Katt was staring at her but it didn't seem to bother her. In fact, Lily appears to really like the attention. She smiles prettily at the woman and fluffs fingers in her blonde locks then looks to Ben. "Daddy, don't you follow the news here? I understand the meaning of alternative universe, but is there really a different reality where you don't start the morning with a paper and a cup off coffee and waaay too much sugar which... ugh, so gross. Seriously."

Hearing the woman Katt felt herself staring all the more but this was a more 'holy crap' expression.

Ben is very, very carefully blankfaced for a moment, which typically means he's trying very, very hard not to let emotion show and doesn't have the extra focus available to put up a front of some kind. Eventually, he smiles, but it's a little tight, and doesn't quite reach his eyes. "Look. It's a good trick, and I'm sure it'd work on most people, but I'm not most people. Did you need a room for the night or something? I can pay for that for you for a couple of days. Just cut the crap."

"Who are you.." Katt asked the woman carefully. Please don't be someone dead from Ben's past. She's already dealt with that herself..

She's obviously taken aback by the dismissive tone he uses with her. That was not the way Lily was used to hearing Ben talk to her. Lily flashes a look to Katt, flustered that she was being spoken to this way in front of someone else. At Katt's question Lily gestures to herself. "I'm Lily Sullivan. His daughter from an alternate timeline. Obviously mine is set somewhere in the future considering Adam is only thirteen here. I don't need a room, I wanted to see my Daddy." And as much as she's attempting to stand her ground she reverts to the tried and true methods of a Daddy's girl. Arms folding over her chest and bottom lip jutting out. "Why don't you ask someone if I'm your daughter? Maybe Uncle Sam would know? Hey, even Uncle Harry knows. Uncle Ivan could tell you. Cousin Ted?"

Katt had a completely dumbfounded look and she looked to Ben..Lily..Ben..That wasn't the grown up version of the baby in the belly was it? Fidgeting she picked up her glass and waited for Ben's reaction.

At the first mention of an uncle, Ben's eyes go wide, some of the color drains from his face. Looks sort of panicked, but he's so shocked he isn't able to say anything for seconds after she finishes the list of relatives. "N--no..." Hesitant, and he sets down his coffee on the bar, because he's gone slightly numb-fingered. "No, we don't... don't need to ask-- Who are you?" She'd just answered the question, but he's looking at Lily more closely now, less incredulous now -- closer to awe-struck. "Who's your mother?" But he already knows the answer. He can see it in the line of her jaw, the practiced pout, the wild blonde waves.

"I'm..." Katt pointed a finger the hearth area so Ben knew she was going to give him his much needed..uhm..time..with his..future-alternate universe daughter. Yeah that was on the high list of awkwardness scale. Slipping off her seat she bowed her head to them both and retreated. With haste!

Big sigh. Lily travels from one universe to the next and can't even get a hug without jumping through hoops. "I'm Lillian Lavande Sullivan, Lily. My Mama is Jackie Lee Daniels and my Daddy is you, Ben Sullivan. We always just make up middle names for you because it's funny. I was happily minding my business in my own version of RhyDin when your version of RhyDin started messing with us. So Dusky was going to come here and I came along because... well, it sounded fun!" Rattling off the details but she takes the time to smile brightly at Katt and wave at the woman when she moves towards the hearth.

Zooohhmgawd! She heard Lily and nearly fell over in the pillows at the hearth. Actually that is exactly what she did, making sure that the bottle of Dalmore didn't end up spilling.

Ben's actually glad this is happening here, and that Katt is reacting to it. It meant that this was actually happening, at least. Dumbstruck for a moment, he reaches over to touch the blonde lightly on the shoulder. She was real. "It's a pretty name. Do you know why we-- ..do you know why your middle name is Lavande?" Holy hell. Holy hell. She was telling the truth, because he already knows the answer to that, too, and it's not something someone would be able to easily guess, not like his morning habits, not public information like his wife's name. Not that the list of 'family members' hadn't confirmed it already, but he can't even think about that right now.

Stretching in the pillows Katt kept an ear on Ben and Lily but now she was settled in and there was a content little sigh.

A small blink and head tilt at the tumbling Katt. That wasn't her fault, was it? Nah, couldn't be. The poke draws her attention and she gives Ben a seriously? look. "Daddy, you are the greatest Detective I know. Did you really just poke me for science?" Another eyeroll because there was another question. "Lavande because it's French for lavender and I was 'made'-" Finger quotes. "-in a field of lavender in France. Which is sweet, but still squicks me out. But Mama loves the name and who is ever going to fight with her?" Smiling at Ben like it was some sort of shared joke between them. Another huffy sigh. "Daddy, stooop. I don't want to answer anymore trivia. You have to know it's me, right? You're hurting my feelings." A whine fitting for daughter to father. "How old am I here anyway? I mean, if Adam is thirteen I'm like, brand new? Unless there's some shift in age difference here."

"No, you just... you know, had a thread..." And he does pick an imaginary loose thread off of Lily's shoulder then after the mumble. Hits him like a ton of bricks, the answer she gives. It's just what he'd thought. Torn between staring at the blonde and dropping his gaze, he does the latter first, swipes under one eye with the side of his hand, and when he finally lifts his gaze to Lily again, it's a little less rattled. Still slightly wide-eyed though, because of the answer he has to give to her last line of questioning. "You don't... I mean, there isn't a Lily Sullivan here. Jackie just hit twenty weeks, though. And we were just on our honeymoon in France right about that long ago." If Lily really was his daughter, she wasn't stupid. She could figure it out.

Holy apples and bananas. Katt was trying not to stare at Lily from afar but this was like..creepy awkward. Just totally..whoa..

Her mouth drops into a little 'o', having easily put it together. "So, you don't know a Lily." Pointing at him. "Mama is pregnant, but..." Her fingers were poking at the air, piecing it all in line even if she wasn't verbalizing it. Finally, hands slowly rise and give a little finger shake. "Surpriiise." It was weak and she dropped her hands down to her sides. "You guys are way behind here. That's why I couldn't find anything. The house was empty and your office was something else. I was starting to have doubts that I would even find you guys. But Dusky found her Daddy so I figured I had to keep searching. I don't even know if she found Auntie Elizabeth here since we got separated." Fingers plunging beneath blonde locks to rub at the back of her neck thoughtfully.

Nodding dumbly along with Lily's putting it together -- and Ben can't help but laugh when she says 'surprise,' a slightly overwhelmed little thing, but shock's better than disbelief, right? "Yeah, surprise." The house, the office -- how much had changed? "Dusky? And Aunt Elizabeth -- is that one of her brothers' wives? She doesn't have a sister." The talk about an aunt, though, reminds him about the mention of a few uncles and a cousin of hers, and his expression falls slightly, though he doesn't bring it up again just yet.

An overwhelmed laugh. That was a sound she was used to getting out of her father with her antics so the familiarity of it makes her smile and lower her hand. "Dusky... Dusk. Her Daddy is Uncle Harris and her Mama is Auntie Elizabeth." Hands up. "Wait, sorry, Dusky explained this one to me. Auntie Elizabeth used to go by something else and I guess you guys still call her it here. Peaches. Which is funny because that's what you call Mama and considering Mama and Auntie Elizabeth are as thick as thieves I guess it's only fitting for them to go by the same nicknames." Gesturing off and away to wherever Dusky is in RhyDin. "Dusky is the same age as me. Mama and Auntie Elizabeth had us around the same time. Except Dusky is a little older and she loves reminding me about it constantly."

Harris, Ben knows (sort of -- though his actual interaction with him hadn't been stellar, months and months ago), but Elizabeth? He still looks confused, until Lily explains that she goes by Peaches --and, oh. Visible, when it clicks. "So... does... Dusky exist here? Do you know?"

"I'm not sure? So far I don't think so. The thing is, an alternate universe can be like," Sweeping hand gesture. "Compleeetely different from one to another. How my RhyDin is doesn't guarantee how your RhyDin will be and vice versa. But..." Counting off on her fingers. "You're here, Mama is here, you're together. Adam is here. I'm... kind of here. So, even though there are infinite possibilities between alternate universes and how they can be..." Points. "You and Mama are so determined to be together that one universe wasn't enough and you're together in two... that we know of."

Oh Katt was tempted to go ask Lily a ton of questions. Was there a her in this alternate universe? Was she friends with Ben and Jackie even there? That..would be kind of cool. It was neat to know that even there they were still a couple.

The smile at his mouth is sort of touched, then, by the time Lily finishes up. "That's... wow. That's sort of sweet." Something about that didn't surprise him, though. He doubted it would surprise Jackie, either -- and oh, lord, telling Jackie about this. Instead of thinking about that, though, "How old are you? How did..." He bites his lip instead of finishing that off, though, and eventually. "You seem really happy. Like... really, really happy."

Right as they're finally approaching their neighborhood, Ben's thinking about if he should call ahead and warn Jackie -- explain it to her first, that he knows absolutely without a doubt that this really is their daughter. However, that's also the kind of conversation best had in person, right? So he doesn't call. Just keeps quiet conversation with Lily as they walk along arm in arm, like he had been during the rest of the walk here.

Lily's actually kind of eager to see the house Ben, Jackie, and Adam live in right now -- she's never known one besides the house she lived in now, and it had been empty when she'd checked for her family there earlier in her trip to this version of reality. The neighborhood Ben took them to was quiet, modest, full of smaller but well maintained houses. She was taking everything in with bright blue eyes while Ben was explaining how he and Jackie have been looking for a house, but they haven't been having any luck so far, when automatic, he turns down the front walk of a white two story house with a porch. "This is it?" Lily turned her face up to her father, all smiles and excited glow. She reminds Ben so much of her mother right then. "Daddy, it's so cute!"

"Yeah, princess. This is where we live right now." Pausing in their tracks on the porch, he turns, takes both of Lily's hands in his. The look he gives her is serious, tries to be stern, but doesn't really get there. "Now remember, I want to explain this to your mama before you jump her for a hug, alright? Let me explain it first. I don't know if she knows about the whole alternate reality thing," he waves one hand vaguely, "and I'm sure she's going to be thrown off enough by me coming home with a pretty blonde that isn't her." Teasing, and Lily laughs, pulling on his hand, the one word daddyyyy whined in a way that made Ben certain he probably teased her all the time.

"I'll wait for you to explain. I'll just stand by lookin' pretty and smiling. But c'mon, I want to see mama!" Tugging his hand again, pulling him the couple of steps to the door.

"Alright, alright," his turn to laugh quietly, fishing his keys out of his pocket and unlocking the door so he can push it open. Like he does for Jackie, he opens the door for Lily to go through first, and he follows her in, shutting the door behind them. "Hey, Jackie?" He's mastered the art of calling for her loudly enough that if she was downstairs she'd probably hear him, but not so loud that it'd wake up Adam upstairs, who had to be sleeping by now. "Sweetheart, there's somebody you need to meet."

"In here, Ben. I'm comin'." The call came from the dining room and is followed by the telltale scrape of chair legs on the floor indicating that Jackie was getting up. "Who am I meetin'?" She came out into the living room wearing a smile but it faltered when she saw the young blonde standing near her husband. Ben was right that Jackie was obviously thrown off by there being another blonde in the house. What had she been expecting? She wasn't entirely sure but it certainly wasn't that. She was dressed to stay in for the rest of the night wearing black yoga pants and a simple pale pink t-shirt with bare feet but she was instantly pulling herself up like she was wearing one of her usual Sunday best dresses. Hands moved to her stomach, either for comfort, an automatic habit to protect her baby bump, or both. "Who is this?" The tone she used screamed explain, explain now. How she managed to make a smile look dangerous was just one of her many talents.

Oh, Ben knew that tone. He's about to explain, mouth even open for it, but before he can get a word out, Lily's hands fly to cover her mouth to muffle a little shriek. "Mama, you look so pretty! --and oh my god, that's--" Trailing off into a squeal, she gives Ben a glance, a bright smile, and practically bounces across the little space to catch Jackie in a hug. All at once, though, she gasps, takes a couple of steps back. "Sor-ryyyy." She winces, glances back at Ben, who had, in the meantime, dropped his face into one hand.

Jackie's watching Ben and waiting intently for a reply that doesn't have a chance to come because the blonde beside him is shrieking. She adjusts her hands on her belly like it's possible for her to cover the baby's ears to protect it from the high pitched sound. It's the first word out of the girl's mouth, Mama, that makes Jackie's brows rise sharply and her jaw drop. She's too stunned to move out of the way of the incoming onslaught of affection, frozen in place even after she's released and her gaze stays fastened on the face of the apologizing blonde. A flicker of brown eyes to Ben to see his reaction to the display then back to the girl even if Jackie was still talking to Ben. "Excuse me, can I get an explanation here from someone or am I gonna have to start knockin' heads together?"

"What do you think, I mentioned them to her first?" A little incredulous, and maybe even slightly offended, but he softens when he goes on, "Yeah, out of nowhere. Said we all get along later on."

Lily, for her part, at least kept her hands to herself this time, but she's grinning ear to ear, bouncing a little as Jackie pieces it together -- squealing when Jackie gasps, finally sees some resemblance.

"She's got your hair, and... that glow. I thought it was you, for a second, when I first saw her." That just makes Lily squeal a little more. "...and doesn't that sound familiar?" Tension gone for Ben, now he's just quietly amused -- and fond, so affectionate for the odd little family in the room right now.

Lily opens up her arms again for a hug. "Mamaaa, please? I came all the way here from another reality, and you're gonna treat me this way?"

Jackie's hand slowly lowered from her mouth. "How in the hell should I know, Ben? She just said Uncle Sam and Uncle Harry? Can y'give me a little credit for not completely losin' my mind?" A gesture at Ben. "How are you so calm about this?" She's not really waiting on pins and needles for his answer since she's too busy still intently investigating Lily. "You can buy my hair in a box." She's not sure why she's so set on fighting this. It was RhyDin afterall and stranger things have happened.

Hands lifted in a gesture to try to soothe Lily. "Honey, I understand that. I just... I mean... I'm allowed to be a lil' unsure. Not even unsure, just... confused. You're... you can't be that much younger than me. And more importantly..." She gestures at her swollen belly. "I can feel you squirmin' around in here like crazy while you're squealin' out here. Mama just needs a minute to process this."

"I wasn't exactly calm about it at first. It's been a couple of hours." Other than that, though, he's letting Lily handle it now. There was nothing he was going to be able to do to convince Jackie if Lily couldn't do it on her own.

Another squeal from Lily. "You said it was me squirmin' around in there! You know I'm ri-ight," sing-song at the end. Shaking her head though, and shrugging a little. "There must be a time warp thing between where I'm from and here. Adam's older where I am too, and obviously my younger--"

She's cut off, suddenly, when Ben springs forward and covers Lily's mouth. He's laughing, but it's sort of nervous. "You gotta leave some surprises for us, princess." Slowly, he lets go of her, and she turns to face Ben, pouting yet again.

"Sorry, Daddy. It's hard not to want to talk about-- ...things."

"You've been hangin' out with Lily for hours and you don't think to give me a ring? Text a picture if you got to." Not that meeting Lily face to face was going very smoothly, it would have been even harder via text but to be unaware for hours? Thankfully Jackie didn't have time to stew over it because her attention was on the squealing Lily. Is that how Jackie sounded when she made that noise? "It's hard to stick to my guns and say this can't happen when we're in can happen central. Not to mention... the boys." Fluttering her hand about then that seems to really click for her. "We told her about the boys?" Looking to Ben like he somehow knows what's happening in an alternate universe.

Jackie blinks when Lily gets cut off by Ben, brows rising in a delayed reaction. "Oh, no no, sweetie, let's try to... not..." Squints at Lily. "How many siblings d'you have?" Instantly regretting the question, hands lifted. "Wait! Don't tell me. No, we don't want to know." Looks to Ben. "Do we want to know?" This was tempting.

Her smile broadens when Lily gathers her in a hug and she's returning it, careful but warm. "We'll see the house, and the office, and... we go to patisseries here?" Giving Ben an impressed look. "I sound like a good Mama over there. I bet you make her proud and I'm sure when this lil' Weeble gets older she'll make us proud, too." Squinting, wondering if that made a lick of sense. "This is confusin' as hell, but you get what I'm sayin'." A pause. "Heck." Correcting herself far too late.

"You're a great mama. The best." A happy little wiggle, and then Lily lets go of Jackie, though her hands settle on the swell of her mother's stomach. "--oh, you call me that too. Weeble." She made a face, wrinkling her nose, but smiling. Childhood little kid nickname. "It's not confusing. Our realities must be similar enough that you two got married and... ugh. You know. I exist because you did the honeymoon the same way." Another wrinkle of her nose, but then she's just smiling. "I'm sure this Lily will make you proud too. Because I'm sure even if it ends up going differently, you're not going to be any less of great parents." She grabbed Jackie for one more hug, then took a step back. "Daddy said we could figure out how long I'm staying tomorrow. Maybe after all this sinks in for you two?" For Lily, apparently, this wasn't as big of a deal!

"I am?" It was all right there in Jackie's expression, her heart was practically melting with the kind words. She has had so many moments of doubt throughout her pregnancy, countless worries, and while they would probably never vanish entirely, to hear that coming from such a bright girl, their daughter, that meant the world to her. "For an alternate reality there are a lot of similarities. I thought that in another world things would be... totally different." Not that Jackie really understood alternate realities much at all. Her smile broadens. "Thank you, sweetie, that means a lot to me." The hug was returned, a kiss placed on Lily's temple then she looked between her daughter and her husband. "We can talk it over tomorrow. I... still don't understand why or how you're here exactly, not that I'm complainin', but y'all can draw me a diagram about it tomorrow. I don' think I can handle anymore for the night." Rubbing lightly at her forehead, but she couldn't stop smiling between the pair. "She really does have your eyes, Ben."

"Yes, of course!" Lily sounded a little... offended? Disbelieving? That Jackie would be in doubt of that. "There's a lot of things the same. Of course you two are together. You're still all gross together when I'm grown up, too." Another nose wrinkle, but then she squeaks quietly, leans into the kiss to her temple. "We can figure it out tomorrow. I can draw a diagram, sure."

Ben, for his part, is just looking between the two girls himself. "She looks just like you, Jackie. Just like you." He's had a few hours for it to settle, but he still can't quite grasp it entirely. Shaking his head a little, laughing, at himself -- cuts off suddenly, though, wincing a little. "Lily, sweetie, did you want me to take the couch? We don't have a guest room or anything."

Lily scoffed in response. "No, Daddy. You'll be complaining about your back all day tomorrow if you do that. I'm fine on the couch." She starts to push Ben out of the room, but stops. "But maybe I could borrow pajamas from you, Mama? And clothes tomorrow? I kind of didn't bring much with me... Came here a little bit on impulse."

That made her smile warm as well and she pointed a sugary sweet grin at Ben. "You hear that, sweetheart? We're still completely gross after all them years." A swell of pride in her chest. She rubbed at Lily's back, happy to keep the blonde nearby. It did feel right, so long as she didn't let her mind wander too far into the realm of being surrounded, in a sense, by two Lilys.

There's a light laugh when Lily refuses the couch. "Thank you, I thought it the moment he said it. We'll make sure to get you lots of pillows an' blankets, sweetie. And pajamas. I got some pink ones with bunnies on 'em." Smiling brightly though her brows pinched. "How did you manage to leave the house without a bag? I know I would be right there helpin' you pack if it was like, hey Mama, goin' off world, be back soon."

"Are you surprised?" The look Ben gives Jackie is just slightly suggestive, more teasing than anything, but Lily still makes a noise, a strangled little ew, which just makes Ben laugh.

Jackie's smile turned wicked. "Hell no." And after a pause she glances down to Lily and corrects hersef. "Heck." Laughing at her inability to censor herself (at least it wasn't any worse than this) and Lily's reaction.

"Gross, stop!" But Lily was laughing, at least. "Mama, you can say the word 'hell' around me..." But she was laughing at that, too. She leaned into Jackie's hand, reaching over to put her own hand on the visible baby bump again. "Um... We'll talk about that tomorrow too, okay, Mama?" Bright smile! "But you must be tired, and you don't wanna hear all about other realities and stuff right now. It's a lot to take in, I know." The pout from before was from Jackie; the fast talking must be from Ben.

Jackie's free hand is placed over Lily's on her stomach, because how often could you ever do something like that? "Alright, fine, tomorrow." She would be lying if she said she wasn't exhausted. It was late and this was a draining experience, exciting but still overwhelming. "We'll head upstairs an' get you some pajamas while Daddy fixes the couch for you." And just as Jackie's inherited pout worked on Ben, the fast talking of her father worked on Jackie without question. She was already turning to lead Lily up the stairs. "We'll get up bright an' early tomorrow. I'll make whatever y'want for breakfast and the entire family will have a day together, sound alright?"

"Yes! With Adam too, right? I can't wait to get him back for all the teasing he did when I was little." Rubbing her hands together gleefully, and then she hooked her arm through Jackie's to head up the stairs with her.

Ben watches the pair go. "You know what? I think he's gonna take this better than either of us, at least." Amused -- and pretty sure of that, too; Adam was much more adaptable than he had been, or even Jackie, on occasion -- Ben heads to the closet near the bathroom downstairs to grab an extra set of sheets and a couple of pillows for the couch. Part of him couldn't believe this was going on -- and he knew that as tired and overwhelmed as he and Jackie were, they probably weren't going to be sleeping much, just comparing notes on how this had to be their daughter, how it was uncanny, obvious, clear as day -- but mostly, because it all feels completely right.