( He might not mean it, but that's something of a loaded question for Jo. Before Eagan Hills, she'd been little more than an insecure teenage girl, wanting nothing more than to fit in and be liked. There's a reason she's had so much plastic surgery. There's a less practical reason for the biogenetic extensions. For a long time, that's all Jo wanted; to fit in. Normal and fitting in tend to go hand in hand. )

Suits me well, at least I like to think it does.

( But hearing the way things have been for Baby, Jo frowns a little. )

Maybe it's time to stop avoiding normal and let it happen if that's the direction life is going to take you. The more you try to avoid it, the more likely you are to run yourself into the ground. Besides, your normal and my normal might be completely different things, so you can't assume that what's normal to you will still register as normal to everyone else. If they're the ones you're worried about, then you're probably worrying over nothing, you know?

Maybe it's time to just...be, Baby.