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    It all started the way it usually did; with Tony doubting his own sanity.
    “Happy,” he said, turning the paper over, then turning it back, squinting at it. “What the hell is this?”
    Happy barely glanced up from his phone. “How should I know? I just drive you around, I don’t try to understand your designs. You’re the one who left it in the back of the car yesterday.”
    Tony turned the paper towards Happy, tapping a finger against the scribbles in the margin. “I didn’t write that. I thought it, but I didn’t write it. What sorcery is this?”
    “Oh shit, sorry,” Happy said, expression resigned. “I’m guessing the kid went through them when I drove him to school this morning. He has no regard for personal boundaries.”
    “The kid.”
    “Um— My girlfriend, she has a—“
    “Your stepson did these calculations?”
    “That’s not entirely—“
    “Bring him to me,” Tony commanded.

     

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    “So here’s the deal,” Tony says. “Here’s what’s rumbling in the back of my mind. That bookstore we just came from, I knew the previous owner. Her name was Mary. I got her knocked up, and then waved all my parental rights while the bun was still firmly in the oven. Didn’t even take a peek in the oven. Never saw her again, never saw the kid. Don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl.”

    “Say all that again,” Harley says, “but slowly, and using way more words.”

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    “This young man claims to have been invited by you personally.”
    Tony has learned to read Happy’s expressions. That one is disapproval, and it’s highly familiar. “Peter is helping me out in the workshop today.”
    “Why?”
    “Uh.” Tony has enough presence of mind not to carelessly throw Peter’s alternative identity around. “He won a competition.”
    Happy’s expression flickers, grows tense. “I did not approve any competition that included a trip to Avengers Tower.”
    “Okay. Well. If we had theoretically organized a competition, he would definitely have won it.”
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    Tony’s life lately has been a perfect storm of incompetence. But perhaps he can get some solid spiritual advice from a mischievous teenager with a secret identity he meets by the side of the road one evening, like a lucky little leprechaun. If only Happy would stop being so paranoid about Tony inviting a random kid into Avengers Tower, sheesh.

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    Tony always knew that Queens was a bit of an unhinged neighborhood. So of course it was going to be during a visit to Queens that he once again fell victim to a robot attack. The ‘robot’ being an overexcited roomba that responded to voice commands awfully well.
    Whoever made this roomba was clearly operating on that fine line between genius and insanity.
    Which meant Tony needed to meet him.

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    Forty minutes into her book signing, Pepper’s hand is cramping up. Seeing herself perfunctorily smiling back at her from cover after cover after cover, is getting at her. It isn’t often that she wishes for someone to interrupt and insist on a photo. Or for one of these large, heavy bookcases to topple over and fall on top of her.
    The next woman who shuffles up to her table, book clutched in her arms, might just be her selfie-saving-grace. She certainly has the wild-eyed look of starstruck-ness. Pepper smiles and holds out a hand to take the book from her.
    The woman doesn’t relinquish it. “Ms. Stark,” she murmurs in a low voice. “My nephew Peter ran away. And I need the Avengers to find him.”
    Pepper knows how to respond to requests like these. Kind but firm. Thirteen thousand people go missing in New York every year, and it’s heartbreaking, but the Avengers can’t possibly—
    “Trust me,” the woman says. “You’ll want to hear me out.”

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