No Beta

Ner words in this chapter: 3,001

"Talking"

"Talking in another language than English"

'Thinking'

{Talking on the phone/over the fireplace/Two-way-mirror}

{Text message}

–Parseltongue–

Thinking in 3rd person POV/Dream/Memory/Flashback/Others

Letter/Journal/Book/Newspaper

Time change/Date of time

Change of POV

Chapter XXV

–Best Mother–

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

HJS's POV

Harry looked up as Jarvis warned that Tony had just arrived through the parking lot. The quartet stood and run towards the stairs to go downstairs. Pepper was seating before Harry on the couch with her tablet in hand where she was working on.

"Try not to kill him." She requested, making Harry snort.

"Kill? I won't kill him. I'll just make him regret not telling me sooner." Harry argued as he heard Lilu's screech happily. "After I'll welcome Bruce that is."

"Should I feel pity for Tony?" Pepper asked.

"I married with a man that is used to scream to the world everything without thinking twice, if I accepted that: Tony will also have to accept that marriage is more than a surname sharing."

Pepper hummed amused.

"You have no idea how odd it is for my friend that wouldn't support to even hear about Tony Stark to be married with my boss."

"Are you saying that as if it was a bad thing?" Harry asked with an amused raised eyebrow.

"You'll my boss' lover now. I can't 'badmouth' about my boss won't you go tell him." Pepper said conspiratorially.

"Should I worry that Evans will go to you for our conjugal issues?" A voice asked as Tony appeared on the top of the stairs with Albus on his arms.

Harry snorted.

"But of course that I'm going to Pepper. Who else would put you in your place?" Harry argued, making the quartet snicker. Harry looked behind Tony to see Lilu grabbing Bruce's hand and James carrying a skinny big dog in his arms. "Hi, Bruce. You look awful." The man blushed at that awkwardly and Harry stood, approached and hugged him. "That's what you get when you're on the run. I know, I've been there." Harry continued, reprimanding the man and pulling him to the kitchen. "I've cooked a soup, I'm sure that anything heavier would do more wrong than good to you. How are your happy drinks storage?"

"They're good."

Harry smiled to the man, guiding him to the kitchen, the quartet and Tony following.

"How did Tony find you?"

"I called actually." Bruce at this turned to Tony. "You probably located the call."

Tony nodded.

"Had I known I would've located you earlier but yes."

Harry hummed, forcing Bruce to sit and served him a bowl of soup.

"Why did you call? Lilu couldn't tell me." He asked as he sat, Tony having to serve himself a bowl of soup as Harry was ignoring him what only made the quartet, Pepper and Hawkeye grin amused.

Harry saw at the corner of his eyes as Teddy helped James prepare the dog a bowl with water and another with meet. He would have to buy dog food tomorrow.

"I've heard my colleagues comment as 'Homem de Ferro' had finally fastened the knot with his male lover Heaven something. It wasn't hard to look for a pink magazine as their called there, that is the gossip mag for the Portuguese people, and there it was Stark holding your hand in the air in a stage of sorts with a tittle of Stark finally married."

Tony perked up at that.

"Really? Were we at the bottom of the front page or inside to the middle or…?"

"You were front page." Bruce answered easily to Tony before turning again to Harry. "I thought that I should call you after that to congratulate you. Even if you married with a man this time, you deserve to be happy."

Harry smiled.

"Thanks, Bruce." He said before turning to Pepper, trying to hide his embarrassment. "This is Pepper Potts, but you must already know her."

"Miss Potts." Bruce stated nodding his head at the woman.

Pepper smiled back.

"Mr Banner, it's good to see you again."

"And the bow and arrow man is the kids' bodyguard." Harry introduced. "If someone asks you two were never introduced and he never met or heard of you."

Bruce frowned confused.

"Why?"

"Because he works for SHIELD."

Bruce hummed. Harry stood, after he made sure that Tony had finished his soup, grabbed a vial from the fridge and put it before the man. Being mad with the man didn't mean that he wanted the man to forget his daily potions that helped keep his disease at bay.

"Thanks, Pretty eyes." Harry pretended he didn't hear him, returning again towards Bruce. He didn't need to look at Tony to know the man was engineering ways inside his mind for Harry to talk with him again. "Hey chaps… who's the best Father there is?"

Harry snickered when the four pointed at Harry at once.

"It's Dad!"

"And I'm what?" Tony asked with a pout.

"The best Mummy." Lilu said, running to the man and hugging him tight. "You make Daddy happy and you make us happy." The girl explained in her simple mind view way.

Harry smiled looking at Tony as the man melted under her reasoning's of why he was the best.

"I can't wait for next year's Mother's Day…" Pepper stated under her breath from her place by Harry's side, making Harry snort.

"So I take it Starks bottoms then?" Bruce asked, making Harry choke going deep red as the quartet looked at Bruce confused.

Pepper chuckled.

"I'm sure that they have yet to decide." Bruce frowned confused at her answer. "Evans believes in just after marriage, what I have to say is one of the reasons that made Tony start believing in marriage."

The quartet were all frowning confused, Lilu running to Bruce and jumping to his lap.

"What does bottoming mean?" She asked innocently but demandingly.

Harry traded an embarrassed look with Tony only to see James and Teddy turn to Albus for answers. It took Harry a full minute to realize what the blank eyes meant. By the time Harry realized the boy had returned and was blushing deep red.

–Dad?– The boy asked, approaching and Harry nodded. –Soundproof Spells on your room will do great to young innocent minds…– the boy mumbled into Harry's ear so only Harry would hear, making Harry's head go even redder.

"What is it?" Tony asked. "Can you guys speak English?"

"You're one to talk." Teddy argued, making his siblings laugh and Tony pout.

–UNF–

Harry sat on the bed that he and Tony shared. He had to admit that he had thought about this multiple times. But thinking and actually doing it were two different things. He was down scared and at the same time he wanted this… hell he felt like a bloody virgin, maybe Tony was right and he had been waiting for too long.

"What are you thinking?" Harry looked up at Tony that was entering the room with a raised eyebrow. "Or you're still not talking to me?" The man added cockily.

Harry tried to keep a straight face, but it was really hard when you were facing someone like Tony Stark and stood, going to the wardrobe to pick his pyjamas. Arms embraced him from behind and traitorous hands started to undress Harry's shirt as a mouth and teeth started to play with his neck's skin.

"Tony…" Harry tried to say but Tony stopped him.

"Hush and trust me." The mouth hissed against Harry's ear making shivers go down Harry's back. Harry felt as Tony pushed his shirt from his shoulders and then from his arms leaving his chest and back bare. Tony raised his head and helped Harry turn around pushing him against the wardrobe doors. "Could you try to act any less sexy? I'm trying to control myself in here."

Harry snorted what only provoked the two to laugh.

"Do you have a problem with me, Mr Stark?" Harry argued playfully, trying and failing to keep the damn smile out of his face.

"I do, Mr Stark." Tony argued amused.

"Oh really?" Harry asked feeling Tony's hands moving down his chest and moved his own hands to Tony's chest starting to undress Tony's shirt.

"You're too sexy for your own good."

"And why is that a bad thing?" Harry asked having to contain a moan as Tony's hands brushed his member over his trousers as the man was undoing his zipper.

"Gosh, Harry. This is our first time and hopefully not the last… is it too odd to want this to be special?"

Harry hummed and approached the man's head putting his face next to Tony's, so he could mumble next to his ear.

"Are you certain you aren't just tired, old man? I mean, it must have been a tiring flight and all…"

Tony groaned and pulled Harry close, pushing his head back and kissed Harry on the lips forcefully.

"Tired for you?" He asked when the need for air was too much. "Never."

Harry smiled and kissed Tony again, whatever fear he had been feeling a while ago long gone. This was Tony he was talking about; he could be more experienced in sex than Harry but he was new to this lover thing and that was Harry's domain. And it evened the things between the two. Harry knew that he was already on the edge and from the bump in Tony's trousers he wasn't the only one… and to think that the preliminaries had barely started.

"I take it you're not angry anymore." Tony stated when he pulled back again, making both him and Harry laugh.

"Trust me, if we ever have makeup sex it won't be on our first time." Harry argued.

"Thinking of makeup sex already? We only got married yesterday."

"And you already flew to Brazil and returned on the first day without warning me." Harry retorted making Tony grin, obviously not ashamed. "So we are doom to have our arguments and you know that."

"I love you."

Harry blushed at the way Tony said it and nodded before pushing Tony so he would walk back ways to the bed.

"I know." He said before pushing the man to the bed, taking his trousers out before climbing after him. "You're overdressed." He complained, making Tony grin and start to take his clothes off immediately.

Harry looked to the man's chest to his arc as Tony undressed. Tony's life depended on that single object. Harry would have to learn a spell to protect it so no one could take it out of Tony again.

"What are you thinking?"

"That if James hadn't gotten to your arc fast enough I could have lost you long ago."

Tony hummed and pulled Harry to his chest.

"You aren't getting rid of me that easily, principally now that you're damn Uncle is giving me those damn potions."

Harry snorted against the arc and let his hand touch it lightly before pushing back and grabbing Tony's hand where his Horcrux now was in his ring finger.

"Feeling sentimental?" Tony asked and Harry grinned up to Tony.

"Can't I?"

Tony rolled his eyes and pulled Harry to himself, forcing Harry to sit on his lap with a leg on each side of Tony's waist and kissed him.

"You can do whatever you wish to do, Harry. Always."

Harry raised an amused eyebrow back, pulling back just enough to look at his husband's eyes.

"Anything?"

"Anything."

"Promise?"

"Of course, Harry."

Harry grinned mischievous.

"You're going to regret that." He promised back before kissing Tony and stopping any possible answer.

–UNF–

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

VP's POV

Pepper arrived with Rolf to Tony's house. The children were on the living room with Banner playing videogames and Pepper was certain that it was the Iron Man game that Tony had created for Albus. Lilu was standing behind Banner hugging him around his shoulders with her head on his shoulder looking at the game, while Albus and James were on either side of the man arguing with the TV as they were trying to kill the men of the 10 Rings when Tony escaped. Teddy was to the side reading one of the books of the potions collection that Tony had given him. If what Pepper could read from the distance was right then the boy was on the potions started with a C.

"Hello, children."

"Hi, Pepper." The children stated in unison, not taking their eyes from what they were doing.

"Dad and Mum are still upstairs." Teddy added.

Pepper nodded, having suspected that and climbed the stairs, going to Tony's room. Pepper entered without making a sound and looked at the two male sleeping on the bed, the blanket barely covering their legs as Evan's was laying half on his side half on Tony's chest, a hand over Tony's arc possessively, while Tony was laying on his back with an arm around Evans pulling him close and the other hand on his own belly. Pepper approached and grabbed the blanket pulling it over them, before starting to grab the clothes that they had thrown away carelessly. Taking a last peek at the two sleeping men, she left with the clothes, closing the door carefully and descended the stairs going to leave the clothes in the laundry to later being wash clean. When Pepper returned to the 'living room' where the children were, she saw that Rolf had joined Teddy on the couch and was explaining him the potion that the boy was reading about.

"You've all already ate breakfast?"

"Yes, Evan's rules, no TV before dressing and eating." Banner stated, looking up from the television. "Good Morning."

"Good Morning. Evans has a new rule, no more than two hours of television or games in the morning and no more than two hours in the afternoons."

Banner looked to a clock and then nodded.

"Thank you, they «forgot» to mention to me that new rule." He stated and the four children blushed.

"Where's the bodyguard?" Pepper asked looking around.

"Outside, protecting the house from possible outsiders… and enjoying a time to himself."

Pepper snorted and pointed to Rolf.

"That's Rolf Scamander. Rolf, this is Bruce Banner."

"You were the Cousin that Stark mentioned over the phone yesterday, aren't you?" Rolf asked and Banner nodded. Rolf turned towards Teddy again. "And I suppose the Calming Draughts are for Cousin's other-self."

"Yes, Sir."

"Then, Tedmond, I should be the one doing them, at least until you'll be better experienced in potions brewing. This is not a potion that can have one mistake." Teddy nodded and gave Rolf the book. "I spoke with the Magical Creatures Department. Warned them about your case and they will want to meet you… and your other-side."

"Then they will have to get me a cage to keep me trapped so I won't run and create havoc." Banner argued and Lilu hugged him close at once. "Easy, Girl, it's okay." The man added, trying to make her moderate the tight hug around his neck.

"They have Werewolves' cages, let's hope it is strong enough."

"Can I come?" Lilu pleaded.

"Obviously not." Pepper argued. From what she had seen of Banner's other-side that was the last thing Evans would want his children to be close to.

"But I want to see my big green friend Hulk again." The girl pouted, making Pepper and Rolf gape at her.

Banner gave James the command and pulled Lilu from behind and around him to his lap, hugging her.

"Hey, I know that you like playing hide and seek with the Other Guy, but we won't be playing when that happens. We will be just checking on him, it won't give you time to play with him. It will just mess with the doctors' job, do you understand?"

"Hide and seek?" Pepper couldn't help but ask and Lilu nodded ecstatic.

"Yes, Hulk is great at it."

Pepper looked at the other kids unsure of how to react.

"Hulk likes Lilu and Lilu likes Hulk woo." Teddy said imitating a voice that obviously had to be the Hulk's in the first part and Lilu's voice in the last part.

Lilu blushed.

"I don't talk like that." She pouted.

"You forgot the anymore." James taunted, making her groan and the others chuckle.

Banner pulled her to his chest to calm her down before a crying fit would start. Big green beast or not, the children loved him, that much Pepper could tell.

"I was thinking… now that Evans is considered the richest Wizard and all that - not that he wasn't before -, isn't he contemplating having a House-elf?" Rolf asked.

"A what?" Pepper asked and wondered why an elf like Legolas from Lord of the Rings would be called a House-elf.

"You know… those creatures with pointy ears and…." Rolf started but Teddy stopped him, turning towards Pepper obviously understanding that Rolf was explaining the wrong way.

"House-elf is a Magical Creature that are dressed in old laundry, like a blanket, that are nothing like the Elves of Lords of the Rings and more like Gollum, but the good version of Gollum: Smeagol. They are slaves… and That's the reason my Godfather refuses to have one." He argued turning to Rolf.

"He can pay the House-elf if he wants to, besides they take care of houses and can transport wherever they want, it would be easier for you guys to transport back and forth instead of me having to come and go."

"I'll talk with Evans about it later." Pepper said and Rolf nodded.

(TBC)

Next: Anton Vanko, Ivan Vanko and Howard Stark…

~Isys