Rachel's Arrival

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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. -Van Gogh

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The Blackbird makes it home in time. Moira's homicidal urges are soothed. The baby is not so sure about this whole 'being born' thing.

( And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. )

Around 2am, Rachel makes her grand entrance.

( A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. )

Log [Alison, Haroun] The return home...

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There's a change to the usual mission routine for Alison and Haroun. Having kept the home fires burning, so to say, Alison is there to greet him as he returns from the mission in Brazil. And good for her, she manages to mostly hide how badly she took his absence.

( Jetstream, XO of X-Men Black, is off-duty as of right now. )

Scott, Catseye and Jean, early Wednesday morning

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After writing possibly the least coherent team report he's ever put in the database, Scott goes for a walk flees the mansion in the grip of a very severe case of after-action nerves. Catseye finds him, purrs at him, and then herds him inside to Jean, who holds onto him until he gets through it. Scott's left not actually hating himself for showing weakness. I think they call this progress.

( When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. )

Madelyn, Nathan and Rachel - Wednesday morning

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Madelyn's on night shift, and checks in on Nathan and his family. He's a touch loopy, but very, very happy.

( This is what it's all about. )

Nathan, Moira, and Rachel, Wednesday morning

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Moira wakes up to her peacefully sleeping daughter and loudly snoring husband.

( All was well. )

Angelo and Madelyn, Wednesday noon

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They run into each other in the kitchen and talk about baby Rachel and Angelo's plans for the near future.

( Don't be surprised if you hear her in your head - she's got quite the telepathic presence already )

Logs [Alison, Jean // Scott, Alison] Moving on...

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Early afternoon. Jean is ready to see a particular patient, despite the previously hectic night, though of course, this might be because this is a somewhat private sort of appointment - or at least one only Jean can do, at the moment.

(  You're doing very well, you know. )

~*~

Late afternoon. Scott wanders by to talk to Alison about "borrowing" her XO, and the discussion turns to a slightly new way to do things. On the plus side, someone trying to overcompensate on the whole controlling of self and world thing sometimes can end up with a useful idea. No matter how much they may hate it at the time.

( Haroun was ideally suited to go on that mission. )