Erika sat in the waiting room until she called her name, then went to the examination room and changed out of her clothes into the hospital robe, just as she had done last week. She was very round and pregnant now, and her breasts hung large and low over her ball of a stomach.
"Let's see what we can find today, shall we?" Dr. Carlos said with a halfhearted grin. He was a white Mexican and his English was pretty good. He was a kindly older man, and she valued his attempt at making the situation less stressful, however much that attempt failed.
He placed a stethoscope on her belly and moved it around. "Huh. Uh huh. Nuh. No, we're not getting a clear reading on the baby's heartbeat, I'm afraid. Or you may be having twins, given your size. Maybe we should have another try at the ultrasound."
He dimmed the lights, wheeled out a computer with a huge screen attached, and lubricated Katy's bulging stomach with some blue gel. He put a plastic sensor on her belly and looked up at the shifting images on the screen. Five, ten minutes passed as he slid the tool around and stared at the bluish images, which seems to make no sense at all.
"Well I must say, Erika I've never seen anything like it, not in my 40 years in medicine," he said calmly. "There seems to be something strange about your amniotic sac that won't allow the ultrasound signals through. As I said before, it's much like trying to x-ray through lead."
Erika lowered her eyes. She had not expected anything different today.
"I could call in the specialists again, but I'm afraid the results would be the same as last time. The good news in all of this, dear girl, is that you seem otherwise entirely healthy. And clearly your baby is growing. We'll just have to wait and see."
Melissa was outside with two strollers she had had twin boys and named them Romulus (Romy) and Remus. Breast feeding had been too much for her, as soon as their mouths touched her sensitive nipples her 'bitch tits' that lined her proper breasts would erupt in fur. They were also biters, Romulus had drawn blood when Erika had insisted bottle feeding them. With the source of infection, her babies removed from her body she had returned to her pre-pregnant state.
However Riley and Piper had continued to carry on and the brutal slaying of an Olga Maria Lebed and Emily Elliot had gone unsolved. Great thing about Mexico they knew how to dispose of firearms and bodies given the crime rate. She spent her time online operating a import business that brought Kevlar and other bullet proof products into Mexico to keep the Cartel killers at bay. The police had interviewed Cole, he was their contact in the US and Melissa understood Erika carrying his babies made her family. He had told them that Melissa had fallen pregnant and ran off to Canada due to their Christian family.
Angel's children were Erika's as well and the half-siblings of Romy and Remus but by that day Erika will have her own children, only Melissa could tell them otherwise and both were now officially together. Whenever Erika had an itch to scratch Melissa would oblige.