Pepper was making Spaghetti in the kitchen, Morgan sat on the counter top beside her, when Harley arrived home.
Sure, he technically had his own apartment outside of the tower where Peter had practically already moved in with him, his own home, but the tower, where his dad, stepmom and half-sister lived, would always be his home too.
“Hey Mom,” Harley greeted them. “Hey Morgan. Is Dad down in his lab?”
Pepper turned to smile at Harley as she stirred the pot in front of her on the hob.
“Harley!” Morgan squealed.
She flung herself off of the counter in Harley’s direction immediately. Harley barely had time to put his car keys down on the side before she was in his arms, causing him to stumble back a little bit.
Harley chuckled a little and hugged her tightly.
“I’ll take this as your way of telling me that I need to visit more.”
*
Half an hour later, Pepper got JARVIS to call Tony up from the lab, and the four of them sat down at the dinner table to eat together.
Harley slowly chewed and swallowed his mouthful before saying, as nonchalantly as he could given the giddy excitement he had coursing through his veins, “I’m going to marry Peter.”
Tony rolled his eyes, his mouth full of spaghetti.
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
Pepper grimaced and sighed a little.
“Don’t talk with you’re mouthful, Tony. It’s disgusting.”
Tony didn’t reply, but his mouth was empty the next time he spoke so he did listen.
“No, Dad, I mean it. I asked Peter to marry me and he said yes.”
Tony’s eyes grew wide and excited.
“Finally!” he exclaimed. “I’m going to build Peter his own lab right next to mine. ‘Cause I can do that now that he’s going to be my son-in-law; it’s less creepy now than it would have been when he was just your boyfriend.”
“Oh, I’m so happy for you, Darling,” Pepper said, a soft smile on her face. “Ignore your father, he’s being weird but it’s just because he’s overexcited. He’ll calm down about it in a little while.”
Morgan turned to Pepper.
“Why’s Daddy over-cited?”
“Overexcited. It means he’s really happy. Because Harley and Peter are going to get married and have a party where they give each other rings and promise that they will love each other forever and ever,” Pepper explained.
Morgan nods.
Tony is still rambling to himself about the lab he’s going to build Peter, but the other’s aren’t listening to him anymore.
“Are they going to be pretty rings like yours or are they going to be boring like Daddy’s?”
Harley was smiling so widely his cheeks were aching.
“The one’s at the wedding will probably be quite plain, but Harley probably gave Peter a really pretty ring when he asked him to marry him.”
Morgan shot her head up to look at Harley, a determined and curious look on her face.
“Really? Did you?”
Harley just nodded.
God, he loved his family so much.