This work contains the following: pheromone induced sex, doctor/patient relations, breeding kink, pregnancy kink, rapid stomach growth from pregnancy, alien eggs in a human host, transmasc mc (man with a vagina)
Tae woke in the safety of the ship's med-bay some time later, though it took him a moment to recognize where he was by his view of the ceiling alone. He'd only visited once since they'd left Luna and that had just been to get some painkillers for a nasty headache he'd developed during their first interstellar jump-- a rare but not unheard of problem for him on long voyages.
He didn't have a headache now, which was a relief, but as the fog of sleep lifted and Tae remembered what had happened to him planet-side he was shocked to find himself in perfect condition.
Heart hammering in his chest, Tae sat up sharply in bed and threw aside the blankets. He'd been stripped down to his underwear but the scientist realized he didn't have so much as a bruise-- his palms weren't even scraped despite his
knowing
he'd hit the ground hard enough to break skin.
"Oh, you're awake," a voice said and Tae turned to see a vaguely familiar man enter the main room from what was likely his private office. "I'm not sure if we officially met before; I'm Doctor James Rollins, head medical officer for the expedition," the man said with a polite smile as he dropped onto a stool beside Tae's bed.
"Tae Brandt," Tae replied. "How long was I out?" he asked and frowned as he looked at his palms again.
Rollins glanced at the communicator on his wrist. "About five hours," he answered and Tae stared at him in disbelief. "You would have woken sooner but we thought it'd be safest to keep you under while I was conducting your initial examination."
While Tae was relieved he hadn't been unconscious for several days it felt strange that it hadn't been that long since...
A shudder racked Tae's frame as the visceral sense-memory of the xyloid pinning him to the ground while its ovipositor ravaged the deepest parts of him overcame the scientist. He'd been under the influence of some sort of aphrodisiac at the time, which had rendered the entire experience one of the most pleasurable of Tae's life, but in retrospect it
should
have been horrific-- the sort of thing nightmares were made of.
And yet, even hours later, the ecstasy of what could only be described as a breeding frenzy and the sense of fulfillment that followed left him not just wanting more, but
aching
for it. It was wrong; Tae
knew
it was wrong to want to be so used by an alien creature they had little understanding of-- and yet he did.
"Cold?" Rollins asked solicitously.
"No, I'm alright," Tae said and waved off the blanket when the doctor tried to draw it up over him once more. If anything he felt hot-- just shy of breaking out in a sweat as he struggled to suppress the tantalizing memories of what had occurred on X-136. "I--" Tae hesitated a moment then pressed on, "I remember what happened... did your examination turn up anything concerning? Considering what we know of the creature and the nature of its attack I had expected it to deposit its eggs in me but that doesn't seem to be the case."
He
should
have been concerned, Tae knew that-- but when he absently brushed one hand over the still-flat surface of his abdomen he felt a bizarre sense of regret, or perhaps even longing, instead.
Tae looked at Rollins and found the doctor studying him with a frown. "Actually," the doctor said, "It did."
"What?" Tae demanded, stunned at first and then overcome by a strange thrill of anticipation. "But we know xyloid eggs are quite large, nearly the size of a first," he objected.
The doctor sighed and pulled down one of the mechanical arms hanging from the ceiling above then activated its display and made adjustments until it hovered a few inches over Tae's stomach. At first all the screen showed was his skin, but a moment's calibration by Rollins and suddenly it was showing Tae's internal organs. One more shift and it had isolated the scientist's reproductive system in real time.
To Tae's untrained eye everything looked normal, certainly no sign of eggs, until Rollins zoomed in to focus on the wall of the scientist's uterus to reveal a peculiar series of black dots that even Tae knew weren't supposed to be there.
"I'll leave the detailed explanation to Doctor Wolfsfeld-- I've already provided him with a sample I took while you were asleep, but it seems that xyloids have a parasitic system of reproduction. When it attacked you it deposited these tiny eggs into your uterus where they attached themselves to its lining in much the same way a single fertilized human egg cell would. These xyloid eggs are multicellular but seem to be mostly dormant for the moment-- no activity or cell division at all."
"
Mostly
dormant?" Tae asked as he stared at the screen, entranced by the proof of what the xyloid had implanted inside of him. There had to be at least fifty in the section of lining Rollins had zoomed in on-- who knew how many there were total. Hundreds? Thousands?
Tae barely suppressed a shiver of anticipation at the thought.
Rollins swiped sideways until they reached a different section of Tae's uterine lining. Here were two eggs considerably larger than those around them. "The vast majority of the eggs are completely dormant but there are a few that have started to grow and develop," he explained. "These are about the size of marbles right now and there's a few more like them. They're absorbing what they need to grow directly from you-- the fact that only a small number of them have activated while the others remain in stasis
might
suggest that while a xyloid might deposit a large quantity of eggs into a host at once, they'll only develop in waves to keep from starving the host of nutrients and thus losing its own offspring in the process."
"A sound theory," Tae said, transfixed by the view of the eggs developing inside of him.
How many would develop at once and when would he be able to feel them? How long until their weight became noticeable and his belly began to swell with a new and unfamiliar form of life? Tae had never been interested in having children but the thought of his becoming so full of developing eggs he looked pregnant made him ache with arousal. The idea that he would inevitably have to birth? Lay?-- said eggs eventually left Tae so wet he could feel it soaking into his underwear.
"Well, I'll leave the hypothesis and research to you and Doctor Wolfsfeld," Rollins said. "Regardless, the eggs can't be removed as is, not without significant damage to your uterus, which means the only alternative is a hysterectomy or--"
"Not that," Tae answered immediately. The doctor gave him a sympathetic smile, no doubt assuming he wanted to avoid surgery.
In truth, the thought of losing the eggs inside him filled Tae with a sense of panic, almost as if they were his own.
The scientist's hand went reflexively to the flat of his stomach and Rollins leaned in closer, voice soothing as he placed his hand over Tae's. "Don't worry, I'm sure you and Wolfsfeld will be able to come up with an alternative once you've had a chance to study them; some chemical compound to flush them out of your system, maybe. I've already volunteered to help the Doctor once he's finished his first round of tests.
Rollins' hand was warm over Tae's own and though he knew he'd never let either man remove the eggs the xyloid had planted within him, the scientist found himself distracted by the doctor's proximity.
He was a handsome man, older than Tae by some years but not quite so old as Wolfsfeld and the scientist felt his blood quicken-- the heat that had already started to build within him on seeing the eggs he now carried intensifying. Tae slid his hand out from under Rollins' and used it to press the doctor's palm against his stomach. He relished the warmth of it then glanced up at the other man from under his lashes and, in a low voice, said, "Thank you for taking care of me."
Rollins felt the world spin when he met his patient's eyes but he couldn't have torn his gaze away for love or money in that moment. "Of course," he said, mouth dry as he stroked the flat of his palm over Tae's belly.
There was something hypnotic about the younger man and as an excuse to maintain contact, Rollins suggested, "I'd like to palpate your stomach to locate the eggs, if you don't mind."
He'd half expected Tae to tell him no-- to point out that he already