Toni POV

I stared at the stick, horrified.

How was I going to tell Dad. How was Steve going to take it? What if Dad sent me back?

Mr. Sims would not have a pregnant girl in his orphanage. I might end up on the street.

This was too much.

I burst into tears.

How could this happen? I'm too young to be a Mom, I'm only seventeen, just a kid myself. I felt so unprepared for this.

There was a knock at my bedroom door. I took a minute to gather myself together before calling: "Come in"!

I threw the stick in the trash.

When I came out of the bathroom, I was more than relieved to see Steve standing in my room.

"Steve!" I said happily. He had been gone so long, and I missed him.

"Toni!" He said happily as he scoops me up into his arms and locks me into a kiss.

This was totally unexpected! We had been seeing each other for more than a month now and the most intimate thing we ever did was shake hands.

But I could not help but allow myself to be swept away by his charms.

"Oh I missed you." he said when we broke apart, our foreheads nuzzled together.

"I missed you more." I said.

"I don't think so." Steve chuckled before we kissed again.

I loved this guy.

"Were you crying?" Steve asked, noticing my puffy eyes.

I couldn't lie to him.

"I was. But I'm fine now."

"What was wrong?" He seemed concerned.

"Nothing." I did not want to tell him.

He pulled me over to the sitting area in my room and put me on his lap after he sat down. "Toni, I haven't known you for very long. But I know for a fact that it's not like you to be crying like this. Something is wrong."

I started crying again. Steve pulled me closer to him, my head on his chest. I told him what happened at the orphanage.

"Steve, I'm pregnant." I sobbed into his chest.

"What!" He was shocked.

"I took a test right before you came home. It was positive." I chocked through my sobs.

Steve hugged me even closer.

"How am I going to explain this to Dad?" I was sure he would be angry.

"Don't worry. I'll tell him."

"No Steve, Dad will not take it well if you tell him. I'd rather it be Bruce."

"Ok." Steve said. "Let's go tell him."

"OK" I slid off his lap and we made our way down the hall. We passed by my Dad's room, he and Pepper were having a "discussion". Something Dad about not giving Pepper a call to say that he was ok? I don't know.

I took a minute to wipe away my tears before we knocked on the door to Bruce's room, he opened the door right away. He had on a pair of jeans and a shirt, that was unbuttoned. I never realised before how muscular he was.

"Hey guys" he started to button his shirt. "What's up?"

"Oh, nothing. Just came to say hi." I said with forced enthusiasm. "You've been gone so long, I missed you."

"Oh that's really sweet of you."

"Yeah, I missed watching you work in the lab." I said

Bruce sensed that something was wrong. He maybe saw that I had been crying.

"You OK, you look a little upset?" He asked me.

I took a deep breath. "I took a pregnancy test about an hour ago" I began.

"And? The results were?" Bruce asked.

"It was positive."

Bruce seemed surprised/slightly upset. "Oh Toni." He hugged me. "I'm so sorry to hear that. I was really hoping that you weren't."

"How far along do you think I am?" I really wanted to know.

"Let me check."

He told me to lay down on the bed.

When I did, he pressed firmly, but gently on my stomach.

"Well, I would say you're at about, maybe, 12-15 weeks."

"That far already." I sighed as I sat up.

"It's a good thing you haven't started showing yet."

I thought about that. Dad would have panicked if he saw my stomach growing and no one knew why.

"How am I going to tell Dad?" I asked.

"Don't worry about that. We'll tell him." Bruce said

"When?" I asked

"Tonight." Steve said, putting his arm around me.

Tony POV

Bruce gathered everyone together later that night.

He said, something came up. Something we all needed to talk about.

Toni was asleep on the couch. I was about to go and wake her but Bruce told me to leave her.

"What could be so important?" Natasha asked. "It's very rare that we all have to be gathered together. Unless it's something to do with S.H.I.E.L.D."

"This has nothing to do with S.H.I.E.L.D. It's about Toni." Bruce said.

Now he had my attention. Was something wrong with my daughter? I looked over at her sleeping on the couch. She looked fine me.

"I bet you've all noticed her episodes of vomiting and nausea. I was running some tests, but nothing was adding up."

Now I was really concerned. I'm guessing from the late nights he spent in the lab, it had to be serious.

"But earlier today." Bruce continued, "She helped me find the correct diagnosis."

Everyone seemed to lean in a bit, waiting for the answer.

He looked directly at me.

"Stark, your daughters pregnant."

Toni POV

I was sound asleep when a strange noise jerked me out of my subconsciousness. There was no talking, laughter, fooling around or poking fun, no one rushing out the door suddenly. No sound of complaints about Clint climbing through the air ducts, or Pepper and Dad having an argument. Or Steve trying to keep the peace. It was a noise I was not used to, at least not since I've been here: Silence.

I opened my eyes and looked around, the room was dark. I figured everyone had gone to bed. I decided too myself. I slipped off the couch and made my way to the stairs.

Something made me look over into the dining room as I passed by.

That's when I saw that no one had gone to bed, they were all at the dining room table.

All of them were staring at Bruce.

A mixture of emotions on their faces.

Steve had the same expression as when I told him I was pregnant, shocked/saddened.

Pepper had her hand over her mouth, her eyes glittering with tears.

Dad was sitting next to her, he had his face buried in his hands.

Clint and Natasha shared one common emotion: Pure fury.

Bruce must have told them.

"Which one's the Father?" Clint asked through gritted teeth.

"We don't know." Bruce said. "We'll have to wait until the baby is here then we can run DNA tests"

"But how will we know which one to compare it with?" Natasha asked, she sounded like she was ready to kill.

"That's another problem." Bruce sighed.

"Does she remember what any of these boys looked like?" Clint asked

"No, she said they all had on black hoodies, so she couldn't quite see their faces." Bruce said.

"This is just terrible." I heard Pepper say. She sounded like she was crying.

The room was silent for a minute.

"Well, she can always-" Natasha began.

"Abortion is not an option here!" Bruce said, the calmness escaping from his voice.

"I was gonna say put the baby up for adoption." Natasha said

"That's gonna have to be up to her. By I highly doubt it. She was more upset about what you guys would say than anything." Steve said.

"Stark, you've been very quiet. What do you think about all of this?" Bruce asked my Dad.

"Well" He said after a while. "She's pregnant, and.." he paused. "I'm gonna have to work with that. I know it's hard to accept but I brought her here to be part of this family. And this is not going to get in the way. Look at it this way, she's gonna be a Mom, you all are gonna be aunts and uncles, and Steve might be a Dad." I could tell he was trying to keep the despair out of his voice.

I was relived to hear that. I was all freaked out for nothing. At least I didn't have to do this alone.

00

"Mr. Stark requires your presence in his bedroom Miss Toni." J.A.R.V.I.S said to me later that night. I couldn't sleep so I was looking at a magazine. Soft music was playing through the speakers.

I slipped off the bed and went to Dad and Pepper's room. The door was open. Dad gestures for me to come to him. He pulls me into a hug when I reached him.

"I'm so sorry. I should have gotten you when we first met." He whispered into my hair.

"You did." I said

"No." He said "That was the only time you remember. I saw you when you were just a toddler. Fury asked me if I would take you in then, but I... refused. But now I'm starting to regret that. If I would have brought you home then, this would have never happened."

"It's not your fault." I whispered to him. "Don't be so hard on yourself.

Tony POV

Pepper and I sat on the bed. Toni had gone to her room for the night.

Bruce said she was at like twelve weeks now, maybe more. That meant she was pregnant when I brought her here.

"Why couldn't it have been Steve who was the father?" I asked in despair.

"Because he knows she too young and that it would have not been fair to her." Pepper whispered.

"I know. And I respect Steve for that, but," I sighed, "It would have been easier to accept. A lot easier to live with."

"I know. " Pepper started sobbing again. I put my arms around her and held her close.