I think I'm going to keep you

Tony was in his lab working for a new weapon for the Army. He had been doing this all night and he could feel the crick in his neck. Maybe he should go and sleep. Or have coffee. Yes. Coffee.

He walked to the kitchen and was surprised to find Harry there. From what he could see Harry was cooking breakfast. He tensed as soon as Tony entered the room but then relaxed again. He turned to give Tony a small smile, "Hungry?"

"Coffee"

"You should eat something too."

"Stop acting like Pepper." Tony grumbled.

Harry laughed, "You do know that's a compliment right? Have you seen how efficient that woman is? She's a beast. And the way she threw out that blonde the other morning" He said in an awed voice and then whistled.

"Yeah Yeah Pepper's a goddess. But considering who hired her.." Tony trailed off.

Harry rolled his eyes and put a plate of pancakes in front of Tony.

"Blueberry?" Tony asked happily.

"Yes I noticed you liked them. You always order these when we go out to have breakfast." Harry blushed. Tony smirked but didn't say anything.

"Thanks kid. So what are your plans now?"

"Well Pepper offered to let me follow her around and learn how to deal with all these hot shot business people."

"You plan on getting a business degree?"

"No I've got this business my parents left me. My mum actually, dad was in law enforcement."

"What is this business?" Tony was genuinely interested. He wanted to get to know Harry. He knew the kid was hiding things and they had barely known each other for a week so he couldn't expect to know all his secrets. But come on, even Pepper knew him better than Tony. Though Pepper was also less abrasive than him so people opened up to her easily.

"My dad was from old money. In fact he was like a Lord or something. So his family owned two castles in the UK. One in Wales, where the family lived and one in Cornwall near the sea. The one in Wales remained the family home but my mum turned the one in Cornwall into a luxury hotel cum history tour thing. At least she wanted to before she died. I've got all the plans and everything. I figured I should learn how to handle people and organisation skills from Pepper."

Tony whistled. "A castle? Well I'm rich and even I don't own one. So this is what you plan on doing now?"

"I have an offer from the law enforcement agency my father worked at too. My godfather, Sirius worked there as well. That is what I've wanted to do since I was 14." Harry looked like he wasn't particularly sure about following his father's footsteps but Tony wasn't the best person to advise a kid on how to honour his dead father's memory.

"Well you're young. You'll figure it out"

"Pepper told me you were about to graduate from college and had built two robots by the time you were my age."

"Well we can't all be me, can we?" Tony wriggled his eyebrows and Harry let out a laugh.

"So I'll be working as Ms. Pott's intern tomorrow onwards. I hope she doesn't give me the duty of waking you up."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

"Exactly what it sounds like" Harry said dryly.

"You want to go to the beach again? I see you've been getting a nice tan."

Harry was looking better. The boy he had seen a week ago looked nothing like the boy in front of him. He looked healthier, not as pale and his eyes weren't sunken. Tony hoped he started looking better as the days went by.

"I know right?" Harry said and spinned, "I look good. Which beach do you want to go to? The one outside the house?"

"I know you don't like this beach Harry."

"Well it is kind of creepy! There is no one except me for miles and that freaks me out okay? But I know the reporters swarm to you as soon as we step out. At least they've stopped calling me your boy toy."

Tony let out a laugh and the Harry started laughing as well.

"That was crazy. I wanted to wait for some more time before Pepper let out a statement. They'll swarm to you too now."

Harry made a face, walked to the table next to the couch, picked up a pair of sunglasses Tony had bought for him the other day and put them on.

"These are great Tony" He said, "I bet you can't tell if I'm glaring at you or laughing at you right now."

"That's the point kiddo. Never face reporters without sunglasses. They save you from the lights too. Maybe we can make this the symbol of Stark men. Handsome men with sunglasses on"

Harry laughed and sat in front of Tony. "You haven't even started eating. I'll have to heat them up now and they'll be soggy."

"Don't worry about it" Tony said, ate a piece and then moaned. "Oh my god Harry. You cook well, get on with Pepper and enjoy wearing sunglasses. I'm keeping you now!"