25 Unicorn Street- Wednesday

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Kitty could tell you how many days old Lexi was (fifteen) but unless she was looking at her phone, she was sort of lost on the day of the week. Or usually what time of day it was, since going to sleep and staying asleep all night was probably not a thing that was happening ever again. She changed what loungewear she was wearing every day? Was that a good marker of time?

And yet she still had stuff to do. Work work in addition to other stuff that had to get done around the house and all the baby stuff. She wasn't back to bartending yet, but she was still doing the paperwork side of business running, and so she had her laptop open while Lexi laid on the couch next to her, though the baby kept taking most of her attention. "I thought you were supposed to be helping me work," Kitty told her. "Pick up the slack, kid."


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"Oh," Kanan replied, considering the baby, and then smiling a little, too. "Well, can't say I blame her. Sounds like work."

As if 'lazy' was even remotely a word that could be used to describe Kanan himself.

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"But she's gotta do it. Because once she gets all strong, she can do so many other things," she said, bouncing the baby a little.

The baby did not care, aside from looking vaguely interested for about a couple seconds.

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"Terrorize the house, run circles around the dogs..." Kanan chuckled at that. "Chew on everything..."

That was a baby thing, right? Kanan was pretty sure that was a baby thing.

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"Fall off things, go into strange portals, you know, typical stuff."

Sigh.

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"I mean, I do those things all the time," Kanan offered. "Perfectly normal."

This was a good way to get blamed for being a bad influence later, Jarrus.

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"And those are things that will not happen while you're babysitting," Kitty told him.

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"Those are not things that will happen while I'm babysitting," Kanan parroted back, absolutely loyally. "She won't fall off anything," without getting caught, possibly from across the room, "or go through any strange portals on my watch. I only went through the strange one that one time, anyway."

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"And which time was that?" she wondered.

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"That would be the time I wound up here in the first place," Kanan replied. "Swallowed me and my ship - not the nice one I have here now, the old piece of junk that used to belong to the company back home - and spat me out just over the island."

Which had been parked on Azeroth at the time.

That had been an interesting summer for him.

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"That at least doesn't sound like you did it on purpose," Kitty pointed out. "Which is better than just going through it."

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"Which I absolutely would have done if I'd thought for an instant that it would get me home again, after that," Kanan noted. "I'm trying to come up with examples of bad choices I've made, here. I really do make terrible choices, you might just have to take my word on that."

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"I'll take your word for it," she told him. "I know a lot of terrible choice makers, I know how it goes."

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"For what it's worth?" Kanan offered them both another little grin, "I'm pretty sure I can avoid making choices that are too terrible for the sake of the baby."

At least while he was babysitting.