"Aren't there um. Ways to stop being pregnant?"

"...yes but I'd really rather not have that problem??"

Lucien nods, having never seriously considered this subject potentially relevant to him until now when it is obviously relevant to him, just like everything else.

He was much better company with his brain working.

"I think I packed a book. Do you maybe wanna try reading to me again since you can still read. And we can snuggle and maybe something clever will occur to us."

"Yeah um. What book?"

"Great Expectations."

Lucien can try reading but after a few pages it is blindingly obvious what is going on and he is going to stop and ask May why she picked a book that is so clearly about him.

"It was just one that Lorica had lying around at home."

"... Huh, sorry. I wonder why Lorica had a book about me lying around."

"You were friends and stuff, right?"

"Yeah."

"I bet that explains everything that needs explaining."

"I guess."

He can go back to reading.

It's relaxing. She's read some Dickens but not this specific one before so most of her commentary is about comparing and contrasting and guessing that things might be foreshadowing.

At some point Lucien's body remembers they are cuddling naked and starts poking into May's back about this.

What if May were the big spoon.

Well the process of setting that up involves her moving and he is going to involuntary make a sound about this, apparently.

That's okay. It is super normal to be horny about guiding.

Well this time it is apparently not going away.

"... Is this supposed to last a week."

"Yeah. I'll be done first but I can stay with you after that and it'll still help, just not as much. Unless you mean your erection which you should still seek medical attention for if it lasts more than four hours or so I hear."

"Um."

"And I'm going to make you be around me the whole time?"

"You're not making me."

"Can't you be around Lorica's dad without me being there?"

"Yes and that was better than nothing, but he's not an esper, let alone a compatible esper, we're really compatible."

"And that means...?"