Left in the rain

twenty-one

Sunday 5th May 2022

Peter wakes up to Pepper singing a song while she gets dressed

Lavenders Blue.

Peter's favourite song. He stretches his small arms up when they hit a barrier. Mama and dada put him into the cot again. Peter scrunches up his little fists and he lets out a wail. His eyes flick open and he sees Tony come towards him, Peter continues to scream and rubs a fist against his eyes.

Tony coos at him and gathers him into his arms but Peter doesn't stop crying. He keeps getting put in the cot and everyday he wakes up tearful. When he doesn't stop crying he is passed over to Pepper who has opened her top and he get's put in her arms and although her nipple is rubbed over his cheek the wails don't stop. Pepper holds him up against her and he shoves his head into her neck.

"Peter, my baby. What's wrong?" Pepper asks, Peter doesn't answer but starts suckling on Pepper's neck until he just cries himself back to sleep. Pepper and Tony are concerned but they'd gotten up early so they could say bye to Natasha and Wanda.

Pepper fastens up her top before grabbing a pacifier and a blanket before wrapping it around the boy and making her way down stairs to the common room with the boy cradled against her. His pudgy little fingers are curled in her shirt and tears are starting to dry on his face.

Once they get down they see Natasha who is holding a sleeping Wanda in a black widow onesie. Pepper tries to pass Peter to Tony but Peter has a strong grip on her. Thankfully he's quite light.

Pepper goes to Natasha with Peter against her chest. "How's your little one doing?" Pepper questions. Natasha stares adoringly down at the girl. "Not the greatest. She cried when I tried to get her out of her pyjamas so I've just worked around it. What's up with little man" Natasha asks while stroking her hand through the soft curls.

"He woke up crying but not his nightmare cry. I don't know, he wouldn't latch on or anything he's that distraught. I don't know, maybe it's just one of those days." Pepper says and Natasha nods, it's then she checks her phone.

"I'm probably gonna have to set off soon so we can get there before dark. I hope Peter feels happier soon and once I'm back we'll have to set up a play date for the little ones." Natasha says before going to the fridge and grabbing the bottles she made for the trip. Only if Wanda needs them. Once all put in the diaper bag with all the pacifiers, diapers, blankets and a teddy. Natasha carries Wanda to the Quinjet after biding her goodbyes to the others.

Once gone Peter starts to disturb slightly, he's not feeling great for the reason that his crying has caused him a headache. His stomach hurts, grumbling with hunger, he wants milk and he wants it now.

Peter starts pulling at Pepper's top and she looks at him, because Pepper doesn't remove the top the very moment that Peter wants and so he starts wailing. Interrupting the calm room, most of them are watching tv but Bucky is reading twilight. That's... a question for another day.

Pepper goes as fast as she can in removing her breast from the confines of the clothes and helps Peter latch on. She strokes his cheek and in the background she can see the tv swap from a home renovation show to Ben and Holly's little kingdom.

Peter curls against Pepper while he watches the show. Not asleep but done drinking his milk.

Pepper strokes his head and Peter makes cooing sounds. Tony then comes and sits next to Peter and Pepper, Peter holds his arms out for his dad and tucks his head into his dad's neck which is where he can smell his dad's unique smell the best. And a slight twinge of sweat and coffee. Peter plays with the pointy hair on Tony's goatee and giggling when he can feel the thin hairs tickling his fingers. After a while of entertaining himself with his dada's beard his pulls himself higher in Tony's lap so his face is next to his dad's. He leans his nose in and nuzzles it against Tony's nose.

He hears a camera click but doesn't move, then Tony moves Peter lower down so he could press a kiss to Peters nose.

"wuv dada" Peter claps his hands before curling into Tony's body and closing his eyes.

Tony shifts slightly so Pepper can curl into his other side and he lets his favourite people use him as a pillow, pulling a blanket over them.

He presses a kiss to Peters head and then another to the side of Peppers lips, he gives a content sigh while watching them sleep.

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A couple hours later Tony wakes up to the smell of food cooking but he can still feel both of the weights of his wife and son on him so he opens his bleary eyes. That's when he realised that they'd fallen asleep in the shared living room. He looks towards the seat where Bucky previously was but the man has moved.

Tony carefully moves Peter to his side and lays him down for a moment. Then he gently moves Pepper to lay her head on a pillow and grabs Peter to lay on top of her, which he knows Pepper loves. He pulls a blanket over them and quietly leaves the room to go to the kitchen. Steve, Bucky and Sam are sat in the kitchen and Steve is cooking some pasta.

They look up when Tony enters and Steve gives him a smile.

"You guys looked cosy in there, was everything alright with Peter? he was a bit grouchy earlier" Sam questions and Tony shrugs.

"I honestly don't know but as soon as he woke up he freaked and started crying so I don't know what it was." Tony says and Sam nods in understanding "I mean he was pretty much inconsolable, Pepper couldn't even get him to feed because he was clinging to her and crying" Tony says.

Just then Steve announces that dinner is ready.
Now it's time to wake Peter.