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Jonathan and Growler walked into the doctor’s clinic in the UC and were hopeful and worried. It had been three weeks since their initial intimacy, and Jonathan had woken up that morning with nausea, praying to the porcelain god for a time and then not being able to stomach breakfast.

Jonny had gone to the pharmacy aboard the center and gotten himself a pregnancy test, blushing as the cashier rang him up with an entirely too bored expression on his face. He’d come back to their suite and had taken the test. It was positive. The little disposable device chimed out happily to the world. Jonny had brought it out to show Growler who’d just come from the ship’s commissary with their provisions for the week. Needless to say, the Amplus was both shocked and ecstatic in equal measure.

So, they had made their way to the Clinic and were now waiting to be seen by the UC’s onboard OB/GYN. The Unity Center had become quite familiar over the years with the compatibility of many of their Client Species when it came to reproduction, and so had made the decision to start having OB/GYNs at every location where partnership was required.

Soon, a Lutrin man with golden brown fur stepped out from the back and came up to the doorway between the back hall and the waiting area and called, “Growler and Jonny?” The presence of the Ikali was nothing new. Though it was somewhat interesting to see them in human-style scrubs.

Growler and Jonny got up from their seats in the waiting area and followed the otter-man back to the patient room where Jonny got up on the examination chair and Growler sat in a small plastic chair which could barely fit his bulk. Amplus were huge, after all. Jonny felt a twinge from his rear as his body let him know that his rear end certainly agreed with that statement.

They waited a surprisingly short time for the OB/GYN to come into the room. He was an Album of most likely middle age who wore the goggles which Phins wore in place of glasses. He sent a sonar pulse at Jonny before he’d even begun to introduce himself. “Pregnant, Amplus father, Human Male Bearer.” He scribbled a note on his clipboard. Then finally after he was finished writing did he finally introduce himself. “Hello, you two. My name is Icy Efficient Examiner, I’m the UC’s current head OB/Gyn. You’re about three weeks along. Are you just Starting to have symptoms of morning sickness, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt?” he asked

Jonny nodded. “Not too bad, but yeah. Seems like the last week was nothing but having to rush to the bathroom and as they used to say on Land Earth, ‘pray to the porcelain god’. So, what does that mean for us, Icy Efficient Examiner?” Jonny asked, remembering the custom among Phins regarding Names.

Growler looked curious as well, reaching over and grasping Jonny’s hand. The older Album looked at their clasped hands and grunted, “It means, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt that we’ll continue to monitor you for the next week, and we’ll book a Cetacation operation for the end of it, if all goes well. Now, if you don’t mind, Melodious Growler, I’ll speak to the mother alone?”

Growler looked to the doctor with a frown, “Sir?” Growler looked like he was offended, “Are you serious?”

The Album leveled a gaze at the Amplus that brooked no argument. “Do I appear to be the joking sort, Melodious Growler?” Then he switched to the Phin equivalent of a whisper, dropping the frequency of his clicks, whirrs, and whistles to below the range of human hearing, leaving Jonny out of the Conversation for a solid minute.

Afterwards, Growler’s head fell, he mumbled, “Let me know when you’re done, Icy Efficient Examiner.” Then he got up and left the room.

Switching to English, and speaking with his mouth and true voice instead of his melon, Icy Efficient Examiner got straight to the point, “Are you being coerced? Did he rape you? Do you want this child, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt?”

Jonny recoiled at the rapid fire, blunt and very un-gentle questions. He leveled a critical gaze at the doctor, “Doctor, do I need to remind you that despite your ridiculous discriminatory and downright racist grading policies, Growler and I are at the top of our class. That despite the multiple stereotypes about Amplus and their treatment of their spouses, I come to you bruise free, in my right mind, and of my own free will. That, when we were finished making this child in my belly, Growler’s first concern was how we were going to care for our new family. So to answer your outright bigoted interrogation, no I’m not being coerced. No he did not rape me, in fact he was absolutely certain to obtain my consent before he proceded. I don’t think Growler is even capable of such atrocity. And finally, yes I want this child, you elitist, racist prick.”

Efficient Examiner flinched at each of the words, but he took the assault on his honor with surprising grace, when Jonny had finished, Examiner leveled his gaze at the human, he replied simply, “I apologize, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt. I am asking these questions not because of elitism or racism. Both of which are failings I’m not completely immune to, but in this instance, this is just procedure when it comes to any interspecies pregnancy. Yes, Melodious Growler is an Amplus, and yes our species does graduate our social pyramid on the basis of race with the Amplus at the bottom and Album at the top, but since our introduction to humans, our society has become more integrated.

“Believe it or not, Mr. Schmidt, my mate is an Amplus. Not to be an examplist. I realize that can be just as racist. My point is, that when it comes to our students, our main concern is their safety.” He eyed Jonny, “Jonathan Jordan Schmidt, your lover is a two-and-a-half-meter-tall, one-hundred-sixty-kilogram giant. You are barely two meters tall and what? Sixty or seventy kilos in your wetsuit? The potential for Growler to create a physical power differential that turns your relationship from consensual and healthy to non-consensual and abusive is far too high. You humans are strong of mind, but, when compared to many Amplus, you are weak of body. That is just reality. I’m not saying Growler is doing that, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt, I’m just acknowledging that the potential for it is there.”

Jonny frowned, he sighed, “But, Growler wouldn’t…”

The Doctor surprised Jonny considering his level of bluntness and seeming lack of bedside manner and put a hand gently on Jonny’s thigh, “I’m sure he wouldn’t Jonathan Jordan Schmidt, He seems a good sort. And he’s already tail over beak for you. That much is easy to see. Again, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt, this is only procedure when it comes to mixed pairings involving Amplus. Or when there are extreme power discrepancies in the relationship.” The Album shook his beak side to side in a pretty good imitation of human body language, then he used Phin and projected his voice, “Melodious Growler, you can come in now.”

Growler reappeared at Jonny’s side so quickly it was almost as if he’d just materialized out of the ether. “You okay, Jonny?” Growler asked, squeezing the human’s hand.

Jonny nodded, squeezing Growler’s hand back.

Examiner took a moment and then Jonny felt the telltale buzz of a Phin sonar blast. And then Icy Efficient Examiner came up and very clearly seeking permission to examine his belly, asked, “May I?”

Jonny nodded and Icy Efficient Examiner began to ask, “Since your morning sickness began, have you been able to eat anything?”

Jonny chuckled, “Saltines, and I got some candied ginger from the ship’s commissary on day three. I remember my mother eating it when she was pregnant with Michael, my younger brother. My stomach seems to settle a few hours after I wake up, and then I’m ravenous.”

Then, to Growler, Examiner explained, “I’m going to unbutton his pants to continue the examination. I’m not coming onto your mate, I’m performing my job.”

Growler nodded, “Do what needs to be done, Icy Efficient Examiner. I understand.”

The OB/GYN did as he’d explained, and once he was complete, he intoned, “Everything seems to be healthy, Jonathan Jordan Schmidt. I cannot see anything wrong with you or your demifetus. Considering the nature of Human Male pre-cetacation pregnancies, it is probably best that you stay in the sick bay. Melodious Growler, you will need to take the necessary steps to sign up for F-3 after the Cetacation.”

“I put the paperwork in for the transfer this morning, Icy Efficient Examiner. Are you sure that Jonny cannot come home with me?”

The Phinine doctor gave a huff, “You can stay with him, Melodious Growler. Jonny will need to be monitored closely, if you as a couple both want this demifetus to become a calf, we must ensure that it is not removed by Jonny’s body before we can cetacate. However, I’m not heartless, Melodious Growler. You can stay with your mate.”

Jonny watched his Amplus visibly relax at that. Jonny squeezed his hand again in support. “That sounds good, Icy Efficient Examiner.” Jonny replied with a smile.

He was really about to be a mother. That both excited and scared the crap out of him. The journey that awaited the two of them was just beginning. And Jonny knew that as long as they were together, they would be able to get through it.