An-Peter's turtle died and he bursts into the avengers meeting room (this is in honour of my turtle dying on the 26/7/20)

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"I hate to interrupt Boss, but Peter is on his way," FRIDAY said overhead. Tony stopped his sentence short.

"FRI, we talked about this. You have to send Peter to Pepper." Tony said in exasperation.

"I am afraid I have already done so sir. Miss Potts has approved of the decision to send Peter to you." FRIDAY said regretfully. Now that, that made Tony stop.

"What's wrong?" He asked urgently, pushing his chair out from under the table, ignoring the exasperated team and Fury.

"You will have to ask Peter that yourself sir," FRIDAY said. Tony sighed and stood up just as the door to the meeting room opened, in stepping Peter with red-rimmed and puffy eyes, sniffling loudly as his hand shook on the door handle.

"Jesus Christ Pete, you look like you've been hit by a bus," Tony said, taking a few steps forward until he was standing in front of Peter.

"Horatio died a few hours ago," Peter said quietly. Tony's mouth fell open, pulling Peter into his chest and holding him tightly.

"Oh. Oh, Peter. Jeez, what? Oh, I'm so sorry." Tony breathed, cradling Peter's head to his shoulder.

"FRIDAY said she detected a parasite in her stomach most likely from the new gravel I got her last week," Peter said quietly, fisting the back of Tony's blazer in his hands. Tony hummed, swaying them slightly.

"But she was fine this morning." He said incredulously. Peter nodded, sniffling loudly again.

"I know. When you left the penthouse this morning and I fed her she was fine and when I said hello just before I did my homework she was fine. But then when I went out to take her outside she was upside down in her tank and she wasn't breathing and-" Peter cut himself off his a sob, Tony shushing him and running his hands through Peter's hair.

"It's okay. It's okay. She's in a better place. And you always treated her so well. She was the happiest turtle in the whole wide world." Tony soothed gently. Peter sniffled into his shoulder.

"I'm gonna bury her." He said quietly. Tony nodded seriously.

"Of course. I'll call Rhodey and get Pep off work." Toky said. Peter shook his head.

"Pepper was the first to know. She helped me get the fish out of her tank and clean it out. We cleaned the filter, the gravel and the glass. She called Rhodey and he said he'd come as soon as he could." Peter said quietly. Tony nodded solemnly, kissing Peter's head.

"You already know what you're doing?" He asked. Peter sniffled.

"Yeah, FRIDAY told me everything I needed. Just wanted you there." Peter said quietly. Tony nodded his head.

"Okay, well you get everything ready and I'll be up in the next half hour. Ned and MJ already over?" Tony asked. Peter nodded.

"Yeah, they helped get everything together," Peter said. Tony nodded again, pushing Peter slightly, kissing his head again.

"Okay. Well, I'll be there in a minute. I'll help you with your tie." Tony said, patting Peter's shoulders as he turned on his heel in a daze and left the room, closing the door behind himself. Toky turned on his heel to a very confused team who were watching him very closely.

"Um. What the fuck?" Clint asked incredulously. Tony shrugged his shoulders.

"That was Peter. My son. Who's turtle just died. Who I need to go upstairs with to comfort." Toky explained vaguely.

"Oh. Why was he so upset about the turtle?" Steve asked, glossing over the fact that Tony had a son at all. Clint had hidden his family for years after all.

"He's had the turtle since he was five and he's thirteen so. He's wrecked about it." Tony said. Steve nodded, accepting the answer easily.

"Why a turtle?" Bucky asked quietly. Tony shrugged his shoulders.

"He'd been talking about a dog or a cat since he could talk but we found out that he's allergic to cats when we went to the rescue centre so he asked about turtles. He's loved that old show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since he first started watching it. He loved that turtle with his whole heart. He spent his whole allowance on her, he did everything himself. Cleaning the tank, feeding her, turning her heating lamp on and even taking her outside. He made sure she was happy and healthy. This has destroyed him." Tony said, holding a hand over her mouth.

"Jeez and he's the one that found her," Bruce said. Tony hummed, nodding his head.

"What's with the name? Shakespear right?" Bucky asked. Tony hummed.

"She's from a rescue centre. Peter insisted on it. He said that's she's like him." Tony said quietly.

"Like him?" Thor asked. Tony sighed, smiling lightly.

"I'm not going to get into the circumstances of his conception but I didn't know I had a son until I was contacted by CPS. He'd been in a group home for a few years until I got custody. When I explained the concept of rescue centres he said that I'd rescued him. I spent a good three days explaining that that was not what happened." Tony explained weakly. Fury slowly stood up from his seat while waving a hand.

"Go be with your son Stark. Send him our love."