Peter's childhood
Tony Stark was very surprised when an old woman,wearing black clothes and having tears on her eyes,knocked his door a rainy day of December while holding into her arms a tiny little baby,claiming that it was his own. If he wasn't that shocked and didn't respected her,he would have probably laugh at her face.
"M-Mary wasn't supposed to tell you anything about him...S-She never wanted to be a burden to you or anything but after giving birth she g-got sick and-and..." she sniffed while trying way to hard to keep her tears for coming down. Of course Tony knew how this sentence finish. The poor woman died.
"I-I can't...I don't...I-I..." Tony thought about it for a little bit. It COULD be possible even if he hated that idea. It wasn't because of the kid,it seems quiet and actualy very cute but Tony can't be a father. No,he couldn't! He wasn't good enough. He wasn't capable of taking care of a child,not mention a little baby. The woman placed the baby,only 2 moths old,on Tony's arms and looked at him
"Of course you can have test DNA with him. I will help you as much i can but i am too old to rise a baby. Peter needs you,you are the only one he have in this world to take care of him." She explained and gave him a bag with baby stuffs along with a phone number before walking away in the same time Tony was freeze.
"Jarvis,call Bruce and tell him it's emergency!" He called before walking to the lab while Peter opened his eyes and looked at Tony
"What I am gonna do with you little guy" he sighed little Peter giggled at him happily before nuzzling closer at Tony's chest and closing his eyes to eventually fall asleep again.Now he was sure,this boy is too adorable to be his own. He sighed again as Bruce walked inside.
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In the end,the test came out positive as the woman,May,said. Tony was actually freaking out,holding peter on his arms and now knowing for sure that he is his son.Whatever he thought,was all wrong. So many thoughts come and pass. Giving him away wasn't an option,the boy didn't have any other relative that could take care of him and the idea of his own son growing up in a family that may hate him or is not giving him all the love he deserves made Tony wanna throw out. At the end,he decided to take are of his son,his peter the normal way,the hard way...no nanny or anything like that but only Jarvis to giving him tips and sometimes the help of the other avengers and of May and Ben.
Until Peter's second birthday's Tony strongly knew and believed that Peter was the best thing that came into his life,completely changing it but in a good way. Before Peter,he had drinking problems,didn't eat much,didn't sleep enough and exchaust himself but after Peter,he learned how to take care of himself as well
Tony spend more time with Peter than he did at his lab or meetings and all. He decided to make Pepper the one that should worry about those things now. He was making plans and getting hopes about his son. He teach him how to walk,how to talk and how to make silly faces.Helping him built his first robot and also help him write his first maths. Peter took all his genius from him and all the cuteness from his mother. It was actually a great combination. Tony feeling prouder and prouder for his son per day. It was like Peter took all the problems and stress away and fill it with love and happiness.
And after long time,Tony felt actually happy
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At Peter's 7th birthday,unfortunately,his favorite uncle and aunt died in a car accident.
It's a day that peter was never gonna forget,when his father told him and pulling him into a big hug while Peter was crying hard until he fell asleep into Tony's arms. He never get to go to their funeral since his dad was very worried about him and didn't want to hurt Peter more than he already was. A day later or something like that,Tony told him about the flower shop his aunt and uncle left for him and asked him what he wanted to do. Of course peter gave a sad smile and insisted at working there the weekends. The man couldn't really make himself to say 'Np' to his little boy that he was already so sad.So he just nodded.
Since that day,every weekend,Tony and his boyfriend steve,were taking peter there and helped him to take care of the plants and the flowers. It was actually pretty nice since they spend time all together and have fun.
"Daddy,Daddy!" One day,Peter yelled and run to Tony while crying
"What's it Pete? What's wrong little one?" Of course Tony asked and picked him up before Peter showed him his little cut from the roses.
Tony wipped the blood and kissed it better while Peter had a frown. He placed a hansaplast on his little cut and stroke his hair while Peter looked up at him
"I hate Roses daddy!" He complained and Tony couldn't help but let out a soft chuckled at how adorable his son was being. He kneeled in front of peter and smiled
"Aw come on baby,I know you love the flowers and especially roses" he said softly and looked at his son's eyes full with love
"But they are mean to me daddy! I don't love them anymore!" he insisted
"Hmm,let me tell you a little secret...roses are the most beautiful flowers but because of that,people always cutting them and so they died...so the little roses decided that they must fight back so they won't hurt them anymore. Maybe the roses thought that you were gonna cut them Petey and they get scared...try again but more careful" he smiled and helped his son to take care of the roses this time.
Since that day,Peter's favorite flowers were the roses.