[November 16th] i think i was blind before i met you

[beyoncepadthai]

Overwhelmed doesn't quite sum up how Mindy feels right now.

She can't quite wrap her head around the fact that Danny is gone, because he's the person she wants to be speaking to now most of all. He basically raised his brother, or whatever, she's sure he'd know what to do right now. Mindy's perfectly fine at delivering babies, actually pretty damn good at it, but she's not sure what to do with a five month old.

Thankfully, he seems pretty content sucking on the edge of his blanket, not yet crying in hunger.

Which is awesome, because Mindy has never been pregnant and so her boobs are completely useless to this guy. She needs to go and get formula or a wet nurse or something, but it's so hard to move when she feels all pins and needles, all numb, stuck on the floor of the damn storage closet.

The storage closet. In an OB/GYN clinic. Of course.

She feels really fucking dumb as she starts digging around, searching through boxes of pharmaceutical samples until she comes across a few small tins of formula and nearly cries in relief. How she doesn't cry at this point is honestly a goddamn miracle, but she's suddenly driven by necessity to get this guy somewhere warm and safe and home.

She's not prepared to be a mom, but apparently she is one, so an awkward discussion with Amelia and she's done for the day, headed back to her apartment with her not-so-new son in arms.

He's still napping in a damn printer box when Mindy sends out a mass text to the people who matter to her most (the people who are still in the city, who haven't disappeared in the past handful of days), practically begging.

Danny's gone. Can u come over? There's something else.

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[notaretriever]

Luke laughs at that and looks down at Leo who seems to have taken a sudden interest in his beard. He reaches up with one uncoordinated hand to try and grasp at some of the hair, which Luke lets him without any complaint. Clary has pulled his beard and his hair more times than he can count and there's not much strength in a baby's grip. Not for a little while anyway.

"Yes, he's an awfully adorable child," he agrees. "And he's got quite a nice mom, so I think he'll be okay in all areas of life. Not just looks."

[beyoncepadthai]

Looks are a very important start, a fact Mindy is sure that Luke is aware of being of the crazy bangable part of society, but she nods anyway.

Danny is (was?) super handsome, it's not surprising that Leo would turn out so cute. She smiles a little, watching as the baby lightly tugs at Luke's beard. She would Vine this, or whatever, if she could remember how to move.

"I don't know about nice," she admits. "I have, like, next to no morals. Do I just hand him a Bible one day and hope for the best? What's he going to do without Danny around to tell him that masturbation is a sin?"

[notaretriever]

"I would rather hope not," Luke answers, looking over at Mindy with a faint smile. "You seem to think you're far less capable than you really are. I know much of that has to do with the current situation you've found yourself in and I do think you'll find your feet, but if you ever need a reminder, you know you only have to call."

The idea of Danny, a doctor, would be teaching anyone that masturbation is a sin makes Luke arch an eyebrow, but he says nothing about it. It's not his place.

[beyoncepadthai]

That's true, Mindy knows, but while she's fine with harassing her neighbors for help with her pet tortoise, all of this feels different. The one person who should be here to help without hesitation isn't, and it shouldn't fall on everyone else to fill the void.

Still, again, she nods. She doesn't have words for everything she wants to say. Maybe later.

"Okay," she says. He's wrong about her being capable because he's clearly never seen her with a child. There's a reason she'd never babysitted Riley before that one time when Gwen broke her arm. "Thank you. Really. You're the best. Thank you for coming on such... you know, short notice."

[notaretriever]

"Of course," he says. "You're my friend." And he knows he can't imagine the state he'd be in if it were Reid who had disappeared. Luke actually doesn't think he'd be capable of texting anyone or even really leaving the store. He would still open, he'd do his job, then close and retreat upstairs before repeating it all again.

Of course, he knows this wouldn't be the end result either. There's not going to be any baby arriving that belongs to the two of them.