Tony was facing a fate worse than death, a S.I. board meeting. He glanced at Pepper and mouthed "I hate you."

She shot him a glare.

He smirked and continued to play around with new armor designs on his StarkPad. He'd been debating making a suit for Peter for a few years now, Steve was very much against the idea but Tony had a feeling that Peter would start going out with his spiderweb nonsense even if they forbade him. Rather safe than sorry.

"Tony!" Pepper snapped.

"What?"

"The meeting is over. The board left and you didn't even get up to shake hands."

"They'll live."

"Were you paying attention at all?"

"It was really boring Pep. Besides I made you CEO for a reason, why do I have to keep coming to these?"

"Its still your company Stark." Pepper rolled her eyes as she gathered her bag.

"In name. You're the brains."

"Said the confirmed genius."

"Not in business." Tony laughed, "That's all you."

"What's on your mind? You're more out of it than normal."

"Evie got in a fight at school, broke a kids jaw and got suspended, then she mouthed off to the principal and Steve." Tony sighed "Now we get to go be the disappointed and angry parents."

"Sounds fun." Pepper said sarcastically, "I'm glad surrogates get no parenting qualms."

"Quit bragging. I might send her to go live with Aunt Pepper if you don't watch it."

"Get out of here."Pepper laughed as the two headed to the elevators. "Go home and deal with your delinquent."

"What genes did you pass on, oh lovely surrogate? Maybe she's your delinquent." Tony groaned as he glared at his friend and headed to the elevator.

The doors opened and Tony stepped into his kitchen. It was quiet. He could hear the shower in his bathroom running, Steve must be back.

He walked over to the fridge and pulled out some lunch meat and condiments, he quickly whipped up some sandwiches and pulled some leftover salad out of the fridge. He placed the makeshift meal on the kitchen table and heard the shower stop.

"Hey baby." Steve soon walked into the kitchen placing a kiss on Tony's cheek. "Thanks for making lunch."

"Of course. How's our jailbird?"

"Grounded. Trying my last nerve."

"Oh fun." Tony rolled his eyes. "Want me to get her?"

"I'll make coffee if you do." Steve smiled as Tony headed down the hall.

"Knock knock." Tony said opening Evie's door.

"Did you know most people actually knock?" Evie said sitting up on her bed.

"You are grumpy. Let's lose that attitude ten minutes ago."

Evie fixed her Dad with a glare.

"Want some lunch?"

"Am I allowed out of my room?"

"Seriously ditch the attitude. I'm done with it and I know your Pops is done with it." Tony crossed his arms. "Come on I have sandwiches in the kitchen. You start the attitude up though and you can come right on back to your room... sans sandwich."

"What kind of sandwich?" Evie stood up and started down the hall.

"Kind of stuff that was in the fridge?" Tony shrugged following his child.

"Do you want some water Evie, Tones?" Steve grabbed glasses out of the cabinet and tossed some ice in.

"Sure"

"Thanks babe"

"You seem to have calmed down." Steve smiled handing Evie the glass of water. "I appreciate it."

"Yea I finished today's school stuff." Evie shrugged.

"That was smart" Tony said putting salad on her plate before picking the tomatoes out of his and handing them to his daughter who laughed at the action.

"So I think we need to talk to Dad about what happened at school this morning. I'd also like to clear up some details." Steve sighed as they finished eating.

"Do we have to?"

"Yes."

Evie walked out of the kitchen and collapsed onto the couch with a sigh as her parents soon loomed over her.

"Let's hear it." Tony said.

"This guy started beating up Ned and Peter so I told him to hit me instead and he was a jerk so i broke his jaw."

"Evie." Steve sighed.

"What? I summarized?"

"Why was this kid hitting Peter and Ned?" Tony asked.

"Because they're annoying?" Evie giggled only to be met with a pair of stern glares. "They keep talking about stuff like legos and star wars. They're essentially bully magnets."

"So the guy...?" Tony looked for a name.

"Thomas Vickson." Steve said.

"Dickson." Evie muttered.

"Evie." Steve said sternly.

"Its funny! He started hitting Ned then Peter so I said to quit and hit someone else, like who has started puberty or will at least hit back." Evie explained, "Jerk said he cant hit a girl unless he was in the bedroom so I broke his jaw. Dude was nasty."

"Seems fair" Tony chuckled.

"Tony."

"Right. Right! Fighting isn't the solution. You could have gotten a teacher or just removed Ned and Peter. You don't break kids jaws because they are bad people."

"Dad." Evie rolled her eyes. "Real convincing."

"Regardless." Steve cut in. "Even if it was for a good reason we have had to talk repeatedly about you fighting. That's what the problem here is, not that you stood up for your brother."

"Exactly" Tony chimed in. "You can't be getting into fights. You can't have this attitude with your teachers- and especially not with your Pops and me. That's got to go."

"You also cant threaten to call the school board." Steve sighed.

"What!" Tony laughed.

"Oh yes, your daughter threatened to call the school board repeatedly if this Vickson kid wasn't punished more than her."

"Dad does it."

"Not a valid excuse. Dad does plenty of things that you do not get to do. You don't do it. It is inappropriate and rude." Steve glanced at Tony. "You're grounded, until you go back to school and you and I apparently need to have another talk about you fighting."

"Papa!" Evie whined.

"No." Steve said sharply. "We're not doing that. I told you last time if we had to have this conversation again you would be unhappy. Here we are. Go to your room. I'll be there soon."

"But-"

"You do not want my help getting there. I promise." Steve said in low voice.

Evie huffed and stomped down the hall to her room slamming the door.

"We can talk about the attitude too." Steve called after her.

"And here I thought we would be done spanking her by now." Tony chuckled.

"Likewise" Steve sat down with a sigh. "At least for this."

"Do you need me to do it this time?" Tony asked sitting beside his husband.

"No, I made the promise. I've been the one dealing with the fighting the past few years anyway."

"Silly me thinking it was a phase."

"She said something in the car, made me think."

"Hm?"

"How can we say not to fight when that's basically what we do for a living." Steve ran his hand through his hair, "makes a half decent point."

"Well when she's an adult if she takes those super serum muscles she inherited and joins the Avengers or something then she can beat up bad guys. Until then we have to clean up the mess. Besides the 16 year old jerk did not deserve a broken jaw- no matter how much I want to hit him too."

"You're insane if you think any of our babies will be allowed to join the Avengers or SHIELD or anything."

"We have three supercharged babies. I don't think we can stop them if that's what they want."

"Shh. College and jobs."

"You are such a mother hen" Tony chuckled as he placed a kiss on Steve's pout.