Hypothetical Baby Girl

Date/Timing: 2019 October 31 (late) - November 1 (very, very early)
Setting: DriftSci lab; Anchorage Shatterdome, AK, United States
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""Monkey, how's that report coming?""
"Not working on it," Chuck calls back.
""Why the hell not?""
"Check your calendar, Doc."
A beat.
""You're allowed time off?""
"I sure am when Griet's having the baby!"
""She a friend of yours?""
"Your Hypothetical? She's his wife."
""My Hypothetical's having a baby?! That's so cool! I wonder what's in her brain ....""
"Well since she's not born yet, probably nothing interesting—Caitlin do not book a flight to South Africa."
"I was actually going to brush up on child cerebral development but that's a far better idea."
Chuck drops her head back against the server.
""Is she born yet?""
"If he would text me back I could tell you for sure—oh my god it's a foot." Chuck scrambles from her nest and throws herself over the server. "It's a foot."
"It's a foot." Caitlin peers at the grainy picture and clues in. "Oh my god it's a foot. It's Hypothetical Junior's foot. Oh my god my Hypothetical has an offspring and she's got a foot!"
/beep boop beep beep
"She's a girl!" Chuck squeaks.
"My Hypothetical baby girl!!!" Caitlin squees.
"K, uh, she's got ten fingers, ten toes, big blue eyes, and, uh ... black hair?"
Caitlin snorts. "It never lasts. What form did you fill out to go to Sydney?"
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