Forewarning this chapter has "the talk" terminology
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"Alright Morgan, come on." Steve led Morgan out of the gym.
"Where are we going?"
"You're going to go hang out with Aunt Pepper for a bit, Daddy and I have an important meeting."
"Can I come?" Morgan rocked back and forth on her toes in the elevator.
"Not today sweetheart. Besides, Aunt Pepper said she needed your help."
The elevator doors opened at the executive floor and the pair headed towards Pepper's office, where they could hear Tony's laughter through the door.
"Hey baby!" Tony grinned, swooping Morgan into the air. "Have fun?"
"Yep! But Auntie Nat said I have bad posture." Morgan gave an exaggerated pout.
"The audacity."
"Tones? You ready to go?" Steve asked.
"Yeah, yeah ready to deal with Fury." Tony rolled his eyes and headed out the door.
"We still need to talk about that field trip next week." Pepper called after them.
"I'm a busy man Pep!"
"Morgan. I think your Daddy is going to drive me crazy." Pepper shook her head as she headed to her desk. "I have a few emails to finish and then I was thinking we could do some grocery shopping for dinner tonight."
"You're coming to dinner!" Morgan grinned as she rummaged through a basket of whatever nonsense the Stark- Rogers children had left in Pepper's office, pulling out a coloring book and pencils.
"Mhm, I normally do?"
"Not last week."
"I had a meeting." Pepper smiled as she quickly typed. "Any thoughts on what we want to have for family dinner?"
"Pizza." Morgan answered immediately. Pepper chucked as she continued her work, leaving Morgan to her very detailed coloring. The two worked in silence, a rarity for Morgan who often talked just to hear herself talk.
"Aunt Pepper?"
"Yes?"
"My family is real right?" Morgan looked up from the page she had just turned to, which featured a royal family: king, queen, prince, and princess.
"Of course. Why wouldn't it be?" Pepper's head snapped up from her screen to look at the child.
"Dunno." Morgan gnawed on the back of a yellow pencil before deciding to color the queen's crown. "Cassie Henderson said so."
"That your family isn't real?"
"Yeah. Cause I have two daddies, and you can't be born with two daddies." Morgan darted her eyes around the room before dropping her voice to a whisper. "Because daddies only have penises and babies come from vaginas."
Pepper briefly closed her eyes and slowly exhaled through her nose. This was so not what she had planned on doing today.
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"Hey! Leo!" Peter jogged to catch up with the older boy as he headed to the cafeteria.
Leo turned around upon hearing his name and stopped, waiting for Peter to catch up to him.
"What's up?" Leo asked.
"You're coming to dinner tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah?" Leo nodded as the pair moved through the lunch line.
The plastic trays slid along the metal tracks as the duo headed from the lunchstation to the checkout. Whatever the mysterious beige and green food was, clashed horribly with the bright orange lunch tray
"Evie give you any forewarning?"
"No. She's being weird about the whole thing."
Peter scoffed. Sure as shit his sister was weird.
"She's embarrassed or something about our parents. But- it makes sense to lay some groundwork now so tomorrow isn't a nightmare."
"So you have tips?" Leo headed towards one of the back tables where Evie sat.
"Be a good dude? Wear a clean shirt? I dunno, Evie has to talk to you."
The two sat down at Evie's table, which resulted in Evie fixing Peter with a glare.
"We don't hang out at school nerd." She sighed. "Aren't your friends somewhere?"
"You need to tell him about Dad and Pops." Peter said taking a bite of his lunch.
"What's there to say?" Evie rolled her eyes as Peter gave her an impressive stink eye.
"Babe, I'm a planner. If I can be prepared I'd like to." Leo said, trying to keep the peace. "You really try to keep your family under wraps. All I know is that you have a brother, a sister, and two dads."
"Two dads, both overbearing, both public figures, one little sister, extremely high matience, one little brother." She looked at Peter. "Extremely annoying."
"Thank you?" Leo kissed her cheek. "Anything else?"
"I mean I guess my parents are superheroes, or whatever, so that's a thing." Evie shrugged.
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"Your damn kid is Spiderman?" Fury tossed his file into the center of the table with a huff. "How the fuck did you two morons not notice that?"
The room's attention turned to the couple, it was a reasonable question. Not many could sneak past two of the best for months, let alone at fourteen. Peter was truly a genius.
"That's fair." Tony groaned.
"He's a good kid Fury." Steve urged. "He is not going to go all vigilante."
"Besides. Spiderman is very grounded." Tony chuckled.
"Will he work with the Avengers?" Fury asked looking between Tony and Steve.
"No." The answer was unanimous.
"We're not working with kids. Not letting him risk his life." Clint said, his tone growing dark.
"We've told him he can handle petty neighborhood crime." Steve said, informing the director of their decision. "Anything more and there would be serious consequences."
"Neighborhood only?" Fury leafed through his papers. "So long as he doesn't deal with any weapons it's not a problem with me."
Steve let out a breath he didn't know that he had been holding, this meeting had gone remarkably well.
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"So you're my mom?" Morgan and Pepper were headed up to the penthouse.
"I'm not your mom. I'm your Aunt Pepper."
"But I lived in your belly."
"Not all babies come from mothers." Pepper peered into the refrigerator, and began jotting down a list. "Sometimes, a family wants to have a baby but can't-"
"Like Daddy and Papa?
"Exactly." She sighed. Where was Steve when you needed him, he was the ideal person to explain this. "You parents wanted a baby but couldn't have one."
"Because of their boy parts?" Morgan whispered.
"Yes. So they needed someone with... girl parts, a womb-"
"And a vagina?"
"Yes." Pepper was not ready for the talk with Morgan, hopefully Steve and Tony would do an acceptable job this time. "So they asked me if I would help them and have their baby."
"Were Evie and Peter in your belly too?"
"Yep, all three of you." Pepper grinned, she had finished her list, with a final glance in the pantry she snapped the notebook shut. "Pizza for dinner right?"
"Please!"
"Let's grab some groceries and then we can go get pizza." She picked up her purse and took the "team dinner" credit card from the kitchen drawer, headed out the door with Morgan in tow.
