I think I want to do something special for chapter 30. This is my longest story, ever. So 30 seems like a good number to be celebrating. How do you feel about Margo's sweet sixteen, perhaps? I'll come up with something.
- Love-Me-Some-Pie
*Age 13*
Tony drags his hands through his hair lazily; he's going to have to tell her eventually. He'd much rather tell her than have that crazy lady kidnapping her after school or something. Tony groans, slamming his head against the wall (which probably isn't the best idea); he doesn't even know how to approach that subject.
"Oh yeah, by the way Margo your birth mother has been trying to contact you, says she wants to talk to you." Tony mutters to himself, that definitely isn't the right way to say that.
"What?" Margo asks, dropping her backpack in the floor.
Tony's head shoots up from the wall and he blinks at Margo. "Hello Princess." He tries to avoid is earlier statement because that wasn't the way he wanted to tell her. "How was school?"
"Dad...Did you say my mom was trying to contact me?" Margo questions, walking closer to Tony.
Tony inhales deeply; this really wasn't the way he wanted to tell her. "Sit Princess." Tony says, motioning for Margo to sit on the couch. "Sit and I'll explain everything." He digs through his coat pocket looking for the envelope Kendra had given him the other day.
Margo sits on the couch, eyeing Tony. "So you're serious, she's trying to contact me?"
Tony nods, finally finding the letter and placing it on the coffee table before sitting next to Margo. "Yes, Margo, she's been trying to contact you. And if it wasn't for me, I'm pretty sure she would've succeeded by now." Tony sighs, rubbing his eyes. "She came to the house the other day, but you were at school."
Margo keeps her mouth shut, she really doesn't know what to say, what to ask even. The lady who left her (just like her biological Father) wants back in her life, what does someone say to that? "What?" She finally asks, it's the only word she can seem to come up with.
"Margo, she wants to speak to you, wants to see you." Tony says, handing Margo her letter. "She gave me this, told me if I wouldn't let her see you to at least give you this. It's a letter explaining why she left you."
Margo takes the letter slowly, eyes never leaving Tony. "You don't want me seeing her?"
Tony shrugs his shoulder, avoiding eye contact. "Not really."
"Why?"
There's a pain in Tony's chest and he's almost positive it's heartbreak. He's afraid Margo will want to leave him for her. "Just don't."
Margo sighs and lays her head on Tony's shoulder. "You know you'll always be my Dad, right? It doesn't matter if my biological parents show up and suddenly want me in their lives, they didn't raise me. You raised me. So you don't have anything to worry about, you're my family, not them."
Tony's suddenly very reassured that Margo isn't going anywhere and he smiles. "Do you want to talk to her, see her?"
Margo shrugs, flipping the letter in her hands, not really too sure if she wants to open it. "I would like to I guess, but only if you'll come with me." Margo says, stilling flipping the letter.
"Alright, if you really want to see her, we'll go see her." Tony sighs, getting up from the couch and heading for his lab, he needs time to think. He can't believe he's doing this, he can't believe he's letting Margo associate with that crazy lady.