Chapter 8

Elina

“Me does not think it is wise that the human leave here just yet. All tests have not been done and us still don't know if she is to faint again.” Skillys is not happy about me leaving the examination room.

“I have already decided that Elina is to join me at our living quarters.” Lazarus' tone is final and doesn’t give Skillys any room to object even if he wants to. Instead he clenches his jaw and gives a small nod.

As a punishment (at least that’s what it feels like) Skillys wants to take every sample that he can think of and squeeze every part of my body that exists. I definitely don't feel comfortable about this and I refuse to lift my gown so that he can look and squeeze my stomach, chest or any other part of me. I let him take blood samples and swaps from my mouth. I even pee in a cup for him, as well as spit in one, but he is not pleased.

“Me needs to take some samples of thees genitals to see exactly if thees reproductive organs are-”

“No. I’m not showing off my pussy to you! If you wanted those samples you should have taken them while I was unconscious.” As if I’ll let this little creature take a look at my privates. I have trouble even going to a regular gynecologist, but to have a small, male rodent dig around in my vagina is way over the top.

“Me understands that thee find it uncomfortable, but it is for medical and scientific reasons.” Skillys sound flustered and irritated. I didn’t even think Farnders could sound irritated at another individual. He gives a loud sigh. Then he lights up and says. “Perhaps thee will find it more comfortable if Nim would take thees samples. Nim is female.”

I think about that. Perhaps it will be easier if it is a woman (can I call a female version of Skillys a woman?) doing the examination, it won't feel as strange. I throw a quick look at Lazarus who is still sitting by the bed. He gives me a small smile and I quickly look away again. “That might be better. I don’t know. I haven't even met this Nim-person. Is she like you?” I look at Skillys again and he gives me an affirmative nod. “Ok. I can try. But if it is too strange she has to stop.” Skillys nods again and leaves the room to collect Nim.

I sit quietly at the bed, looking down at my hands while waiting for Nim to arrive. I glance at Lazarus a few times and see that he looks at me the whole time. Eventually I gathered enough courage to tell him to leave. My voice comes out low and shaky. “I want you to leave the room.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t get that.” Of course he didn’t hear me. Of course I have to say it again. I need to have some confidence so that he can't argue with me about it, as I’m sure he will not agree to leave the room. I take a deep breath.

“I want you to leave the room when Nim examines me.” I look him straight in the eyes and I feel proud of myself for the confidence in my voice.

“I don't wish to leave you-” He starts but I don't let him finish. I had already prepared myself that he would try to argue against this.

“I don’t know you. I’m not comfortable with you being in the room while someone is giving me a gynecological examination.” We stare at each other until we hear the door open again. I look to the door and see another creature like Skillys. But I have to say that this one looks much more adorable. Her skin is more orangebronw in color than Skillys and she has one big darker brown spot that covers her right eye and ear and stops right above her little nose. Her eyes are a strong and bright yellow color. On her head she has orange hair with some streaks of grey that is tied in a strict bun.

“Hello Captain Lazarus and human female named Elina. Me is Nim and me is scientist here as well as Skillys, mees mate. Skillys informed me that thee feel uncomfortable about having Skillys give thee an examination of thees genitales.” Nim gives me a smile, and I give her a small nod.

She goes to the counter to collect cotton swabs and tubes for samples and to put on a pair of gloves. When she is ready she goes to one of those chairs that a gynecologist has and motions for me to come. I look at Lazarus with narrowed eyes.

“Leave the room!” I hissed at him.

He narrows his eyes at me. “No!”

I cross my arms. “Then I guess this is not going to happen. I refuse to get in that chair when you are in here, and then I won’t be allowed to leave the room.” I defiantly look away from him. Eventually he sighs and leaves the room. With a pleased huff I get off the bed and slowly crawl up in the chair in front of Nim and put my feet in the stirrups.

“Me will take a few samples with the swabs. Then me wish to feel thees reproductive organs as well. Me is specialised in breeding and pregnancy so me has done this many times on a lot of different species. That Skillys were to take all samples now was because me is currently reading all facts that we could find about human breeding and pregnancy.” While she talks she starts the examination and I focus on her speech to keep my mind off what she’s doing. “From what me has read it seems that the human pregnancy is very similar, if not the exact same as the pregnancy of the Galdrians, which is very fortunate for us, for the Galdrians and of course for thee.”

“I don’t know if I would have prefered to not be that much like some other alien species.” I mutter. At this Nim gives out a small giggle and I feel an instant like towards this creature.

“Me understand that this situation is not ideal for thee and me has heard that thee have argued even with the Captain.” She giggles one more time. “There are not many that would dare to argue with Captain Lazarus, but me guess that is different when it comes to mates. Captain Lazarus is not only one of four captains on this ship, but also the next in line for the royal throne of Galdrion. That is why the King chose him to be the first to mate with a human.”

“He’s the Crown Prince?” I squeak and look down at Nim.

“That he is.”  She answers before she turns her eyes back to my vagina. I’m silent for a moment thinking about what I just found out. So he is important. But how come he’s on this expedition?

“I heard that there were two more expeditions that are out looking for compatible species. How come he was placed on this? Does he have any siblings that are on the other expeditions?” I want to know more about why I’m in this situation and Nim is by far the easiest person I have met yet.

“The captain has one younger brother and one younger sister. The brother is not on an expedition to find females. Him is stationed to guard the headquarters of The Intergalactic Committee. That the Captain is stationed on the expedition to go to earth is because The Intergalactic Committee has already started to do research about the human race since thees species are not that far away from reaching out into space. The information them had on the humans was a good match for the Galdrians and therefore the King sent Captain Lazarus here.”

“Humans have been out into space for more than 50 years.” I furrow my brows.

“Yes, but that short distance is nothing when it comes to space. And 50 years is not a very long time.” At this Nim looks up at me and gives me a smile. “Now me have to feel thees reproductive organs. It can feel a little uncomfortable and if it hurts thee should tell me. Me have to put me fingers into thees genitals and then me will press thees stomach.” I nod at her and take a deep breath and stare straight up into the ceiling.

When Nim is done with the examination she praises me for doing a good job. I find the praise stupid but still, it feels good to know that I were able to go through the examination. Outside the room I find Lazarus is leaning against the wall, arms crossed across his chest and an irritated frown on his beautiful face. I cross my arms and raise a challenging brow. At that he only shakes his head and stands up straight.

“Come, let’s go to our quarters so that you can bathe and dress.” I only nod and follow him. We go in the opposite direction from the one I escaped to and a few doors down we stop.

“The blue doors are elevators and the red ones next to them are stairs. The symbol on the doors are numbers that indicate which elevator you are currently using.” He says explaining how it all works. “Do you recognize the symbols?”

“No. We have other symbols.” I answered him. “What are all the other doors for?” The door to the elevator opens and we step in and Lazarus presses the highest button.

“It depends on which unit you are in. We have several units on this ship. This is one of our largest ships. The unit we were in just now is the research facility. That is one of the units that you will frequently visit. Next to it is the hospital unit, which is also operated by the Farnders. The room where I found you earlier is a relaxing room that is situated next to the dining hall. There are several relaxing rooms spread out around the ship, as well as a few game rooms.” The door opens again and we step out.

The corridor that we step out to is lined with grey doors that have white symbols on them. “This is the top floor of the ship, and is one of three floors of living quarters for the crew. On this floor are the living quarters of the captains and others with higher positions. Right this way.” He motions for me to go to the right and soon we reach a door that he stops in front. He holds up his hand to a plate beside the door and the door opens. “We all have an identification chip placed in our hand and yours is programmed to open this door as well.” He lets the door close and motions for me to do the same as he did.

“How many things have you put in my body since I came here?” I do not like the thought that they have put some sort of implant in both my ear and hand. Even if I can see the uses of them.

Lazarus smiles at me. “The translator and the identification chip is all that is implanted in you, for the time being.” Then he gestured toward the plate again.

I cautiously put up my hand to the panel and it glows green and the door opens. Lazarus motions for me to step in before him so I do. We enter a small hallway where there are a few shoes placed on a shoe rack. “I prefer that we don’t have shoes on in our home.” I turn and see Lazarus take off the shoes he wore. 

“That's fine with me. But I don't have any shoes anyways.” I answer and walk further into the living quarters. I came into a large open space room with a large, light grey couch sitting in front of something that looks like a large white TV. The wall that is opposite of the entrance is all glass that again shows the beauty of space. In front of the couch there is a white coffee table with a large fluffy grey carpet underneath. Lazarus is silently watching me as I take a walk around the rooms.

To the left there is a black dinner table with four white chairs and behind it is a counter with a sink and that same thing I saw in the relaxing room that looked like a fridge. There is some artwork on the walls, a large bookcase and some other knick knacks placed on sideboards and side tables placed around the room.

To the right there are two doors. One is open and shows a large bedroom with the largest bed I have ever seen. Of course they need large beds when they are so...large. The closed door holds a small restroom with a sink and toilet, Lazarus informs me so I don’t bother to look in there.

I walk into the bedroom and see that besides the bed there are bedside tables and two large dressers. One of the walls here is all glass as well. Turning towards the opposite wall there are again two doors. One is a walk-in-closet where I can see that there already are clothes for me on one side, the other obviously holds Lazarus’ clothes. The other door holds a large bathroom with dark tiles on both the walls and floors. There is a large walk-in shower, a his-and-her-sink and a toilet. In the shower there is a tablet-like thing which I guess is used to control the shower, since there are no taps.

I walk out to the living area again where Lazarus is standing waiting for my verdict. “Nice place.” Is all I say. There is an awkward silence between us.

“If you want you can take a shower first. I can pick out clothes for you to wear.” Lazarus walks into the closet in our bedroom to look through my clothes.

“Ehm. I can choose clothes for myself thank you!” I say, following him into the bedroom and crossing my arms. He looks out from the closet with a disappointed look. “I’m a big girl. I can take care of dressing myself.”

“On Galdrion the males often care for any need of their females. Choosing clothes, choosing food, cleaning them off and so on.” I give him a look of disbelief. “I wouldn’t mind taking care of anything that you need. It is our way to show that we care for and cherish our female.” His smile is brilliant and innocent as he looks at me.

“You don’t know me enough to care for and cherish me yet.” I pointed it out to him. “We met a few hours ago.”

“That might be true but I have waited for you for a year now, since we started this expedition. I chose you three months ago. Since then I have watched film clips of you, listened to recordings and looked at pictures. So even if I met you for the first time today I have known you for a longer period of time.”

I stare at him in horror. They have actually been recording me for three months. Movies, pictures and audio. He sees my horror and he does his best, but fails terribly, at containing a straight face. “Well… We couldn't just choose a female and then take her away on a whim. We had to do our research first, make sure that you were a healthy human and so on.” This statement kinda makes it even worse.

“You had me under surveillance for three months?” I feel faint and sick and violated. Lazarus' face falls quicker than Niagara falls and he rushes to my side to take hold of me. He lifts me and sits us down on the bed, me in his lap once again. He really seems to like having me on his lap.

He gently rubs my back to sooth me and talks in a deep soothing tone. It’s weird that he can calm me down by placing me in his lap, rub my back and talk in that soothing and sexy voice. “Yes we had. We had chosen five females that were up to all standards of what we needed.”

“And what were those?” I cut in.

“Health, intelligence, independence. We wanted someone that didn't have too many strong ties to life on your planet. Of course everyone has some kind of family and friends, but the less and the weaker, the better for us. You do not have any living relatives. You only have a few friends that you are close to. From our research we found that you are loyal to those friends you have and cherish them dearly. You are also great with children. And after careful consideration I chose you out of the five. There was something about you that drew my interest.”

He falls silent and waits for me to take in and sort through what he has now told me. So they wanted someone that was alone and wouldn’t be missed that easily. And they were right. I don’t have that many friends. Since that with the asshole I only met Jasmine and DeShaune a few times. And otherwise I only had professional relationships with my co-workers and boss. The only person I have actually spent any quality time with is Amanda. After a long pause he says. “You were never chosen on just a whim, never through a lottery. We did our research. I did it as well and when I had enough information about all of the females, I chose you.”

I don't know how to actually feel about this. Somehow I’m pleased that I was not randomly selected. That Lazarus actually chose me for me. But somewhere deep down there is still a voice that screams that I still have to fight all this so that they put me back home. But this information pushes those thoughts farther and farther away. I need to retreat and regroup.

“I want to take a shower and then eat something. I will choose my clothes. But I have no idea what food you have here so you can choose that for me.” I give him a small smile and get off his lap. He gives me a smile and a nod and leaves the room. “Don’t you dare to enter the bathroom while I take a shower!” I yell after him and I hear him chuckle in response.

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