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Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Evening

Jason and Momoko had agreed to take turns with their droid baby, and since he didn't have any classes on Tuesdays, the baby had gone into Jason's care today. Things hadn't been so bad for most of the day, and Jason had made the mistake of thinking that this week would be fairly easy. That, of course, had been when the baby started crying and just. wouldn't. stop. He'd finally managed to get it to stop making noise by holding and cradling it, but every time he put the baby down, it started to wail again.

So, he was sitting on the couch now with a droid baby cradled between his cast and his chest, and a freshly delivered pizza sitting next to him. Making dinner in this state had seemed like a recipe for disaster.

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Ariel had given her own droid baby off to her father for the afternoon and evening, since she didn't feel a police station was a good place to bring a kid. However, on her way back to her room afterward, it was hard not to overhear the siren call welling up a few times before it was quieted.

"So, how's it going, Dad?" she offered by way of greeting when she poked her head in, but then got immediately distracted by something even better. "Ooh, pizza."

It was probably a good thing that Jason had pizza in his mouth when Ariel came in, because it kept him from immediately starting to complain. "If the goal is to get us to never have sex, I think it might be working," he said, pushing the box towards her. "You can have some pizza if you want, I'm not going to eat it all by myself."

"Yay!" Ariel happily bounced over to the couch to take a seat and help herself to a slight. "Thank you! So, who's your partner? Is it a boy or a girl? What did you name it? I took mine to work with me today, and so now Blackager is taking care of him for a little bit. It's perfect! He's so quiet, so Adam'll nap really easily with him."

"Uh, my partner's Momoko," Jason said, shifting the baby carefully so his arm wouldn't fall asleep. "The baby's a boy, and we named him Nikko. Or, really, Momoko named him and I agreed. She's the one who's good at this stuff, not me."

"Blackagar and me worked together to name Adam," Ariel said with a nod, taking a bite of pizza, chewing, and swallowing before continuing. "His name is actually longer, but I can't remember it all. It's very traditional, though, Blackagar said. Well, not said, but you know what I mean."

After checking Jason's room, Nico wandered down the hall, lucking out that he found Jason and food in the same place. (Yes, he was excited enough about food that it rated up there with seeing Jason.)

Moving close enough to lean against the arm of the sofa, Nico eyed the droid. "I didn't realize you played with dolls." Even ones that looked like a child of Hephaestus had created them.

"Jason, hi!" Bobby said as he followed his nose into the Common Room. Pizza. It was teenage boy bait. "Did you have a baby?"

"Heh, yeah, I know what you mean," Jason said. He was glad he had a partner who actually talked, but that seemed kind of mean to say. "Adam's a good name. Nice and simple and all. I think naming them helps people get more attached."

"Well, you can't really just go around calling them 'hey you' or 'it,'" Ariel said with a shrug. "Unless It was short for, I don't know, Ithaca, or something. Ithaca's a pretty name, too, but more for a girl, I think."

Jason looked a little embarrassed as he looked up at Nico, and cradled the baby a little closer. "It's not a doll. I mean, it is, kind of, but it's really an assignment for Sex Ed." And here he thought he'd been done with this since he wasn't in Ethics again.

"Yeah, just a week ago. I guess I did pretty well at hiding the weight gain, huh?" Jason said. Sorry Bobby, he couldn't help it.

Nico probably shouldn't have looked so amused by that. "I guess after that uh, weekend of many children, there's no arguing with the professors that certain lifestyles don't have to worry about that particular side effect of sex." Nico was once again happy with his course selection.

He was going to have to work hard to keep things going well for him this summer.

His eyes widened. Look, it was Fandom. "Really?" he asked. "Is it a boy or a girl? Um, were you expecting to have a baby?"

"Yeah, that's definitely a girl's name. I mean, I guess you could name a boy that, but that might give the kid a complex, and I think our grades go down if we return the babies with any psychological damage," Jason said, laughing. "I'm just glad there's only one baby to take care of, and not twins or anything."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Jason said, sighing. His course selection skills clearly needed some work. "Do you want some pizza? I can't put the kid down, so I ordered out."

Ariel giggled a little. "We're all going to get bad grades, then," she said. "I'm pretty sure it's part of your job as a parent to give your kids psychological damage. Ohmygosh, could you imagine triplets? Quadruplets? Quintuplets?"

"No, I wasn't expecting it at all," Jason said. That wasn't a lie, really. He thought he'd been done with this when he finished Ethics class. "It's a boy, his name is Nikko."

"Why can't you put it down? Is it broken?" Nico didn't really understand how these things worked. His questions didn't stop him from sitting on the side of Jason away from the doll and grabbing a piece of pizza.

"You named your baby after Nico? Is he the dad?" Jason, obviously, was the mom since he had the baby.

"Well, I assume so, since he's the only person I've been having hot sex with." Somewhere in hell, there was a special place being reserved for Jason. "We're spelling it differently though, so people don't get too confused."

"When I put him down, he cries. I'm hoping he'll fall asleep soon, but I'm not making bets or anything," Jason said. "Luckily, it'll be Momoko's turn to take care of him tomorrow, so I can relax."

"Oh god, I can imagine that, if the teachers ever got really sadistic," Jason said. "There'd be no trading off and no one would get any sleep, including the people not even taking the class. You'd hear nothing but crying all over the island."

"Does that mean you're having cold sex with someone else?" was what came out of Bobby's mouth as he tried not to sputter too much at Jason's statement.

And then he blushed.

"Too bad we can't assign the teachers droid babies." The thought did not help with the giggling at all. "I mean, sure, Master Skywalker's already got a kid, but Juliet's a sweetheart. But Dr. Watson or Mr. Holmes with one, or two, or seven?"

"Wow. I didn't think you were actually capable of saying the word 'sex,'" Jason remarked. "I mean, no, Nico's the only one I'm with."

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