The doctor finds something unusual.

Lisa read a few articles and adds in a Women's World while Jonny nervously looked about. Other women sat in the waiting room--mostly with their husbands. Most of them looked somewhat strangely at Jonny, as he was the only fairly young man in the room accompanying a 40-something woman. Jonny felt their eyes and their judgment upon him as he waited quietly and tried to find something else to occupy his mind. "Lisa?" came the voice of a receptionist. "Thank God," Jonny said as he quickly stood up, relieved to be leaving the prying gaze of the other expectant mothers in the room. Lisa looked suddenly at Jonny a bit surprised, but she smiled pleasantly as the woman took them both behind the reception area and into the doctor's office. "She'll be with you soon," the woman said pleasantly. "Thanks," Lisa said as she sat down in a chair to wait.

Jonny glanced nervously about at the sort of posters one might expect on the wall of an OBGYN's office--diagrams of the female reproductive system, the various parts of a fertilized egg, and other similar displays. "What's wrong?" Lisa asked calmly. Jonny looked back at her, uncertain of what to say. He paused. "I enjoy female bodies a great deal," he whispered, "I've enjoyed spending time inside them for quite some time now, but I never developed any particular interest in the particulars of how they work. Boobs bounce. Asses jiggle beautifully. That's all I need," Jonny said uncomfortably. Lisa smiled and chuckled a little. "A bit hot under the collar, are we?" Lisa said playfully, "you know ever woman you've possessed has that fancy equipment on the diagram, right?" she said with a slight smile. "Yeah, yeah I know, but I never possessed a woman on account of her beautiful uterus if you catch my drift," Jonny said. Lisa shook her head, continuing to chuckle but deciding to give up.

"Hello there," came the voice of another woman as she opened the door. Jonny looked up. Through the door stepped a beautiful woman. She had long black hair cascading down from her head, and that black hair framed a beautiful face with full lips and skin that was slightly tanned, as though this woman was of Mexican ancestry. This woman appeared to be about 30 years old, and Jonny could see she had a beautiful figure despite the fact that her white medical coat covered up some of the fun parts. A beautiful set of breasts pushed out from her chest, straining against a red blouse she wore. Farther down, Jonny beheld a set of wide, child-bearing hips down from which there stretched a long set of legs complete with full, meaty thighs encased in tight black pants. "Hello, I'm Rosa Flores," set the Latina vision before Jonny as she shook Lisa's hand, "and you must be Lisa," she said, a tiny hint of a Mexican accent in her melodious voice.

"I am," Lisa said as she smiled pleasantly back at the doctor. "Who's this strapping young lad?" the doctor asked. A look of slight panic crossed Lisa's face. "Um, this is--ah--my nephew Jonny. I promised my sister I'd take him shopping for a bunch of student gear from the university clothing store, but I made him come with me to the doc's first, so here he is," she explained. The doctor smiled. "Well it's good to see a young man like yourself willing to step into this ocean of estrogen and give your aunty a hand," Flores said with a smile. She then turned to Lisa. "If I could get you to come up here on the table, that'd be great," she said, and Lisa stood and walked over to a cushioned slab, a sort of bed-like thing that allowed doctors to get a better look at patients. Lisa jumped up on the thing and sat down. The next few minutes involved the doctor going through the important (but essentially boiler-plate) formalities of a medical examination. Lisa was told to stick out her tongue and say "aaaaahhhh" and was bopped on the knee with an instrument designed to test reflexes. The doc placed a stethoscope across Lisa's bountiful and beautiful chest to measure her heartbeat.

"All right, everything seems fine so far, but let's have a look inside, shall we? Lie back please," said Flores, and with that Lisa lay back on the cushioned slab. "Let's see that belly," Rosa said politely as Lisa pulled up her shirt and revealed her bare stomach. The pregnancy was not visible yet; her stomach protruded no more than Jonny had expected. "This'll be a bit cold," Flores said as she took a tube not unlike those that held toothpaste and from it squirted a jelly-like blue fluid on to Lisa's stomach. Lisa jumped a little bit and squirmed as Jonny held her hand. "Sorry, I know it's cold . . . wish we could fix that," the doctor said. Flores then took a medical instrument with a long cord attached to the end and began to rub the instrument about Lisa's exposed stomach. The cord led to a monitor on which some somewhat grainy images began to appear. These seemed largely like dots and static to Jonny, but he presumed the doctor could interpret them. Strange, rhythmic tones also groaned out of the machine; they sounded like muffled tones a sub's sonar would pick up. Lisa looked nervously down at Jonny and then to the strange machine. Jonny smiled back at her as he held her hand.

Jonny then nervously looked over at Dr. Flores, her eyes fixed upon the machine as she guided the wand-like instrument around Lisa's stomach. Jonny watched Dr. Flores closely as she stared at the screen. "Um," she began, a noticeable frown crossing her face, "there seems to be a pr--" she began, but Johnny acted quickly. He stood and concentrated in a single act; he felt the pressure and the demonic power swirling and building within him, and he quickly thrust his hands outward, and from them came a red orb that expanded and enveloped the room like a shockwave, catching both Lisa and Dr. Flores in its wake at once.

Jonny turned around and looked at Lisa. She was catatonic, her eyes open and glowing a vibrant red as she gazed up dumbly as the ceiling. He then looked to Dr. Flores, whose eyes were similarly glazed over and red. Jonny walked over to the sexy Latina, standing in front of her as she stared blankly back. "Tell me what you were going to say," he said flatly. The doctor obliged. "The baby is developing oddly . . . looks normal on the outside, but the inside of the baby is just a swirling, shifting mass of something the machine doesn't know how to read. I've never seen it before, and the baby's heart is beating fast enough that most people would be dead if it happened to them," the woman said in a monotone voice. "Anything else?" Jonny asked. "No," the doctor replied. Jonny paused for a minute. "Here's the deal," he began, "you're going to tell Lisa that everything is fine and that nothing is amiss, but that, because of her age, you want to see her back in a few weeks to begin appointments that will happen throughout the pregnancy to track her progress and the baby's. Next time we're back, you and I will have one of these delightful conversations again, all right?" Jonny said. "Yes, Master," the woman said. Jonny walked over and sat down, concentrating again.

Within a couple seconds, the eyes of the two women returned to normal. "Well it looks like you've got a perfectly healthy baby in that belly of yours," Flores said as she replaced the instrument and wiped the jelly from Lisa's stomach. Lisa smiled at the news, "Good," she said. "Women don't usually have kids at about 45," Flores said, "so just to make sure you're in tip top shape, I want to see you back here in a few weeks. My secretary will call to set up an appointment soon, okay?" she said. "Sure thing," Lisa answered as she stood up and she and Jonny headed for the door.

"That went well," Lisa commented as the two of them walked to the car. "Yeah," Jonny responded as genuinely as he could. A thousand thoughts swirled within him. What did it mean that the baby's heart was beating too fast? What did it mean that its internal organs seemed to be something the machine had never seen before? Did the machine screw up? Would Lisa be okay?

Lisa and Jonny arrived at the car. Jonny paused and looked back at the hospital. "What's wrong?" Lisa asked. "Just thinking," Jonny replied, staring off for a bit. He then drew breath and turned to Lisa. "You head on home . . . I've got to go take care of something. I'll be back not long after you are," he said. "Promise?" Lisa asked. "Sure," Jonny said. "I'm going to call someone about yoga lessons during the pregnancy, okay?" Lisa said. Jonny nodded. Lisa got into the car and drove off.

Jonny stood for a couple minutes and contemplated the slow, predictable hum of the hospital, all the doctors and nurses and paramedics scurrying about within it--a life so ordered. The Old Man would probably not like that Jonny had gotten Lisa knocked up, and he'd probably hear about it soon. Perhaps a little mayhem would feed the Old Man and act as something of a peace offering if he came to see Jonny. The demon walked back toward the hospital and stepped through the double doors.