This is what I call home
Tony opened up Peter’s backdoor and smiled widely at his happy boy.
“Daddy!” Peter yelled, kicking his feet and reaching up for Tony to take him out of the car seat and pull him into his arms.
“Hi baby. Are you ready to have a picnic?” Tony asked him as he undid the buckles and lifted Peter onto his hip. He grabbed Peter’s now wet clothes and held it with his other hand.
“Yeah! Are-are we gonna go to um, to the park too?” Peter asked his dad and wrapped an arm around his neck.
Tony put the clothes under his arm to grab a bag and help bring it into the house. “Yeah. We can find a nice place with a park.”
Peter bounced excitedly in his arms as they walked into the house where Tony placed him on his feet and tossed the wet clothes onto the floor for now. That was a problem for later on tonight.
“Let’s go get some pants and shoes on you.” Tony said, holding his hand out for Peter to take which he did.
Morgan walked into the house with two bags and placed them on the floor. “Mom said that you need to bring in the baby gates, dad.”
Tony was so caught up with Peter that it completely went over his head that there was stuff to bring it. It was as if right now, his whole world revolved around Peter and in a way, it did.
“Right. Okay, Morg, then can you take Peter upstairs to go pee and get some pants on while I go help mom?” Tony asked, picking Peter up and setting him on his feet by Morgan.
“Yeah. Come on, Peter.” Morgan grabbed Peter’s hand and pulled him up the stairs and into their parents bedroom. “You go pee while I find some pants for you.”
Peter tried to climb onto the bed but Morgan pulled him by the back of his pull-up. “Stop!” Peter screamed but was pulled onto the floor.
“Stop it, Peter. Go into the bathroom.” Morgan told him as she pulled him by his arm but Peter shook his head and screamed. “You’re a baby.”
Peter fell onto his butt and crossed his arms over his chest. “No! I’m not a baby!”
“Are too.”
“Am not!”
“Are too!”
“Am not!” Peter screamed and went to stand up again but Morgan pushed him back down which caused Peter to start crying. “Daddy!”
Morgan immediately got onto her knees by Peter and tried to comfort him because she didn’t want to get in trouble. “Wait. It’s okay. I’m sorry, Peter. It’s okay. Don’t cry.”
Peter wiped at his tears and stopped crying. He sucked in a breath of air and stood up to walk out of the room but Morgan ran to stand in front of the doorway. “Wait. I have to find your pants first and help you go pee.”
“Don’ needa pee, Morgan.” Peter said as he rubbed at his eye.
“Daddy said to just try.” Morgan dragged Peter into the bathroom and over to the toilet where she then placed the potty seat onto the toilet and went to pull the pull-up off of Peter. “I have to take this off first.”
“No! Ahhh!” Peter tried to push Morgan away but she was bigger and stronger than him so she eventually got the pull-up off and tossed it on the ground then went to go pick Peter up. “No! Daddy.”
“I’m gonna tell daddy that you’re bad. Then we’ll go on the picnic without you.” Morgan threatened him and lifted him onto the toilet but she missed and Peter fell onto the floor, landing on his butt between the toilet and the counter.
Peter immediately started crying real tears and stood up to go seek some comfort from his daddy, away from Morgan.
Peter ran out of the bedroom and walked down the stairs as carefully as he could without falling.
He spotted Pepper first and picked up his pace a bit until he was in her arms.
“Oh Peter. What happened?” Pepper put down the groceries and walked over to the stairs to pick Peter up.
Tony walked into the house and immediately heard Peter crying then found him standing on the stairs. His heart broke at the sight of his baby and he wanted to handle it but Pepper beat him to it. He had to remember that Peter was both their kids now.
“Mommy!” Peter cried out and reached desperately for her. She lifted Peter up and pulled her crying child into her arms, setting Peter on her hip and wiping his tears with her free hand.
“It’s okay now. What happened?” Pepper asked and turned around so Tony could help comfort Peter as well.
Peter pointed to the stairs and continued to cry harder then laid his head on Pepper’s shoulder.
Tony rubbed his back. “It’s okay, baby. But can you tell us what happened?”
Peter lifted his head off of Peppers shoulder and reached out for Tony so Tony took him from his wife’s arms and held his baby, rocking him slightly. “Tell daddy what happened?”
Peter pointed to the stairs again. “Morgan! She’s a meanie.”
Pepper nodded in understanding and squeezed Peter’s foot before going upstairs to find out what exactly happened and to hear both sides of the story.
Tony moved Peter onto his hip and wiped all of his tears. “It’s okay. Mommy’s going to find out what happened now. Then we’ll go on our picnic.”
Peter nodded his head and grinned. “Yeah. And go play at the park.”
After raising two kids, Tony still had absolutely no idea how their moods could change so quickly. Even when Peter was a teen, Tony remembers a time where he was crying about putting the wrong sauce on his food and then two seconds later, he was back to be happy and smiling.
It would forever remain a mystery.
Tony walked up the stairs with Peter and then set him on his feet. Peter’s hand immediately held onto his finger as they walked into Morgan’s bedroom where she was hiding under her rocking chair.
Pepper was sitting on the carpet across from her so Tony sat down beside her. “Did you tell mommy what happened?”
Morgan gave a slight head nod and crawled out from under the chair. Peter leaned against Tony’s side and wrapped his arms around his neck.
“Sorry, Peter. I was being rude to you and-and I’ll try my best to not do it again.” Morgan apologized and looked over at Peter through her eyelashes.
Peter shook his head against Tony’s. “You mean.”
“Petey, she apologized so what do you say now?” Tony asked, pulling Peter so he was standing in front of him.
“I say no.” Peter said, trying to sit down in Tony’s lap but Tony didn’t let him.
“No. You hug and you make up. Right?” Tony spoke slowly so that Peter understood.
“Yeah.” The five year old then walked over to Morgan and hugged her. When he pulled away, he was giggling and ran back over to his dad and jumped onto his lap.
“Good. Now that that is out of the way,” Tony stood up with Peter and lifted him into his feet. “do you want to get him ready while I pack the stuff we need?”
Pepper happily took Peter’s hand in hers. “Yep. Say bye daddy. See you when I get some pants on.”
Peter giggled and waved bye to Tony as he was led out of the room. “Bye daddy! See you af’er I get pants on.”
Once the family of four were in the car, Tony typed in their destination on his GPS. Over all the years, he’s memorized where mostly everything was but for some reason the place that they want to go to is impossible for him to memorize with all the off road driving and so that’s when the GPS comes in handy.
Peter was kicking the back of his seat but it wasn’t hard since he could barely reach it but it was enough to start annoying Tony. “Daddy? Daddy? Daddy?”
“What is it, Peter?” Tony asked, looking in his rearview mirror to see that Peter was picking his nose. He smiled fondly and waited for Peter to answer him.
“Oh um, I forgot.” The five year old shrugged his shoulders and tried to tug on his car seat belts but Tony saw.
“Stop that, Peter. Keep your seatbelt on.” Tony warned him, preparing for Peter to start making a big deal about it but he thankfully didn’t and went back to looking out the window.
“Are we there yet?” Morgan asked now that no one was talking in the car.
Tony checked the ata on the GPS and cringed. They had only been in the car for ten minutes and still had an hour and twenty minutes to go. “Not yet, Morg. Did you bring your iPad?”
Morgan reached down to the seat between her and Peter’s car seats and pulled her iPad out of her bag. “Yep. I almost forgot.”
Happy that Morgan was happy, Tony turned the kids music that was playing in the background, tapping his fingers against the steering wheel in the rhythm. No matter how much he tried to deny it, he actually liked listening to kids' music.
It was calming and maybe it was the fact that he only listened to it when his kids were around but still, he liked it.
Two stops and one emergency pull over for Peter to go pee later, they were driving down the excluded dirt road that would lead them to the open field park with a forest ravine surrounding it.
They used to drive there all the time when Morgan was a baby but the trips became less and less as time went on. Depression was hitting Tony harder almost everyday so they had to stop doing a lot of things even if the distraction was fine most of the time.
But now he didn’t have to think about that because right behind him in the back seat was his son.
“We’re here.” Tony announced, parking the car in his own parking spot since there was actually no parking lot, and shutting it off.
“Yay! Woah, it feels so much bigger since the last time we came here.” Morgan took off her seatbelt and leaned over Peppers seat to look out the front window.
Peter was making grabby hands for Morgan to help him out of his car seat. “Me too! Out.”
“I’m coming, Pete.” Tony said and got out of the car, opening up the back door but Morgan was already helping to unbuckle Peter. “Thanks, little miss.”
“You’re welcome, daddy.” Morgan grinned up at her dad and helped Peter get his arms out of the straps. “Do you need help getting out of the car, Pete?”
Peter shook his head and held his arms out for Tony. “No. Daddy. My daddy.”
Pressing a bunch of kisses to his son's face, Tony picked up Morgan with his other arm and walked over to the trunk with both of his babies in his arms. “Look what I found.”
Pepper cooed at the beautiful sight in front of her. She pulled out her phone and snapped a few pictures to have the memory saved forever. That would definitely be going up on the wall.
Tony placed both of his children on the ground and placed a hat on Peter’s head. Peter immediately took it off to look at what was placed on his head. “Keep it on, Pete, because it’s hot. See, Morgan has one.”
“I’d just lookin’.” Peter looked at the hat and pointed to the dog on the front then turned it around to show Tony. “Look daddy, it’s a doggie!”
“Woah, what sound does a dog make?” Tony asked, a fun way he learned to teach Morgan about anything and everything when she was younger.
Peter started making barking sounds and then giggling at himself.
Pepper pulled a stroller out of the trunk and Tony eyed it. “When did you put that in there?” He was the one who packed the trunk and he didn’t recall putting a stroller in.
As Pepper opened it up, she replied. “When you were putting Peter in his car seat. There. Now we don’t have to carry everything and just put it all in here.”
“Oh. You’re so smart.” The billionaire pressed a peck to his wife’s lips. “And I thought I was the genius.”
“Didn’t you hear, dad,” Morgan said cheekily while he swung from Tony’s hand. “Mommy’s smarter than you.”
Tony gasped. “Betrayed by my own daughter. How dare you.” He pushed Morgan’s face away and she laughed and pushed him back like they always did when they messed with each other.
Peter walked over to the stroller and tried to climb in over the bar in front. All three watched him so Tony walked over and gently grabbed Peter’s tiny hands in his. “What’re you doin’, baby?”
Peter used Tony’s hand to help himself get inside. “It’s my stroller.”
It wasn’t. It used to be one of Morgan's many strollers that she barely used since she preferred to run rather than sit in a stroller.
“It can be yours now if you want but we’re all walking. That’s for our picnic stuff.” Tony explained to his five year old, trying not to laugh at how freaking adorable he was.
Peter paused to look at Tony. “And me?”
When Tony lifted Peter up and set him on his hip, he was already expecting the crying to come with it. “We’re all going to walk.”
Peter wiped at his dry cheeks as if there were tears on it and Tony shook his head at his son's dramatics. Peter then kicked his legs to be placed on the down so Tony did that and moved to help Pepper put everything into the stroller and be on their way.
“My turn. I push it now.” Peter walked up to Pepper to say and tugged on her pants. “Mommy.”
Pepper didn’t know how she was supposed to say no to that name. Although, the stroller was much too heavy for a five year old to push so she had to crush Peter’s dreams. “It’s too heavy, sweetie. You can watch me push it.”
Peter stopped walking and shook his head with a pout forming on her lips. She stopped walking as well and looked up ahead at Tony and Morgan who were way up on the path.
“We have to go catch up to daddy and Morgan. Come, Peter.” Pepper held her hand out for the five year old but he turned and started bolting in the other direction so Pepper left the stroller to chase after him.
For such little legs, Peter sure did run fast but Pepper used to be on the track team in high school and college so she caught up to Peter and grabbed his arm to lift him up.
“No! Bad mommy!” Peter yelled at her as he struggled to get out of her arms but she had a death grip on him. “Let go!”
Pepper walked back to the stroller and placed Peter on the ground, kneeling down in front of him. “That is enough. You are going to walk beside mommy and hold her hand or we will go back to the car while daddy and Morgan have a fun afternoon together.”
Peter was already reaching out to hug Pepper. “I sorry! Sorry mommy.”
Pepper hugged Peter back. She wasn’t mad at him but he had to learn that he had to listen to Tony and her. She pulled away. “What will it be?”
Peter reached out for Pepper’s hand so she stood up and pushed the stroller with her other hand.
Tony and Morgan were waiting for them by the forest entrance by the time Pepper and Peter caught you to them. “What took you guys so long? Morg and I already ate and swam for a bit.”
Pepper rolled her eyes at her husband and looked down at Peter who had his thumb in his mouth. “Take dirty fingers out of your mouth.”
Peter did and walked over to Tony, demanding to be picked up. “Daddy where did yous go swimming?”
Tony reached for Peter’s hand instead. “I was just joking. We can go splash in the water after we eat.”
The four of them walked into the forest and followed the dirt path until they landed on a sunny grassy patch right next to a stream of water that Peter was already eyeballing.
Tony was surprised that Peter was turning out to be a water baby. He hated water as a teen and even refused showers some nights so Tony had to bribe him if he had enough energy.
That seemed like a lifetime ago.
“Peter, look at daddy because I want to tell you something.” Tony kneeled down in front of Peter and made sure that Peter was paying attention to him. “You will not run into the water without asking mommy or daddy first, do you understand me?”
Peter pointed at Morgan who was helping Pepper lay the blankets down. “And Morgan too.”
“No. Not Morgan. Just mommy and daddy.”
“Okay daddy.” Peter pulled out of Tony’s hold and ran over to the blankets to roll on them. He sat up when Morgan started doing the same so he joined her again. The giggling that was coming from both of their kids, felt so nice to hear for the parents.
To Tony, it was still so surreal that they had two kids now. Two. And he had a son. His life truly was complete now.
Pepper sat down and pulled her youngest into her lap but Peter wiggled out right away so he could continue to roll around with Morgan. “Want your sippy cup, Peter?”
That got the five year olds attention. He turned to look at her and reached for the drink in her hands. “Thank you.” He took a sip and his eyes lit up. “Mmm! Yummy juice.”
Tony sat himself down as well and helped Pepper pull out all the food and snacks. “Look, Morg. Mommy packed you your favourite cookies.”
Morgan’s eyes lit up. “Awesome! Thank you. I’m gonna share some with Peter. But after we eat.” She added quickly to Tony and Pepper’s delight.
The family of four began eating their food but it was hard to get Peter to sit still with all of the distractions around them. Being out in nature and all. Maybe it was different for Morgan because she was older or maybe it was because she grew up in nature her whole life.
They were practically always outside and only coming inside to sleep and bathe but that was pretty much it. She was and most likely always will be a nature girl.
Peter on the other hand, he loved everything. He loved being outside but he also loved being inside so it was a mixture of the two. He was a lot more wild at his age than Tony remembers Morgan being at five years old.
Once the family were done eating, Morgan was standing up and looking at her mom. “Can me and Petey swim in the stream? Please.”
Peter looked over at her and continued to suck on his sippy cup while he watched Morgan.
“Yeah. Don’t go pass the trees and stay in this area.” Pepper told her but she trusted that Morgan wouldn’t go far either way. Pepper kicked her shoes off and rolled up her pants to join her daughter.
After Peter saw Pepper go in too, he put his sippy cup down and stood up. “I wanna come too!”
“Then come, Peter. Come hold mommy’s hand.” Pepper held out her hand for her son who already had no shoes on and was wearing shorts. Peter ran over to her but Tony stayed back to watch his beautiful family for a few minutes, just taking in the fact that he was privileged enough to love three of them.
Peter went to go sit down but Pepper lifted him back up by his arms. “Don’t sit. Your bum will get all wet.”
Peter started laughing and went to sit down anyways, soaking his pants and underwear. Tony shook his head fondly at his kid and motioned Pepper to send him over. “Come, Pete. Daddy will help you.”
Pepper held Peter’s hand so he could step out of the water without falling in and getting soaked. He ran over to Tony with a smile. “Come in, daddy.”
“I will but let’s take this off first.” Tony tugged his wet pants and underwear off so he could lay out and hope that it dries in time for them to leave. He pulled Peter’s shirt off next and stood up, taking Peter’s hand in his to go play with his family.
Peter bent down to pull a rock out from the bottom but he ended up falling onto his butt and laughing uncontrollably at the action which caused everyone else to start laughing with him.
“I was just trying to pick up my rock.” Peter explained to everyone and stood up but he picked the rock up along with him and walked over to Tony to show him first. “Look! It’s soft.”
“The rock is soft?” Tony asked him and went to grab the supposed soft rock.
“Yeah!”
“I think you mean smooth, buddy. Because it’s a very smooth rock.” Tony took the rock from Peter’s hands to examine it before handing it back to Peter. He wondered how many rocks they would be leaving with today.
Peter dropped the rock back in the water and went to pick up another one. “This ones smooth, daddy.” Peter let Tony touch the rock and then he was walking over to the blanket to place the rock down there. “He comes home with me.”
“Come, Pete. We’re all going to walk down the stream a bit.” Tony walked over to the edge of the stream to help Peter climb into the water again so he didn’t break his ankle or fall on his face. He picked Peter up and held him on his hip while he walked up ahead a bit to meet up with Morgan and Pepper.
“Daddy, down.” Tony placed Peter back in the water since Peter started kicking in his arms. “Morgan, I comin’.”
Peter walked up to Morgan and went to reach for her hand but he fell into the water, catching himself with his hands. “You’re okay. Stand up.” Tony rushed out before Peter could think about it and start crying.
“Yeah. I’m ‘Kay!” Peter pushed himself up and reached his hand out to Morgan. “Wan’ hold my hand?”
“Okay.” Morgan took a hold of her little brother’s hand and slowed down to his pace as they walked along the small stream.
Pepper and Tony watched them without saying a word. Pepper couldn’t resist pulling out her phone to snap a few pictures of her kids before reaching out to hold her husband's hand.
“We’re so lucky.” She smiled and bumped her head against his arm.
“I know.” Tony didn’t know what else to say. There were no words to describe how happy he was. He felt like he could finally rest now and enjoy the life he was always supposed to live. He was happy.
The family continued walking for a few more minutes. Tony and Pepper continued to watch Peter lose his balance and fall over a few times but then Morgan was pulling him up. Rather roughly but her heart was in the right place.
They started to get to a deeper end with the water quickly reaching Peter’s hips so Tony decided it was time to go back. “Morgan, stop walking. Look how deep you guys are getting. Let’s go back now.”
“I see fishies, daddy!” Peter let go of Morgan’s hand and pointed into the water.
“Wow, Petey. But look how deep it’s getting. And it’s starting to get super late so we gotta go back now.” Tony let go of Peppers hand and started walking towards Peter, getting the bottom of his pants soaked in the process.
Peter let out a loud scream and went to turn around to run into the deeper water but Tony grabbed his hand before he could. “I don’t think so, little man. Come with daddy.” Tony picked Peter up and set him on his hip to walk back to Pepper and Morgan who were having a photo shoot in the shallow water.
“Mommy! Daddy sawed the fish.” Peter told her excitedly as Pepper aimed her phone at the two of them to snap a bunch of pictures. Peter smiled widely and made a bunch of cute head poses at the camera making Tony wonder where Peter’s model side came from.
Tony put him down in the water and watched Peter pick up a rock out of the water and pose with it while Pepper snapped away. He tried to think back to when Peter was a teen, if he was a natural in front of the camera for pictures but he can’t remember sticking a camera in his face and snapping over a hundred pictures of him in one minute.
Either way, the pictures were going to be adorable.
“And there!” Peter pointed down the stream to the fish that he just saw splash out of the water. “Fishy, daddy!”
Tony looked behind him but he didn’t see any fish. “I don’t see any fish, baby. Go smile more for mommy.”
Peter crossed his arms and looked at Pepper with a pout on his lips. “No. No more pictures.”
Pepper cooed and took a few more before putting her phone away. Definitely the cutest and frame worthy. “Okay. All done. Let’s go find some more fish.”
Peter tried to run over to Morgan but he ended up falling down a few times before he got to her. He eventually caught up to her and reached out to hold onto her hand. “Morgan, yous lookin’ for fish?”
“Yeah but I don’t see any.” Morgan ran ahead but that caused Peter to fall forward onto his hands and knees again but this time it was a lot harder than before.
He turned onto his butt so he was sitting in the water and started crying for someone to pick him up so Tony reached him first and didn’t hesitate to pick his baby up and hold him in his arms. “You’re okay. Look, no cuts.”
“Ow.” Peter held out his finger to show Tony. “Hurts.”
Tony examined his finger but didn’t see anything wrong with it so he pressed a quick kiss to it, gaining a giggle out of Peter. “There. All better now.”
Peter wiped at his eyes and nodded so Tony put him back in the water but held his hand instead. “You can hold daddy’s hand.”
“Not Morgan’s.” Peter said, pointing at his older sister who was now way up ahead. Even though their age gaps weren’t that much, there was still a huge difference mentally and physically at the two ages so that was something that they had to work with right now.
Once they arrived at their picnic spot, it was already starting to get dark out, meaning that it was almost Peter’s bedtime.
Tony put Peter down with Morgan and stood there to watch them while Pepper went to go pack up the blankets and basket. “Tony, are you putting Peter in a pull-up for the car ride back?”
“Uh… are his underwear and pants still wet?” He asked, waiting for her to check them but he probably was going to either way so they didn’t have to worry about any accidents on the drive back.
“Yeah. I’ll leave a pull-up out for him and his shirt.” Pepper said and continued packing up.
Tony turned back to Peter who was squatting down rather suspiciously. “What are you doing, Pete?”
Peter grinned mischievously at him. “Pee pee.” He simply said and continued to go while Morgan looked at him. When Peter finished, he stood up and grabbed another rock with him to hand to Morgan who threw it back in. “No! Mine!”
“I don’t want it.” Morgan told him, annoyed that he was handing her a rock.
Peter bent down to grab the rock again but this time he went to hand it to Tony instead. “Here you go, daddy. It’s pretty.”
“Aw, thank you, baby. I love it so much.” Tony looked at the rock in his hand, it was just a rock but Peter picked it so it was going to be coming home with them. “Let’s go put it in the stroller so we can take it home with us.”
Peter nodded his head and walked with his dad to the edge of the stream, getting help to climb out of it and onto the grass. “And I put it in my room.” Peter announced which made Tony think about how they still had to get Peter sleeping in his own bed.
That was going to be fun. He could just picture all the crying and screaming that was going to come from that.
“In the bottom.” Peter squatted down to place both of his rocks in the bottom basket of the stroller then looked up at Pepper. “I put ‘dem in ‘dare.”
“Good job, Peter. We’ll take them home with us.” Pepper ruffled his hair and went to put her shoes on. She looked over at Morgan who was still playing in the water and called her out.
“Daddy, I put my rocks ‘dare.” Peter pointed to the bottom basket to show Tony even though he had already seen and heard Peter tell Pepper.
“Now they get a ride home. Come stand here, Pete.” Tony kneeled down and grabbed Peter’s damp underwear just to dry off a bit of the excess water on him before the pull-up went on. “Did you have fun, Peter?”
Peter watched Tony and nodded his head. “Uh huh. When-when we go home are we gonna go swimmin’ too, daddy? In-in um, the ocean?”
Tony chuckled and shook his head fondly at his baby. “It’s a lake, baby. Not an ocean. I’ll take you to the ocean one day but for tonight, you need to have a bath and get into bed to go sleep.”
“Yeah.” Peter agreed with him and looked over at Morgan as Tony slipped the pull-up onto him and grabbed his shirt. Tony pulled the shirt over Peter’s head and helped him with his shoes then stood up. “All done, daddy?”
“Yep. All done.” Tony looked around, just to double check they got everything before he grabbed the stroller to start pushing it.
Once Peter saw what he was doing, he ran to the front of it to climb in but Tony let him. If that’s what Peter wanted then so be it. Plus he never got to push Peter in a stroller before.
They all walked out of the forest in which Tony was incredibly grateful that Peter was in the stroller because it was dark with barely any light for a few steps so Tony was glad that he knew Peter was safely in the stroller.
Once they got out to the park, it was a lot brighter from the sun setting but also from the park lights turning on. Morgan looked over at Tony with a beaming smile on her face. “Daddy, can I run to the car?”
Tony was about to answer but Peter was speaking up. “Me too! I wanna run too.”
“Okay, wait for your brother, Morgan.” Tony stopped the stroller to pick Peter up and out of it then set him on his feet and watched him run across the field towards the car with his big sister.
He loved watching his two babies.
Peter got to the car but ran back to him so he could climb into the stroller and get pushed the rest of the way which Tony found amusing.
Once they got to the car, he pulled Peter out and held him on his hip while he helped Pepper load up the trunk.
“Wheres did my rocks go?” Peter asked after he looked around and didn’t see them. He shrugged his shoulders and turned to Tony for answers.
“I have them. I’m gonna put them in here until we get home, see?” Pepper placed the rocks in a tiny space in the trunk for Peter to see.
Once the trunk was packed, Tony opened up the back door to put Peter into his car seat. He saw that Morgan was already in the car and looking rather tired herself. “You sleepy, little miss?”
“No. I’m good.” Morgan rubber at her eyes and watched Tony buckle her little brother into the car seat. After both Tony and Pepper got into the car and Tony started driving, Morgan was speaking up. “Daddy, can I watch a movie with Peter?”
“Sure. Can you help him with his screen?” Tony glanced back at them before he pulled off of the dark, dirt road and onto the brighter, paved road. It was almost pitch black outside the car but it made it all the more cozy to be safe inside the car.
“Yeah, can I take off my seatbelt so I can reach?” She asked, already making a move to do so.
Tony was parked on the dirt road in the pitch black forest so he hoped no cars came. “Yeah. We’re parked but just be quick.”
Morgan quickly jumped out of her own car seat to help Peter with his tv screen but Peter grabbed between his legs. “I need go pee pee, daddy!”
“You’re wearing a pull-up, Pete. Just go.” Tony told him and turned around in his seat to see how Morgan was getting on. “Did you get it?”
“Yep.” She responded then quickly got buckled back into her car seat.
They were off once again after that.