A/N: This is a follow up to my one shot "A New Leaf". This will be a one shot series. I hope y'all like it :)
Whenever Pepper said she wanted children one day, Tony always said that he didn't want any, at least not at the moment. He couldn't bear to bring a child into this world with danger that always comes his way.
He also feared that he'd end up doing the same things that his father made him feel growing up.
So he stayed away from the subject of having a child and focused on other important things instead.
However, that wasn't the case when he met Carrie White. A young girl that he witness had this amazing power.
Tony decided that he was gonna take action, fought custody of her and legally adopted her. Taking her away from the environment she was forced to live in for years. She also decided she was gonna legally change her last name from "White" to "Stark", seeing that as a start to new life that she got another chance to live. She was only 16 but had plenty of time to mold and better herself into the person she wants to be and find herself.
Nick already talked to Tony about having a child in this environment where enemies could strike at any day. However, he didn't say anything about adopting a teenager with telekinetic powers.
Although Tony said before that he didn't want any children at the moment, he saw Carrie as someone who needed love, guidance and protection like he needed growing up. Tony was not her real father, she knew this but overtime she learned that just because someone gave birth to you, doesn't mean they're defined as a parent. Her mother and father was a good example of this.
Pepper absolutely adored her and also agreed to wanting her to adopt her and take her under their wing, but was worried that her powers might get out of hand, Carrie had to admit that some of her telekinesis that was somewhat uncontrolled and had some trouble with her emotions that mixed with her powers. Tony told Pepper that he had it under control and enrolled her into Professor X's school to help her control her powers better. So far, she was loving it there. He didn't have to worry about her being lonely because she was already making friends there that were just like her and slowly breaking out of her shell. Not completely but a process was being made.
Ever since then, her and Tony were very close and actually felt like she had a healthy parent/child relationship for the first time in her life. She could go to him about almost anything. If he wasn't there at the moment, she'd go to Pepper instead, who she also had a healthy relationship with.
Sure, him and Carrie sometimes had some arguments and he did scold her at some extent. One time, Carrie "disobeyed" his commands in order to save an innocent civilian that was in some serious danger, when they got home, they had gotten into a big argument about it, he sent her to her room. A few hours later, he came into her and explained that he was only angry about her disobeying his order because he wanted her to be safe and could have gotten killed at the time, he actually admitted to being scared, scared that he was going to lose her. However, he still did apologize for yelling at her anyway and they made up at the end.
Parenting wasn't easy for Tony, especially parenting and raising a teenager with telekinesis, but at least he gets the chance to raise someone how he wanted to be raised and treated.