Reconciliation

 Chapter 13

Another Surprise

Three more weeks had passed and Albedo’s stomach had gradually started to grow larger; and it wasn’t because he had been over-eating. However, he had been craving some decidedly strange things, such as raw liver. However, according to his mother and aunt, even by human standards, that was a weird pregnancy craving.

In that time, Ben had gotten very close to Albedo, he wasn’t in love with him, exactly; he was just feeling protective because Albedo was carrying his child. Wasn’t it?

He was thinking absently about all these things as he ran soccer drills in the small fenced-in and force-field protected back yard of the tiny safe house.

The house had no front yard that could be observed by the casual passer-by.

He had left the back door open so he listen for any alarming sounds coming from within. ‘There I go again, feeling so protective of him; this is more than a little strange.’

‘First a former enemy comes to me and asks for my help. Then I let him talk me into sleeping with because he says he’ll die he can’t reproduce, it’s all so strange.’

Ben was drawn out of his inner monologue by groans and the sounds of vomiting, followed by dry heaves coming from inside the small house.

Immediately he stooped to pick up his ball and started at a brisk trot towards the house.

Ben tried to come to a halt, then slipped and fell into a puddle of vomited material on the previously immaculate linoleum floor.

Albedo sat in the corner shivering, sweating and sobbing.

He looked up and saw Ben sitting in the disgusting puddle and looking very foolish.

Immediately his tears turned into laughter, “Oh thank you Ben, I needed that; I am sorry, I am not usually this emotional.”

Ben who was also starting to chuckle said, “You’re welcome now come on let’s get this mess cleaned up then hit the showers. They soon had the kitchen back in order, though Ben did most of the work when he told Albedo “Not to push himself too hard.”

‘Stupid over-protective instincts,’ Ben again thought to himself he was only feeling this way because Albedo was carrying his child, right; he didn’t really care about him, did he?

They ‘hit the showers’ which was just a figure of speech, since the small house only had one bathroom adjacent to the master bedroom but could be accessed via another door into the only other bedroom.

Ben had graciously allowed Albedo to have the larger of the two rooms, he didn’t mind, and then went into the secondary bedroom to undress.

Albedo was already undressed and looking at himself nude in the full-length mirror.

He was staring at his increasingly large belly, and was the tissue beneath his pecs starting to grow as well?

He was startled out of his thoughts by Ben’s scared shout from the other room, “Albedo get in here, hurry please!”

Albedo grabbed a pair of boxers, pulling them on as he stumbled into Ben’s room.

Ben was standing there in his own boxers staring down at his own stomach with an ashen face. There in Ben’s belly was a barely noticeable bump. Albedo had a similar bump which prompted them to rush him to the Plumber’s hospital eight weeks ago, that was when they discovered that their experiment in inter-species reproduction was a success.

“Come on we’re going to get you dressed and get you to that Plumbers hospital!”

“Albedo you don’t think….”

“I don’t know what to think, where are your keys, I do not think you’re in any shape to drive.”

“P-pocket of my jeans,” Albedo found the keys and the tossed Ben the pants.

He stayed until he was certain Ben needed no help and then left to finish dressing himself.

They drove in silence for the hour it would take to get there, in this car they could of course get there much more quickly, but they were compelled to obey the fifty-mph speed limit unless it was an emergency. Which this certainly qualified as, at least in Albedo’s mind.

But Ben had insisted that they obey they traffic laws.

The extra travel time had allowed the both them both time to think about this.

Since that first time they had coupled which was only for a purely practical purpose as far as Ben was concerned; so, Albedo could procreate otherwise he’d be dead by now.

But they had repeated the act twice more since then once with Albedo as superior, once with Ben as superior; it all depended on how they each felt at the time.

They were each dreading what they’d find once to the got to the Plumber’s hospital.

But the reality was that they didn’t really need to see any test results to know the truth.

A/N: I hope that satisfies all those who wanted a Benpreg story although I had originally intended this to be strictly an Alpreg story.

I needed to figure out a way to take this story from being not one or the other but a fusion of both.

I hope you like my solution to the problem! :)