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"I think he's waking up..." A voice spoke, just as I began to blink the blurriness from my eyes.
After that, I could hear shuffling, then heavy footsteps, forcing me to look up to where I spotted Saint looking down at me with a worried expression.
"fuck... thank you..." I heard him whisper to himself as he released a breath of relief.
"what happened?" I questioned as I looked around.
Slowly but surely I was starting to realize we were in Eve's little medical room, but I still didn't remember how I got here, or what even led to it.
The last thing I remember was talking to Saint, then feeling a sharp pain in my...
wait...
In a panic I lifted the blanket to reveal my belly, I mean I'm not sure what I was expecting to see, but it was my first instinct.
"you're okay." Saint spoke, comfortingly me knowingly.
That's when everything started coming back to me, and the memories of the pain, and my conversation with Saint returned.
"W-whats wrong?" I asked, looking over at Eve who'd sat down on her stool a couple feet away.
"well," she started, before looking up at Saint, as if she was looking to him to explain.
He looked at her, then back down at me before releasing a breath.
"Saint?" I mumbled, feeling anxiousness arise.
"—you're starting to scare me," I added.
He reached down at gave my hand a gentle squeeze of reassurance before he spoke.
"I'm sorry." He stated foremost.
"—the truth is, this whole situation—the pregnancy—it's moving faster than expected..." he added lowly.
I creased my eyebrows in confusion as I spoke, "okay...so um..I mean what does that mean—how do you know that?" I asked, again looking at Eve.
"I mean technically, you're still not developing that much faster than a regular pregnancy." Eve began.
"The problem is, your body isn't suited for it, which we already knew," she mumbled.
"yeah, which is probably why I was in so much pain—we know that—so why are you two acting as if there's something else I don't know?" I frowned, looking between them both.
Again they were both silent, and this time I was the one to look up at Saint, motioning for him to speak.
He was acting so nervous, which was obviously unlike him. That made me even more worried, because what on earth could have him so nervous that he was not only unable to hide it, but unable to hide it in front of me.
"Angel..." he started.
"... Eve thinks...we're having uh...more than one...baby..." he mumbled.
I blinked at him for a couple of seconds before looking over at Eve with the same expression.
"like twins?" I questioned, swallowing the lump that had formed in my throat.
Saint only nodded, retaining his silence when doing so.
"How is that even possible at this stage?" I asked, shaking my head.
That prompted Eve to swivel on her stool in order to pull up an image on the computer.
It looked like an ultrasound image, so I'm guessing it's something she did while I was passed out.
"you see this?" She asked, pointing to the image.
I nodded, eyeing the graphic, "of course—it's still in the early stages, but I feel like what we're seeing, and rather, what you've been feeling—is the early stages of a twin pregnancy."
I shook my head again, this time while running my hands through my hair.
"—that just doesn't make sense, I'm barely a month along—how is this even possi—"
And just before I got to the last word I cut myself off, because asking what was possible at this point felt useless.
None of this should be possible.
"So that pain—was what, the beginning stages of the egg splitting" i questioned, in complete disbelief with the words coming out of my mouth.
"more or less." Eve nodded with a sympathetic look.
I'm unsure of the process is directly similar to that of a regular twin pregnancy with a woman, again, due to your genetic makeup. But based on current medical knowledge, that's what happened." She nodded.
I dropped my head in my hands after hearing that, immediately feeling Saint caress my back gently.
"...we'll figure it out..." he mumbled lowly.
"figure out what Saint?" I asked with a sigh.
Exhausted wasn't even the word to describe how I was feeling at this second. I'm not even sure the word existed anymore.
"We don't even know what's going on, and now I'm being told I'm having twins when the possibility of even surviving the birth of one child was low," I stated, shaking my head in exhaustion.
"Hun' I wouldn't get worked up—"
"How were you even able to figure this out?" I asked, cutting Eve off before she could finish speaking.
She looked taken aback by my question, even Saint looked a little shocked at my forwardness.
"—I mean a regular medical professional at a regular hospital wouldn't have been able to detect twins at this stage of a pregnancy...and yet you—you were able to do it with a male when I'm barely a month along," I spoke, looking on at her.
