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Tony's POV
I stared at Birdy in a shocked silence. Her...ba...what?
"What?" I voiced my thoughts. She nodded, her head down.
"I...I have a daughter." She tucked her hair behind her ear. "Her name is Sara Gretchen." Again, what?
"What?" I said again. Birdy sighed and leaned across the table, reaching into her shirt. "That won't distract me now!"
"Not that!" she snapped. She pulled out a locket and held it in her hand, popping the small circle open. A small picture of a baby with little black hair and big brown eyes was in it. I stared at it blankly for a second before looking back up at Birdy.
"What." It appeared that was all I could say at the moment.
"I'm really sorry, Tony," she said, sitting down and snapping the locket back shut, dropping it down her shirt again. "I was going to tell you, really, I just...didn't."
"What else haven't you told me?" I asked slowly. I stared hard at her and she looked up.
"Okay..." She sighed. "I...I'm the one that stole the cookies from the cookie jar."
"Birdy."
"I ate the last of Thor's Doritos and blamed it on you."
"Birdy."
"Thoritos. That's what I'm gonna call them."
"Birdy."
"I was the one that used the last of the toilet paper roll but I didn't replace it."
"Birdy," I said again, my temper rising.
"I was the one that clogged up the toilet last week."
"Birdy!"
"When I was little I had a crush on you!"
That made me stop. "Really?"
"No..." she muttered. "I just wanted to say something that didn't make me seem so terrible..."
"Birdy..."
"I drank your last Mountain Dew."
"Birdy!" I stood up. "Be serious!"
"I am serious!" she exclaimed, standing up as well. "And I'm sorry!"
"Come on," I said, "let's go home." I took her hand and pulled her away, still slightly mad. Not at the fact she had a daughter, but that she never told me.
Steve's POV
"Tony, would you say something?" I heard Birdy asked as the two walked into the house.
"What else is there to say?" he asked her. "You haven't said so much to me, why should I say something to you?"
"Tony," she said, a pleading tone tangled into her voice, "please."
"I just need some time to think." They were right outside the living room, so I looked out. He kissed her once. "Okay?"
She nodded. "Okay." He turned and walked away in the direction of his shop and she covered her face with her hands, groaning.
"Everything okay?" I asked, stepping into the entryway where she was. She flinched and pulled her hands from her face.
"Steve! Gosh, you scared me!"
"I'm sorry," I said honestly.
"It's fine. Just..." She sighed. "It's kinda been a rough day."
"What happened?" I asked. She sighed again.
"Well..." She looked at me. "Uh..."
"You can trust me," I promised. "It's okay." She smiled softly after a moment.
"Okay. Well, uh...I wasn't always how I am now. Sane, stable, grown-up. I used to be...bad."
"Bad?" I repeated. She nodded and twisted her hands.
"Yeah. I was immature, a drunk, a smoker...I wasn't a good person."
I couldn't imagine that, but said, "Ah," nonetheless.
"And in that phase," she went on, "I had this boyfriend for about five years. And in that relationship we...h-had a daughter." That surprised me.
"Really?" I asked. She nodded and pulled a chain with a circle dangling at the end and opened the circle.
"Her name is Sara Gretchen Kardy...well, Jones, I guess it would be."
"She's adorable," I said honestly. She smiled and closed the locket softly, putting it back down her shirt.
"Yeah...I haven't seen her in over a year." She sighed. "Reynolds took her because I wasn't mature enough to be a mother." I assumed Reynolds was her boyfriend. "And I saw him today. Or, he saw me, I guess. He said he'd consider letting me see her again..."
"Oh...Birdy I'm..." I lightly put my hand on her shoulder. "I'm so sorry." She half-smiled at me.
"It's fine. I just wish I could see her again." She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "I might. Never know."
"What's Tony so mad about?" I asked.
"He's upset I never told him about her. I understand. I should have. I was just scared..."
"Of what?" I asked. She looked at me.
"I'm not sure. That he'd break up with me." She shrugged.
"If he broke up with you, he'd be the biggest idiot in the world. You're an amazing person. A kid doesn't change that." The words left my mouth before I could rethink them. But they seemed to work as Birdy's blue eyes widened and she smiled.
"That's one of the nicest things I've ever heard." She suddenly hugged me tight. "Thank you so much." I smiled and hugged back.
"You're welcome." She smelled nice. Like roses. "I'll talk to Tony for you." She looked up at me.
"Thank you, Cap." She leaned up and kissed my cheek. "You're amazing." She sighed and brushed back her hair. "I'm gonna go call Lunaire. Thanks again." She left and I sighed. The thought of being her friend seemed to get harder and harder.
"You in there?" I called, knocking on Stark's shop door.
"Obviously not," he called back. I rolled my eyes and walked in. "What do you want, Capcicle?" he asked, looking up at me through thick goggles.
"You know how upset Birdy is?" I asked him, crossing my arms and raising an eyebrow.
"I assume pretty upset with how often they poop on my car."
"You know what I meant, Stark," I said, narrowing my eyes.
"I know..." He pulled his goggles off and tossed them onto the table. "I just need a little time to cool off. It's a bit surprising to find something like that out. You wouldn't know since you never had a girlfriend before."
"That's not going to do anything, Stark," I said, rolling my eyes at the idiotic insult. He sighed.
"Alright..."
"You should go talk to her," I said."It'll make you both feel better. I don't like...I don't like sadness." I was about to say 'I don't like seeing her this upset', but I caught myself quickly. He looked up at me.
"I will." He walked past me and smiled. "Thanks, Cap." I smiled back.
"You're welcome." I followed him out. I didn't think Tony was the right guy for Birdy. He was a one-night kind of guy, and I thought Birdy deserved better than that. But he made her happy, and that's really what I wanted. Her happiness.
Birdy's POV
"Did he say you could see her?" Lunaire asked anxiously.
"He said he'd think about it," I sighed, fingering the locket around my neck. "I hope he does...I just want her to know me, and that I love her."
"I know you do," Lunaire said, her voice full of sympathy. I sighed and was about to bring up Tony until he walked into the room.
"I gotta go. Bye, Lu." I hung up my phone and looked at him. "Yeah?"
"I wanted to say I'm sorry for overreacting," he said, sitting down on the bed.
"I'm sorry for never telling you," I said, shrugging. "I should have. I feel awful."
"It's okay," he said. "I understand."
"No, it's not okay," I said, but then he kissed me to shut me up.
"It's okay," he said after pulling back. I smiled.
"It's okay."
Steve's POV
At dinner, Birdy and Tony held hands and talked the whole time, paying no one else any attention. It made me glad to see her happy again.
She glanced over at me and smiled slightly, mouthing 'thank you'. I smiled back before Tony kissed her in the middle of her sentence, causing her to roll her eyes and smile at him after he pulled back.
"You're an idiot," I heard her say.
"But I'm your idiot," he replied.
My twin sister and I decided we need twelve Steve's. And I also want seven Tony's. Twelve Steve's because we have to share them, and only seven Tony's because they're all mine. :D
