Chapter 3

With that Tony hung up and walked back into the hospital room.

"Well, Mrs. Keener,"

"It's Julie, please,"

"Well, I think I have found the perfect family for Harley. They are financially well off. They are very caring and the Man is into mechanics and his girlfriend is very caring and motherly."

"Well would you give me their name, I would like to contact them."

"Well, Julie, I would give the info to you but you have no need you are talking to one of them right now."

"You want to adopt my Harley?"

" Harley, is a great kid, and he deserves a great family, and I hope we can love him as much as you do."

"Well, then I couldn't think of anyone better to take care of my son. Let me

contact my lawyer and legalize this."

"And I will fly Pepper down here right now, she needs to be here for this

she is the one to go to for legal matter."

Tony made a few more calls and a few hours later, Pepper was there talking to Mrs. Keener, who was smiling with tears in her eyes.

" Thank you, thank you so much, I know Harley will be happy with you.

I couldn't wish for anything better for my son. "

Over the next month Tony started designing a room for Harley, he also redesigned all the gadgets he had made for Harley and cleared out one of the labs and decorated it with the avenger running around it. This was to be Harley's lab, Tony had come up with the idea but Pepper had made sure it was safe and easy to operate for a kid Harley's age. Designing Harley's room hadn't been hard, Tony had designed floors for all the Avengers (except Clint and Natasha who would share a floor.) The only avenger who had moved back in with him was Bruce but Tony regularly hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D. to check up on his coworkers (he would never admit to having friends and the others wouldn't say they were friends with him, except Bruce and Thor).

Tony had heard about the incident in Greenwich with Thor, he and Bruce dove into the Norse mythology books after that to learn more about the event called the convergence. They also studied more of the theories about other dimensions, which they knew to exist as the nine realms. Cap, Natasha and Clint were with S.H.I.E.L.D in D.C. doing spywork, which Tony found funny as Cap may have spy like moves but he was horrible at being covert and lying.

Around Mid March, Tony had gotten a call from the hospital, giving him the bad news. Around one A.M. that morning Julie Keener had passed away. Tony quickly called Pepper and told her the new before boarding his private jet to go to Tennessee for the funeral and to pick up Harley.

Tony, in a black suit and tie, got out of his jet and into a car and started driving to the hospital. He needed to be there for Harley, the boy had no one to turn to. As Tony pulled up to the hospital and rushed up to the room where Harley was waiting for him he heard the social worker talking to Harley.

"Your Mom had known she was going, so she found a family, that wanted you, you'll like them a lot."

" I don't want a new family, I want my mom."

" I'm sorry Harley, but your mom is gone, she's in heaven with your sister,

She's not in pain anymore. Now are you ready to meet you new family."

" Yeah, sure, whatever."

The door creaked open, Tony got up took off his glasses, and kneeled down in front of Harley.

"Hey Kiddo, I guess you were right, we are connected."

Harley looked at him wide eyed, and then suddenly ran to Tony and hugged him crying into his shoulders. Tony awkwardly wrapped his arms around the kid.

" Hey, I might be new to this whole parenting thing but you need to know that I'm here for you. Now we are going to go say goodbye to your mom, I know it's hard. I lost my parents too. But your mom wouldn't want you to be this sad. You ready?"

"I guess."

"Good, lets go."

Tony took Harley to the car and together they drived silently to the funeral. Tony actually had tears in his eyes. Harley couldn't stop sobbing. After saying goodbye to all the mourners, they drove back to Harley's home.

" Hey Kid, you need to listen to me now, ok?"

" Ok"

" Tomorrow Morning, you and I will take the plane back to New York, Stark

Tower is all ready for you. Me and my girlfriend Pepper are going to be your

new guardians. You are going to love it. So lets get you packed."

Tony walked with Harley to his room and got all his clothes packed, some old keepsakes, science experiments, family albums, slowly they went through the house and gathered everything Harley wanted to bring with him. Finally they reached the garage. As Harley started packing his tools, Tony reached out and stopped him.

" You won't be needing those"

" Why not?"

"You'll see when we get to your new home."

"Ugh, Ok."

"Now lets go say goodbye to your friends."

Tony drove Harley to all of his friend's houses, where he told each of them he was moving to New York with his new family. Tony and Harley loaded his stuff into the car and drove to the airport where Happy was waiting for them with the private jet.

"Hey kid, I'm Happy, Pepper and Tony's bodyguard, guess that means I'm yours too."

"Mm Harley, nice to meet you."

Happy helped Harley into the plane and Tony came and sat down with him. Harley made himself comfy leaning into Tony. Before bursting into tears and crying his self to sleep.