Tony Stark one shots

Goose

He excused himself and left agent Carter to continue the meeting, trusting her to get their point across, too tired to spend one more minute listening to incompetence. Despite the fact that he was still learning and improving himself under the watchful eye of agent Carter he still couldn't remain as calm and professional as her. It certainly irked him, which resulted in an expression that managed to unsettle even the most put together agents much to her amusement.

If you relax your face, you will definitely look slightly less intimidating,

she tended to say, to which he always replied that that's exactly the effect he wanted to have on people. It didn't stop her from surprising him every chance she got, just to see his carefully constructed mask crack even for a second. His slowly improving intimidation skills weren't even close to the methods the other agent used, which pulled out a smile on his face at the mental image of the new agents' faces once she was done with them.

The good mood shifted when he opened the door of his office, something was wrong...not wrong but different, he held his breath for a second while slowly stepping inside, then his ears picked up the sound and the mystery was solved. Immediately he closed the door careful not to turn around before he took off his jacket and threw it on his desk.

"You can come out now, Anthony." and smirked when he heard he quiet groan before he turned around and met his small visitor.

"Hiding behind doors are we now?"

The kid gave him a sheepish grin and padded towards him only to stop when Nick raised his hand to stop him.

"Sorry, uncle Nick. I wanted to surprise you." he said, looking like a kicked puppy a look that he was getting better at, and one that Nick thought could resist, the moment he noticed the kid's bare feet he softened his expression.

"Where are your shoes, Anthony?"

"Behind the door, can't sneak in if you wear shoes, besides they are new and..."

"Alright, you can hug me, then put on your shoes, you'll catch your cold." he crouched just in time to catch the kid when he went for a hug.

He would never admit it, not even if he got threatened with physical pain, sometimes only sometimes he...he had a soft spot for the kid, so being called uncle didn't bother him as much as he pretended.

Carefully he raised himself with Tony in his arms, chuckling at the surprised yelp he let out, before he put him to sit on the table and said,

"Stay there." quickly he found the hidden shoes and placed them on the kid's lap.

"Put them on."

"But, uncle Nick..." he whined as usual and when he saw that he couldn't win, he pouted yet he obeyed while complaining that Jarvis was exactly the same.

"Now, do your father know where you are?" the flush on the boy's face was his answer.

"He won't even notice I'm gone, I'll go back to the car before he sees me."

Of course he won't

"So, you decided to pay me a visit?"

"I was looking for aunt Peggy." came the soft reply.

"What happened? You couldn't find her, so what's the next best thing good, old, boring me." he joked, but made sure to appear like he was hurt by the kid's answer.

"No! Of course not uncle Nick. I wanted to ask her something, for school." then he added, " you look scary now, like a pirate, I like it."

Adorable , he thought and ruffled the kid's already messy hair, sat on the chair in front of the desk and stretched his arms up, groaning when his back popped.