Play dates and discoveries.
Tony nervously fidgited with his phone quietly as Steve and Bucky moved around him, prepping the floor for Tony's first play date. He wasn't little at the moment but he could feel head space tugging at him, he sent a few texts to Pepper about projects and such and almost jumped when Steve appeared in front of him with his arms crossed."Hey....Steve" He mummers and Steve smirks a little.
"Are you trying to work when you should be going down?" He asks with a chuckle and Tony squirms a bit and glances up at him with big eyes. "Is something wrong?"
"I urm....I'm a bit nervous actually." He admits and Steve's smirk falls away into a soft smile. He gets on his knees in front of Tony, taking his smaller hands in his own he smiles at him lightly.
"I promise, if it gets too much we can take a break in your nursery for a moment away from them ok?" He says and Tony nods.
"What if they don...don' like me?" He asks, his eyes wide and concerned. Steve grins at him and kisses his head a little.
"Well then we can find more littles. But I think they'll love you" He says seriously.
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Meanwhile in the Coulson/Fury house hold. "No, I'm not going to wear that bloody thing!" Hunter's voice echo's through out the house as he storms down the hall. Nick not far behind him. "I'm not having Tony fucking Stark see me in a diaper!" He argues and Nick huffs in annoyance as he grabs Hunter's arm to stop him from wondering any further. Leo and Jemma watch from their spots next to Phil.
"Young man, you are going to wear your diaper when we head over or I will not only force it on you, you can wear your lockable pants as well." Nick threatens, Leo and Jemma give soft 'oohh's' from their spots next to Phil who gives them a warning look. "Phil are they ready?" He asks, eye still trained on Hunter's squirming face.
"No I was going to let you get our munchkin padded and then I'd pop them into their pull-ups. I can do that now if you want and check on Daisy whilst you get him ready?" He says with a soft smile. Nick nods stiffly and points to Hunter.
"Choose in the next 5 seconds or I'll spank your butt as well. Do you really want to go to a play date with a nice red butt to sport?" He asks, Hunter's eyes tear up and shakes his head.
"But-but me an' Sky will be the only babies..." Hunter tries and Nick groans realising what this was about as he leads the boy to his room to get him changed.
"No, you and Skye aren't the only babies there. Tony is around Skye's age and can bounce up to two. He's going to be in diapers" Nick says as he changes the boy. "Besides, your a toddler. Just because diapers are something you like to wear more then pull-ups doesn't make you any more of a baby then Jemma and Leo" He says softly, patting the tabs on the sides down he pulls the British boy into his arms and hugs him gently. "Can you behave. Remember, when you're little you aren't big you. The same applies to Tony. When he's little, he isn't Tony Stark arrogant billionaire. He's Tony Stark sweet shy baby that likes to cover people in green paint" He smiled awkwardly, his littles had loved seeing him come in covered in green paint.
"Ok daddy...I'll try" Hunter mummers, letting Nick pull a blue shirt over his head with the words 'little duck' on the front. Hunter looked up at Nick expectantly when he turned to walk away.
"Daddy, I need trousers." He complains, Nick just grins at him.
"It's hot, Sky isn't wearing trousers" He says absently as he dragged the pouting boy up into a sitting position. "Don't pout." He warns, running a hand on his ribs and watching him squirm.
"Noooooooo" He laughs loudly and Nick smiles gently at him. Phil knocks on the door.
"I'm ready to go when you are" Phil says holding a dozing Daisy on his hip and Jemma had a tight grip on his free hand. Leo glanced in and waved.
"Daddy, is Hunter in trouble?" He asks, Nick rolled his eye and shook his head.
"No Leo, he's not in trouble, can you take Jemma's hand for me?" He asks lifting Hunter into his arms.
"....Wanna hold Mummy's hand" Leo mumbles and Jemma grins and him, letting go of Phil's hand she lets Leo take it before grabbing his. Nick smirked at Phil's blushing face.
"Thank you Jemma, I bet Mummy is very happy with you" Nick said chuckling. "Lets head out."
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The meeting was awkward at first. Tony stay clutched to Bucky's side, Sky and Hunter copying with Nick and Phil. Jemma and Leo had gone incredibly quiet and Steve sighed heavily.
"We all had to choose such nervous littles." He joked and stretched, a smile on his face as he looked at all the adults. "So me and Bucky figured, what way to make a bunch of nervous littles introduce them selves and have fun together?" Steve started and Bucky smirked a little. "We figured painting would be the best option" Steve says happily. The adults had all talked before they chose this option. All of their heads popped up at the sound of painting. They'd made the right choice.
The moment they got into the paint room the visiting littles gasped loudly. Tony giggled a little at this and nuzzled into Bucky, giving a grunt as he was placed on the floor by a few paints. Nick set Hunter on the left of him whilst Phil set Daisy on the right. Leo and Jemma shuffled over after looking to their 'parents' before joining them on the floor.
"All right guys, why don't you start painting whilst all of us go get lunch ready yeah?" Steve asks, the littles all nod and start quietly painting. Bucky lingers as the others leave, letting out a squeak as Steve grabs his collar and pulls him out. "We can watch through Friday." He informs calmly.
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"I'm Hunter" The little boy next to Tony says, he glanced at him and tilts his head curiously. "I'm three years old and from England. Daisy next to you is two. She doesn't talk much when she is like this but she's really good with computers." He explains happily. Tony nods, fidgeting a little and softly talking.
"'m 'ony....'m jus' und'r two" He mumbles. "Like 'puters too an' Englan' is real cool" He says with a small smile. Jemma smiles at him.
"It's really swell. I'm Jemma, I'm three and I'm also from England. I like reading a lot" She says with a sweet smile and Tony relaxes a little as he makes shape with the paint. He glances at the last boy curiously who wiggles on the spot.
"Leo...I'm three. From Scotland." He mumbles, clinging a little to his sister. "I like buildin' stuff." He says gently. Tony gives him a gentle smile.
"Buildin' is real cool. Big me does it loads. Maybe when we big we ca' build t'gether?" He asks and Fitz blushes nodding. "Cool!" He grins at the 'older' boy and goes back to painting. The littles sit in comfortable silence as they finger paint until they hear Daisy gasp loudly. All heads snap up to the little girl as she tears up and sticks her lip out, Jemma and Leo share a look as Leo runs off shouting for his mummy. "Is she ok?" He asks as Jemma gets up and goes to their side of the table. She winces and calls over.
"Leo get Daddy and Tony's papa!" She calls over. Tony and Hunter share a look and then glance down at them selves. Tony gasped as he realised he was soaked. Hunter found the same problem and one glance at Skye told him that was the problem. Jemma tried to hush them as all three littles teared up. "No, don't cry it's ok! Adults will be here soon!" She tries her best to calm them but seems to be unable to.
"Oh baby boy" Bucky's voice echo's in as he walked over, bag on his shoulder and lifted him up. "Did someone have an accident?" He coo'd. Phil and Nick weren't far behind as they took their littles. "If you take Skye to Tony's nursery for some privacy it should be fine" He says to Phil who nods taking the little girl to said room. Nick picked up Hunter and followed Bucky to the front room where two blankets where laid out. "We'll get you both changed then I think it's nap time for a little bit yeah?" Bucky says softly. Nick grunts in agreement as Hunter wiggles in his hold.
"Hunter. It's ok, we'll be quick then you, Daisy and Tony can nap for a bit" Nick reasons, Hunter gives a loud huff and lets his dad get to work. Leo and Jemma look on and glance at Steve.
"Mr.Rodgers? Do we have to nap as well?" Jemma asks, Leo hides slightly behind her as Steve smiles gently.
"You can call me Steve or Uncle Steve if you want. And I think we should ask your Mommy and Daddy" He says softly, Phil wondered in on that moment carrying a sleepy Daisy and she grunts a little.
"Mummy! Does me an' Leo gotsa nap too or can we paint more?" She asks, Phil thinks softly.
"Well...." He taps his chin. "Steve could you keep an eye on them? Nick can take over making lunch" He promises. Steve could feel the littles looking up at him and he held back a grin. giving a soft nod he chuckles.
"All right, lead the way." He says happily. Letting the two littles drag him away.
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As Steve led the two 'older' kids away Tony teared up and looked at Bucky with a sniffle. "Bubby. Wan' papa" He gives a whimper and Bucky pouts at him.
"So do I baby but he's gonna help the other two whilst we take a nice long nap. Doesn't sound cool?" Bucky tried and failed to get the baby to flash him the smallest smile, the other two caregivers where having the same problem.
"Come on Hunter, don't you wanna nap?" Nick tries softly, the little boy just shook his head defiantly as Daisy joined in.
"Just for five minutes pumpkin then you can go back to painting promise" Phil tries. Daisy shook her head with a huff and whimpered loudly.
"Noooooooo" She whines, Phil groans a little and Bucky glances over.
"Ok, how about this. All three of you can watch some Disney movies whilst we work in the kitchen yeah?" The change in the littles was immediate and soon all three where watching Dumbo. They where asleep in minutes.
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The play date ended just after lunch.
Tony really liked them and was excited to see them again. He gave them an open invite as Big's to come by any time and play in the lab for a bit, and offered to just hang out with Hunter as he 'seemed cool'.
Bucky and Steve where pretty happy with their little family. Just Bucky, Steve and Tony.
That was until a member of the team fell into head space right in front of Tony.