Babysitting
Author's Note: I absolutely love the idea of Peter Parker babysitting the kid of Pepper Potts and Tony Stark and I feel like the two of them would be best friends and Peter would look at Tony as a father figure and Pepper much the same as he looks up to his Aunt (a mother figure). I also feel as if mini Stark and Parker would team up against the other Avengers.
Disclaimer: I own nothing expect for Zoe Stark, a character of my own creation.
Peter Parker sighed as he went up the stairs to the main common area at the Avengers Compound in upstate New York. He had been assigned babysitting duty, looking after his mentor's three year old daughter, Zoe Stark. It wasn't that he didn't like the little girl, he absolutely adored her, thought of her as a sister, it was just, he didn't think that looking after a three year old sounded like much fun on a Friday night. He'd rather be playing games with Ned and MJ, eating pizza. He was only seventeen and what seventeen year old boy wanted to babysit a three year old girl?
Peter sighed again, knowing there was no point in trying to get out of tonight and knowing he had to make the most out of it. He reached the common area- the lounge room, kitchen and dining area all the Avengers shared- and was surprised at all the people in the room. All the Avengers were there, all in their best formal wear and Pepper Stark- Tony's wife, was rushing around, making sure everyone was ready. Then he remembered. It was the annual Avengers Ball, where the public and the Avengers got to celebrate being thankful for each other- or something like that he didn't really pay attention.
"Hey kid, thanks for looking after Zoe, you're a lifesaver." Tony told him, coming up to him. Peter smiled at him just, as Zoe spotted him. It looked like she was building something in the corner of the room that looked vaguely like the atomic structure of Starkranium.
"What's she building?" Peter asked, waving at her as she ran over to him.
"The atomic structure of Starkranium." Tony told him proudly just as Zoe tackled his legs, looking up at him.
"Hey Peter! Guess what I'm building?" Zoe told him. Peter pretended to think had before giving his answer.
"A six foot spider-man figure? I think that'd be pretty cool." Peter told her and Zoe giggled and shook her head.
"No silly! I'm building Stark-Stark-ran-ium." Zoe proudly announced.
"Oh awesome! Well, I reckon when all the boring adults leave, we'll keep building it, how's that for tonight? And we can watch whatever movie you'd like to watch too." Peter told her.
"Can we watch Mulan, Peter? Mommy and daddy let me watch it the other day and it's my favourites movie ever!" Zoe begged and Tony let out a small chuckle, just as Pepper came over to them. She looked like she was going to explode from stress before she took a deep breath.
"Peter, thank you so much for looking after Zoe on such short notice. I'm sure you'd rather be with MJ and Ned on a Friday night but Happy is out of town for a meeting and we all have to go and- " Pepper started and Peter smiled at her.
"It's no troubles, Pepper. Besides, me and mini-stark will make our own fun." Peter told her with a smile. Pepper and Tony smiled at him appreciatively.
"Alright, well we better get going otherwise Pepper will have a heart attack." Tony said, looking down at his watch. Zoe looked up at Tony and Pepper and Peter knew she was about to become sad over her parents leaving, so he picked her up, putting her on his shoulders. She giggled loudly.
"You be a good girl for Peter, okay sweetheart? Remember, bedtime is still eight o'clock and you've already had dinner so you can only have a scoop of ice-cream if Peter says you've been good." Pepper told Zoe.
"Okay mommy." Zoe said sweetly.
"Alright there's some pizza in the fridge for you Peter if you want dinner, eat anything you want, I don't care. If you have any problems, tell FRIDAY to contact us." Tony told him and Peter nodded, moving dramatically making Zoe laugh.
"Love you, Zoe, be good please." Pepper told Zoe, kissing her on the side of her head.
"Love you Mommy!" Zoe exclaimed. Tony also kissed Zoe on the side of the head.
"Give him hell, sweetheart." Tony smirked and Pepper slapped his arm as Peter and Zoe laughed. Tony winked at him before Pepper dragged him away. The other Avengers all said bye to him and eventually it was just Zoe and Peter, standing alone in the living room, which was now oddly quiet.
"Alright, how about I grab me some pizza, you some ice-cream and we can starting watching Mulan?" Peter asked, grabbing Zoe off from his shoulders, setting her down in front of him.
"Okay, I'll start up the movie! Can we build a blanket fort too?" Zoe asked excitedly.
"Of course, munchkin. You go grab all the stuff we need for it first. It should be in the first cupboard down the Stark hallway." Peter told her and she ran off, opened the cupboard door and grabbed as many blankets as possible as Peter grabbed the pizza box and some of the ice-cream from the freezer. He couldn't help but laugh at the amount of ice-cream that they had from new addition of Ben and Jerry's, named after the Avengers.
He took a scoop of ice-cream- Stark Raving Hazelnuts- and put it in Zoe's rainbow coloured bowl and walked over to the living room, which was now covered in blankets. Zoe looked impressed with herself and he couldn't help but laugh.
"Why are you laughing Peter?" Zoe asked, putting her hands on her hips in such a way he thought he was looking at Pepper for a moment.
"I just love the amount of blankets we have, that's all. Ice-cream?" Peter asked, hoping to distract the little girl and she happily accepted the bowl, sitting on the couch. Peter sat next to her, opening up his pizza box. Six pieces of pepperoni pizza were instead and he couldn't help but smile. Of course Tony Stark knew he favourite flavour of pizza. Did it really surprise him?
"FRIDAY, can you play Mulan please?" Zoe asked the AI system nicely.
"Of course, Miss Stark. Playing Mulan." FRIDAY replied and the movie started up on the tv Tony had installed in the loungeroom. They sat in peaceful silence until Zoe finished her ice-cream and she looked over at Peter.
"Can we start building the blanket fort please?" Zoe asked and Peter nodded.
"Sure kid." Peter replied simply, putting the pizza box on the coffee table. It took them about half an hour to set up the blanket fort and Peter was seriously impressed by their massive blanket fort. Zoe smiled up at him before giving him a hug.
"Thank you for your help, Peter! I love it! Can you also help me build my Stark-ran-ium? I wanna show daddy and Uncle Bruce when they get home." Zoe told him innocently.
"Do you remember the atomic structure?" Peter asked her. She nodded and grabbed a piece of paper, which she had drawn the atomic structure, with a few improvements in what he assumed was Tony's hand writing.
"Okay, let's build it." Peter told her. It took an hour of them working together to finish building it, Zoe leading him in building it, occasionally asking him for help but she did it mostly by herself, something he was impressed with a three year old doing.
"Now that we're finished this, what should we do now?' Peter asked.
"Another movie?" Zoe asked hopefully. Peter looked down at his watch and noticed that it was already six-thirty.
"Okay, how about we watch the Lion King?" Peter asked. Zoe nodded and the Lion King started to play on the tv. Peter sat in the corner of the couch and Zoe crawled over to him, laying her head on his lap. He wrapped an arm around her and they sat in companionable silence as they watched the movie. Peter wasn't sure when they fell asleep.
Tony Stark was laughing as he walked up the stairs, at the bickering between Sam and Bucky when he noticed that the loungeroom was covered in what seemed to be a blanket fort. All the Avengers all stopped to look at it and Tony couldn't help but laugh.
"That's massive, man. The spider kid did well." Sam said, sounding mildly impressed.
"Well, they're more than likely both asleep under there so don't be loud." Pepper told them, walking over to the front of the blanket fort and Tony followed her out of curiosity. He couldn't help but smile at the sight before him. Peter had fallen asleep and Zoe had fallen asleep in his lap.
"Looks like she wore him out." Tony whisper to his wife. Peter happened to wake up, more than likely his spidey-senses told him they were there, and he smiled sheepishly at them.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to fall asleep on the job." Peter apologised. Tony only smiled at him.
"It's okay, kid, I promise. I'm guessing she wanted the blanket fort?" Tony asked, gesturing around at the blankets. Peter just nodded and Pepper let out a small chuckle.
"She's persuasive, I'll tell you. Anyway, I better go put her in her bed." Pepper said, walking into the fort and gently picking up Zoe, who didn't move a muscle. Tony couldn't help but smile as his wife walked off to Zoe's bedroom.
"Do you just want to crash here tonight?" Tony asked Peter and he nodded and stood up.
"Oh also, Zoe finished the Starkranium. She's pretty excited to show you and Bruce." Peter told him.
"I won't look at it till tomorrow then. Thanks again for looking after her again, Peter, I really do appreciate it." Tony told him genuinely and Peter just smiled at him.
"She was fun to look after. It was my pleasure." Peter told him. "Anyway, I'm going to bed Mr Stark, I'll see you in the morning."
"Night kid," Tony smiled. He couldn't help but think about how much he thought of Peter as his son and how good he was with Zoe. He knew that Peter would always continue being there for Zoe, that much he was certain of.
Author's Note: I never realised but Tony never officially named the element he rediscovered in Ironman 2 but on the MCU wiki page it says he wanted to name it 'badassium' but ran into legal issues so I took the liberty of naming the element Starkranium and I have no idea if has been used in other works but if it has, I promise I wasn't trying to steal the name! It just popped up in my head last night.
Also would you all be interested in me continuing the relationship between Peter and Zoe and writing more about them? If you are please leave me a review or dm me! If you have any ideas about what you want to see from them, please also let me know and I will take your suggestions on board!