A mall on the mainland [Wednesday afternoon]

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Normally, Irene would not be caught dead in any place that had a vague, lingering smell of soft pretzels. But she also hadn't especially felt like taking a portal (or other, more conventional means of travel) to New York or an alternate London or Paris for her usual habit of dropping a small mortgage on a new dress, either, so a mall it was.

And after all, shopping was shopping, even if she could see a Claire's (ugh) from within the department store she'd dragged Kitty.

"Want to make bets on whether we'll go somewhere warm for the spring trip?" Irene asked, eyeing some obviously newly-displayed swimsuits. "Because I'd really love to invest in something new to laze about prettily in."

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"Will their father be joining them?" Irene wondered. "Because that's another thing -- if they're meant to be my biological offspring, the list of candidates there is quite small."

Which meant that there would be an incredibly bratty genius showing up for her, of course. Oh well.

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"Nope. Though if the other parent's in Fandom already you probably have to deal with them too. Also the other parent can be a woman, or probably not have another parent at all," Kitty said. "Alternate universes can get kinda weird."

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"Oh, so it's not even necessarily someone who I would have children with?" Irene asked, looking even more alarmed. "I might have a child turn up who is the offspring of myself and the Prime Minister? Lovely. I may have to start researching babysitters now -- there's a billion teenagers about, surely one of them might like to make a little extra scratch that weekend."

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"If my kid with Derek shows up again I'm sure she'd do it," Kitty told her. "But she'll charge you as much as she can possibly get away with, fair warning."

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Irene waved a hand at that, but Kitty was getting a curious look. "I'm having the hardest time imagining what sort of child you and Derek would produce," she admitted. "Other than a very attractive one, at least."

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"She's what I wish I looked like at sixteen, which is really unfair," Kitty admitted. "She's a mutant and will tell anyone who listens that she's an X-Man, and she's actually really great. I'm sort of sorry she's never gonna happen, but she can visit as much as she wants."