You are everything to me
Tony opened the back door and opened his arms to give Peter a hug since he was reaching for him. “No. Wan’ out.”
Tony laughed at his kids face then he unbuckled him from his car seat and lifted Peter into his arms. “Let’s bring in RoRo and what else do you want?”
Peter leaned down to grab RoRo and then also grabbed his new fire truck and held both in his arms.
“I’m gonna carry in Peter’s bag then we can come out for everything else later. Did you get the gifts?” Pepper asked Tony who was holding Peter in one arm and about to grab the gifts with his free hand.
“Yep. It’s right here.” Tony held up the bag and then shut the door with his foot.
They walked to the front door but both Tony and Pepper looked at each other because they had no idea how to ring the doorbell with both of their hands full. “Pete, can you ring the doorbell?” Tony asked Peter who had a free hand.
Peter nodded his head and reached for the doorbell. “Good job, baby!” Tony smiled at him.
It didn’t take long for the front door to open up. It was a woman that Tony had seen in many photographs over the years but had never met in person. She had long blonde hair that was greying at the top and bright blue eyes. “Pepper! I’m so happy to see you after, what was it?! Five years! Come in! Come in!”
Tony looked over at Peter who was watching the women with wide, curious eyes. He wondered how he would react to everyone in the large house.
“Molly! I’m so happy to see you again!” Pepper and the women, Molly, hugged. “Look at you! You look so amazing, did you get a boob job?”
Tony looked away, feeling uncomfortable but it was kind of funny.
“Yes! Thank you for noticing. I’ll have to show you the before and after pictures but look at you! So beautiful and your skin! Amazing!” Molly then turned to look at Tony and Peter.
“I’d shake your hand but I don’t have any to spare right now.” Tony joker but then Pepper was placing down the bag and taking the gift bag from Tony’s hand so he could shake hands with Molly.
“You must be Tony, Peppers told you so much about you. Over all the years.” Molly giggled and turned to Pepper who was jokingly rolling her eyes.
“I hope she told you all the good stuff in that case.” Tony smiled at Pepper and the way she looked at him sent butterflies in his stomach.
“Well… mostly.” Molly laughed then looked at Peter. “And who is this cutie? You’re so cute. Look at those big brown eyed and that curly hair. So cute.”
Peter was looking at Molly like he was offended but Tony knew that he was just confused since he wasn’t sure who the new face was. “This is Peter. He’s my kid. Can you say hi, Peter?”
Peter stuck his thumb in his mouth and leaned his head against Tony’s shoulder. “He’s adorable.”
“Thank you.” Tony said and he felt so proud. Peter was his kid. He was his son. Saying it to everyone felt… good. It felt so right.
“This is for you.” Pepper smiled and handed the gift bag to Molly. She took it happily.
“Thank you but you didn’t have to get me anything.” Tony waved Molly off but he mainly wanted to change Peter’s diaper.
“It was no problem at all but where can I change him?” Tony asked, grabbing the diaper bag and putting it over his shoulder.
“Oh yes! Of course!” Molly started walking towards the stairs. “I’ll show you the room that you guys will be staying in. It has a bathroom and a lock so you have your own privacy.”
Molly led them up the stairs which Tony had never seen so many stairs in his life. There were two levels of stairs which amazed Tony and he honestly felt like doing some exploring of the house. It was massive.
“Here we are,” Molly pushed open the door revealing a large outdated bedroom. The small family walked into the bedroom and looked around at everything. “There’s a bathroom attached that is just for you guys. I can bring a crib in for Peter if you’d like?”
Tony shook his head at the offer. “Thanks but it’s alright. He’ll sleep with us.”
Molly nodded her head and shut the door behind her as she left after Pepper thanked her and told her that they would be down soon.
Tony stood Peter up on the bed and held onto his hands as he bounced up and down. “Daddy high.”
“Yeah, bud. I can see how high you’re jumping but how about I change you first then you’ll probably go a lot higher without all that weight bringing you down.” Tony looked over at Pepper who was laughing as she placed a diaper, wipes and cream on the bed.
“No. See me jump.” Peter squealed as he held into his daddy’s hands and tried to jump on the bed by himself but it was mostly Tony lifting him up so he could actually get some air.
“Wow look at you.” Tony said then threw Peter into the air and easily caught him. “No more jumping. It’s time to change your bum.”
Peter giggled as he kicked his feet out. “No! More jump, daddy!”
“No more.” Tony grabbed the clean diaper that Pepper left for him on the bed and looked around for her. He didn’t even notice that she left the room.
He placed Peter on the bed and pulled his pants off of him then deciding to change him into a onesie since he would be bringing Peter back up in about an hour to sleep so he pulled his top off as well.
“Daddy where RoRo go?” Peter asked as Tony pulled down the diaper. He quickly glanced around the room, having no idea how Peter’s rabbit could disappear so quickly.
“I think he’s on the floor. I’ll get him for you after.” Tony grabbed the wipes and started wiping Peter clean, he looked at Peter’s face and saw that he was sucking on his thumb which meant that he would probably be bringing Peter up even earlier for bed.
“Wan’ RoRo, Daddy.” Peter whined and pulled his thumb from his mouth. He tried to sit up and roll onto his stomach but Tony held him down long enough to get his clean diaper on him. Once Tony did that, he let Peter roll into his stomach and crawl to the edge of the bed. “RoRo!”
Tony walked over to the edge of the bed to where Peter was excitedly pointing to and spotted the beloved rabbit. “There he is! Hi RoRo.” Tony picked the rabbit up, handing it to Peter who hugged it to his chest and started smelling the rabbits floppy ear.
Tony listened with a smile on his face to Peter’s babbling to his rabbit. He wasn’t sure what Peter was saying but it was adorable either way. He grabbed a onesie from Peter’s diaper bag since all of their bags were still in the car and sat on the bed, pulling his baby onto his lap so he could get Peter wrestled into his pyjamas a lot easier.
“All done.” Tony announced, setting Peter on the floor. He went to the bathroom to throw the diaper in the garage and wash his hands then he grabbed Peter’s hand that wasn’t holding onto his rabbit and walked out of the room to go greet everyone. He was not looking forward to that because he didn’t want people to treat him differently just because he’s Tony Stark and Iron Man with a baby.
Tony held onto Peter’s hand as they walked down the stairs. Peter was having a hard time with the concept of walking down the stairs so he almost fell a few times but Tony caught him every time.
When they eventually made it to the bottom of the stairs, Tony didn’t see anyone in the large house but he could hear a lot of loud voices and babies so he held onto Peter’s hand and continued to walk down the long hallway towards the voices.
He heard loud stomping coming towards them and was about to pick Peter up but a child ran around the corner and stopped when she saw them.
“Hi! My name is Abigail.” The girl said. Tony thought that she might be around four years old but he wasn’t sure. He only knew what a two year old looked like and a fifteen year old.
“Hi. It’s nice to meet you Abigail.” Tony said, not really knowing what else to say but then the girl started running away.
“Okay! I’m done talking to you now.” She said as she ran past them and disappeared into another room. Tony laughed at the encounter and looked down at Peter who was just looking ahead like he had no idea what just happened either.
Tony continued walking towards the voices with Peter walking beside him, still holding onto his hand tightly. When they turned the corner, Tony saw that there were about ten adults in the room with a lot of toddlers running around.
No one seemed to notice them and everyone was having their own conversations in the room with people walking in and out of it so that made Tony feel a bit better. He didn’t want all the attention on him and thankfully it didn’t look like he was going to get any attention from anyone in the room which Tony was thankful for.
He then noticed that Peter was tugging on his pants so he looked down and saw the distressed look on his kids face so he picked him up, settling him on his hip. “You scared, bud?”
Peter nodded and stuck his thumb in his mouth as he looked around the room with wide eyes. Tony started walking through the room, over to where Pepper was sitting with a group of moms and their kids.
Tony saw what he assumed was another two year old boy who was just wearing a diaper and Tony didn’t know how a parent would let their kid wear just a diaper in a room with strangers. He ignored that as he saw another older girl who looked to be about four or five and then a small baby, maybe a few months old.
Peppers eyes lit up when she saw Tony and Peter then patted the couch next to her. “Hi! Guys, this is Tony and Peter.”
Tony sat down next to Pepper, holding Peter on his lap. “It’s nice to meet you all. He’s a bit shy right now. He’s tired so he’ll say hi tomorrow.”
Tony patted Peter’s diapered butt then he felt Peter take his head away from his neck and slowly peak an eye out at everyone in the room.
Everyone had returned to their conversations then Tony looked over to what Peter was looking at. It was the two year old dressed in just a diaper climbing onto the couch.
He sat on one of Tony’s legs which Tony didn’t like because that was weird. Only Peter sat on him like that, he looked over at the boys mom but she was too invested in the conversation to notice.
“Baby.” The boy said and pointed to Peter’s face, poking him in the cheek.
Peter let out a whine and took his thumb out of his mouth, reaching over to push the toddler. “No. My daddy.”
The boy shook his head and tried to sit more on Tony’s leg but Peter started crying which caused the small group to look over at Tony with Peter and the other toddler.
The mom stood up, grabbing her kid from off of Tony’s lap. “Oh I’m so sorry. He loves other boys his age and your son looks around his age.”
Tony waved her off. “It’s fine. How old is your kid?”
“He’s two year and four months old.” The women answered.
“Pete’s two years and two months.” Tony wondered if Peter and the boy would play together when he’s in a better mood. “What’s his name?”
“His name is Max.” The woman answered, kissing her kid on the cheek.
Peter had stopped crying as his thumb went back into his mouth and he leaned his back against Tony’s chest and hugged RoRo to his chest. Tony held him just a little bit tighter as he thought about the conversation that he just had with that woman.
He has never in his entire life had a conversation like that. It was always about company business, money and drinking. Nothing like that but he kind of liked it. It was so domestic and boring which Tony loved.
Peter turned on his lap so that he was facing Tony to put his tiny and now wet hands on his face. Tony was used to Peter’s thumbs being wet from his saliva due to his thumb sucking so it didn’t faze him.
He looked down at Peter’s chubby face and smiled at him. “Hi.”
Peter tucked his head into Tony’s shoulder, wrapping and arm around him as far as his chubby arm could extend. “My daddy. Mine.”
Tony laughed at that. Peter was jealous of the other two year old boy who had just been sitting on his lap. He never took Peter for the jealous type, although he never got to test that out.
When Peter was a teenager, he had always been the only kid in Tony’s life so he never had to fight for Tony’s attention. Even when Pepper was over or the other Avengers, Peter always had his full attention and even the full attention from the other Avengers as well.
So this sure was something new.
“Yeah, Pete. I’m all yours.” Tony pressed kisses to Peter’s chubby cheek, totally forgetting that they were in the room with a bunch of other people. Peter’s giggles had grabbed the attention of the women in the small group that they were sitting in and when Peter noticed that the attention was on him, he buried his face into Tony’s neck.
“Wan’ go ‘way now.” Peter pulled away and said to Tony who was more than happy to get away from the group of people.
He was a people person because he was basically raised to be exactly that but that doesn’t mean that he likes to talk to and be around people all the time. Most of the time he likes to be on his own and doing his own thing. Especially now with Peter, he likes to be with his baby and just his baby.
So of course he was more than happy to come to this mini toddler party with Pepper and Peter but he would rather be alone with Peter up in their temporary room.
“Okay, lets go.” Tony said quietly to Peter and then stood up with him in his arms, announcing to the few people that were listening. “I’m taking this tired kid to bed.” He then turned to Pepper, “I’ll see you up there whenever you want.”
She gave him a smile as Tony held Peter down to her so she could kiss him on the cheek, “Sleep good, Petey. I’ll see you later.”
“Bye-bye.” Peter waved to her then put his thumb in his mouth and laid his head on Tony’s shoulder as they walked out of the room together. “Daddy go sleep too?”
“Well, I’ll be with you the whole time but I don’t know if daddy’s gonna actually sleep.” Tony shrugged. He wasn’t tired but he never really was tired because he hated having to try to fall asleep and then fail at it.
“Daddy sleep with Pe’ey.” Peter lifted his head up to say. His thumb had been removed from his mouth and was now holding onto a fistful of Tony’s shirt.
“Okay, baby. I will if you want me to.” Tony Walker to the top of the old, creepy stairs and opened the bedroom door where they would be spending the next few nights. “Do you want your bottle?”
Peter nodded his head and Tony went to grab the bottle from the bag where he kept the extra ones then he remembered that the bags were still in the car. With a sigh, Tony rearranged Peter on his hip then made his way back downstairs. “Whe’e we goin’ daddy?”
“I have to get our bags so I’m gonna leave you with Pepper for a few minutes so I can get them.” Tony explained and Peter’s grip on him tightened.
“No. I s’ay with you, daddy.” Peter demanded.
Tony didn’t want Peter walking with him out to the car in the dark and the cold. No way. “No, I’ll be quick.”
Peter shook his head when Tony peaked his head around the corner and tried to get Peppers attention. She looked over at him then excused herself and made her way over to the pair. “I need you to watch Peter for a few minutes so I can go get the bags out of the car.”
“Alright. Come here, Peter.” Pepper held her arms out for Peter but Peter shook his head and cling to Tony.
“No! Go ‘way! Wan’ daddy only!” Peter cried but Tony didn’t want to drag this on so he pried the chubby hands off of him and handed him over to Pepper. “Nooo! Daddy!”
Tony felt horrible for throwing Peter into Peppers arms like that but he was literally going to be gone for less than five minutes so he didn’t understand why Peter was making it a big deal. Actually he did know why, Peter was two and he was overtired with a bunch of random people in a new place.
“I’ll be back.” Tony said then went outside. He could still hear Peter crying from outside so he tried to be quick. He unlocked the car and pulled the two large suitcases out of the trunk then he shut it, locked the car again and brought them into the house where Peter was still crying and trying to reach for him with desperate grabby hands. “See. I told you I’d be back.”
“Daddy! Wan’ you!” Peter sobbed out, still trying to get out of Peppers hold to get to Tony.
“I’ll carry him up.” Pepper told Tony then they made their way upstairs.
Tony set the bags down and immediately reached for Peter. Wow. The kid had some severe separation anxiety from him but he expected that because of his age and all.
“I’m gonna go back down for a little while longer. Are you okay with him?” Pepper asked Tony.
He waved her off. “Yeah. Always. I’m just gonna change his diaper then put him to bed.”
“Okay. Goodnight.” Pepper kissed Peter on the head and Tony on the lips before leaving.
Peter had immediately stopped crying once he was in Tony’s arms but he was now sadly hiccuping. Tony rubbed his back and grabbed a new diaper and wipes. He was so thankful that they stopped at that store to buy more.
“I’m gonna change you and then we’ll go to sleep. Are you tired, baby?” Tony asked Peter and laid him on his back on the bed. Peter nodded his head.
“Sleepy.” Peter explained then shoved his thumb in his mouth.
Tony quickly changed his diaper since he was a pro at it at that point. He then scoped Peter into his arms, grabbed his own pyjamas from his suitcase which was grey track pants and a white T-shirt. He grabbed his toothbrush and toothpaste and went into the washroom.
Setting Peter on the countertop, he brushed his teeth with Peter watching him with wide eyes the whole time. Tony thought about how he would have to start brushing Peter’s tiny teeth now, he had teeth so he had to get him his own little toothbrush to do that.
After Tony brushed his teeth, he debated on how he was going to change his underwear. Peter was staring at him and although he saw Peter naked every ten minutes, there was no way Peter would be seeing him naked. Ever.
So Tony picked Peter up and placed him on the bed. “I’ll be right back.”
Tony told Peter and disappeared into the bathroom but as soon as he left the toddler, the cries echoed in the room followed by banging on the bathroom door.
Tony finished in no time and opened the door. He looked down and saw an angry looking Peter who was now trying to reach up for him.
“Peter, daddy’s here. Breathe.” Tony picked Peter up and turned the lights off, climbing into bed. He didn’t know how tomorrow morning would be but he was excited to watch Peter socialize with some toddlers.
He laid Peter beside him on the bed and rested his own head on the pillow, watching his baby drift off into a peaceful sleep. Peter must have been exhausted since he fell asleep so quickly.
