The Devil With The Face of an Angel | Irondad, pepperony

Chapter 58

"Hey, hey, who are you and what did you do to Tony Stark?" Bruce joked as they stopped hugging and Tony looked at him like a mother who saw her child fall and investigate where he was hurt. "This was probably the first time you've hugged me."

"People change."

"Hmm, maybe you are right, you're a good example after all. From the playboy to the father of the Year," Bruce laughed, patting Tony on the shoulder. "You don't even know how happy I am to be back."

"Stark, do you have a beer?!" Thor thundered from the kitchen. Tony and Bruce looked at each other and grinned.

"In the fridge!" Tony replied, urging Bruce to sit down. "So where did you get lost, Big guy?"

"Brr, don't call me that, I've had enough of the Hulk," Bruce said, shaking his hands. Tony raised an eyebrow. "I've reached an unknown planet called Sakaar. I lost contact with Nat before I could return to my normal form. I was a Hulk the whole time I was out until Thor found me."

"Yeah, we even had to fight," Thor added, bringing a beer.

"You have short hair," Tony said, examining his short hair in surprise. Thor ran his free hand involuntarily through his sparrow's nest.

"Oh yeah. There was no other option," he growled, sitting down next to them. He looked around curiously. " So where is everyone?"

"You can hardly assume that everyone will be here to throw you a party when you show up unannounced and nearly demolish my house," Tony said dryly, and Thor laughed out loud.

"Thor mentioned to me on the way that you and Steve had an argument and the team broke up. Is that true?" Bruce asked, a deep wrinkle between his eyebrows. Tony looked away.

"Oh yeah. It's true. I don't know where he is right now, and I don't even want to know," he snapped, then smiled a little. "You probably don't have much to say, do you?"

"No, unfortunately not," Banner replied, returning his smile. "Tony, you should reconcile with Steve. You two always stuck together, even if you didn't like each other at first."

"I don't want to deal with it, Bruce. We didn't get along with enough important things. He threatened the whole team. And not only the team, but the world too. Our work is... Let's leave this topic. The important thing is, everyone I care about is fine," Stark said contentedly. Thor looked around.

"Where's your young man? Is he out with his suit?" he asked. Bruce shouted, and the two looked at him in alarm.

"Of course! Peter! How is he? Thor said he also has some abilities! Tony, damn how it happened?!" He wanted to know, leaning euphorically at him.

"First of all, I didn't test anything on him, it just happened all of a sudden," Tony began, playing with the thread on the sleeve of his T-shirt. "I really missed you back then, Bruce, because you understand it much more than I do. But I found mutagenic enzymes in Peter's blood that caused it all. Since then, he's been a Spider-man, but he's helping people rather than threatening them, which hasn't been said much about the Avengers. Don't worry, he'll be back from school soon, so he'll be fully available to you. Some distraction will please him."

"Puberty? Do his parents bother him?" Bruce teased, and Tony ran a hand over his face.

"I wish I could. Rather, he worries about family problems. "

"What problems can you have?"

"My ex-girlfriend wanted to come back to us, and Pepper left," Tony sighed. Thor cursed and Bruce's eyes widened. "It was not an easy time, but we are trying to put back together. Pepper and I are going slow, but I'd say it's on a good way. The problem is a bit with Peter now. He claims that he saw Pepper with a stranger, despite the fact she was with Nat the whole time."

"Is Natasha here?" Bruce blurted out as if he'd overheard Tony's problems. When Thor and Stark looked at him questioningly, he blushed. "Well, I - I thought - that she was with Steve or something."

"She was at first, but then she came back. When it comes to her, she should be here soon, too," Tony told him, blinking at him. Bruce mumbled something to himself, and at that moment they heard the door slam. In a moment Peter was walking through the living room.

"Hi, nothing new at school, I'm going to do my homework and be in my room, so—" he began saying in a completely monotonous voice, but then noticed that his father was probably not alone. When he saw Thor and Bruce sitting on the couch next to them, he shouted euphorically and hugged the two of them in turn. "Uncle Bruce, you're back!"

"Yes, and you've grown a lot!" Bruce wondered as all adults did. "So Dad boasted to me that you were already saving the world."

"Hmm, you could say that. Where did you leave Loki?" he asked, and Tony rolled his eyes.

"Saving the world and Loki don't go very well together," Thor grinned, sipping his beer. "He probably stayed on Sakaar."

"Where?" Peter frowned.

"On Sakaar. That's the planet I was on when I disappeared from here," Bruce explained briefly. "So tell me, how have you been? How's Mom?"

At that moment, Peter froze and the enthusiasm disappeared from his face. The sight caught Tony completely unprepared and shocked him perfectly. "Hmm, it's actually quite good. Look, you're staying until tonight, right? I have to, hmm, do the homework..."

"Did you see that?" Tony hissed out of the corner of his mouth at Bruce, watching Peter carefully as he left. "I can't believe it."

"It's going to equalize," Bruce reassured him. Thor opened his mouth to say something too, but at that moment Natasha Romanov came in quite unexpectedly and silently. Bruce stopped and swallowed several times. And when Natasha saw him, for a moment she forgot how to breathe.