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One fine morning, Morgan comes running from her playroom and demands to have a little desk to do her art work on. When Pepper suggested they'll get her one for her room, she said she only wanted one in her dad's workshop.
After a few more talks, they decided she could work in a part of her fathers office only if he doesn't have any dangerous hardware out.
That is how Tony came across a photo with him and another person that kept fading in and out of view.
"Friday, what's wrong with this picture?"
"If you are asking about it's nature, it's a photo frame and poses no threat boss."
"No I mean this other person in the photo, it's like one of those old 3D pictures. I look at it from one angle it looks like there's a guy, and then I look at it again and he's gone", he questions, puzzled tilting the frame to catch a glimpse of what he saw.
Friday after a full ten seconds of silence, "It seems like the person was erased from the picture but only after it was printed and framed"
Eyes snapping away from the picture and towards the ceiling, "I'm sorry darling, what? Photoshop I get, you're saying that this part of the picture was erased after it was printed? What, did I accidentally use bleach on this at some point"
Wouldn't be the first time anyway, he reminisces.
"I'm afraid that's all I know boss"
Heaving a long sigh and deciding to work on the picture later, he puts the photo frame on his work bench and continues clearing the space.
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Once he had put away every harmful thing he could find, and by put, I mean stuff it into a cupboard until he can find a use for it later, he calls for Morgan, "Maguuuuna"
She hums her response with her entire concentration still on her breakfast cereal. Tony enters the dining room and goes behind her back putting a blindfold over her eyes causing her to look around before turning back, "I've got a surprise for you"
He picks her up with the blindfold still in place and starts walking towards the workshop. Setting her down on one of the stools, he takes off the blindfold and manages to cover his ears right before she starts squealing.
"Oh my God! This is the best surprise ever!", she opens some drawers and looks around to see what she can work with.
"Better surprise than Gerald?"
"No", she deadpanned
"Ok wow, that mood shift could seriously give someone whiplash. Anyway you wanna start drawing or...?"
"Yup", she picks one of the sparkly crayons and waves it in his face.
More than satisfied with his daughter's reaction, swatting the crayon away, he goes back to his own desk and is reminded of the anomaly photo on his desk. He picks it up once again and finds that he can now somehow spot a few more glimpses of what appears to be a boy, a teenager to be exact.
Now that's another weird thing to add to the list, he doesn't know any teenagers except for maybe that tree guy he heard about from Steve but they've never even met.
Tossing the frame between his hands, his mind suddenly fills with laughter, a boy's laughter. Surprised by the sudden noise he loses grip on the frame and drops it. He looks around the workshop for the source of the sound, finding nothing he discreetly texts FRIDAY to see if it was the AI's doing. Negative. He walks to see if it was coming from outside but finds no one.
"Daddy, Mommy's calling you for coffee!", he hears Morgan call for him from inside the workshop.
"Be right there", once he and Friday check all the surroundings and he's satisfied that there's no one, he goes back inside to Pepper.