Name Game

One day in Beca's eighth month she was sitting at the kitchen table listlessly eating a bowl of yogurt when the rest of the family joined her. She really wasn't in the mood for company she was tired, cranky, huge, bloated the list was endless. This pregnancy was going to kill her she was sure of it. It was a whole lot easier in her twenties. She really didn't remember feeling this tired all the time.

While Jesse and Dane were starting supper Sarah sat down across from Beca.

"Okay, we're at month eight here people and there are things we should discuss." Jesse didn't skip a beat just started laughing under his breath. Looking at Beca he said "she is so like you", Beca was less amused by her daughter, "what is on your agenda there muchacho?"

"Since we're not finding out the sex of the bambino I thought tonight would be a good time to figure out names. But, Dane and I were curious just how did you come up with ours? Considering you both work in the music industry we're a little surprised that one of us isn't named Sting or Nirvana or Wolfgang or Bear (McGeary)."

Jesse just continued to chuckle. It was like watching Beca talk to herself in a mirror. Dinner and a show!

"It was a thought. But we live in LA home of the oddly named children like Pilot or Briar Rose or Kal-el. So we decided to name you guys, after much debate, after our secondary hobbies film and literature. "

"Uh huh, so Dane Malcolm is what?" Dane asked for the first time actually curious.

"Yeah baby, sorry you were a mistake. Your name was supposed to be Dante, as in Inferno, but someone forgot the 't' when doing the birth certificate. And Malcolm is totally your dad's fault as he made me watch Serenity in a hormonal surge and Captain Reynolds is totally hot." Beca had a dreamy smile on her face as she reminisced on Nathan Fillion as a spaceship captain.

Dane shuddered a little. He could have done without that last bit. Instead of dwelling on that he looked at Jesse, "why did you forget the T dad?"

"You peed on me while I was learning how to change your diaper" Jesse answered. As far as he was concerned being peed in the face was reason enough to have forgotten the damn T.

"Okay, now I have to know. Sarah Kathleen?" all open earnestness Sarah looked at her parents.

Jesse looked a little chagrined. "Well honey, you have to understand, your mom was a little difficult when she was carrying you. And, Sarah? When I say 'little' infer 'insufferable'. So, one day I said having Sara Connor in the house everyday was getting difficult to deal with."

"Terminator! You named me after Terminator!" Sarah was outraged. Jesse and Dane, on the other hand had to stop what they were doing because they were laughing too hard.

"Mom? Terminator? Why did you let him do that?"

Beca just looked at Sarah with a bit of sympathy. "Honey it could have been so much worse you know. But, Kathleen is from Gone With the Wind, Scarlet's first name is Kathleen. I thought it sounded pretty so I let him keep it."

"Well, it's done now. Let's have some suggestions for Spoo here. Let's start with girl names" pen poised to begin the list Sarah waited for suggestions.

"Literary name for girl Lorelei, end of discussion. It's the song the Sirens sing to lure sailors to shipwreck" Beca threw that out there and continued to placidly eat her yogurt. She could deal with this since she was in no way required to move or think much at all. Very relaxing. And if they thought she was moveable on Lorelei they were quite wrong. Beca just listened as her family tried numerous variations and name combinations. They'd figure it out soon enough. After all, she had final veto.

"Hey dad, wasn't Lauren Bacall's character in Have and Have Not named Sylvia?" Dane really liked old movies. He and Jesse could spend entire weekends just comparing classic movies by category, by director, by main actors. It was unbelievably geeky. Beca loved it; Sarah rolled her eyes not quite believing this was her family life.

"No, that was Sex and the Single Girl" answered Jesse.

Everyone just stopped. Sylvia Lorelei Swanson.

"Okay everyone. Don't say anything just run it over in your mind for the next couple of days. She would be stuck with this for the rest of her life. Now, let's talk boy names."