Playboys to Dad's

Twenty-One: Baby Carriage

New York

Tony and Steve walked inside the building trying to find where the heat source was coming from, this was where Steve heard it.

"It's crying." Steve said moving faster toward the noise.

"Wait!" Tony said as he noticed that some of supports were weak and could fall at any moment. One of the supports came down and Tony cursed at seeing that Steve had gone over.

"Tony!" Steve screamed.

"Tell me you didn't become a Captain Sandwich because I will not forgive you." Tony told him back, he broke some of the wood and went up the stairs to see Steve standing there with the shield over him and in his other arm he was holding a small.

"Is that a kid?" Tony asked.

"Yes, let's go." Steve said holding the child close to him.

Outside the other Avengers were waiting for them. Bruce had already Hulked down and was waiting for them.

"What is that?" Clint asked.

"Are you guys blind, it's a child." Natasha told them.

"Bruce, can you check him?" Steve asked.

"I'm not a pediatrician doctor." Bruce informed the but he understood they were trusting him. "It's going to be a fast check-up."

"We are contacting SHIELD, to let them know we found a survivor." Natasha told them. Steve couldn't separate from the child as he was not letting go, it ended with Steve holding the little boy in his lap as Bruce was checking him over. Tony was looking at his husband and felt something weird.

"So, is he alright," Tony asked.

"It seems that he was saved from much damage, but he did get some of the smoke in his lungs so, I would suggest taking him to the hospital to help with that," Bruce told him.

"We're going to the Doctor," Steve told him. "Let's bring him to the infirmary in Avengers Tower," Steve said.

"Alright, but you will have to explain to Pepper," Tony said with a smile. "Listen to that little boy, you will be coming with us,"

"Don't frighten him," Steve said.

"I don't frighten children," Tony told him.

"You aren't also the Saint of children," Clint told him.

"I'm hurt," Tony said following his husband with the kid in Steve's arms.

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Haley's Circus

Bruce was looking at family as they were moving around the air and he was shocked and awed. He who had been around the world and planets could see this it calmed him a bit.

"Look at them fly!" Haley said and Bruce was looking around, when he noticed something. He saw someone that he did not like, it was a mobster that was up in the scene and he had been looking into it. Tony Zucco, he had been dealing with drugs and as something came to mind asking for protection money. Something didn't feel right and he hoped that something tragic wouldn't happen tonight. He heard gasp and looked up to see that the female seemed to have gotten the loosed and had almost fallen.

Bruce was looking at their face, it seemed like this was not a mistake they looked to. The woman turned to the platform and Bruce noticed the little boy sitting there and looking at his parents. This also caused him to look at the wires they didn't seemed to be solid. He looked back to Tony Zucco and he saw that the man was looking at the wires as well and he had a sadistic smile on his face.

He could hear the gasps and he looked back up, he could see the wires and it seemed like it was a small motion as the wires broke and the two of them fell down, but Bruce wasn't hearing that all he heard was a loud,

"NO!"

Everyone was looking up, but he was just looking at the boy and he was frozen on the spot. People seemed to be moving around and Bruce could only look at the child. The audience was moving around and pushing around him trying to get out and it wasn't until Bruce noticed the flashing lights of the police and the ambulance coming through.

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It took minutes but the police were interrogating everyone, even Haley who was telling them, that he had no idea how this could have happened. Bruce was to wait, and he noticed that no one had noticed the boy yet. He looked around and he looked at the ladder and he began to climb.

"Mr. Wayne, you can't do that!" Gordon screamed, but Bruce wasn't really listening he was just moving up the ladder. He needed to reach the little boy.

"Mr. Wayne!" he kept hearing. Bruce was all the way to the top and saw the little ball in the platform.

"Hello?" he said, the little boy spooked and little at him with wide eyes.

"My name is Bruce, I came to bring you down," Bruce said softly.

"Mum…Papa," he told Bruce.

"Come, I have to bring you down," Bruce told him. "I will help you, trust me,"

The little boy looked at him and the pain in those little eyes were some that he recognized on his own. The little boy moved and wrapped himself around him. He finally noticed that the people below had stopped screaming. As he came down Gordon looked at him.

"How did you…?"

"I saw him during the performance, I didn't know why no one knew he was up there," Bruce told him covering the boy with his coat.

"We are going to have to take him," Gordon said moving toward the boy, but he seemed to be wrapping even closer.

"I…I don't think that would be a good idea," Bruce told him.

"Mr. Wayne, it's great that you brought him down but…"

"He just lost his parents," Bruce told him and the voice he used made Gordon stop.

"I understand, but we can help him," Gordon said.

"What about this I don't believe that he has any family left, let me take him home until any danger to him passes," Bruce told him. Jim Gordon could tell that he wouldn't win this argument.

"I will talk to the correct people, but you can take him, I don't know what can be done Mr. Wayne-Kent,"

"I hope that someone can help," Bruce said but at the same time knew that someone would help.

"He didn't deserve to lose his family that way," Jim Gordon said.

"Yes, hopefully something can be done," Bruce said knowing that something would be done. It wouldn't end like his parent's murder that he was sure of.

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