Little Tony Stark

A playdate and a meltdown

The team was relaxing in the living room together. Everyone was trying to get accustomed to having a kid around now. Well… technically Tony wasn't a kid persay, but he was mentally three so he still counts.

Clint seemed to have warmed up to him in the past few hours because he was on the floor playing cars with him. It was kinda cute in Natasha's humble option. Tony had this big ol’ smile on his face that was ever so slightly hidden behind his pacifier, he would giggle every once in a while at something silly Clint did but for the most part he just seemed so… relaxed. Happy even. It made Natasha happy in a weird way.

Stark was never relaxed like this around them. He never really seemed all that happy now that she reflects on it. He stopped coming around after a while, he'd avoid the Avengers floor at all costs and usually just stayed in his lab. It made everyone worry about him to some extent. He isolated himself constantly and that can't be good for anyone's mental state, let alone his.

But now he just seemed so relaxed, so happy, so content. He giggled around the pacifier and kicked his feet every once in a while for pure unbridled joy. It was adorable. Normal Stark would be absolutely mortified if the team saw him like this but now, this little guy In front of them, didn't seem to care. He just wanted to watch cartoons and play with cars.

Clint would randomly make this little revving up sound before pushing one of the cars up Stark’s leg and he would squeak and giggle loudly and kick his feet every time. Natasha sat on the couch watching them with a smirk on her face. She always forgot how good Clint could be with kids considering he acted like a kid himself.

At one point Tony grabbed a car off the ground and shuffled over to her, he wasn't that far away so he didn't need to get up or even crawl, just shuffle a bit. Once he was closer to her he silently handed her a car, an invite to play with him and Clint. She smiled at him and took the car from his hands before she slid down onto the floor with him and Clint and began to play cars with them.

After maybe 30 minutes of playing cars with him and Clint they all heard the Avengers alarm go off. Tony looked alarmed and panicked as he looked around frantically while the rest of the team shot up and rushed around to go get their gear. Natasha picked up on his panic and she pulled him into her arms. She rocked him while Clint rushed off to get his equipment and he whistled to Natasha and threw her a thumbs up to her to let her know he was grabbing hers for her while she calmed Tony down. She smiled grateful for Clint as she rocked Tony and whispered to him. “Ssh you're going to be just fine Кролик, just breathe, nothing is going to get you. I'm right here.”

She soothed him quietly as she rocked him and he sobbed against her chest and sucked his pacifier feverishly as he snuggled impossibly closer. He dug his head against the crook of her neck as he cried uselessly, he fist clenched onto her shirt holding on like his life depended on it. Natasha sympathized with him, he was three years old after all, any alarm like the Avengers one would scare any young kid. It was extremely loud and it rang through every single room, plus it had big red flashing lights so that way if Clint had his hearing aids out he could still see it.

She was wondering how they were supposed to handle Stark’s situation with the Avengers being called out into the field. What were they supposed to do with the three year old? They couldn't leave him at the tower alone, but they also couldn't take him out to the battle. An idea formed in her mind as she grabbed her phone, Fury was about to have to scrub more red crayon off his walls because he was about to be on babysitting duty.

She called him and put him on speaker as the alarms sound cut off but the flashing lights remained, the alarm was set to blare loudly for 5 minutes before the sound cut out and just the lights remained. She realized it had been way too long and they should be ready to leave by now so she rushed through explaining the situation to Fury as she told him the situation and asked for his assistance in watching Tony.