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"Pardon my saying but this is fascinating.
Who: Kitty and Xi’an, also guest starring Clarice. And reintroducing Faiza!
What: Kitty dreams of Brood
When: Backdated to early Monday morning. Or something like that. XD
Where: house!
Status: complete
Rating: PG-13 for blood
warnings: Beast has some odd ideas about ways to remove a brood infestation from a womb.



Kitty’s friends were inside her, battling microscopic brood inside her body. She’d been so relieved it wasn’t a real baby, but now she was having some second thoughts about it. If she could spare a thought while trying to protect Broo.

Pain suddenly rippled through her body, like a little explosion inside her.

Kitty woke up with a little cry, doubling over in agony.

Xi’an awakened at Kitty’s cry. She wrapped her arms around Kitty as best she could. “What happened? Are you okay?” Was this another dream? Or something else?

Panting, Kitty shook her head. "Hurts...like cramps but a hundred times worse." She could feel something warm and wet and thought it might be blood.

Xi’an turned on the light on her nightstand. Something wasn’t right, she just knew it. She threw back the covers to get out of bed, but froze when she saw blood on Kitty’s side of the bed. She clamped a hand over her mouth.

"Xi'an..?" Kitty groaned. She moved her hand over her stomach and looked down at it. "Shit..shit shit shit...We gotta..we gotta..."

She tried to climb out of bed. "We gotta burn the sheets..dreamed 'bout..microscopic brood. Hank was doing something...." Blood started to dribble out one nostril.

“We need to get you to a hospital...” Admittedly, this would probably be really hard to explain to the hospital staff, but they’d manage somehow.

"Clarice." Kitty shook her head. "She can port us..to the ranch. Scott's got..." She wobbled. "Place. Underground. Sickbay." Hopefully with a medic who's not going to ask too many questions. If it was someone Scott hired, then probably they wouldn't.

Xi’an nodded and grabbed her phone. At least it was day time in London. She called Clarice and took a deep breath.

Clarice answered the phone. She sounded tired, but in a generally good mood. It was possible things were looking up for Yana. "Hello?"

“Clarice, can you port over here? I need to get Kitty to the medical center at the ranch. Something happened in the dream she had and now she’s...” Xi’an took a deep breath “...she’s bleeding like she just had a miscarriage, and she’s got a nose bleed on top of that...” The worry was very clear in her voice.

"Seriously?" About three second later Clarice appeared in the room. She paled a little. "Get something on, I'll take you both. I think Scott just hired on a new doctor."

Xi’an nodded and quickly pulled on some sweatpants and a sweater. She grabbed a bathrobe and some slippers for Kitty. “Clarice, after you drop us off, could you come back and stay here until we...find something out? I don’t want Nga and Leong to wake up to an empty house if they wake up early.”

"Burn the sheets," Kitty hissed. Clarice just nodded her head and opened a portal. Second later they stood in a shiny medical office.

A woman looked up, blinking. She wore a white headscarf and labcoat. She spoke with a distinct British accent. "Well hullo. Oh my. Set her down over here." She pointed at the bed. "Quickly now!"

Xi’an took a deep breath. “I think Kitty can...maybe explain what may have...led to this.”

Kitty shot Xi'an a pained look, then nodded at the doctor. "I uhm..you know about people and dreams right?"

"I do, duck," the doctor replied. "I knew some people who had them, and a lovely woman with green skin. It's why I volunteered to work here. I thought I would get some interesting cases."

She carefully snipped off Kitty's night clothes. "You woke up like this?"

"Yeah..." Kitty laid her head back. "I had a dream..there were these..things inside me. Dr. McCoy did something. Hurts like a bitch."

Clarice chewed her lip, then glanced at Xi'an. "You sure you'll be okay?"

“I will probably want a stiff drink later, but I’ll be okay,” Xi’an said. She managed a nervous smile. “Go on. I’ll call you when...we know something.”

"I'll bring you something." Clarice ported away, as Kitty asked her again to burn the sheets.

Faiza clucked her tongue, ordering Kitty to stay still. "Okay..lets see here."

It really was like the woman was suffering a miscarriage, but she hadn't been pregnant? "Lets get an ultrasound. There's a drink in the fridge. The red fridge, not the white fridge! Help yourself."

“Thank you.” Xi’an went to the red fridge--color-coding them was a good idea. She got just a little something to steel her nerves. She needed to be sober enough to help if needed, after all.

It took Faiza about an hour. Ultrasounds and X-rays, cleaning Kitty up and making sure there wasn't anything bad left inside her. She even looked at some of the blood under a microscope but didn't see anything unusual, much to Kitty's relief.

She sat Xi'an down in a chair next to the hospital bed. "Frankly, I can't tell just what happened. There's physical trauma in her uterus, but there's no..."

Faiza flailed her hands lightly. "There's no trauma or damage anywhere else."

Xi’an breathed a sigh of relief that whatever microscopic badness Kitty had feared wasn’t present in the real world. She ran a hand through her hair and looked at Faiza. “It had...something to do with her dream. I guess sometimes the...things in the dreams manifest here.” Like Kitty’s computer and that robotic leg of hers.

"That's so odd." Faiza murmured. She peeled her gloves off. "I'd like to keep her for the day, just to observe, mind. She'll need rest and some more ultrasounds in a week."

"What does it mean, physical trauma in my uterus?" Kitty asked, tiredly.

"I won't know yet, until I run a few more tests." The doctor frowned. "But it really looks like someone set off a wee tiny bomb in there."

"I'm killing Hank." Kitty muttered, closing her eyes.

Xi’an stroked Kitty’s forehead and hair. “If he shows up in Orange County, you have my permission to knee him in the balls.”

"Thanks.." She grinned, eyes still closed, and nuzzled her head into Xi'an's palm. Whatever Faiza had put her on was working, and she was just shy of passing out like a light.

"Pardon my saying but this is fascinating. Not the injury, of course not, though from a medical standpoint it's interesting. But things really manifesting from the dreams? Have either of you experienced anything like this before?"

“We’ve had items from our dreams show up before, and I’ve had pain from dreams, but nothing like this,” Xi’an said.

"I see." It didn't really make any sense to Faiza. People turning green and having alien miscarriages. But it was happening, and the man who hired her had lasy eyes.

She tapped her chin thoughtfully. "That's rather worrisome." Her eyes dropped to Xi'an's leg. "So you didn't lose that from a dream then?"

“No. This was a car wreck. I did dream where I lost it in the dream world. It was definitely not a car wreck there, and I did wake up screaming in pain from that dream.” Xi’an looked at her leg and then back at Faiza. “I also dreamed I got a robotic leg. Later, the leg showed up in our apartment.”

"I'm sorry." Faiza's eyes were filled with compassion and genuine concern. She rather hoped there were dreams in her future. She blinked, her voice taking on that interest again. "Really? A real robotic leg?" She wondered if she could attach it somehow...

Xi’an nodded. “I’m not sure how it works. I’ve only dreamed of having it fitted, not actually using it.”

"That's so interesting..." Faiza shook her head in wonderment. Kitty finally seemed to have passed out, so she got to her feet. "I can find you some place to get comfortable in if you plan on staying."

“I’d like that, thanks.” Xi’an gave her a small smile.

Faiza nodded. "Come along then."