Author: I think my ovaries exploded with the cuteness of this one. Yay for baby Nate!
"Nate, what are you doing?" Natasha cooed, picking her nephew up.
"Getting into all sorts of trouble no doubt." Laura laughed from the hall.
"Na." The baby giggled, grabbing at Natasha's hair.
Natasha smiled and shook her head, making Nate screech happily as he tried to grab her hair.
"He loves anything shiny. Or pretty. I found Clint passed out on the couch once with Nate on his chest and Nate had Clint's dog tags in hand. I think he tried to chew them." Laura smiled.
"You know you just gave me a story to use for blackmail against Clint." Tony said, as he walked in.
Natasha shook her head and said, "Laura and I are the only ones allowed to blackmail Clint."
"Nope. Come see Uncle Tony you little rugrat." Tony chuckled, gently taking Nate from Natasha.
Tony didn't like kids much but Clint's kids... he adored.
Nate grabbed Tony's aviators and started to chew on them. "Still getting little chompers?" Tony teased.
"He just got one tooth and I'm pretty sure he's getting a second." Laura told Tony.
At nine months old, Nathaniel was teething, crawling and trying to talk. So far he could only say, "Na. Ma. And Da."
Which of course were his way of asking for his aunt, mother or father.
Tony bounced Nate gently on his shoulder as Laura and Natasha disappeared into the kitchen.
"So kiddo, where's the rest of the family?" Tony asked.
Clint, Steve, Sam and the twins were out on a training mission in Spain and weren't due home for a while.
Lila and Cooper were in school.
Vision and Thor were out on the property somewhere, but Mjolnor was laying on the floor of the living room.
Banner was still at the mixed Avengers/SHIELD complex working on something with Selvig.
"Da?" Nate asked, abandoning the Aviators in favor of grabbing at Tony's shirt.
"Your dad's off working with the twins." Tony told him, sitting down on the floor with Nate in his lap.
Nate gurgled and crawled out of his lap to investigate Mjolnor.
"You want to be a little prince of Asgard like your sisters wanted to be princesses?" Tony chuckled, pulling out his phone to record this.
Nate sat down and patted Mjolnor a few time before pulling at it. When it didn't move, he crawled around it curiously.
"You are definitely your dad's kid." Tony whispered, shaking his head.
Nate flopped down on his tummy and decided to gum Mjolnor's hammer.
"As cute as this is kiddo... I don't think your mom or aunt will be too happy with me for letting you do that." Tony sighed, putting his phone away and pulling Nate back into his lap.
Nate fussed a little until Tony found the next best thing for him to chew on... A small stuffed Mjolnor that one of the family had bought the baby.
"It won't make you a prince sorry." Tony smiled.
"Please tell me you got all of that on video." Laura giggled as she and Natasha retreated back into the kitchen.
"Definitely. Next time Tony says anything about blackmailing Clint you can show him this." Natasha laughed.