Like all of my stories still needs to be betaed.

Pepper always made breakfast on Saturdays. It was something her Mother use to do, and now it was something she wished to pass onto Maria. Besides that Tony couldn't cook to save his life, and it wasn't uncommon for Maria to push aside whatever he made.

After breakfast Tony and Maria curled up on the couch and watched T.V together. There was the odd weekend Tony would disappear for a few hours but Maria didn't seem to mind, because she knew at some point on Saturday, her father would come home, and they would curl up on the couch and watch their shows.

Tony's favorite show was always the show they saved for last, because he knew that not only was it his favorite, but it was also Maria's favorite. He also knew that if he played their show first Maria would quickly lose interest with the TV, which also meant that they wouldn't spend the large amount of time they spent snuggling as they did. So Transformers, was always the last show they watched.

Tony couldn't be more then pleased when Maria had taken a strange liking to Transformers, because he figured with all the princess things that Pepper had gotten her into that she would want to watch overly girly shows, that generally made him bored to watch.

Maria in fact didn't care much for the newer shows on T.V. She liked very old school cartoons, like the ones kids would have watched on Saturday mornings in the 80's. Not that Tony cared, sure the graphics, sounds, and story lines were a bit crappy, it was also hard for him to find the shows, but he wouldn't trade watching stupid old Saturday morning cartoons with his daughter because it was their 'thing'.

Saturday mornings always started off with a shower, Maria usually followed, even if she had a bath the night before. Maria hated having baths, but she would jump at the chance to shower with her parents, which was frustrating if they were on a tight schedule.

But it was on this particular morning that Tony had been woken up to Maria walking around the upper floors and into his room. He rolled his eyes to check the time on the clock to realize that Maria was up a few minutes earlier then usual and that he should be getting ready for a meeting at lunch.

Tiredly he ran his hands over his eyes as Maria watched him curiously. She never quite understood why her Dad had trouble sleeping some nights, because she was too little to understand that sometimes, Daddy had nightmares.

When Tony was finished rubbing his eyes with one hand, he used the same hand to gently rub Maria's head. Her hair took after his, so it was always a mess when she woke up. She was also much like him that when she woke up, she remained groggy for a little while.

Rubbing his eyes one last time he pulled himself out of bed, scooping up Maria, and headed to the bathroom where they would take their ritual Saturday morning shower.

Usually it was halfway through their shower when Maria started to talk, as well as play with the large number of things he had accumulated in the shower with a child. But today Maria seemed with drawn, and this had caused him a little bit of concern.

He pulled Maria from the shower after he was sure she was clean and quickly checked her ears for any sign of infection, as well as her for head for a fever. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he discovered she was fine, then like every morning he slipped the hearing aids into her ears as she squirmed. She then ran away from him before he could dress himself.

Maria quietly made her way down the stairs backwards, and to the main floor where she passed the waterfall with her starfish, and into the kitchen where Pepper was tiredly cooking Saturday morning breakfast. Maria quickly buried her face into the back of Pepper's knees.

"Well, good morning!" Pepper said as she struggled to unhook Maria from the back of her legs. Maria was almost uncooperative with her until she managed to get Maria settled on her hip.

Breakfast was ready a few short minutes later, and Maria quickly settled down in her chair as Pepper poured herself a glass of orange juice.

"Ma-ma?" Maria asked looking at her food oddly. Pepper was drinking her juice and gently grunted a strange noise allowing Maria to know that she was listening.

"How come Daddy looks funny 'a-ked?"

Pepper spit out the orange juice she was drinking, and began to choke on the juice that was on its way down her esophagus. Her eyes began to water as she looked over to Maria who was intently waiting for an answer. She was hoping Maria hadn't asked what she had, but the look on Maria face told her that she had heard correctly.

"Well-ah?" Pepper rambled trying to figure out what to say, but her mind was blank. What should she say? And where the hell was Tony! Pepper's mind tumbled over the various things she could say, and the only thing she could come up with was the truth. Not the whole truth but enough for Maria to understand.

"Well, Daddy looks funny naked because he's a boy." Pepper said softly, trying her hardest not to choke on her words. Maria's eyes remained on Pepper as her little mind tried to process what her Mother was trying to tell her.

"But Mommy, you don't look funny 'a-ked!" Maria said, not quite understanding what Pepper was trying to tell her. Pepper ran her hand over her forehead and she could feel the heat rising to her cheeks.

"That's because Mommies are girls." Pepper's words were completely lost on Maria because Maria scrunched her face up in confusion. Pepper let out a deep sigh.

"You know how you look kind of like Mommy naked?" Pepper questioned waiting for Maria to shake her head in agreement, when Maria did Pepper continued. "That's because girls look different than boys naked, girls have a …vagina."

Pepper could feel the heat rising to her cheeks as Maria attempted to say her new found word. After Maria gave up Pepper continued, "Daddies are boys, and boys look different naked because…" Pepper swallowed nervously "they have a penis."

"e-nis!" Maria simply stated as she nodded her head and grabbed for something off the table.

"Do you understand?" Pepper asked, she wanted to make sure that Maria understood for a number of reasons. One of them being so they wouldn't have to have this conversation again, even if she knew, they would have to. Maria nodded her head, no longer interested in what Pepper had to say.

Pepper checked just to be sure. "So what do Mommy and Maria have?"

Maria paused and thought about the question before saying a strange word that sounded similar to the answer Pepper was looking for. Pepper let out a sigh of relief as she began to clean up the mess she made.

She was filling up a plate for Tony when he came down the stairs tugging at one of his many ties. The room was silent until Maria looked up from her food and shouted out "Daddy! You have an e-nis!"

An awkward silence hung over the room as everyone looked at Maria with shocked looks on their faces. Tony not understating that Maria and Pepper had a conversation prior to him coming down stairs spit out an almost unrecognizable 'what?'

This allowed Maria to explain to her father, in mismatched words the difference between boys and girls. Tony's eyes were wide with terror as his three year old explained to him not only her body parts, but his.

When she was finished he coughed a little trying to figure out what he should say. Maria looked to Pepper when her father hadn't responded and asked her very softly 'right Mama?' to which Pepper nodded her head very embarrassed, and appraised Maria.

Maria continued on eating her breakfast as Tony still stood in the kitchen flabbergasted over what had just happened. It explained why Maria had acted so strangely in the shower earlier, and in a way he expected this to happen. Maria after all couldn't shower with her parents for the rest of her life.

Pepper had looked at Tony, her face was twisted in such a way that she was trying to tell him, she was sorry. Tony tightly clenched his jaw and finally spoke for the first time since Maria's long explanation. "Looks like someone won't be showing with me anymore." He said calmly, Pepper tried to hold back a giggle.

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