Bad News Comes Under Cover of Night

Posted on Sun Mar 1st, 2020 @ 5:00pm by Commander Bart "Gargoyle" Mancuso & Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Yamaguchi & Lieutenant Savannah Yamaguchi
Edited on on Tue Jan 11th, 2022 @ 11:07am

Mission: Mission 34: Between Two Fires
Location: Various Locations - USS Toronto
Timeline: 1800Hrs - June 22nd, 2391

Lieutenant JG Savannah Yamaguchi regarded her husband as she slowly moved into the living room, she was now heavily pregnant and the running joke was that she was going to burst like a balloon but she knew that Gabe never said things like that, even behind her back but still, she knew that something was bothering her husband but she also knew what it was. "Gabe."

Gabriel pulled out a chair for her. "You okay?"

"You're having the next one." Savannah responded in jest, it brought a smile to her husband's face. "Gabe, you need to stop blaming yourself for your species medical issues, you warned me about it when we were dating and you were very clear on the subject... Its why we took so long with things."

Gabe nodded his head. "Yeah, I still can't help but-"

"Stop blaming yourself for it, we make do as best we can... sure the procedures are extremely invasive for us both... and I know you hate it, I do too... but we have two healthy children when this one puts in its appearance." she deliberately referred to their second unborn child as 'it' rather then 'he' or 'she' as they both wanted to be suprised.

Savannah got started on her evening meal which was a chicken salad with a side of mashed potatoes with gravy, Gabriel was eating unhealthy tonight with three pieces of battered haddock fish, with fries and gravy to go with it but they both had a large glass of coke cola for his drink.

Her due date was a month away and Savannah was not a large woman, so in the late stages, her baby tended to start being very demanding on her body for space, which meant everything else got moved around. "Still... I think I'm going to take a break from having babies for awhile... I wanna spend some time with my own body and not live for two."

"Considering how this one has gone, I don't blame you," Gabe responded as he chopped off a piece of fish and ate it.

"Gabe..." Savannah regarded her husband with a reproving look

"I am not being negative... I am just making an observation," he responded as he regarded her. "Refresh my memory please... what did we have planned for tonight?"

"Well... I don't know about you but I know the ship's medical staff want to poke me and prod me and play with me." she sighed softly. "I sometimes wonder if any of these medical staff ever get laid."

"Sounds kinky," Gabriel responded with a soft chuckle. "Can I watch or participate?"

Savannah chuckled softly. "At least you have your sense of humor still."

"Yes and I am loathe to give that up," he responded. "So... names?" Gabriel inquired

"Not at dinner... last time we had that chat, it turned into an argument and it turned into a food fight.," Savannah responded. "We can discuss it later... in bed."

"Sounds good." Gabe took a sip of his drink. "That way something productive comes of it."

"If you mean ninety minutes of bad sex with the bump in the way, then yes." Savannah sighed softly.

Gabe smiled as he went back to his dinner, shortly they both were finished as they went into the next room. "Now we can discuss names.... so... if its a boy.?" Celeste commented. Nicole if its a girl, or Michelle."

"Anthony or Edward." he smiled.

"All good names.." Savannah responded. "What about Brandon or Bradley?"

"Bradley isn't bad... not keen on Brandon though." he paused. "What about Arlene or Dakota?"

"Mmm... Dakota isn't bad... but I like Arlene." Savannah paused. "So... Nicole or Arlene...if its a girl and Anthony or Bradley if its a boy."

"Sounds good to me," Gabe responded.

"Well..." Savannah sighed as she hauled herself off of the sofa. "Walk me to sickbay would ya?" she inquired.

"Of course," Gabe answered, since the two had not yet changed out of their uniforms, it didn't matter really as he tugged on his boots, he turned to find his wife bent over while she pulled her boots on, he whistled at her. "Dammn you look hot like that."

Savannah gave her husband a smile. "Mmm.." as she straightened up. "I should have known you would stare at my ass..."

"Why not?" he inquired.

"Come on... lets go." she almost groaned at him. "The sooner we finish, the sooner we can come back and then I get to fuck your brains out."

"You recall what happened the last time we tried aggressive sex?"

"Yeah... I tore some things." Savannah admitted

"Yeah.." Gabe answered. "and Doctor Slater never let me live it down either. Shall we go?" Gabe smiled at his wife.

Savannah went out the door, her husband right behind her and they went down the hall. "You watch it'll be something stupid or some Nurse will want to paw me.... the Doctors, I don't mind by the nurses.. they like to get frisky."

Gabe regarded his wife. "Some people have the weirdest sexual fantasies."

The two walked into a turbolift, the doors parted at their approach and closed behind them. "Sickbay," Savannah said softly as Gabriel said nothing.

Moments later they were in sickbay as Doctor Mancuso came over. "Ms. Yamaguchi, your here for your checkup?"

"I am, yes Doctor."

"Okay, then right this way...." as he nodded to Gabe, clearly understanding why the younger man was here. "We got you set up in here, out of prying eyes" Mancuso commented quietly, it was not in his nature to raise his voice as most who crossed him quickly found out that this was a man not to be trifled with.

Savannah gently hoisted herself up onto the bed before making herself comfortable as the nurse took a moment to make sure she was prepared. "Alright Ms Yamaguchi, this won't take long."

"Alright," Savannah responded.

Mancuso opened his medkit and withdrew with a tricorder in hand. "I'm going to start with a simple physical and go from there alright?"

"Proceed, Doctor..."

Mancuso nodded before he gave her the once over. "Mmm... Odd."

"What?"

"Savannah... You're pregnant with twins..." Mancuso sounded surprised and that in itself was a very bad thing.

"Twins?" Savannah responded.

"Yes... How was this missed.... is my question.."

"Mine too..." Gabriel regarded his wife. "Are there any concerns?"

Mancuso looked confused or was it perplexed at this unusual turn of events. "Finding a second child this late into a pregnancy is almost unheard of... I will need to keep you a time longer to make sure there isn't anything wrong." Mancuso sighed. "I will want to speak with the Doctor on your last posting... I want to know how the hell they missed this..." he growled softly as he ran a deeper scan of her abdomen before bringing it up on the wall monitor. "Well... as you can see. the second child is healthy... and I can tell you the genders.. if you wish?"

"No... we'd like to be suprised." Savannah responded. "are they alright though?"

"From what I have been able to tell... Yes, they are both in excellent health... neither of them is conjoined however.." he narrowed his eyes. "I want to know how this was missed though. Who has been looking after your prenatal sessions?"

"Ensign James Madison."

"I will speak with him... and I will have you reassigned to someone else. Just in case Mr. Madison has been tardy in his work." he paused. "I am more concerned with the medical staff on the Shield of Vega and how this second child was missed for all of this time.."

Gabriel was concerned. "Doctor, Savannah is almost due.... should we change anything that we're doing?"

"I'm going to increase your number of scheduled appointments but only as a precaution. I hate surprises, especially when other people's lives are at stake." Mancuso responded. "Hey, I'm just an old country Doctor... humour me will ya?"

Savannah tried not to laugh and she succeeded but she did smile at least. "Alright Doctor, we will... I need to talk to the lady I call mom.?"

"Is she an old battleax of a woman.?" Mancuso inquired.

"No... But if you ever crossed paths with Commander Torilla Yamaguchi, you'd like her."

"Isn't she the Exec of the USS Roanoke.?"

"She is, yes. My siblings serve over there too... Rachael is in training and Elizabeth is almost a fully qualified Doctor."

"I also heard she mindfucked her Captain... Something about a monkey?" Mancuso commented. "That's is just insane... she's lucky she wasn't booted out of Starfleet for that..."

"A capuchin actually," Gabriel explained, setting the record straight.

Seleste regarded her husband. "You never told me about this..." she raised an eyebrow. "Details please?."
Gabe knew his wife wanted an explanation so he took a few minutes and gave her one.

"Wow... Elizabeth really is crazy... but then she thought she was protecting her mother... I guess I can see why she did it... not that I approve of what she did.." Savannah shook her head.

"Oh, I never said I thought what Elizabeth did was a good thing,.... she's lucky she wasn't booted out of Starfleet for that," Gabe answered as Mancuso checked the display as he ran another test. "Well, Savannah. I have good news... and bad news.."

"What's the bad news..?"

"You're malnourished but that can be explained with the second baby we didn't find until now. Among other things."

Savannah turned her attention back to the wall monitor which displayed her sleeping babies, soon to be born. "Yeah... and here I was thinking it was the various issues we had getting pregnant."

Mancuso nodded in understanding. "I've been looking into it, in case you two wanted more children and I believe I have come up with a much simpler option." he slowly smiled as he explained. "That's the good news."

Savannah and Gabriel shared a look. "Go on..." they both inquired.

"Well rather than do it the hard way as some of these idiot doctors seem to want to do," Mancuso explained. "I can use a fetal transporter to remove one or two of your eggs, then I fertilize them and implant them back into you, using the same fetal transporter," Mancuso explained.

"I assume there are downsides?" Seleste inquired.

"Yes, having something appear and disappear from inside your body comes with the side effect of having the object not appear exactly where it should."

Savannah raised an eyebrow. "Well, that's an understatement."

"Indeed. Ms. Yamaguchi... I can get it down to a hundred femtometers."

Savannah nodded. "Acceptable odds. I'll take my chances Doctor" she smiled as she knew that Femtometers was down at the subatomic scale.

Gabriel smiled as he knew his wife was a walking database at times. "You sure.?"

"Gabe, a hundred femtometers is down the atomic scale, you'll be able to see atoms at that level as I said... I'll take my chances."

Mancuso regarded her. "As you wish Savannah." he picked up a PADD and began to input infomation onto it. "I'm updating your nutritional plan to account for the second child."

"Any issues I should know about?"

"No... But you should know that I am going to look into how this second child was missed and what went wrong." Mancuso explained.

Gabriel nodded his head as he regarded his wife. "That's fine Doctor. Let me know what you find would ya mind?"

"Consider it done... Now unless there is anything else. You two are free to go."

"Nope," Savannah responded as she looked down at her ample baby bump before her. "We're good. Has my due date changed any?"

"Nope... Its still September the 4th." Mancuso responded with a smile. "Except now... it's for two babies instead of one."

Savannah gently hoisted herself off of the bed as Gabe gently assisted her with it. before Mancuso handed Gabe a PADD. "YOu're updated nutritional plan, you'll notice I doubled your intake of food, because of this second baby, I'm not happy as to why it was missed but I will find out what happened."

"Then we'll leave you to it Doctor, Thank you." Gabriel responded and with that he and his wife walked out the door as Mancuso saved the infomation from Savannah before returning to his office to begin his own research.