Room 302, Saturday Morning

[not_a_moonie]

Raleigh was still asleep on the floor. Alana considered rousing him, decided against it, and reached for the fat paperback on her nightstand before snuggling back in under the covers. Finding out whether the Robot Duchess was going to learn the truth about what had happened to her daughter struck her as a perfect use of a Saturday morning.

[OOC: Door closed, post open.]

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[jaegersandwings.livejournal.com]

"My name is Beatrice," she said with a sniff. Then promptly propelled herself into the room to jump on the bed.

[notajaegerbomb.livejournal.com]

Which meant Raleigh was still gonna stare. "That seriously happens?"

[not_a_moonie]

"Got another explanation?" Alana asked, trying to sound more certain and less crazy than she felt. "This is our ... Beatrice."

Nope. Still weird.

She watched the little girl jumping. "If you break the bed, I'm going to laugh."

[jaegersandwings.livejournal.com]

"I won't!" She so might. But this was more fun than listening to them be confusing and weird.

[notajaegerbomb.livejournal.com]

"Beatrice." Raleigh gave that some thought. "Well, it's better than Yancy."

[not_a_moonie]

"Oh yeah." Look, Raleigh, did you want Alana to lie? "I always liked that name, too. Even if it is kind of prissy."

She'd maneuvered over to stand by the bed in case Beatrice came crashing down. She didn't seem to be a prissy kind of girl, no matter what her mother thought of the name itself.

[notajaegerbomb.livejournal.com]

"It's not prissy. It's just..." Okay, he didn't have anything to say after that.

[not_a_moonie]

"Prissy?" Alana suggested again. "Okay, fine, maybe not prissy. But it's so a name for a good girl."

She watched their daughter bounce.

"Maybe she is one."

[jaegersandwings.livejournal.com]

"I'm not prissy!" she said, pausing in her jumping. "I'm a jaeger."

[notajaegerbomb.livejournal.com]

Raleigh shot Alana a look in case that was an alien thing. Was it? Please say it was.

[not_a_moonie]

Alana shook her head. "You can be a Jaeger if you want to be a Jaeger, sweetie," she said, hoping she wasn't promising her maybe-someday daughter life as a pirate or space prostitute. "I was just talking. That's all."

[jaegersandwings.livejournal.com]

They were very accepting of her future plans.

"Now can we have breakfast?" she asked, flopping down to sit on the bed.

[notajaegerbomb.livejournal.com]

"Of course," Raleigh said, offering her a hand to hold. Look at him take to fathering by acting like a big brother.

Don't worry, he'll be taking pictures to send to Yancy as soon as possible.

[not_a_moonie]

"Definitely, time for breakfast," Alana seconded, and reached for Beatrice's other hand.

Wherever the kid had come from, she was cute and not dumb. Alana might even be kind of into this.