This wasn't supposed to happen, Price thinks coldly. His dark amber eyes glanced around as he cradled his little hatchling tightly to his chest. The air permeated with the unmistakable scent of heat.

Their small body trembling, small panting and gasps echoing from their lips as they cling to him desperately. Slick soaking through their shorts and down their scales legs.

They had been taking a walk through the TF141 compound when his little Hatchling had suddenly collapsed. And now, here he was struggling to get them back to his quarters so that he could help them through it.