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Tony had been prepared for a hurricane of yells and threats, swearing, and screaming, but he didn't expect May to break down crying on the other side of the phone. Maybe she didn't know? Then again it had been all over the news, and the instant Peter didn't come home she would've called and turned it on.
"May, I'm…" Tony's voice choked too, emotion still raw as he laid back on the table and ran a hand over his eyes and through his hair. "I'm so, so sorry." There wasn't much else he could put to words otherwise he would start crying as hard as she was.
Tony heard May take a deep breath to try and compose herself as she spoke. "Just… just tell me one thing. Tell me you didn't take him up there. Please, tell me he broke the rules and joined or something, tell me you didn't make him."
Tony was shell shocked. "No, no no no I never made him do it. I told him to stay back, and he never listened to me. I tried to tell him, I really did. The stubborn kid wouldn't listen." Now Tony couldn't help it, he was crying too. May started a fresh new wave of tears on the other side but gave a sigh of relief.
"I'm telling you May, I promise on my mother's grave I will bring Peter home. We are killing that sick son of gun Thanos and I am going to bring Peter home." Tony swore with a fierceness he hadn't even seen in himself. Nothing was going to stop him from getting Peter, not even the big ugly purple grape who thought he could take half of the world.
Tony couldn't tell, but he would swear that May smiled. "Promise me another thing, Tony."
"Yes, anything."
"When you bring back Peter, make sure you come too. You have no idea how much he talks about you. You are the closest thing to a father that boy has had in a long time, and you don't know how much that means to him. And me."
Tony pulled the phone and held it to the back of his head so May didn't hear him crying. He put his hand over his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, taking deep breaths and trying to calm back down. When he could breathe and talk normally, he heard May's concerned voice.
"Tony? Tony are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm good. And… I promise. I'll come back." For the first time in his life, he meant it. Before, there was Pepper and Happy, but now he had a kid looking up to him. Seeing him as a father. There was no way he was going to leave that behind.
"Good. Now get back Peter."
"Yes, ma'am. I'll call with updates. Bye."
"Goodbye, Tony." Tony hung up the phone and sighed, rubbing his temples. It had gone better than expected, he had half waited for May to chew him out for being a horrible person and dragging a kid into a fight that would eventually make him go missing. Tony didn't want to say dead, there was no way the kid was dead. It wasn't possible. And more importantly, Tony wouldn't allow it.
Bruce came back in the room, the finished phone call signally Tony's end of privacy, a bottle of water and a handful of pills in his hand. "Take these," he said and Tony followed obediently. "Pepper texted me a few minutes ago, she said FRIDAY made the plane go as fast as possible. She'll be here in about ten minutes."
Tony sighed and shot the doctor a rare genuine smile. "Thanks, Bruce. Now help me up, I need to get back up there." Tony started to swing his legs across the table when he suddenly got really tired and really sleepy. Stifling a yawn, he barely even noticed Bruce's gentle hands on his shoulders, pushing him back down on the table.
"Why am I… oh, you think you're sneaky, huh?" Tony wondered until he caught the sly grin on Bruce's face.
"What?" Bruce asked innocently.
"You're a horrible liar. Those were sleeping pills, right?"
"You need to sleep. And I know you weren't going do it on your own, so I thought you needed a little help."
"I take back every nice thing I've ever said to you." Tony threatened, but Bruce only laughed when the billionaire could barely get out the sentence between yawns. "Stop. I'm not joking. When I wake up, I'm gonna beat you up, doc. You just wait…" Tony was going to finish his threat, but the medicine kicked in fully and his eyes rolled back into his head and he was out.
Bruce carefully pulled the earpiece out and set it by the suit, which was almost done with charging. Grabbing and blanket and pillow, he stuck it under Tony's head and pulled the blanket over him, turning out the lights as he walked away. When Tony woke up, his suit would be charged, Pepper would be there, and he'd be ready to fight.