You could be the world
The whole way home was spent listening to Frozen again but Tony didn’t care since he got to see the smile on his kids faces. It was worth the headache he got.
“I wanna go out first.” Peter said once they pulled the car up to the house. He was kicking the back of Tony’s seat in his excitement so Tony was glad that they were at the house so he didn’t have to deal with Peter kicking his seat.
“I’ll get you out in one second.” Tony shut the car off and got out then opened up the back door to get Peter. He loved the face he was making again and seemed to only make that face in his car seat.
Peter was leaning his head against his shoulder and smiling up at Tony with his baby teeth on display. “Come here, bud.”
Tony undid the buckles and lifted Peter out of the car, setting him on the ground. “Daddy, I wan’ go in-in the water.”
Tony loved hearing Peter call him that. He hoped he never got over the giddy feeling he got but he didn’t think he ever would. “We’re all gonna go in the water soon but we have to bring everything inside and get changed first.”
“‘Kay! I help.” Peter ran to the back of the car where Morgan and Pepper were and started trying to climb up into the trunk but it was too high off the ground.
Tony watched him struggle for a few seconds. Peter should have no problem climbing into that trunk but maybe that means that his spider powers are gone. Tony doesn’t know how to feel about that.
For the short term, he’s glad that Peter doesn’t have his spidey powers because a five year old hyperactive child that can climb on walls would not be easy to deal with but in the long term, Peter can no longer be Spider-Man.
Tony doesn’t know what he would prefer but that’s obviously not up to him.
He decided not to think about that right now. Tony reached into the trunk and grabbed two light shopping bags then handed them to Peter. “Here, you take these in.”
Peter excitedly grabbed both of the bags, happy to be helping out.
Morgan grabbed the diaper box while Tony and Pepper grabbed one of the heavier bags then they all went inside the house to drop off their first load.
Peter went to go pull on Tony’s arm. “Now we go swimming?”
“Not yet. There’s still more stuff we have to bring inside.” Tony put his hand on top of Peter’s head and started leading uuuhim towards the front door again.
“Peter, I’ll help you carry some stuff in too.” Morgan said and grabbed onto Peter’s hand then started running with him towards the car but she was going too fast for Peter to keep up with her and if she wasn’t careful then Peter would faceplant onto the gravel.
“Morgan. Stop running. You’re going too fast for Peter’s tiny legs to keep up with you.” Tony warned her. He walked over to them waiting by the trunk and handed Peter the potty seats and Morgan the steps then grabbed the last of the bags and shut the trunk.
“Peter, when we go swimming, I’ll show you how I go underwater.” Morgan said to him while they were walking inside the house.
“Yeah, you have to hold your breath and go under so you don’ breathe all the water into your nose.” Peter explained to her then placed the potty seats onto the floor and started tugging on Tony’s shirt again. “Wanna go in the water now.”
“My hands are full right now, Petey. Give me a second to put this away.” Tony placed the bags on top of the kitchen island while Peter still continued to tug on his shirt to get his attention. “Okay. All done.”
“Yay! I wanna go in the water now!” Peter screamed and jumped up and down. Tony lifted him onto his hip and started looking for the cute little bathing suit that they bought Peter. “I see my bathing suit! It in the- that ‘dare one.”
Tony looked at where Peter was pointing and held up the bathing suit that Peter picked out. It was dark blue, had a bunch of sharks on it and pretty much looked like swim underwear but Peter was set on getting it.
He held Peter over the table so he could reach into the bag and grab it.
“Let’s head up Morgan.” Tony said to Morgan who was waiting patiently by the stairs. Tony put Peter on his feet once they got to the top of the stairs and stopped off at Morgan’s bedroom. “We’ll meet you in my room once you’re done changing.”
Peter ran into Tony’s bedroom and as simple as it was, Tony loved how Peter knew where to go already. The house isn’t very big but still, he’s glad that in the two days that Peter’s been there that he already knows where everything is. Well, mostly everything but he hasn’t been in Morgan’s bedroom yet from what he knows.
Tony sat on the bed and started to take off the tags from the bathing suit. “Take off all your clothes while I get these tags.”
Peter lifted his shirt up but then he started whining. “Can’t. Help me.”
Tony watched Peter struggling with his shirt for a few seconds before helping him because it was funny to watch. “Okay, off it comes.”
Peter giggled at Tony. “Say it again.”
“I’ll say it again if you finish getting undressed.” Tony couldn’t seem to get the tag off the suit without ripping it.
“Help me.” Peter said again with his pants. Tony knew he could pull them off himself but he was going to take full advantage of Peter depending on him.
“Off it comes.” Tony said as he tugged his pants and underwear down with Peter giggling. He threw his dirty clothes into the hamper then went back to the tag but he couldn’t get it off.
He got up to go into the bathroom to find some scissors with Peter following him. “Where are the scissors, Petey?” Tony asked but obviously Peter wouldn’t know.
Peter tried to look in some drawers as well. “I don’ know. I help you look for them.”
Pepper then walked into the bathroom. “Oh, oops. I’m just looking for Morgan’s bathing suit. She said she left it in here.”
“I don’ know where it is either.” Peter shrugged his shoulders at Pepper.
“Aw, that’s okay, Peter.” She smiled up at Tony at Peter’s cuteness then grabbed the bathing suit that was drying on the back of the door. “Look, I found it.”
“Pep, where are the scissors?” Tony asked her before she left the room.
“They should be in the drawer.” She said but he shook his head so she walked over and looked inside then pulled them out. “They’re right here, Genius.”
“Oh. Good eye.” Tony didn’t know what he would do without her.
Pepper looked down at Peter. “Is your daddy silly, Peter?”
Peter grinned and ran to hug Tony’s legs. “Yeah, he’s a silly billy.”
Tony felt his heart stop. He loved hearing that name with Peter because it just made everything all the more real. Peter was his kid.
“Alright. I’m gonna go give Madame Secretary her bathing suit.” Pepper smiled at him before leaving the room.
“Bye bye.” Peter waved to her.
“Okay, little man. The tags are all gone.” Tony kneeled down so he could put it on Peter. “Let’s get this on you and then we’ll go outside.”
Peter grabbed onto Tony’s arms for balance as he stepped into his new bathing suit. It fit Peter perfectly. “Look at you, bud. You could be a swimsuit model.”
Peter grinned and went over to the full length mirror so he could look at himself. “I like all my little sharkies.”
“Yeah, they’re excited to go swimming too.” Tony playfully said then stood up so they could go see if Morgan was ready yet.
“Are you comin in with me?” Peter asked. He grabbed onto Tony’s hand so he could hold it as they left the bathroom and headed to Morgan’s bedroom.
“Yeah, we're all going but I’m not gonna go swimming. Just you guys are.” Tony answered him. He held onto Peter’s hand and took in just how tiny his hand was. He still wasn’t used to Peter’s size for two reasons.
Morgan was always so tiny to him because she was smaller than him and Pepper obviously but then Peter came around and now Peter was the smallest one there and it was simply adorable. Also the fact that Tony is used to Peter as a fifteen year old kid not a five year old.
Peter let go of Tony’s hand to run into Morgan’s bedroom. He saw the bed and immediately attempted to climb onto it. “You have a grey bunny.”
Morgan looked over at him. “Yeah, his name is Scruffy.”
Peter hugged the stuffed animal to his chest and rubbed his face against it. “I like him. He’s soft.”
Morgan smiled at Peter. “I like your bathing suit, Peter. There’s tiny sharks on it.”
Peter laid down on the bed and lifted his legs up in the air. “Yeah! They gonna eat you.”
“Let’s go swimming before it gets too dark out.” Pepper said and then Peter was standing up and reaching his arms out for her so she happily lifted Peter up into her arms and set him on her hip. “Look at how cute your bathing suit is, Peter. I love it.”
Peter grinned. “Yeah, daddy put it on and then said he not gonna go in the water but he’s still gonna be there.”
Tony laughed at Peter’s childish response to Pepper saying she liked his bathing suit. Oh how he missed this age so much.
When they got outside, Peter kicked his legs to be put down so Pepper placed him on the ground and then Morgan was grabbing his hand and leading him over to the water.
“Don’t bring him into the water, Morgan.” Pepper warned her since she knew Peter would want to go in on his own time.
Morgan stopped once they got to the edge of the water then she immediately started walking in because she was used to it after all the years but Peter had never gone in before so he was cautious.
“Come in, Peter. I’ll carry you.” Morgan told him and then dunked her head under the water.
Peter slowly took a step into the water that was only up to his ankles but then he stepped out and ran over to Tony. He lifted his arm up for him, “Up.”
Tony lifted Peter up and walked towards the water with him. “It’s fun, Pete. Look at how much fun Morgan is having.”
Peter watched Morgan happily splashing around in the water but then he shook his head and pointed at Tony. “Daddy goes in. I wan’ go with you.”
“Alright. Even though daddy didn’t put his bathing suit on.” Tony still wasn’t over the fact that Peter called him daddy. He hoped he never got over the feeling it gave him.
Peter kicked his legs excitedly as Tony walked into the water, getting his pants soaked in the process but he didn’t care. He walked in until he was up to his knees and went to put Peter in but Peter held onto him tighter.
“No! Hold me.” Peter grabbed onto Tony’s shirt so Tony couldn’t let him go. He held Peter so that he had one arm around his chest and the other hand between his legs so he could dip Peter’s feet into the water.
Tony got a flashback to when Morgan was only a few months old and he held her the same way so he could dip her into the lake for the first time. Only now it was Peter’s first time and he was five.
Peter lifted his legs up so Tony couldn’t dip them into the water. “Put your feet down.”
Peter giggled and shook his head. “Nu uuh. I lift ‘dem up.”
Tony laughed at him lifting his legs up into the air. He didn’t understand how Peter was even doing that without a sweat. He didn’t want to force Peter into the water because that wouldn’t be good for him. Peter had to go in on his own terms.
So Tony carried Peter out of the water and placed him onto the grass. He walked over to the chairs that Pepper was sitting on and sat down on one but Peter was climbing onto his lap.
“I’m sitting with you.” Peter said.
“Why don’t you go in the water with Morgan? I’ll be right here the whole time.” Tony reassured him. He could see Peter thinking about it but he was shaking his head after. Tony stood up again and placed Peter on the ground. “Alright. I’m gonna join her.”
Tony then began walking towards the water and back into it. It was getting kinda cold since the sun was starting to go down but he didn’t care since he was used to the cold water by now.
Peter followed him but stopped just as his ankles went into the water. “Daddy. Carry me.” Peter reached his arms up for Tony but Tony shook his head.
“Come to where me and Morgan are.” Tony told Peter. He was just passed his thighs meaning that Peter would be up to his shoulders but Tony would be there to grab him.
Peter shook his head and stomped on the water. “No. The sharks will come and eat me.”
Everyone laughed at that and how innocent Peter’s mind was. “No, baby. There are no sharks in this lake. Sharks live in the ocean.” Tony told him and held his arms out. “Come to me.”
Peter hesitated but he stepped more into the water and kept going very slowly until he was about two feet away from Tony. Peter smiled and went to jump but he ended up diving face first into the water and going under so Tony reached forward and grabbed him.
He lifted Peter up and at first he thought that Peter would start crying but after the shock disappeared from his face, Peter started giggling like crazy.
“That was fun.” Peter said and Tony sighed with relief. Swimming was a huge part of their family since they were always in the lake for a huge percentage of the day and if Peter didn’t like swimming then that would have sucked.
“Do you want to try and swim? I’ll hold you up.” Tony asked Peter and brushed the wet curls out of his face.
Peter nodded. “Yeah. I wan’ swim to Morgan.”
“Okay.” Tony held Peter in the water with his hand holding onto his chest and his other hand between his legs as Peter kicked his feet and attempted to swim to Morgan who was already way past her neck.
“Hi Peter.” Morgan was struggling to hold her head above the water but Tony knew she had it. He couldn’t count the number of times Morgan had done that and gave him a heart attack only to find out she liked it. “Watch me do a… a roll.”
Tony was already up to his chest so he made sure to hold Peter tightly because if he went under Tony wouldn’t be able to find him that quickly in the dark lake water.
Morgan went under and there was a lot of slashing and then she came back up and coughed on some water. Peter was clapping his hands together excitedly. “Do it again!”
Morgan smiled and then went under again to do it once more. When she came back up, her head slipped under and she started coughing some more then she reached her arm out to Tony so Tony grabbed her by the arm so she could catch her breath.
“Do again.” Peter cheered and Tony didn’t understand why Peter was talking that way. It was adorable but he knew Peter was capable of talking in complete sentences… for the most part.
“Do it again, Pete. And Morgan can’t because she’s getting tired now.” Tony told him. He let go of Morgan’s arm once she could touch the ground and then he shifted Peter so that he was in his swimming position again. “Morgan, can you play with Peter in the shallow end?”
“Yeah! Let me go get the buckles so we can make mud pies.” Morgan ran out of the water and ran over to one of the trees where the bucket of toys were.
She came back over with two buckets and two shovels then sat down so the water was barely passed her thighs. Tony placed Peter on his feet. “Go play with Morgan, I’ll be right over there.”
Peter squatted down and started digging up the mud with Morgan while Tony took off his wet shirt and sat down. He was extremely uncomfortable but they were only going to be outside for about another twenty minutes or so.
Tony and Pepper sat there and watched their two kids playing with the mud. They were used to only having to watch Morgan but now they had two kids to watch.
Tony couldn’t take his eyes off of Peter. The kid was sitting on his butt with his legs stretched out in front of him and he was piling the mud onto his legs then patting it down.
All Tony could think about was how messy he was going to be to clean up but that was okay. He was okay with that since he could hear Peter giggling nonstop.
Morgan took the mud off of Peter’s legs and then Peter was moving closer to her so he could take her shovel. “Mine now.”
“Hey, thats mine.” Morgan grabbed the shovel back from Peter and continued to fill up her mud bucket.
Peter looked over at Tony with a grin. “Daddy, I’m peeing.”
“What?” Tony and Pepper laughed at him. “Are you peeing right now?”
Peter nodded at Tony and then went back to playing with the mud.
“Okay then.” Tony laughed and put his arm around Pepper. “Can you believe we have a five year old again?”
“Still trying to believe it.” Pepper admitted and moved closer to Tony. “We’re definitely in for a lot.”
Tony nodded. He couldn’t agree more. “But we should head inside soon. We have to bathe, change and put two kids to bed now.”
Tony could just imagine how crazy that was going to be. “You guys have five more minutes.”
Morgan gave a thumbs up to Tony while Peter ignored him and continued to play in the mud. Tony and Pepper were both still learning things about Peter.
Even though Tony knew Peter inside and out when he was a teen, this Peter was a five year old and Tony wasn’t sure if it was how Peter acted when he was that age before. He sure as hell looked the same from all the pictures that Tony had seen of him but since May is no longer alive, it is almost impossible to know if Peter acted the same way.
He would assume for the most part he acted the same way but he wasn’t sure that would last long since Peter was being raised in a different environment with an older sibling and two parents.
After the five minutes, Tony was standing up with Pepper. “Let’s go inside guys.”
“Okay. I have to rinse the buckets and shovels first.” Morgan grabbed hers and started rinsing them out but when she moved to grab Peter’s, he screamed. “I have to clean them.”
“No! I’m still playing, Morgan. Go ‘way.” Peter crawled away from her with his bucket and shovel then sat with his back to everyone.
Morgan looked at Tony helplessly. “It’s okay, Morg, I’ll get him.” Tony told her then walked over to Peter. “It’s time to go inside, Peter. Let’s go.”
Peter shook his head. “You say five minutes and it’s only been five seconds.”
“No, it’s been six minutes now so it’s time to go inside.” Tony told him then walked around so he could crouch down in front of him.
“No. I don’ want to.” Peter said and continued to fill the bucket up with mud.
“You can come outside and play tomorrow when it’s bright outside but now it’s getting dark and all of the bears are gonna come.” Tony was partly lying. In the ten years that they’ve lived at the house for, they have seen a bear a total of three times and that’s because there is absolutely no reason for a bear to wander onto their property when the bear has a whole forest to wander in.
Peter looked up curiously. “Like a big bear?” Tony nodded. “Does it come with his daddy bear and go swimming?”
“Baby bears usually travel with their mommy’s.” Tony told Peter.
Peter frowned. “Where do the daddy’s go?”
“Uh, they go find some fish for the family to eat.” Tony told him while Pepper and Morgan were waiting. Morgan was already wrapped in a towel and Pepper was holding Peter’s for him.
“Oh, like all the fishes in the lake?” Peter asked and Tony knew that Peter would continue to keep asking questions so he didn’t have to go inside. Much like teen Peter when he didn’t want to do something.
“Okay, enough questions for tonight. Rinse your buckets out and go put them away then we’ll go inside.” Tony told Peter again. He could see Peter thinking about it but he ignored him and went back to playing with the mud.
Tony grabbed the bucket and shovel from him and tossed it onto the grass which caused Peter to immediately start screaming. “No! Mine!”
“Nope. I told you to put it away and you didn’t so I did.” Tony walked back over to Peter who threw himself onto the mud and was crying loudly. Good thing they didn’t have any neighbours.
“Get up, Peter. Look, Pepper and Morgan are waiting for you.” Tony pointed to them who were watching the two of them.
Peter kicked his legs out at Tony and continued to cry. “No! Don’ Wanna go inside! No!”
Tony reached down and picked the muddy five year old up. He held him very awkwardly since Peter was kicking and squirming in his arms a lot. He walked towards the girls and gave Pepper a look. He did not miss this part of having a five year old.
“No, daddy! No! Outside!” Peter screamed at him and mumbled some other type of incoherent gibberish as Tony carried him inside the house.
He continued to struggle to hold Peter since the kid was slipping out of his arms and screaming in Tony’s ear.
Morgan was shivering now so she could shower first. “Morgan, you go shower while Peter calms down.”
Morgan raced upstairs immediately while Tony struggled with Peter. “I wan’- I wan’ go outside!”
“Peter, it’s getting late and you have to go to bed soon.” Tony told him but Peter shook his head and continued to cry. “Peter. Calm down. Look if you don’t stop crying then you’re not gonna go play outside tomorrow.”
“No! I wan’ to!” Peter screamed so Tony put him on the floor and walked away from him. Usually when Morgan had temper tantrums, she needed to be left alone to calm down so maybe that’s what Peter would need.
Tony walked into the kitchen, still wearing his incredibly uncomfortable pants, and he grabbed Peter’s sippy cup and filled it with water to see if that would calm him down as well. It only worked when Morgan was a baby but maybe it would work for Peter.
The five year old was immediately getting up and running to Tony’s feet and grabbing onto Tony’s pants. “Hold me! Daddy, hold me!”
Tony’s heart broke. Hearing Peter say that hurt because he just wanted Peter to be a happy child but he knew that wasn’t possible because he was at that age where everything upset him if he didn’t like it.
He crouched down so he was at Peter’s height. Peter tried to wrap his arms around Tony but he held his arms down. “Take a breath, Peter. I don’t know why you’re crying so much. The water isn’t going anywhere. When I say it’s time to go inside then you need to listen to me.”
Peter continued to cry so Tony wasn’t sure if Peter was actually hearing him. “I-I wan’ up.”
“Okay. Come here.” Tony lifted Peter into his arms and handed him his sippy cup which Peter immediately shoved into his mouth and started drinking from it.
Tony sighed in relief at the quiet. It was nice so he carried Peter upstairs and into his and Peppers bathroom.
Peter took the sippy cup out of his mouth and pointed at the shower where Morgan was. “It all steamy.”
Tony looked at him in shock. He never understood how kids could be so resilient. Peter just went from screaming bloody murder to smiling and pointing at things.
Pepper looked up at them from her spot on her vanity chair. “Hi Peter. Are you ready to shower?”
Peter nodded his head. “Uh huh.”
Tony placed Peter on the floor and sat down on the bathtub step. “Come here, Pete. I’m gonna take this off.”
“Is Peter in here?” Morgan asked excitedly from the shower.
“Yeah, he’s right here.” Pepper asked her and then Morgan stuck her head out with soap all in her hair still. “Chop chop, little miss. Peter still needs to shower.”
Tony pulled off the wet and muddy swim suit off of Peter and stood up to put it in the sink. Peter ran to the shower and tried to peek in but it was too foggy for him to see anything.
Peter then ran to the sink and opened up the bathroom cupboard and began pulling bottles of soap out. “What are you doing, Petey?”
Peter grabbed the shampoo bottle and walked over to Tony to hand it to him. “For my hair and your hair too.”
Tony grabbed it from him. “Thanks, Pete. Does Pepper get some?”
Peter went to go back under the sink and grabbed her another shampoo bottle then walked over to her to hand it over. “This one is for you and for Morgan cause she’s a girl and daddy is a boy.”
Pepper took it from him. “Oh wow. Thank you, Peter. What are you?”
“Um… I’m just a boy. Like daddy.” Peter said then leaned against Peppers legs.
“Alright well Morgan seems to have disappeared in there so how about we get you quickly washed with the bathtub shower hose.” Tony suggested because he needed to get Peter clean and jump into the shower himself because his legs were starting to get itchy. “Come, Pete.”
Peter walked over to Tony so Tony lifted him into the bathtub so he was standing in it then he turned the bathtub shower hose on and set it to the right temperature. “Can you come hold it, Pep, so I can wash him?”
Pepper walked over to them and took it from Tony after he rinsed Peter down. “What shampoo do you want?”
Peter looked at it. “Um, I want the red one. Let me smell it.”
Tony held the bottle out for Peter to smell it then he was pouring some onto his hand and rubbing it into his curls to get him clean.
“Daddy, after all the soap is out it’s gonna clean all my toes.” Peter explained to him.
“Let’s see about that.” Tony said after he was done with Peter’s hair. Tony rinsed his hands and then Pepper rinsed all the soap out, careful not to get it in Peter’s eyes.
“Look at ‘dem.” Peter looked down at his feet with a smile. Tony didn’t understand what was so interesting about them but everything was interesting for a five year old.
“Wow. They’re getting so clean.” Tony said and grabbed the body wash and started cleaning Peter’s body everywhere just as Morgan stepped out of the shower.
“I want to help you, daddy.” She said after she wrapped a towel around herself and walked over to the bathtub.
“I’m all done, Morg. Now he has a clean bum and clean feet.” Tony smiled at Peter who was giggling at what Tony said. Tony rinsed his hands off and took over with the shower hose.
Peter tugged on one of his curls. “And clean hair because my daddy cleaned it.” Peter said with so much proudness that made Tony’s heart swell.
He finished rinsing Peter’s hair then shut the water off and picked Peter up in a large towel. “Look at you all cozy in there.”
Peter grinned at Tony then started laughing when Tony started to dry his dripping hair.
Morgan left the bedroom to go change into her pyjamas while Tony carried Peter into the bedroom. He knew Peter was old enough to get dressed into his pyjamas on his own with some assistance but he knew he wasn’t going to have any other kids and he needed to take advantage of his son's young age.
So he laid Peter on the bed and dried him off all while Peter was laughing at what Tony was doing. “D-daddy you silly!”
Tony blew a raspberry on his exposed stomach and got a loud giggle from Peter but then he stopped. He was trying to get Peter tired before bed time.
Morgan ran into the bedroom, dressed in her pyjamas and went to go look at Peter. “Hi baby Peter. Look at your hair.” Morgan reached out to touch Peter’s curly wet hair.
“Yeah. It goes all curly then it dries with all the air.” Peter explained to her.
“Morg, can you grab the box of his pull-ups for me please?” Tony asked her then finished drying Peter off.
Pepper walked into the room with a cup of tea. “I was thinking, we could go outside in the swing under the stars and let them calm down before bedtime.”
“We haven’t done that in awhile.” Tony said as he was grabbing Peter’s feet and getting a bunch of giggles out of him. “We definitely need it.”
Morgan walked back into the room with the box of pull-ups and set them on the bed. She then jumped on it and helped Tony open it.
“Up we get.” Tony lifted Peter up by his arms so he was standing on the bed. He pulled a pull-up out of the box and showed it to Peter. “You’re gonna wear these to bed and during nap times, okay? It’ll help you keep the bed dry plus they look super cool.”
“Wow. Look at how cool those look, Peter. You’re gonna be the coolest person in the house when you’re wearing those.” Pepper added in since she knew how important it was to encourage Peter to wear them.
Peter didn’t look like he cared one bit. He grabbed the pull-up Tony was holding in his hand and examined it. “No more pee pee?”
Tony grabbed another one out of the box. “No more pee pee on the bed but you go in these now.”
“No more toilet?” Peter pointed in the direction of the bathroom.
“No, bud. This is just for when you’re sleeping then in the day time, you go pee pee and poop in the toilet. Okay?” Tony wanted to make sure Peter understood that. He still needed to get Peter to Morgan’s paediatrician which would end up being Peter’s as well but he wanted to hold back on that for as long as possible since he knew how many people would be going to the doctors.
Peter nodded his head excitedly so Tony held out the pull-up for Peter to step into and pulled it up on him. “Woah! Look how cool you look.”
Peter looked down at himself and smiled. “Yeah! I look so cool. Like daddy.”
Tony smiled at him. “Yeah, baby. You look just like daddy.”
Peter grinned at Tony so the two of them just stared at each other for a few seconds. All Tony could think about was all those years spent mourning over Peter and wishing to have his kid back in his arms again and now Peter was and he couldn’t be happier about it.
Morgan was handing Tony Peter’s pyjamas and causing Tony to lose his train of thought. He took them from her, “Thanks, Morg.”
Tony helped Peter get his pyjamas on and then he was picking him up into his arms and holding him close to his chest. “You wanna see something cool?”
Peter nodded his head but Tony could tell that he was already starting to get really tired.
Morgan held Tony’s hand that wasn’t holding Peter in his arms then the family of now four made their way outside.
There was an outdoor swing bed that was near one of Morgan’s house forts that she would play in. It was fairly large and very comfortable but they never went inside of it because there was no need to. They never sat in it as a family and were only ever used by Pepper to read in it occasionally on some sunny mornings but that’s it.
But now, Tony had a good feeling that they would be getting good use out of it with Peter.
They walked down the steps of the deck then Morgan was running off towards the swing, already knowing where they were going. Peter rested his head on Tony’s shoulder as he looked around at everything while the three of them made their way over there.
Morgan was making the swing bed rock back and forth by the time they got there by running side to side inside the bars so Tony held Peter up by the entrance. “Can you help Pete up?”
“Come here, baby brother. I’ll help you.” Morgan grabbed onto Peter’s hand and carefully led him over to the pillows but Peter was whining and reaching out for Tony.
“I’m right here, bud.” Tony reassured him as he climbed onto the swing bed after Pepper got in.
He reached out for Peter and lifted him up so he was cuddled against his side as he laid down. Morgan was next to Peter and holding onto his hand while Pepper laid next to Morgan.
Peter grabbed his hand away from Morgan so he could place it on Tony’s chest and lightly grab his shirt. He put his thumb in his mouth and rested his head on Tony’s chest above his heart.
Tony looked down at Peter and felt genuine happiness for the first time in a long time.