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“Grace pregnant??” Rocky shouted, causing Grace to wake and bonk his head on the xenonite above.
“Rocky, just because I CAN wake up, doesn’t mean you HAVE to wake me up, okay?” Grace grumbled, rubbing his head.
Rocky made a noncommittal noise as Grace finally registered what he said.
“What do you mean, I’m pregnant?”
“Rocky see little life inside Grace! Grace explain human reproduction! Life grows inside human body!” Grace shook his head and pinched himself, surely he must be dreaming
Grace did explain human reproduction to Rocky, but dang his middle school teacher ways, he must have used too many euphemisms for Rocky to understand. He sighed. “Rocky, I don’t have a uterus, I can’t get pregnant and besides do you see anyone here who could knock me up?”
Rocky chittered a laugh and Grace groaned. “You did NOT get me pregnant buddy, we haven’t even exchanged fluids!” Rocky shrugged and suddenly Grace heard Ian Malcolm echoing in his head.
“Grace have Eridian pebble inside him!” Rocky tapped his xenonite, getting another look.
Grace froze. “Where do you see it?”
Rocky gestured for Grace to come closer, then pointed to his upper abdomen.
“Rocky…” Grace said slowly. “Is it in an organ that looks like a bean?”
Rocky trilled and tip-tapped his feet. “Eridian offspring in bean shaped organ!”
Grace groaned. He had a kidney stone. Luckily, thanks to Rocky’s incessant prying and violation of his internal organs privacy, he caught it early. “That’s not a baby, Rock. It’s something that happens to humans when we don’t drink enough water sometimes.” Grace flushed.
Rocky’s vents started puffing, angry Grace hadn’t taken care of himself. “It has to pass through my liquid waste and I’ll have to drink extra water.”
“Grace bad bad bad! Armando, water!” The robot arm handed Grace a pouch and he diligently drank it.
The next few weeks were all about Rocky bossing Grace around to drink more water, him tapping Graces body through the barrier to see the stones progress, and Grace managing his pain. Because of Rocky’s water monitoring, the stone wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
Rocky told him when it was going to pass, but Grace could feel it without an echolocating alien looking inside him. The pressure was immense and the amount of water he drank didn’t help. When it came time to pass it, Rocky insisted he be there. Grace was long past denying him.
The pain wasn’t as bad as ones that Grace had in the past, but he still got loud and groaned as it passed. Rocky was there pressing against him, making sure Grace knew he was there, as if he could ever forget.
Ping! Went the stone as it passed and Grace breathed a sigh of relief.
“Rocky want.”
Grace blinked and the words registered to him. “WHAT?”
“Rocky want! Grace body made, Rocky want.”
“You want my piss covered calcium deposit??” Nothing should surprise him at this point, but this took the cake.
“Yes.” Rocky answered simply.
Grace sighed and reached down. Luckily most of the fluid was gone. “Here, you weirdo.”
“Thank thank thank!” Rocky trilled and rolled away.
After Grace cleaned himself Rocky had the tiny stone on his side of the atmosphere.
“Look like eridian pebble,” he cooed, lifting it and turning it every which way.
“For the record, this is very strange,” Grace chimed in.
“Everything strange we are aliens,” Rocky retorted.
Grace shrugged, he guessed that was true. He took a sip of water, learning his lesson.
“Rocky make Grace pregnant again?”
“ROCKY!” He had got to go over reproduction with him again, he thought as he ran a hand over his face and Rocky trilled a laugh.