Done? Not quite, but it's time to unspool.

[icarus]

Ah. I just finished my last class for the quarter. Now I have just one 12-page research paper and a five-page essay (I have a first draft, need a second draft). Due next Tuesday.

Witness the Icarus unspooling.

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- The whole world revolves around the damned baby. *eyeroll* Either everyone is cooing or everyone is against it.

Ron and Draco both have complicated lives involving their other kids, ex-wives, jobs, friends, and family. The baby impacts these things, and you can see R & D's reasons for doing this, but even once Ron's pregnant, life is business as usual for everyone except Ron and to a lesser extent, Draco. Rather than cooing or being against it, most people just think they're a little crazy.

90% of the people in their lives treat the whole matter as either a joke or the way you treat in-vitro parents... with confused uncertainty, because you've heard ba

Draco, rather than being indulgent and understanding, will have never had to deal with pregnancy (his wife was handled by a medi-witch). He will react with fury, confusion, and disgust, finding the whole thing very, very disturbing. Even though it was his idea.

Rather than the baby being a beautiful lifetime event, Ron is downright casual about it, and they both have completely materialistic motives (Draco's inheritance, Ron's financial situation).

This isn't their first baby, and their kids (Ron and Draco's) will take the idea of another brother or sister very badly.

Ron's ex-wife will be disdainful, while Draco's estranged wife will manuever to keep her fortune.

Much of the story will not revolve around the pregnancy but around everything else in their lives that has led to them wanting this baby. So it will be a tour of what a mess both of their lives are, and how this dumb-idea-baby might not fix things but might actually make them worse.

The story is, in fact, about Ron and Draco (and screwed up relationships and the dumb reasons people get married, have kids, etc). The baby is just a device. The resolution is not in having the baby, but in the changes in their relationship. The baby never once even appears in the story.