A/N: And another Christmas comes and goes...All that hype and shopping and eating. I'm full and quite content. Another two weeks of holidays then it's back to work. Oh well, life goes on I suppose. Happy Holidays again!

"So..." he mused as Jared hurried out of the room to the bathroom. "What about Arc Bullet Stark?"

She rolled her eyes, turned to him and said sharply, "No."

"Arc Rocket? Arc Reactor?...I personally think Arc Reactor has a ring to it," he mumbled as he tapped the arc reactor sitting in his chest.

"Haven't we had this argument already?"

"I hardly call it an argument, darling," he mumbled and glanced to her, "It's a discussion and I'm open to ideas."

She sighed as she picked up the scraps of Christmas presents wrapping that Jared had discarded moments earlier. It was Christmas morning and although she was still giddy with excitement about her pregnancy, the very thought about naming their new baby was daunting. They had enough trouble as it is naming Jared and she could only patiently ponder on the thousand other names Tony was going to come up with in the next following months.

She glared at him pointedly and said sharply, "We are not naming our baby after machines or weapons and that's final."

"What about Titanium or Alloy Titanium Stark?"

She narrowed her eyes at him and added, "Or metals either."

"Technically...Titanium and Alloy are actually elements," he pointed out with a deadpanned smirk, "Chemical elements if I'm not mistaken."

"Well, elements or metal or machines, weapons, whatever it is that is related to science or engineering or mathematics."

"Pepper Jr?"

She rolled her eyes at him and tossed the bunched piece of paper wrapping in her hands at him.

He chortled and added, "Or Tony Jr?"

She fought the smirk slipping onto her lips as she tried, "What about Jarvik?"

He raised a brow and looked at her questionably. "Jarvik?"

"Just A Rather Very Intelligent Kid?"

He shook his head seriously and muttered, "No, that'll only make Jared jealous..."

She gasped as the realisation hit her. "I didn't even think about that. How are we going to tell him?"

"Well we will start off by saying that it takes two to-"

"No," she brushed aside and continued, "I'm not explaining baby making to our six year old son."

"Well, you know it's in his nature to ask where babies come from so why bother lying when the truth will suffice?"

"Because he isn't ready for the truth just yet, Tony," she replied insistently, "He's six years old... Wait until he's sixteen."

"Is that really necessary? He'll find out eventually anyway."

"Sometimes, for all your intelligence and greatness you really are quite dense when children are involved."

"Pepper, darling, I never planned to have children and I most certainly did not plan to have more than one child either. I fell in love with you and one thing jumped to another and the next thing I knew, there was Jared in all his magnificence and glory," he explained and reached out to take her hand in his as he continued, "He is probably the most wonderful unplanned thing I've ever done in my life and don't get me wrong, I do love him and want to do the very best I can by him. But give me some credit if my parenting skills are a bit skewed sometimes. If you'd rather we not tell him the exact details then we'll alter them a bit..."

She stared at him for a few moments and basked in his ability to weaken her knees by just simply talking. Sometimes she thought he was more the adult between them than she was. She smiled after a few seconds passed by and leaned down to press a very gentle kiss at her lips.

"Sometimes, I just hate it when you say the most perfect things," she murmured and sighed as she sat beside him.

She felt his arm encircling her shoulders and she leaned back into him as she stared at the Christmas tree.

"Just leave it to me, Pep," he murmured, "I think I have it sorted."

She nodded and smiled lightly beside him, "Somehow I can't help but think it'll result in a horror of some sorts."

"Trust me, Pepper," he added and pressed a kiss at her neck, "I'll give him a very G-rated explanation."