North American Vampire Council & Past Calling (Hypernaturals 12 & 13)

Baby Discussion

Helen, having her arms around both Angel and Vera at the moment, with Rachel draping an arm over Angel to touch Helen, was closest to the suddenly broached topic at hand.

"Oh? What brought that on?" Helen asked.

"Babies in general or talking about it now?" Angel asked back.

"Pick one. No: Stay there. You can talk and let me hold you at the same time."

Angel had tried to sit up, but Helen was not having it. She had a different-shaped breast in each hand, one from each woman, and was loath to have baby talk pull her out of her happy place.

"I started it. I was talking to Vera about a lot of things. The fact that while Kimberly is my sister, she feels in some ways more like a daughter to me. It's the age difference. I was thinking about Nakoma and her sisters, and I didn't want to increase the age difference even wider. She'll be in college when her sibling is born as it is."

Angel seems to be being circumspect as to gender there, and that makes sense. She is Astral, so the baby might be either a boy or a girl. She does not have the super-selective mechanisms Vampire mothers appear to have where it seems the vast majority of the children are female.

On the other hand, Alexander has over 100 kids, and ALL of them are female, no matter what the subspecies of the mother. It could be that male Vampires generate vastly more 'Y' type sperm, and it has nothing at all to do with the Vampire mother being a 'filter'.

It is not 100%: William and Alexander both had vampire parents. It is only very rare. I guess when Mom and Jessica have time, they can use their new sequencer to look at a few things and decided what is going on there.

"I see." Helen said.

"The last I heard, you were staying with Adrian as daddy? No updates on that thinking?" Morgan asked, from her current position on top of me, although also draped over Denise and Jessica to pull them in close.

"No. I love, in ways that I cannot explain, that no one here, but especially Adrian, treat Nakoma as if she is anything other than a bio-daughter of this family. When this family adopts, they absorb. My Astral daughter would know if it was anything other than utterly sincere, too."

"She is my daughter, but I am will to share. Some. Don't be greedy." I said.

"Exactly, and that is why Nakoma is crazy about her dad. When it came time to talk about having sex or not, she talked to you, not me. It kind of hurt and I loved it, all at the same time. After that, she talked to Jessica. I swear it's like being a third-string parent."

"Gaia. Nothing you can do there." Helen said.

"True, and not a competition. There are so many ways I feel like my life did not start before we moved in here. It is not getting my love life back or getting married, although it is that. It is everything. It is Nakoma safe and warm and happy and with an actual family. I want her sibling from me to be of here. It's hard to explain. It's a feeling. There is also that I want the babies to grow up as close as possible to their sisters. The girls are getting older. Laura doesn't even wear diapers anymore! I want my baby to be as close to them as I can make it."

Denise sighed. Shifted in my left arm. "I can relate. I keep thinking about the problem with waiting until I have dealt with things and start on that project is exactly that: age gap to her sisters. Then I realize that if I have a baby in 100 years, that is still going to happen."

"It's weird." Vera said.

"And you, Vera? I assume Adrian will be the daddy for your planned offspring?"

"Oh hell yes! I tried to get pregnant with him for years. It would have been a freaking disaster area before. When I was a Siren and didn't even know that. I was not ready. My motives were garbage. At the same time, I had a fuck-ton of sideboys and Adrian was who I wanted for baby-daddy back then. The safe guy. The port in the storm. I wanted my baby to have a Daddy that would love them because I knew I was a fuckup. I am less of a fuck-up now, and I know that the one thing I had right back then was WHO. I mean: Kevin? Too young. Fun, but flighty. Johnny? No. Just no. I love your boy-toy present Jessica, but let's face it: That is not about him being daddy material. Johnny is about boinking, and in all the ways I can't get here. Not complaining: Just saying. Also: No one can make Angel into my baby daddy, can they?"