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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""I can't believe you haven't told you your families yet!" A heavily pregnant Virginia Potts (Pepper) (Iron Woman) said looking at her adopted a name="_Hlk102572848"/a22-year-old son, Peter Parker (Pete) (Spider-man). "Are you a name="_Hlk102573668"/anervous, kid?" Anthony Stark (Tony) (Iron Man) asked, grinning mischievously. Pepper smiled as her husbands entered the room, "Don't worry son," Colonel James Rhodes (Rhodey) (War Machine) said frowning at his husband, "I will make sure your dad behaves himself." "Thanks, Pa," Peter said, smiling in relief at a name="_Hlk102573314"/aRhodey. The only people that knew that Peter was involved in a a name="_Hlk102574891"/aPolyamory relationship with his best friends were his adopted parents, Pepper, Tony and Rhodey as the three of them were in Polyamory marriage./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""It's going to be ok," 22-year-old Michelle Jones (MJ) whispered to her partners of 8-years, Peter and 22-year-old Edward Leeds (Ned). "How is the pregnancy coming along? Any idea on the gender?" Maybelle Parker (May) asked Pepper with interest as she helped herself to wine. Pepper grinned happily, "the babies are due any time now, Tony is hoping for a girl, Rhodey doesn't care as long as the babies are healthy." Mr Mrs Leeds frowned in silent disapproval; they didn't approve of this type of relationships. "Are you looking forward to being a big brother, Peter?" Dr Stephen Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) asked, "I am," Peter answered "Just nervous," "I am sure you will do fine," Harold Hogan (Happy) said smiling. After dinner, they all moved to the lounge for coffee. "There is something we need to tell you," MJ said confidently, not caring what anyone thought. Mrs Leeds looked at her son expectantly, "Well first," Ned began in a false confident voice, "I am a a name="_Hlk102644887"/asorcerer in training with Master Strange. And have been in an 8-year Polyamory relationship with my best friends MJ and Peter." "And the three of us are engaged to get married," Peter added as the three of them put their engagement rings on. Everyone started speaking at once, until Tony shouted that everyone should shut up. "May you can first, no one speaks until it's their turn," Pepper said firmly, since no one wanted to mess with an angry hormonal pregnant woman they all nodded in agreement. "Pete, you are my nephew. The only family I have left. I will love and support you no matter what." "Thanks, Aunt May," Peter said, hugging her. "I cannot support this, whatever this is." Mrs Leeds said in disapproving anger. "First you tell us you're involved in witchcraft and now this!" "This is your doing, Stark!" Mr Leeds said, pointing at Tony, "If Peter and Ned had never met you, they would never be like this." Tony stood up angrily to defend himself, but Ned beat him to it, "If it weren't for Mr Stark and Master Strange, I would be in jail for computer hacking!" Ned said in cold anger, "Get out and never come back!" Once they had left, Ned broke down./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"It was a month before the wedding and due to MJ's parents dying two years ago, she had asked Happy to walk her down the aisle. Sadly, Ned's parents were still refusing to talk to him. MJ and Pepper had been discussing wedding venues when Pepper went into labour. "Are you ok?" MJ asked her mentor in concern, "My water just broke," Pepper whispered, placing her hand on her belly. "Let's get you to the Medbay," MJ said helping Pepper up, "Friday," MJ said speaking to Tony's AI, "please inform Dr Bruce Banner (Hulk), Dr Cho, Tony and Rhodey that we're on the way to Medbay; and that Pepper's water broke." "I have done so." Friday replied, "They have asked me to inform that they will meet you there."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"Four hours later, Pepper had given birth to a boy and girl. They had named the girl a name="_Hlk117616618"/aTambry Rhodes-Stark and the boy Stanley Rhodes-Stark (Stan). "You are going to be great parents," Bruce said smiling at the new family, "You really think so?" Tony asked uncertainly, looking up from his daughter. "You have already proven yourself with Peter." Bruce said, reassuring his friend. "I did. Didn't I." Tony said with more confidence as he lay his daughter in the crib next to his son./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;" align="center"strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"uspan style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The Spell/span/u/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The wedding had been beautiful. MJ looked beautiful as she walked down the aisle towards Ned and Peter. The only grey cloud was Ned's family refusing to attend. Happy found himself seated at the same table as May and Dr Strange. "It looks like we almost out of wine," Happy said thinking it would be a good excuse to leave. "No need, allow me," Dr Strange said as the bottle refilled its self. "And please call me Stephen,"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May woke up with a groan. She hadn't had this much to drink since her collage days. She heard a voice next to her ask, "May, is that you? You look different." May looked slowly at the voice next to her, it was Happy he too looked different. "I see you're awake," Dr Strange said, entering the room with two cups of coffee, "I was just about to wake you, breakfast will ready soon." Happy and May accepted the coffee with a murmured thanks. "The bathroom is over there, clean clothes over there and the kitchen is down the hall on the left," and with that he left the room./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""Where are we?" was the first thing Happy asked when the three of them sat down for breakfast, "You are at my home, The a name="_Hlk102681380"/aSanctum Sanctorum," Dr Strange said without blinking, "Did the three of us…?" May asked, not sure if she wanted to know the answer. "Yes, the three of us did have sex last night," Dr Strange said impatiently, causing May to blush. "How come we look different?" Happy asked, narrowing his eyes suspiciously at the sorcerer. "You were de-aged, during our drunken state you found a de-ageing spell and I agreed to preform it. We all know the same age. 35 years old."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May didn't know if she wanted to laugh or cry when she found out she was pregnant. Benjamin Parker (Ben) and May had tried for years to get pregnant and never succeed and after a one-night stand, bam, it happened. She had been wondering for days who the father was, she knew Happy would step up and take responsibility, but she wasn't sure about Dr Strange. Picking up her phone, she sent both men a text message./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The three of them meet at May's favourite café for lunch, "I assume there is a reason you asked us to meet you," Happy stated as the waitress came to take their order. "I thought we could get to know each other outside the bedroom," May smiled, blushing at the memory. "I think it's a good idea." Dr Strange said in approval. "How are the twins?" May asked, Happy chuckled thinking of the twins fondly, "they're definitely keeping their parents on their toes both Tony and Rhodey say Tambry is only allowed to date when she is 30." "When are the newly-weds returning?" Dr Strange asked. "Sometime next week," May said thoughtfully, Dr Strange didn't know what made him ask, but before he could stop himself, he asked "Would you two like to come over to the Sanctum for dinner and movie?" "We would love to, Stephan," May said with genuine sincerity./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"Happy was the first to arrive, "I come bearing gifts," he said, putting an ice cream container on the kitchen table. "You didn't have to worry," Dr Strange said from the stove wear his was busy cooking the rice. "I doubt Tony will miss it," Happy said with a smirk, "In that case," Dr Strange said as both men chuckled. "What flavour is it?" "Spiderberry and Cream, a new flavour from Ben Jerry." Happy said putting the ice cream in the freezer. They both looked up as the doorbell rang, "Don't worry Stephan, I will get it," Happy said going to let May in. May greeted both men by kissing them on the check, causing them to look at each startled. "I hope you like The Mummy?" May asked, appearing not to notice the reactions she caused. Later that evening, the three of them fell asleep, huddled together on the couch./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The newlyweds had returned from their honeymoon, both Ned and MJ had decided to change their last name to Parker. After Ned's fall out with his family and MJ's constant verbal abuse from her parents before their deaths, it was understandable. They had invited May over for tea and she was looking forward to seeing them. "How was the honeymoon?" May asked as Ned waved his hand, causing tea to appear in front of them. "It was amazing!" MJ gushed, "These two spoiled me rotten!" May noticed Peter was looking at her oddly. "May, are you ok? You look different?" Peter asked with concern. "You kind of look like you got hit by a de-ageing spell." Ned added, "Not that you look old!" Ned added quickly as MJ hit him across the back of his head. Peter decided to get straight to the point, "Are you pregnant? I can hear two more heart beats." "Peter!" MJ hissed, "You can't say things like that!" "It's ok," breaking down, she told them everything. From waking up in the Sanctum Sanctorum, the dates, and how she had developed deep feelings for both men. MJ went and put a comforting arm around the older woman, vowing to beat Happy and Dr Strange if they dare hurt May./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May knew she couldn't hide the pregnancy forever. She was in her sixth month. She looked out her apartment window to see a grey sky with the promise of rain. May heard the doorbell ring, she opened to find both men standing outside. "Come in," she said dully, pointing towards the lounge, "We need to talk." Both men exchanged surprised looks but said nothing. "I am going to have my say first, then you can speak." May said looking them in the eye. "Happy, Stephan, I have fallen madly in love with both of you and want to be with both of you." May took a deep breath before continuing, "I know I should have said something sooner, but I didn't want you to stay out of oblation. After our night together, I found out I am pregnant." The silence that followed was deafening until it broken by Dr Strange who shot up happily, "We're going to be fathers!" First kissing May and then Happy on the lips, "I came here to declare my love for both of you, and ask you to both to move in with me, but your news is better." Happy smiled shyly, taking two ring boxes from his pocket, "I was hoping to ask you both to marry me, but it looks like we all had the same idea." Happy said, placing a ring on Dr Strange's and May's ring finger./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"After May and Happy had moved in with Dr Strange, they had told everyone they were engaged and that May was pregnant. Only a handful of people were surprised. Tony and Rhodey had teased Happy non-stop, Happy and May decided to change their last name to Strange instead of going for a double barrel name. It was a small wedding; they were planning to go on their honeymoon once the babies were born./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"It was a week after the week after the wedding when May went into labour. "Wake up!" May hissed, poking at both her husbands, "My water just broke!" "Happy, let Bruce and Dr Cho know we on our way, I will open a portal to Medbay." Dr Strange said in a false calm voice. Four hours later May had given birth to two boys, Fredrick (Fred) Strange and Duncan Strange. "Are you happy, love?" Dr Strange asked his wife and husband. May looked at her children and husbands, "I have everything I ever wanted," she said softly, "What more could I want?" Both men kissed her gently on the check as visitors streamed into the room./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""I can't believe you haven't told you your families yet!" A heavily pregnant Virginia Potts (Pepper) (Iron Woman) said looking at her adopted a name="_Hlk102572848"/a22-year-old son, Peter Parker (Pete) (Spider-man). "Are you a name="_Hlk102573668"/anervous, kid?" Anthony Stark (Tony) (Iron Man) asked, grinning mischievously. Pepper smiled as her husbands entered the room, "Don't worry son," Colonel James Rhodes (Rhodey) (War Machine) said frowning at his husband, "I will make sure your dad behaves himself." "Thanks, Pa," Peter said, smiling in relief at a name="_Hlk102573314"/aRhodey. The only people that knew that Peter was involved in a a name="_Hlk102574891"/aPolyamory relationship with his best friends were his adopted parents, Pepper, Tony and Rhodey as the three of them were in Polyamory marriage./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""It's going to be ok," 22-year-old Michelle Jones (MJ) whispered to her partners of 8-years, Peter and 22-year-old Edward Leeds (Ned). "How is the pregnancy coming along? Any idea on the gender?" Maybelle Parker (May) asked Pepper with interest as she helped herself to wine. Pepper grinned happily, "the babies are due any time now, Tony is hoping for a girl, Rhodey doesn't care as long as the babies are healthy." Mr Mrs Leeds frowned in silent disapproval; they didn't approve of this type of relationships. "Are you looking forward to being a big brother, Peter?" Dr Stephen Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) asked, "I am," Peter answered "Just nervous," "I am sure you will do fine," Harold Hogan (Happy) said smiling. After dinner, they all moved to the lounge for coffee. "There is something we need to tell you," MJ said confidently, not caring what anyone thought. Mrs Leeds looked at her son expectantly, "Well first," Ned began in a false confident voice, "I am a a name="_Hlk102644887"/asorcerer in training with Master Strange. And have been in an 8-year Polyamory relationship with my best friends MJ and Peter." "And the three of us are engaged to get married," Peter added as the three of them put their engagement rings on. Everyone started speaking at once, until Tony shouted that everyone should shut up. "May you can first, no one speaks until it's their turn," Pepper said firmly, since no one wanted to mess with an angry hormonal pregnant woman they all nodded in agreement. "Pete, you are my nephew. The only family I have left. I will love and support you no matter what." "Thanks, Aunt May," Peter said, hugging her. "I cannot support this, whatever this is." Mrs Leeds said in disapproving anger. "First you tell us you're involved in witchcraft and now this!" "This is your doing, Stark!" Mr Leeds said, pointing at Tony, "If Peter and Ned had never met you, they would never be like this." Tony stood up angrily to defend himself, but Ned beat him to it, "If it weren't for Mr Stark and Master Strange, I would be in jail for computer hacking!" Ned said in cold anger, "Get out and never come back!" Once they had left, Ned broke down./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"It was a month before the wedding and due to MJ's parents dying two years ago, she had asked Happy to walk her down the aisle. Sadly, Ned's parents were still refusing to talk to him. MJ and Pepper had been discussing wedding venues when Pepper went into labour. "Are you ok?" MJ asked her mentor in concern, "My water just broke," Pepper whispered, placing her hand on her belly. "Let's get you to the Medbay," MJ said helping Pepper up, "Friday," MJ said speaking to Tony's AI, "please inform Dr Bruce Banner (Hulk), Dr Cho, Tony and Rhodey that we're on the way to Medbay; and that Pepper's water broke." "I have done so." Friday replied, "They have asked me to inform that they will meet you there."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"Four hours later, Pepper had given birth to a boy and girl. They had named the girl a name="_Hlk117616618"/aTambry Rhodes-Stark and the boy Stanley Rhodes-Stark (Stan). "You are going to be great parents," Bruce said smiling at the new family, "You really think so?" Tony asked uncertainly, looking up from his daughter. "You have already proven yourself with Peter." Bruce said, reassuring his friend. "I did. Didn't I." Tony said with more confidence as he lay his daughter in the crib next to his son./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The wedding had been beautiful. MJ looked beautiful as she walked down the aisle towards Ned and Peter. The only grey cloud was Ned's family refusing to attend. Happy found himself seated at the same table as May and Dr Strange. "It looks like we almost out of wine," Happy said thinking it would be a good excuse to leave. "No need, allow me," Dr Strange said as the bottle refilled its self. "And please call me Stephen,"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May woke up with a groan. She hadn't had this much to drink since her collage days. She heard a voice next to her ask, "May, is that you? You look different." May looked slowly at the voice next to her, it was Happy he too looked different. "I see you're awake," Dr Strange said, entering the room with two cups of coffee, "I was just about to wake you, breakfast will ready soon." Happy and May accepted the coffee with a murmured thanks. "The bathroom is over there, clean clothes over there and the kitchen is down the hall on the left," and with that he left the room./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;""Where are we?" was the first thing Happy asked when the three of them sat down for breakfast, "You are at my home, The a name="_Hlk102681380"/aSanctum Sanctorum," Dr Strange said without blinking, "Did the three of us…?" May asked, not sure if she wanted to know the answer. "Yes, the three of us did have sex last night," Dr Strange said impatiently, causing May to blush. "How come we look different?" Happy asked, narrowing his eyes suspiciously at the sorcerer. "You were de-aged, during our drunken state you found a de-ageing spell and I agreed to preform it. We all know the same age. 35 years old."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May didn't know if she wanted to laugh or cry when she found out she was pregnant. Benjamin Parker (Ben) and May had tried for years to get pregnant and never succeed and after a one-night stand, bam, it happened. She had been wondering for days who the father was, she knew Happy would step up and take responsibility, but she wasn't sure about Dr Strange. Picking up her phone, she sent both men a text message./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The three of them meet at May's favourite café for lunch, "I assume there is a reason you asked us to meet you," Happy stated as the waitress came to take their order. "I thought we could get to know each other outside the bedroom," May smiled, blushing at the memory. "I think it's a good idea." Dr Strange said in approval. "How are the twins?" May asked, Happy chuckled thinking of the twins fondly, "they're definitely keeping their parents on their toes both Tony and Rhodey say Tambry is only allowed to date when she is 30." "When are the newly-weds returning?" Dr Strange asked. "Sometime next week," May said thoughtfully, Dr Strange didn't know what made him ask, but before he could stop himself, he asked "Would you two like to come over to the Sanctum for dinner and movie?" "We would love to, Stephan," May said with genuine sincerity./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"Happy was the first to arrive, "I come bearing gifts," he said, putting an ice cream container on the kitchen table. "You didn't have to worry," Dr Strange said from the stove wear his was busy cooking the rice. "I doubt Tony will miss it," Happy said with a smirk, "In that case," Dr Strange said as both men chuckled. "What flavour is it?" "Spiderberry and Cream, a new flavour from Ben Jerry." Happy said putting the ice cream in the freezer. They both looked up as the doorbell rang, "Don't worry Stephan, I will get it," Happy said going to let May in. May greeted both men by kissing them on the check, causing them to look at each startled. "I hope you like The Mummy?" May asked, appearing not to notice the reactions she caused. Later that evening, the three of them fell asleep, huddled together on the couch./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"The newlyweds had returned from their honeymoon, both Ned and MJ had decided to change their last name to Parker. After Ned's fall out with his family and MJ's constant verbal abuse from her parents before their deaths, it was understandable. They had invited May over for tea and she was looking forward to seeing them. "How was the honeymoon?" May asked as Ned waved his hand, causing tea to appear in front of them. "It was amazing!" MJ gushed, "These two spoiled me rotten!" May noticed Peter was looking at her oddly. "May, are you ok? You look different?" Peter asked with concern. "You kind of look like you got hit by a de-ageing spell." Ned added, "Not that you look old!" Ned added quickly as MJ hit him across the back of his head. Peter decided to get straight to the point, "Are you pregnant? I can hear two more heart beats." "Peter!" MJ hissed, "You can't say things like that!" "It's ok," breaking down, she told them everything. From waking up in the Sanctum Sanctorum, the dates, and how she had developed deep feelings for both men. MJ went and put a comforting arm around the older woman, vowing to beat Happy and Dr Strange if they dare hurt May./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"May knew she couldn't hide the pregnancy forever. She was in her sixth month. She looked out her apartment window to see a grey sky with the promise of rain. May heard the doorbell ring, she opened to find both men standing outside. "Come in," she said dully, pointing towards the lounge, "We need to talk." Both men exchanged surprised looks but said nothing. "I am going to have my say first, then you can speak." May said looking them in the eye. "Happy, Stephan, I have fallen madly in love with both of you and want to be with both of you." May took a deep breath before continuing, "I know I should have said something sooner, but I didn't want you to stay out of oblation. After our night together, I found out I am pregnant." The silence that followed was deafening until it broken by Dr Strange who shot up happily, "We're going to be fathers!" First kissing May and then Happy on the lips, "I came here to declare my love for both of you, and ask you to both to move in with me, but your news is better." Happy smiled shyly, taking two ring boxes from his pocket, "I was hoping to ask you both to marry me, but it looks like we all had the same idea." Happy said, placing a ring on Dr Strange's and May's ring finger./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"After May and Happy had moved in with Dr Strange, they had told everyone they were engaged and that May was pregnant. Only a handful of people were surprised. Tony and Rhodey had teased Happy non-stop, Happy and May decided to change their last name to Strange instead of going for a double barrel name. It was a small wedding; they were planning to go on their honeymoon once the babies were born./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA;"It was a week after the week after the wedding when May went into labour. "Wake up!" May hissed, poking at both her husbands, "My water just broke!" "Happy, let Bruce and Dr Cho know we on our way, I will open a portal to Medbay." Dr Strange said in a false calm voice. Four hours later May had given birth to two boys, Fredrick (Fred) Strange and Duncan Strange. "Are you happy, love?" Dr Strange asked his wife and husband. May looked at her children and husbands, "I have everything I ever wanted," she said softly, "What more could I want?" Both men kissed her gently on the check as visitors streamed into the room./span/p
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