Bend The Definition Of Fate

Tony felt like he drove back to the tower with a huge smile on his face because at the end of the drive his cheeks were hurting from no doubt smiling so much.

Peter had been babbling about something on the way back to the tower. Tony could only make out bits and pieces from what Peter was saying to him but he responded the best he could even if it had nothing to do with what Peter was saying.

When they got back to the tower, Tony opened up the back seat and unstrapped Peter from his car seat before reaching over and grabbing the bag with some of Peter’s stuff in it.

“I miss you” Peter said smiling at Tony when he was lifted into the mans arm and put on his hip. Peter wrapped his chubby baby arms around Tony’s neck and it made Tony smile because he loved with Peter did that.

“I missed you more than anything” Tony said smiling at Peter with a cheeky grin.

Peter rested his head on Tony’s shoulder and they made their way up to Tony’s private floor. Tony only hoped that Rhodey could still be here so he could see Peter but he just had to wait a little bit longer.

Tony went to put Peter down on the ground when they got to their floor but Peter whined and held onto Tony tighter.

“Okay. Okay. I won’t let go” Tony thought about something that he really had been missing when Peter was gone “Wanna have a bubble bath?”

Peter looked at Tony then a huge smile broke out on his face “Yeah! Bu’b ba’f”

Tony felt his heart twist whenever Peter talked because he loved hearing his voice so much and he definitely missed it while Peter was with May. Tony missed so many things about Peter being gone that it was actually crazy how Tony got used to having Peter around and taking care of the toddler.

Tony walked into his bedroom because he had the bigger bathroom that had a jacuzzi. Peter obviously didn’t need the giant bath tub but it would be easier for Tony to wash him in there because then he could sit on the edge of the tub.

Tony placed Peter on the ground with Peter laughing because he did some reason thought it was funny to grab onto Tony’s shirt so he couldn’t get put down.

Tony grabbed Peter “Let go if you wanna go in the bath”

Peter let go at that and lifted his arms up for Tony to pull his top off but Tony laughed because Peter was wearing a onesie and didn’t have to lift his arms up. Tony undid the buttons and pulled the onesie off of Peter then moved to take his diaper off as well.

“I wan’ ‘uck in ba’f” Peter turned to Tony to say with a serious face after Tony took off his diaper.

“You want a duck?”

Peter nodded.

Tony knew he didn’t have a duck and he really needed to get some bath toys for Peter since bath time was an every night thing “FRIDAY, order some bath toys for Peter. As well as new diapers and wipes. And diaper rash cream”

Tony looked at Peter’s bum and his front and saw that he did in fact still have his diaper rash and now that it was lighter in the bathroom than it was in the apartment when Tony first saw it he could see that it looked really red and painful.

“Does that hurt, bud?” Tony asked pointing to Peter’s diaper rash.

Peter looked down and then nodded lifting his arms up for Tony to pick him up “Hurts”

Tony picked Peter up and cradled him to his chest pressing a kiss to his cheek “It’ll feel better soon, Pete”

Peter nodded with a sad look on his face and Tony regretted even bringing it up in the first place because Peter looked so sad but then his eyes caught the bath tub and he smiled and pointed to it.

“Go! Go!” Peter yelled excitedly.

“Yeah! I’ll fill it for you with a bunch of bubbles” Tony put Peter down and moved to start filling the bath tub and then he felt Peter climbing all over his legs “What are you doing you little spider”

Peter laughed and stuck his tongue out at Tony but in a way that a baby does with their mouth still open. Not the way that teen Peter used to do it whenever Tony never gave him anything he wanted. Such as ice cream at midnight or chocolate for breakfast.

Once the bath was filled to an appropriate height level for Peter, Tony picked the naked toddler up and placed him in the bath.

Peter started splashing in the water happily and Tony sat on the step of the bath tub to watch and splash Peter at the odd time.

Tony enjoyed the simple moments like this the most because it was so pure to be with Peter right now giving him a bath. As simple as it was, it was so relaxing to Tony because Peter was happy and Tony knew that he had Peter safe with him.

Bath time was over so Tony picked Peter up and placed him on a towel on the ground and smiled at Peter who’s hair was all wet and curly sticking up everywhere.

Peter looked up at Tony, giggling and trying to reach up for him but Tony just tickled his stomach as he reached for his phone to take a picture of Peter because he looked adorable and he found that he wanted to try and remember everything with Peter because he never knew when this would all be over.

Peter didn’t seem to care or even acknowledge the fact that Tony had just taken a picture of him naked and straight out of the bath because he was too busy with trying to read up for Tony.

Tony however, didn’t want to pick Peter up just yet because he wanted to dry him off before he went and held the wet toddler in his arms. Tony was mindful of Peter’s diaper rash and was about to grab a diaper to put on Peter but then he suddenly remembered what May had told him about letting the rash breathe so he should let Peter run around with no pants on.

Tony didn’t know if that was the best idea considering how many times Peter pees himself but Tony was willing to clean it up if that meant that Peter’s painful looking rash would go away.

“I wan’ go p’ay” Peter tried to wiggle out of Tony’s hold on him to try and get free so he could run off and play with his toys Tony assumed.

“Just let me dry you off” Tony placed Peter on the floor and laid him down so he could dry off his body and his hair but then he decided to ask Peter if he even wanted to run around with no clothes on “Hey, Pete?”

Peter looked up at Tony so Tony asked “Would you be okay if you ran around with no clothes on or do you want me to put clothes on you?”

Peter looked at Tony confused and slowly brought his thumb up to his mouth and stuck it in and began sucking on it. Tony didn’t know if Peter was really understanding what he was saying because it seemed like he acted more and more like a toddler every single day which was a bit scary for Tony because he wanted there still to be some teen Peter in there but now Peter was sucking on his thumb like his life depended on it.

Tony gently removed Peters thumb from his mouth and decided to re word the question, “Do you wanna run around naked, Pete?”

Peter smiled and nodded his head and that was the only answer Tony needed so he picked Peter up by his underarms and stood him on his feet.

“Go play” Tony shooed Peter off but Peter just laughed and tried to grab onto Tony’s arm.

“Come wi’f me” Peter jumped and tried to pull Tony along but Tony was far too heavy for him to even move an inch.

“Okay, I’m coming” Peter clapped his hands as Tony stood up and started following Peter over to where his toys were. Tony really didn’t want Peter to throw a fit if Tony didn’t follow him to where his toys were so he did, plus he really wanted to play with Peter because he really did miss all the times that he could have played with Peter when he was gone.

Peter ran into the living room, Tony listened to his bare feet hitting the floor until he couldn’t hear him anymore and he made his way out following right behind Peter until he reached the living room and there Peter was with his toys already thrown into the ground and him sitting there biting on one of his toy blocks.

Tony sat next to him on the floor and crossed his legs moving to pick up one of Peter’s toys to play with Peter with it. Immediately Peter sat up and wobbled over to Tony and sat down in his lap still biting on the toy block.

Tony laughed at Peter just randomly sitting on his lap like that and was about to grab more toys for Peter to play with but Peter shot off of Tony’s lap almost as soon as he jumped on him and started making his way over to the bag that was on the couch.

Peter dragged the bag onto the floor, “What’re you looking for?”

Peter ignored Tony and continued to dig in the bag until he seemed to find what he was looking for. He plopped his soother in his mouth and started sucking on it before moving to sit on Tony’s lap once again.

Tony didn’t know why Peter seemed to be sucking on this soother because he never had that before he went to live with May for those painfully long five days. It hurt Tony to even think about those lonely days because he never knew how they were gonna end or when which was what made it even longer for him.

Now, Tony was thankful that everything worked out just the way it was supposed to do he could have his baby with him.

The next hour or so we’re spent with Peter shifting between Tony’s lap and sitting on the floor to jumping around and being the loud toddler that he was. Well, what his body was, Tony was still hopeful that Peter was still in there somewhere with his teenage mindset.

Tony was busy trying to put a hat on one of Peter’s pink monkeys so he never noticed Peter standing up and walking away from Tony to go stand in the corner. Tony looked up after a few seconds and panicked a bit when he didn’t see Peter right away but his panic settled when he spotted him standing in the corner.

Tony thought that it was a bit odd that Peter was just randomly standing in the corner like that so Tony stood up and made his way over to Peter who was looking up at Tony with a confused expression.

“What’s going on over here, Pete?” Peter looked up at Tony, still sucking on his pacifier and then looked down between his legs. Tony followed his gaze and it didn’t take long for Tony to understand what was going on.

Tony watched as the pee ran down Peter’s legs and landing in a growing puddle on the floor beneath his feet. Tony wasn’t mad or frustrated at Peter, he was actually surprised that it took over an hour to happen. To be fair, Tony should have put a diaper on Peter a lot sooner.

Once Peter was finished he looked up at Tony and his face scrunched up looking like he was about to cry but Tony rushed forwards over to Peter carful to avoid the pee “It’s okay, Pete. This is actually my fault because I took so long to put a diaper on you. Don’t cry, bud, it’s all good”

Peter’s face still stayed scrunched up as he looked at Tony. Tony moved to pick Peter up by the underarms and held him at send length away from his body so he didn’t get any pee on him as well. Peter still looked confused as Tony carried him into Peter’s bedroom and laid him on the changing table.

Tony wanted to get Peter cleaned up first before moving to clean the pee on the living room floor.

“I so’y” Peter mumbled out around his pacifier.

“Don’t be sorry, Pete, it was an accident”

Tony hated seeing that look on his kids face and he hated how the thing in the kids mouth was preventing him from talking so he reached to take it out but Peter whined and moved his head away “No!”

“I’m just gonna take it out so that you can talk to me” Tony explained. He didn’t want Peter to be sucking on this thing if there was really no need to. Plus the fact that Peter had probably gotten really used to it while he was away from Tony and with Aunt May.

Peter shook his head and whined when Tony moved to take the pacifier out of his child’s mouth so he tried again but this time Peter pushed his hands away the best he could.

Tony gave up for now. He just needed to get Peter changed then he could try again later. Once inside Peter’s bedroom, Tony placed Peter on his changing table and grabbed some wipes so he could clean up his legs where the pee fell down. Tony made a mental reminder that the next time he leaves Peter to run around naked he has to either not do it for so long or give Peter a break in between where he puts a diaper on the kid so he could do his business again.

After Peter’s legs were wiped, Tony grabbed a clean diaper and put it on him. He decided if he should just leave Peter in the diaper or if he should just put Peter in his pyjamas for the night since it was coming close to Peter’s bedtime but it wasn’t just yet meaning that a mess could happen between now and bedtime.

Peter was sucking on his pacifier as he watched Tony with wide trustful eyes. Tony couldn’t help but smile down at his kid. It gave Tony the best feeling ever to be with Peter and he couldn’t be more happier than how everything turned out with May. That was a very scary time for Tony not knowing if he was ever gonna be allowed to see Peter again not just as a baby but even when he gets to be a teenager again.

“Do you want to put on some pyjamas?” Tony asked Peter. He couldn’t decide what to do so he just decided to ask Peter since he would be the one wearing or not wearing them anyways.

“Wan’ run na’ed!” Peter said excitedly around his pacifier. Tony knew that he couldn’t let that happen again tonight because there was just no time now. He had to fed Peter and then get him ready for bed.

Plus he still had a mess in the living room to clean up.

Everything was all messed up from what happened with May so now Peter’s and Tony’s schedule was all over the place.

That was extremely frustrating but in a day or two everything would go back to normal. Well, normal for Peter being a two year old baby and Tony taking care of him.

Tony laughed at Peter’s cute request but ignored them as he grabbed a onesie from the pile of clothes that were sitting on the floor and started to get Peter into it. Peter didn’t seem to mind if even care that Tony completely ignored his request as he started to get Peter’s arms and legs into the onesie and then button it up.

Once Tony was done he scooped Peter up and held him on his hip. Peter leaned his head against Tony’s shoulder which Tony loved so much. The action was so pure and innocent and it was the best feeling ever.

Tony put his hand on Peter’s back and started making his way out into the kitchen to feed Peter before sending him to bed. Well, putting him in his crib and hoping that he goes down easily.

Peter wrapped his chubby arms around Tony’s neck and started making cute little humming noises as Tony carried him into the kitchen. Tony smiled at his baby boy singing some sort of song that he apparently made up.

It was fairly easy to place Peter in his high chair and Tony guessed the reason for that was because he was hungry. Actually now that Tony thought about it he barely fed Peter since he got him back and that made him feel extremely bad. But then again Peter couldn’t be that hungry if he hadn’t cried or asked for food.

Tony made sure that Peter was safety buckled in his high chair before starting to look in the fridge for what he could feed Peter. Tony decided on some fruits and chicken. It was a weird combo but Tony had no idea what else to feed the child. He knew he had to look up some recipes when he has some free time.

“I hung’y” Peter pouted and slammed his chubby fists on the table which caused Tony to laugh at the adorable action.

“I know, buddy. I have your food right here” Tony grabbed two bowls that had both chicken in one and fruits in the other and brought t over to Peter.

Peter looked excitedly inside both bowls before reaching into the fruit bowl. “Woah, give me this first”

Tony reached over and took the pacifier out of Peter’s mouth easily. He didn’t plan on giving it back to Peter later.

Tony was content to just sit down and watch Peter eat but then his phone started ringing in is pocket. He pulled it out and saw that it was Pepper.

Tony suddenly remembered that he totally forgot to tell Pepper about the whole getting Peter back from May thing.

He answered the phone moving a little bit away from Peter so he could speak to Pepper but he still kept his eye on the baby “Hey, Pep!”

Pepper sounded happy as she spoke “Hey, Tony. You sound good”

Tony smiled “Yeah, everything is good now. May and I talked and I have Peter back with me”

“Ah that’s so amazing, Tony! I knew everything would work itself out in the end” Tony smiled at Peppers voice. He really missed her.

“Yeah, you were right”

There was comfortable silence between the two for a few seconds as Tony watched Peter and waited for Pepper to speak, “So I have a few days off and I was thinking of flying back to New York to spend it with you and Peter”

Tony felt his heart burst at that. He couldn’t believe that he was actually gonna have both Peter and Pepper to spend together with “You know I always want you here. Peter likes you too, teenager or baby”

Pepper laughed “I have to go, Tony, but I’m taking a flight first thing tomorrow morning so I should be there around four in the afternoon”

“We’ll be waiting” Tony said “I love you”

“I love you too, Tony. Tell Peter I said hi” Pepper then hung up the phone and Tony placed it back in his pocket. He couldn’t wait until tomorrow so he could be with both of the people that he cares about more than anything in this world.

When Tony got back to Peter he saw the mess that me made and instantly regretted putting a onesie on Peter. Peter seemed to be having more fun playing with the food than actually eating it which was making a big mess.

“After you’re done painting your high chair with the strawberries how about you eat it” Tony teased. He sat down on the island stool and smiled when Peter looked up at him with wide eyes and a mischievous smile.

Peter held out his strawberry covered hand and handed Tony what looked like a piece of chicken covered in fruit “Do ‘Ony wan’ yum?”

Tony tried not to gag at the sight “No thanks, bud”

Tony decided that it would be best if he fed Peter himself so he moved to the drawer and pulled out a baby spoon that he ordered for Peter. When he sat back down he moved the bowls closer to himself so Peter couldn’t reach them and stick his grabby hands in there.

“Open wide” Tony said and Peter looked at Tony opening his mouth and eating the chicken on the spoon. Tony didn’t wanna use a fork because he was a bit scared at poking Peter and hurting him so a spoon would do.

Dinner time was over pretty quickly because Peter kept turning his head away every time Tony we t to feed him more so Tony gave up and unbuckled Peter to lift him out of the high chair.

Tony looked at the mess that he had to clean up and then he remembered that he still had to clean the pee in the living room.

He sighed before placing Peter on the ground and moving to take off Peter’s onesie that was now covered in food. Peter seemed more than happy with what was happening as he let Tony take his clothes off “Go play with your toys in the living room while I clean up”

Peter looked up at Tony with wide eyes as he tugged on his diaper “Off”

Tony shook his head. He didn’t want a mess like last time to happen again “No, bud, keep it on”

Peter nodded and then ran into the living room. Tony stood up and watched him go laughing as Peter ran away. It was funny to watch the kid run with his short legs.

Once Tony got the kitchen and high chair cleaned up he moved to the living room to clean up Peter’s pee accident before he forgets any longer then he washed his hands and went back into the living room to collect Peter.

Peter was sitting on the ground playing with his blocks and Tony couldn’t see Peter from the waist down but he knew that Peter had gotten into some mischief.

There was a diaper sitting on the ground and thankfully it was still clean but from the way it was ripped Tony assumed that Peter ripped it off.

“Pete, why’d you take off your diaper, bud?” Tony asked but Peter ignored him.

Tony sat on the ground so he could be at eye level with Peter and he moved his hand to lift Peter’s chin up but Peter whined and moved it away.

“Okay, bedtime” Tony stood up grabbing Peter along with him despite Peter kicking and screaming and trying to get out of Tony’s hold.

Once back inside Peters bedroom, Tony quickly put Peter on the changing table and changed him into a new diaper and wrestled him into another clean onesie before picking Peter back up and placing him on the ground.

Peter stood there staring straight ahead then he whined and looked up at Tony with desperate eyes. He reached his arms up and made grabby hands and Tony assumed that he wanted to be picked up so he bent down to grab Peter but Peter whined and tried to get away so Tony stopped “What’s wrong?”

Peter whined desperately again and Tony was lost. He had no idea what was wrong with his kid.

Peter looked at Tony desperately again and Tony could tell that Peter was seconds away from bursting into tears “I wan’ soot’e”

Tony looked at Peter like he had five heads. He had no idea what the kid had just asked for but then Peter stuck his thumb in his mouth and started to suck on his thumb like his life depended on it and Tony knew what his kid was asking for.

“You want your soother?” Tony asked and Peter nodded.

“Alright, I’ll be right back” Tony didn’t want to give Peter back the pacifier because he liked hearing Peter talk plus he didn’t want Peter to fall into anymore baby ways than he needed to. Well, actually Tony wouldn’t admit it to anyone but he actually liked it when he had to take care of Peter like this. He enjoyed having someone so small being so dependent on him for everything.

Tony began to walk out of Peter’s bedroom to get his pacifier but then he heard loud footsteps behind him and he looked down to see Peter rubbing after him with one hand raised to his mouth to suck on his thumb and the other was reaching up to hold Tony’s hand.

Tony smiled at the sight as he started walking into the kitchen to get the pacifier. Once he had it he handed it to Peter who took his thumb out of his mouth and let go of Tony’s hand to place it in his mouth. Tony watched as Peter gave a few sucks before he reached his arms up and demanded to be picked up.

Peter was lifted into Tony’s arms and placed his head on the mans shoulder.

It made Tony’s heart swell at the whole thing so when he walked back into Peter’s bedroom the last thing he wanted to do was leave Peter there.

Maybe it was the whole being away from Peter for so long or maybe it was because Tony was exhausted himself but what he did next he would blame on both of those things.

Tony turned around and started to make his way into his own bedroom with Peter in his arms.

He planned on sleeping with Peter tonight.

Tony placed Peter in the middle of his bed and leaned down to press a kiss to the top of Peter’s head then he stood and quickly got ready for bed in the bathroom.

When he came back he was greeted with brown eyes looking directly at him making grabby hands for him.

The sight warmed Tony’s heart so be wasted no time getting into bed next to Peter, Peter also wasted no time cuddling up to Tony and placing his head on Tony’s chest.

The light was dimmed in the room and it sounded like it was raining a bit outside which made Tony feel all that more content with Peter. He put his arm over Peter and gently patted his diapered butt. Peter was sucking on his pacifier and looking up at Tony with his big brown eyes.

Tony smiled down at him and watched as Peter lifted his head off of Tony’s chest and reached up to take the pacifier out of his mouth.

Peter pointed to Tony with one hand with a gentle smile on his face.

“Daddy” Peter said to Tony.

Tony felt his heart stop. He had no idea if he actually heard Peter correctly or not. Was he dreaming or did Peter actually just call him ‘daddy’?

He looked at Peter with his mouth open not really knowing what exactly to say to him because he wasn’t entirely sure this was real.

“Daddy” Peter said again. He looked at Tony with his wide trustful brown eyes.

Tony shook his head.

He didn’t want Peter to call him that because he felt like he was taking over both Peter’s real sad and his Uncle Ben and Tony didn’t want that.

“No, Peter” Tony tried “It’s Tony. I’m Tony”

Peter shook his head and smiled “Daddy”

Tony felt his heart melt and he couldn’t stop the smile that spread on his face. Maybe it was okay if Peter called him ‘daddy’

Peter’s real dad and Uncle we’re gone and Peter needed another father figure in his life whether he was a teenager or a baby. Tony would do anything for Peter no matter what so maybe it was okay that Peter called him that.

Tony loved the way it sounded and how it was directed at him because it made him get all parental about it.

Tony would protect Peter no matter what so he didn’t see why Peter couldn’t call him that because he was here for Peter and he promised whoever was out there that he would do anything for his kid.

“Yes, Peter” Tony smiled at him “I’m daddy”

Peter bounced on his knees “Daddy! Daddy!”

Tony couldn’t stop the happy tears that slipped out of his eyes as he brought Peter closer to him and tugged his baby into his arms.