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It's been a couple of days since Henry last heard from Tony, he tried to not be worried telling himself that his husband is just busy but it's hard. He eagerly waits by the phone whenever he has free time between taking care of himself and Morgan. Morgan is a grateful distraction for him, she fills his days so that Henry doesn't have to think about the what-ifs that are happening, but when she goes to bed his mind can't help but wander off but he has to be strong, for Morgan.
"Papa!" Morgan's voice called from the dining room, Henry rolled his eyes fondly before placing his phone on the charger and starts walking toward the dining room. "What's up, sweetheart?" Henry asks leaning his arms on the chair next to where Morgan was sitting. "Can I have more fries?" Morgan asks fluttering her eyes giving her puppy eyes that were strongly reminiscent of a look that Tony has given him often before.
Henry nods before reaching down to grab her plate. "Of course, you can. Would you like anything else?" Henry asks leaning his hip against the chair. Morgan curls her nose up as she's thinking before nodding. "I want some more green beans please!" Henry smiles at her before leaning down and kissing her on the nose, she scrunches her nose up and looks at Henry confused when he pulls back. "You got it, Madame." Henry bows dramatically at her making her let out a giggle, he turns on his heels and walks over to the stove before scooping out what Morgan asks for.
He places the plate down in front of her before pulling out the chair next to her and taking a seat, he pats his pockets trying to find his phone but he remembers that he left it on the counter. Henry starts to rise but he scrunches his face up before settling back down next to Morgan. "So, what do you want to do for the rest of the day?" It was only lunchtime so they had a lot left with the day. Henry watched as Morgan hummed around her green beans before swallowing and tilting her head in Henry's direction. "I don't know, I wanna read. Can we do that?" Morgan looks at Henry with wide eyes, Henry smiles before nodding. "Of course! Anything else you wanna do?"
Morgan scrunches her nose up as she's thinking before gasping as she thought of something. "We can pick goji berries today!" Henry smirks at Morgan before nodding. "Hopefully Gerald hasn't eaten them all," Morgan says to herself but it was loud enough that Henry heard it, he chuckled before scooting his chair back and walks toward the kitchen to check his phone while she's still eating.
He sees a text from Pepper but first, he sees a voicemail from Tony, he smiles but then frowns when he realized he missed the chance to talk to Tony but he brings it up to his ear after hitting play on the voicemail. "Hey, Babe! Got some news for you, we got all the infinity stones. Once I'm done talking to you we're going ahead and going to give the glove a try but we did it! That means I should be home soon so make sure you tell Morgan that. Uh, I saw my Dad too. He was expecting me, well baby me. He said that my Mom is pregnant, and that was weird to see. He seemed excited to be a dad, I forgot how hard he had it as a Chilean growing up. It makes me lucky we can grow Morgan up in the world we have now. Anyway, it's also been a sad day. Natasha died, um we had a little small thing but when everything is over and done with we plan to have a proper memorial. Don't tell Morgan yet, wait until everything is over. I love you, Henry, so much and we're so close to being done that soon I'll be able to come home to you two again." Henry sniffs as the voicemail ends, he rubs his hand over his face before he switches over to his message app and looks at the text he received from Pepper. News! Now! Henry can feel his face going pale as he abandons his phone on top of the counter and walks over to the leaving room and switches the channel to the news.
Henry lets out a gasp and puts his hand over his mouth. "Oh my god." Henry can feel his knees try to give out but he manages to hit the couch. He quickly lowers the volume so Morgan can't hear, the headline doesn't make sense Henry thinks as he reads Avengers Compound destroyed. He was just listening to the voicemail that Tony left, this couldn't have happened. "Papa! I'm done." Morgan yells from the dining room, Henry sniffs wiping his tears that fell with his shirt. "I'll be there in a minute sweetheart!" Henry yells, he can tell his voice was shaky from emotions but he hoped that Morgan doesn't pick up on it.
He grasps the remote shakily before turning it off and stands up, his steps are one of a baby deer learning how to walk for the first time but he has to pull it together. He can't let Morgan notice that something is wrong so he rolls his shoulders back and plasters a fake smile on his face so he can pretend everything is fine even though his world is shattering around him like never before.
"Let's go pick some goji berries!" Henry overzealously cheered as he entered the dining room, it did the trick because she cheered before running over to the mud room and grabbed shoes before sitting down to place them on. Henry grabs her plate and places it on the kitchen counter before grabbing his phone from the charger and sticking it in his pocket vowing to never miss a call again.
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NOTES:
This chapter made me expectedly emotional lmao, maybe it's because I know what's coming? Anyway, we're almost finished. I'm very excited for everyone to read what I have in store for the last 3 chapters
