Bless The Broken Road

A Mistake A Day Takes The Peter Away

Fury didn't look impressed as he stared down at the black and white photograph of Peggy's son Peter. He gave Tony a look that screamed 'seriously?'

"This your evidence? A 55 year old photo?"

Tony scoffed, waving a hand out towards the photo. "Tell me that boy in that picture doesn't look like the one currently upstairs!"

Fury looked back at the picture, going silent for a few seconds. He placed the photograph back in the file before turning back to Tony with his hands on his hips. "You're not giving me any proof here, Stark. I let you have your say and you just give me speculation."

"The fact that you are even letting me continue on this assumption means you think i have a leg to stand on," Tony replied with a cocky grin. Fury immediately returned the words with a cold glare.

"Perhaps this was a mistake, you clearly have no concrete proof for me to act upon."

Tony huffed as Fury started to walk away. This was his one chance to prove his theory and he was blowing it. He watched as the Director made it to the lab's door when a thought struck him.

"Hey JARVIS," Tony called out to the ceiling, giddiness filling him. "You can run facial recognition to see if two people share similar features, yes?"

"I have the programmed data, yes," the AI replied immediately. Fury paused at the door, looking back with a clouded expression. This was obviously Tony's last chance of proving what he knew to be true.

"Run a facial similarities test between the kid upstairs and Peggy Carter."

Fury walked closer as Tony's screen lit up, a picture of Peter's face taken seconds ago from the camera's upstairs appearing beside an old photograph of Peggy in her youth. Even side by side, Tony could see the similarities. Same face shape, eye colour and nose. At this point, there wasn't even a doubt in Tony's head (it was just filled with the question of how).

"I hope for your sake that this comes back positive," Fury mumbled as JARVIS completed the scan. Everything was silent for a few minutes until the AI finished the test.

"I have concluded the test with a 98.99% positive match on young Peter and Agent Carter."

"What does that mean, J," Tony looked at Fury, trying to keep his cocky behaviour to a minimum. The last thing he needed was to piss Fury off enough to discredit his results.

"That young Peter and Agent Carter have extreme chances of being primarily related due to their facial similarities."

"Doppelgänger's could pass as twins," Fury growled, looking away from the screen with an annoyed huff. "What am i meant to do with this?"

"Do a DNA test!" Tony half yelled, throwing his hands up in the air. He was tired of the mind games now— there was no way to prove Peter was related to Peggy except through biological evidence. "You and i both know it will come out as positive."

"SHIELD doesn't keep ex Agent's DNA on hand," Fury glared.

"I'll go visit Peggy and swipe some of her hair," Tony rolled his eyes. "It isn't rocket science— which i can do by the way!"

"The boy will be coming back to DC with us in the mean time."

The words left a nasty feeling run wild in Tony's stomach. Obviously, SHIELD would take back Peter but after his lie of a promise, Tony knew it wasn't going to go down well. But he had to get the DNA from Peggy to prove his theory.

"Deal," Tony held out his hand to which Fury shook in one smooth motion. The nasty feeling only grew when they went back upstairs, watching as Fury nodded towards the agents to move back to the jet they'd come in.