I'm really curious how a single man ends up adopting the foreign born son of a disgraced woman and his former enemy... I mean, that had to be a helluva story, yeah?

Ha. And you know how I finally picked the name? My friend A, who is Pakistani-American, has a number of girlfriends who's names have in common the -een of the end. Sabeen, Mehreen, so I picked Mehreen, and then adjusted the end of the name to be Jaffa. Thus avoiding clearly mimicking one of the names we've already heard, but staying sorta Jaffa-like. I haven't told A or Mehreen (whom I don't know, actually) that I've done it, though. *g*

She sorta needed a name, though. Couldn't go through the whole fic calling her 'woman'.