Iron Mom
Stephen first met Toni at a gala when he saved her from a boring conversation with Justin hammer. Thanks to his memory he remembered how perfect she was wearing a red evening gown with a slit up the side with golden jewelry that resembled feathers or flames he wasn’t sure. Most of the men in the room were staring at her even though she wasn’t even speaking, she didn’t need to. She was like a flame; warm and full of life but would burn you if you tried something she didn’t like. He remembered her sharp remarks and her dripping sarcasm whenever someone shallow tried to talk to her like she was an idiot or a brat.
He remembered how they danced to avoid people, how perfectly she had fit into his arms when he had taken her out to the dance floor. Cocky, confident, arrogant, brilliant with an amazing memory. She was just like Stephen if he was a woman and studied engineering. They spent most of the evening together, he didn’t mind being repellent to anyone who tried to hit on her or get handsy. They had left the gala and he had said he hoped to see her soon. She had smiled and said she’d like it too and just like that he knew she was perfect.
Then Toni had endured Afghanistan and became iron maiden while his accident had happened and he dropped off the face of the earth to study at Kamar-taj.
The next time he saw her was when he helped clean up after the battle of new york. She was glaring at rogers while he lectured her about something, she was standing with her arms crossed and she stood like she was bracing for a storm. When she had seen him she had smiled and blasted over to him, and tackled him in a hug.
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3 weeks after that they had started dating and he had met the spider-kid and received the shovel talk from almost everyone in the compound. Except rogers.
Rogers would look at him and look like he was trying to melt him into the floor while also making the captain-America-is-disappointed-in-you face. He had seen the way rogers had tried to eye Toni, he despised rogers. it was pretty clear the feeling was mutual.
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"So," said blond started, sitting across Stephen at the breakfast table in the kitchen, where Stephen had been drinking his tea. He wasn't in the mood to deal with rogers. "You and Toni?"
"What about us?" he replied without looking up, trying his hardest not to open a portal and throw him into the dark dimension. But Toni would be disappointed and he never wanted to disappoint Toni, when he'd become so whipped?
"How did you guys meet?" ooooohhhh was he annoyed? Strange felt real special now to have managed that. He didn't look up as he answered, well aware that Maximoff was listening. Why couldn't they mind their own business instead of annoying him?
"How can one meet Toni Stark?"
Rogers looks confused and irritated. "At a party of some sort."
Stephen nods, intentionally being irritating, "And?"
"And what?"
God rogers is an idiot, he rolls his eyes. "Where else can one meet Toni Stark? We had a first meeting twice, so I don't know which one you're asking about." god it was so fun to mess with rogers.
"I don't understand," Steve said, glaring now at the sorcerer and Stephen finally looked up, a smug smirk playing on his lips. He knew Steve and maximoff had Peter glaring at them, Rhodey planning their deaths, and Vision ignoring them. Oh dear.
"Where else can you meet Toni Stark? that’s how you first met her." He took another sip of his tea. "When she saved your ass, apparently, she does that a lot."
"So you're saying you met her when she saved you?" The way Rogers said it almost sounded like an insult (pretty hypocritical), but Stephen saw no shame in admitting his girlfriend could be terrifying. It was hot, and she knew it.
"I said I had two first meetings with her, one at a gala and one when she saved my ass."
"It should be you who's protecting and saving her." Stephen put his cup down, looking at Rogers as though the man had lost his mind. He probably had, was he an idiot?
Rogers had his head so far up his ass that Stephen thought it was a wonder he could breathe.
was less of an issue once Barnes came along and then he focused on dealing with that witch, maximoff, who was really an insult to all magic users.
Then after 2 years together, she said yes!
The ring he had given her was a mix of the gold and red they both wore and the blue that he wore. It was fireproof (per request) for when she worked in the shop (Toni thinks that's a pretty decent way of saying 'I can set myself on fire and incinerate everything and melt this ring off my finger' without saying anything), acted as a shield for minor physical blows, and a shield to most magic and some mutant powers.
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Peter had been raised by his aunt May, but he thought of ms. stark as his mom. She always looked out for him and was fucking terrifying if he got hurt, like that one time with flash.
he pressed the ice pack harder to his eye. He was sitting in one of the conference rooms at his school, next to ned, waiting for his Aunt May to show up. Flash was sitting across the table with his parents behind him.
The principal stood, “Mr. Parker, are you sure you don’t need anything?”
Peter had to slink a bit farther in his chair. “I am fine I promise.”
It was then the door to the room opened and Peter gave a mental sigh. He turned around, ready to tell Aunt May he was fine when he was frozen in shock as Toni Stark came running to him, her brown hair flowing. She slid to her knees and quickly began to check him over. “Oh gods Peter what happened?? Oh, gods above let me see your eye.”
He dropped the ice pack, more out of shock. Toni fussed over him then turned to the rest of the room and snarled, “Explain. Now.”
The principal sputtered before coughing, clearly caught off guard at the sight of both Iron Maiden and Toni Stark in his school. “Uh, just a misunderstanding.”
“Flash was bullying Peter again, telling him that his internship with Ms. Stark was a lie and that Peter was only doing it to gain attention. Peter told him it wasn’t a lie and that he didn’t care if Flash didn’t believe him. He was done dealing with him and tried to leave the conversation.” ned piped up.
The bully growled out, “Shut UP!”
Ned continues “So as Peter was walking away, Flash shoved him and punched him in the face. I managed to kick him in the balls. That was when the teachers showed up.”
He looks across the table to the now pale Flash Thompson as his parents were clearly torn in disbelief and embarrassment. Toni stood, she was not just Toni Stark, owner of Stark Industries. No, she was the Iron Maiden and she looked PISSED.
Toni sneered, straightening her back. “So all of this came from you.” Here the amount of venom in her tone was enough to make Flash flinch.
Toni leaned over the table, pressing her hands to the smooth surface. “All because you decided that Peter Parker was lying about this? Or you just didn’t want to believe that someone was chosen for this once in a lifetime thing over you.”
At this Flash finally snapped. “He doesn’t deserve it! Penis Parker is just a no-good poor kid who lied his way to get here! He is nothing and will forever be nothing!”
The room fell silent. Oh…. flash was going to be DESTROYED
Toni snarled “you will be silent this instance or you will learn just how fast my armor can show up.”
Flash nodded.
he shifted his eyes back to Toni. Toni glared at the bully in front of her and said, “Also, Flash Thompson will NEVER get a job with Stark Industries. I don’t care if it is for the worst job, you will never work for my company or any of my branch companies.” his mom was fucking awesome! Oops he meant ms stark is awesome
The flash shot up, “That’s not fair!”
She held up a hand, glaring at him. “It is plenty fair. You. Hit. My. Kid.”
Wait he was her kid? What????? his spidey sense was going haywire, she was TERRIFYING. She turned her glare to his cowering principal. “I am going to be speaking to May Parker about this and seeing if I can get Peter to transfer schools.”
he stood up and was headed towards the door and as leaving, Toni shot one final, “Oh, and by the way, I will no longer be donating money to this institution. Have a good day.”
That was the day she asked if she could officially adopt him and a few weeks after that. Dr. Strange asked him if he had his permission to marry her. His mom was AMAZING and now he had a magic dad.
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The avengers were called to assemble in the kitchen.
Peter dragged himself off his bed and trudged to the kitchen
Stephen portaled in and collapsed onto a chair.
When they gathered there was no threat,
Only to find an incoming phone call.
From “X”