A/N: Ahh... I'm terribly sorry for such a late update. Have been completely busy this whole week. I just started a new job on Monday and it takes about an hour just to get to work and an hour to get back home. So I haven't really had any time at all to sit down and do pretty much anything other than eat, sleep, wake up, repeat cycle. Thank god for weekends is all I have to say. This update isn't as nicely written as I would have liked it to be. It was rushed and not to mention a little bit shorter than I would normally like it to be. I just wanted to get a chapter out cause I feel so bad for not updating it sooner. I think from now on I'll update on weekends. Enjoy the chapter, it's written in Pepper's POV.
"Mommy..."
"Hmm..."
"I don't understand this."
"What don't you understand?" she asked softly as she glanced from her computer screen to the frowning expression plastered across Jared's face from the other table several steps from hers.
"Daddy always said to work problems out slowly and I did," Jared grumbled as he sifted through a few of his drawings.
She raised a brow as she stood up and made her way to him. Sometimes, it was in that brief moment as she walked toward him that she swore he looked like a miniature Tony working like he did many years ago. She smiled warmly at his serious expression and how innocent and adorable he looked sitting at the table that was once his fathers.
She sat herself down at one of the opposite chairs and stared down at the pieces of paper scattered across the table. She raised a brow as she reached for a particular drawing in the shape of a car.
"What are you trying to do?" she asked as she studied the drawing.
"I'm trying to calculate the fastest route Happy can take to drive me to school."
She blinked as she gazed at him wondering plainly how he went from drawing and colouring to calculating the fastest route to take to school.
"Jarvis said that the fastest route is this one," Jared mumbled as he pointed the route on the map. "But, because of traffic it slows us down."
"Where did you get all of this?" she asked.
"Jarvis found it for me," he answered as if it were the most obvious answer.
"But I thought you were colouring..." she frowned as she glanced at the various points he had placed on the map in front of him.
"I am," he answered softly, "I'm colouring the possible roads to take to school."
"Did you draw this map?" she asked, her eyes narrowed as she studied his well detailed drawing of Malibu.
He briefly glanced at her and nodded before he tapped the pencil at his head again. "Jarvis helped me..." he murmured as he narrowed his eyes at the map before him.
"When did you do all of this?" she asked, curiously wondering how he managed to find the time to even do this without her knowledge.
"This morning."
She raised a brow.
"Jarvis showed me a picture through the PDA daddy gave me," he explained as he lifted the rather large PDA to let her have a closer look.
"You've got a direct link to Jarvis in that PDA?"
He sighed and explained, "No, but daddy said if I ever wanted or needed Jarvis' help I can patch it through with the closest network in range."
She narrowed her eyes and mustered, "You hacked through Stark Industries?"
"Daddy said I'm allowed to only hack into Stark Industries when I want too but I'm not allowed to hack anywhere else unless it's an emergency."
She sighed and thought plainly, she was going to have a serious talk with Tony...again.
