could I possibly request a fic where tony has a cold and peter is trying to play caretaker and he’s just god awful at it and tony is amused and just some Irondad fluff with a miserable tony ♥️
!!! You can 100% request that, anon! Irondad is pretty much ALL I want after Endgame, and this prompt is the cutest ever <3 This fic got away from me a little, so have 1.8k of Peter finding Tony asleep and sick in his lab, and attempting to help him out while Steve is away on a mission.
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Peter wasn’t bored at school, not really, anyway. Not like he had been at his previous school, before MSST. May liked to joke that he was too smart for his own good, but really that just meant he could keep up with the kids at school, rather than be constantly ridiculed for his stupid nerd brain. But he was bored in the sense that in comparison with, say, saving the neighborhood or spending the day in Mr. Stark’s lab, school was like taking a seven hour nap until his real education started.
No offense to Mrs. Bittout’s French class, obviously.
Today in particular, Peter was having a hard time concentrating, because today was the day he was going over to the tower to work on his suit with Tony. He hoped this meant he would finally know how the thing worked, instead of hoping for the best with Karen every time. And maybe they could finally discuss scaling back the Baby Monitor Protocol.
I have a soft spot for parents who run themselves ragged taking care of a sick kid and then need to be aggressively cared for themselves. What about a scenario that starts when out-of-town Tony comes home to find the kid on the mend but a stressed-out, super sick co-parent Steve who Tony needs to coax out of damage-control mode in order to cuddle. Or vice versa, if you prefer sick!Tony ;)
Ahh yes, yes this is so soft and good ❤️ Tony comes home and finds Steve is Struggling.–
Tony opens the door, exhausted, eager to be home and reunite with Peter and Steve, but stops when he opens the door, nearly dropping his keys in the process. He’s pretty sure hurricanes have caused less damage than what’s been done to the Rogers-Stark household in the time he’s been away. Steve mentioned that Peter was sick, but made it sound like everything was under control, and this was… the opposite of under control. Dirty dishes were piled up in the sink when the dishwasher was right there, and there were socks and toys and stuffed animals covering nearly every available surface. Steve had clearly pulled out all the stops trying to comfort Peter between Tony being away and the latest bug.
When Peter got sick, they were learning, it happened in the blink of an eye, but he recovered just as fast. Preschool germs were rampant, but all the kids seemed to bounce back quickly, nearly immune to each other and every gross, drool-covered surface in the classroom. A sick kid could be almost more of a handful than a healthy one, though, and Tony feels guilt twinge in his chest for not being there. He picks up discarded blankets, toys, and debris as he makes his way to the living room, where he finds Steve laying face down on the couch while Peter played with a few of his latest favorite toys on his back.
