Third Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening

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One day, you're a queen. The next, you're a (ragingly hot) high school senior flippng through cable channels Saturday night 'cause you're too cheap to go out.

Quinn had noticed a couple people seemed to have visitors, but she was keeping her fingers crossed the weirdness had skipped her this year. At the least, any kids she had this time around had managed not to wake her up that morning -- for which she was most grateful.

She'd ordered a couple pizzas, just in case anyone needed an easy way to feed their spawn, and picked at a slice with pepperoni as she paused the TV on a Teen Mom marathon.

It seemed a little on-the-nose for tonight.

[OOC: Open common room!]

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Ethan had made that $20 from his dad last as best he could, which wasn't all that well.

He was, after all, the child of a billionaire.

He finally went back into the dorms, grudgingly deciding to say hello to his mother before she had some kind of conniption. And what better way to meet Weird Young Mom than grabbing a couple slices of her pizza without asking?

"Hey, Mom," he said as he took a seat, tomato sauce already on his chin. "What're we watching?"

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"It was Teen Mom, but you can change it," Quinn told the cute guy. Then she registered what he'd said. "Wait ... Mom?"

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"I already went through this with Dad," Ethan grumped. "You're Quinn, he's Bruce, I'm Ethan, I promise I'm not here to wreck your weekend or anything."

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"I had a kid with Bruce?" Quinn frowned hard at him, setting her pizza aside. "That is about three hundred percent impossible."

Though Ethan did look a little like him, was the thing. It was the height and the chin.

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"But I'm still here," Ethan pointed out. "So it's at least a little possible."

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Well, he had her there. And it wasn't like Bruce was hideous (Rather the opposite.)

"Good point," she said, and muted the TV because she didn't want her initial bonding with her child to take place to a soundtrack of McDonalds ads. "So he didn't wig out when he saw you or anything?"

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"You know Dad. He gave me a really intense look before he gave me money and made me promise to check in," Ethan said. It was probably clear that this was a near daily occurrence for him. "I think he rose an eyebrow."

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Yeah, that sounded about right.

"You surprised us," Quinn said. "And we're together where you're from? Happy, all that jazz?"

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"As happy as you can be in charge of the PTA or whatever. You guys are boring," Ethan said.

At least he didn't curse.

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"I doubt it," Quinn decided, a bit smugly. "We went to school here. Given our classmates, you're lucky we aren't mutants who save the world every other Tuesday."

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"You don't live with you guys," Ethan said. "And it would be kind of cool if you were."

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"Um, technically, I do too live there," Quinn pointed out. "Just ... a different me."

That was always weird to say.

"So what do you do for excitement?"

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"Nothing you and Dad like," Ethan said, rolling his eyes. "You want me to be on sports and go to church group. Crap like that. No thanks."

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"We probably just want you to be happy," Quinn said. "It's a game. Sometimes playing it sucks, but it's way better to win than to quit."

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"I'd be happier if you just let me play video games," Ethan pointed out.

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"When you're eighteen you can move out and play all the video games you want?" Quinn suggested brightly.

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"I'm holding you to that in the future, Mom," Ethan promised.

He was absolutely going to bring it up, too.