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Because I can't stop BARFing.

[notasoldier]

[ He always looks happy to see her, whether it's been a few days or a few months. His eyes light up and that smile crosses his face that he only had for her.

Who are you? He asks jokingly more often than not because after a certain point she grows so quickly and so fast. Morgan? My Morgan?

Sometimes they're in the lake house. Sometimes they're sitting by the lake. Sometimes they're in his garage and he talks to her as he works.

He's always there for her if she needs to talk. On stand by if she needs him. ]

❤️

[starklegacy]

[ Morgan had found out about BARF by pure accident; she had caught her mother using it one night when she thought Morgan was fast asleep. After that, Morgan had been insistent on using it to see her daddy. Pepper sometimes argued against it, and Morgan would pretend to drop the discussion, but she’d slip out in the middle of the night and find the tech from whatever new hiding spot Pepper would try until she deemed her daughter ‘old enough’ to use it regularly.

To Morgan, though, it was her only chance to see him so of course she’d go to whatever length she’d have to go to do it. Her father had died saving the entire universe, she knows that and understands it, but at the same time at her core she’s still the four year old that just wants her daddy to come home so they could sneak juicepops from the freezer while mommy was asleep.

As she gets older, the discussions change from tea parties, to soccer practice, to inventions of her own, to college acceptance letters. He’s always there, talking with her, smiling at her, and everything is right with the world even if she can’t reach over to take his hand and take him with her back out in the world.

Tonight, when she uses BARF, it’s while she’s using her father’s garage while she works. On the table there are designs, models of a new armor. The helmet is unquestionably familiar, and she doesn’t know if he’ll catch it, but working on it had made her nostalgic, so...she’d like to see him, even if it’s for a brief moment.

As he appears in the room, she grins like she always does. And, as she also tends to do, she has to remind herself that she can’t run up to him even if he looks so damn real. ]

Hi, Daddy.

[notasoldier]

Hi, baby.

[ He's watched her grow from the little girl stored in his memory banks to the young woman in front of him. Part of him is modeled after JARVIS, though augmented enough to change depending on the user's preferences. It's far too easy to read Morgan's preferences, from the way he carries himself to the way he speaks. He's a combination of her memories, Pepper's and hours of footage of himself as he'd worked to get his own memories and neural pathways right in order to bring his memories to life.

He may not be Tony Stark in the flesh, but he's a damn good copy.

He runs his fingers over the plans on the table. ]

Ambitious. Does your mom know you're doing this?

[starklegacy]

[ Maybe she should have put the plans away. Maybe she should have been more careful, but at the same time ... well, she didn't although she doesn't know why. It's not that she wants him to know what she's doing, exactly, but at the same time it's almost as if subconsciously she still wants his approval for it before she gets in too deep.

Although, if she's honest with herself, it's not like his disapproval would stop her from moving forward. She doesn't want to upset him, but for better or for worse it's something that she just feels she needs to do.

She watches him and the way his fingers move along the plans, a small, sheepish smile on her face. ]

No. I think she'd ground me until I'm 40 if she did. [ She ties her hair back into a loose ponytail, mainly to give herself something to do. ]

...are you mad?

[notasoldier]

[ He grins and looks up at her. There's a 99% probability that Pepper would settle on fifty, but he keeps that to himself. ]

I can't be mad.

[ He's not built for emotion, though he's programmed to project it. He has the recorded synapses of his maker, the thoughts and memories of those closest to him. He can make probable calculations about what emotions would appear in a scenario like this one. It's not anger.]

I'd be proud. Though, I'm going to need to run a safety diagnostic on this before you're finished. [ He holds up a finger.] Not optional.

[starklegacy]

[ Even with all of Morgan's brilliance, when it comes to her father the emotional side always wins out. Asking if he was mad, even if she knows well enough that he can't exactly feel like a regular person would, feels like a silly question but it's also one that she would have asked him, if he was here.

Would he be mad that she wants to follow in his footsteps?

But then he says that he'd be proud, and she can't help the grin on her face. ]

Deal.

[ The design is like a blend of the Rescue armor, and the one his father wore last. It has some elements that are just her own, too, but it's easy to see where her inspiration came from and who she is trying to honor. ]

I thought about it long and hard, you know. This isn't just a rash decision. I know you'd be proud, no matter what I do, but...I really want to do this. I feel like I get to know you more and more with every design of yours that I find.