EVE held Baby Hannah close to her as Leah played with a six-year-old Ted. Ted's favorite of them all was WALL-E, but Leah took a close second for sure. They were playing some game with light building blocks.

"Leah!" Ted laughed, "It's not fair that you can fly!"

"Wanna see up higher?" Leah lifted him under his arms.

"Whoooa!" he exclaimed, "Let me grab another block!"

EVE giggled at them, turning her attention back to the blonde baby in her arms, "They're having fun, huh?"

Hannah cooed as she grabbed EVE's finger reflexively. She was maybe four months old by now, and she didn't seem at all interested in Ted and Leah. The human nursery had maybe twenty toddlers in it, all hobbling around like they had an errand to run. It was such a lovely sight.

"Hey, Ted!" John swept up his son fondly, "How was your afternoon?"

"It was great! Look at the tower I built with Leah, Daddy!"

"It's pretty tall." he remarked, setting him back down, "How long did this take?"

"Not long." Leah replied.

"Let's topple it!" Ted pushed the block tower.

"No Ted wait!" too late. The blocks came crashing down, though they were made of harmless cardstock.

Ted shook his head, "That was fun! Let's do it again!"

"Sorry, Bud. We gotta head home." John said.

"Aw! For real?"

"Hey, Eve." Mary sat next to EVE, taking her daughter back, "I hope she wasn't too much trouble."

"Oh, not at all." EVE replied, "She was an angel."

"Well, that's good to hear." Mary tickled Hannah, who giggled sweetly, "Thanks for watching her for me."

"No problem." EVE said, "I was happy to do it."

"Well, we're heading off now. Say hi to Wall-E for me, huh?" and then Mary left with her husband.

"They're such nice kids." Leah commented as she and EVE headed home.

"Yeah, they are." something had been going through her head for awhile now, and she thought she would ask someone about it, "Hey, Leah? You go on ahead, alright? I'll catch up."

"Hm? Where are you going?"

"Oh, just to the science lab." she replied, "I want to ask Jonathan something."

"Okay. I'll see you later, Eve."

Jonathan was pouring a strange concoction into a glass by the time EVE showed up to his lab. He was captain of the Atlanta, and as EVE would later discover, a scientist. Though his experiments were mild, they were intriguing nonetheless.

"Hm? Oh, hey Eve." he lifted his glass, "Can you guess what this is?"

"Hmmm..." EVE studied it, not using her scanner (as he considered that cheating), "Is it a new kind of rock candy?"

"Sure is!" he pulled the string of crystals out and munched on them thoughtfully, "So Eve, what brings you here so late?"

"I just had a question." EVE said, "About that program that's been prototyped."

"Oh..." Jonathan put his rock candy down, "What is it?"

"Um...could it work? Like, for me and Wall-E, I mean?"

He became serious. The program in question was a robotic reproduction program, since so many robots were falling in love and getting married. It was called RRP for short. As of this moment, it was only a prototype.

"Eve, I don't know if you realize this, but that would be incredibly risky." he explained.

"I know, but...my sister has a child right now."

"Ah yes, Fletcher. He's a good lab partner of mine."

"Right, Fletcher. He's a lovely nephew, but I was just, you know, curious."

"Eve..." he breathed out through his nose, "Fletcher was made through an irregular data exchange when his mother converted into an energy vampire. The data mixed with her own and that extra code had nowhere to go, so it hung out inside of her and developed a conscious." he explained, "For all intents and purposes, he should not have lived, and I am very surprised that he's alive and healthy. As for you and Wall-E, using RRP to create a child would take quite a risk. You're a new model with top-of-the-line design built for speed. Wall-E is an old model built for endurance. You're so different that mixing your code could create an anomoly."

"Yeah, I know..." EVE trailed off.

"Look, all I'm saying is that you should wait until it's in later stages of development." he told her, "I would wait for at least version one point oh before trying to use it at all."

EVE nodded, "Right. Thank you, Jonathan." she saluted, winking one eye.

"Have a good one, Eve!"

"EEEEEEve!"

"Huh?" EVE was now with a one-year-old Hannah while she and Ted were teaching her how to walk.

"Eve!" Jonathan came to a stop beside her, "I've got it!"

"You have?" EVE had to think for a moment before she realized, "The RRP!?"

"Yeah! That! It's first design has been finished!"

"Really!?" EVE couldn't contain her excitedment, "HEY WALL-E!"

He flinched from across the room, coming to a halt beside her.

"We could be parents!" she gasped excitedly, "We could be parents like Mary and John! Isn't that crazy!?"

He laughed at her enthusiasm, even though he didn't quite understand what she was talking about, "Yeeeah!"

"Calm down, Eve. I just said it worked, I didn't say it would be perfect." he replied, "Although two other robots have just tried it this morning, and they walked out with a new little girl."

"That's amazing! We have to try it!"

"Okay! Eve, you can come over tomorrow and try it out."

EVE huddled close to WALL-E in the dead of night. Neither one of them could sleep after what had happened earlier that day.

"Here goes..." one of the lab assistants switched the machine on, extracting data from EVE #1 and WALL-E. It hummed to life and instantly, something began to grow.

"Oh..." Jonathan turned back to them, "There isn't enough memory space in the machine to allow the concious to grow. We need a bigger container. Eve, would you be willing to lend your stasis chamber? It's perfectly suited to hold the new life."

EVE was a little anxious, "You want to put the child's mind inside of me?"

"Is that okay?"

"Well, yeah, but isn't there another option?"

"No." he replied, "Besides, it's best for a new child to develop near their mother."

"Okay. One moment please." EVE disconnected herself and dashed out of the lab.

"Where's she going?"

WALL-E shrugged.

"I'M GOING TO BE A MOTHER!"

The boys flinched at the sound of her voice.

"I'M GOING TO BE A MOTHER! I'M GOING TO BE A MOTHER!" she flew through the sky, screaming at the top of her lungs. She found Nos and Aya pushing little Fletcher on the swing.

"Hey guys! Guess what!?"

"You're going to be a mother?" Aya repeated.

"YES!" she flew into the sky again.

"Whew..." EVE returned to the lab, "Sorry. Just had to get that out of my system."

"You're excited, aren't you? Okay, hold still..." Jonathan opened up EVE's access panel and stuck something inside. He typed on the computer and EVE began to feel sick.

"Ugh..." EVE leaned against WALL-E, "Is it supposed to feel like this?"

"Don't worry. That's normal." he closed the program and disconnected WALL-E and EVE, "That should do it. Come back in three months."

"Okay..." EVE let WALL-E carefully guide her back home. She could feel the child jostling inside of her, and she didn't like it.

But at the same time, it was comforting somehow.

EVE stroked WALL-E's solar charge display, "Hey, Wall-E?"

"Huh?"

"How do you feel about all of this?"

He thought about that awhile before answering, shrugging his shoulders uncertainly.

"You aren't sure? Aren't you excited to be a father?"

He didn't answer.

Maybe he just doesn't understand. "You know Ted? And Hannah?"

"Uh huh."

"John and Mary are their parents." she explained, "Their mom and dad. You know how John picks up Ted and swings him around? You know how Mary looks at Hannah with all the admiration in the world?" she paused so he could process this information, "You know how Hannah is just learning how to walk, and John helps her along? Cheering when she succeeds, and encouraging when she falls down? You know how Ted rides on Mary's back?"

"Yeeah?"

She looked at him excitedly but seriously, "We're going to have that. We're going to have a child to look after and protect, to nurture and teach. We're going to be like John and Mary with their kids."

A wide smile spread across his face, "Wall-E, faaather?"

"Yes! And they're going to be ours! And we're going to love them!" EVE felt her stomach lurch, "Ack!"

"Evah?"

"They can tell..." EVE buried her head in the crook of WALL-E's neck, "I love them already..."

WALL-E felt his wife's middle, and his eyes widened in wonder as he felt the movement of the child inside, "Baaaby..."

EVE giggled, "Do you get it now?"

He nuzzled into her, holding her hand in his own, "Evah, Wall-E...paaareeents..."

She held him as she fell asleep, "I love you too, Wall-E..."