Tony Stark : Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist and...... Father?

Chapter 5

"Warm milk anyone?"

The team stood absolutely frozen at the beginning of the kitchen. Tony raised a questioning eyebrow at their reaction. Their eyes were shooting between the baby and Tony before Clint spoke up.

"Tony... What is that?"

"This? Oh this is just some warm milk"

"No-" Clint wanted to argue before Steve interrupted.

"Tony who is this?" The man asked with furrowed brows. Natasha for once was still staring in shock, not daring to say anything.

"You know, this is actually a huge break in on my privacy. I could just have you escorted out." Tony said casually. This seemed to shock Natasha out of her daze. She was the one who had insisted on checking in on Tony and therefore pretty much breaking into his house. Bruce was the only one who decided it wasn't a good idea to barge in on him like that, so the man had decided to head to his own floor. If only he knew what was happening right now.

"Tony, since when do you have a kid?" She asked while stepping a bit closer.

The kid whined a bit in the man's arms, immediately grabbing the attention of the man.

"Okay I got it buddy. Let's move this to the couch shall we? Then you can explain why you decided to barge in on me like this" Tony stated.

He sat down on the luxurious couch in the modern living room. "JARVIS, turn on some lights will you? Nothing too bright though". Tony got situated on the couch while the team slowly crept closer. This was the last thing they had expected to happen... Slowly a few lights and the fireplace turned on , casting a gentle atmosphere around the room
Natasha sat down next to Tony, eyes still fixed on the little guy in his arms. Her eyes shone with love and curiosity. Steve and Clint moved to sit on the opposite couch, sitting so that they faced Tony as well.

Tony held the kid with the cutest brown curls on his head, on his lap. The kid was sucking on a similar pacifier to the one they had seen the day before. They also noticed the child was holding on tightly to the rainbow giraffe plushie that had been returned to him some time ago. The little one looked tired and a bit pale, probably explained by the stomach ache Tony mentioned.

Tony removed the pacifier from the kid's mouth before bringing the bottle with warm milk closer. He accepted it reluctantly, but seemed to be perfectly content in his dad's arms. He was sniffling a little and had droopy eyes, most likely caused by the hour of the night.

The team sat shocked, looking at the man who turned out to be a dad. Said man, had the softest of smiles on his face, staring at the baby with stars in his eyes. The kid was clearly the most important thing to him and now things started to slowly fall into place.

"So-" Natasha interrupted "Why uh- why don't you introduce us to the little guy?"

It was quiet for a moment before Tony spoke up, looking at her.

"This-" Tony started, looking at his friends -" is Peter, everyone"

'Peter' was still drinking from his bottle, but was now also looking at the other occupants of the room. He didn't seem frightened, just a bit curious. His eyes were huge and bright. The dark brown orbs staring at them with so much wonder.

Steve waved at the little guy.

They were already falling in love with the boy. A few seconds passed before Peter pushed away the bottle, eyebrows furrowing and whimpering a little. Immediately everyone cringed at the sight. Tony moved the bottle away, Natasha grabbing it from his hands and placing it on the table in front of them.

Tony moved Peter so that they were chest to chest. He held onto him by placing one hand on his soft back and one under his bum. He started slowly rubbing the boy's back through the sheep patterned footed-pyjamas. To help further soothe the boy, Tony started rocking from side to side gently, whispering soft reassurances and shushing his whimpers away.