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It was weird, how it happened. Gradual at first, and then all of a sudden there were seven people of vastly different backgrounds all crammed on the homestead raising the baby.
Wynonna, of course, was the first. There was no way she could leave, she knew, and not risk her child's safety. As run down and ugly as the place was, the ammolite base protected them from demons. Her baby would be safer here, and so here she'd stay.
Then followed Dolls and Doc. As potential father, Doc knew he wanted to have a part in his child's life. But he knew that deep down Wynonna loved Dolls, and so he too entered the equation. They agreed, mutually, that they could all co-parent the baby, regardless of it's genetic makeup. Their relationship would fall into place, they decided, and each of them gained a room in the Earp homestead.
Then Waverly joined. She had joint entitlement to the house, and besides, Wynonna welcomed the support. Through her pregnancy, Wynonna had become inseperable from her sister... almost. Because nothing could quite completely steal her away from Nicole, hence the fifth person inhabiting the homestead.
Nobody anticipated Jeremy or Rosita.
The discussion was never quite had, not explicitly. But what with Agent Lucado now dead, they were all that was left of BBD's Purgatory branch. And with a lot of work to do and the likelihood of danger ever rising, Rosita and Jeremy became permanent fixtures in the household. They had nowhere else in the town, anyway.
They quickly realised, however, that the homestead was not built to house quite so many people. And that's how Wynonna, grumpy five months pregnant Wynonna, came to apply for permission to build on the land, as Nicole insisted was proper. And legal.
Nedley didn't think twice before agreeing, given the circumstances he insisted it was the least that could be done. And when he sent some contractors to help, he attributed the kindness to the sacrifices that had been made by Wynonna to save the townspeople. It took less than three months to add a few rooms on both floors, and make the living room and kitchen a little larger. Everyone had a room, and a small ensuite consisting of a shower, toilet, and sink.
Jeremy and Rosita each took a room on the ground floor. Nicole and Waverly shared Willa's old room, Wynonna had her usual room, one room was a nursery for the baby, and there was a room for Doc and Dolls should they need it. A single spare room was left, just in case.
It took barely any time for them to settle into some kind of normalacy.
And then the baby arrived.