(This conversation occurs between "Getting Biblical" and "Multiplicity") 

<Lexa begins to take birth control pills, and is faintly sad about it>
 
Thielo: "Why are you taking pills, Lexa?"

Lexa: "The *world* is going to end in a few years!  How could I try to
  bring a child into it just before that?  Or maybe it won't *end*
  end, just change, but that city, everyone in it was destroyed, for
  knowing too much about the Invisible Clergy, or the pillars,
  whatever they were then.  If the Ascended are going to be smiting
  people who know too much..."

  Maybe we won't be smote, I don't know, and then we can think about it
  again then...

Thielo: "As far as the world ending goes, it's a horrible thing, but
  from what Saint Germain told us, there is a good chance that people
  will stay the same.  Even if they aren't, wouldn't you rather get
  the chance to meet your child and get to know them for a few years,
  than never meet them at all?
 
  "If you are more worried about leaving the child orphaned, I don't
  know what to say.  We're in a dangerous line of work.  We could ask
  for research positions, those would be safer, but there are no
  guarentees."

Lexa: "And I suppose I'm worried also, what happens if we don't find
  our Communist in time?  In that case, the people probably won't stay
  the same, or even be very happy afterwards...
 
  "I shouldn't have just decided for both of us, I know, but I didn't
  know how to start to say something, it just seemed so... so
  fatalistic, or despairing, and it's not really that, I just don't
  want to guess wrong."

<this is actually a bit more incoherent than Lexa usually is,
  even during her standard talk-myself-into-things...>

Thielo: "No, that's fine.  I wouldn't want to have children unless you
 were sure.  If you have doubts, that's a good enough reason for me to
 wait.  I do think we shouldn't stop living our lives and put
 everything on hold until this is resolved, though.  Then if
 everything works out, we'll have wasted all of this time.
 
 "Would you feel differently about an adoption?"

Lexa:  <thinking>
 That would at least be... a child who was already *in* the world,
 they would already have to live in however things turned out.
 
Thielo: "I have been thinking of adoption.  We've been married a long
 time with no children.  There's a possibility that we can't have any.
 And there are a lot of children in the world who need good families."
 
Lexa: "That would be... I think I would like to look into that, yes.
 I wouldn't want to be one of those parents who is never home, but the
 current arrangements are all right for that.  Hmm.  I wonder how
 children and clearance go together, it might be necessary to move off
 of the ranch, but then, Gwen does not have clearance..."

Thielo: "I'd expect that clearance wouldn't be an issue for a few
 years, after the child started understanding speech.  If we decide
 this is what we want to do, we can discuss it with Damien.  We can't
 be the first people in the Inquisit ion to want to start a family.
 I'm certain something could be worked out."

 Well, it is a decision to be slept upon, at least."