Chapter 2
The following day the shock wore off a bit and realisation settled in. Tony and Steve were getting ready for the day ahead of them, thankfully Tony wasn't feeling as nauseous this morning.
"Tony," Steve began, looking up to his husband from where he was making their bed, "We need to talk."
"About the baby?" He questioned, pulling a top over his still flat stomach, though he wondered how long that would last, "I know."
An awkward silence hung over the couple, neither knowing what to say next.
"I... I think- I know I want to keep it." Tony said quietly, "I don't know if you want the same thing and sure the risk is... high. But Steve, ever since yesterday I haven't stopped thinking about what it would be like to have a baby in the compound. I want that life and I want it with you on board."
Steve smiled widely, striding over to his husband and wrapping him in the tightest hug he could without the risk of hurting their unborn child, "I want that life too. I love you so much, I can't thank you enough for the family you've already given me with the rest of the team, Peter and Harley. The greatest gift on Earth would be a new addition to that family."
Tony smiled into his husbands neck, he secretly loved it when Steve got in a sappy mood. "I'm scared," he whispered, he would usually never admit to such a thing but it was just the two of them and he knew his husband would never dream of judging him.
"Of what?"
The billionaire pulled away from the embrace to look into the other man's blue eyes, he laughed breathily as he spoke, "Our baby being the ultimate target for alien invasion or shit like that, the whole being pregnant thing because biologically my body is not made for that, all those years of living with the Arc Reactor having an affect on the pregnancy, my age although don't tell Harley the little shit, me turning into Howard because I've never had a baby in my life, Steve how the hell am I supposed to know what to do with one?'
The blonde looked at him blankly, "Wow it must be so hard to be a single expecting parent."
"I'm being serious."
Steve chuckled and planted a kiss on Tony's forehead, "Our baby will be the most protected child in all of existence. I've seen how protective you are over Peter and Harley and yes being a pregnant male is unheard of but this is us we're talking about, whatever affects your past may have on the baby we'll deal with if or when they come at all. And Tony," he said, suddenly serious, "Listen to me. You are the absolute furthest thing from Howard Stark, the fact you're even worrying about that proves it. You're an amazing father figure to those boys, you love them both to the ends of the world and would do anything to keep them happy and safe. Any child to ever experience a fraction of that love will be the luckiest child in the whole galaxy." He paused, "And how lucky am I to have a front row seat to it all."
Tony furrowed his brows and blinked a few times, was it too early to start blaming his emotions on hormones? Probably but he was going to do it anyway.
"So we're gonna do this?" He asked, taking a steadying breath.
"I think we both knew the answer to that as soon as we went to see Bruce."
"You're right." Tony nodded and pulled his husband in for a deep kiss, smiling when he felt the blondes hands on his stomach, "I love you."
"I love you too." Steve murmured into the kiss, "Both of you."
>>> TIME SKIP <<<
Telling the others about their news was stressful. Tony was so nervous, he had absolutely no reason to be! The team had never been anything but supportive when it came to his and Steve’s relationship and Clint had kids of his own that everyone loved.
Harley and Peter though, those were his babies. Tony hadn’t met them yet when they were babies but he knew in his heart that they were his sons in all but blood. It was probably for the best that they weren’t blood related since Peter and Harley were dating.
The couple had gathered the team in the living room area of the avengers compound, everyone was here except for-
“Where’s Pete and Harley?” Tony asked his teammates who were all sitting eagerly on the couch, FRIDAY had told them all that there was news to be shared.
“Hello to you too, Tony.” Natasha said, raising an eyebrow.
Just then the elevator door opened and out came Pete and Harley, holding hands and giggling to themselves.
“Where have you been? It’s almost past your curfew!” Tony asked the two boys.
They quickly regained their composure when they noticed the whole Avengers team staring at them.
“Yeah ‘almost’” Harley said, sauntering over to the couch and pulling Peter onto his lap, “We’re early by, like, two minutes.”
“Sorry Mr Stark,” Peter said, “I was showing Harley all the lights in Queens.”
“Alright you two brats,” he replied fondly, “Just stay out of trouble.”
“Always, Mr Stark, when have I ever gotten into trouble?”
“I ain’t makin’ no promises.”
“You two are going to give me a fucking heart attack one day,” Tony mumbled to himself as he and Steve prepared to tell the team their news.
“So, uh, you’re probably wondering why FRIDAY called you all down here.” Steve began.
“Oh that’s why y’all are here?” Harley asked, “I was hoping I’d be getting a change to whoop Rhodey’s ass again in Mario Kart.”
“I was having a bad day!”
“I thought this was about Fury giving us a new mission.” Clint said, eyeing his bow that was propped up in the corner.
“There wasn’t anything about a meeting with Fury in my planner.” Pepper noted, and everything always went down in her planner. How do you think she got to be CEO of the worlds biggest tech company?
“There isn’t a mission, guys.” Tony rolled his eyes.
“This is about Tony,” Steve said, rather unhelpfully. “And me, but mostly about Tony.”
“What’s wrong with Tony?” Natasha asked, eyeing her teammate who seemed to be glaring at his husband.
“Oh my god,” Peter spoke up, eyes big and worried, “This is about what happened in the lab yesterday, isn’t it? You’re sick, aren’t you?”
“What happened in the lab?” Wanda asked.
“Guys,” Tony held a hand up, “If you just let me explain and stop interrupting.” He said giving a stern look to them all, “Yes Peter this is about yesterday but no, I am not sick. I am, uh-“ he fumbled.
“Tony’s pregnant!” Bruce exclaimed. Tony and Steve turned to look at him, “Sorry, you were taking so long and I couldn’t hold it in.”
“That’s okay, you actually did us a favour.”
“Wait... did you just say pregnant?” Clint asked.
“I’m confused,” Pepper confessed, “Who’s pregnant?”
“And what happened in the lab?” Harley asked.
Steve sighed, “Tony is pregnant, we’re not sure how exactly but he is. Yesterday Tony threw up in the lab and we went to see Bruce, turns out it was just morning sickness-“
“Are you,” Natasha interrupted, “Keeping the baby?”
There was a pregnant pause.
“... Yes.” Tony said.
Another pause.
Then the entire room exploded with celebration, Clint and Rhodey went to go clap Steve on the back, Natasha, Wanda, and Pepper were yelling with excitement, Harley and Peter both ran up and wrapped themselves in a massive group hug with the man they had both come to see as their dad.
“Congrats, Mechanic!” Harley exclaimed, grinning widely.
“Harley and I will keep him or her out of trouble, we promise.” Peter said.
“Oh god,” Tony chuckled, unconsciously putting a hand over his stomach, “Poor kid doesn’t stand a chance.”
“Wait guys, there’s one more thing.” Steve said loudly over the noise of the room.
“If you say it’s twins I’m genuinely going to pass out.” Rhodey said.
“It’s not twins,” Tony glared half heartedly at his best friend, “We just wanted to keep this between us for the moment. No media, no paparazzi, just keep it quiet. Everyone understand?”
They all nodded, knowing how cruel and abusive the media would be about the expecting parents. The rest of the night was spent celebrating and enjoying the comfort and happiness of their ever growing family.