A young, black-haired man, who had been dozing in a nearby armchair woke with a start. “Genn!” he cried out, rising and moving toward the bed. He reached out a hand to the tossing girl, but at the last moment stopped himself from touching her.
As much as he longed to comfort her this was the chance he had been waiting for. A chance to discover the source of Genn’s nightmares, and who, or what, the baby was.
While it could simply be bad dreams. Brought on by their new relationship, and the fears such things held for her because of her past such. But, Genn’s nature made that a dangerous assumption. It could very well be some pre-cognitive episode dealing with her future. Which, as a baby was involved, would also, he hoped, mean his future.
Not near future, though a quick check when the dreams had started had shown she was not pregnant. Something that Seance had learned with a mixture of relief and disappointment.
He wasn’t ready to be a father, yet, but he did love Genn, something he’d have found impossible to believe just a few months before. It had taken him a while to get over the image of Genn as a buff, well hung, stud, which had been Genn’s favorite, or rather Brianna’s favorite form, before the Rakshasha had fallen in love with Seance, and had started favoring female forms. Of course, now, she had no choice in the matter.
Seance mused over their relationship as he began to gently probe Genn’s mind. At first he’d thought Genn’s interest was that of a predator, eager to dine of Seance’s ample aura, but Genn’s heartfelt confession of her love, and the reasons for it, had let a chink into his emotional armor, and that had eventually let him move to the point where he could honestly return Genn’s love with his own. He was a bit ashamed to think that was made easier by not having to deal with Genn as a male anymore. Sometimes he feared that Genn was not actually damaged, but choose not to assume a male form, or maybe, as Dr. Digger had suggested, that she subconsciously didn’t want to risk losing him, and so blocked that aspect of her nature.
The distraction of his thoughts did not keep a glowing vision from appearing over Genn’s head. Seance had the power to see into people’s day-dreams, and regular dreams with only a little more effort, but nightmares were chaotic in nature, and the physic backlash could be quite dangerous. Which is why he hadn’t told Genn what he intended to do.
He focused hard on the vision in front of him. The image was distorted. No, not distorted. Chaotic, just as he’d feared. Mental impressions flashed into his mind, and were gone before he could really register.
A laughing man, with a palm tree on his head???
A sullen little boy, waving a wooden sword.
A black-haired woman. No! That was an image in a mirror. Seance tried to hold onto it, but it was gone in a flash.
Suddenly a vison of such force, mixed with remembered pain, jammed into his mind. He cried out and stumbled backward.
At Seance’s cry, the girl on the bed shot upright, her face bathed in sweat. “Noooooo!” She cried out, and then blinked, a look of loss on her face that shifted to one of concern as she saw the bent over form of Seance.
“Seance,” She cried out. She jumped from the bed, her thin nightgown doing little to hide her abundant charms. She wrapped her arms around her boyfriend’s head and held it to her bosom. “Are you all right? I thought you had to pull an all-nighter for Doctor Digger?”
“Sorry, told a fib,” Seance mumbled. For a second he let Genn massage his head, in a very pleasant way, but than the image he has seen pressed forward in his consciousness.
He stood up and took hold of Genn’s shoulders, looking down at her. “I know why you’ve been having these dreams. You’re a mother.”
“What! That’s impossible!”
“There is no mistake. I got it all in one big burst. You giving birth to this little black haired baby girl.” He gave a sigh. “I am so glad I’m not a girl.”
Genn didn’t register this last, luckily for Seance. “A baby girl,” she said in a stunned voice. “How, when? I mean, I’m thousands of years old. This could have happened eons ago.”
“I don’t think so. I got the image of a hospital room, a modern hospital room, while you were giving birth. And pineapples for some reason,” he concluded with a frown.
Again Genn didn’t hear. A dazed look spread across her face. “I’m a mother.” A sudden look of worry appeared, and she asked. “You don’t mind? That I’ve had some other man’s baby. It was a man wasn’t it?”
“The baby looked human, and I don’t mind. This must have happened before we met. There has hardly been time for you to have a baby . . .” Seance paused.
Genn’s eyes widened as she realized. “The time-war! I was trapped. I don’t know for how long. I lost a lot of memories of that time when I was nearly caught up in a reality collapse. That has to be it. That’s when it happened. I must have been trapped for a long time, maybe years, maybe even decades.”
“Congratulation. You’re a mom.” Seance told the stunned girl. “And I don’t mind. I’d treasure any child of yours.”
“We have to find her,” Genn said, her voice firm with purpose.
“Of course, but how?”
Read the comments on this episode
See other episodes by T.H. Tiger
(Posted Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:09)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.