Left in the rain

eight

Tuesday 19th April 2022

Pepper wakes up to a light hand tracing her features.

As her eyes flutter open she is met by Peters face, a small smile behind his pacifier that he's sucking on.

"Hi mama" he mutters around the rubber in his mouth. It's just then she realises that Peter has his hand twirling her hair.

"hi my baby. Do you wanna go find dada?" Pepper coos at her son, Peter does a happy dance and starts wiggling his legs.

Pepper climbs out of bed but doesn't bother getting out of her sleep wear because the avengers wont care. And It's easier to feed Peter in this top. 

She grabs the wriggling child of the bed and holds him against her body, her arms underneath his bum. As they make their way downstairs, Peter starts mumbling a lot of random. There was something about a  unicorn-whale hybrid but Pepper decides it's better not to ask.

Peter is stroking her hair, laughing at the tickly feeling on his finger.

They get to the kitchen and Peter wiggles when he sees his dada. He reaches out for him and Tony grabs him before pretending to chuck him in the air. Peter screams in delight "'gain dada. 'gain." Peter says, Tony does it one more time before Pepper starts talking.

"c'mon Peter, milkie time" she coos. Pepper scoops him into her arms. 

Tony goes to grab his bottle of milk when Pepper stops him. 

"No. he doesn't need that now" Pepper assures, Tony looks confused.

Pepper twist Peter so he is lay sideways in her arms, she then unbuttoned her sleep shirt and undoes the breastfeeding bra.

She presses her nipple against Peters mouth and he latches on instantly. His hand rests on her chest while he suckles happily. And when she looked up at Tony, he looked just as happy as could be. "He finally latched?" He questions, his smile is so sincere, he knew how much Pepper wanted this. 

"Yeah, last night when I got back last night he was sat awake next to you on the floor, I needed a bath and so did he because his fever broke so I held him while I was in the bath and he asked for milk, so I just told him I'd grab it in a moment. And then he started rooting and latched on." Pepper informs Tony, she pats Peters bum while humming 'lavender's blue'. While Peter suckles, getting his breakfast, Pepper is eying the food that Wanda is cooking. Sausage, egg and toast with beans and canned tomatoes.

Once Peter had drank all the milk from the left side, he starts to cry. Pepper holds him against her chest while placing a burping cloth on her shoulder. She pats his back and he burps, a little bit of milky sick landing on the burping pad.

Peter cries at the sickly flavour in his mouth. Pepper praises him before leaning his head in the bend of her elbow, as soon as Peter locks eyes on his mama's boob he's latched on. Pepper starts butt pats again.

Peter coos happily and closes his eyes, feeling safe.

And Peter finishes nursing so Pepper holds him in a similar position as before, the burp cloth is placed back on her shoulder. But instead of burping when she pats and rubs his back. It comes out the other end and the smell is something for sure. Peter whines and tucks his head into his mama's neck. 

"'irty mama, c'ang'" he whispers against her neck.

Pepper stands up before announcing her departure for the moment "I'll go change baby stinky spider".

Peter sighs in her ear as she rocks him slightly while stood in the elevator.

And Pepper takes him into her and Tony's room where she lays him on the changing table they had put in. 

When Pepper opens the diaper, she's shocked because the poo in his diaper is straight up liquid, and hadn't been any other time he had had his after milk poo, which confused her but she made quick work of the diaper.

She then get's him dressed in a fluffy iron man onesie. And back down they go, she'll ask Bruce later. Not now because she wants to eat.

As she starts eating her food, she can feel Peter twiddling her hair, she wipes her mouth on the napkin before pressing a soft kiss to his hand. She then checks the time 10:56, he's yawning and his suckling on his paci is getting slower and slower.

She holds him so his head is on her shoulder "go sleep little guy, I'll still be here when you wake up" she pats his bottom and eats slowly while waiting for him to fall asleep. She can feel the paci drop onto her back, thankfully it is attached to a pacifier clip with 'Mama's baby boy' on little letter squares.

Pepper sees that everyone is finished so she sighs and carefully takes a sip of her coffee before looking down at her little man.

"We have to call the child protective services. He wasn't reported missing on the search you did, that means that Peter has been technically a missing child for 2 years and his aunt didn't report him missing even though she knew how incredibly vulnerable he is."  Pepper announces into the now tension thick kitchen. 

"I'll go call up the CPS in Queens, that's where he's from right, so they'd probably know him" Tony informs

Today is going to be long and tedious, but soon they'd be able to call Peter theirs. Legally that is.

Peter is already an established member of this family.