Gargoyles' reality. Maza residence. Baby makes five.

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Goliath blinked, then sighed as the baby laying on his chest finally got to him and sent him under.

Elisa looked around from where she was playing Trouble with Franklin and chuckled. "There he goes again." A thoughtful study of her sleeping offspring. "Just wish somebody could explain to me how I wound up with a blue-eyed, red-haired kid."

Franklin shrugged. "I don't know. But I like him."

His honorary mother chuckled again and popped the dice bubble. "Yeah, you sure do."

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A polite wrapping on the door indicated that they had company.

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"I'll get it." Franklin got up and strode over, scooping Cagney up along the way and rubbing his cheek against the old cat's head. A quick peek through the peephole, and he was grinning from ear to ear. "Auntie Elisa!"

Cagney blinked as the door opened, then yowled in protest at what she was seeing and smelling.

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"Is she?" Elisa's grin went a bit satisfied as she came back to the kitchen and the coffee making. "Goliath, do you want a beer?"

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"Big time," Elisa replies. "I'm just jealous I didn't try to think of introducing the two of them first."

"No, thank-you," Goliath said. "If you have bottled water, I would not refuse that, however."

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"Yup. They just announced it a few nights ago." Elisa chuckled.

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"Aaaw, that's awesome!"

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"I have a feeling that Hope and Stevie are different versions of the same kid." Elisa grabbed her bottle of water and tipped it back, then set it aside and started eating gourmet chocolate flavor corn chips.

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Goliath munched on some carrot sticks. "Certainly a possibility."

"Oh," Elisa says, "meant to ask the last time we were here. We've seen Derek and Maggie and everybody, but how's Beth doing?"

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"Great things." Elisa grins. "They're gonna be somebody and make big changes."

Then she chuckles and gently pats her sleeping husband's feet. "Probably be cops."

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Stevie anyway, Elisa thought. Don't know about Hope. Your world's a lot more enlightened, sis...

"Just might be," she said. And then gave an amused smirk as she peered over at Stevie. "And no picking on Hope when you outgrow her, you got it?"

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Elisa laughs, then pats her husband again. "Sleep, Big Guy. It's just family."

"They are visitors." He's rubbing his eyes again.

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"Hey, don't worry on our account, not quite-so Big Guy," Elisa said. "I still remember being that kinda tired. No sense fighting it."

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"Sheesh."

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"You're telling me. And then me, Icy, Chiyoko, and Jubes got dragged into this time travel mess back to Wyvern... Just nuts."

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"Wow," says Elisa soberly when she's done, then thoughtfully eats a chip. "Anybody tries shipping me back in time right now and I'll shoot the #$@#$@... oops."

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"Believe me, all I could think about the whole time was getting back home to Hope and the Big Guy." She adds, "And pants."

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"She has," rumbles Goliath without opening his eyes.

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Elisa laughs. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I remember my own life. Gotta be at least some similarities, even when things went in different directions."

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"Is that a challenge?" She smirks.

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Elisa laughs. "Oh no, I'm too crafty to try and go against myself. See, 'cause we're so crafty and... Well, it kinda starts looping after that."

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Elisa looks at him with wide eyes, then turns to her sister to see if she's heard what her husband just said.

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"Goliath, if you know what's good for you, you'll hand over the chocolate. You can barely handle one of me. What makes you think you can handle two?" Elisa kept an amused grin on her face the whole time.

Goliath chuckled, and handed over the candy.

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"Think about the things she can." Elisa's voice is low and speaks of experience as her eyes go to Franklin.

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"She is right, my love," Goliath says, as he rests a gentle hand on Elisa's shoulder. "Though I too, worry about what kind of future our daughter will have, I remember that she will grow up in the warmth of a Clan and family, and that you have seldom let anything deter you in providing the best and most you can for those you care about."

Elisa manages a smile, feeling somewhat reassured by this. "You'll have to excuse a new Mom for getting all emotional," she says, with a small chuckle.

She looks down at Stevie. "Maybe Franklin will come back inside and you can meet your "sister.'"

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Elisa kisses her on the cheek and cuddles her close, smirking slightly when Goliath sleeps right through having a baby sitting on his forehead. "You are so freakin' adorable."

"Stevie," says Franklin in a chiding voice. "That's rude."

Stevie cracks him a grin.

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More delighted squealing from Hope!

"You lucked out with a boy," Elisa muses. "Mom always did curse us with hoping we had a daughter that put us through what we put her through."

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Elisa starts to answer, but then cracks up as Stevie makes a tiny noise that sounds very like disparagement.

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Elisa gives him a look. "Who's side are you on, kid?"

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He smiles and leans against the couch back, cuddling her against his chest. "Truly?"

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Hope snuggles in. "Gah!"

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"She's gonna yell just as loud as he is, isn't she?"

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"She just might. The kid's got a healthy set of lungs."

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Elisa gives her a cheesy grin, then gets to her feet. "Want some junk food to take home?"

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"Yeah, that'd be great."