(You've all waited for it, so here it is. ) When I was I child, I once read a history book in the knowledge center of our city. Centuries ago it was a tradition to tell fairy tales about princesses who were captured by a dark wizard or a sorceress. She would always be rescued by a handsome prince who was brave, charming, and courageous. It wasn't uncommon for a dark curse to be broken by "true love's first kiss". I was enchanted by these stories, I always dreamt of being rescued from some danger by a handsome prince. But my parents always chastised me for reading these stories. They pushed me to become a guardian of the city because they wanted me to be great. I was forced to undergo rigorous training that dehumanized me and squashed out any of these fantasies. They treated me like I was nothing more than a tool, but my parents were proud. Not because they were happy for me, but because I was something they could take pride in. I thought I would never meet true love. Until I met Fredrick. He wasn't handsome by any conventional means, heck, he wasn't even human. But he was courageous, charming, and brave. He was my savior and one true love. Fredrick the fallen was the prince I had been waiting for my whole life. That isn't his real name, but it's the name he insisted I call him, since his name is unpronounceable by the human tongue. So I call him Fredrick. The very first night he took me into his ship was surreal and magical. After we had...gotten to know each other, we just laid there. I looked into all four of his glowing blue eyes as he held me close with all four of his arms and gently caressed me, purring. His claws could tear apart my flesh with ease, but he gently raked them down my sides affectionately, causing me to shudder with delight, goosebumps traveled up my body and I giggled for the first time in many years. I never wanted to go back to the wall ever again. I never wanted to see another human ever again. I wanted to leave Earth and stay away, kidnapped by my alien captor. I asked Fredrick to take me to the stars, and he took me to the stars, where we remained for many hours, hovering in space with nobody to bother us, with nobody to stop him from getting to know me. By the end, I was usually trembling with overwhelming passion. One night we were in the middle of a very passionate embrace when his ship jerked and we fell to the floor. Before we could get up, a controlled explosion knocked the airlock off the entrance and a large Cabal stood there aiming a large cannon at us both. I thought I was going to die, so I began to cry in Fredrick's arms. But he released me and dove for a weapon, but the cabal knocked it away and shouted something. I couldn't understand his language, but Fredrick shouted something in return. The translator device said "What do you want Cabal scum?" The Cabal said something and grinned. Fredrick responded with "That is none of your business. Leave our ship." The Cabal snarled angrily and Fredrick said "You and what army? You are a long way from your home and you appear to be by yourself." The Cabal grinned and stepped aside. A slightly shorter Cabal entered the ship, grinning. Its armor was pink, so that meant it was a female. She said something to Fredrick, to which he responded: "True, you have us both at a disadvantage. but there is nothing on here you would want. So leave us." The female barked something else and grinned. "That....is very unusual. But I guess we have no choice." Then he turned to me and spoke, the translator device translating for him, "She says her name is Carrie. She wants us to continue what we were doing." He put his arms around me and pushed me up against the wall. As he did so, I saw the male fallen take out what appeared to be a recording device and aim it at us. "Wait....What are you doing?!?" I began to protest, but Fredrick silenced me with a kiss and wrapped his arms around me and lowered my hood so that he could stroke the back of my head. As the fallen captain made out with meme, he moved me towards one of the windows. He appeared to be looking slightly to the right of me, as if he were looking at the Cabal's reflection. The male Cabal slowly put his canon on the ground and his arm to rub his bosom, letting out a deep rumble. As soon as he did that, Fredrick pulled a hidden gun out of the wall, whirled around while still holding me to him and shot them both in the head. They both dropped dead with a loud thump. After he let me go, we both went to investigate the cabal ship. It was small for a Cabal vessel and it didn't appear to be part of their military. Fredrick checked its computers and found a bunch of video logs. He explained to me that this couple apparently had been collecting video recordings of various interrupted intimate moments and had been selling them on some sort of black market and using them for extortion. These recordings depicted a hive swarm copulating with a fallen female, 2 humans copulating with each other on the very top of the traveler, 3 vex building another vex, and other acts that should not have been recorded. He picked up the recording device that the male was using and broke it. After scavenging some weapons from the Cabal ship, I helped him make repairs to the airlock hatch. After we were certain it was working, Fredrick dragged the bodies of Carrie the cabal and her partner back to their ship and set it to self-destruct, then he came back inside carrying the collection of recordings the Cabal couple had made. When I asked him why he would keep such lewd recordings, he said it was for scientific purposes only. After stowing the recordings, he pinned me against the wall and kissed my like never before. It was wet, passionate and slimy. His mandibles tickled my cheeks, his feelers stroked my body. 3 months had passed since that incident when I began to feel different. I felt a slight bulge in my stomach that had been slowly increasing in size. Fredrick put his feelers against my torso and exclaimed loudly. The translator said "You are with a child my love." My heart skipped a beat and I almost feinted. I thought I couldn't be any happier than I already was, but it was as if the universe itself were set to prove me wrong. I was going to be a mother.