Little Flame

12

Steve sat on the couch with a serious "you gotta be kidding me" look on his face, and a giggly Auggy in his lap teething on his rattle.
Tony was stood in front of his husband and little with a trying smile.
"I'm really sorry?" He tried, after he'd explained the evenings unexpected plans and Steve had stayed scarily silent. August looked up at his daddy and made grabby hands. He seemed to instantly forgive Tony.
Yeah, like he has any idea what was gonna happen tonight.
Steve sighed and stood with Auggy on his hip.
"So let me get this straight." Steve started
"You go down to Tasha's for 10 minutes, and she broke you, the Tony Stark, the man who not only survived, but blasted his way out of the Middle East, in what barely counts as an interrogation?"
"Like you could've lasted any longer." Tony huffed.
Auggy whined as his grabby hand gesture got more intense towards Tony. Tony tuts and picks up the fussy boy, bouncing him slightly. Steve put one hand on his hip and the other pinched the bridge of his nose.
"We had a plan, Tony."
Tony knew where this was going.
He flicked the tv onto spongeBob and gently sat Auggy down in his play pen. August wasn't even fazed. The TV was so bright and he liked the movement on screen. Steve pulled Tony towards the kitchen to continue the conversation away from their little one.
"Look before you start on me, we do need to bring mashed potatoes to the dinner." Tony said while looking into Steve's sweet blue eyes, that were clouded with annoyance.
Steve huffs. "Fine"
He walked past Tony to the cupboard and angrily grabbed the box of instant potatoes, along with getting everything ready to make them.
Tony frowned and stood next to his husband in front of the stove. He sighs and looks at his feet. "Look, I'm really sorry about breaking under Nat. I know we had a plan."
Steve sighed as he sat the pot of water on the stove to boil.
"I just don't want to rush things, Tony."
Tony felt a pang of guilt at hearing Steve refer to him by name. "Auggy was great when he met Peter. I'm sure as long as we keep things calm he'll be good."
Steve looked into Tony's eyes. He gave a half smile. "You know he'll be attached to either one of us the whole time, right?"
Tony returned the smile and gave Steve a peck on the lips. "I plan on that."
A loud yawn was heard as Peter entered the kitchen, followed by the patter of paws on the ground. Tony and Steve turned to see a clearly just woken up Peter, in his hello kitty pajama bottoms and plain white t-shirt from earlier, with messy hair, and Peony trotting by his side.
"So that's where the cat went." Steve said with a chuckle. Peter looked at his feet where the cat was and gave a sleepy smile. "I had a cuddle buddy." Tony smiles and makes his way towards the boy. "Let's go hangout with Auggy while Steve cooks." Steve went back to the boiling water as his two men went back to the living room.
Auggy giggled as Peony jumped into the playpen with him. He played with his rattly toys and Peony playfully batted at them. Tony opened the playpen to give his little boy a raspberry on the cheek, earning him a fit of giggles. Peter sat himself on the couch to watch sponge Bob.
Let's hope tonight goes well