Tin Man's Epiphany|A Super Family FanFic Prologue Part 2.) The Papers

Steve's P.o.V.

He was doing it again.

Tony was pacing up and down. He seemed a lot more unfocused lately, like when he's working on a suit, or a new project. It was my turn to make sure he didn't hurt himself and it looked like he was going through the stages of a "Working Tony". Stage One was his silent brooding. Stage Two was agitated mumbling. And Stage three was frantic activity.

Right now we were heading into Stage 3 and I'm not sure if I should be scared or if I should grab my sheild and take cover.

He sat down and started to tap away at his computer. He printed several sheets of paper and started signing a few of them. He got one of his suit's to take them somewhere, and as it silently took off he slouched into his chair and let his head fall back letting out an exhausted sigh.

"Tony. What did you just do?"

He looked up at me with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"I want to do something to help me stop being a total dick. I was an idiot to you and made this team pick sides.I don't want to do that again."

I felt my face heating up.

But I had to be serious right now. He still hasn't answered my question.

"Tony I asked what you did. 'though I do appreciate the apology."

He let out another sigh.

"I might have just adopted Peter Parker."

I didn't know what to say. If he was saying what I think he was saying then he was being very ridiculous. He had filled the rest of us in on who Spiderman really was since the fight in Germany. And it seemed like Tony wasn't thinking this through.

"You can't be serious, right? You do realise the kid already has a responsible guardian who provides for him. Does she even know what you're doing right now? And what about Peter? Does he agree to this? Did you happen to run this by him?

' I mean seriously Tony. Think things through first! This isn't just another one of your experiments! This is another human being we're talking about. Someone's life is being affected by what you're doing. And you need to be responsible."

He stood up and turned to face me.

"Do you think that I haven't considered the consequences of my actions? I've been thinking and re-working idea after idea, trying to find a way to just ask and say it.

' Don't you think I've tried to talk to Peter several times? But how do you bring up the fact that I'm considering to be your father to this kid "oh hey Peter good job and by the way, I'm trying to take you away from your home to be my son". Are you fricking kidding me!?"

He looked exhausted and gave me a look of tiredness and exasperation.

"I'm just trying to do something good here, Steve. You're always perfect so you might not understand but I need to be better. And he is better Steve. He does something to people that just makes you want to be better. And I need to be able to become better Steve."

I couldn't say anything.

Tony adopting someone is one thing. But admitting that he needs help was on a whole other level. After the whole press gag that he pulled about the Vulture incident Pepper left him and he descended into a horrible, depressing stink.

Both literally and figuratively.

He didn't shower for days and grew a beard. We couldn't ask him to go on missions or anything in that state and whenever we saw him it would get us suddenly he threw himself into working on something. He cleaned up and shaved and seemed to be doing better.

And now this.

I thought it over for a second.

"Do what you need to do Tony. But remember this is someone else's life and future. And I'm here for you if you need a friend just try not to mess it up."

I had to get out of this lab before I said something stupid. But I did. I fricking friendzoned myself.I left before Tony could get to me. He needed the space more than I did right now to think over what he just did.


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There is cussing in this sometimes it'll be straight out but most times I'll substitute with other words. There will be a few steamy and fluffy chapters so I'll put a warning before I post it.

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