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Bob didn't get any more sleep after his little discovery. He spent the rest of the night pacing the living room floor, trying to keep his panic under control. This is big. This is really big. How in the Web is he going to tell Dot? (Never mind the weirdness of him having to break the news to her in the first place...)

As dawn starts to break, he heads for the kitchen. Might as well do something constructive with all that nervous energy. He's not a great cook, by any means, but he can make simple breakfast foods like flopjacks, hot links, scrambled Easter Eggs... or, in this case, all of the above.

Dot should be getting up any nano now.

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That she is, as movements begin upstairs where she wakes up, finding a complete lack of her fiance in their bed. Dot's still groggy, but doesn't Bob usually tell her where he's going before he leaves?

...And why does the house smell like cooked breakfast?

She does get on her morning outfit and walks downstairs eventually.

He senses her movement before he even hears the footfalls on the stairs. "Morning," he calls from the kitchen. "I made breakfast, just gotta get the table set..."

Edited 2008-01-20 21:12 (UTC)

"Okay, I'll just be down in a sec, I need to get my morning JAVA."

She'll pause when the words 'I made Breakfast' actually settle into her conciousness in 3..2..1..

"You made breakfast?"

"Yeah. I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I figured I might as well... you sure you want JAVA? I made cocoa already."

He's talking just a little too fast and sounds just a little too chipper for his own good.

"...Bob....what's going on?"

This is definitely not like him, he's even less of a morning person and.. Good Code.

"Are you planning to feed half of Mainframe breakfast today?"

"Sorry, I guess I got a little carried away..." He pulls out a chair and offers it to her with a sheepish grin.

"Thank you..." Dot eyes him a bit, eyebrow raised as she sits down in the offered chair. "Now then...what did you do?"

Edited 2008-01-20 21:27 (UTC)

"What?" He blinks at her in surprise for a moment, then laughs and shakes his head. "No, no, it's nothing like that, I just--"

Dot smiles at him coyly, putting a few scrambled Easter Eggs on her plate.

"You know, I've never known you to be the one to cook breakfast."

"Well, maybe it's time I started," says Bob reasonably, pouring out a cup of cocoa and setting it at Dot's place on the table. "I'm living in this house too, I should help out more."

Especially considering... well, considering.

"Alright...but leave the dinner meals to me, alright? It's nice to cook sometimes." The cocoa gets a raised eyebrow. Funny man, you honestly want to stand between the workaholic and her morning stimulants? "Is this another attempt to get me to work a little less? You do realize that's what vacations in Milliways are for."

Bob hesitates.

"Not... exactly."

He sits down next to Dot, not bothering to get any food for himself yet.

"There's something I need to talk to you about."

It's that hesitation that makes all the alarm klaxons in Dot's head go off.

"...Bob...what is it? What's wrong?"

"Nothing!" he says, a little too quickly. "I mean--there's something, but it's not wrong exactly."

"Then what gives?" Dot says, not calming down in the slightest. "You're acting awfully jumpy for no apparent reason. Or at least one you haven't told me yet."

Another hesitant pause.

"It... has to do with why I woke up last night. Glitch detected a disturbance in the ambient energy, and when I looked I found out it was in your energy, so I did a scan and... Ithinkyoumightbepregnant."

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"...say that last bit again."

"I. Think. You. Might. Be. Pregnant."

She might be pregnant. Pregnant, oh User, how is she going to handle a pregnancy now on top of the wedding...

She's pregnant. Pregnant, possibly by this time next hour she'll be giving birth.

Is Bob even ready to be a father? the entire concept gave him the jaggies...

She's pregnant.

"...oh. my."

Meanwhile...her breakfast is going untouched...somehow she doesn't seem to have the appettite.

"I think that's what it is, anyway. There's a new energy node right... here." He brushes his hand gently against her abdomen, just below the navel. "It'd be less than a cycle old, now."

Dot reches down to where Bob's hand is...to where the node is inside of her.

"...if I am pregnant...we're going to have to make a lot of changes...aren't we?" She says softly.

I'm going to be a mom..

"Yeah."

A beat.

"You're probably gonna need a different size wedding dress, for one thing."

She can't help it as she chuckles at him trying to lighten the situation.

"Maybe...it'll take at least 4 minutes before I start getting any bigger." She pauses looking at him. "...Are you ready to be a dad?"

Bob lets out a long, slow breath. "I... have no idea. But you should go see a doctor to be sure before we start planning anything."

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"Alright, I'll see about scheduling a full scan with Phong sometime today..." Dot smiles a little. "Is that why you made such a big breakfast?"

"Well, you are eating for two now."

"That's not eating for two, that's eating for a small army, honey." Dot smirks. "But it's the thought that counts."

"It'll get eaten," says Bob with a shrug. "Speaking of which, we'd better start eating before it gets cold."

"No need to tell me twice..."

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