When Tony's limo pulled up to the tower, and Happy opened the door for him so that he could climb out and collect the kid- he was met with a peculiar sight. There just several feet away stood Rhodey, Bruce, Thor, Steve, Clint, Natasha, King T'challa of Wakanda, Bucky Barnes, Pepper, and of course Vision and Wanda.

Glancing away from them for a moment as he cradled the kid in his arms and simply held her there, he was about to ask what they were all doing there when Steve walked forward and said gently, as if reading his mind. "Bruce called us. He said that something was wrong and we all came to check on you," Glancing down at the kid, there was no hiding the curiosity in the taller man's blue gaze before he asked, "What happened?" in a concerned tone.

Obviously worried about both Tony and the kid.

"I can't get into it right now Cap. L-Let me get the kid inside and out of these wet clothes before he gets sick." Tony stammered out as Bucky moved forward next and said softly,

"Lemme take em." And carefully slipped his arms around the kid and took her from Tony's arms. Under normal circumstances, Tony would have vehemently protested Bucky Barnes- the man who served Hydra for over seventy years as the Winter Soldier and even murdered Tony's parents- taking, or even touching the kid in any way.

But today Tony merely muttered something to the effect of the man needing to be careful with his metal arm.

Something about it being an uncomfortable pillow.

Bucky merely offered Tony a tight lipped smile and a small nod before turning and walking off into the building with Pepper close behind him. Apparently wanting to help assist the man in finding the kid's room and helping get Peter out of his-

Oh damn. Tony thought as soon as it occurred to him that the only people to know that Peter Parker was actually a female were Rhodey, himself, Happy and Pepper. Tony had purposely kept everyone else out of the loop because the kid had asked him to. Well maybe asked was too tame a word. Begged, and pleaded and used those damned puppy dog eyes of hers seemed a lot more accurate.

Quickly excusing himself from the others before any of them could start up much of a conversation or ask him if he needed anything, he all but ran to the nearest elevator and when it didn't come back down quickly enough, he decided to take the stairs. Figuring, what the hell? It was only fifty stories between himself and the kid- he could run it if he really pushed himself.

Nearly twenty minutes later, he finally reached his destination and slammed the stairway door open just in time to hear Pepper shout, "Get out!" as Bucky came scurrying out of the kid's room looking pale and shaken.

The former Winter's Soldier damned near tripped over his own feet trying to escape Pepper's wrath before he slammed into the wall and slid down it to rest, sitting on the floor across from the room he had just run out of quick, fast and in a hurry- shaking like a leaf.

Casting a quick glance down at the normally cocky and smartassed man, Tony inwardly cringed as the man muttered over and over under his breath, "I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know." as Pepper stomped out of the bedroom and grabbed him by the front of his shirt and hauled him up and practically snarled in his face causing Tony to freeze out of a sense of self preservation and held his breath.

After all, if she didn't realize he was there- she obviously couldn't skin him alive like she apparently wanted to do to Barnes.

He heard the ex-Winter's Soldier whimper something in an effort to get Pepper to release him. The pitiful sound meant to pull at the woman's heartstrings enough to allow escape.

But the joke was on him. Pepper had long ago learned to harden her heart against whining, whimpering and prettily spoken lies. In other words, Barnes was fucked and he knew it the moment that Pepper's lips curved up into a devious, blood chilling smirk before she promptly began dragging the man down the hall to Tony's study calling out over her shoulder, "The kid is out of his wet clothes and resting in bed. You might wanna take this chance to change out of your wet clothes too while I take care of making this lout sign a non disclosure agreement."

Barnes sputtered and called for Steve several times, apparently thinking that the boy scout would appear magically and save him from the fiery red head.

But the joke was on him. The second that Tony had found out about the Cap's super human hearing, he'd made his floor and several others completely sound proof. The Cap wouldn't hear him until Pepper finally decided to let him run away from her in terror.

Shaking his head at Pepper and Barne's antics, he then slowly made his way into the kid's room. Finding her already curled up in the middle of her king size bed in the blue sapphire blue satin PJ's that he'd bought for her on a whim for her last birthday three months ago.

Walking quietly over to the bed, he quietly shrugged off his wet jacket, shirt, and slipped his shoes off before taking a moment to grab some sweat pants that he kept in her room just in case something happened and she needed to be watched during the night time hours and quickly slipped them on before returning back to the bedside and slowly sitting down on the edge of the mattress.

Reaching out tentatively, Tony began combing his fingers through the kid's mid shoulder length dark curls causing her to twitch slightly and shift underneath the covers so that she could look at him for a moment from over her shoulder. Her wide almost inhumanly turquoise blue eyes were red rimmed from crying so much, and filled with such pain and despair that Tony found himself stretching out next to her on the bed and wrapped an arm around her slender frame, pulling her back against him as he said softly. "Try to get some sleep kid. I'll keep you company."