Room 317, Monday Afternoon

[multiplez]

Z had no children. But after a run to Turtle and Canary, Z had Cheetos and candy. She also had stolen pixie extra credit booze in her sock drawer, music, and an open door. Any kids who came in her room were so getting sugared up. She was nice like that. Their parents probably wouldn't think so, but what did Z care? She was kid-free!

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[multiplez]

Z shrugged. "The pixie's kinda dumb. I'll buy her some to make up for it when I get my next stipend."

[notlostyouare]

Bronwyn tugs on Bridge's sleeve. "Daddy, kitty can't have candy, right?" Not chocolate candy, anyway, which she's currently trying to lick off Bronwyn's hand.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, no. Candy is people food just like pizza. Don't let her have any, okay?"

[notlostyouare]

"Okay. No chocolate for kitties, Payback." Bronwyn shakes her finger at the kitten, then, well. Licks the chocolate off her hand herself.

[multiplez]

Seemed perfectly reasonable to Z. "So, how have you been, Bronwyn? Besides getting a kitten and terrorizing your dads here?"

[notlostyouare]

"Daddy made Twinkie ice cream from the synth'tron!"

[multiplez]

"Twinkie ice cream, huh? That sounds..." fairly horrible. "Interesting."

[notlostyouare]

"It's mooshy!" Which is clearly one of the best things ice cream can be, ever.

[multiplez]

"Mooshy," Z said slowly. "Riiiight. Well, Bronwyn, I guess it's good that you like the Twinkie ice cream, because I don't think I would."

[notlostyouare]

Bronwyn shakes her head. "Daddy makes it alla time at home and Daddy an' me and Aunt Dawn like it but you say ewwww."

[multiplez]

"Ewwww is definitely right," Z agreed. "But if we were all the same the world would be pretty darn boring, wouldn't it?"

[notlostyouare]

"Yuh-huh." Bronwyn nods. "'Cept you can be all the same and that's not boring 'cause you can go do lots of different stuffs at the same times!"

[multiplez]

"That's true," said Z, "but we're all still me. You get that, right?"

[notlostyouare]

"Mmm-hmm. Just you in lotsa different places, so you can fight big robots and read bookses and haves a baby and be backup dancers for Aunt Syd all at the same time!"

[multiplez]

"What did you just say?" Z demanded, completely incredulous.

[notlostyouare]

"It was just the one time," Bronwyn says. "You lost a bet. But we gots pictures!"

[multiplez]

"I lost a bet so I had a baby?" Z? Totally confused.

[notlostyouare]

Bronwyn breaks into peals of giggles. "No, silly, you had a baby 'cause I couldn't be borned from a jar!"

[multiplez]

Z looked up at Bridge and mouthed, 'What the frak?' then back at Bronwyn. "Okay, say that again?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge? Looking just as 'what the frak' as Z is right now. His mouth just kind of opens and closes a couple of times while no actual sounds make it out.

[multiplez]

"Okay, sweetheart," Z said slowly to Bronwyn, "I could have sworn you just said that I...had you."

[notlostyouare]

"I tolded you this before, Daddy," Bronwyn says with a less-than-patient sigh, then turns to Aunt Z. "The people inna lab tooked D-N-A from my daddies and then they smooooooooooshed them together in a jar, like mooshy twinkies go in the ice cream, but I couldn't be borned from a jar so they put me inside you and I grew and grew and then I was borned THE END!"

[multiplez]

Ooooookay. Z shot another Look at Bridge, then grinned at Bronwyn and said, "Not quite, you're still doin' stuff, right?"

[notlostyouare]

Bronwyn nods. "Yuh-huh, but that's a new story!"