Haruo was dumbfounded. At least the scan was something that didn't involve an invasive procedure or a needle poke. Scanning just involved standing there like a statue and hopefully the scanning machine would pick up the reading and pop out a DNA sample. If it involved getting down with some hanky-panky, then Haruo's answer would have been a resounding "no..."; he wanted to live to a ripe old age...not be murdered in his sleep by a wife who found out about a DNA sample that he agreed to.
"Has Phil been bothering you, Bebe?" Haruo was inquisitive since it appeared that Bebe was rather jumpy around Phil, who always came off as kind of on a different plane of cognitive function.
Bebe nodded as she pulled out the DNA scanner. She didn't really want to come across as intolerant of Phil's idiosyncracies; he was Haruo's friend, but Phil tended to drape himself over women practically suffocating their personal space. And as such, he needed to learn that women don't like having to suffer the attentions of someone that they're not interested in. And Bebe figured that the best possible way was to make a clone of the one person she did like and raise the clone as if it were her own child. "I mean, I like Phil as a person, but y'know... just not in that way."
Haruo grinned at her, "I understand..."
She lifted the scanner and let the device play over Haruo's torso analyzing every mitochondrial strand and the deoxyribonucleic acid seeing what was in the nucleus of the cell and extracting the nuclear DNA as well as mtDNA to paint a better picture of how the clone would be formed within the science center machine.
Fortunately for Bebe, it was a successful interaction with all the romantic nuances of a lecture on microbiology and the nature of pathogens within the Myrmecophaga tridactyla community.
Despite the lack of amatory gesticulations, Bebe felt that the transfer was successful. And the smile on her face was as wide as could possibly be. "Thank you, Haruo, I appreciate the gesture..." She smiled winsomely at him, while Haruo stammered...
"...uh...no...problem..." and nearly jumped out of his skin...
...when Bebe leaned forward and planted an appreciative kiss on his lips.
Watcher: "Woooooah Nelly."
Thank goodness River wasn't there to see it. And Noel and Clarissa both pretended like they didn't see a single thing. "You didn't see that..." Bebe told Noel and Clarissa.
"Nope...didn't see anything..." Noel said, turning to go into the elevator.
"Nope...not a thing..." Clarissa said as she followed him upstairs.
Haruo was too dumbfounded to speak.
After working with the science machine for quite some time, Bebe had a success and in the specimen tube that came out of the science machine was an infant that looked exactly like what a small Haruo would look like. Bebe smiled to herself. He was going to be fun to raise. Maybe this might help her pangs of loneliness to have someone to nurture and raise, her little family.
After feeding the little infant, changing his diaper and clothing him in comfortable sleep-clothes as it was still the height of summer, she laid him down to rest in the crib and slipped downstairs to read a book.
Blissfully unaware of the fact that her husband had just contributed his own DNA so that her friend could have a child to raise up to assuage her loneliness, River sat with Aaron teaching him how to say rain in Simlish.
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