CHAPTER ONE » ❝ On second thought,
I'll just start at the beginning. . . ❞

╰ CHAPTER ONE ╮

╰ N E W    Y O R K ╮

    When Iris West got out of bed that morning, she had no idea that today, a ball would start rolling and completely destroy her whole life. After all, the day was starting out just like any other day would.

Her alarm clock violently went off, which caused Iris to grumbled and fussed a bit, but eventually, and very reluctantly, she turned it off after a few seconds of it blaring into her ears. She really didn't want to get out of her bed. But, she knew shad to. With a loud, and rather dramatic sigh, Iris sat up in her rather large bed. She then turned her head and looked at her bed. Her purple and gold bed sheets were empty of people; her bed was completely empty of both of her lovers. She pouted slightly. She hated when she didn't get morning cuddles with either Tony or Pepper.

She furrowed her eyebrows together as she heard Peter's hushed voice and Pepper's worried whispers. It was all followed by the smell of burning toast suddenly invading her senses. With a small chuckle, Iris threw her bedsheets off her self and speeded into the kitchen.

  In their kitchen, the coffee maker had been turned on by a rather tired and restless Tony. Pepper, on the other hand, was wide awake and working on breakfast with the help of Peter, who apparently couldn't multitask while still waking up. Iris leaned on a the wall that lead into the kitchen as she watched her little family unit go about their normal routines. Tony was siting at the breakfast bar with Peter's history textbook wide open and was helping him prepare for his quiz that he had. It was so domesticated and peaceful that Iris just wanted this moment to last forever.

  "Good morning." Iris chirped as she pushed herself off the wall and walks over to Pepper.

"Hey, no. Get back to bed." She means it, but there is no heat behind her words, and she snuggles against Iris when she hugs her waist from behind and puts her chin on Pepper's shoulder.

"It's not the same without you guys there." Iris admitted lowly into Pepper's  ear. She smells like sleep and like their bed, and Pepper feels shivers running down her body when Iris nuzzles her nose against her neck.

   " Well, you can blame baby Stark for making me have a bad craving for eggs and toast." Pepper murmured lowly so that Tony didn't her. Iris snickered and grinned. She sneakily placed her hand on Pepper stomach. She was only roughly 7 weeks pregnant and was barely even showing any sort of possible pregnancy signs.

   " Have you figured out how your gonna surprise him yet?" Iris questioned. Pepper shook her head in response.

   " It's gonna have to be something big in order to make up for all his outrageous surprises." She stated in matter of fact tone, which caused Iris to laugh loudly.

   " Would you like to include the class in what's so funny Miss West?" Tony questioned with a raised eyebrow. She smirked devilishly at him.

   " Nope!" She stated cheekily. She made sure to pop the P for add dramatic effect. Peter snickered as Tony roll his eyes in annoyance while Pepper smiled and shook her head at Iris antics. Iris let go off her girlfriend when a set of new, and none burnet toast were placed on counter.  "Dibs!" She called out as she swiped the toast before anyone could even get to it. She happily bit into her toast while making her way over to the empty seat next to Tony. Iris placed her head on Tony's shoulder while she watched her son and her boyfriend work together on homework. It was cute. It was adorable to see her favorite to men getting along. Iris had gotten lucky with her son. She honestly couldn't have been blessed with any better son then Peter.

" Well, I better start heading out." He said as he started collecting all of his things together and shoving them into his backpack. " Love you mom. See you guys." He said he hugged his mom before rushing out the door.

" Have a good day at school Sweetie!" Iris called out as closed the door behind him.

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    " Slow down, slow down. I'm totally not kidding." Tony huffed as he jogged Pepper and Iris who where dressed in work out gear.

   " Baby, I don't do slow, remember I'm fastest woman alive?" Iris stated as she gestured to herself. Pepper is laughing slightly and just shaking her head at Iris.

" Plus, You're totally rambling." Pepper interjects with grin.

  " No, I'm not!" Tony says almost defensively. Both Iris and Pepper shot Tony a look.

  " Well, you lost me." Pepper states and Iris just nods in agreement.

   " Look, you know how you're having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee?" He questions them and they both nodded in an understanding.

     "Yeah."

   " Okay, and then you're like, 'Oh my god, there's no bathroom, what am I gonna do' 'Oh! Someone's watching.' 'I'm gonna go in my pants.'  "

  " Right. And then you wake up, and in real life you actually have to pee."

   " Yes." Tony agrees as Pepper starts going in the direction of his thinking.

   " Yeah. Everybody has that." Iris states confused as she looked at Tony weirdly.

   " Right! That's the point I'm trying to make. Apropos of that, last night, I dreamt, we had a kid. So real. We named him after your eccentric uncle. Uh, what was his name?

  " Right." Both females agreed in dismissing tone. They both shared silent amused glances. He was totally right, but they weren't planning on telling him quite yet. Not tell the surprise was ready. Tony didn't even seemed to notice their glances as he was busy trying to figure out Pepper's uncle name.

  " Morgan! His names Morgan." Tony suddenly said as it came rushing back to him.

  " So you woke up, and thought that we were..."

   " Expecting."

   " Yeah."

  " Yes? "

  "No." Stated Pepper. Tony glanced over at Iris who shook her head.

   " Don't look at me. I already go a kid." Iris stated misleadingly. She grinned all too innocently at Pepper before looking Tony dead in the eyes.  " And his name Tony."

   " You know what West." Started Tony annoyedly as he playfully turned and glared at his speedster of a girlfriend. She just beamed innocently at him, which causes him to just shake his head at her. " Get over here." He mumbled as he wrapped his arm around her waist. Her pressed a kiss to her check.

" If you wanted to have a kid, you wouldn't have done that." Stated Pepper scoldingly as she untied his jacket sleeves. She then moved and tapped Tony's chest attachment that had taken the place of his Arc Reactor.

   " I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause it's nothing. It's just a housing unit for nano particles."

  " It's not helping your case, OK?"  Stated Iris.

  " No, no, it's an attachment, it's not a-"

   " You don't need that."  Pepper said instantly.

  " I know. I had the surgery. I'm just trying to protect us. The future usses, and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet, instead of, you know..."

  " Shirts?" Iris answered in slight bemusement.

   " You know me so well. You finish all my sentences."  He said with smile.

   " Shirts. You should have shirts in your closet."  Pepper retorted flatly as she raised an eyebrow.

" Yeah. You know what there should be? No more surprises. We're gonna have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Win-stone. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Ever. I should promise you both."

" Good." " About time." Both Pepper and Iris said at the same time. Tony laughed and kissed Iris check before Pepper's. Suddenly, a large portal open up and strange looking man walked out of it. Iris shared a worried look with Pepper before glancing back at the strange man.

   " Tony Stark, Iris West, I'm Doctor Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me. Oh, uh, congratulations on the engagement, by the way." Said the strange magic man. Tony and Pepper are staring at the man with confusion.

   " I'm sorry, you giving out tickets or something?"  Tony questioned him.

    " We need your help. Look, it's not overselling to say that the fate of the universe is at stake." He stated.

   " Who's this 'we'?" Questioned Iris. That's when she saw him. Her best friend, Bruce Banner emerging from behind Doctor Strange.

   " Hey, Speedy." Greeted Bruce as he pulled her into a tight hug. Iris went wide eye in surprise.

  " Bruce?" She questioned. He beamed at her before hugging Tony.