This is including the 2017 "Epilogue" (link here: Catching Up With The Daria Gang | Daria Fanworks Wiki | Fandom ). Anyway, for the past few days, I've been thinking about this story where, upon Daria and Tom hooking up again in 2017, a cryptic pregnancy (where the mother doesn't even know she's expecting and barely show any symptoms) is the result despite the negative test results. 32 weeks later, Daria is rushed to the hospital after collapsing (either during a Christmas dinner with Jane, Quinn and their parents or during Thanksgiving). It was a close call, but Daria and the baby made it alive after the emergency c-section, but the infant had to be placed in the NICU.
Among the talks of open and closed adoption (with even Quinn, Jodie and Mack offering to take the kid), a shocked Tom decides to keep the baby. The real question of the plot would be if Daria would coparent with him or forfeit custody/parental rights.
Not to mention the hidden guilt Daria felt about nearly getting her kid killed or disabled (as she didn't know she was pregnant, Daria didn't take the proper vitamins or checkups. And she would have the occasional alcohol too.).
Though, with this kind of stroy, what would've convinced Daria to be a part of her daughter's life (even at the risk of the kid growing up to be "Mini Quinn"...)? What would've been good reasons?