Un/Paak

……………….back?

Don’t tell Mona about, uh….all this.

Jordan, please. I would never. And it’s not like I’d ever have opportunity to. She never came back.

That thing’s gonna be scared of me, I just know it.

Shut up, Hank.

Me? Be paternal? Are you high?

Also I like, don’t know what we are. It’s weird, okay?

At least more parental than Mona.

I don’t know.

Um, we sort of got together when we ran into each other at the Spot.

Gotcha. Well, it’s obvious you two are keeping them. Are you... back together? Or just going to co-parent? Mona didn’t seem the maternal type, but you’ll be a good counter-balance.

It’s going to be a process. It’ll just have to be something you grow with and consider as it goes. How far along is she?

….kind of.

Do you think he chose it?

No….no. It’s not…you can’t…I wouldn’t…

You’re right, I don’t want them to go through this because they’re gonna already have to deal with it with me. It’s hard. And it’s gonna be hard no matter what and I feel so guilty because this poor kid didn’t ask for this. Of course I’ll be there. I know the chances of it going down THREE generations is small but so is inheriting it from one but it already happened and I don’t want them to deal with it.

It’s a very rational fear, I agree, but it’s also one you can manage, Jordan. The guilt is a separate thing, though. This isn’t something you elected for yourself, you know. You didn’t select it along with dark hair when your single cell was randomly forming DNA. And it isn’t something that you earned or deserved, like some curse you’re passing onto your kid because you crossed a witch. It’s... I hate saying it like this, because it has such vague, negative connotations, but it’s nature.

Will you abandon them? Love them any less? Leave them to figure it out on their own?

Yeah, well…

What is it turns out like me?

Ah. I see.

It’s mine.

Mm. When did you two start seeing each other again? I thought that ship had sailed, it’s been over a year.

Mona’s pregnant.

Oh. Wow. I mean. Wow.

Hank. Help.

Uh, hi? Okay. What’s going on?