You'll always be loved

Chapter 9 / Sick

Sorry if the formatting is wrong, I copy pasted this from my phone which was done on my notes app. Formatting doesn't copy over. Also Wanda is 15 in this. Also sorry I haven't uploaded for almost a month, had 4 exams yesterday and have 3 more this monday and it's killing me.

~ Tony's POV (continuing off right from the last chapter)

Great. Just great. I was hoping to tell my kid that the Avengers, more specifically the rogues, were coming tomorrow when he came back from school, but here we are now. I went to give him a kiss on his temple, and while doing so I felt how hot he was. He was burning up, and having a fever. Great. I sighed, covered him with his quilt and left the room heading towards my workshop.

~ Third Person's POV

Tony started tinkering with his suit to pass the time. He was stressed, but he didn't know why. There was this 'feeling', that you get, that tells you something is going to go wrong. You don't know what's going to go wrong, and you can't get rid of it. He pushed that feeling aside, made F.R.I.D.A.Y play AC-DC and continued tinkering his suit.

~  Time Skip to tomorrow

The rogue Avengers walk into the building. They were supposed to come some time in the evening, but decided coming early would be a good idea. They walked up to the receptionist, who looked at them unfazed and gave them their ID cards. "You're quite early. Might be an issue." she said before going back to her computer.

The Avengers shot confused looks at each other before heading towards the private elevator.

This is where it all goes wrong.

Once they reached the penthouse, they headed towards the living room. It had been a while since they were last there. They sat down and started talking about random things to pass the time. No one was awake yet.

"I wonder what Tony has been doing recently"

"Something feels different, I just can't tell what yet."

"Two whole years..."

"I'm going to make some coffee."

This continued for the next two and a half hours. Tony was busy in his laboratory, Pepper was abroad on business meetings and Peter was asleep. Until he wasn't. Since yesterday afternoon, Peter was sick. And since yesterday, he was sleeping. Peter wasn't as sick as he was yesterday, but he was still sick.

Peter got up, took a moment to get aware of his surroundings. Once he did, he got up off his bed and headed out the door.  At that moment, he decided he wanted his Dad, so he set off to find him. He started walking to his room, but he wasn't there. He then headed to the kitchen, maybe he was there? He passed the living room, oblivious to the Avengers sitting there and walked to the kitchen. He wasn't there either. That's when Peter felt something shove him towards the wall.

Let's rewind a bit.

He passed the living room, oblivious to the Avengers sitting there and walked to the kitchen. The Avengers were really confused. 

"Who's that?" Asked Sam.

"I don't know." Said Natasha.

"Did Tony get a kid?" Sam then asked.

"I don't think so, doesn't seem his style" Natasha replied.

"I'm going to interrogate him" Steve had said before getting up from the comfortable sofa and following the kid.

Natasha was about to object, but decided against it. Steve followed Peter into the kitchen, pushed him against the wall and started his interrogation.

"Who are you and what do you want to do with Tony?" Steve asked.

Peter was gasping for air. "Da-" Was all he could say before he passed out. By now, Tony was alerted to the situation thanks to F.R.I.D.A.Y and was running to the scene.

"WHAT THE HELL STEVE, DO YOU KNOCK OUT EVERY KID YOU SEE?" Tony shouted once he reached the scene. He checked Peter's pulse to make sure he wasn't dead, considering Steve was a super soldier. Once he got a pulse, he exhaled, not knowing he was holding his breath.

"Since when are you one to get a kid Tony? I see a random kid in the penthouse planning to do who knows what and I do what I think is best." Steve replied, sounding all patriotic. Tony said something incoherently, before picking up Peter and heading towards his room.

During this conversation, the rest of the rogue avengers came over and watched everything take place.

"That went well" Pointed out Wanda. Everyone else just grumbled something.

"Wait, so Tony does have a kid?" Sam had asked, which everyone ignored.

Tony shook his kid till he woke up.

"Dad?" Peter said in an a completely different voice. It was as if he was a 6 year old kid.

"Hey Peter, you okay?"

"Evewything huwts" Peter said slurring. Tony was now confused. His voice was different, and now he couldn't pronounce his "r"'s. Tony didn't mind though, Peter was incredibly cute and Tony secretly wished that Peter was always like this.

"I'm sorry." Tony said. "Tis okay" Peter replied, still slurring. "you'we here now, so is okay". Tony's heart melted. He then pulled peter into an embrace. 

"So, what do you want to do?" Tony asked Peter, and he gave it some thought.

"I dunno"

"How about we go meet the Avengers?" Tony said. They were going to have to meet each other sooner or later, might as well do it now.

"WOAH! The Avengews?" Peter exclaimed. He definitely was acting like a 6 year old. Why was he acting like a 6 year old?

"Yep. The Avengers. Captain America, Black Widow, most of them are here."

"Can we go see them? Pleeeeaaaaaaasseeeeee?" Peter said before giving his father unresistable puppy dog eyes.

Tony laughed, then replied with a short "Yes",  stood up and motioned for Peter to follow him. And now, they were back at the living room, everyone looking at Peter.

"So, this is Peter. He's Pepper's and I's son. He's sick, so be kind." Tony said motioning towards Peter.

"Hi." Peter said shyly, waving his hand.

cue awkward silence

Wanda was the first to break the silence. "Hi Peter! I'm Wanda." She said in a cheerful tone.

"Hello." Peter shyly replied. Wanda started up some conversation and took him away somewhere talking about who knows what. Tony took a chair and sat down. "So." He said, dragging the O.

"You have a SON?" Steve shouted.

"Pepper wanted to adopt a kid, I said yes and now I have that angel." Tony said.

Before anyone could ask any more questions, Tony ended the conversation. "I have things to do, your rooms are 5 floors below the penthouse, F.R.I.D.A.Y will take you there.". He then left the room, and headed to the lab, telling F.R.I.D.A.Y to tell Peter if he needs him, he's in the lab.

~  I really liked writing this chapter, and again sorry with the long delays between releasing the chapters, lots of midterms coming up and it's killing me. I'll try to upload more frequently.