Stark's Bug
Tony Stark x son!reader
I saw endgame on the 24th and all in gonna say is it sure was a movie and my knees hurt afterwards. (Please don't put any spoilers in the replies thanks) This is the last chapter before Iron man 2.
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Chapter 14
Christmas Eve rolled around and you were too excited to go to sleep. That and the fear of having a nightmare again is what kept you awake. You hadn't had a nightmare in a week and 3 days so you assumed that it might happen again soon.
Repeating the same motions with your Captain Magic figure above you while laying on your bed got boring quickly. And the thirst was calling. Begrudgingly you went out to get yourself water or something.
The house was quiet beside your bare feet making noise as they took another step. The floor was cold for your blanket warm feet so you walked on your toes to avoid the feeling and the weird noise as much as possible.
Walking past one of the clocks you noted dully that it was already 11.27pm. Way past your usual dream land time.
You walked into the kitchen not expecting anyone to be in it. You jumped when you saw a man standing in it before realizing that it was your father.
Sharply you breathed out the shock and moved past him to get you a glass.
"What're you doing awake?" He asked vividly remembering having tucked you in a few hours back. You seemed pretty tuckered out then.
"I'm thirsty."
He hummed seeming concentrated on the drink he was making in your blender. It looked disgusting.
"What's that?" You pointed at the blender with the dark green thick liquid in it.
"A little healthy snack." He grimaced "Wanna try?" Suddenly smirking. He looked exhausted.
You shook your head, downing your tap water in two gulps, placing the glass in the sink after.
Tony followed your example basically inhaling the thing. He didn't look happy after.
"How is it?"
"Could be better."
The two of you just stood there in silence for a second. Tony looked you once over.
"You can't sleep, right?"
You nodded hesitantly. He smiled at that.
"Get dressed in something warm." He told you immediately turning to walk out of the room.
Confused you did as told and stood in the middle of the living room wearing your winter coat, warm pants and some boots over your Pjs.
Your father carrying several things came, took your hand without a word and started leading you through the house. Up some stairs, all familiar so far. He leads you out onto the highest balcony looking over the rought waves.
"Come on." He said waving at you to follow him.
At the point where Balcony and roof met was where he stopped.
"We're gonna climb up here." He explained hoisting you onto the roof and following soon after.
Climbing onto the highest roof of the mansion all the lights in and around the house turned off at once.
Your eyes took a few seconds to adjust to the newfound darkness only to find an incredible view.
There were thousands of tiny specks of light in an array of colours decorating the sky.
"Whoa," was the only thing you could muster to get out of your mouth.
"Right?" Tony was spreading out a blanket and pillows on the roof.
You looked back and saw him holding out a big box wrapped in Captain Magic themed wrapping paper. The box was longer than it was tall. Or taller than it was wide depending on how you propped it up.
"This is for you." Tony said as you just stared at the gift.
"What is it?" You took it and sat down on the blankets ready to tear through the thin paper.
"A gift." He smirked and told you to open it.
You didn't have to be told twice. With little effort the paper fell from the box and revealed the picture of a telescope on the side.
"This is so cool!" You jumped up and engulfed your father in the biggest Bear hug your small body could muster.
"Happy birthday Jesus." He said chuckling a bit at his own joke.
Both of you started to assemble your new telescope. Tony had already taken it out of the box once to get rid of all the unnecessary byproducts of the packaging. He had assembled and taken it apart before as well. Just to get it standing as soon as possible.
Within a minute or two your star looking tool was standing proudly before you already pointing at the sky.
All fatigue was gone as soon as you got a glimpse of the moon through the device. There was so much more detail to the moon than you could've ever imagined.
Tony smiled softly as you continued to steer the tube to the next source of light.
"Dad! Come here look it's a planet!" You waved him over in excitement careful not to move the Telescope.
With a grunt he stood up and waddled over leaning down to observe what you'd found.
"Wow that's amazing, Bug. That must be super far away."
Satisfied with his answer you grabbed your telescope again and continued exploring the universe.
In about half an hour you had found so many cool sights that Tony couldn't keep track of all the wow's and "look at this" he heard. Each time getting back up and looking at the star you wanted to show him. You were so excited he couldn't help smiling with you.
But the half hour was enough for now. Fatigue finally catching up to you.
"Let's go to bed, Bug. You're tired." He said softly when you sat down beside him.
"No I'm not! I wanna look at the stars some more!" You protested loudly, laying down on the thick blankets and staring up at the sky to make your point.
With a chuckle your dad copied your movements, laying his head down on his arm using the other to point out various stars.
"Do you know any constellation?" He asked eyes on the sky.
"Only the small dipper and big dipper."
"And where are they?"
You shrugged.
"I guess we'll just have to make up our own then." The next 15 minutes were spend pointing out various star clusters and assigning them a name. Together you named 6 constellations: Hero, Mermaid, dog, lane, spot and circle. Not very fascinating but easy to find.
"You see that star in the middle of nowhere?" He pointed to his right breaking the silence. You followed his finger up to the sky finding the lonely star.
"That's the one I'm gonna go built my new house on."
You giggled.
"What?"
"You cant do that! Stars arent made of dirt! It's like the sun! You can't build a house there." You said reciting all the things you had read about the sun and the stars.
"You don't know that! You were never there."
"I can check with my Telescope! It's not a planet!"
"Oh yeah? Then how come we can see other planets as stars?"
"Because...." you thought about it. That's sort of true. It could just be a planet or sort of moon from far away.
"You can't build a house there." You mumbled defeated.
"I can, and I will. Just you see Bug, one morning I'll be gone and you'll look through that telescope and see me wandering around on that exact star enjoying my new house. All, by, my,-self." He teased poking your side with his free arm. You laughed.
Silence settled over the two of you like a comfortable blanket. Tony shifted a little placing both hands beneath his head. You put your head on his arm and continued looking up. The universe seemed so much bigger when you directly looked at it like this. Like a thousand fairy lights strung along on the colourful ceiling of a dark room. Or flicks of white paint as finishing pieces of an amazing painting.
With some sweet thoughts about the universe you drifted off content and warm on the thick blankets and your warm winter clothes.
Tony smiled at the scene. His little boy laying content beside him, scooting closer as the cold seeps through his clothes. He wanted to move, it was way too cold out here for sleeping. But he wasn't able to. Frozen in place by his latest thoughts.
Carefully he checked if his son was actually asleep. He was, the little guy was in deep sleep his mouth hanging open and little puffs of air escaping it in regular intervals.
It was probably Christmas day already.
With a sigh he laid his head back down and stared up at the seemingly endless sky.
So this was it, this had been his last Christmas eve and will be his last Christmas. If he doesn't find a cure that is.
Tony was still in denial about the whole thing. He doesn't fully believe it yet, but he knows it's there. Just months after almost getting killed, he's slowly dying. Slowly being poisoned by the very thing meant to keep him alive.
That wasn't the worst part about it though. The worst part was that his mind was constantly telling him that he'll be leaving behind his very reason for fighting on. This fragile little boy full of emotions that he readily expresses. Plagued by nightmares about horrible thing he didn't want to reveal. Who wants to be friends with the world. And who slept in his fathers bed every night for the first 4 years of his life. For over half his life.
He was only 7. And Tony blamed himself for all the shit y/n had to witness in the small amount of time he had spent on earth. Not even a decade old.
With a shuddered sigh he picked up his son and brought him inside, dropping him off in his bed and removing the boy's warm clothes.
He cleaned off the roof and wandered down into the lab. He hadn't checked everything yet. There was still hope that he could survive, he had to. If not for himself then for his son.
The only human being that truly relies on his survival.
Bonus because I needed something lighthearted
Nickolas J. Fury had had a long day. Recently his agents were fucking up more than usual and a good chunk were currently on Christmas leave. So many in fact that he had to go out and deal with a bunch of wannabe villains himself. And now he was walking into the shield headquarters to complete a bunch of paperwork. On early Christmas day.
With an annoyed sigh he entered his office and stopped in his tracks at the sight before him. There was a package on his desk. Brown and unsuspecting. He took in his surroundings. Nothing seemed suspicious.
Fury stepped out of his office to look for someone who could maybe tell him about it. But the halls were empty. It was late at night after all.
He sighed and carefully walked closer seeing something written on top.
It was his name and the buildings address. And there was a return address as well.
"What?" He asked himself quietly. Why would Stark of all people send him a package?
The package looked like it had actually been shipped so it probably was from him. And wasn't just a weird joke.
Fury took his knife and cut through the tape holding it shut. Opening itcwith suspicion.
His face just grew more confused as he found a poorly wrapped box inside, everything was covered in loose silver and gold glitter. He lifted out the gift and found the glitter bomb that was a handmade Christmas card underneath.
When he lifted it wafts of poorly secured glitter fell off the front.
He shook it twice to get as much of that stuff contained in the box as possible.
Fury had a hunch on who sent the gift by the shaky child drawing of a decorated tree on the front.
He decided to sit down and read the card. Wrong move, as soon as he opened the card a spoonful of loosened glitter fell straight into his lap and onto his dark clothing. Fury tried to push the glitter off his lap with his free hand but some still stuck.
A frustrated sigh left his mouth when he gave up and read the card.
Dear Mr. Direk Director Fury,
I want to wish you a good Christmas and a happy new year.
You don't know me a lot but I would like to be your friend because you look really cool so I got you a gift for Christmas. Because we are not friends yet I got you something I like and hope you like it too. I told Phil and he said it was a good gift.
I hope you like it.
Your new friend, full/n-Stark
Ps I like your eye patch
Fury found himself smiling at the message. It was sweet and came from a place of certain innocence. He could forgive the glitter attack. It wasn't intentional.
Carefully he removed the wrapping paper from the box and opened the top.
Inside were several things. He took out a drawing first. It was of him and y/n next to a Christmas tree with the words we are friends written beneath with an arrow pointing at the figures.
The second thing that immediately caught his eyes was a stuffed animal. A tiger with a cape and the typical comic book eye mask thingy. The tag said it was from a children's series. The tiger was named Stripes.
And last but not least was a small, real tiny keychain of a orange tabby also in superhero gear.
Fury wanted to full on laugh while also cursing Coulson internally.
A cat. Of course.
He was gonna have to thank the kid the next time he saw him.
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