happy thanksgiving

[notsocommon]

Thanksgiving was not a holiday that Helen really celebrated outside of food and drink with close friends and this year, she'd been with just Will when the labor pains had started up in earnest. She'd ignored them for a while, considering it was common enough this late in pregnancy to have some false labor but when the pain seemed to get sharp and real and the contractions worryingly close, she and Will made the trek to the clinic and luckily found Dr. McCoy, who was happy enough to deliver a baby (for a given description of happy, anyway).

It was only after the hard part was done (and they'd both slept a handful of hours, to boot) that she felt comfortable enough sending Will out to tell everyone the baby had come and felt up to entertaining company.

[[OOC: This is timed anywhere from morning to afternoon on November 23rd in the clinic.]]

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[notsocommon]

"Because it is, Nikola," Helen said, warning creeping into her voice. "You are not experimenting on my child. I won't have it, ever, and if you think about it for more than five seconds I will have you flayed. Painfully slowly. While you're still alive."

Helen pursed her lips a bit. "Consider that, then?"

[thedevamper]

"I love it when you talk dirty to me," Nikola replied, grinning at Helen. His smirk all teeth as he looked wickedly at her at the prospect. "Of course I won't experiment on him."

It was hardly experimenting when he knew what he was doing.

[notsocommon]

"I mean it, Nikola. No testing. No experiments. No modification of any sort. If you so much as lay a finger on that child without my express permission, I'm flaying you. I can likely make a very convincing argument to the Council why I shouldn't be punished severely for it," Helen reminded him.

"That's not even taking into account what John and Will might do to you."

[thedevamper]

"Spoilsport," Nikola replied sulkily, stroking Gregory's hair and smiling fondly at im. "You make it sound like I don't know what I'm doing. Fine, fine, Gregory remains just as he is."