BABIES

[connike]

the babies meme

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→ Leave a comment with your character's name, fandom, and any preferences you may have.
→ Another character replies and suddenly you are a loving (??) couple with a child or multiple children!
→ Go from there! You can do literally whatever you want, from silly day-to-day domestic shenanigans to threads involving pregnancies to more serious topics. If you're short on ideas, you can look to other memes like The Domestic Meme or The Family Meme for inspiration.

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[aviophobia]

All right, Jim. We'll get it set up.

[captaincocksure]

Good, good.

[But he'd distracted again, all his attention on the little girl as she clutches a fistful of his gold shirt.]

Just tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it.

[aviophobia]

First off, we're gonna have to teach her that grabbing Jim isn't a habit to encourage. C'mon, honey, none of that.

[He reaches out, gentle, to disentangle her fingers.]

[captaincocksure]

I'm sure she's just exploring. Figuring out what's going on and all that.

[She lets go of Jim's yellow shirt, latching on instead to McCoy's blue sleeve, trying to pull it toward her mouth. Jim grins.]

Oh, well, there you go. She can grab you instead of me.

[aviophobia]

Hey, sweetheart, none of that, either.

[Oh-so gently, he untangles her fingers.]

Clothes are for wearing, not eating, hear?

[captaincocksure]

[ldkfjdkfjf adorable he cannot.]

I think she likes you. Why don't you hold her for a while?

[aviophobia]

Think I might.

[Still with that gentleness, he picks her up. She grabs a handful of his shirt and clutches it, and he allows it with a sigh, because he has no hands to correct her behavior.]

Looks like you're gonna be staying with Jim for a while, sweetheart. How d'you like that?

[captaincocksure]

[Man, Bones sure looks like he was made for this job.]

I think she might not mind spending some time with you, too.

[aviophobia]

[He ... kind of was.

:C]

I think I could probably allow that. If you're gonna be down here all the time, I won't need to keep chasing after you when you get your dumb ass hurt.

[captaincocksure]

[...Bones. ;_;]

Good. Then it's settled.

[aviophobia]

I'll have the nurses get your bed set up by Gamma shift tonight, all right? You gonna stay down here until then?

[captaincocksure]

[Long pause. nnnngh. /SIGH]

...I suppose I should head up to the bridge, check in and make sure I'm not needed. But I'll come back.

[aviophobia]

All right. We'll be here.

[The girl turns in McCoy's arms and examines Jim with bright eyes before jamming her fingers in her mouth.]

Hey, none of that, either.

[captaincocksure]

[Jim leans in, grinning as he gently coaxes the little girl's hand out of her mouth.]

It's okay, sweetheart. Dr. McCoy never lets me do anything fun, either.

[aviophobia]

Jim, you're a grown ass man, so if you want to suck your fingers, you can. But I don't want her teeth growing in funny because I did.

[captaincocksure]

[Awww, Bones is worried about her teeth.

...So is he.]

All right, all right, you gotta listen to your doctor. No putting those fingers in your mouth.

[So she wraps them around his finger instead and he just about throws the whole going-to-the-bridge thing out the window.

...No, no, duty calls.]

All right. I'll see you two in a couple of hours?

[aviophobia]

We'll be here. Say bye-bye to Jim, sweetheart.

[He takes her wrist between two of his big fingers, wiggles it gently so she seems to be waving.]

[captaincocksure]

[alkdjfkdjf his heart how can he leave :(

But he pulls it together, nodding.]

Bye. See you both soon.

[And then, with all the reluctance ever, he turns and leaves medbay, headed for the bridge.]

[aviophobia]

[And so McCoy settles her back in the bed, and he ends up ... just kind of ... checking in on her. A lot. He's worried, okay. And every time she starts to fuss, he'll come and see her, and she stops, just like Jo used to.

And he wonders, deep down, if he could give her up, either.]

[captaincocksure]

[Jim's back in just under three hours. He doesn't say a word when he arrives, striding through medbay. He makes a beeline for the bed where the baby is now sleeping, and he just stands there, watching her.

Can you even miss somebody after only a handful of hours? Jim now believes you can.]

[aviophobia]

[Footsteps catch his attention, and McCoy finishes tending to the sick ensign he's working with before he crosses back over sickbay to find Jim standing by the baby's bedside.]

Welcome back.

[captaincocksure]

Hey.

...She'd wake up if I pick her up, huh.

[aviophobia]

Probably.

But I'm guessing you won't be happy till you do, huh.

[captaincocksure]

[He shifts his weight from one foot to the other, and then back again, as if his whole body is in on this decision-weighing thing. And he lets out a sigh.]

No, but her being peaceful is more important than me being happy.

[Did that just... actually come out of his mouth. Yes, yes it did.]

[aviophobia]

...wow. I'm impressed, Jim. That's a good call.