Chapter 13

She couldn't wait for Saturday to come. Joe drove her to the house as usual and Dr. Milton expressed concern about her weight increase. "I may have to reduce the injections. Your getting too big, too quickly." She didn't tell him she was overdosing daily. He took a urine sample and left her to analyse it in the laboratory. "It may show high signs of Ethynyl Oestradiol. That's how we test cats for pregnancy."

Lisa waited expectantly for him to return. When he did his face told her she was pregnant... "Yes, yes!" he shouted, "you've done it, we've done it! Well done Lisa!"

Lisa hugged him and said, " Dr. Milton, it's all your brilliant research that's achieved this. I'm just the host mother."

"Would you let me do an ultra sound scan to see if all three have embedded?"

Lisa agreed immediately. Lying back on the examination table he squeezed a thin jelly on her bare midriff and switched on the machine and monitor. Using a steel probe he manoeuvred it gently across her belly while he looked at the screen. At first, she couldn't make out anything but the doctor pointed out two definite blobs on the screen and a possible third. "I think you taken all three, Lisa, thank you!"

Lisa wiped her belly clean and felt pleased with herself. In five weeks she was going to have a delivery of three kittens! Her knees went weak at the thought. She asked the doctor to say what was going to happen.

"The fertilised eggs have implanted in the lining of your womb. They will attach to your blood vessels and use you as a source of nutrition, basically they will take the food they need to develop from your body. You won't show at all with just three kittens," he explained, " It should take a further five weeks, and the birth itself should be straight-forward enough. Kittens are very small and are born inside a slimy sac, which you should comfortably deliver, vaginally. There is one side effect that we ought to discuss, however."

"What's that?" she asked anxiously.

"Now don't worry, " he said taking her hands. "there is a probability that you will produce breast milk after the birth but it's totally normal and I can give you injections to suppress it quickly."

Lisa lubricated again... Milk from her tits!!!! Yes please!!!!! She couldn't wait.

"Will the milk be mine or... "

"A cat's?" he finished. He continued, " To be honest, I'm not sure. The only way to find out is if you allow me to collect and analyse it. Would you co-operate with that?"

Lisa readily agreed. She didn't tell him that she wouldn't want him to suppress her milk. Some of her clients would pay for that... She wondered if it was possible to feed the kittens with it.

Over dinner, Dr. Milton treated her like a fragile glass statue. He helped her to her seat at the table, he poured her wine for her, he asked her if she had eaten enough. Lisa enjoyed the extra attention. Later on the porch, a time of the week that had become very special to her, she asked about his plans for the future.

The question made him pause... Then he looked at her and said, "Lisa. The only limit is your imagination."

She screwed up her nose to demonstrate that she failed to understand. He laughed and took her hands again. "If you deliver these kittens alive, that's only the beginning... What I have in mind could change the world as we know it."

Lisa decided she had had too much wine, even if she asked him to explain, she probably wouldn't comphrehend. She changed the subject. " My brother, Joe, the one that brings me here. He's my twin you know."

The doctor squeezed her hands tightly, "Is he????? Why have you never said so before?"

She was surprised by his reaction. "Oh, I didn't think you'd be interested... after all he's a man and can't have babies anyway."

The doctor slowly smiled again and said, " No. You're probably right."

Lisa was tired but she still thought it was odd that he said she was only 'probably right'.

He noticed her fatigue and ushered her to her bed. That night she dreamt the three kittens slid out of her body and were scratching her tits as they fought for access to her breasts.

On the Sunday morning the doctor (he insisted that she call him Richard now) showed Lisa how he extracted eggs from the female animals. He explained how the donor animal would be injected with a drug to stimulate multiple egg production. Then he would 'harvest' the eggs using a laporascope, which was a thin steel probe with a camera attached which enabled him to 'look inside' the bodies of the animals, before extracting then with suction.