[ 61st consult | voice ]

[dr_conscience]

I have to admit, the timing on this type of day coming around almost makes too much sense for the City. It's even almost comforting, given how regularly these occur... though, it might be too much to hope for that this beginning of a return to... well, I'll never be able to call it normalcy, but perhaps... more routine impossibilities?

Oh-- if you've just arrived, try not to take it personally if some of the populace is a bit... well, short with you. You could say it's been a long week.


[ooc: He's s3, but has some vague and ominous knowledge of his future. He can forget anything he needs to. <3 No duplicates plz! k ilu]

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[dr_conscience]

[Oh my god what. No way Angela. No way. He can't help it, he's smiling and even laughs a bit at the response of sudden video. He doesn't know what to do with the hand that isn't holding the device, running it through his hair as he laughs.]

You're-- god, you're-- wow. Congratulations.

[Excited for you? Nah.]

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

Huge? [She's utterly teasing. If he's happy, she's happy.] Thank you.

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[dr_conscience]

Not the word I was going to use, but...

[He just grins.]

When are you due?

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

In a week and a half. Hopefully sooner than later, but not today.

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[dr_conscience]

No, definitely not today.

You're going to make an amazing mother, you know.

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

Jack would never forgive me if I popped without him around to panic.

I hope so. I mean, I really do, complications aside.

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[dr_conscience]

I'm assuming Jack is the lucky father-to-be, then.

What kind of complications?

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

And my husband, yes.

Leber congenital amaurosis. We're both carriers, so there's that twenty-five percent chance the baby can be blind. I already asked House about potential treatments out of desperation, but of course he started talking about eyepatches and carrots.

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[dr_conscience]

Truly a shocking response. Though, it could be his special way of pointing out that twenty-five percent doesn't mean your child will have it - it means your child probably won't. That other seventy-five percent chance is much larger, though I know it doesn't seem that way.

As far as treatments go, if it turns out you need to be worried about it at all, everything I know of is in experimental phases. You're from a few years ahead now, though, so you'd be able to find out easier than I would if there have been promising results.

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

Truly. I'm not sure what was up with my lack of judgment, but desperation makes people do stupid things. Probably isn't enough for me, you know. It still keeps me up at night.

Well, there aren't any yet in my world, but I figured I'd cover all my bases in other worlds too, just in case.

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[dr_conscience]

Well, I can certainly understand that. All of it. Worrying, wanting to find any way you can to deal with it...

If you ask me, though, no matter which way this goes, your child's going to be just fine, because their mother already cares this much about their wellbeing. If that one-in-four chance somehow beats the odds and wins out, that child's going to be very lucky to have you.

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

I can't help it. I just love this kid so much already.

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[dr_conscience]

[Now he just smiles.]

And that's how I know that no matter what happens, you'll be fine. All of you.

[Hmm. And now he's wondering if it would possible for her to take something back with her. Because, really, new babies need gifts, right? He thinks so.]

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[artsyfartsybaby.livejournal.com]

[All babies need gifts, old and new ones.]

Ill hold you to that.