You Can Let Go Now Daddy

Guardians of the Galaxy

Tony wasn't going to invite the random space aliens that crashed into the field behind the Avengers compound in at first.

He didn't want to have to deal with another race of beings around Christmas time. But then one of them turned out to be a human and Pepper reminded him that Christmas was about being nice to people..

"My name is Peter Quill. This is Gamora, Drax, Mantiss, Groot and Rocket.." He shook Tony's hand. He sighed.

"We'll fix your ship up and send you on your way in a few days. Might as well stick around.. no stores are going to be open until after Christmas."

And so, a couple of spare rooms were put together for the Guardians of the Galaxy.
No one was more pleased about this than Peter himself. The small boy snuck into one of the bedrooms, excited to meet some new friends.

"Hi! My name is Peter!" He exclaimed to the room.
Gamora and Quill had been halfway through an argument when the child burst into their bedroom.
They blinked down at him.

"Um, hi?" Quill couldn't find anything to say about this strange turn of events.

Gamora chuckled, kneeling to greet the small child. It didn't take long for Peter to have won the hearts of 4/5 of the Guardians.
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"A kid?" Quill asked Tony, stepping into the room. Everyone else was asleep and the compound was silent.

"Don't judge my life decisions. I know a family probably isn't the smartest thing for someone in my position.. But Peter deserved better then he had before." Tony didn't look up from where he was going over the blueprints of the spaceship.

"Oh. I'm not doubting you know the risks.. After talking to everyone around the compound though... I'm wondering if you took Peter in for Peter or for yourself."

Tony listened to Quill's footsteps disappear. He was right. Why had he taken in Peter? Because he'd seen himself. Why was he trying to coddle him? Because his own father had been so distant. Everyone else had seen it but because they loved him so much hadn't tried to tell him.

He was making it all about himself again. Frustrated, he leaned back and put his head in his hands. He had a lot of self reflection to do.

A/N: I'm sorry if this chapter sucks... I just wanted to thank all of you for bringing me to number 2 in marvel and I couldn't do that without giving you a new chapter with the characters you've all been begging me to write.
Of course this is only an introduction to them (I suck at writing them sorry but I wanna have a cute Groot and Peter scene).
So thank you all from the bottom of my heart for loving this story and give me some ideas for what you want to see the Guardians do while they're stuck on Earth for the holidays :3