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The Hand walks me to the area of the stadium that works as the doctor’s office. Every month, I get my bits checked, which seems pretty weird, but it makes sense now that I know they were trying to find women they wanted to send to a whole other world to have babies. The doctor is already in the exam room, so I strip as he finishes getting the tools ready.
“What are you checking today, doc?” I ask as I slide the blue paper hospital gown on.
“The usual exams to make sure you’re still fertile and then implanting a language device.” He still hasn’t looked over at me, which is fine. The Hands don’t look quite human, so looking at them makes the animal part of my brain go a little haywire. They’re dangerous and intelligent creatures. They have to be since they’re here saving humanity.
“Before I leave, can I ask you something?” I slide my feet into the stirrups.
“You can ask. I don’t know how much use I’ll be in answering.”
“Do you actually look like, well, how you look?” I hope the question doesn’t come out offensive.
“Oh, no, we take on the appearance of the creatures inhabiting the planet we’re helping.” The doctor examines me, not even pausing in his explanation. “Most creatures find it comforting when we look like them.”
“Uh-huh.” I don’t bother telling him we definitely do not find them comforting here on Earth. It makes me wonder if any of the other creatures felt the same as us and said nothing since the Hands are saviors of whole planets.
The doctor taps my ankle, telling me I can put my legs back down. He turns away from me and grabs something off the counter. He presents me with a weird gun needle contraption, and I try not to appear too horrified. The thing looks like it’s straight from a horror movie, and I do not want it anywhere near me.
“You’ll feel a small pinch.” The doctor grabs my chin and tilts my head to the side. The Hands are stronger than us, like a lot stronger. They rarely use their strength on us. If they do, we know not to fight it. I close my eyes as tightly as possible and hope he was telling the truth when he said a slight pinch.
Fuck, nope. Not a small pinch. It’s more like a searing knife cutting into the side of my head right behind my ear. The pain disappears as quickly as it came, but everything sounds muffled. I rub my ear and try to make any sound come back, but I’m panicking at the doctor when it doesn’t.
“I can’t hear!” Okay, a little bit dramatic, considering my other ear can hear perfectly fine. Still, I’m not about to lose hearing in one ear, all for some science experiment for the Hands.
“Give it a moment.” The doctor keeps an arm on my shoulder and keeps his weird eyes on mine. He isn’t freaking out, so I shouldn’t either, right? Well, I try for about thirty seconds, and then I’m back to freaking out. Just as I’m about to scream at him again, my ear pops, and I can hear again.
“How do I sound A12-03?”
A smile breaks across my face. “Good. You had me scared for a second.”
“The success rate is ninety-four percent.” The doctor rubs his temples once he knows I can hear. “You scared me for a second.”
My smile falls, and a frown takes its spot. “What the fuck?”
“Would you rather go to the new world unable to communicate with the inhabitants?” The doctor deadpans. When I don’t answer and only glare at him, he continues. “That’s what I thought. Now, these two will get you to your next destination.”
“I’ll miss our visits, doc,” I say with absolutely no truth in my words. I don’t dislike the guy, but there’s only so much I can feel for the man who’s looked at my cervix more times than anyone ever should.
“I’m sure you will, A12-03.” He returns my sentiment with the same inflection my words had.
I huff out a small laugh and follow the two Hands, my new babysitters. They walk me through some hallways the humans aren’t allowed to go down, which is nice since it means I don’t have to see anymore nasty looks before I leave Earth.
Hallway, turn, hallway, empty room, door, hallway, and finally, we’re in the last room I’ll ever see on Earth. Hands are working like crazy at their computers. They’re all chattering with one another, but I can’t make out much of it since it’s mostly science jargon.
“A12-03,” A Hand that resembles a woman walks over to me with her hand extended. Does she want to shake hands? Hug? I can’t tell. Her mannerisms are just off. Thankfully, she drops her hand when I walk closer, so I don’t have to figure out which greeting to give her. “You indicated you did not want food before leaving. Is that correct?”
“I mean, they have food there, right?” I ask. Yeah, I ate like two and a half hours ago, but if they don’t have food, maybe I’ll have a little snack before going.
“They do, and it’s perfectly edible by human digestive systems.” The woman says with too much enthusiasm. “A12-01 and A12-02 have found comfortable lives, and we expect you will be just as successful in finding a male or males to carry young for.”
“Males?” I cock my brow at her. There’s no way I’m about to let her say something that ridiculous and not ask about it.
“Yes, we have been running tests on the creatures you will be living amongst. Their kind has a powerful effect on human females, which is something we didn’t take into account.” The Hand walks closer toward a large metal arch in the middle of the room. “We don’t fully understand it yet, but they can bond with human females based on scent. We’re still running tests, but it’s clear some human females make more than one creature secrete their pheromones.”
“Ah,” I nod and accept what she’s saying—any information she wants to give me on the creatures I’ll take. I can talk to Diane and A12-01 about it when I get to the new world. “So, do you know which alien I’m most compatible with?”
“Not yet,” The Hand answers. “It’s what we’re working on. If we can determine which male is best for each female in unit A12, we can tell them who to look for when we send them.”
“So, no clue which one I should try to fuck?” The metal arch in front of me starts to whir to life as the Hand gives me a disgusted look at the vulgarity I just used. I’m actually kind of surprised she’s offended since she’s sending me to the planet to get pregnant. It shouldn’t be some weird surprise to her how that happens.
