Irondad & spiderson One shots {open}

We're family now (2)

*3RD POV*

Tony was antsy during his ride home to the compound. Sure, he knew Pepper would be fine with everything but his nerves were just... out of wack.

He didn't even know how they'd left without saying goodbye to Pepper...

'Eh. She'll probably give us shit for it later,' he thought humorously.

The man couldn't wait. He was a father and Peter was his son and he could make up for all the lost time. In a way... he had already been making up for it. The two of them had had countless movie nights and joked around all the time.

There had even been a few times where Tony made some corny jokes just to screw around with Peter.

As Tony walked into the tower, he immediately found Pepper to share the news. "Pep!" "Huh? Oh hey Tony. You already got Peter home?" "Uh yeah. We meant to say bye but got sidetracked." "Yeah? The look on your face shows you want to tell me about it," she teased.

"Um yeah. I do... Pepper. You're kinda a mom." Step-mom? Eh they'd figure everything out eventually.

"How the hell does that work? Aren't I the one that finds out first, considering I'd be the pregnant one?" "Y-Yeah I... Peter's my son." Pepper laughed lightly. "Well duh." "Ya know, May had the same reaction." "Wait you're serious? I thought that was some kind of confession of you seeing him as your kid." (IT TOOK ME MORE THAN A DAY TO THINK OF CONFESSION! I BLANKED)

"Well Pep, he really is. We did did some DNA test and... he's mine. Y-you're not... mad are you?" Pepper stared at Tony for a second. At first he thought she'd be angry at him for his past decisions. For getting another woman pregnant without thinking of the consequences, Peter's mother in fact!

But suddenly, she smiled and tears began to slip out of her eyes. "Pep...?" Tony walked closer to her. His wife put her hand on his cheek, allowing him to lean into her touch. "You're not mad?" He repeated.

"Tony, honey of course I'm not mad at you. Sure, you made some bad decisions in the past but you've made up for a lot. I'm really of you. I mean, look at how hard you've been trying for Peter... I don't think you'll have to worry about much changing between the two of you." Tony sighed in relief. "Thank god..."

"...So what's the plan?" "Well... May and I talked about it and we've decided to share guardianship over Peter. To be honest, it won't be that different from how things are now... he comes over on the weekends already and other than that, he should probably come here when she's got overnight shifts. Just so the kid doesn't have to be home alone all the time. We probably should've done this anyway a long time ago... He gets bored." Pepper chuckled as she watched her husband ramble.

"What?" "Nothing, nothing. You picking him up from school tomorrow?" "Yep." "Ok then. We should probably get to bed. It's almost 2:30." "I was really there that long?" "A little over 3 hours, yes." "Huh. Didn't realize. Maybe that's why Pete fell asleep so quick," he thought out loud. "Past the spider-kid's bedtime."

"Doesn't he have as bad of a sleep schedule as you do?" "Close to it, yeah. I've been trying to get him out of that though. Help him with his work sometimes so he can finish it before morning- aaand now that I'm saying this stuff out loud I'm surprised I missed it," he huffed. Pepper chuckled in agreement. He was a dad from the beginning.