I’ll Rearrange The Stars For You

Tony woke up to the sun coming through the window. It was how he woke up on most mornings but this morning wasn’t like most mornings.

He was terrified that what happened during the battle and getting Peter back was just a dream. Some sick and twisted dream that he had gotten all too familiar with over the years.

His eyes shot open and he started moving his hand across the bed to try and feel for the small body on his bed. He felt someone and tried to blink away the brightness and sleep from his eyes.

The sight that he was met with was worth everything.

Peter was sound asleep, facing him with his thumb still in his mouth, loosely sitting there. Peter was curled into a small ball and his curls were hanging in his face.

Tony wasn’t sure how he let go of Peter during the night but he was glad that Peter was still in his reach.

He sat up in bed and looked at where Pepper was supposed to be but she wasn’t there. He wasn’t surprised since she had always been an early riser and he hated to get up early.

Although they all needed the sleep because of all the physical and emotional strain that they went through yesterday.

Tony leaned over to check the time on the clock and saw that it was just past 2pm. Woah. He hadn’t slept that late in a long time.

He checked on Peter one last time before he was getting out of bed and going into the bathroom to go pee, brush his teeth and change into some track pants and a shirt.

When he walked out of the bathroom, Pepper was sitting on the edge of the bed and smiling down at Peter.

“How long have you been up?” Tony asked her.

She turned to him to answer, “Not very long. Maybe forty minutes. Morgan let us sleep and she even made herself breakfast and was playing quietly in the playroom.”

“I don’t want to leave him.” Tony admitted and joined her on the bed. He subconsciously ran a hand through Peter’s hair and then Peter was letting out a whine and pulling his thumb from his mouth.

“Do you think he’s too old to be sucking his thumb? We got Morgan to stop doing it at four.” Pepper voiced her concern but Tony was quick to speak up.

“No. Let him. He’s… it soothes him and it’s cute.” Tony didn’t want to stop Peter from doing that, he knew he was too old for it but if Peter didn’t stop himself in a few months then he would work on it with Pepper.

Pepper smiled at him. “I’ll leave you to it but just so you know, Morgan is desperate to see him.”

Tony smiled and nodded his head. He knew that.

Pepper left after that so Tony stayed with Peter on the bed just watching him. He listened to his breathing and watched as his chest would rise and fall.

After a little bit and no sign of Peter waking up, Tony carefully got off the bed and snuck downstairs so he could grab his computer and order a bunch of clothes and other things that they would need for Peter.

“Dad? Can I go see Peter.” Morgan asked from the kitchen island where she was helping Pepper make soup.

“He’s still sleeping, Morg.” Tony said as he grabbed his computer and charger.

“But… I really want to see him. I didn’t even get to see him yesterday because he went to sleep.” Morgan stuck out her bottom lip in a pout.

Tony sighed. “Alright. You can come up to see him for five minutes but you have to be really quiet so he can sleep.”

“Yay!” Morgan jumped off the kitchen stool and ran over to her dad's side. “I’ll come help you later, mom.”

Tony went with Morgan upstairs and she ever so quietly walked into the bedroom. Tony didn’t know how she knew Peter was in there but he assumed it was because she came into their room in the morning and saw him there.

“Aw. Daddy, he’s sleeping like my dolls.” Morgan whispered to him and then carefully crawled onto the bed to look at Peter close up.

“He is, isn’t he.” Tony smiled at his two babies. He couldn’t wait to watch them bond together although Tony knows he can’t expect that right away, especially with Peter apparently stuck between a teen and a five year old.

Tony sat down on the back and opened up his computer to start buying a bunch of clothes for Peter. Usually they would drive into town or even into the city to buy stuff but he didn’t want to do that right now so he would order everything to the house.

“Why can’t he wake up to play with me?” Morgan asked and reached a finger out to poke Peter on the arm.

“Morgan. I told you not to wake him up.” Tony warned. “I think it’s time you go back downstairs and help mom with the oatmeal.”

Morgan looked at him. “It’s soup, dad.”

“Oh, my bad. I’ll bring him down later.” Tony said and watched her run off.

Peter slept for the next hour but it gave Tony time to order everything that he could think of. Clothes, some toys but he wanted Peter to pick that stuff out himself, a car seat, a bedroom set with a new bed and dressers and sippy cups for him.

He wasn’t sure if Peter would need sippy cups but he remembered that Morgan had them at that age and he really missed it. Either way he ordered them.

As if on cue, Peter started to wake up. He slowly started moving and Tony thought it was going to be a slow wake up but seconds later, Peter was shooting his head up and looking around wildly.

“Peter. Hey, buddy. You’re okay. Just breathe.” Tony put his computer away to look at Peter and give him his full attention.

Peter’s eyes landed on Tony’s and he calmed down considerably. Tony smiled at him. “Hi. Do you remember what happened?”

Peter nodded his head and then sat up and crawled over to Tony on the bed so Tony placed his hands under Peter’s armpits and lifted him into his lap, melting with Peter laid his head on his shoulder.

“Buddy, you hungry? Let’s go eat some breakfast.” Tony felt his heart swelling at how adorable this was. He waited ten years for this moment and he still couldn’t get over how happy he was, he didn’t think he ever would but he was more than okay with that.

He got off the bed and carried Peter downstairs. Morgan was immediately running over to them and smiling up at Peter in her dad's arms. “Hi Peter. I made you breakfast with mommy. Are you hungry?”

Peter lifted his head up from Tony’s shoulder and looked down then nodded his head.

“Okay! Daddy always said how much you used to like pancakes with chocolate chips in them so I made you that with your apple juice.” Morgan excitedly ran into the kitchen and started getting the food ready for Peter.

“Good morning, Peter. Well, afternoon. We all woke up really late.” Pepper said as she poured Tony’s cup of coffee and made him an omelette.

“Not me!” Morgan cheered happily as Peter shyly put his head on Tony’s shoulder and watched everyone.

Tony sat down on one of the kitchen stools and went to place Peter in the seat next to him but Peter let out a loud whine and shook his head. “No. Wanna stay with you.”

Tony was perfectly fine with that. “Alright, Pete.” He moved Peter so that he was sitting on his lap but with Peter’s back to his chest. Morgan placed the plate of pancakes in front of him with his glass of apple juice at the same time as Pepper placed Tony’s coffee and omelette.

“Hi Peter.” Morgan giggled and grinned at Peter. “Can I feed you? I have practice from my dolls.”

Tony looked over at Pepper who was sitting at the table, drinking her tea and holding back her laugh at Morgan’s question. Tony was about to say something about how Peter wouldn’t want that but then Peter was nodding his head.

Tony looked over at Pepper in shock because just last night he was having adult conversations and now he was willingly about to let someone feed him.

No one said anything as they all watched Morgan put a piece of pancake on the fork, dip it in syrup and hold it out to Peter’s open mouth.

“Is it yummy, Peter?” Morgan asked him and Peter nodded then opened his mouth again so Morgan fed him another bite.

Tony couldn’t believe what he was seeing. It was unbelievably crazy but he loved it so much.

After the third bite, Peter was reaching for the fork himself. “I do it myself.”

Hearing Peter speak like an actual five year old now was weird to hear. Tony liked it but he had listened to a five year old talk in complete adult sentences but now Peter was sounding how he was supposed to and it was adorable.

Morgan handed him the fork. “Okay. I’ll help you drink your juice.” She picked up the glass and held it to Peter’s lips but she was tilting it faster than Peter could drink so it was smiling down his mouth and onto his shirt. “Oh no.”

“Thanks, little miss, but I’ll take over.” Tony grabbed the glass from Morgan’s hands and let Peter swallow what he had in his mouth before he was bringing the glass back up to his mouth to drink.

“He needs a bath after, daddy.” Morgan pointed out but Tony wasn’t sure if Peter would want that. No one said anything about it but Peter didn’t say no either so Tony wasn’t sure.

They continued to eat breakfast, Tony being more focused on watching Peter eat than actually eating himself.

Morgan was leaning over his side to watch Peter eat too and then after Peter was done, she was tapping on Tony’s arm. “Can I show him my playroom now?”

“Do you want to go look at her playroom, Pete?” Tony asked him while Peter was licking his lips dramatically.

“You coming too?” Peter asked, turning around to look at Tony.

“Yeah, of course. We’ll all go see it.” Tony stood you but he felt Peter trying to get out of his arms so he reluctantly put him on his feet but Morgan was at his side in a second.

“Come with me, Peter. I’ll show you.” Morgan grabbed Peter’s hand which he took and then they were walking ahead of Tony and Pepper.

It was Tony’s first time seeing the two side by side because every time they saw each other, Peter was in his arms or in his bed but now he could see his two babies right next to each other.

He always saw Morgan as such a tiny person and every time he would look at her, he would just see how small she was but now seeing her next to Peter, he realized just how tiny Peter was.

It was different to see because his once tiny kid was no longer the tiny one, Peter was now.

When they got to the playroom at the end of the hall, Morgan stepped down the two stairs that led them into it and carefully helped Peter down.

Tony smiled at the way Morgan was treating him. It was adorable.

“I’ll show you my toys, Peter. I even have a mini slide but I’m kinda too big for it now. Maybe you can fit- hey! Baby Peter can fit in my old swing outside. Let’s go put him in it and push him.” Morgan turned to Pepper excitedly and bounced on her feet. “Please?”

“How about after lunch we go outside. Right now you can show him around the house.” Pepper told her daughter because she didn’t want Peter to get too overwhelmed.

“Okay!” Morgan said then turned back to Peter who had moved to a pile of toys on the floor. “Those are my dinosaurs but the rest are outside in the garden.”

“I like this one.” Peter sat down on his knees and held up a Tyrannosaurus rex.

“Yeah! That one's cool but he eats other dinosaurs so that’s rude.” Morgan explained then grabbed a Triceratops. “This one is a nice one.”

Peter grabbed his dinosaur and pretended to eat Morgan’s dinosaur. “Roar! I eat you!”

Tony looked at Pepper because that was so freaking cute. She leaned against his shoulder and whispered, “I guess you were right about him falling into his five year old self.”

Tony nodded, “Yeah. It just happened a lot faster than I expected.”

Both of them sat down on the step to watch their kids interact with each other for the very first time. Tony tried to live in the moment but he needed to take a few pictures of this moment to remember it forever.

They continued to watch the two of them for about twenty minutes but then Peter was standing up and walking over to them with a pained look on his face and holding himself.

They both knew exactly what that meant.

“I needa pee.” Peter said and Tony was already on his feet and lifting Peter up over the two steps and then led him down the hallway where the bathroom was.

He didn’t know why he didn’t send his kid to go after he woke up. It would make sense since Peter had last gone pee who knows when.

“Okay. In here. I’ll wait outside but call me if you need me.” Tony turned the bathroom light on and shut the door. He stood outside for a lot longer than he should have but then Peter was walking out.

“All done.” Peter said with a smile and took off in the direction of the playroom again.

Tony didn’t expect that. Peter didn’t even wait for him. He tried not to let it bug him that Peter wasn’t clinging onto him anymore as he walked back to the playroom and sat down next to Pepper.

“Did he make it?” She asked him and Tony got some nostalgia from when Morgan was that age.

“Yeah. Well, I didn’t check his pants but I think so.” Tony got a buzz on his phone which was the text for his arrival of the delivery. “Oh! Everything I ordered is here. I’m gonna go drive down to the end of the driveway to go get it.”

Tony stood up to go leave but as soon as he went to walk away, Peter saw him so he stood up and ran to his side. “No. Don’ go.”

Tony's heart melted once again. He kneeled down so he was at Peter’s level. “I’m going to be right back. Ten minutes tops. I just have to go get your clothes and everything else so you don’t have to wear this anymore.”

Peter’s bottom lip shook. “No. Don’ go.”

“I’ll be right back. Stay with Pepper, okay?” Tony pointed to Pepper so Peter slowly walked over to her and to everyone’s surprise, he sat on her lap. “I’ll be right back.”

Peter watched Tony leave and as soon as he was out of sight, he started to sadly hiccup. Morgan saw the whole thing then she walked over to them and sat down in front of Pepper and Peter.

“Don’t be sad. Daddy just went to go get the delivery like he always does. Sometimes I go with him too! It’s so much fun.” Morgan reached forward and wiped away Peter’s tears for him.

“You’re so sweet, little miss.” Pepper said to her. She always imagined this day but it never went like this.

“Yeah. He’s my baby brother.” Morgan said like it explained everything and in a way it did. “Let’s go wait for daddy by the front door. I always do that.”

Peter nodded his head and climbed off of Peppers lap. He waited for her to stand up before he was reaching his arms up for her to be picked up again.

Pepper lifted Peter into his arms and placed him on her hip. She missed this so much but she didn’t realize it until now. She used to hold Morgan all the time but now she was too big for her to carry so she couldn’t. She was definitely going to be carrying Peter a lot more.

They got to the front door and walked out onto the front deck to watch Tony drive up the long driveway. Morgan was waving to him while Peter laid his head on Pepper's shoulder and grabbed onto the front of her shirt.

Tony parked the car and got out. He loved the sight that he saw. His daughter jumping up and down, waving to him and his son in his wife’s arms. Life was perfect.

“Wanna come help me, Morg?” Tony called out to her while he opened the trunk. There were a lot of boxes so it definitely be taking a lot of trips but Morgan was strong so she could help out.

“I’ll carry the lighter ones.” Morgan said then Tony handed her a box that was filled with clothes. She struggled but she carried it towards the house while Tony grabbed two boxes of clothes and walked towards the house as well.

Once he was close enough to Peter, Peter reached his arm out. “Hi, baby. I can’t hold you right now because I’m carrying heavy boxes.”

Peter put his arm down and lifted his head off of Pepper’s shoulder to watch what the two were doing.

When they got back to the car, Tony handed Morgan two boxes since they were fairly small and light. “You got those?”

“Yep!” Morgan said confidently.

Tony smiled at his girl then grabbed another box which was Peter’s car seat. It was a huge box that he was sure Morgan was going to use to play in later.

There were still four more boxes but they were long and gonna be heavy so he needed Pepper to carry one end. It was Peter’s bedroom set which he was excited to put together.

Once everything was inside, Tony moved to open the box of clothes so he could get Peter changed into something his size first before they opened up the rest of the boxes.

Tony opened the box up and Morgan was looking inside. “I can pick out his outfit for him.”

Peter squatted down and looked at the clothes that Morgan was grabbing out of the box. Tony knew Peter was a very chatty kid, both from experience and stories but Peter was being so quiet now and was just observing everything around him which was really cute but Tony really hoped that he would hear Peter’s chatty side soon. He missed it.

Morgan laid out his pants, shirt and the package of socks but then she pulled out a package of underwear and she frowned. “But where’s his diapers?”

Tony laughed and looked at Pepper who was also laughing then he looked over at Peter who was looking at him with no reaction whatsoever. “He doesn’t need diapers, Morg.”

Morgan tossed the underwear into the box. “But… I’m supposed to help you change him.”

Tony laughed again. “No, Petey doesn’t need them. He’s already potty trained.”

Morgan sat down and crossed her arms over her chest. Tony didn’t know what to do, he knew she wanted Peter to be a full on baby but he wasn’t. Well, Peter was to him but he just wasn’t in diapers.

“How about you help mom sort out the rest of his clothes while I take Peter upstairs to change?” Tony suggested to Morgan while he stood up and grabbed the outfit that Morgan picked out and then grabbed the package of underwear from the box.

“Fine. I guess.” Morgan sighed and watched sadly as Tony walked away with Peter.

“Bye bye.” Peter waved to her and Tony cooed. That was so adorable.

Once they got upstairs, Tony opened the bathroom door and ushered Peter in. “Alright, I have your clothes here and I’ll be outside so let me know if you need help.”

Peter looked up at him before Tony even made a move. “I need help. I don’ wan’ you to go.”

“You want me to help you get dressed?” Tony asked him, trying to keep the smile off his face because Peter needed him and he wanted him to help him.

Peter nodded. “Uh huh.”

“Okay. Come back into the bedroom then.” Tony led Peter back into the bedroom and kneeled down in front of him to pull the oversized shirt off of him.

He then pulled down the pants that were way too big and came off easily. He didn’t know how they didn’t fall off of him all morning, well, afternoon.

Tony opened up the pack of underwear and unrolled them. “Do you wanna pick what one you wanna wear?”

Peter bent down and looked at all the options. There were a bunch of planets on them but they were all different colours. Tony watched Peter’s face as he decided because he had a little grin on his face that was absolutely adorable.

Peter picked up a red one and stood back up. “This one. It’s red.”

Tony took it from him. “Yeah, your favourite colour.”

“Yeah. I like it.” Peter said then held onto Tony’s shoulders as Tony held out the underwear for Peter to step into. He pulled it up to Peter’s waist and was happy to see that it fit him perfectly. He didn’t actually know what Peter’s size was when he ordered all the clothes but he was glad he got it right.

It was a lot different from when he used to get Morgan dressed but Tony was just glad that he was no longer outnumbered by girls. He was happy that he had Peter on his team.

Tony grabbed the track pants next and helped Peter get them on then he did the same with his blue shirt that had a train on it and looked absolutely adorable.

“Do you wanna pick your socks too?” Tony asked him.

“Yeah. I want ‘nother red one.” Peter grinned and grabbed a red pair of socks after Tony opened up the package.

Tony put them on Peter’s ever so tiny feet and then stood up. “All done!”

Peter giggled at what Tony said which was music to Tony’s ears. Peter was then lifted his arms up so Tony didn’t even hesitate as he lifted Peter up into his arms and set him on his hip.

Tony couldn’t wait for Peter to be more vocal but he knew it was going to take a bit of time for him to get used to everything.