"This is your second chance at life"

You have just been arrested for multiple offences and have been sentenced to 5 years in prison, but on the day you were supposed to be incarcerated you have instead been escorted to what had looked like an abandoned warehouse from the outside. Inside you were led through several winding corridors, into what looks like a futuristic hospital room. There was bed in the middle and and a strange transparent pod in the corner.

"My name is Dr. Emmett Carlson, and this is my wife Dr. Jenna Carlson"

The man appeared to be in his early forties, with a trimmed beard showing a touch of gray, thin-rimmed glasses, slightly balding, and wearing a white lab coat. The woman beside him looked to be in her thirties. She was in good shape, wearing a simple floral dress, light makeup, and with her hair pulled up in a tight bun.

"I am the head researcher of Project Rebirth. The goal of the project is rehabilitation of talented young people who have gone astray, by introducing them into family units where they will have discipline and nurturing."

"So what this is like an adoption center? What's with all of the sci-fi stuff?" You speak up for the first time since arriving.

"Not exactly. My wife is an expert in developmental psychology, and has found that for someone like you who has been deprived of family and nurturing her whole life, the most effective way to heal the wounds that have been left on your psyche is to be physically reborn."

"Ha! In case you haven't noticed, I'm too old to be adopted, much less go crawling back in the womb."

His wife spoke up for the first time, "I know it sounds strange dear, but Emmett has developed technology to let you do just that. It probably doesn't sound all that appealing, but all of my research points to this being the most promising method of allowing you to reach your potential. We've seen your test scores, you could have gone to Harvard, or MIT, but instead you wound up on the streets. We want to give you a second chance, and let you become part of our family."

"So what you're going to turn me into a baby or something?"

Emmett chuckled a bit, "No, not exactly, you will not be getting any younger, you will just be getting smaller."

He gestures towards the pod, which looked like a large clear egg sitting on a metal apparatus in the back of the room.

"This device will shrink to the size of a human egg, with you inside. Then, we will attach it to Jenna's uterine wall. A connector is attached to your bellybutton and functions like an umbilical cord. Jenna will take medications to make her body believe it is pregnant and it will treat you just like a fertilized egg. The device will expand slowly until you are the size of a baby, and then dissolve, after which Jenna will give birth to you."

"So I'll be a tiny full grown person?" You say bemused.

"Only until you are born, then you should grow back to your original size fairly quickly." Jenna interjected

"Okay, assuming I believe any of this, I'm supposed to just be stuck some cramped egg, in her uterus, doing nothing?"

"Well that would quite defeat the point actually," Jenna said, "in order for the treatment to be effective, we need to establish a connection as mother and child, an intimate familial bond."

Emmett spoke up again, "for this purpose we have developed a way to link your nervous system with Jenna's while you are in the womb. You'll be able to see what she sees, hear what she hears, and feel what she feels. You will effectively be sharing her body for the entire pregnancy, and you will even be able to communicate with Jenna mentally."

You look skeptically at Jenna, "and you've agreed to this?"

Jenna smiled, "I insisted on it, I think if you can truly see through my eyes, we can develop a connection that will help repair the years of neglect you have been through."

"And if I refuse?"

"We certainly hope you will not, I believe your original sentence was 5 years? If you agree to this, you will be given a completely clean record, and be legally registered as our child. After that we hope you will stay with us, but you will be free to do whatever you please." Emmett said.

You contemplate it. The whole thing was so weird, but it was this or prison...