IT'S A BABY-BONANZA!

[paradisamods]

Good morning, residents! Did you sleep well? You're going to need all the energy you can muster because congratulations: You're parents! Again! The Paradisa Stork has paid some very lucky residents a visit last night, and even moved them to a more kid-friendly environment.

Some of you may already recognize your little bundle of joy and--my, how they've grown! Others will have to get acquainted with their little rugrats. You may not know them, but they certainly know you. By they way? They're bored. And hungry! And they want all the attention you could possibly give them.

It's going to be a long week.

(ooc: Use this as a catch-all post! This will be the only mass post for the Sunny Skies Retreat, so you may use it for any day that you'd like. Feel free to make your own posts and/or sections whenever you'd like!

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[secondchances]

[Her mom would probably have a heart attack right now. She rests a hand on Tim's leg as he talks about his father.]

My mom would probably love to have a kid to spoil once I had a steady life situation going on.

[dorkwonder]

[Thinking about how Dana never had a chance to be a mother depresses him. Dana never tried to replace his mother, but she became family to him. How many times did she have his back when his father was upset with him? she never did it to score brownie points with him. He could tell she did it because she believed it was the right thing.

Just then, Jack stirs in his arms, cooing happily. Smiles, shifting his thoughts away from Bludhaven and back to Steph.]

I think so, too. [Not going to tell Steph how her mother sob over her casket, crying out for her little girl to come back to her.

...Why does his life have so many depressing memories in it.]

[secondchances]

Thinking of our parents as grandparents is weird.

... is this kiddo technically an honorary Wayne?

[dorkwonder]

He is. From what you've told me and I read in some of my older journals, I was legally adopted by Bruce. Which means he's also Bruce's grandson.

[secondchances]

He'd have a heart attack.

[dorkwonder]

He wouldn't. After you--disappeared, he tried to adopt me [Doesn't remember Bruce's second attempt, thanks to the castle.] His heart was really in it. The same way his heart was in it when he adopted Cass. I know he's not always the most emotional guy, but family means a lot to him.

[secondchances]

No, I don't doubt that. I mean about [motions to the two--three--of them] this. Bruce is not the biggest Stephanie Brown fan, you know that. He'd have his big, big, big doubts.

[dorkwonder]

Bruce has changed since he returned. He's more humanized and relaxed than he's been in years. You'd be surprised.

[that being said...] But, if this was taking place in Gotham and not here..then yeah, he'd have big, big doubts. All of us would.

[secondchances]

... I slapped him, you know. When he came back. [TINY SMIRK...]

Yeah. No kiddies for us in Gotham. Not anytime soon. [And not with each other.]

[dorkwonder]

[HOLD UP.]...You slapped Bruce?

[secondchances]

[Puts her hands up.] The first thing he does when he comes back is put on some weirdo suit and try to test me. He deserved it.

I apologized, though.

[dorkwonder]

That's good. [Bruce why do you keep doing these things...]

That you apologized, that is. [Pauses, adding in.] That was pretty gutsy of you.

[secondchances]

I was pretty ticked. And scared, you know, that he'd try to take Batgirl away from me. Obviously, we came to an understanding.

[dorkwonder]

There's no worry about Bruce's approval here. Just you, me, and Cass. [Smiles down at the little bundle in his arms.]

And Jack.

[secondchances]

And Jack, for now, spared from grandpa Bruce turning white as a sheet.

[dorkwonder]

We'll have to show him to Cass. I can only imagine what she'll say or do when she sees him. [GOING TO KEEP JACK AWAY FROM EZIO.]

[secondchances]

I'll brace myself for adorableness. [SPEAK OF THE DEVIL.] Ezio would want to meet him, too. Might cheer him up.

[dorkwonder]

[Just this look, Steph. Just this look.]

[secondchances]

What?

[dorkwonder]

What do you think. [the look is still going.]

[secondchances]

What, me trying to cheer up a heartbroken guy who just lost his girlfriend of nearly a year? [Rounds up four months or so, whatevs.] We have an adorable castle-baby. C'mon.

[dorkwonder]

Exactly. If you and Cass want to run around with Ezio all day, then that's your choice. But I'm not exposing Jack to someone who is a sexist, arrogant, and is probably drunk at this very moment.

[secondchances]

He knows how to behave around children. He had a little brother.

Five minutes on his lap does not an Assassin make.

[....... OTHERWISE A LOT OF GIRLS IN ITALY WOULD BE ASSASSINS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH]

[dorkwonder]

I don't care. You're asking me to be okay with letting Jack, our son for however long he's here, be held by the same hands that have mercilessly killed who knows how many people.

[Shakes his head.]

I don't get you sometimes, Steph. You slap Bruce because he questioned your role as Batgirl, and now you're defending the equivalent of Jason Todd.

[secondchances]

Which are, amazingly, somehow the same hands that have held mine and reassured me every time I was worried, sad, or upset before you showed up. I'm not a murderer or worse of a person for it. Gasp. It's not contagious.

[That was a little harsh, and she does look apologetic as soon as she says it, but she doesn't verbally apologize just yet. Maybe she would defend Jason, the older Jason, if he and her managed some mutual respect and trust like she has with Ezio.

But god forbid she say that aloud.]