Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last conversation. You are all wonderful. We are still in the "bad choices were made" timeline. We are going to be here for at least another chapter after this one.
Conversation 9: Steve and Tony can't deal with their feelings part II
Tony Potts: Steve texted me and yet neglected to mention his alternate timeline houseguest before making up some weird excuse to end the conversation.
Counselor Laura: That does not surprise me at all. I think I hear him and May yelling in the hallway right now. I also hear Simmons crying. I am also 99% sure she's drunk right now. I would know.
Tony Potts: Okay, maybe it wasn't entirely an excuse. I know from Deke and my nanny that the Simmons situation is unstable I.e. Deke tried to get her in rehab three times in the last year alone. It must be worse with him being gone.
Tony Potts: But Steve could've started with "Hey, Tony, we need you to come to the compound because we fucked up."
Tony Potts: Like I would love it if for once, Steve would say, "Sorry, I screwed up, and I need you. Please come help me." Why is that so hard for him to say?
Counselor Laura: Is it safe to assume that Mr. May-Rogers never worked with a therapist to deal with any of his issues? Has anybody here seen a therapist?
Tony Potts: I don't know. Stevie bear works as a counselor at a community center somewhere in Brooklyn. Although I doubt that he's gotten help himself. He's too busy trying to save everyone else to save himself.
Counselor Laura: I understand that. Too well. I'm also starting to wonder who in the universe I pissed off to have to deal with "Tony and Steve can't deal with their feelings" part two because you know it's not just him. You also have a saving people problem.
Tony Potts: I think this is at least part three. Part two would've been after the purple one beat the fuck out of us. We didn't truly talk again after that until I got an invitation to his wedding.
Tony Potts: Actually, if he spoke to me before then, there may not have been a wedding. I could have helped May get custody of her kids with the legal team. But no, he just had to do it himself. Is it really that hard to ask for help? Or is it only hard for him to ask for my help?
Counselor Laura: That must've been brutal. Also, it's always hard for people to ask for help. I relapsed three times before I agreed to go to rehab. It's even harder to ask again when you've been rejected before.
Tony Potts: You do have a point. You're right, I did not react well to Steve getting married even knowing that it was a semi platonic thing to get children. Like I had to schedule my own trip to rehab the day after the ceremony. Pepper left.
Counselor Laura: But she came back? You have a house in the woods in upstate New York together?
Tony Potts: She realized she was three months pregnant with Morgan. I needed three DNA tests before I believed her, which might be why we are still just publicly engaged after all these years.
Tony Potts: Pepper mostly stays in the house in Manhattan, and I prefer to be with Morgan by the lake. It makes sense because Pepper is the CEO of SI. Of course, we mostly do survival stuff now because of Deke. We took over his think tank and made him our chief creative officer about 3 1/2 years ago.
Counselor Laura: Someday, we're going to have to have a conversation about that, but I'm more curious about Morgan's existence.
Tony Potts: Because I'm assuming Dr. Stark-Rogers is very sterile?
Counselor Laura: Yes. Friday and the Princess created an LMD child for him since the state of New York did not want to let him adopt or even be a foster parent at the time. Wanda, who is married to Vision, gave her a bit of a stone boost. So, she's as close to human as possible and still be synthetic.
Tony Potts: Considering what Thanos is about to do, that's probably the safest thing.
Counselor Laura: Possibly. Although they have no trouble with you fostering now, even with Steve moving back soon. See picture attached.
Counselor Laura: Although Miles is the son of two of your employees who are doing a special rebuilding project in Puerto Rico and Dr. Stark-Rogers is taking care of him in the interim.
Tony Potts: Good to know. Although how did I end up the foster parent of Peter's biggest high school antagonist?
Counselor Laura: I can't tell you most of it because it's classified, but Flash and Peter are sort of friends now.
Tony Potts: OK, I don't think I want to know.
Tony Potts: So, when the purple asshole took out half of life in the universe down to the amoeba level, he decided to make it so I could have children. The result was Morgan
Counselor Laura: Granted, I've been told Thanos' motives through my Robin's visions, but I thought he wanted to destroy half of life so the other half could thrive. Genocidal population control if you will. Isn't eliminating fertility issues counter to that?
Tony Potts: I think it's just me. There have been no widespread reports of previously unfertile people being able to have children.
Counselor Laura: When Steve and May came to your house last week to asked you to help with their Time travel project, why did you say no? Was it because of Morgan? Because you don't want to leave her behind if things go badly.
Tony Potts: Because I don't want her to poof out of existence if we undo everything.
Tony Potts: Fuck! That's his plan to make sure I wouldn't help. Evil, manipulative asshole.
Counselor Laura: I don't think anybody would want that. I mean, it wouldn't just be Morgan. It would be any baby born in the last five years. That would be repeating what Thanos did. That wouldn't be right.
Counselor Laura: It would just be better to bring those that were snapped out of existence back, even if it would be five years in the future.
Counselor Laura: Tony?
Counselor Laura: Are you still there?
Counselor Laura: Tony?
To be continued
I had this idea for a while that Tony was able to conceive Morgan because of stone magic. It was the purple one's backup plan to keep Tony from messing up his vision. Although I bet, he didn't plan on Tony figuring that out. More to come.