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“Daddy!” Bruce looked up with a grin at the sound of Sophie calling his name. He was about to start a project that could possibly take all night. But it didn’t necessarily have to be done right this second, he could probably put it off until tomorrow if Sophie needed his help. Or if she just wanted someone to play with.
“Yeah, Soph?” she came skidding into the lab with her cotton dress covered in what looked like glitter and her blonde hair pulled back into three different pigtails that were also covered in glitter. He knelt down in front of her and dusted some of the glitter off her head and was about to ask again what she needed when she launched into one of her spiels.
“Daddy, I want to go to the park! But mama says that it’s too cold and that’s she’s busy but you can take me right? And I promise to wear my coat so it won’t be cold! And plus it’s not even that cold outside. I asked JARVIS and he said it was only 38 degrees and that’s not even freezing. So can we go please, Daddy, please?”
“Okay sweetie, first, why are you covered in glitter?”
“I knocked over the glitter when I was running here. Amy was playing with it earlier and it was on the counter but I ran into one of the chairs and it knocked into the glitter and it spilled everywhere. But JARVIS said that he would have someone clean it up so I could come find you.” Bruce smiled and shook his head. Sophia Lewis, the eternal klutz.
“Okay kiddo, next time clean it up yourself. Now about the park, let me see what I can do. I might be able to convince your mom that it’s okay if we bring her back some chocolate from the candy store she loves so much.”
“Yeah! Mama loves that place!” She was bouncing up and down on her toes, which, he noticed, were bare.
“Okay, here’s the plan, I go talk to Mama and you go change out of that dress and put some socks and shoes on. And we’ll meet in the living room in ten minutes. Sound good?” Sophie nodded and turned to run out of the room, but she stopped, turned back around and ran and hugged him around the middle.
“I love you, Daddy!” she said with a smile before running out of the lab.
“Put the dress in the laundry when you take it off Sophia Nicole! Don’t leave it on the ground, you’ll get glitter everywhere!” he yelled after her as she ran off.
“OKAY DADDY!” she screamed back. He shook his head and the chanced a look down at his midriff. It was covered in glitter. He sighed and shook his head. It seemed he would be changing as well. Turning back to his project he shook his head. And tried to think back to a time when his side projects didn’t get interrupted by a precocious little girl name Sophie. He smiled and decided he liked it this way a lot better, before he set about putting the stuff away and headed up to Darcy’s office to talk to her about a trip to the park.