A Surprising Development
Wanda gave Sage a look when the two came out of the bathroom, and the girl shook her head. They were good now. They were more than good. God, was she happy.
“So, what were we talking about? Aside from Pietro being Sonic The Hedgehog?”
“You two being disgusting.” Wanda smirked at her.
“Right. Okay, rude.”
Adeline laughed. “I mean, we were being kind of gross.” She elbowed Sage lightly, laughing again when the other girl flushed.
“Funnily enough, I think that might be even ruder.”
“You love me, though.”
She sighed and rolled her eyes. “I suppose I do, don’t I?”
“You’d better.” Adeline cried, wide grin on her face. “After what-”
Sage’s eyes quickly widened and she quickly put a hand over Adeline’s mouth. “Dear, I thought we agreed not to discuss that. Huh?”
“Oh, riiiiiight. Sorry, honey.” Adeline smirked and pressed a kiss to Sage’s cheek. “I love you.”
“Yeah, yeah. I love you too.”
Pietro wrinkled his nose. “Gross.”
Eddie laughed at the older boy.
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They’d been chatting for a couple hours in the little coffee shop when Sage’s phone rang with a call form her dad.
Her brows furrowed as she read the caller ID, but she answered anyway, offering the rest of the table a smile and moving slightly away. “Dad? What’s up, I’m kind of in the middle of something. Is it important?”
“Oh, maybe not, I guess it depends on your definition of the word ‘important.’”
“Daaaaaad. Seriously. Wanda and Pietro are meeting Addy, if it’s not something important, then-”
“I just got a call from Pepper.”
“Okay, and? I haven’t even talked to her this week, what does this have to-”
“Sage. The adoption papers got approved.”
“WHAT?” Sage shrieked, immediately covering her mouth in embarrassment, her eyes filling up with tears. “You’re kidding.”
Tony laughed, sounding a little watery himself. “I’m not, kiddo, I’m really not. Do you really think that I would kid about this?”
“Sage?”
She turned to see them all looking at her, concerned, and she couldn’t help the tiny, overwhelmed laugh that escaped her. She waved them off frantically, giing them a slight thumbs up in an effort to keep them from worrying. “So, w- what does this mean? What happens now?”
“The judge still has to sign the papers wtih his approval., so most people do a sort of signing party where the judge signs the papers and stuff. Is that something you would want to do?”
“Um? Yes? I mean, I can’t think of a whole lot of people who I would invite, other than, like, Sam and Aerin and Addy, but-”
“So, she knows then?”
“Yeah, that- that was part of what happened today too.”
“I see. Well, bring her over sometime beforehand. Of course I’d love to meet her in any capacity, or if you want to just invite her for the party that’s fine too. Then I’ll officially be your dad.”
She smiled softly, clutching the phone to her cheek. “You’ve officially been my dad for a while now. This is just taking care of all that legal stuff.”
“Right. ‘All that legal stuff.’ I supposed I should let you get back to all those crazy kids you’re with. Tell Pietro not to be an ass, okay?”
“He’s actually behaving himself today, which, I know is a first.”
Tony chuckled at her. “Alright, well. Go celebrate with them. Kiss your girlfriend. Be a kid, okay?”
“Yes, sir.” She grinned when he laughed again. “Love you, Dad. I’ll see you soon.”
“Love you too, kiddo. See you.”
Sage turned back to the table with a huge smile on her face, dropping into the seat beside Addy and grabbing her by the face and pulling her into a firm kiss.
“What was that for?” Addy asked, laughing as they pulled apart.
Sage grinned widely and turned to face Wanda and Pietro too. “I’ve got some news for you guys.”