"Shawn, can you hold her for a bit?"

He wondered why Jubes even bothered to ask the question, she was already passing baby Catie onto his arms and hurrying to the bathroom to do whatever girls take ages to do inside there.

He looked down at the baby.

The baby looked back up at him.

He was sure that crying would probably make the baby cry too, so, he mentally ruled that option out of his personal "choose your own adventure" mental book.

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no!

Okay, someone should have warned him that babies were real psychics, because this kid had just read his mind and did not liked what she saw in there.

Calm down, Shawn. What do mothers- Scratch that. mothers Good job. Okay, where were you? Oh, right! What do single Daddies do in this cases?? Rock her a bit, yeah! No... That's only getting it worse. Uh... Sing to her! .... Alright, Cati is into David Bowie, that's cool. Yeah... Now, if only she could let go of your nose!

Dude, he's never having kids. He's perfectly fine with the part prior of having kids, the unintentionally trying part, but he's never, ever having kids.

"Oh, my God! Cati!" He turned around to see Jubes walking out of the ladies' room, the door rocking back and fort behind her as she approached them. Giggling, she reached out to disentangle her daughter's hand from his face. "Let go of Uncle Shawn with a w! You can't keep his nose!"

"It's okay, it's not as if I use it most day, no. I'm a big fan of breathing through my nose. I'm sure I'll learn to sneeze through my mouth and spill milk out of my ear eventually."

"Did you hear that, Cati? Next time you can keep it!" The girl raspberry kissed her baby's cheek, who was now magically in glee and even laughing along with her young Mom.

He couldn't take his eyes away from them. As scary as kids were, these two were adorable. And Cati wasn't that bad, really. As long as Jubilee was around her, of course. It was like some magic Mom's touch, or maybe she knew the secret location of a baby's 'happy switch'. He's not sure. But as long as Cati is happy and not screaming he's okay in his ignorant guy's world.

"So, where do you wanna go now? I sense the lemurs are about to throw one of their epic rave parties. Cati surely doesn't want to miss that, it's a once in a lifetime experience." He wrapped his arm around Jubes' shoulder and dragged her towards the lemur's area (at least according to the zoo's map; experience had taught him that these things are never as accurate as they should be. The scar on Gus' butt can testify).