Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last conversation. You are all fabulous. We are still in the "better choices" timeline. I wish we could alternate between the two lines, but sometimes it's better to just stay in one timeline for a few chapters before switching. I'm always going to do what's best for the narrative.

Conversation 12: How to plan a reunion in DC

Anthony love: Hey, sweetie pie! Are you still en route to the Lighthouse, or are you heading to the Playground?

Cuddle fiancé: Lighthouse, like you told me to earlier. Why?

Anthony love: Unfortunately, I won't be there. I'm currently on my way to the Playground because I have no control over my schedule.

Cuddle fiancé: Why?

Anthony love: I have a 10 AM with the president where I'm going to have to explain everything that's happened in the last 24 hours. I'm already two Tylenol in for the day.

Cuddle fiancé: Everything?

Anthony love: I'm still trying to figure out how to explain the time-traveling grandchild of Fitzsimmons. He isn't even from the dimension or timeline that he came from. Apparently, he is from another bad timeline because our life is weird.

Cuddle fiancé: ?

Anthony love: So apparently there's an even worse future out there. Cracked earth, inhuman slave trade, and humans on the brink of extinction, thanks to the Kree. Did you meet any Kree yesterday?

Cuddle fiancé: Not in person.

Anthony love: Your adventures with the Confederacy are also going to be on the list. I'm not exactly sure how to start that conversation with the president.

Cuddle fiancé: The truth

Anthony love: Mr. President, yesterday, my boyfriend and the other Avengers team that you're not supposed to know about saved us from aliens. These aliens were trying to invade earth to extract all our resources before the other alien coming to kill us all gets here. He doesn't want to kill us all just half of us by turning them to dust—literally, dust.

Anthony love: I feel like that's going to get me dragged to the nearest psychiatric hospital, and I don't have time for mental health rehab right now.

Cuddle fiancé: Maybe not phrase it like that.

Anthony love: Yeah, I'm not sure there's a way to phrase what's happening without possibly getting a trip to mental health rehab. That's not even going into whatever the fuck happened in Norway. That woman broke Thor's hammer! We can't even lift Thor's hammer. I hope I can keep MJ from seeing that. I hope I can prevent May from seeing that.

Cuddle fiancé: I understand how this can be difficult. I fought against actual aliens yesterday, and I'm not even sure I believe half of what was in the readout of yesterday's meeting. You didn't mention the thing about the hammer.

Anthony love: Because May was already freaking out with her boyfriend missing in a very May way. Joey, Bobbi, the sister-in-law, and Vision will be heading over there to investigate after playing for the cameras in Mumbai. Actually, Bobbi is on her way now because she can't be on camera due to Russian government issues.

Cuddle fiancé: That makes sense.

Anthony love: Baby, nothing makes sense right now. Honestly, I don't believe half the stuff Deke told me. I tuned out half of what he told me and then told him to write it in a report. Ana, has he done that yet?

Ana Jr: Not yet. I will ask him to do so once he returns from breakfast and his tour of the facilities with Simmons this morning.

Anthony love: You're the best Princess. Seriously, try to find out how he ended up the head of SI research and development. If it really happened.

Cuddle fiancé: You don't think it did?

Anthony love: Not really. Seriously why would my other self make him the new head of R&D or whatever after having a kid?

Anthony love: An actual biological child made the old-fashioned way with Pepper. Also, you know I love Pepper Pot, but we probably shouldn't raise a kid together. He had to be making that up. Everybody knows I can't have kids at all.

Anthony love: Well, not without the help of the daughter-in-law and a lot of vibranium.

Cuddle fiancé: Maybe there's some new miracle drug in that timeline?

Anthony love: If there was a miracle drug, I would've found it already.

Cuddle fiancé: Have you talked to the Princess about your infertility issues?

Anthony love: No, because there are some conversations you don't have with your daughter's best friend and "cousin."

Cuddle fiancé: Apparently, Afia is still Friday in the other timeline, so maybe the other you don't have those constraints.

Anthony love: You have a point. Also, DNA tests don't lie. Deke is the grandchild of Fitzsimmons, even though he's about half a decade older than the couple. So, unless that timeline has perfected the ability to age someone up 30 years in 5, I am inclined to at least believe the time travel aspect. As well as us getting our asses handed to us and half the world getting dusted.

Cuddle fiancé: But not other Tony having a kid with Pepper thing?

Anthony love: Or that you and I are barely on speaking terms and only talk about our kids. BTW, your other self allegedly married May and adopted Ms. Marvel, after her whole family got dusted by Thanos.

Cuddle fiancé: Is Coulson dead in that timeline?

Anthony love: Yes. How did you get that from what I just said?

Cuddle fiancé: Because that's the only way May would be married to someone else now. How did he die?

Anthony love: I'm not entirely sure. I'm planning to read through all the files from 2023 sent to us from Friday. I feel like it would be a more reliable source than anything that Deke would put together.

Cuddle fiancé: When you're not briefing the president.

Anthony love: When we are not briefing the president. How do you feel about redirecting to the Playground? I feel like I can use some backup, and we kinda need a distraction. Unfortunately, Mack and Yo-Yo are helping Sharon with a little something in San Francisco, so that leaves you.

Cuddle fiancé: Why do you need a distraction?

Anthony love: Some of the dirt about my now dead number two made it on to the Internet. They believe she died in a car crash yesterday, but some of the stuff about how she treated Ruby is now trending on Twitter. That's bad on its own. I'm regretting NYC child services getting involved because they still don't like me very well.

Cuddle fiancé: Point

Cuddle fiancé: Natasha just told me we're going to the Playground now. May radioed her and changed our route.

Anthony love: Of course, she did.

Cuddle fiancé: She also told Nat that you would give her an update on Daisy when we got there. Nat is worried because she hasn't heard from Daisy since she left for operation Quake Loki.

Anthony love: You didn't tell her?

Cuddle fiancé: That her girlfriend may be in Asgard after battling someone that can apparently break Thor's hammer? No. Did I tell Natasha that Daisy disappeared from Norway with Thor and Loki and hasn't been heard since then? No. You want me to take less risk.

Cuddle fiancé: First, when would I have time? Second, I felt like it's more your place to explain. Also, I don't know all the details because you were rambling and going off on tangents during the meeting yesterday. Your email was worse. I just now found out about the hammer thing. On its own, it is concerning.

Anthony love: I have not been rambling. I think I may have mentioned it, or maybe I didn't. I was going through coffee withdrawal at the time. I was also more worried about Laura because Daisy has superpowers, and the big scary lady was no longer on the planet. Can we just have one apocalypse at a time? Is that too much to ask for?

Cuddle fiancé: I'm quite sure you admitted yourself that you were rambling. Yes.

Anthony love: You're not getting a blow job for a month.

Cuddle fiancé: You know, if we hadn't been doing this long-distance relationship for a year and ½ your threat would be threatening. We haven't even been in the same country since Valentine's Day. I love it when we get to be physically intimate, but I can go without it for a long time.

Anthony love: Just for that, I'm not pulling you into the first empty conference room that we see. No welcome home handjob for you.

Cuddle fiancé: I don't think the Secret Service will allow that anyway.

Anthony love: I was planning to do it at the Playground where I'm the boss, but I'm not anymore because you're a brat.

Cuddle fiancé: You go on telling yourself that. Nat says we will be at the Playground in 40 minutes.

Anthony love: We get there in 5, which will give me time to prepare for Natasha giving me a matching black eye. I wonder if Fitz finished the dermal regenerator. Lily bear has excellent aim for an adolescent.

Cuddle fiancé: I could have told you that after she kicked me in the shin. If I wasn't a super-soldier, she would've broken something.

Anthony love: You deserved it for breaking her daddy's nose. I hope you sent him an apology basket for that.

Cuddle fiancé: I got him a case of beer.

Anthony love: Jeffrey is furious about the bruising. I think he would be even angrier if they need to deal with a second black eye. You can't tell the red spider about Daisy now?

Cuddle fiancé: When she's flying? Absolutely not.

Anthony love: Flaming head can't take over?

Cuddle fiancé: No. We'll see you soon.

Anthony love: You better protect me from your best friend.

Cuddle fiancé: I will always protect you.

To be continued.