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We’ve been assuming that Days of Our Lives’ baby story is ending as soon as Tesoro’s DNA test comes back. Well, the secrets and lies part of the story would be over. Where Tate’s tot ends up would still have plenty of drama left to play out. Javi and Leo? Johnny and Chanel? Would Tate insist on raising the kid? Would Amy try forcing her daughter to do the same?

“I do think Tate really wants this baby deep down,” Leo Howard muses to Soaps. “Everything he’s saying is true about how the baby will have a better life with someone else. I think that it’s the first situation in life where he really has to come to terms with the adult-like complexity of the situation where he may want to be the father of this baby and be in the kid’s life.”

But the truth coming out and Tate taking the baby all feels too neat — especially as a number of fans point out their favorite theory. Namely? That the DNA test won’t be a match because the baby is actually Aaron’s! It’s something we floated ages ago, but it had seemed like the show just wasn’t going to go there.

Realistically, since when has a DNA test ever proved what we expected in Salem?

After it became clear Brady may soon be wrapping up this baby farce, fan Joni Blanchard Howard suggested on Facebook that, “They are going to do a DNA test and use Tate’s DNA, and it’s going to show that he is not the father. I think it’s his best friend’s baby.”

And over on the Soaps Message Boards, there’s an entire thread dedicated to this theory. “I think she somehow assured Aaron that Tate was the father,” prettypleasin guessed. “And he (Aaron) believed her. Not to be mean, but I just don’t see Aaron being smart enough to ask Sophia all the right questions.”

Ouch. We wouldn’t say he’s not smart enough, but Aaron does seem pretty trusting! And if there WAS a chance the baby could be his, he’d likely be pretty relieved to grasp whatever out was given to him!

“Before Aaron left town, he wanted to tell Tate something but never got a chance,” sissylou added. “The writers definitely put that doubt there that the baby could be his. Plus, Tate used a condom. Doesn’t mean anything, it still could be Tate’s. But just saying there’s reason for doubt.”

Whether or not that doubt pans out remains to be seen. As Howard points out about Tate’s current obsession with tracking down the family, “All these feelings, he just doesn’t know where to put them. So, I think it becomes contact in the family. If you watch, there’s all these different things that Tate does through this storyline. He gets really glommed on to certain things.

“And I think that’s pretty realistic, right? In situations, we take all of our feelings and put it into one thing. And then when that doesn’t work, okay, change it to the other thing instead of just dealing with the feeling itself.”