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Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday Evening

Raven decided it was safe to show her face -- no one had said anything about the gremlin bite performance, and Chuck claimed there was no video evidence (though she still wasn't sure she believed him), so she had come out to the common room with robo-baby Ariela Willow (and yes, she had found a red gem to stick to her forehead because it just felt right). She was flipping through the channels on the TV, trying to find something appropriate to watch with a baby in the room. Not that the baby was paying any attention to the TV, but still! She was taking parenting very serious, because this was as close to it as she would ever get.

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"...oh dude, you're in Ethics, aren't you?" Hurley said, wandering into the common room to make a sandwich.

Raven nodded. "It is my favorite class," she said. "And this is Ariela Willow Roth-Maclay." She smiled at the baby.

"...Now there's a mouthful," Hurley said. "So you're co-parents with Tara, huh?"

He started pulling out a jar of peanut butter and getting the other necessary bits.

"Yes," Raven said. "We have been trading days caring for her, for I do not thing Professor Skywalker expected us to rearrange our room assignments to live together, though I suspect my roommate Diana might have preferred that."

"The baby is keeping her up, huh?" Hurley said. "I wish I had tips. I just sorta... sang at mine. It didn't work too good, though."

"If she were a real child" -- and Raven's voice was oh-so-wistful -- "then I would be able to tell exactly what her needs were with my empathy," she said. "If she were merely tired, or hungry, or anything else."

"Man, the last thing we need is real babies," Hurley said, starting to assemble his sandwich. It was a lot of peanut butter going onto that bread. "Though, uhhhh, wait til Prom."

"....what about Prom?" Raven asked.

"Last year, after Prom?" Hurley said. "We totally got invaded by kids. Kids that said we were their parents and stuff."

"I cannot have children," Raven insisted. Well, she was physically capable, she was sure, but she never would.

"Yeeeah, well," Hurley said. "Don't be too freaked out if, like, some kid shows up and says your her mommy and... Hannibal is the dad or something."

Raven blinked. "But Hannibal and I have never...."

"Dude, I'd never last year, and I still had multiple kids," Hurley said, carrying his plate over and sitting down.

"Oh, uhhh, did you want one?"

"Were the children lying?" Raven said, still not quite understanding. "And...yes, I think I would like a child some day, but I know that cannot happen, so I will enjoy this assignment as much as I can."

"...I meant a sandwich," Hurley said. "But as for the kids, they kinda come from different dimensions and stuff."

"No, no thank you," Raven said. "I have already eaten." At Hurley's next words, her eyes widened. "From different worlds? Does that mean that somewhere there could be a child of mine...whose father is Chuck?"

The thought was somewhat terrifying.

"...Dude, somewhere out there, there could be a child of mine whose father is Chuck," Hurley said, before nomming into his sandwich.

"I cannot believe I would be so irresponsible in any world," Raven said, shaking her head. "That is not possible."

"Yeah, believe me, it's weird," Hurley said, talking after he swallowed. "But the kids are cute."

"I shall enjoy meeting these possible children of others," Raven said, "but I do not expect any of my own."

Hush, she was in denial.

Hurley chuckled. "For your sake, I hope you're right," he said.

"Who did you have children with in these other worlds?" Raven asked curiously.

"Penelope and K-Mart," Hurley said. "It was nice. If kinda weird."

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