The door hissed shut softly beside him, the two of them held eye contact, poised on the razors edge as they waited for the tell tale click that would mean they were finally alone, and then the door sealed , clicking shut with a distinct tone of finality.

As soon as that sound echoed around the room Adam's head snapped to look at Sunny.

"WHAT!"

She crossed one set of arms over her chest, "What?"

"Are you serious right now. This.... This is not the time."

With every word he watched as the brow ridge over her right eye inched incrementally upward. She crossed her second set of arms, "I'm sorry, I forgot that this was solely my fault for not being able to control my uterus." She turned her head downward and uncrossed her arms resting her hands on her hips, "Bad, bad uterus." She scolded, "How dare you magically and unexpected produce life." She lifted her head one eyebrow ridge still raised.

Adam turned in a slow circle hands in his hair, "Is that supposed to be funny?"

"I mean, I was hoping you would find the humor in it, but since you haven't. No, I was trying to point out that it takes two to tango buddy. Maybe you should have had a talk with your family jewels and explain to them that this is a very inconvenient time."

He was definitely going to be sick.

"This is not happening right now.

"Can we move past the denial phase some time this century. This is happening and the sooner you accept it the sooner we can come up with a game plan."

Adam whirled on her hands held over his head in an expression that was somewhere near a challenge but closer to defeat, "This can't be happening."

"There aren't any other explanations that fit."

"Maybe your just sick or.... Something."

"Yeah I have a tumor, you know the kind that grows hands and feet and teeth, and eventually will claw its way out of my body and start walking, so yeah in a way I guess you are right."

Adam stared open mouthed at her, "How are you taking this so calmly?! We are potentially trillions of miles from arcadia right now, we don't know where we are, we are right in the middle of trying to defeat the void, and if I ever needed my battle partner. Now is the time."

Sunny rolled her spear from one hand to the other, "If that was the case than maybe we should have considered birth control, but we didn't."

Adam took a seat on the bed and rested his head in his hands, "Why..... remind me again why we didn't."

She was silent for a moment tapping her spear on the ground gently, "Because Kay seemed like a miracle, and miracles don't tend to happen twice."

Adam raised his head slowly, dragging his fingers down his face.

Sunny continued, "Subconsciously , I think we still haven't grasped the fact that the void antidote changed us on a fundamental level. Plus, they don't exactly make birth control for Drev."

Adam rolled back so he was lying flat on his back staring up at the ceiling, "Yes but they make tons of it for humans. Truckloads of it, all different kinds for men and for women."

After a moment Sunny walked over to sit next to him, "Well that's a very human thing."

'What do you mean?"

"I mean no Drev has ever avoided having a baby, at least as far as I know, but then again Humans are horny little bastards and aren't as monogamous as Drev. If A drev is going to have a baby it is most certainly with their battle partner."

"Funny considering your species is a big proponent of infanticide."

Sunny frowned at him, and he winced, "Sorry."

She continued, "I'm not going to say you are wrong, because you aren't. But there is a fundamental difference between our species. Humans are.... I'm not going to say they aren't monogamous because some most certainly are." She gave him a pointed look, "I mean you could never manage with anyone else, and you most certainly don't share, but then you have people like Ramirez, so we know that humans are not necessarily built for a single partner. Drev on the other hand mate for life....." She looked down at her hands, "The few people I have told about my parent's rocky relationship have asked me why they simply didn't get a divorce, and that's not really how it works for Drev. You can't just get a divorce."

She rolled her spear from one hand to another, "When you fall for someone, it doesn't even really feel like a choice.... Its more like an inevitability, a universal truth, like it has always been that way. My father couldn't leave my mother in the same way he couldn't flap his arms to fly, it just wasn't possible. Drev don't cheat on each other and we don't have secret liaisons. Drev have fallen for rival Drev on a battlefield and they just had to make it work. Usually they duel it out and whoever loses has to leave their own clan."

Adam had gone quiet now and was just listening to her talk.

He never forgot she was the saint of Anin, but sometimes he was remind ed that that position came with an almost scholarly philosophy and understanding of Drev religion and culture, "Not only can Drev not leave each other, but we can't actively cheat on each other either. You can't have more than one connection in a lifetime. Its why Kanan has never gotten together with anyone else and he never will. Our intensely monogamous nature, and our lifestyle as warriors hasn't exactly done great things for the birthrate."

That seemed to be true enough.

Adam had often wondered how Drev managed to even keep their population in balance when they spent most of their time trying to kill each other.

"To compensate for the fact we only ever mate once for our entire lives, it means there is this undeniable biological imperative much stronger than what you see in humans. Plenty of human woman have no drive to have children, don't even want them. Humans are so different that family is a choice." She shook her head once, "Not to us, the biological imperative is too strong , and we compensate for the fact that we have a high death rate by having as many children as possible."

He sat up feeling the beat of his heart slow as he listened to her talk, resting his head on her shoulder to listen.

"I don't think we have as much choice as humans do. Naktan thinks that the whole infanticide thing is deeply intertwined with that. Sacrificing a child that requires more care to make room for healthy kits assuming that its better to make room for more healthy kits rather than waste resources on one that is not. Both of us agree that this isn't the way it should be done, but you get the point."

He took her hand, lacing the four of her fingers through his five as he listened still trying to come to terms with the way their lives had suddenly and drastically changed.

"But the biological imperative is stronger than the need to create room for healthy kits, which is why so many Drev mothers can't kill their young and instead abandon them."

She sighed and rubbed her head, "Point being is that, I think birth control is counter intuitive to how we operate normally, which is why I never considered it. War never stopped us before, so why should it stop us now."

"To be fair." He muttered head still resting against her shoulder, "They weren't stuck on a ship in deep space far inside hostile territory."

She hummed low in her chest.

"Kind of romantic if you think about it."

"You drev have a weird idea of what is romantic." He teased

"So, I'm keeping it."

He looked up from her shoulder with a frown, "Wait, you don't think I was suggesting you shouldn't."

She shrugged, "It is a common practice for you humans, is it not."

"I mean yes but I.... Don't want to make it seem like I was wanting you not to."

She shook her head, "I didn't think you did, and I understand this will be inconvenient, but I take full responsibility for what happens. You will not notice a change if I can help it."

He stared at the opposite wall where their two suits of armor were standing in their climate controlled cases, "hasn't that already started happening. I mean.... There is no one I trust more than you, and while Celex is great, and a maker and like all powerful and shit, I would still prefer you at my back. Plus you're prettier than he is." He gave her a sort of sly grin.

She snorted, "He would disagree with you, but no, my current, condition is not the reason I am choosing to stay behind. I have thought on the argument, and I am most certainly not someone for a stealth operation, besides Celex can provide you with the sort of advantage I cannot."

He wasn't entirely sure if he was ready to believe her but he certainly wasn't willing to argue.

Adam took a deep breath once in and then out as he tried to sort through his own thoughts. They were.... Having another baby, and they were doing it at probably the worst time possible, but Drev were literally built to have children at the worst time possible, so there was that.

But what if their mission took longer than the between ten and eleven months it would take? He hated to think that he might miss another year of his son's life, but there was always that possibility. What if the child was born here on the ship, and how would they take care of it>

So many questions were running through his head and none of them with easy answers.

"I want to give them a human name." Sunny lifted her head and turned to him surprised at his sudden declaration. Adam shifted to look at her, "You got to name Ka'leen so I think I'd like to name this one."

Sunny tilted her head in something near amusement, "You do understand that it is customary for the father to name the Kit."

Adam paused, "Oh,... uh well with humans its more a back and forth exchange."

She nodded, "I give you permission to name the child, now, I do highly discourage you against naming them Anakin or Obi Wan or Saint forbit Jabba."

Adam choked out a sort of laugh, "Jabba, oh yeah I am definitely naming our kid Jabba now."

Sunny swatted at him.

He ducked back.

"Jabba Jar Jar Vir." He said, scooting away from another halfhearted swipe from sunny, "The perfect name for our child, and for their nickname we can call them Jab Jab."

Sunny lunched at him, pushing him back onto the bed, "I am not calling my child Jab Jab."

Adam grinned.

"It is my fatherly duty to name our child and I will not allow you to dictate what is rightfully mine, so Jab Jab it will be!" She grabbed him by both wrists pinning him down against a half hearted fight. He raised one foot to kick her off but then paused.

She grinned at him, "Ah ah, you wouldn't kick a pregnant woman would you."

He grimaced, "Don't say that, it sounds weird." Besides with one sharp jab he kicked her in the upper thigh, pushing her off as he rolled away, "You aren't' giving birth from your thighs ." he grabbed a book off the nightstand and brandished it at her, "There are plenty of other places I can hit you."

"You monster." She said grabbing a pillow from the bed circling him one direction and then the other.

Needless to say, with her superior reach he got clocked in the face much to her great amusement.

He threw a book at her which clipped her in the shoulder, but she easily swept his legs out from under him which ended with her standing over him, spear still lightly in one hand as she pointed it down at his neck.

"Watch out." He said eyeing the point fo the spear, "You know what holding sharp objects to my neck does to me."

She grunted and pulled the spear away, "The last time I did that ." She motioned to her stomach, "There were consequences.

He grinned lifting himself onto one elbow.

"Oh, one more rule."

"Rule for what."

She ran the flat of the spear tip over one of her palms, "If you do name our child, please pick a name I can pronounce."

He laughed, "Okay okay, so many rules, but I will do as you wish."

Now he was going to have to start thinking of names.

Do be perfectly honest, secretly he was hoping for a girl.