Double Trouble//T. Stark

2.3

//MOUNT. RUSHMORE?\\

Lucas and Lydia awoke to Pepper knocking on their door. Tony sent them to bed after 8 continuous hours of research and little outcome. He said he would finish what they started.

Their door opens with a slight creak and the strawberry blonde they call mom pokes her head in. "I have some exciting news!"

Lucas rubs his exhausted eyes and Lydia yawns. "What?" They ask in unison.

"What would you two say to finally being in the publics eye?"

This gets the twin's full attention and they immediately spring up. Huge smiles spread across their faces and both are just about to jump out of bed when Pepper puts up her hand, telling them to slow down.

She fully opens the door, her professional attire coming into view.

"There are many things we have to go over before you even consider saying yes." She says as she sits down on the edge of Lucas's bed.

The twins nod their heads and listen carefully as Pepper talks.

"Now, doing this means that you'll be in the public's eye almost constantly. Reporter's and journalists and all those annoying people you hear us talk about will be all over you, eye's on you every time you're outside. That means no powers, at all, unless you're inside the walls of this house and your father and I say it's okay. Got it?"

The twins respond with a yes.

"That also means you've got to shape-shift. Use the face's we came up with when you would go to school. And under no circumstances, whatsoever, will you shape-shift to anyone else, or back to your original skin. It's exactly like school, no one can know, okay?"

The twins nod their heads.

"Whenever someone asks, you tell them that you're Mr. Stark's new interns. Your father and I will do our best to keep the press from talking to you but you have to be prepared for whatever they ask you. They may ask you how you became Tony's intern, you'll say that Miss Potts contacted you and offered you the position. They shouldn't ask you anything more about that. If they ask you your last name's, you use the same one's you did at school, Walker, okay?"

Lydia interrupts Pepper before she can go any further. "What if they ask who our parent's are?"

Pepper squeezes her lips into a thin line and it's silent for a second.

Lydia bites her lip and worries that she had just ruined their chances at being in public but the worry is quickly washed away when Pepper finally answers. "You tell them that you don't want to talk about your parents. If they ask why then you say it's because you don't want to put them in the public's eye."

The twin's nod again. Lucas moves over in his bed and makes room for Lydia to sit beside him as Pepper explains more of their situation.

"That's another thing," she says, "you can't refer to us as mom and dad, at all. It always has to be Miss Potts and Mr. Stark, otherwise people will figure it out very fast. And I want you both to do your best to stick with us at all times; no wandering off by yourselves or going out to explore or any thing like that."

"There's so many things you'll have to discuss with your father, and so many other things we'll have to talk about if you say yes, and that includes meeting the next assistant we hire, whoever they may be."