After struggling with trying to take a shower with my leg and injured ribs, I finally managed to get dressed. It took forever!

I walked back down the hallway and spotted Morgan coloring a piece of paper. Pepper and Tony were no where to be found, which kind of confused me. Who leaves a four year old alone?

I crutch over to the table, "Hey kid, whatcha drawing?"

"Olaf. Can't you tell?"

I look at the drawing, and I honestly I couldn't tell that it was suppose to be Olaf but I couln't tell her that.

"Oh definitely. Mind if I join you?"

She shakes her head no, so I grab a black crayon and a sheet of paper and lower myself down on the ground next to her.

Morgan looks excitedly at me and says, "Mommy and Daddy said I could show you around outside after they got dressed."

"Is that where they are?"

She nods.

"So they just leave you alone?"

Morgan giggles, "No silly. FRIDAY's watching me!"

"Friday?" I ask bewildered.

"Yes AJ?" the voice of a unknown female answers.

I jump at least a foot off the ground and Morgan collapses into a fit of laughter. At that moment, Tony walks into the room and stares at us perplexed.

"Why do you look like you've seen a ghost and you are laughing your head off?" he says pointing to Morgan and I respectively.

"FRIDAY scared AJ!" Morgan says as she continues to laugh.

A look of realization crosses Tony's face and then a guilty expresses, "Oh yeah, I knew I forgot to mention something. FRIDAY's my A.I. system who is installed in the table you sitting by and in my garage. She used to run my Ironman suits and still runs my tower."

"Oh yeah cause that's totally normal," I say sarcasm dripping from my voice.

"I must apologize AJ," FRIDAY interrupts, "I did not mean to scare you. I am here to help you if need be."

"Ok um..thanks."
Tony smalls at my disturbed facial expression and decides to change the subject, "Well anyways, Pepper said that we can start the tour without her because something came up with the company. Shall we?" he says gesturing towards the door.

"I think we shall Morgan says skipping outside.

Tony looks apologetically at me, "Sorry. This is going to be a long tour."


"...and over there is where we saw the deer," Morgan finished as she pointed to another spot in the forest. It's been maybe an hour of her talking nonstop showing me the property. My arms were sore from crutching along and the only reason we stopped is because Tony would casually bring up another story and Morgan would stop to listen. We didn't do much walking but I was still tired and sore. It sucks being injured. I'm starting to think Pepper skipped this on purpose. I've seen almost every inch of the property that was in basic walking distance. Tony and Pepper own the rest of the forest for several acres as well as the lake. The lake looked like it would swim in when the weather cooled off. My favorite part was a path that went all the way around the property, even though I didn't get to see all of it. I feel like jogging on that would be fun. Overall, it was a very secluded but interesting area.

"Daddy, can we go hiking this weekend?" Morgan asked hopefully.

"No, sorry kiddo. We gotta wait at least six weeks for AJ to heal before we do anything too active. "

"Oh," she say and then gets a thoughtful look on her face, "so, what are we doing this weekend?"

He shrugs, "It's a surprise."

Morgan starts giggling, "Daddy, when you say that it normally means you don't know what you are doing."

Tony makes a pretend outraged face and says, "Why Miss Stark, how could you ever accuse me of such thing?"

"Because she knows you," I say without thinking.

Morgan bursts out laughing at the shocked expression on her Dad's face and I just shrug my shoulders.

At that moment Pepper walks out of the house and sighs when she sees her husbands face, "What now Tony?"

"The kids are ganging up on me!"

Pepper rolls her eyes and turns back towards the house, "Yeah right Tony," she says and you can hear the smile in her voice.

Morgan and I continue laughing as Tony stalks away. He suddenly turns back and smirks at Morgan, "Fine. I'm just gonna watch Frozen without you then."

Morgan gasps in horror and to run after her dad, "That's not nice Daddy!"

Tony shrugs as he jogs backwards, "You brought this on yourself."

I laugh as I crutch after them. When I get to the house I hear Morgan and Tony arguing over something and Pepper was waiting for me in the kitchen.

"Did you enjoy the property?" she asked as she offered me some water.

I nod, "It's huge!"

She chuckled, "Yeah. Tony loves to go big or go home."

"I was getting that feeling."

"You don't have to watch Frozen. You can always lay down if your tired."

Honestly I was glad she said something. It's not that I didn't like Morgan or Tony, but I didn't really want to watch Frozen.

"Ok. I'll be in my room."

She nods and goes off to join her husband and daughter, while I go towards the hallway that lead to my room. As soon as I entered the room I shut my door behind me and went over to my desk. I pulled out my sketchbook and a pencil.

I flipped through my old drawings and sketches. Some of them were of different places in the city I'd been but a lot of them were of different machine ideas I had thought of. Most of them were just improvements to already existing inventions, but for some reason taking things apart and putting them back together has always relaxed me.

Today I decided I was going to sketch the land that Morgan had shown me.


I woke up to someone gently shaking my shoulder. I practically jumped out of the chair and I looked over to see Tony with his hands held up.

"Easy there. Just came to check on you. Haven't heard from you in two hours."

"It's been two hours?"

He nods, "You must've been tired. I came to see if you wanted any lunch. Morgan wants to throw a tea party."

"Uh yeah. Sure."

He glances at my sketchbook and I briefly have the urge to cover it, but stop myself.

He points at where I stopped, "The path continues around the lake if you want to do a complete picture. You like turkey sandwiches?"

I nod.

"Ok, well see you in a few minutes," and he walks out of the room. It's werid. Tony's the first foster father to not a, laugh at my sketchbook and b, try to take it away. This place really is different.

As I walked out of my room, for the first time I noticed the door directly across open I was about to peer in when Morgan showed up out of nowhere.

"AJ come on! We've gotta have our tea party. All the guests are there except for you!"

"Okay, okay Half-Pint! I'm coming!" I'll have in investigate the room later.

Morgan bounded off and I followed her outside. A little ways from the house was a small tent and what seemed like an army of stuffed animals. Tony and Peeper were also there sitting on a tiny stool.

When I finally got over there and lowered myself to the ground Morgan sighed with relief.

"Finally! You take forever. Okay, we have to go over the official tea party rules."

I raised an eyebrow, "You have official tea party rules?"

She gives me a 'No Duh' expression but she's literally though only four year old I know that makes up rules for a tea party. Granted, she's the only four year old I know and probably the only living person in the world I would participate in a tea party for.

"Okay, first, Daddy's not allowed to cook anything. Second, U Jr. and DUM-E Jr. have to sit by each other because they are best friends,"she points to two stuffed bears that look almost identical, "Second…" she goes on and on about where each bear needs to sit and what I'm allowed to do. A lot of the rules seemed to apply to Tony and not so much Pepper. He's apparently messed up a lot.

"...and also, I will add rules for you depending on your behavior. I suggest you don't follow's Daddy's lead. Petey is as bad as Daddy so he has his own rules but Harley doesn't really. Any questions?"

"Um...nope."

According to the rules of Morgan's Tea Parties, the ladies have to be served first. That included all the female stuffed animals plus Pepper and Morgan, and they all like their tea and turkey sandwhiches differently. Tony and I would be judged by how well we serve everyone, that determines the number of little tiny sandwiches we got.

I looked at my half of the table. I had Mrs. Allen Wrench, Miss Bubbles, Miss Bear, Evangeline, Fancy Nancy, and Morgan.

I served Mrs. Allen Wrench (with imaginary food meant for the toys) first, "Here is your tea with lemon and your sandwich cut into four triangles. "

Then I repeated the process for Miss Bubbles' tea served black with a non-cut sandwich; Miss Bear's tea with two sugars and sandwich cut in half diagonally; Evangline's tea with milk and honey served with a sandwich cut vertically in half with crust on with and no crust on the other half; Fancy Nacy's tea with milk and one sugar with a no crust whole sandwich; and lastly Morgan (with real food) with tea that had lemon and honey and a sandwich cut diagonally with no crusts.

When I finished acting all of that out I looked up and Morgan was beaming at me, Pepper was smiling at me impressed, and Tony was glaring.

"You got a hundred percent! Daddy and my brothers have never gotten one hundred percent!"

"Hey! I could get a hundred percent right now!"

"Oh yeah, prove it," I say as a smirk spreads across my face.

"Watch me!"

Tony gets Pepper's and two of the other dolls correct. He knew all the orders, just not which one went where. Pepper is trying very hard not to laugh at him.

Morgan plain out laughed at her dad's failure and he turned directly at me, "How did you do it? I've been trying for four years."

I shrug, "I've got a good memory I guess. It's not my fault you're old."

He sobers up quickly and points a finger at me, "I resent that."

"Too bad. I'm the one who gets the full sandwich. What do you get?"

"Well the jokes on you because I don't need more than a quarter."

I raise an eyebrow, "Is that why you stole part of Maria's sandwich?"

"DADDY!"

Tony full on glares at me and I burst out laughing, "I did no such thing sweetheart. AJ's just trying to make me look bad."

"Daddy I can see the bite mark."

"Can you?" he says as he grabs the sandwich and hides it behind his back.

"Daddy, that's cheating!"

He points at me, "AJ cheated! I want a rematch!"

"How can we have a rematch if we already served everyone?"

Morgan sits and seriously thinks. She the brightens up and says, "Whoever has the best story."

Tony grinned, "I got this."

"I wasn't done. It cannot include any superheros or princesses or spies or pirates. Capiche?"

Tony grumbled something but nodded, "Okay, I'll go first. Once upon a time…"