"This is like the other daycare I was at, except somehow worse," Tony looked about he apparent Shield daycare, "Why do so many places have daycares?"
"Well we have you here for one," Coulson commented, "Spiderman and his friends had an accident that turned them to toddlers. Unfortunately the nanny bots are down for maintence so I will personally be babysitting you both."
"What joy," he rolled his eyes and went to sit on the tiny comfy chair, "This is not good for my knees."
Bucky crawled to his brother, "Who is this guy?"
"Super nanny Coulson," he shrugged, "He's Fury's top dog."
"That I am, and you are wet," he told Tony, taking his arm and leading him to a blanket.
"Uhm...Where is the bathroom?" The metal armed man crossed his legs some.
"That door right there," he pointed to the door as he unfastened tony's trousers.
"Thank you," he hurried to it.
After some much needed private time he exited the room to see his younger brother laying on a chair, watching a movie.
"What you watching?" he looked to the cartoon.
"TMNT, the good one, not the new one. The classic," he said around his bottle.
"Oh, ok," he sat to join him, his sippy cup already next to the man, "How long do you think we'll be here?"
"I don't know, I'm not on the mission," he shrugged, slightly annoyed by the questions.
"Well excuse me," the elder scoffed and sucked his cuppie. A full few minutes before he opened his mouth again, "Who is the blond? The shorter one. We saw him here last time."
"Thats because he lives here," Tony rolled his eyes, "Thats Clint, the useless archer. He's one of Coulson's little runts."
"He looks about the same size as you," Buck commented, going back to the movie.
"Thats not what I meant..."
Hours went by as Steve and the others were off on the mission. At least Tony was entertained by the books Rhodes had packed for him. Nothing like a good chemistry and advanced physics book to keep his skills fresh. Bucky on the other hand was getting rather worried about his daddy.
"Coulson?" he turned to the man.
"Hm?"
"When is Steve going to be back? He's been gone a while."
Phil paused his show and turned to the man, "I'm sure he'll be back as soon as they get what they need. I don't know what they were sent for though," he shrugged.
"He's lying," Tony called from the table.
Phil gave the genius a glance, "Why don't you read a book or play some games?"
The man sighed and looked about the room, there were several games that looked good for playing, so why not? It would get his mind off things.
Tony was doing some mental math when a stack of boxes was slammed down on top of his book, "What!?" he glared up at his brother, "What do you have against me doing stuff?"
"There are games here we didn't get to play at Logan and Victor's cabin," he smiled, "What should we play first? I think I want to play this one."
Tony looked at the board game he held up, "Don't wake daddy? Am I even surprised?"
He smiled and took it from the board and setting it up as Tony put his toys away.
"The rules don't say anything about that move being legal," Bucky looked through the instructions for one of the games they had been playing.
"You don't have to play every game by the rules, you can always change them as long as the other players agree," Tony rolled his eyes at the man.
"Well I don't like how you're playing, play it the normal way," he set a blue three down.
Phil gathered the boxes of games that had already been played and put them away before setting plates down next to the men, "Better refuel."
Tony prodded the mashed potatoes and peas, "Is this edible?" Buck sniffed his food and shoveled a spoon into his mouth before making a face and cringing as he swallowed, "Yeah, I'm not hungry," he shook his head and pushed it aside.
"Thats what was left in the cafeteria. The peas may be bland but the steak and potatoes are pretty good. I gave you both some butter as well," the sitter told him.
"Got any salt and pepper?" Buck pushed the peas away and went to the meat.
"I put a little on there already."
"Then they are far more than a little bland," he shook his head and continued eating. Tony just pushed his plate to him and Phil sighed, he far from missed babysitting Stark.
The games were great to keep them occupied for several hours. By this point it was about 3 am and Bucky had fallen asleep waiting for Steve, Tony on the other hand was reading a post apocolyptic novel. Being up this late was nothing to him.
Steve sighed, finally home, he crawled towards his bedroom and plopped into bed, virtually asleep before hitting the pillow. Rhodes had heard the door open and yawned wide before standing to go to the restroom.
After answering the call of nature he called to his coparent, "Hey Steve, how were the kids?"
The super solider's eyes popped open and he quickly ran out of the penthouse to the car.
Rhodes just gave the man a strange look when he brought the kids in about two hours later. He had to carry a very asleep Bucky in as Tony walked ahead.
"Mama," the genuis smiled and walked over snuggling to the man.
He rubbed his child's back, "That tired huh?" he asked the blond.
"I think I'm going to go to bed before I do something else dumb," he made his way down the hall.