Jeff however didn't have time to think things through as the doorbell sounded once again, and he opened it to find Anthony's mom, Stacey, standing there. Stacey was an older mother, with Anthony looking like he'd been an "oops" baby in this reality. Stacey looked exhausted and hard-edged as though she simultaneously had little fucks to give and no time to waste.
"Tony ready to go?" was all she asked.
"He's upstairs playing. I'll go get him."
Stacey took out a cigarette and lit it, saying as she lit it, "Don't be too quick about that, I could use a five minute cig break from work and Tony if you don't mind."
"I'll be back in more than five minutes," said Jeff, and with that, Stacey closed the door and enjoyed her cigarette break.
Jeff wondered as he came up the steps if perhaps he couldn't help Stacey and Tony a bit by knocking a decade--or maybe two--off of Stacey to make her a younger parent, more capable of keeping up with Tony and with a better attitude towards life. Jeff ducked into his room and scanned for Stacey--finding her to be 48 years old. Heck, she'd be 62 when Tony would "graduate" in this reality, she could definitely use some years knocked off of her. More than twenty--why not Twenty-five? That would make her Twenty-one when she had Tony. Jeff entered 25 for Stacey's new age and then left the room to fetch Stacey.
Stacey's greying hair lost all greys and returned to its black luster. The wrinkles and exhaustion from her age faded from her face, her breasts became perkier, and her weight slimmed down a bit until she looked like any twenty-something mother, still smoking on a cigarette, but a twenty-something nonetheless.
The Chronivac processed the transformation without issues this time. Tony and Jeff emerged from the room with Tony stamping his foot and saying he wanted to stay.
"Come on, Tony, your mom's here to take you home," said Jeff.
"No! I wanna stay and play!" shouted Tony before stamping on Jeff's sock covered foot and running into Jeff's room. Jeff grabbed his foot which was reeling from the pain the shoed toddler's foot had wrought upon his stocking feet. Tony only knowing that the computer was Jeff's and Tony wanting to "punish Jeff" for sending him home, smashed his little fists on the keyboard, causing the Chronivac to react wildly to the inputs it was receiving.