Coming close to the last of my Marvel fics. Enjoy what's left. A lot of it's Pepperony.
Pepper rolls over in her sleep, her back aching, which isn't unusual these days. With less than two months until her due date, the various pregnancy pains were hitting her full on. The back aches, the foot aches, the other dozen aches which decide to creep up on her during the day and night. So this time she was surprised to not have Tony, lying next to her.
"Tony." She calls out as she moves to sit up. The clock on the table flashed showing her the time to be half two in the morning. "Jarvis, where is he?" She asks as she moves herself out of the bed. "Sir, is in the living room." Comes the soft reply as Jarvis gently lights the room and then after Pepper gets her feet in some slippers and a slips on a jumper she follows the gentle light towards the living room.
She isn't as quiet as she used to be, so Tony hears her coming and looks over his shoulder, surprised as she comes over to him. "What are you doing up? You should be sleeping." He says concerned as she lowers herself down onto the sofa next to him.
"I was sleeping and then your baby wanted to have a run, so it's now pushed up against my spine." Pepper moans as she leans into Tony, who gently put an arm around her shoulder and lets her rest her head against him.
"What are you doing up?" She asks softly and Tony sighs and lifts up the photo album that he'd been looking at. "I was checking out, my parenting gene pool." Tony admits as he pushes the album towards her. She knows all the people in the photos. She knows all about the Starks going right back to Tony's grandfather. "I don't think you can judge your parenting abilities on how you were raised." She says gently as he gazes down to look at the photos in front of him. He'd never met his father's side of the family and sometimes he wished, that he had, maybe then, his fathers behaviour would have been different towards him.
"I can though Pep, because I am so much like my father, as everyone constantly reminds me, I'm bound to have picked up some of his parenting skills." Tony says sarcastically and Pepper takes one of his hands and places it on her stomach gently. "What you learnt from your fathers parenting, was how not to be a bad father." Pepper says gently and Tony looks at her. "You won't put the same treatment on our children. For one I wouldn't let you get away that sort of crap." She says and Tony lets a smile out at that. "Second, you couldn't do it anyway. You're going to love this baby unconditionally and they're going to get the world and you're going to make sure that they are loved, every single day." She says cupping his cheek and lifting his head to look at her. "I know this for sure, because I know you Tony." She says and carefully stands, hands going to her back and then to her stomach, Tony on his feet instantly.
"Come back to bed." She says taking his hand and he nods his head slowly and the two of them walk the dimly lit stretch back to the bedroom. Tony helps Pepper to settle before he climbs back into bed and let's Pepper curl up next to him, he lays there quietly for a few moments as Pepper drifts back into sleep.
Tony then places his hand over the bump and strokes it gently, thinking he can feel the baby moving, but not entirely sure. "I'm going to do to my best for you." He whispers into the dark. "I'm going to tell you every day how much I love you. Your moms going to be right about that." He says gently as he lays his head down and watches Pepper sleep as their developing baby spreads its wings and moves about underneath his hand.
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