AN: Enjoy! This fic is set just after the ending of 'Nothing Is Impossible'.
Wanda, Vision, and the twins had been staying at the Barton farm for a few days, and things were about as perfect as it was possible to be.
Wanda woke one morning to find Vision already tending to the twins, changing their diapers and getting them dressed. A relatively easy task with Billy, but not so much with Tommy, who sometimes seemed capable of wriggling at super-human speeds. Wanda was starting to strongly suspect that her son may have inherited his uncle's abilities.
Wanda chuckled, then stretched, getting up to help Vision keep their wriggly son still long enough to dress him.
"Thank you" Vision smiled, relieved, turning to press a kiss to the top of Wanda's head.
"Baiat obraznic.." Wanda tilted her head to receive his kiss. "He's so much like Pietro.. He could never keep still either."
She always felt a slight pang in her heart when she remembered that her brother would never meet her precious sons. He would have doted on them, she knew, and been a very fun Uncle. He had used to tell her:
"The one good thing about you one day finding a husband, Sister, is that it will mean nieces and nephews for me to corrupt and spoil!"
She had always laughed this off. Before Vision, the prospect of her ever finding such a man had seemed rather remote. Pietro would have disliked Vision, or pretended to, but he would have adored her sons. It hurt that Tommy and Billy would never know him.
But while none of them would ever replace Pietro, Tommy and Billy had plenty of other fun uncles to help fill the void.
One of these uncles was set to arrive on the doorstep later that day..
That afternoon, it was rather quiet in the Barton household. Laura was off grocery shopping, Clint was out doing farm chores, Cooper and Lila were at School, and Nate was napping, Wanda and Vision having offered to watch over him.
Wanda had just finished feeding the twins when there was a flurry of noise outside, followed by a knock at the door. Expecting that Clint had simply locked himself outside again, Vision answered the door and was surprised to find Tony Stark, fully suited up except for his helmet, standing at the door with two enormous stuffed bunny rabbits, and a parcel from a jewellery store. In contrast to his usual ability to make just about anything effortlessly cool, Tony actually looked just a little bit awkward.
"Sir.." Vision blinked, still not quite able to break that bit of old programming. "Hello."
"Hey.. you going to invite me in?"
"Of course" Vision stepped aside.
Tony stepped in, the nanites that now made up his suit retreating into his chest.
"Thought it was time to come see the little stinkers.." Tony turned rather awkwardly to where Wanda sat with the twins. "Hi.."
"Hello.." Wanda, feeling horribly awkward, wished that the sofa would suddenly swallow her up. Billy fussed, picking up on his Mother's The last time she had seen Tony was during the fight at the airport. Well, that and the brief glimpse of him she'd caught when he visited the Raft, but Wanda had been rather out of it at the time.
Tony set down the two giant rabbits.
"I, uh, brought presents for them.. and this, for Mom.." He held out the Jewellery parcel to Wanda, and Vision took the twins so she could more easily accept the gift. "Push presents are all the rage at the moment.."
"Thank you.." Wanda took the parcel, opening it to reveal a bracelet set with shimmering red stones.. rubies, most likely. "It's beautiful."
"You still like red, right?"
"I do" Wanda nodded, not sure what else to say.
Tony sighed heavily, flopping into a plush arm chair across from them, his eyes flickering to the twins in Vision's arms.
"Sir.." Vision seemed apologetic.
"I get it. I get why you didn't tell me about your kids sooner. A little disappointed, but I get it. I.. I've made some pretty dumb mistakes these last few years."
"I think," said Vision, "There may have been mistakes on both sides."
Wanda nodded in quiet agreement, but didn't say anything yet.
"It was my mistakes that screwed things up most royally. And I just wanted to apologise.." He turned to Wanda. "Particularly to you.. Trying to confine you to the compound was the wrong move.. and then what happened in the Raft.. And I never.. I realised that I never apologised for your parents.."
"That wasn't your fault" The words were out of Wanda's mouth before she could think about it, but she meant them. She had stopped blaming Tony Stark for the loss of her parents a long time ago.
"Still.. I have been a first class idiot. I admit it. Forgive me?"
Wanda thought for a moment. Looked from Tony, to Vision. Tony was still very important to him, Wanda knew, and it can't have been pleasant for him to have so much tension between two of the most important people in his life. But.. that was a lot of water to try and put under the bridge.
"I think, the best thing may be to just.. incepe peste."
"Uh.. what?" Tony blinked.
"Start over, sir.." Vision translated.
"So.." Wanda stood, her hand outstretched. "Hello. I'm Wanda Maximoff."
Tony stood, smiling, firmly clasping Wanda's hand in his.
"Tony Stark. Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too." A smile spread over Wanda's face, then she laughed, and so did Tony, an invisible weight lifting from both of their shoulders.
Tony released his grip on Wanda's hand and turned to Vision and the twins, grinning.
"So, who have we got here?"
"This is Billy.. and This is Tommy" Vision introduced his sons, beaming.
"Great, they're normal!" Tony sat beside Vision and began making faces at the twins, who cooed and giggled. "You have no idea how many celebrity Christenings I've gone to and had to pretend I liked the stupid names.. Hey, little guys! I'm Uncle Tony. If you hit me up when you're teenagers, I'll buy you beer!"
"Don't you dare" Wanda frowned, but it didn't quite reach her eyes, which sparkled.
"I'm joking!" said Tony, but he wasn't joking at all.
A few hours later, when the twins had gone for their nap, Nate was waking up, and Tony was preparing to leave, he pulled an envelope from his pocket, pressing it into Vision's hand.
"Almost forgot. Wedding invitation. Kids welcome. You'll be there, won't you?"
"We'll be there" Vision grinned, his arm around Wanda's shoulders.
"Wouldn't miss it" Wanda smiled.
They both waved cheerily as Tony suited up once more, zooming off.
Wanda couldn't help thinking that Pietro would have liked Tony, if he'd been able to get to know him.
Translation:
Baiat obraznic: Cheeky Boy