Chapter 58.

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"SLOW DOWN, SLOW DOWN

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"SLOW DOWN, SLOW DOWN. I- I'LL SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU."

"You're totally rambling,"

"No, I'm not,"

"You lost me,"

Tony Stark readjusts his black exercise jacket over his chest as he finishes his jog through Central Park, the city skyline happily peeping in the distance through the tall green trees that surround them. The soon-to-be Pepper Stark is back by his side, this time with a big diamond ring on her finger.

"Look," Tony lets out a heavy breath, quickly walking sideways to keep up with Pepper's quick pace, "You know how you're having a dream and, in the dream, you gotta pee?"

"Yeah," Pepper resists a sigh, pretty used to Tony's weird analogies.

"Okay. And then you're like, 'Oh my, god, there's no bathroom, what am I gonna do? Oh! Someone's watching! I'm gonna go in my pants-"

"Right. And then you wake up, and in real life, you actually have to pee?"

"Yes!" Tony excitedly responds.

"Yeah! Everybody has that," Pepper says.

"Right! That's the point I'm trying to make," Tony says. "Last night, I dreamt, we had another kid... So real,"

"Another girl?" Pepper asks.

"No, no, a boy. We named him after your eccentric uncle, the one that wanted to buy Briana a panda for her seventh birthday," Tony squeezes his eyes closed and squeezes his hand together, trying hard to remember, "What was his name? Oh! Morgan!"

"Right," Pepper says. "So, you wake up..."

"Naturally!"

"And thought we were...?"

Tony finishes her thought quickly, "Expecting,"

"Yeah," Pepper nods in understanding.

His brown eyes go wide, "Yes!?"

"No," she tries to shut him down with that word but it doesn't work, like usual.

"I had a dream about it!" Tony argues quickly, "It was so real!"

"If you wanted to have another kid and for Briana to have a younger sibling..." Pepper pulls away at his jacket's sleeve and taps her fingers on the new reactor that he's had re-implanted in his chest, "You wouldn't have done that,"

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