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was always a constant concern for them.
    In years gone by, natural pregnancies were normally destroyed by the parents either before or just after birth. The consequences were just too devastating. Fortunately for society, there had not been a recorded case of natural birth in hundreds of years. No one was permitted to have sex, let alone conceive children and thanks to the genetic recipe added to everyone’s make-up by government standards, no one ever considered entertaining sexual thoughts. In a way, this helped James and Margaret’s actions go undetected. No one alive had ever seen a pregnant woman or even a young child except for the laborers within the child camps and those laborers were never seen in normal society.
    Margaret was able to deflect questions about her increasing stomach size by simply saying she was gaining weight from a harmless illness.
    To say she was simply gaining weight from eating would have been absurd; no one was overweight from simply eating anymore. The daily exercise regime, perfect genetic make-up, and exact diet ensured this.
    Margaret spent the entire third trimester inside the domicile and only showed herself during routine sweeps. Fortunately, because James was a high ranking asset of the corporation, the sweeps on his residence were uncommon; occurring about once a month.
    Things would get more difficult as the boy got older. They would need to treat him as a captive. To let him out at such a young age would be suicide. Children were not a part of society. They did not become active members of society until the age of seventeen at which point they were assigned a vocation and a perm anent residence based upon their genetic programming.
    It broke James’ heart that his son would never live a normal life. He would be raised and educated in isolation.
    The plan was that if they could avoid being detected until he turned seventeen, then James might be able to steal or forge a set of fake identification tags and implant them into his son himself. His son could then live the planned out life of someone else.
    Of course the plan would become a disaster if they didn’t adequately teach the boy to avoid suspicion and detection. It all worried James immensely but he had become masterful at hiding his inner self. His responses to every dilemma were carefully constructed. He would need to teach his son the same tricks for everything to work out. On the other hand, the likelihood of everything going according to plan was infinitely small.
    The best solution , by far, would have been to terminate the child. This would have lead to the best outcome for them because it would eliminate the glaringly obvious reality of their situation. Without the child, there was no proof that he and Margaret were engaging in illegal sexual contact.
    Before the child was born, the y had planned to get rid of it as soon as it was delivered.  James could sneak the baby into his lab and place it inside the transporter. Since organic material was destroyed upon transportation via the transporter, there would be absolutely no evidence left. The body would immediately evaporate.
    Once the boy was born howe ver, a new plan was devised that did not involve terminating him, but instead, raising and nurturing him (they both instinctively and unexpectedly felt protective toward him).
    They were having some trouble caring for him because there was no information available showing how to treat a newborn baby. Margaret figured out how to feed the boy with mammary secretions, fairly early on.
    The crying and the sleepless nights seemed abnormal to them. James pondered solutions to the problem on a daily basis but most of what he tried failed to alleviate the crying. He found that humming and rocking the boy sometimes helped an d he was amazed that he had ever figured this solution out in the first place; it made no logical sense and yet it had come to him naturally, as though it were instinctive or intuitive.
    He wondered when the