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[it doesn't escape him that she'd kept it to herself the last time he'd asked. things between them aren't how they used to be. they don't talk openly anymore. don't share much of anything with each other. and he knows he's entirely to blame for that. he's holding her to a standard she hadn't done with him, and that isn't fair.

but knowing and acting on that knowledge are too far removed for him. it's the same problem he's been doing his best to overcome since the first moment hayley revealed the truth to him, all those jumps ago.]

What about...her?

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[Hayley rests her hand on her belly, smiling with fondness as she thinks about the baby. It's taken her a bit of time to get over the the warning the witches seemed to slap on her, but now that she hasn't had to deal with any of that -- it's just better.]

She's healthy -- fond of kicking me right when I fall asleep.

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[he doesn't have much experience with children, and even less with babies. or expectant mothers as the case may be here. so when his gaze drops back to her stomach again, it's with curiosity. if the baby isn't born yet, how is it meant to know when she's trying to sleep?]

She kicks you?

[isn't she meant to still be growing or something?]

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[Hayley frowns, because it's probably not the right way to explain it.]

It's not -- I guess it's not kicking, but it's a movement and it feels weird. [Though, with the baby being a hybrid who knows what sort of development it makes - it had a heartbeat way too early.]

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Does she...do that a lot?

[move. kick. whatever it is that hayley is able to feel. it's still awkward, uncomfortable, dealing with the fact that she's pregnant in the first place. but he knows he has to work past it. and if that means trying to focus on the fact that the child really is innocent in it all--

well, it simplifies things a little]

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As often as she wants to, I guess. It's fine. [She knows that he doesn't really want to talk about the baby, that he's just being polite.]

Other than baking -- what have you been doing?

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Nothing.

[well, not really nothing. but there isn't much to do on the ship in the first place. so beyond work and training with derek, he really hasn't been up to much. especially not now that--]

Scott's gone again.

[he isn't looking for sympathy. instead, it's part of an unaired explanation as to why he'd contacted her in the first place. he's getting sick of losing people here.]

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[She nods, knowing exactly what it's like to have everyone leave. She's had that most of her life and here on the ship it seems to happen more often.]

Is it better for him back home, at least?