Alley's Courageous Birth

"I've told you my story, Mr. President."

"I know, I know. But there's still a lot of questions left unanswered."

"What kind of questions?"

The president looked over to the two soldiers standing next to him. They held the same puzzled look as he did on their faces. "Well... why did you keep it? Why didn't you just..."

"Kill myself?"

"No, but why did you keep your child?"

The woman smiled softly and nodded her head. "We're all here for our own reasons. Some of us are here because they want to see the future, some of us are here because we want to change the world. Others just want to live in peace and be left alone. I was one of those last ones." She paused for a moment and looked down at her feet. "But when I saw that beautiful baby boy laying there, bloodied up and bruised... it felt like I was supposed to have him. Like he was meant to be with me." She looked back up at the three men before her and smiled again. "I named him Oliver."

"Oliver? Why that name?"

Alley shrugged her shoulders and sighed out a smile. "It just came to me." She rubbed a hand against her belly, just below where the baby had been living inside of her for the past nine months now. "Maybe it was something my grandma used to say or something." Her eyes lit up as she thought back to all those days ago when she gave birth on that dirty alley floor. The pain she felt paled in comparison to how much joy she felt when she held Oliver in her arms for the first time after such an exhausting ordeal. She never wanted to let him go again; not even when they were taken away by those... beings... in black uniforms. The same ones that took her clothes from her and made her walk around naked for what seemed like hours before taking her blood and putting little machines on various parts of her body, including Oliver's umbilical cord which they cut off from his body before placing him in a small metal box with holes on the side which poured out blue-ish smoke into his little lungs before it sparked and electrocuted his tiny body several times until he finally cried out a cry of life! It was terrifying! The entire experience was terrifying! But Alley would never stop thinking about those moments because they brought so much happiness in them as well. That's how Alley got through those many days of being locked away in some dark room with no windows or doors or anything on one side of this giant ship flying through space as it circled around this planet called Earth until it landed here, in front of this grandiose building where she was escorted by these two very same men standing beside her now before meeting this man who called himself president who told her she had been selected from hundreds of others so that he could hear the story from someone who lived through it firsthand!