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It's a relaxing, peaceful day; the team are lazily watching TV or chatting in the kitchen when all of a sudden, a bang and white flash appear, followed shortly by a wail of a cry.Kaz is the first to respond, having been the older brother to a few crying children. He jumps up from the couch, grabbing the young child from the floor, only pausing once the child is in his arms."Why am I holding a kid?" He asks confused.Everyone walks up to the child, causing him to cry harder. "No, no, no!" He screams hiding in Kaz's shirt.Chase sighs and waves everyone backwards. "Here, Kaz, I'll take him." He says with stretched-out arms.The child looks over at him and stops crying slightly, making grabby hands; Kaz nods, handing the child over."Who is this?" Bree asks.Oliver nods. "Better question, where did he come from?"Chase agrees. "First let's just make him comfortable." He sits down on the couch and pulls the little child back. "Hey, buddy. What's your name?"The kid looks up at him. "Finn!" He says excitedly."Finn? Okay and how old are you?" He asks.Finn giggles. "Silly, I th-ree." He says holding up his hand with three fingers.Kaz sits down next to them while the rest of the team moves to the kitchen to let Chase figure this out.Kaz smiles. "Finn, where did you come from?"Finn looks at him confused. "You."Chase shakes his head. "No, buddy. How did you get here? Did you press a button?"He nods. "Da said no push. But, ha!" He giggles again. He looks around the room pausing at the kitchen. "Hungry!" He yells before slipping out of Chase's arms.Chase and Kaz watch in amazement as the kid literally flies up and over to the fridge. He lands in front of it and turns to Bree. "Hungry!" He whines.Chase and Kaz look at each other before running over to the child. Chase picks him up. "Okay, so we're dealing with a super baby." He laughs uncomfortably."I'm hungry!" The child wiggles."Okay, I'll get you something." Kaz says, opening the fridge and looking around.Chase takes the child to the table. As Skylar moves to sit next to him. "Hi, Finn. I'm-""Sky-lah!" Finn cheers. Everyone freezes."How did...?" Oliver asks."Finn, smart. Da say so!" He giggles again. He points at Oliver. "Oli-vah!"Bree walks up to him. "What about me?""Bee!" He says before frowning. "Food?" He whines.Kaz nods back into motion and quickly grabs some grapes cutting them in half and giving them to the child."Tank you." Finn says softly before shoving them in.The group all walk away slightly to form a huddle, Kaz keeps his eyes on the child so he won't choke."Should we be worried about a security threat?" Oliver asks worried."Yeah, how did he know our names?" Bree asks.Chase looks over at the child, who sneezes; he's shocked to see a small spark come from one of the child's fingers. He hums for a second. "What if... He's from the future." He says still watching the child.Kaz looks over at Chase. "But time travel...""Real." Bree says calmly. "We were visited by a future Leo once." She turns to Chase. "You think he's from the future?"Chase nods and walks over to him. "Hey, Finn. Is this your dad?" He says pointing at Kaz.Finn looks at them like they're all idiots. "Duh, you know dat. Silly!" He says before shoving another grape piece in his mouth."I'm sorry, what?" Kaz asks taking a step back. "I have a child? With who?""Da." Finn says simply. "I'm bored." He says flying around again.Skylar runs up to her room and comes back with some paper and pencils."Skylar, I think he might be too young-" Bree's words get cut off as he sits on the floor, takes the items and starts to work away. "Never mind.""Okay, so now we know he's from the future." Chase says looking over at him."And Kaz's child." Oliver points out."Yes, now we need to figure out what to do with him. Davenport doesn't invent time travel until 2019. That's three years." Bree says.Chase nods. "Yeah, but in that timeline we were dead. I was dead. Maybe I could find a way to send him home."They all nod. Kaz looks over a Finn and makes a face. "He's mine? I have a child? I'm not responsible enough for a child.""I'm sure you're not raising him alone." Bree says with a smile. "I mean he knows all of us, so maybe we're all raising him." She jokingly shutters.Chase lightly pushes her. "I'm going down to crack time travel I guess. Make sure he doesn't die." He says heading for the hyperlift.The group turn their attention to the child who is happily scribbling away on the paper.Kaz takes a step back. "Um, I need some time to think. Could you guys watch him? I'm gonna go get some stuff for him.""Already handing off responsibility?" Skylar jokes."No! I just..." He looks at the kid, he can finally see some of himself in the child. "It's a shock. I'll be back soon, gotta wrap my head around this."They all nod. "Of course Kaz. We'll stay here with him." Oliver says.Kaz nods and heads out to the balcony flying off to think.Skylar walks over to Finn and sits down next to him before gasping and chuckling. "Are we sure he's not Chase's?" She asks.The other two walk over and see the young boy working on math equations beyond his age range. It's still, just addition, but a three-year-old shouldn't be able to do this advanced work."A-dish-on. Da says I smart like him." Finn says still writing away."Finn?" Bree asks. "Is Kaz your Da? You keep mentioning Da."Finn looks up at her. "Kaz?" He says as if the word is foreign to him. "Da is smart, Dada is funny." He says before looking around. "Where... He..." He says tears starting to form.Skylar rubs his back. "Your dad will be back soon, okay? He's just getting you some stuff."He starts crying harder. "You forget about me?" He asks.Bree feels her heartbreak. "No, no honey. We... You're from the future. We haven't met you yet. We're just confused but we're going to get you home." She says softly bending down."Gone? They gone?" He cries, panic starting."Hey, no. Your dad will be back. And... And Chase is downstairs, finding a way to get you home." Oliver says trying to be comforting."Da?!" Finn wails.Bree picks him up in her arms. "Your Da is smart?" She asks. Finn nods hard. "Okay, I guess we're testing another theory." She says walking over to the lift."Where are you going?" Oliver asks as he and Skylar follow them."To find out who Da is." Bree says before they go down.Finn covers his eyes as the lift moves them into mission control. He peers through his fingers before screaming. "Da!" He says trying to wiggle out of Bree's arms.Chase jumps at the noise and drops what he is working on. He takes a deep breath and covers his heart. "Why is he down here?" He asks slightly annoyed."Da! Da!" Finn continues to wiggle. Bree lets go of him, and he flies into Chase's chest, causing the man to catch him in his arms. "Da!""He wanted his Da." Skylar says with a raised eyebrow."Kaz is his dad, not me. Where is he anyway?" Chase says sighing and looking down at the kid in his arms.All three of them laugh. Oliver speaks up. "Kaz went to get some supplies and clear his head.""Plus..." Bree smirks. "Kaz isn't his Da."Chase looks at them confused. "What?"Skylar walks up to them. "Hey, Finn. This is your Da right?" She points to Chase.Finn is starting to get a little frustrated at these dumb questions. He rolls his eyes causing her to laugh. "Yes." He says grumpily.Chase holds the kid out away from his chest. "Woah, wait. Hold on."Finn crosses his arms. "You be dumb." He grumbles."Finn, that's not nice!" Chase chastises him.Bree and Oliver chuckle. "Yeah, Finn, listen to your Da." Bree teases.Oliver steps forward and leans on the table. "So Chase, is there something you want to tell us?"Chase blushes and hands the child to Skylar. "Yeah, take him out of here. I'm trying to work." He grumbles."Ah! Noooo!" Finn whines reaching for Chase.Chase sighs again and leans down to his eye level. "It's not safe for a little kid to be down here. Why don't you go back upstairs and draw, like before." He says standing back up straight. Finn pouts crossing his arms again before rubbing his eye."Uh, Chase. He wasn't drawing. He was doing math." Bree says handing over the paper.Chase looks down at it. "He did this? But he's three. This is the work of at least a six-year-old." He says looking back up and around at each of them.Oliver shakes his head in disbelief. "Still don't believe he's yours?" He asks."But... He has Kaz's powers? Maybe I just... Tutor him." Chase says trying to rationalise what's going on."Why would you teach someone else's child math? Plus he calls you Da.""Da could mean anything. Plus, are we really going to trust the word of a three-year-old?" Chase protests turning back to his work."I want Da!" Finn yells causing everyone to look at him."Chase, I think he's tired. Why don't you just hold him until he falls asleep?" Skylar says gesturing for him to take the child.Chase groans and takes the child, holding him in his arms. Finn pouts and tears up again. "Da, no want me?" He asks sadly.Chase's heartaches and he wraps his arms tightly around the boy to hug him. "I'm just trying to work. Come on, we'll all go upstairs and watch TV until you fall asleep." He says carrying his over to the lift with everyone behind them."You do realise this means you have a child with Kaz?" Bree whispers.Chase rolls his eyes, ignores her and steps out into the living room, taking a seat on the couch. Everyone just watches him as he tries to remove the child before giving up and leaning backwards so the child is lying on his chest, hugging his neck."Aww so cute." Bree coos as she sits next to them.Skylar and Oliver sit in the kitchen and whisper to each other. "So Kaz and Chase? Obviously he's Kaz's genetically." Oliver says.Skylar nods but pauses. "But maybe in the future, Chase will be able to find a way to mix their DNA, so he could be both of theirs.""I can hear you guys!" Chase says loudly causing Finn to cover his ears. "Oh, sorry!" He rubs the boy's back gently while going back to watching the TV.~ Elsewhere. ~Kaz is sitting on the top of a building, head in his hands. He sighs throwing himself backwards to lay on the roof."A kid. I have a kid? What a mistake that must have been." He says running his hands down his face. "I'm not responsible enough for myself let alone a child."He rolls onto his stomach. "And he looks like me, so I definitely have to be related to him. Oh and the powers, how do I deal with a super baby?" He rests his forehead against the floor. "But he is cute. Kinda reminds me of someone else though..."He sits up with a sigh. "I should probably go back. He is my responsibility, I guess."He flies off to a shop and grabs some children's snacks, ones his little siblings used to love and a few toys, pays with the team's card and heads home."Hey guys I'm back." He says walking into the lounge."Shh!" They all say motioning to the sleeping child."Oh." He says quietly, placing the bag down and heading over to Chase. "What are you doing up here? Figure it out already?" He whispers sitting next to him.Chase shakes his head. "No, he got tired and fussy. He wanted me for some reason." Chase whispers back.Bree chuckles softly. "Some reason? Why Chase, you're still rejecting your child?" She teases.Kaz looks at them confused. "His child? But I thought..."Oliver leans over the couch. "Yeah, you're his Dada but Chase is his Da, apparently. Also..." He holds up the piece of paper. "He's smart."Kaz looks at it confused before looking at Chase and the sleeping child. "What?"Chase rolls his eyes. "I don't know. Just, here." He carefully hands the child over. "I really need to find a way to send him home.""But..." Kaz goes to stand up but the child stirs in his arms. He watches Chase head back downstairs. "He's also Chase's?"Skylar joins them on the couch. "Yeah, Kaz... Do you want to tell us something?""Like what?" He asks as they all look at him expectingly.Bree smirks. "Oh I don't know, maybe that you're in love with my baby brother." She teases.He looks at her surprised. "I'm not-" He looks down at the child in his arms, now seeing parts of Chase. He sighs. "Yeah, okay." He says softly."Knew it!" Oliver cheers before getting lightly slapped by Skylar as Finn stirs again. "Sorry." He whispers.Kaz looks at them confused again. "But how could he be both of ours?""I mean you're probably dating or even married in the future." Skylar says as if it's obvious.Kaz chuckles. "No, I mean... He's both of ours, genetically. Just look at him." He says, gesturing to the boy.Bree looks down at him. "Oh yeah, look, he has the same nose and does that lip thing that makes Chase look like a lion." (Author here, does anyone even understand what I mean? William Brent always looks like he's going :3 or 🐱 Plus he has prominent k9 teeth.)Oliver scoffs. "Please, of course, Mr "smartest man in the world" would find a way for two men to have a child with their genetics." He says before smiling. "He'll invent time travel and then advance reproductive science.""Yeah, if he can actually crack time travel." Kaz says smiling down at the child.Bree leans back. "If Mr Davenport and Leo can crack it in an alternate timeline over seven years, then Chase can do it in an afternoon.""That's a lot of stress on Chase, especially when you add the responsibility of this kid onto it." Skylar sighs."Yeah..." Kaz says in thought. "Hey, could I pass the responsibility onto you guys again? I'm gonna check on Chase."They all "Oo~oh!" In a teasing manner.Bree takes the child in her arms. "Ah, my nephew!" She quietly squeals.Kaz just shakes his head at her before standing up. "There are snacks and toys in the bag if he wakes up." He says before heading downstairs."Hey, Chase!" Kaz calls out once off the lift. "How's it going?"Chase turns and glares at him before his face softens. "It would be a lot better if I wasn't interrupted. Where is he?" Chase asks turning back to his work.Kaz walks over to him. "Oh, you mean our child. With his aunt who is way too excited to be one." He says leaning against the table."He's not "our" son." Chase grumbles."Chase, you can't deny that he looks like both of us." Kaz laughs.Chase shakes his head. "It's not scientifically possible, Kaz." He sighs."Yet! It could happen, he is from the future."Chase turns back to him. "Kaz, that science is decades away, I really don't think we'd wait until we're nearly dead to have a child."Kaz pauses. "Did you just say you'd want a child with me?""No, I just... Kaz, I'm going to send him home and he'll be with future you, okay? Then we won't have to worry about him until he's a part of your family. Can we talk about this later?" He sighs, sigh blush on his face.Kaz hums in thought. "I bet you found a way for us to have him, so he could be equally ours. And he's so sweet and adorable. I kinda don't want him to go back."Chase rolls his eyes. "Why would I want a child with you?""Because obviously, you love me. And at some point in the future, we want a child." He shrugs."We're not even dating." Chase scoffs continuing his work."But we could be and I'm pretty sure we are in the future.""Unless he was an accident." Chase grumbles.Kaz slides next to him. "Why are you fighting this?""Because, Kaz," Chase puts his hands on the table. "I'm dealing with a lot right now, okay? I need to get this child home, while taking care of him, while he looks at me like I'm breaking his heart, while inventing time travel, while dealing with everyone's questions and while confronting feelings that I was more than happy to just ignore."Kaz blinks taking in that information. "Well... I'm more relaxed now I know you're his other parent. And happy, I don't think I'd want to have a child with anyone else." He says truthfully, leaning against Chase.Chase blushes. "Kaz he's not your child, not yet. He might not even exist ever-""I love you, Chase. I don't care that he might not exist in the future because of time travel stuff. Just the idea of having a child with you, with Chase Davenport, is enough. I mean, it's not; I do care; that's my baby up there, I've already grown attached, and technically, he hasn't even been born yet, but I want him because he's ours." Kaz rambles. "If I have any chance to have him in my life, have you, I want to take it.""Oh dear god, you have baby fever?" Chase mumbles."I'm serious Chase!" Kaz sighs. "Feelings you were happy to ignore?"Chase looks at him in the eyes. "Yes. Now can I ignore them?""No." Kaz pouts. "I'm literally confessing my heart out to you and you just want to pretend I didn't say all of that?""No, I want to pretend it wasn't you who said all of that." Chase sighs."Why?""Because I've had terrible luck with dating and I like our friendship. I don't want to ruin that." He pouts."Well, it seems like you didn't ruin it." Kaz says pointing up. "He's kinda proof.""Yeah, but-""Nah, enough of that. I'll take this as some weird confession and we can move past this." Kaz smiles, putting his arms on either side of Chase's head."What are you doing?""This." Kaz leans forward and kisses him softly.Chase lets out a sigh as his body relaxes and he kisses back, moving his hands to Kaz's hips. Kaz pulls back, Chase's lips following before pouting as he pulls back as well.Kaz grins. "Good. Now I have to go back to our son, who's probably gonna wake up soon." He chuckles walking back to the lift before turning around. "You should probably get back to work. Time travel isn't going to invent itself." He jokes.Chase rolls his eyes before smiling. "Gee thanks, I never would have thought of that. It's not like I keep getting interrupted." He says sarcastically.Kaz just laughs and walks into the lift, arriving upstairs to see his son still asleep, lying on the couch. "Guys, what if he falls off." He says running over to the couch.Bree, who is right next to the sleeping child, laughs. "Kaz, he's three years old, not three months. He'd be fine."Kaz glares at her. "Whatever." He sits down on the floor in front of the couch so Finn won't fall off and watches the TV, eventually feeling a little hand reach out to his shoulder. He turns around and sees Finn smiling."Dada!" He cheers, jumping to hug Kaz. "You left!" He grumbles.Kaz chuckles and nods. "I did, but only to get you some stuff." He says softly."Yay!" Finn cheers, standing up to jump on the couch."Woah! Hold on there buddy, it's not safe to do that." He says grabbing the boy."What ya get?" Finn asks tilting his head to the side.Kaz smiles and walks over to the kitchen with the boy in his arms. Skylar waves at him and smiles, causing him to do the same."Look, I got you some snacks... And a book... And..." Kaz lists off pulling stuff out of the bag."A boat!" Finn cheers. "Tugboat." He says making grabby hands and smiling when he receives it. "Toot toot!" He wiggles to be let down, which Kaz does before the child runs off to sit on the floor in the lounge room to play with his boat."How did you know he'd like the boat?" Oliver asks walking over to Kaz.Kaz laughs. "Every little kid likes boats. Plus it's colourful and a good size for his hands."Suddenly, the lift sounds like someone is using it. Finn looks over and gasps standing up and running over there."Da! Look tugboat!" He says holding it up for Chase to see.Chase takes a step out of the lift and bends down to look at it. "Wow, did your Dada but you that?" The boy nods excitedly. "It's so cool.""I'm guessing you being up here means you did it?" Bree asks joining the group.Chase smiles standing up. "Yeah, once I was finally able to focus it was... Well, it wasn't easy, but it was fun." He brags. "I sent a note to my future self and it came back."Kaz steps forward. "You did try other stuff too, right? Like stuff closer to a human." He asks nervously."Relax Kaz, I'm not going to send our child through an untested machine." Chase sighs. Everyone looks at each other, smirking in acknowledgement. "I tested on fruit and worms and then even myself. I'm the first human to time travel." He smiles."In this timeline." Bree points out."Even if we count that timeline, I did it first, Bree." He says crossing his arms.Kaz pouts. "Does that mean we have to send him back?"Chase walks up to him and places a hand on his shoulder. "Yes. You have to give him back." He says with a straight face before turning back to Finn. "Hey Finn, are you ready to go home?"Finn looks at him, confused, but nods. "This place is weird.""Okay, I just need you to stay still." Chase says pointing a remote at the kid."Wait!" Kaz says jumping forward and pushing the remote down. "Let us say goodbye first.""Kaz, that might confuse the kid." Chase sighs."Finn hug?" Kaz asks kneeling down. Finn runs straight into his arms. Kaz gives him a soft squeeze. "I can't wait to meet you again." He mumbles before pulling back. "Chase, your turn." He says standing up, picking up the child and handing it to the other.Chase takes Finn. "You have caused me so much trouble and agony today. No more touching Da's stuff!" He says, poking the boy's belly, causing him to giggle."Oh, my turn!" Bree says excitedly. She leans down to meet his eye level. "Next time you see me, give me a big hug." She smiles.Skylar waves. "Bye-bye, Finn!""Where we going?" He asks confused."You're gonna go home." Oliver responds giving a small wave as well.Finn nods and runs back over to his boat as Chase puts him down. "Ready, let's go!" He smiles.Chase takes a deep breath and points the remote at the child again, a small tear threatening its way out. "Goodbye, Finn." He says finally pressing the button."Did... Did it work?" Kaz asks. "Wait, did we send him to the right time?"Chase puts his hand on Kaz's shoulder. "It's okay. Look, the remote scans whatever the thing is and tells you if it's from a different time and where." He says scanning a piece of paper. The remote says '2030, April 13th, 2:37 pm.' "I know what year, month, and even the minute of the day he was from and sent him back. He's home now." He says reassuringly.Oliver fake coughs to get their attention. "So are we going to talk about the fact you two have a son together?"Chase shakes his head. "Nope. You can wait until he's born." He says before flopping onto the couch. "Who's up for some relaxing TV time, free from children or having to invent time travel?"Kaz pouts again. "I'm gonna miss him." He mopes sitting next to Chase, crossing his arms.Bree sits on the other side of Chase. "Can we talk about you two then? What happened when Kaz went down to talk to you?"Chase turns on the TV. "None of your business.""Can we expect Finn to be back soon?" She teases.Chase frowns at her. "I'm not telling you when he's born, but it's not for a while okay, so calm down."Skylar walks over and leans on the couch. "You're not denying something happened between you two. In fact, you're acting like..."Kaz finally zones back in. "Wait, what are we talking about?"Oliver chuckles and joins Skylar. "You two dating.""Oh, yeah." Kaz smiles."Ah-ha! Knew it!" Bree says smirking. "Something did happen down there."Chase sighs again. "Whatever, I'm too tired to fight this. We kissed, and I accepted that Finn is our child, but that's all.""Ew gays." Skylar jokes before walking off, Oliver following behind her."What? Ew? Skylar!" Chase groans as Kaz chuckles."It is kinda gross." Bree adds. "I don't even want to know what you did... Are going to do? To make Finn." She makes a sour face causing Kaz to laugh more."I think you should leave Chase alone, he did invent time travel in a day." Kaz says, leaning against Chase, who just rolls his eyes.~"Finn! Where are you?" Chase calls out. He stops in his lab seeing the boy confused. "Oh, there you are." He looks down at the boat and smiles. "You had a big day, didn't you?"Finn nods and holds his boat tighter."Why don't we go show Dada your boat, I'm sure he'll like to see it again." Chase says picking the boy up and walking out into the living room. "Hon, look what Finn got.""Dada, look tugboat! Toot toot!" Finn says proudly.Kaz gasps. "Is that...?""Yep, our little time traveller went on an adventure today." Chase chuckles."Naughty boy!" Kaz says walking up to them and tickling the child's belly, making him giggle. "Gonna have to triple-check the lab door now.""No more time travel for you until you're way older." Chase says smiling before putting him down.Finn runs off and plays with his boat and another toy."Should we thank him?" Kaz asks wrapping his arms around his husband.Chase hums. "Maybe when he's older and we tell him the story. He's still a little too young to understand."Kaz shakes his head. "Even if he got your super smarts?""I've told you, bionics don't transfer like that. When I was his age I was doing advanced multiplication." Chase chuckles."Yeah, yeah, whatever. He's still exceptionally smart for a three-year-old. But then again, most people have to learn to be smart, so maybe you're just a good teacher." Kaz leans in for a kiss.Chase smiles pausing before their lips properly meet. "I know I am." He whispers before completing the kiss.