He was a little surprised by that, though considering her age and life spent in a lab, maybe he shouldn't have been. Still, she was nineteen and had been on her own and in the City for two years. She must have had someone. Hell, by the time he was nineteen, Chesh was already pregnant.

But he shouldn't assume anything about Laura just because he'd grown up too quickly.

"There's nothing wrong with that," he said after a pause. "You're young. You don't need to tie yourself down."