Dada
Just as he was about to ask Bruce about peter,he saw pepper coming towards him. They got engaged last month and sometimes tony still wondered what he did to deserve her. She started speaking as soon as she came in front of him.
"I saw the news, what happened to him?" Pepper asked worriedly
Tony simply pulled her in a hug and buried his face in her hair. God, he needed her. He somehow felt guilty about what happpend to peter. The rational part of him new he was being unreasonable but still he had called peter. Of course he wouldn't have called him if he knew Loki was ther but still.
"He is fine.Loki was there, we didn't know. I callled peter, thought he could lend a hand. He came, we fought for sometime then out of nowhere loki came, went straight to peter, I don't know why, and the next thing I knew he was falling, I caught him but till that time he was turns into a toddler. He was unconscious when i brought him here. He is with Bruce right now." Tony said while hugging pepper to him.
"It wasn't your fault,you know that, right." God he wished he could believe her, nevertheless he nodded.
Pepper looked unconvinced, but before she could say anything. Scott, hank and hope were walking towards them.
"Are we interrupting something" asked hope, with a sly grin. Scott was smirking and hank's face was neutral as usual. They still weren't on best of terms but, now they at least talk to each other.
"They saw the news, hank wanted to see peter." Scott said while wrapping an arm around hope.
"Is he okay?" Hank asked, while taking a step towards tony.
Tony idly wondered when did hank start to care for peter.
"He is fine, sleeping right now but fine", the billionaire informed everyone.
"Yes, he was sleeping, but right now he just woke up" just as tony was starting rush towards the room, Bruce stopped him
"What is it now?" tony asked, annoyed.
"Before you rush inside, I would like to tell somethings we figured from our check up." At Tony's nod, he continued. "We think he is 2 right now and is very scared, as he can't figure out what happened to him, his conscious is present inside him, but is jumbled with his sub conscious. But he still will act like 2 years do, which means he can't speak properly, just simple words. Till the time Loki is not found. You will have to care for him 24/7.
"We will." Pepper said with conviction, and tony felt so much love towards her in that moment like he had never felt before.
"Yes we will. Wait a sec , how do you know his conscious is present when he can't speak properly?" Tony asked, perplexed.
"Simple, he asked for you." Bruce shrugged.
Tony nodded, dumbfoundly and followed everyone inside ther room.
When he entered, his heart melted at the sight in front of him. Peter was there in a gigantic bed, with lots of pillows looking so small and sweet. He was looking up at the ceiling of the room.
When he heard the sound of the door closing, his eyes slowly lowered and tony was met with the most beautiful and frightened eyes of a child. Tony was by peter's side immediately and he realised, peter had been crying softly, tears streaming down his face continuously.
As soon as peter saw tony, he raised his arms towards him. Tony was frozen, he didn't understand what to do
"Pick him up" someone said and he realised hank was standing right behind him.
At that moment, he realised hank and Scott both were fathers and knew what it felt like, being in this moment
Tony slowly picked peter up, and Peter Immediately curled on his chest, burning his face in chia shirt, while crying softly.
"Hey, it is okay, shh it is alright" tony tried to soothe his kid, but was failing.
And the next words were those that he will remember it his whole life.
"Dada" he heard peter say softly.