Summary:

Anthology containing:

Stars, Hide Your Fires

Starks didn't create beautiful things.
They created weapons that destroyed beautiful things. That was the way it had always been.

But when the four-year-old's wide eyes blinked at him, Tony was struck with the sudden realization that maybe that had been a lie.

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For Those Who Wait

Peter's father had been missing for a trillion days.

Well...maybe not a trillion. But forever.

(Continuation of 'Stars, Hide Your Fires')

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Flashes of Peter growing up with his father.

(Continuation of 'Stars, Hide Your Fires')

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It Hurts to Become

Tony’s hands wrung together, under the hot water, and he blinked, head low. Wakanda’s palace was a bustle of voices and truth be told, he wasn’t happy to arrive two hours ago, even after spending two weeks in space because Nebula’s ship had been damaged during the fight on Titan. He imagined he should have been relieved to get to Earth. Should have been more than happy to get off the ship. But he wasn’t quite right, then. He wasn’t right.

Not a lot was.

He could hear them through the walls, even from the shower. People talking, everyone inside. Trying to figure out what to do while Tony let the hot water burn his skin, scalding, from a shower and washing away his fucking child’s ashes. Like…non-existence and never-existence were being washed down the drain and Tony imagined his son being washed away like that.

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Caesar's Comet

Series of oneshots following Peter's childhood.

(Part of my 'What We Are' series)