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Isaac. [Her tone is the sort that comes when you almost make it sound like a question... but it's not really a question. It's her own reality that when you get involved with a teenager, you end up involved with a teenager.]

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Well, I don't know if it's occurred to you, so let me lay it out: Isaac's an idiot. You don't get the luxury of having all the information to make your choices back home after you've been here. It doesn't matter what you know or who you care about—all bets are off.

He should have been glad you trusted him enough to tell him at all, not ... Not this.

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[Hayley smiles, it's probably something Emma can hear in her tone.]

Thanks, Emma. I know he's just being stubborn and that it hurt him to find out, but it doesn't change how difficult it is to have him just shut me out every time I try to reach out.

[She exhales and take a breath to set her resolve to.] I'll be fine; I mean, I do have more important people to care about.

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Like yourself, for instance?

[ Given that her self is now two people. ]

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That would be the main concern. Well, it's more the concern for the baby and then for myself.

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Lucky kid.

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We'll see how lucky she is when she's born on a ship, flying to who knows where.

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At least she won't be on it alone.

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[Hayley is quiet for a moment, because that's another concern she has about having a child here in space... because what if she does leave and her baby doesn't come with? People go missing here all the time and unless she's going to be holding onto her for the rest of her life...]

I'm just hoping that she's going to be safe.

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I'm sure it'll be fine. We've got top-of-the-line medical around here.

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That's not the part that I'm worried about. [She frowns, trying not to focus on it. It's funny how Emma came to her for advice and now the conversation has shifted completely. Hayley had noticed it at first, but now she's overly focusing on her own issues.]

I'm sure it'll work out, but that doesn't stop me from worrying about it.

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So, what part are you worried about?

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How am I supposed to prepare an infant for the jump? [The thought horrifies her a bit. The thought that the pods don't even open at the same time and that her daughter could be dumped out onto the floor????]

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Medical might have a way to get her in with you. There might be some pods unique for kids. If not ... I don't know. I don't think this ship was intended for families.

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I know and it's just something that I've been thinking about more and more...

[She shakes it off.]

Are you going to talk to your guy?

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My ... [ waIT WHAT. ] No. No, it's not like—[ Isn't it tho. Isn't it. ] He's not my anything. He's just ... [ Hook. She lets out a gruff sigh. ] Maybe. I don't know.

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I meant, in the vague general sense of the word your, since I didn't have a name to call back to.

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Just ... clarifying.

[ awkward. ]

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It's fine, I know all about having to clarify things.

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It's really not like that.

[ Because now it seems like she felt like it was necessary to clarify instead of just misinterpreting and her defensiveness knows no bounds. ]

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It's fine - really. I don't need you to keep trying to back out of a corner. There's no corner, I promise. I just... I know complicated. I'm pregnant with the child of a man who doesn't really care about my survival as much as his brother seems to. [a beat] Back home, not here.