fandomhigh | Ethics [Monday, April 16, 5th period]

Anakin was standing next to his desk watching a little girl in a pink hat coloring a picture.

He looked exhausted.

"Okay," he said when the students arrived. "This week we're scheduled to talk about the ethics of parenting. I didn't make the little ones appear!" he said quickly. "I was going to give you egg babies instead."

He pointed at the crate of eggs on his desk. "So you're still getting paired up because it's your final project for class, but I'm sure many of you have more insights on this area than you would have, oh, say, Saturday." He smiled wryly. "And I'm guessing a life of celibacy is looking fairly appealing."

He pulled out a list of names. "Anyway. Here are your parenting teams. Take an egg, name it, give it a backstory, and bring it back in one piece this time next week. Listen for your name, then pair up and chat.

Marco and Molly
Katara and Sam
Balthier and Turtle
Irulan and Dean
Walter and Valentine
Jake and Blair
Kaoru and Neil
Draco and Steerpike
John and Jaye."

Anakin smiled. "So...anyone have stories to share?"

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John? Trying to make Umberta calm the hell down. Aeryn had agreed to watch D'Argo but she refused to watch the demonspawn. Umberta, for her part, is happily skipping circles around John and hitting him with her wand.

Jaye's toting around two weetinies. OJ is still waving frantically at Anakin while Emily's trying to see how many Jolly Ranchers she can fit in her mouth.

"I hate everything," Jaye says. "I say we boil the damn egg. Take a stand on procreation."

John nods grumpily at the blond demonspawn is taunting Lysander and Anakin. "For once, we agree."

"Okay. Won't even bother to name it. No point," she says, nodding a lot.

"Agreed," he says. "Two kids?"

"OJ," she says, pointing to OJ. "And..."

She looks at the girl. "What's your name?"

"Emily!" says Emily, frowning. "Moooooom!"

"What have I told you about calling me that?"

"Don't," she admits. "But you're my mom and I'm gonna call you Mom!"

"My name's Qui-Gon," OJ corrects.

Jaye looks at John and says, "I'm getting my tubes tied immediately."

Anakin was choking on a cup of coffee at wee Qui-Gon's name.

John's laughing too hard to really reply.

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