Ethics [Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

When Anakin swept into the classroom this morning, he was accompanied by a half dozen droid babies, all holding little stuffed Ewoks and glancing around the classroom with curious, if slightly dead, eyes.

"It's that time of year again," Anakin said, not even trying to hide his glee. "Ethics in practice. It's easy to decide on a code of action that you think will define your life--it's much different to enforce that on a small, sentient being. Thus the droid babies. For the next week, you and a partner--except for you, Miss McGill, and I apologize for that--will be parents to these droid babies. They are approximately six months old, and are crawling and able to understand--" if not exactly respond correctly to, "--the word no. You must be constantly vigilent to make sure they are well-fed, clean, sleeping correctly and not putting electronics in their mouths."

Anakin would never understand human babies' obsessions with chewing on wires.

"Oh, and there will be one more assignment this week. There will be an NPC a photographer next Monday to take you and your droid child's photograph, just to be absolutely sure that you haven't foisted your assignment off onto your partner and to give you the opportunity to take your droid into unfamiliar circumstances."

And because he and Jaye shouldn't be allowed to talk to each other. "Listen for your names and come pick up your assignment."

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Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[sith_happened]

And your baby boy.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"I never thought I'd be a teenage father," Dave said, staring at the baby like it might explode. "Especially not just because I took a class."

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"It wasn't in my plans either," Kate assured him, similarly not looking like she was intending to go touching it any time soon.

"I know nothing about babies."

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, me either. What about droids? Any experience there?" Dave asked hopefully. He had no clue if that might help, but it kind of make sense that it could.

Lots of qualifiers there, yes.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"Technology and I don't get along either." In fact, it tended to go on the fritz more often than not around her, courtesy of having a little too much magic. This was probably doomed to go badly.

"... I feel like its staring through me." Creepy.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"I think that just means it's judging us. It knows we're probably going to traumatize it," Dave said. At least that's how he interpreted that look.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He was probably right on the money. No child of Kate's was ever going to end up completely normal.

"It's like it knows us already." Kate sighed, "Rock, paper scissors?" The mature way to decide who got first day duty.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"Does the winner get the baby or the day off?" Dave asked. With something like this, it paid to make sure what the prize was.

He had his fist up and was going to play paper either way. But still.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"Day off." It did pay, and Kate had been hoping he wouldn't think to ask and she'd be able to change her mind. She raised her own fist anyway.

Her preference was scissors. The girl liked pointy things.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave was clever enough to dodge that bullet. Too bad that didn't lend itself to rock paper scissors victory.

"Deal. One... Two... Three..." And then, sure enough, Dave played paper.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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And Kate uncurled her scissors.

"All yours, Daddy." There was nothing at all wrong with putting off the inevitable. "Taking it to class would've sucked." Electroclash would've had a field day, and she was a fan of not being openly mocked, when she could help it.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"Fortunately, this is my last class until Tuesday," Dave said. "I'll drop him off with you tomorrow."

"Oh, and since you have the day off, maybe you want the honor of naming him," he suggested. "You know, forge some kind of bond now."

Dave just didn't want to have to think up a name.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"We can't just stick with 'It'?" Kate wondered, not having any stellar ideas right at this moment. "It was good enough for The meta Addams Family."

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"If you really want to give our child a name that rhymes with a curse word, any playground taunting is on you," Dave said.

Actually, he didn't mind 'It.' He just couldn't resist mentioning how easy it would be to make terrible taunting rhymes. He figured this was a classier way to do it than making the rhymes himself.

Such a good father.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"I can teach it to make bullies regret mocking it." She shrugged. "You go for the stomach. Leaves less evidence."

One day, Kate's psedo-daughter would be on the recieving end of just such advice.

Such a good mother.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave listened to that and made a decision. "'It' sounds like a great name! Please don't hit me," Dave said

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

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"I draw a line at domestic violence," Kate offered, in the name of reassurance. Her crankiness was generally taken out on punching bags, and people who deserved it.

Dave was neither, as far as she could tell.

"I might have changed my mind by the end of the week. My roommate is in this class too." No sleep. There would be no sleep.

Re: Pick up your droid: Dave & Kate

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Dave said. And, dammit, sympathy was going to make him do something dumb. "Look, if you ever need a break from two droid babies crying, you can drop It off early. That will give me extra time to protect It from my roommate. You can't ask for a better bonding experience than that."