Bend The Definition Of Fate

After Rhodey left Tony went to Peters bedroom to check up on him.

He saw Peters small body sleeping on top of his blankets close to the edge of the bed.

Tony moved closer so he could move Peter over a bit just in case Peter rolled over and fell off the bed.

As he got closer he took in Peters face. The moon light was coming in through the window and he could see Peters big chubby cheeks that were a pinky colour. Peters mouth was open slightly and his arms were raised above his head.

Tony gently moved Peter over on the bed so that Peter was more in the middle which caused Peter to wake up a bit.

“Shhh it’s okay buddy, I’m just moving you” Tony said quietly and then brushed Peters curly baby hair out of his face.

He watched Peter sleep for a little bit more then he got up and left his bedroom. He shut the door quietly and then went down to his lab to do some work.

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Tony didn’t know how long he was down in his lab since he left Peters bedroom but he knew it was awhile.

Tony was interrupted by FRIDAY “Boss, Peter is in distress”

Tony immediately dropped what he was doing and began to make his way up to Peters bedroom.

As he got closer he heard Peter crying loudly. He hated hearing the kid cry because it always made Tony feel this weird pain in his chest and there was a need to want to make everything better.

Tony opened the door expecting to see Peter sitting up in bed but he didn’t see Peter anywhere. He heard the kid crying so he followed the cry to the other side of the bed and saw Peter lying down on the floor on his back.

As soon as he saw Tony he started crying louder and he made intense grabby hands that said ‘hold me now’

Tony bent down and picked Peter up. He grabbed Peter by the underarms and raised him up so that he was sitting on Tony’s hip.

Tony held him with one hand under Peters butt to support him and then rubbed his back with his other hand.

Peter continued to cry but he did stop a little bit now that he was in Tony’s arms.

Tony kept rubbing Peters back and walking around the room to get Peter to calm down.

He didn’t exactly know what happened but he had an idea. He guessed that Peter had fallen off the bed.

“It’s okay, Pete” Tony whispered out and he wasn’t even sure that Peter heard it because he was crying so loud.

Tony walked out of Peters bedroom and walked to the living room so he could sit down on the couch.

He positioned Peter so that he was cradled in his lap like a baby. Well, he actually was a baby.

He held Peters head in his arm and just looked down at him. Peter was still crying but he looked like he was crying because he was tired rather than falling off the bed.

Tony continued to hold Peter to try and get him to stop crying and after what felt like hours Peter finally stopped.

He slowly started hiccuping sadly as he looked up at Tony like he could be the one to fix everything.

Tony was trying his best and he really hoped it was good enough.

After a few more minutes Tony decided it was time to go put Peter back to sleep in his bed.

So Tony stood up and walked to Peters bedroom while still holding him in his arms.

Once Tony was about to place Peter down Peter grabbed onto Tony tightly and let out a loud scream.

“Okay, Okay” Tony held Peter in his arms and didn’t let him go because he knew if he did Peter would scream again and he really didn’t want that.

“I won’t put you down” Tony promised.

He decided he could let Peter sleep with him in his bedroom with Tony.

Tony kept Peter in his arms then walked to his bedroom. He looked down and saw Peter looking at him with wide eyes. It didn’t even look like Peter had just been crying minutes ago.

He got to his bedroom and moved to place Peter on the bed. Peter must have known that he was gonna sleep with Tony because he let Tony drop him on his bed so Tony could go change and get ready for bed.

After quickly showering and brushing his teeth he got his pyjamas on then got into bed next to Peter.

Peter crawled over to Tony and placed his head on Tony’s chest and looked up at him through his eyelashes.

Tony looked down at the baby on his chest and pat his head. He ran his hand through Peters hair because it was extra soft now that he was a baby.

Peters eyes closed but he still stayed on Tony’s chest. Tony continued to run his hand through Peters hair until he started to drift asleep.

He kept his hand on Peters back as he let sleep take over.

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Tony woke up some time during the night to something hitting his chest.

He opened his eyes and saw Peter on his knees smacking Tony on the chest.

He didn’t understand why Peter was doing that so he grabbed Peters little hand to stop him.

Peter tried to grab his hand back and whined.

“What are you doing?” Tony asked half asleep.

Peter sat down on his butt and looked down “I pee”

Tony didn’t understand at first. It took awhile but then everything came back to him and he sat up in bed.

“Uh, I’ll be back. Stay here” Tony got out of bed and stumbled to the living room to grab some diapers and wipes.

He needed to put those somewhere so they weren’t lying out in the living room.

He grabbed what he needed and went to go change Peters dirty diaper.

As he was making his way back to his bedroom he remembered once when Peter was a teenager and he was staying over at the tower.

It was a Friday night and they spent the whole time in the lab until early morning. Peter was sick but of course didn’t say anything and so when he finally went to bed he accidentally wet the bed.

Tony remembers when FRIDAY alerted him and he went into the kids room and found him crying then he told Tony what happened and Tony didn’t know how to react but he helped the kid clean up and promised Peter that he wasn’t mad.

Peter didn’t want him to tell his aunt but Tony said that he had to. When he eventually did tell the boys aunt she was proud that Tony wasn’t mad at him and actually helped Peter clean up because most people wouldn’t even help and would have just made Peter clean up on his own.

May had said that she was glad that she had Tony to look out for Peter for her and that he would make a great dad some day but that he was already a dad to Peter.

Tony remembers being speechless and he went to bed that night thinking about it. He had already thought of Peter like his kid but part of him was upset at the fact that he wouldn’t be able to watch Peter grow up.

He found himself wanting to have been there for Peter when he was a baby and little did he know at the time that he would.

Now here he was holding a diaper in his hand and wipes in the other hand about to go change Peters butt.

He would have never expected it but it’s funny how things happen for a reason.

Tony walked into the bedroom and when Peter saw him he crawled over to the edge of the bed and lied down.

Tony smiled because Peter already knew the pattern of his diaper being changed.

Tony walked to Peter and dragged his legs down closer to him so he could change his diaper.

Peter lied there watching as Tony pulled off his pants then undid his diaper straps.

Tony pulled down the front of the diaper to reveal the pee in Peters diaper. He lifted Peters legs up and pulled the dirty diaper out from under him. He tossed it to the side then grabbed some wipes and started rubbing Peters butt and around his front part to get all the urine away so Peter didn’t get a rash.

After he was done he lifted Peters legs again and placed the diaper back under Peter and pulled the front over so he could do up the straps again.

Once he was done he quickly put Peters pants back on then grabbed the dirty diaper and went to the bathroom to wash his hands and throw it out.

Once Tony came back to the bedroom he sat down on the bed. He wasn’t tired anymore and he knew that he wouldn’t be going back to sleep so he checked the time.

It was 7:34am.

That’s a good time to wake up and start the day. He knew he had a lot to do today with Peter to get everything more organized.

“You hungry?” Tony held his arms out for Peter who was still lying on his back.

Peter nodded his head and reached his arms out so Tony picked him up and held him on his hip.

“I wan’ go eat my ba’aba” Peter said to Tony as Tony was carrying him out of the bedroom and into the kitchen.

He placed Peter on the counter, he knew that it wasn’t the safest place but as long as he was here to watch Peter then everything would be okay.

Tony leaned on the counter “you want What now?”

Peter got up on his knees and Tony moved closer so Peter wouldn’t accidentally fall off “I wan’ eat yummy ba’aba”

Tony laughed because he had no idea what he was saying.

He moved to go show some things to Peter to see what he might want.

First, he held up some crackers and Peter shook his head. He held up cookies and Peter shook his head again.

“I wan’ ba’aba” Peter said more aggressively.

Tony didn’t know what Peter was trying to say and it was frustrating him. Then he saw the fruit bowl and held up a banana.

Peter smiled big and showed his toothy grin and clapped his hands.

Tony smiled because he got it right.

He grabbed a plate and a knife to cut it up into small pieces.

After he was done he placed the plate in front of Peter and Peter began to eat it.

Tony watched him because the way baby Peter ate was the same as big Peter and Tony always thought that it was the cutest thing.

He watched Peter eat until he was finished then Tony went to go grab and cloth to clean him off but Peter screamed.

“What?” Tony was scared because he didn’t know if he accidentally hurt Peter.

“I wan’ st’awbe’y” Peter moved closer to Tony and Tony just laughed.

“Alright, you scared me though”

Peter looked up at Tony sadly “I sowwy”

Tony laughed “it’s okay”

He grabbed some strawberries and washed them then cut them up in tiny pieces for Peter.

They continued the same thing with Peter eating his strawberries and Tony watching until he was done.

“All done!” Peter pushed the plate to Tony then reached out for him.

Tony was gonna wash him off with a cloth but then he decided just to go wash Peter off in the bath.

“Do you wanna go in the bath?” Tony asked Peter as he lifted him off the counter and placed him on the ground.

Peter screamed excitedly and ran to Tony’s bedroom.

Tony laughed as he followed Peter in there.

He saw Peter jumping in the bathroom and already trying to get his clothes off.

While Tony was filling the bath tub, making sure not to fill it too high, Peter was taking off his pants and his diaper.

Tony laughed at the struggle but Peter eventually got everything off but his top so Tony helped him with that.

“Bath! Bath!” Peter was jumping excitedly then when Tony decided the water was right he picked Peter up and placed him in the bath.

Peter sat down and started splashing the bubbles around.

Tony pulled out his phone and took a video of Peter in the bath as he played with the bubbles.

Tony sat on the toilet seat so he could watch Peter but also so he could order some more things for Peter.

He ordered a high chair for Peter and a crib.

He knew that both were very necessary if today was anything to go by.

Tony watched Peter splash in the bath for a little bit longer. And took more pictures with bubbles in Peters hair.

He reached in to unplug the bath and Peter started laughing at the sound that it made.

Tony reached in to grab Peter out of the bath tub and lied him down on the towel that was on the ground.

He wrapped him up then pulled Peter into his arms and walked back into his bedroom.

Peter was extra cuddly right now and Tony just wanted to hold him.

He held Peter for a little bit longer then he stood up and let Peter down on the bed.

Tony grabbed a diaper that was on the bed from before and put it on Peter then lifting him up into his arms and walking out into the living room.

He didn’t really feel like putting Peter into clothes right now so he just kept him in nothing but a diaper and sat on the couch with the kid in his lap.

Tony was feeling really tired after getting barely any sleep last night and he knew that Peter was tired too.

Peter was seated on Tonys lap with one leg on either side on him. He was looking up at Tony and Tony just looked at him until Peter slowly put his head down on Tony’s chest.

Tony placed his hand on Peters diapered butt and held him against his chest as they both fell asleep together.