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Once Upon a Starry, Starry Night

Summary:

A bittersweet letter from Pepper to Tony twenty-three years after his death.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Morgan became a mother today, Tony.

 

Our little girl, who's not so little anymore and of course I know she hasn't been one for a long, long, long time, but even so our little girl brought into the world the world’s most beautiful baby girl this morning.

 

Kelsey Jacqueline Courtland

7lbs, 5 ounces

Born on 9/13/2047 at 3:15am EST

 

She came into the world, crying her dark hairy little head off. 

 

Yes, Kelsey looks exactly like Morgan did when she was born, and you cried the first time you held her.

 

If you were here now to hold our baby's baby girl, I know you would be crying again. 

 

Oh Tony, I wish with every fiber of my being that you were here to see Kelsey. 

 

She's so tiny and she’s so perfect, and I suppose she represents the reason why you did what you did in those final moments of the battle. I know when you stole the gauntlet away from him, the one person you were thinking about was Morgan. You knew with all certainty that if you hadn't acted, he would have ended your entire universe with one snap of his fingers. 

 

Well, you should know, my love, your universe has thrived on for all of these twenty-three years without you to be her sun, and now she's building her own universe with Braxton. He's become her new sun after so many years of being lost in the darkness. Now with Kelsey’s arrival they've both been blessed in their lives with the arrival of this new little guiding star that makes their own little universe complete.



Notes:

This is the last letter for now. I have more coming, beginning sometime in May I think. I hope you will all be around to continue to read them!

Thank you so MUCH to everyone who has to this point. It means more to me than you know!