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Alex wandered in, a small bag of coin in his hand. He headed straight for Bar, and set the bag on her. He patted Bar. "Payment due, and extra, Bar, for Lorna's tab, and mine, split evenly, please." He was feeling rather jovial. Things were going well for Lorna and he, and their adventures in space had gone from cramped and annoying to fun, comfortable, and profitable.

Alex glanced at the tab board to see his and Lorna's tabs rise. With a grin and a deep breath, he settled to a barstool and tapped Bar once more. "Can I have the New York Times, a glass of root beer, and some cobalt blue base lace weight yarn, with a circular size two."

The items appeared and he smiled as he settled in to read, knit, and drink.

[Tiny Knitting(In Space!) tag: Alex Summers]
Tiny Cosmic Green Tag: Lorna Dane)

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"I might tell him with your permission, but he is good at keeping secrets." He smiled softly. "An image inducer will help keep the secret while you're pregnant, but we might not go back that whole time... if we can stand it."

He rubbed his face.

"It won't mask how I smell, or the chemical changes in my brain."

She sighed, covering her face with her hands. "I don't want to keep you away from Scott, or make you lie to him. This is just. . . I'm not ready for this at all, and I don't even know if I ought to be freaking out, which is making me more anxious than I already was to begin with."

He nodded, ad sighed. "I know. Maybe we should start being careful, to push the chance back, if we can, until we both feel more ready." He hugged her close.

She let herself be hugged, snuggling into him a bit. "If our world were less crazy, or we were sure the kids wouldn't be of interest to Magneto, I think I'd be okay. But I just. . . after seeing how Magneto treated Pietro and Wanda, and how that turned out, I'd stab him in the eyes for looking at our children, which wouldn't be terribly diplomatic, even if he was evil at the time."

"I understand, and I think that we should protect them. We'll keep them here until they can defend themselves." It was said in a rush, and then he nodded. A decision made.

Lorna nodded, sighing a bit. "Yes, I suppose so. I'm sorry, babe. I know you wanted to go back home when we got back."

She felt guilty, and slightly nauseous, though that was probably from the sudden anxiety. God, what a mess. For a moment she wondered if she were just destined to be neurotic forever.

He smiled at her. "Not really. Just to visit. Sure, education is important, but you are more important, and i can learn and do things here, and with you, and out in the stars."

"You could still go to school. I mean. . . you wouldn't be gone all day, and iff we sell the ship we can live off of it for a little bit."

He smiled softly. "If I'm making a break of it, I think I want to do it all. Make a life with you, here and out there, but not on Utopia."

"No, not on Utopia."

Thank God for that. She relaxed a bit, glad they were done thinking about living on the eventual site of a floating memorial to the loss of so many innocent lives.

"We could base ourselves out of Arizona again? Away from people as much as possible. I don't read as a mutant, and the kid won't for a few years. You'd be obvious, but there's not much we could do about it, and at least you'd have plenty of room to vent your powers."

He hugged her tight, then let go and smiled. "We could, but do you want to deal with the strange world?" He rubbed his face. "I dunno. I think, either way, we have time."

He chuckled.

"Well, we'd be dealing with the crazy as little as possible. We're survivalists, once we got our place set up we wouldn't have to interact with the idiots except while in school and getting groceries."

A dynamo would take care of their electricity needs. Lorna wouldn't even have to think about it after a couple months of steady production.

"True, and we could buy supplies here, not there, and we can wander, and do surveying, and spelunking, and have fun."

"Yeah, that makes sense. I don't want to introduce our kids to our shitty world until I absolutely have to."

She liked people, but they severely tested her patience.

He nodded, grinning at her. "We can be the eclectic wealthy couple who live out on their own parcel outside of town."

He kissed her, bouncy. "You know, I almost hope you are pregnant now. I'm getting kind of excited about this."

She giggled. "Well, we could check and see, if you want."

In fact, they should check and see. She was still nervous, but much less so now.

He nodded. "Why not? Come on. Bar, good lady? Please give us a professional pregnancy test kit."

And one popped up. "Thanks, love." he turned to Lorna. "Shall we?"

Lorna nodded, eying the thing. "Here we go again. At least we're actually getting along well enough to need them."

The last time they'd spent so much time around each other, there had been no pregnancy worries, because there had been no action taken to produce it.

He swept her into his arms to kiss her, and then grabbed his things from the bar.

"Let's go up to the room and do it there. We can see the truth, and head out for a walk after, either way." He nodded.

"Sure. That sounds good." She stood up, offering her hand to Alex. "Do you want to try to get pregnant, if it's negative?"

He nodded, slowly, taking her hand and kissing it.

"I would, yes. If you are up for it, since you have to do most of the work. If not, I am fine without having a child. I just feel like... well, I think we're ready, and it would be awesome." He nodded as he walked with her.

She thought for a bit. "If we're not pregnant, then we'll wait until we've got our house built to get pregnant, so I can help more than just using my powers."

She went to the steps, then directed herself and Alex up them with her powers.

He nodded. "Makes sense." He held on to her, grinning, as she sent them arrowing upward.

"I love you, Lorna Dane."

"I love you too, Alex. I'm proud to be your wife."

she kissed him as they flew, stopping delicately once she was inside the room, shutting the door with her powers.

"I guess it's a good thing I was drinking coffee." She laughed a bit, before heading for their bathroom.

He bounced as he stepped in, and looked around, old habit, then smiled as he settled to a chair. "Always helps, yeah."

He was nervous.