back." She presses gently on my shoulder to get me to lay back on the chair. I move to put my legs up in the stirrups but Nim stops me. "Only blood samples now." She reminds me.

Lazarus has pulled up a chair to sit next to me as he did the last time I had a vaginal examination with him present. He takes my hand and I glance at him. He gives me a reassuring smile and I smile back at him. "I'll be here and hold your hand through this." Of course he thinks that it's the examination that makes me feel nervous. I give him a thankful squeezer back.

When the samples are done and analyzed Nim comes over and sits in front of me and I place my feet in the stirrups, again. She first does an usual exam with some instruments and her fingers to see that everything looks and feels fine. There is a slight pain when she carefully presses over my uterus and both me and her can feel that it is hard. Lazarus squeezes my hand at my gasp of discomfort and gives me a concerned glance. Then Nim rolls out the ultrasound machine and I feel Lazarus tense up beside me.

"What is that machine? Is something wrong?" He's worried and his eyes flick between the machine, Nim and me. I think he's even more worried than me now and this time it's my turn to give his hand a reassuring squeeze. He looks at me and I give him a small smile. Now that he's worried I actually feel more at ease.

"It is an ultrasound machine. With it me can take a look at Elinas internal organs. This is actually an invention from earth that we found is very helpful." She smiles at Lazarus and then at me. "Of course us has made some improvements." She gives me a small wink and I give her a snort. Of course.

She lubes the instrument and inserts it. She presses on my stomach at the same time that she slowly moves the instrument inside me. It feels uncomfortable and at one point she accidentally presses too hard and I whimper. "Me is sorry Elina. This is the first time me uses this on a living creature." I just smile at her. I look at the monitor and can see that there is a huge improvement from the human machine. I can actually see things and somehow guess what they are.

After a minute or two she stills and moves her hand to the monitor to point. "This is your bladder. And this right here is your womb." I can see a small lump in a dark background. "See that there?" I nod and she turns her head to Lazarus. I do the same so that I can see his reaction. He's looking at the dot with narrowed eyes and scrunched up brows. "That, Captain Lazarus, is a baby." She drops the bomb on him.

At first he doesn't seem to react but then his head snaps in Nim's direction. "What did you say?" His voice is full of surprise and withheld joy.

"It is a baby. Congratulations Captain Lazarus. It seems that humans and Galdrians can breed." She tells him with a large smile on her thin lips. Lazarus' head snaps in my direction. He is still shocked but in the blink of an eye it has changed to pure joy as he leans in to kiss me. Then his expression changed to one of suspicion. I guess he figured it out.

"Did you know about this?" He asks me. I nod and bite my lip. My eyes are full of tears and a large smile is plastered on my lips. "And you didn't tell me? How long have you known?" He tries to sound disappointed and stern but the tilt of his lips tells a different story.

I clear my voice but it still breaks as I answer him. "About a week and a half." My tears roll down my cheeks and he gently dries them off with his thumbs as he holds my face. He leans down and gives me a passionate kiss. "I didn't want to tell you until we knew for sure that it had set down. But there is still a high- '' He interrupts my speech with another kiss like he doesn't want to hear a but-. "Lazarus, please listen." I beg him and now my smile is gone. He stops to look at me. "There is still a high possibility that it won't go all the way. Humans have a high possibility for misscarrige before week twelve. That is to sort out the bad fertilizations."

"What do you mean?" He asks, scrunching his brows together again and here Nim cuts in.

"The human female easily gets fertilized. Because of this the successful fertilization might be sick or not complete so the body sorts it out. It can also be that high stress and psychological trauma can cause misscarrige." Lazarus' face turns pale at this.

With hard determination on his face he says. "What can we do to prevent it?" And here I take over before Nim can say that I need to rest. I do not want her to give him the impression that I need to be bedridden throughout the pregnancy.

"Just keep on as usual. Nothing should change. We will continue with regular checks to make sure my vitals are fine but I want to continue life as if everything's the same." I give Lazarus and Nim a stern look to show that I mean business. "I will follow the recommendations that exist for humans."

"And what are those?" Lazarus asks me. His arms are crossed over his chest and he gives me a stern look.

I shrug and look at Nim. "You know a few right?"

"Yes Elina. There are a few that will concern thee. Like eating a varied diet. There are a few foods that shouldn't be eaten and me will give thee a list of what to avoid. There should not be hard exertions. But at the same time it is important to keep on training and moving like usual." Lazarus nods at every word. "Birth is hard on the body and it is important to be fit and healthy for it to pass as smoothly as possible. Of course there are always cesarean section if-"

I abruptly cut her off. "Perhaps we don't have to worry about the birth just yet?" I feel nervous about the birth. I'm afraid it will hurt and if anything goes wrong. I just don't want to think about that right now. I turn to Lazarus. "I'm not sure if I want us to tell anyone at the moment. Perhaps Kurn and Makkan since we often play VR with them."

"We won't play that from now on." Lazarus says and I look at him with a displeased frown. "At least not in the VR-room. Wouldn't want you to fall down and hurt yourself." He smirks.

"I fell last week and that didn't do anything." I cross my arms across my chest and give him a defiant glare. He goes pale again at the memory of me falling off one of the plateaus when we played last week. It was not a high fall and I only hit my behind.

"We shouldn't have played last week either!" He gives a frustrated sigh. "You should have told me this earlier! Tell her that she can't play in the VR-room." He turns to Nim, who is putting away all the instruments. She gives him a shocked look.

"Ehm. The Captain has higher authority than me." She answers with a shaking voice.

"That might be. But she will listen to you, not me." He points at me and I snort. He knows me well already and knows I like to do the opposite of what he tells me. Let's just say that I have gotten punished for my defiance, bad language and thoughtless behavior quite a lot these weeks I have been with Lazarus. Sometimes I behave badly just to get a little spanking and sometimes he punishes me for extremely small things.

Nims eyes flicker between Lazarus and me unsure of what she should say. She's obviously not used to giving orders that not even the captain can give. "It is as the Captain says. It might not be a good idea to play in the VR-room. It can get intense there and should thee fall from a high platform it can be dangerous." Her eyes flick back to Lazarus for confirmation that she said the right thing and he nods in approval. I sigh at this. I can understand what she means and I understand Lazarus' concern but I love that room. "It would be better to swim or do some light workout in the gym. Me do not see any problem with some easier VR where thee is no chance of hard contact on your body."

Lazarus looks pleased with Nim's statement as he turns to me. I sigh and give him a nod that I'll do as he wishes.