Baze POV
Baze couldn't take care of a kid, the first night she fell and got a splinter from the board. She cried for about 30 minutes until Baze found the tweezers. It was hard enough to convince Jamie not to move out when she came, after that night he probably won't be staying for a while.
Lux sat up from the couch and rubbed her eyes. She skipped her way towards the counter and failed to get on the stool. She's so small, like Cate, she was really small. She tried so hard to get on the stool until Baze took pity on her and lift her up.
"What's for breakfast?" her soft voice croaked from just waking up.
"I don't know, Lucky Charms?"
"Does it have the brown stuff in it?"
"Nope."
"3 bowls, please."
Baze chuckled, Maybe we are alike
"One."
"Two?"
"One and a half."
"Deal."
Math walks in the "kitchen" and immediately walks over to Baze.
"Baze, are you gonna tell us who the mom is?"
"Kind of can't. Legally Lux can't even know her name. But, it's Cate Cassidy." Baze whispered to Math, loud enough for him to hear, quiet enough for Lux not to.
"WHAT?! CATE CASSIDY WAS PREGNANT IN HIGH SCHOOL?"
"Dude, shut up."
"Who?" Lux's voice pipped up from her cereal bowl.
"No one. Can I talk to you Math?"
Baze dragged Math to his room and whisper shouted at him.
"Look, I could get sued if Lux ever tries to contact Cate. So maybe not say anything?"
'Why? We could just say she figured it out when she goes back into the system."
Baze's face turned into the face you make when you're hiding something. (I don't know what you call that face)
"You're going to put her back in the system, right?"
"I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Look she's my only kid, for all I know."
"What do you mean, 'For all I know?"
"I am what women call, a 'man whore"
"That is true."
"And, I don't know, I want to try to do something."
"Why? She'll be better with other parents."
"You don't know that, there is a reason she has been in 3 foster homes. I mean, Susan, said that she fell off a swing. Which isn't that bad, but it could have been avoided right?"
"No, Baze. Okay, kids fall, they get hurt, but you're 21, you just got out of college. You can't handle a 5 year-old."
"You don't know that. Math, I just found out about her, and I don't really want to lose her yet. Yet, I just want to get to know her, bond and if I really want her, I'll keep her."
"Baze, you can't raise a little girl."
"You don't know that."
"Fine, but I am not going to be a babysitter for you."
Baze clicked his tongue and walked back into the kitchen.
So Lux piped up her little high voice, "So when am I going to school?"
"You are in school?"
"Yeah, Kindergarten."
"I loved kindergarten! Best year of my life."
"You've had a pretty lousy life."
"Okay, what school do you go to?"
"I think... Lincoln?"
"Okay, well then go get ready."
"School started at 7:30"
"And what time is it now?"
"9:00"
"Well, how about you get to skip school today?"
"It's Saturday."
"You tricked me."
Lux's grin grew wide and showed almost all of her teeth.
Baze's phone rang, Susan was calling.
"One second kiddo. Hello?"
"Nathaniel, so good news the court official came back a week early, so you can come to the court house and sign the papers."
"Um, there's actually some other paper work I want to ask you about."
So Baze asked to adopt Lux, which he won after he cleaned up the apartment like he did in season 1. So let me remind you Lux is five during this period, the next chapter will start 10 years later. During the time in which the original series took place.
