ironstrange headcanons

Parenting

It's a sequel to the "I want a baby" one shot! Read it if you haven't already!!

"How's parenting going, Tony?" Rhodey asks him, taking a sip from the cup of coffee he's just ordered.
"Perfectly fine. Stephanie is such a gorgeous, nice and also hyperactive girl. It's a shame that I often have to stay at work instead of staying at home with her and Stephen. I'm missing her best days."
Rhodey giggles. "I'm sure she is, with such two beautiful people as parents I couldn't expect something bad. And how's Stephen holding up? Is he alright? I haven't seen him in a while. I should come over more often, so I could stay with Stephanie if you two need some time together. And I also heard that Peter is moving out for college with Ned and MJ right? God that kid, he was just 15 when I met him for the first time and now he's 22. Time flies, man." Tony smiles and nods. "He's such a good man. Still a kid sometimes, but he's changed. I owe him so much." He says, looking directly into Rhodey's eyes. "Also Stephen is holding up well. He's really tired, being a father is exhausting. Whenever I come home I always find him asleep next to Stevie. All the sacrifices he's done for her are now paying off. He looks genuinely happier. He feels better in general."
"So do you, Tones. I can see the happiness you feel through your eyes. You even look better, like you started taking care of yourself."
He smirks. "That's because of Stephen. He convinced me to take care of myself too and he often spoils me saying I deserve it. He's such the perfect husband to me, Rhodes. He makes me so damn happy."
Rhodey smiles as he looks at his longtime best friend being finally happy. He doesn't have words to describe how glad he is that he's good now.
"It makes me so happy to see you like this. I've known you for over thirty years and this is the first time I see you genuinely happy, without faking smiles.."
Tony is about to answer when he receives a call from Stephen. He looks at his phone and then at Rhodes, mouthing "it's stephen" as he picks up the call.
"Hi babe. Everything's good?"
"Hello honey, yes everything's fine but I wanted to ask you if you could get some meds for me. I've been feeling bad since this morning , my head hurts and so does my stomach." Tony shrugs "are you sure you're okay though? You sound really exhausted. I was about to come home by the way. I left earlier today, I met Rhodey at the cafè in front of the building, it's been a lot since the last time I met him, is that okay?"
"Of course darling, why wouldn't it be? You can stay more if you want, I'll manage to do something in the meantime. Remember the meds when you come back. I love you." Tony could hear Stephen smiling through the words, which makes him melt. "I'm coming home in 30. Maybe go lay in bed, try to sleep with Stevie while you wait for me. Stay safe. See you later, love you too."
As the call finishes, Rhodey looks at tony with a disgusting look but in a good way. "You two are so sweet that I could die of diabetes right now. " Oh go off, asshole. Come on, I've gotta go now, you can come over whenever you want, if you want to stay with those two even without me it's fine, so Stephanie can get used to uncle Rhodes." Tony sits up and so does Rhodey, hugging his best friend to say goodbye. "See you, man. Send me photos of Stevie if you want. I want to be a proud uncle yknow?"
The smaller man nods and grins, patting his friend's back "I will. And I'm so damn sure you will be. Have a good day, Rhodey."
"Have a good day too, Tones."

Tony leaves to firstly get the meds for Stephen.
As soon as he collects everything he rushes at home, excited to see his husband and daughter.
When he comes home the house is quiet, and immediately guesses that they're both sleeping, but when he comes in their bedroom he sees stephen laying with the baby in his arms, staring at the ceiling.
"Stephen? Are you okay? What are you doing?" He says quietly enough not to wake up the child, sitting on the edge of the bed.
"She's just fallen asleep. She wouldn't stop crying. She misses you way too much."
Tony sighs and lays next to stephen, putting a hand on the baby's back and giving his husband a kiss.
"I got your meds. Are you feeling any better or it's worse?" Tony states, getting the meds out of the shopping bag and putting them on the bed table.
"Well it didn't really change, I'm feeling a bit less nauseous now. I don't even know what's happening, I've stayed at home, I didn't leave."
"And that is most probably why you haven't been feeling well lately. I think we should hang out more, even with her. How about we go out tonight for a walk? Maybe we could go get some coffee, an ice cream, whatever you want. You need to breathe fresh air honey."
"What about her?" He asks, looking down at the child drooling on his shirt. "She can come with us. Or if you don't want to have-"
Stephen interrupts him "of course I want her with us!"
"Babe no, I didn't mean it like that" he says chuckling. "Sorry, I knew you didn't mean it like that but it was an instinctive answer." He giggles with Tony, staring at his eyes. "We can go out tonight, yes. We could go out to eat something and then hang out? Sounds cool?"
Tony nods. "If you want I can make us sandwiches so we can go eat by the lake. Like our first date, remember?" Stephen blushes and grins "of course I do. It was amazing. One of the best days of my life." Tony leans closer to stephen and kisses him, putting a hand on his cheek. "Here, stay with Stevie while I make sandwiches. She missed you all day long, so now you give her the love she deserves." The wizard chuckles as he lays the child right on tony's chest carefully. "She is so pretty. Very gorgeous."
"Well with a father like you.." stephen winks and gives tony a quick kiss before getting up and preparing all the things they'll need for the evening.
As he finishes, he comes back in the room and sees tony singing a lullaby to Stephanie. He's so sweet and his voice sounds so calming and relaxing. Stephen has the biggest smile on his face and when Tony notices that he is standing right in front of him, smiles as well.
"Hi handsome"
"Hi honey. I'm going to take a shower. I prepared everything, for us and for her. I won't take much, as always." Tony nods "it's okay, take as much as needed. You deserve it." Stephen grins and takes some clothes from the wardrobe such as skinny jeans and a shirt.
"Oh fancy." Tony states smirking at his husband "oh yeah I like to be fancy sometimes." Stephen answers directing himself to the bathroom.
Once he's in, he takes off his clothes and opens the water, getting in the shower. It doesn't take long before he hears the baby crying and tony shushing her. He gets out as soon as possible with wet hair, jeans and boxers on, knowing that Stephanie is hungry.
"Oh baby, you are hungry aren't you? Yeah let me get you the milk. Do you want to give it to her or..?" He asks looking at the man in front of him "uuh, sorry I lost myself into how handsome you look." Tony says, getting up with Stevie in his arms. As soon as Stephen gets her in his arms she stops crying.
"Well I guess she hates me huh?" Tony says ironically, looking at the man cuddling with the kid. "Nah she just.. you know, I gave birth to her, we have basically a... uh, mother-daughter connection." He pats Stephanie's back and sits on the bed, drops of water running down his face.
"Do you want me to blow dry your hair honey?" 
Stephen giggles."no I'll leave them like this. Come on, you can go have a shower now. Then we can leave. Peter is coming home in a few mins."
"I texted him and asked him if he wanted to come. He said yes." Stephen nods. "Perfect! Tonight's gonna be great."