Bend The Definition Of Fate

Things have been going really good.

It’s been a few days since Tony got Peter back with him and it’s been the best time ever. Tony made sure to enjoy every moment being with Peter, the good and the bad because he had no idea when it would all be over and he knew that time was soon approaching.

Pepper was supposed to come for a visit a few days ago but she got held up for work for some last minute stuff and now Tony’s just waiting for her to let him know when she’s coming.

No matter how stressful Peter was at times, Tony loved every moment and he wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.

As much as he hated to even think it, Tony loved how Peter was de-aged to a toddler and decided to go to him out of all the people that the kid could have gone to. It made Tony feel better about himself that his kid chose him but he also liked it because he got to be the one to take care of Peter and be there for him.

Tony was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard a loud bang and then crying.

He stood up from where he was sitting on the couch with his laptop on his lap to go see what happened to Peter. Tony knew he should have been keeping a better eye on Peter but lately it was as if Peter was more comfortable in his new baby body that he’s decided to run around the whole living room instead of just the area where Tony purposely put his toys.

Tony was okay with Peter using more of the living room to play in because he could always hear either Peters bare feet running around the couch or him talking to himself as he played with his toys. Tony could never understand a word Peter would say but he could still hear the toddler so it was okay.

Now, Tony realized that he hadn’t actually heard Peter for quite some time and he didn’t bother going to look because he was so distracted with his work on his computer and now his kid could possibly be seriously hurt.

Tony followed the cries until he caught sight of Peter.

Peter was lying on his back on the ground and his toy fire truck was on its side so Tony could only guess that Peter tried to stand on the truck and fell off.

Tony quickly made his way over to Peter and once Peter saw him he made intense grabby hands towards Tony demanding to be held. Tony wasted no time bending down and picking his distressed kid up in his arms holding him to his chest.

If there was one thing that Tony got used to since his fifteen year old kid got de-aged to a two year old baby was the crying right in the ear. Not even crying it was a horrible scream when it was so close to Tony’s ear but he didn’t care, as long as he was comforting Peter.

Tony used to comfort fifteen year old Peter by Peter crying into Tony’s chest with soft sobs that he would try to hide. Sometimes if he was really sad, tired or hurt the cries would be louder but never as loud as baby Peter.

Tony was used to it, though, and he didn’t really mind.

“Shhh, it’s okay, Peter, it’s okay” Tony whispered softly into Peter’s ear. He was rocking Peter back and forth. Tony found out recently that young babies liked to be rocked because it was calming motions that reminded the baby of the mother’s womb. Tony didn’t know if it would work on Peter since he was technically two years old but also technically he hadn’t been in his mother’s womb for over fifteen years but Tony tried it and surprisingly it actually worked so Tony bought a rocking chair and put it in Peter’s bedroom for whenever he woke up crying in the middle of the night or when Tony had to put him down for a nap or to bed.

Peter clung onto Tony like he always did when Tony picked him up especially whenever he was crying or really tired which usually happened about 2-3 times a day. Sometimes less but most of the time more.

Tony brought Peter over to the couch and sat down with him on his lap. It took a few minutes for Peter to calm down and during that time Tony checked his head to make sure that there were no bumps on it from the fall.

Just like always when Peter gets hurt or starts crying really loudly, after Tony calms him down he is back as his usual baby self and is babbling happily on Tony’s lap.

Tony was busy lifting Peters shirt up and poking his stomach getting a giggle out of Peter when FRIDAY spoke up “Boss, Rhodey is coming up in the elevator”

Tony looked up surprised. He did not expect that at all.

He didn’t know the last time that he’s actually spoken to Rhodey but last time they spoke he was sure he never talked to him about coming to the tower. At least anytime soon. Not that Tony was complaining. He loved Rhodey and he always loved when his best friend visited especially now since he’s never met an actual baby Peter before.

Peter was looking at Tony with a confused look on his face “Rhodeys coming” Tony said.

Peter didn’t react to that at all. He grabbed Tony’s hand and tried to bite Tony’s fingers which Tony noticed that Peter has been doing a lot.

“No biting” Tony warned. He looked on the couch for Pete’s pacifier and then gave it to Peter who shoved it in his mouth and started sucking on it.

The pacifier thing has been in Peters mouth more than Tony wanted it to be but it was better that than anything else. Tony noticed as well over these past few days that if Peter didn’t have his pacifier, he would bite on anything he could get his mouth on including and mostly Tony’s hand.

Tony stood up and placed Peter on his hip. He looked around the living room making sure that it looked somewhat presentable. No dirty diapers lying around that Tony was too lazy to clean up or wipes.

He usually wouldn’t care what his place looked like especially with only Rhodey coming but since it’s only been him and Peter on his floor since he got Peter back almost four days ago, the mess just adds up everyday.

Tony then thought that the floor looking clean so he glanced at Peter who was wearing a onesie that didn’t have the legs and buttoned on between the legs with long sleeves.

It was Peters favourite thing to wear at the moment. Tony found it really hard to get Peter in anything that was pants. Socks were a huge no no and were absolutely impossible to get on Peters feet and actually stay on. Shirts were easy because Peter seemed to love running around with a shirt on and no pants or diaper.

That was how Tony got rid of the diaper rash on Peters bottom.

The diaper rash went away pretty quickly since the first two days were spent in rash cream and no pants or diapers while Peter ran around.

Tony also got really good at making sure that as soon as Peter poops or pees in his diaper that he changes it right away. It’s easy at night too because Tony has been keeping Peter in his bed so he’ll just wake up and pull Peters diaper down to check if it needs a change.

Things with the diaper area have been really good so far and Tony is surprisingly proud of himself.

This is the first visitor that they are gonna get since Tony got Peter back from May so he’s actually really excited about it. Peter doesn’t seem to care.

The elevator doors opened and Rhodey walked out holding a bag of something and wheeling his suitcase behind him. He dropped the suitcase and walked over to where Tony was holding Peter with a almost happy look on his face.

Peter was staring at Rhodey too but he wasn’t making any move to get away or go to him.

“Is this actually Peter?” Rhodey asked Tony not taking his eyes off of Peter.

“Yep” Tony popped the ‘p’. “All twenty pounds of him”

Rhodey didn’t say anything as he continued to stare at Peter so Tony broke the silence “Hey Honey bear. Long time no see can I have a hug?”

Rhodey looked up at Tony for the first time since arriving “Since when do you ask for a hug from anyone but the kid?”

Tony shrugged. It was true. He hated hugs or any kind of physical affection from anyone but Peter when he was fifteen. Tony remembers once when he was with Peter for a week straight and so he got used to all the having absolutely no personal space with the kid and after Peter left, Tony found himself actually missing Peters physical attraction and his hugs so Tony would randomly ask Peter for a hug.

He wasn’t obviously about it at first but then he would randomly hug the kid which obviously Peter loved.

Rhodey broke Tony out of his reminiscing thoughts “Hey, Peter”

Peter weakly waved to Rhodey so Rhodey continued “Do you know who I am?”

Peter didn’t say anything so Tony grabbed the pacifier out of Peters mouth and held it in his hand so he could talk “Do you know who this is, Pete?”

Peter nodded “He ‘Odey”

Both Tony and Rhodey laughed at Peters horrible pronunciation and then Rhodey looked up at Tony “Can I hold him?”

Tony held Peter forward so he could go into Rhodeys arms and Peter reached out for Rhodey to get transferred over to him “Sure, but hold him tight”

Rhodey laughed at his best friends overprotectiveness “Tones, I know how to hold a baby”

Tony nodded but didn’t say anything. Rhodey held Peter on his hip and Peter looked curiously at Rhodey and then reached for Rhodeys hand which Rhodey let him have but Peter opened his mouth and tried to put it in his mouth.

“Okay, no” Rhodey said pulling his hand away from Peter “Don’t you feed your kid, Tones?”

Tony laughed and Peter looked over to him and held his arms out for him “Daddy. Daddy”

Tony loved hearing Peter call him that. He always gets this tickle feeling in his stomach when he hears that and he hopes that no matter what he never losing the feeling whenever Peter saids that.

Rhodey however did not expect Peter to be calling his best friend ‘daddy’ if his face was anything to go by.

Rhodey handed Peter over to Tony who took his kid in his arms as Rhodey spoke “That’s new. When did that start?”

“The night I got him back from May” Tony explained.

Rhodey gave Tony a look but Tony ignored it and started walking into the living room so they could sit down on the couch and chat while Peter was busy playing with his toys.

Tony held Peter in his arms and placed him on ground so he could crawl around. Tony sat down on the couch and Rhodey dropped himself down on the couch next to his best friend with a tired sigh.

“Go play with your blocks, Pete” Tony pushed Peter over gently towards his blocks but Peter let out a whine and shook his head. “What’s wrong?”

Peter grabbed onto Tony’s pant leg to help him stand up on his feet then he reached his grabby hands up to Tony with a look of distraught.

Tony looked down at Peter sadly because he just wanted to talk to his best friend and update him on everything that has happened since he last got to talk to him. Peter was probably ready for an afternoon nap now but Tony also really wanted to keep his eyes on Peter while he talked to Rhodey.

“I wan’ up” Peter said as he jumped on his feet to try and get Tony to pick him up “Daddy”

Tony complied and picked his kid up. He held Peter on his lap as Peter moved around so that his back was against Tony’s chest and his tiny legs were hanging off of either side of Tony’s lap. Peter shoved his thumb into his mouth and began sucking on it but Tony pulled his hand away from his mouth to stop Peter from doing that.

“No” Peter cried out frustrated. Tony looked down at Peter who’s face was scrunched up and he expected Peter to burst out crying at any second but instead Peter grabbed onto Tony’s hand that was around his stomach and brought it up to his mouth so he could bite on Tony’s fingers.

Tony sighed and looked up to Rhodey who was staring at him with an amused smile on his face. Tony gave him a dirty look that had no real heat behind it and stood up still holding onto Peter to retrieve his pacifier.

Once Tony got it and placed it in Peter’s mouth he sat back down with him but this time Peter slid out of Tony’s lap and crawled over to his blocks to play with them.

Peter was in Tony’s sight and was occupied at the moment so Tony turned to Rhodey who looked like he was really enjoying watching his best friend with a baby.

“You’re good with him, daddy” Rhodey laughed.

“Oh don’t you go calling me that” Tony laughed and leaned back on the couch “I like when Peter does it but with you it’s just weird, honey bear”

Rhodey copied Tony’s movement and made himself comfortable on the couch “No but seriously, how is the dad life treating you?”

Tony had to think about that for a few seconds. He never really thought of it as ‘the dad life’ mainly because he never thought of himself as Peters dad. It’s not that Tony didn’t want to be Peters dad, he did and he even thought of Peter as a son even before he got de-aged it’s just that he was scared to be Peters dad because that means that Peter is the one who is so dependent on him and he wasn’t so sure he could handle that kind of responsibility.

When Tony was thinking about it for too long and didn’t say anything, Rhodey shoved his foot “Oh come on, Tones, you know you were that kids dad before he got de-aged into a... baby”

Tony knew that but he was scared to admit it out loud “I wasn’t his dad”

“Yes you were” Rhodey sat up straighter as to get his point across more “You were his dad then, you are now and you’re gonna be after he gets changed back into his normal fifteen year old self”

That was actually really nice to hear. Tony tried to hide a smile at his best friends words and he looked over to where Peter was currently playing with his blocks on the floor and he couldn’t help the smile that stretched across his face.

Peter was his and he was Peter’s dad even if he wasn’t his biological son.

“Yeah, I am” Tony said proudly “It’s just gonna be really different when I figure out how to get him back”

Tony thought for a moment and a scary thought crossed his mind “If I can get him back”

“Don’t say that” Rhodey said seriously “You’ll get him back”

Tony looked over at Rhodey from Peter and saw that his friend had a really serious look on his face that he hasn’t seen since the last time Rhodey found him drunk in his lab after three days of licking himself down there.

“I don’t even know if he’ll remember all this when I do” Tony gestured to Peter and all the baby toys surrounding them.

It wasn’t like Peter was in a full baby mind right now, he still had some part of him that was his teenage self and he knew what was going on around him. It came and went and lately it’s been gone but it was still there and that gave Tony a little bit of hope.

“Whether he does or doesn’t it’s not gonna change the fact that all of this happened and you were the one who was there for him and took care of him” Rhodey leaned forwards to and rubbed his hand on Tony’s leg in a comforting manner.

Tony smiled at him appreciative and then turned his attention on Peter who was lying on his back kicking his chubby legs up in the air.

Tony could see that Peter’s diaper looked really full and he couldn’t remember the last time he changed him “Pete, come here, bud”

Peter’s brown eyes looked towards Tony so Tony waved his hand over so Peter would come to him. Peter got up and waddled over to Tony raising his arms up towards him when he was in reach. Tony lifted Peter up on his lap and as Peter put his chubby arms around Tony’s neck, Tony patted Peter’s butt to try and decide if it was really full and it was.

“I gotta go change him” Tony announced, standing up “I’ll be right back”

Rhodey didn’t say anything so Tony walked away holding Peter in his arms to get him changed.

“Are you tired yet?” Tony asked once he got into Peters room, putting him down on his changing table.

Peter nodded his head. After Tony got Peter changed he would put him down for his nap in his crib so he could talk to Rhodey more. It would work out perfectly because then after Peters nap, Rhodey could play with Peter while Tony got his dinner ready.

Tony looked down at Peter laying down on his changing table and Peter had this weird look in his eye that gave Tony a bad feeling but he didn’t know why.