Doctor Mark fucking Hanover thought that being needed meant putting to good use his God damn degree. Putting to good use the many years of experience in a variety of fields, to put to good use his versatility as a scientist, or to put to good use his hundred awards, the million papers that his capable hands had written over the years.
He didnāt think that being an active element of the reproductive process meant⦠Well, this.
āOh, Godā¦ā another shameful moan escaped Mark's lips before he could bite it back. āShit..!ā
Mark leaned forward. The skin of his abdomen pinched when the sensors on his stomach tugged with the movement, sticking to the few hairs of his abdomen that had remained after they had hastily shaved the spots to put the sensors. The man let his head sink between his extended arms, his sweaty forehead pressing against the cold railing. The air hit the exposed skin of the back of his legs when the robe that covered him moved, drifted forward to expose him.
A hospital robe. The first time in his life that he had ever worn a hospital robe, and it was in this situation. Terrific.
The sharp pain sizzling on his lower back, on the hot skin of his stomach, finally went away, but the discomfort remained there, settled deep in his aching muscles. Mark swayed, a low hum vibrating through his lips as he tried to drown out the sounds around him āthe quiet murmur of his coworkers talking, of their pens taking notes, the sound of his own heartbeat reverberating through the cardiac monitorā and his gravid stomach swayed with him, hanging low in front of him.
The cold metal of the railing dug against the skin of his forearms when Mark let out a breath, his whole body going slack for a moment when he let himself deflate. Mark felt his own breath hitting his arm when he tilted his head, pressing his cheek against his own warm skin, blinking up at the bright lights on top of him.
Anna stood on the other side of the glass door, both her hands buried deep in the pockets of her lab coat. One of the younger interns came up to her, a young boy who Mark saw take a deep breath, probably summoning the courage to speak to the Dr. White. Anna's eyes weren't focused on Mark, but probably somewhere behind him, focused on all the monitors and the sonography machines.
Still, Mark only let the grimace creep up his face when he saw Anna's head turn, her attention moving to the intern next to her.Ā Ā
He felt it. He felt the way his stomach tensed and contracted, how the eggs inside his stomach shifted, moving inside, rubbing against each other. And the egg that was already positioned to slide inside his birth canal, a solid mass sitting on his pelvis, moved lower, stretching him open.Ā
Oh, God, he should have said yes to the damn pain drugs. He didn't even know what he was thinking when he refused to accept them, some attempt to keep at least something of his dignity by toughing it out. Mark had somehow convinced himself that the last act of pride he could at least partake in was to face it like a man, no drugs to subdue the pain and turn him into what, a zombie? God knows what these people would do to him and his body if he weren't in all his senses. He wasn't going to become a guinea pig so these people could play around even more with his body.
The good part was that they respected his decision. The bad part, besides the unequivocal pain, was that he was utterly aware of every single thing that was happening in his body.
He felt how the hospital robe clung to his body, the fabric tight and coarse pressing against his body, draping over the hot skin of his gravid stomach, rubbing against it just the wrong way. He could feel the constant tension in his middle, how the muscles ached under the strain of the weight of his ripe belly, bearing all the sudden changes of the last few months, how his body had deformed into this burdensome and overstuffed. He was painfully aware of the eggs inside of him, three foreign objects growing inside his body, moving and shifting as they pleased in their new home, stretching the skin of his stomach every time they pushed out, an almost eerie image to see his, as if something were trying to crawl out of his stomach, huge and heavy.
There hadn't been a day in the last month when Mark had been granted the grace of not thinking about the weight inside of him, about how now his stomach swelled and hung in front of him, how his muscles and his bones and his body had slowly accommodated, attuning itself to carry this new life.
And now he wasn't really sure if the feeling starting to sour in the middle of his chest was the relief that, in a few hours, everything was going back to normal, or the anxiety that he still had to do... this. The contraction taking over him let him know that both of them were way too mixed up and muddled together for him to decide.
āAh! Ughn, mh-hm!ā Mark whimpered, legs trembling and knees buckling beneath him, fingers gripping the cold metal. āHgnm!ā
Mark squirmed in place, knees jerking close together as his stomach tensed, muscle straining and shifting beneath the hospital robe that covered the hot skin. The man had to keep himself from screaming out loud. For a moment, he couldn't think about anything but the pain throbbing over his body, clouding everything. It felt as if someone were twisting a knife in the middle of his stomach as fire spread through his middle, as the pressure built on his hips.
He didn't realize when his legs moved, when they started to drift apart, wide and open to allow the pressure growing between them to come down. He didn't even hear the door opening until he felt a hand pressing against his aching back.
āMark,ā Anna's voice forced him to snap his head up. āStand up. We are going to check you now.ā
Mark lifted his head to face his coworker, and for a moment, all that reverberated in the room was the low hum of the machines monitoring him and the ragged sounds of his own labored breathing, fast and superficial.
God, he couldn't believe that the woman who once shared a desk with him was seeing him like this right now. Or what was worse, Mark thought, Anna wasn't really looking at him. He knew very well the look in her eyes, the little sparkle shining behind the dark eyelashes, the same one she had a hundred times before when they were finishing an experiment, and everything went exactly like she had envisioned. The same one she had when she was just about to get exactly what she wanted. The same look Mark had once worn, in a room like this very one, when the person attached to machines and being monitored like an animal wasn't him.
He couldn't blame her. He couldn't blame her for seeing right through him and only being able to see the damn eggs āGod, he knew that Anna probably didn't give a shit about him at this very moment as much as she did about the integrity of this whole experiment.Ā
Mark didn't blame her. If he were in her place, he would have done the same.
Another hand landed on his body. This time, Anna took a step back as someone else āprobably one of the nursesā wrapped their fingers around Mark's arm, guiding him towards the bed, Anna's heels clicking against the ceramic behind him.
āOpen your legs, please,ā Anna ordered.Ā
Mark would have liked to pretend he wanted to fight the orders a bit, to pretend he wasn't just about to give up, but the reality was that the only thing that came out of his mouth when he opened it was a breathy moan as he leaned against the bed, his fingers curling around the edge of the mattress. The movement was too sudden, and Mark could feel the weight of his stomach pulling down on him, pain spreading through the bones of his pelvis as the pressure came crashing down.
The smell of Anna's perfume almost made him gag when she moved to stand next to him, writing something down on the clipboard in her hand.
The sudden jolt of feeling a pair of foreign gloved fingers moving down his legs and sliding between his glutes, spreading the open made him gasp before they forced a strangled scream from the deeps of his throat when he felt them slide inside of his tight hole.
āSorry about, huhā¦āĀ Anna cleared her throat, looking at him over the rim of the clipboard, "...well, the lack of lubricant. We didn't want any of the eggs in contact with a potential contaminant.ā
In between the discomfort radiating through his body āthrobbing all over his back, his middleā and the unfamiliar feeling of having two fingers stretching his hole open, moving inside of him, Mark barely registered the moment when the fingers inside of him stopped, hitting something.
The gloved fingers rubbed against the tip of the egg in his birth canal.Ā
āI can feel one of the eggs,ā the nurse said. "It's already in his birth canal. Should come out soon."
Fucking hell. Birth canal. Another one of all the faux shit they had made up in the last few months. One day, he woke up, and he was filled to the brim, so grotesque and swollen with alien offspring, and he had a birth canal. Well, wasn't that all science was about? Making up shit until you hit the nail on the head and something looked credible enough? Mark, better than anyone, should know how these things work.
And well, these eggs had to come out of him somehow. And if they had to come out naturally, then that meant he had a birth canal.
Behind him, the nurse shifted. Mark's jaw tensed when the fingers kept moving inside of him, rubbing against the hard shell of the egg. The constant pressure and movement suddenly forced the egg to shift, pushing up, and Mark felt the exact moment when the round mass hit his prostate. His body jerked, and he leaned forward, trying to escape the instant feeling of electricity that coursed through his body. The front of his round belly pressed against the bed, and behind him, the nurse's hand moved to the side of his leg to keep him still in place, tugging him back. Inside of him, the eggs moved, rubbing one against the other, creating bulges as they protruded from inside the skin of his stomach.
Under the hospital robe, he felt his dick twitching.Ā
God, it was hot in here, wasnāt it?
Mark cleared his throat as he slowly pulled himself up, forcing himself to stand straight even when the pressure of the egg nestled deep in his birth canal was starting to annoy him, deep and uncomfortable, flaring up every time he moved. Finally, the nurse slid their fingers out of him. The relief that washed over him lasted little, because when he pushed himself away from the bed, hand brushing over his stomach to accommodate the hospital robe to try and cover something, Anna spoke again, using that little tone that she always used when what she said wasn't really a suggestion.
āWell,ā the blonde nodded, writing something on her notepad before her eyes moved back to him. āI think youāre cleared to push, Mark.ā
Mark blinked. His hand unconsciously moved to press against the side of his stomach, feeling the tense surface as he frowned. āAlready?ā
āYes,ā Anna nodded. āBased on our research, your body is just ready to lay the eggs. You should be feeling it any moment now. Itās just going to feel like a little pinch, then, a bit of pressureā¦ā
Anna's words faltered when she saw the way Mark's face fell, the grimace of confusion transforming into surprise as his body spasmed, fingers gripping around the fabric of the hospital robe as his lips parted, the air sucked out of him. Well, there it was, science happening right in front of her very eyes.Ā
A little pinch. A bit of pressure.
Mark knew it was a vile lie the moment he felt the little pinch: his middle tensed, just like the countless contractions he had been having in the past few hours, but this time the pain didnāt plateau at the awful discomfort of just a stomach cramp as usual. It was a piercing, furious pain, and for a moment, Mark's eyes flashed with despair, and when he thought it couldn't get any worse, he felt the pressure. He leaned forward, one of his hands moving to grasp the bed railings, knuckles turning white, his head spinning as he felt the need to push.
Bit of pressure? It felt like a bowling ball was splitting him open from the inside. He knew the eggs weren't that big, but God, they did feel massive. Markās head snapped up to find Anna, and for a moment, he was sure that if he could, he would have punched her in the face. That was one thing he recognized: this thing was barely starting, and he was already losing it. The aggression was a primitive response of his brain to the inability to comprehend what was going on with his body: the pain, the sudden pressure.
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