Take A Chance On Me

Chapter 14

Tony Stark had a sick feeling in his stomach, it was around 2am and it wouldn't surprise him if he was going to puke. He looked at Steve sound asleep beside him, it had been a month since they had nearly lost each other in the battle of Sokovia and roughly the same time since they first had sex.

It all became too much, Tony removed himself from the bed before bolting to the bathroom and spilling his guts out in the toilet. A bleary-eyed Steve walked in at the sound and saw his lover with his face over the loo. 

"Shit... Tony, babe are you okay." Steve moved to Tony's side and rubbed his back.
"Language and obviously I'm not okay." Tony coughed. Steve ran him a shower and set clean clothes out, telling him to climb back in bed and relax for the next 48hrs.

Tony nodded, saying he would do just that. Steve headed back to their shared bedroom and Tony stepped inside the hot shower to wash away the smell. Once he was done the pulled on the track pants and comfy oversized shirt Steve had laid out, climbing into bed again. Nudging Steve until he put his arms around the smaller man. 

***

The same thing happened every morning for a week. Steve started insisting he went to the doctor, but Tony said he was fine because of the fact it only happened in the mornings and then he was fine. Steve wasn't convinced and didn't stop trying to get him to go.

It was on the second week of this 'morning sickness' that it hit Tony. It was more of a theory than an actual hypothesis. None of the less, Tony made his way to his lab one night while Steve was sleeping. He couldn't have a child it was physically impossible and what would the world think? Their leading engineer and billionaire was a mutated bitch with a gay lover?

Only the Avengers and Clint's family knew what happened between them or more what was happening between them. 
"JARVIS, lights on buddy." Tony said as he padded into his lab, the lights went on, illuminating the cold interior of his and Bruce's workspace. Tony had never been good at 'decorating', Steve, however, had made their room into a warm space for the two of them.

"Jar, I need tests done." Tony searched the mess for a syringe. When he found it, he sterilised the needle and drew blood from his wrist, removing the vile and giving it to Jarvis.
"Sir it appears the volume of your blood has gone up by 50%." Tony's eyes went wide as the result fed his theory. 

"Bud I need an X-Ray and an Ultrasound," Tony said as he lay on the examining table in Bruce's part of the lab.

***

"Sir you're a Hermaphrodite." JARVIS's electronic voice woke Tony from his sleep. He must've fallen asleep while JARVIS was running tests. 

"Exsqeuze me. A what?" Tony gaped and JARVIS continued.
"A Hermaphrodite, sir you were born with both reproductive systems. You never noticed it because unlike women. You do not have a 'vagina', yours seems to be linked with your rectum. You have no natural way to give birth so when you reach the 7 months of male pregnancy you will have to have a Caesarean Section." JARVIS finished his little speech and Tony sunk to the floor in shock. 

It would only be a matter of day before he started showing and he was already a little swollen. This child, it would be the product of mutation, a mistake. Tears appeared in his eyes and he began to sob. 

Steve's louder padding footsteps could be heard as he descended the stairs to the lab. Tony's tears didn't stop, but as he had just learnt, it was expected. He was hormonal. 
"Tony, what are you doing?" Steve's eyebrows scrunched together in worry when he saw Tony crying on the floor.

Steve made his way across the floor to his lover and Tony let the taller man pick him up and carry him bridal style to their shared room. Tony sighed into Steve's chest and the tears stopped and the problems of the world were momentarily solved.

***

When Tony woke up it was 3pm, he must've slept for ages, but when he did awake Bruce was sitting in the chair beside the queen bed.
"Bruce what are you doing." Tony looked his best-friend up and down.
"Steve said you were acting weirdly and wanted me to keep an eye on you while he reported to Nick Fury for something or other, also JARVIS said you were pregnant." He informed and Tony was kind of tired of all the shocks he had been getting lately.

"Have you told Steve!?" Tony asked almost instantly after Bruce had said Jarvis had told him.
"That's your job, not mine. Well, you seem fine and you have some bean spilling to do." Bruce readjusted his glasses and closed his book before getting up and for some reason kicking the wall.

"Hey, Bruce please don't damage the walls..." Bruce slammed his foot into the wall and Clint fell from the vents, then Bruce made his way to the door, opening it. Nat, Thor and Rhodey fell onto the floor and Tony groaned, falling back on the bed and covering his head with the duvet.

"Any of you tell Steve and I will gut you alive." Tony grumbled and Natasha laughed.
"That's your job, not ours." She smiled.
"So I've heard."