33 Apocalypse Avenue, Saturday Evening

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Stevie was asleep on the bed--Steve had missed the whole 'nap' thing, and therefore the four-year-old zonked out early. This might come back to bite him tomorrow, but for now, he could clean up the detritus of letting two small children loose in his art supplies in relative peace, since Sarah seemed to be busy trying to decide which combination of her props made the best costume for 'Bunny Girl.'

((For Sarah, but anybody else who wants to drop by Steve's basement abode is welcome!))

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Sarah was wearing a tutu and a pink tiara when she came back over to Steve and said in her best Serious Voice, "We need to talk."

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"All right," Steve said, and sat down on the couch, gesturing for Sarah to join him.

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"I saw the newspaper when we were finger painting," Sarah explained. "This is when you're dead, isn't it?"

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"...yes," Steve had to admit. "Yes, it is. Only I'm not dead, obviously. I'm just hiding."

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Sarah nodded. Then she took a deep breath and said, all in a rush, "Mommy didn't tell you about me at first because she didn't know when you broke up so she didn't want to put that on you, she says, so she didn't tell you until after you came back, so I don't know if you have a me or not really, but, Stevie was in his mommy's belly when you were dead, and she was kind of crazy then, I mean, she's not crazy now obviously, or I don't think you'd let her keep Stevie, but she was crazy, so--you need to do something about that. If there's a Stevie."

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Sharon. Sharon was possibly pregnant. And possibly crazy.

Take my breath--

Why couldn't he remember?

"Okay," he said slowly. "I'll do my best."

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"You have to promise," Sarah insisted, looking worried for her brother.

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"I promise," Steve told her solemnly.

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She held out one tiny finger. "You have to pinky-swear."

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And this was where the lack of experience with children came back to bite him. "How do I do that?"

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Sarah sighed the sigh of annoyed children with ignorant parents everywhere and said, "Give me your pinky." When Steve did so, she hooked her pinky through it and said, "Now say you pinky swear."

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"I pinky swear," said a deeply confused super soldier.

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"You pinky swear what?" Sarah prompted.

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"I pinky swear I'll do my best to help Sharon and Steve Junior." If there was a Steve Junior. Good God.

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"Good," Sarah declared, and hopped off the couch to go back to costuming.

Well. That had been simple enough. Mindblowing, but simple.