The Arms Hotel, Monday, 3/28

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Quinn got to work a little late and looking harried, robobaby Susannah firmly in her arms.

Of course it was a day when there was some construction going on in the hotel. After Quinn's third attempt to get the workmen to quiet down and quit hammering already, she gave up and decided to live with the baby's wailing. "Life is hard," she told the droid as she bounced it in her arms. "You have to learn to deal."

Strangely, Susannah was not soothed by this.

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"Why do you have that?"

Puck was pointing at Susannah as he asked, frowning deeply in his approach. He had thought that coming to bother Quinn at work would be an awesome idea. He hadn't realized there would be a kid. A crying kid, much less.

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"Because my ethics teacher and my sex ed teachers are all sadists," Quinn said grimly, bouncing the baby a bit against her hip. "Don't call her that. I swear the creepy doll-thing understands us."

In which case she should probably not call it a "creepy doll-thing." Susannah wailed.

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"It's yelling at you for calling it that," he pointed out, wincing. "It's a baby. Babies shouldn't understand stuff like that! I mean, even if it's fake, that thing shouldn't understand English."

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"I know," Quinn said, then addressed the baby. "Stop crying. You're a very very cute ... doll thing."

It worked. Kind of. At the least, the doll quit screaming and looked to Puck curiously.

"Do you want to try holding her?"

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"...I won't break it?" he checked.

Just by holding it. Yeah.

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"I don't think so," Quinn said cautiously, as she held the doll towards him. "Seriously, don't drop her or anything. I don't want to get in trouble."

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"I'm not going to punt your baby or anything, Quinn," Puck assured her, taking the doll gingerly. "How realistic is this thing? Is this like a 'consequences of sex' lesson or something? Like egg babies or whatever?"

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"Like high tech egg babies," Quinn confirmed, nodding. "She ... you know, you have to feed her and she pees and stuff. At least she's only half mine. She goes to William Murdoch the rest of the time."

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"Why isn't she with him like, right now? You're at work," Puck pointed out. "There should totally be like, daycare or whatever."

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"Because he's at work too and I'm an idiot," Quinn answered. "He's geeking out in the library. I figured the baby would be more annoying there than here."

She gave the doll a wistful look. "Maybe I can find daycare."

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"Can't you just turn her off or something?" Puck asked, rocking the baby a little in spite of himself.

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"Is there a switch?" Quinn asked doubtfully. "I don't think there is one."

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"She's gotta have batteries or something," Puck said, gingerly trying to find the switch without making the kid cry again. "I mean, there's no cord."

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"But we're on the island," Quinn pointed out. "She could be some weird magic thing. I don't remember if the teachers said."

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"What happens if you ignore her?" he asked curiously, willing the baby to stay quiet for the time being.

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"She keeps screaming and I get a bad grade," Quinn answered warily. "But she seems to have quieted down. She liiiiiiikes you."

Typical female.

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"I'm not keeping her so you pass whichever class this is," he said, eyeing her. "I didn't sign up for sadist-robobaby 101."

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"Would you believe it's two of them?" Quinn asked. "Ethics and sex ed. I think it counts for both."

She pouted at him playfully. "But you're so good with kids..."

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"You're better," he tried, quirking a smirk at her. "You're so maternal."

Yes. Really. Quinn was maternal.

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Qyuinn was going to take it as a compliment, anyhow. "I like them better when they can talk," she said. "Babies just seem kind of ... blobby."