“I KIND OF MISS IT NOW, YOU KNOW?“ he knows years go by too quickly. it feels so much has happened in the short years he has been back form the ice and time doesn’t seem to want to stop anytime soon. He fears he will blink and miss this stage of his son’s life. Scott’s words bring a smile on his lips, as he rocks the kid in his arms, allowing him to drift completely to sleep.
He knows he had taken the right decision, at least for a while, to give the shield to Sam, who deserves it more than he does, and stay behind, helping, giving a hand sure but mostly, taking care of his son until he is old enough, though parents never stop taking care of his kids. He would know. . .his mother cared for him until she died. “Me too, you know? He has so much energy and I was never one with that as a kid. My mother had other worries with me.” Constantly worrying, too many bills and medications and risks. Doctors for this and doctors for that. It was a miracle he survived it all.
“You know?“ and a smile flashes on the captain’s lips, gesturing toward james’ room. “Want to help tuck him up? it’s bedtime for him already.“
“I know I kept my parents up a lot as kid, always getting into trouble. Guess I still kinda do, being Ant-Man and all.”
He gives the sleeping boy a ruffle of his hair. He looks so much like his mother, it breaks his heart to think he’s gonna be without her. Yet Steve is such a doting father, he feels comfort to know James won’t ever know sadness over it for long. He’d have the entire team behind him just as Cassie does. They’d be there for both father and son every step of the way.
At his offer, Scott follows excitedly behind the both of them. Leaning against the door frame of James’ room as Steve sets the kid on his bed. It’s kinda like watching himself when Cassie was his age. As much as everything worried him with the outside world, Sam stepping up to the title of Captain America, hearing about everything that went down in New Jersey, Scott knew Steve was making the right choice taking the time to look after his kid. Before he’d know it, these years would be over, and James will be out of his kid years and into his teens. Time really has a way of flying by when you’re off saving the world.
Tucking James in gives Scott a sense of déjà vu. He feels like he oughta have the suit on, like he’d have to sneak out of here after wishing the kid goodnight. Forgetting for just a second that he was invited to be there. Funny how life has that way of repeating itself.
“You made the right call, sticking with him.” He says softly back at Steve. “He’s a good kid.”
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