If Tony was being honest, he wasn't listening to a word Pepper was saying to him. Not that she was completely expecting him to, mostly, she was just telling J.A.R.V.I.S. so Tony would have someone be there to remind him when she left in two days. Tony could tell Pepper was about to tear into him when J.A.R.V.I.S. started to tell them something, "Mr. Stark, Ms. Potts, a man has just left something outside, near the front door." J.A.R.V.I.S. informed them.
Pepper seemed confused, looking at Tony to see what he was thinking. But Tony didn't seemed interested in this new development, rather annoyed by it interrupting whatever thing he was about to try and weasel his way out of going. "What is it J?" Tony asked. If he was being honest, he'd rather just be in his lab not listening to Pepper listen the billions of things he was expected to do this week or whatever this new problem would entail for him.
What J.A.R.V.I.S. answered really surprised Pepper. "Sir, it appears to be a baby. it appears to be about 3 weeks old judging by its size." J.A.R.V.I.S. replied. Tony looked like he was going to just go back up to his room, but Pepper had another, more wholesome, caring idea about what to do about the apparent child left on Tony's doorstep, literally.
Before Tony knew what was going on, he was being dragged into the elevator and heading towards the lobby and front door of Stark Tower, when a little bundle holding the three week old child. "Pep, do something with it." Tony said, taking one look at the child before walking away, heading back upstairs to his lab. He was slightly shocked, yet pleased when he got about halfway through the lobby of Stark Tower before getting any indication of displeasure from Pepper.
Pepper's sharp tone stopped Tony in his lazy steps back to the elevator. "Anthony Edward Stark, get over her right now." Pepper demanded. Tony quickly returned to Pepper, doing his best to keep his nonchalant act up, hiding his reasonable freight at her God-given authoritativeness over just about anyone and everything around her when she wants.
'She could probably take over the world if she wanted to. That's not a terrifying thought Tony. god get together, she's talking to yo right now, focus.' Tony thought, just as Pepper was snapping fingers on one of her hands in front of his face, while her other was holding the baby's carrier, said baby was sound asleep. "Tony, there must be a reason he, she, it, we should really figure its gender, was left on your doorstep of all places." Pepper said.
Tony was clearly missing the point. "So? What am I, the playboy, genius, billionaire, philanthropist, supposed to do about it?" Tony asked, the half-built robot that was currently taking up a majority of his workbench in his lab, that he was dying to get back to, and the only thing standing in his way was Pepper, and apparently some kid nobody had wanted. Heh, there was something he could relate to the kid.
Pepper's fingers were snapping in his face again, just before the baby's carrier was placed in his hands. "You know I don't like being handed things Pep." Tony snarked. trying to give the baby back to Pepper in attempts to give her another one of his responsibilities. Pepper leaned over to him and whispered, "Then it's a good thing I'm not handing it to you, I'm leaving it with you." After depositing the child with Tony, Pepper started walking towards the same elevators Tony had tried to escape into earlier, into the depths of his lab and away from the still sleeping child, which was becoming mildly concerning.
Just as Pepper was reaching the elevator she started talking to J.A.R.V.I.S. "J.A.R.V.I.S., run a search on who left the child at the door. Maybe we can figure out what its name is." It only took a few seconds, from the time Pepper pressed the button for the elevator to before the doors of the elevator opened that J.A.R.V.I.S. had the results for Pepper. "Ms. Potts, I have the information you've requested. The man the left the child is a man called Benjamin Parker, he is currently married to May Parker, and is the older brother of Richard Parker." J.A.R.V.I.S. said as Pepper entered the elevator, leaving Tony with the baby.
Tony looked at the sleeping baby's face, while trying to figure out why the third name sounded so familiar. "J.A.R.V.I.S. find more information on Richard Parker." Tony requested, carrying the baby with him into the elevator. Tony pushed the button that led to his private labs.
When the doors to Tony's lab opened, Tony walked to one of the few empty chairs in his lab that was near the wall and placed the carrier on it, just as the baby started to blink awake but didn't start crying, much to Tony's gratitude. Tony walked over to his work bench, just about to begin tinkering on his robot. "Sir, I have gathered some information on Richard Parker," J.A.R.V.I.S. started, Tony noticed the baby looking up at the ceiling, trying to find where the voice was coming from. "Richard Parker currently works at Oscorp with his wife Mary Parker, Richard is the younger brother of Benjamin. It is also showing that Richard and Mary had a son less than a month ago named Peter." J.A.R.V.I.S. finished.
Could that? Can this kid? Tony walked back over to the baby and looked closer at his face. "You're Richard's boy aren't you?" Tony asked, picking up the baby. rather than working in his robot like he'd initially planned, he rather took some spit that came from the little baby's mouth and ran a quick DNA test on it, and sure enough, it was Richard and Mary's kid Peter.