Day 8 Shopping

"Steve, oh my goodness, this would be great. I think we should get this." Tony said. His movements were quick and sporadic and Steve had a hard time following him. The shopping cart was already full.

"Tony, I don't think Pepper needs a Power Wheel." Steve said reading the sign.

"Not Pepper! Sharon."

"I don't think an unborn baby needs a Power Wheel either." Steve said. They had already loaded the cart up with diapers.

"Cloth, because no niece of mine is going to have nasty chemicals touching their butt," Tony had said indignantly when Steve had grabbed the pack of disposables. They hadn't had paper diapers back in Steve's day. He thought they were ingenious, Tony disagreed.

They had bought the bedding and the crib and mattress, along with bottles and pacifiers. The amount of clothing Sharon Hogan already had was astounding.

"Oh hey, what's this?" Tony said wandering away from the Power Wheel display.

Steve pushed the cart and followed Tony to the display of strange objects he couldn't begin to guess.

Tony picked up a cone shaped item with a bottle attached to it. It had buttons on the top. Tony, being the adorable five year old that he so often was, couldn't help but push it.

"What the hell is this thing?" Tony asked again staring at the thing that was making violent sucking sounds.

Steve looked at the sign and pointed. "It says its a breast pump," They really should have left the store after that but Steve couldn't get that lucky.

"What do you suppose it does?" Tony asked, pressing the cone to Steve's peck.

"Ow!" Steve said stepping away from the pump. "Get that thing away from me." Steve rubbed his peck. That had been painful. He couldn't imagine someone willingly using it.

"Oh, don't be such a pussy." Tony told him, placing the pump against his chest.

Steve watched in amusement as Tony's face contorted into a look of pain.

"Sonofabitch!" Tony yelped. He dropped the pump and moved away from the display as fast as he could. "Fuck that. How could a woman use one of those things?" Tony muttered moving to the cash register.

"Finally," Steve muttered as they started unloading the cart.

They had spent almost the whole day at Babies R Us, he had had no idea there was so many different things a baby would need. When he was growing up, clothing and diapers were the only true essentials. Now you needed car seats and monitors and cribs. The amount of clothing styles for a baby was, in his opinion, crazy. Babies hardly needed shoes. He also couldn't get over the amount of different kinds of bottles and pacifiers.

Steve had always wanted kids, had even talked about it with Julie... Morrigan, he was still getting used to referring to his ex-wife as Morrigan. He wasn't even sure if he could consider her an ex-wife. Could you consider a marriage to someone that faked their life and wasn't even from earth real? He'd have to ask. They had talked about having kids, but Steve had put it off because his job was too stressful. He supposed he'd just have to get used to not having kids now that he had Tony were an thing. He doubted Tony would want kids. Maybe Clint and Natasha would have one one day and he would be able to be Uncle Steve.

Tony was overjoyed at the idea of being Uncle Tony, Steve had had to talk him out of buying the entire store a few times. Tony couldn't wait to give Sharon everything. Steve was pretty sure Tony would figure out how to move the heaven and the stars for the little girl that hadn't even come into the world yet.

Tony would be a great dad, Steve was sure of it. He wished things were different, that they could have kinds. Their life was just too much and he was pretty sure Tony was convinced that he would turn out like his dad.

Steve didn't know the Howard Stark that Tony knew. It hurt him to know that Tony had never gotten to know the man that Steve had known. How one man could change so completely was amazing, but Steve understood what alcohol did to a person. He had watched it consume his father. Steve was sure that would never happen to Tony though, for one, Tony had been sober for almost a year.

"Hey, earth to Steve. Lets go."

Steve hadn't even realized that they had finished checking out. He had been so lost in the idea of him and Tony having kids. The idea made him sad. He really could see himself raising a family with Tony. They had only been together a few months, but he could still see it. Steve knew he loved Tony. He was pretty sure Tony loved him, even if they had yet to say it to each other.

Steve was quiet on the drive home, somehow the reality of everything had hit him. He would never have kids. He should have figured that out already, being the man out of time, a war hero and even everything he had given up to become Captain America. Still the idea of one day hanging up the stars and stripes and having a family had stuck with him.

He could have a family. Tony and he could be a family, but offspring, that wasn't in the cards for him and he wasn't sure how to reconcile that. He wasn't sure he was ready to, just yet. He really needed to stop thinking so far into the future. If his 70 year deep freeze had taught him anything, it was that plans change. Things don't always happen the way they were planned.

"Hey," Tony said, grabbing Steve's hand and shocking him out of his melancholy thoughts. "What's wrong?"

Steve shook his head. He wasn't ready to talk to Tony about what was going through his head. "I think you're going to be an amazing uncle." Steve said, a true smile on his lips.

Tony beamed at him. "I can't wait to meet her Steve. Its going to be so great. I'm going to build her her own Iron Man, well Iron Baby suit just to keep her safe."

Steve laughed, Pepper was going to murder Tony before Sharon's first birthday, he was sure of it. "You know the one thing we didn't get for the nursery?"

"What's that?" Tony asked wrinkling his brow.

"A night light." Steve was still holding the registry paper they had printed out and not actually paid any attention to. The first thing on the paper was a nightlight. Steve thought it was a great idea.

"I'll just make one." Tony said. "In fact!" Tony looked at Steve, a giant grin on his face. "I'll make a replica arc reactor. That way Sharon will always have her Uncle Tony's heart."

"When did you turn into such a sap?" Steve asked laughing when Tony gasped in horror. "That's typically my job, Stark." Steve said.

"You're a bad influence on me Rogers, thats all there is too it." They pulled into the garage and exited the vehicle.

"Yes, I can see that," Steve pulled Tony to him, "maybe we should just end this now, before I ruin your bad boy rep with my wholesome sappy values."

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea," Tony said standing on his tiptoes to press a kiss to Steve's lips.

Steve smirked into the kiss. "Then its settled. You and I are over." Steve deepened the kiss, letting his tongue slide over Tony's full bottom lip until Tony opened his mouth.

Tony pulled back slightly, "I think, we should sleep on it, before we make a final decision." Tony hooked his finger into Steve's belt loop and pulled him toward the elevator.