This is part two of the one where Peter's is gone so you might want to go read that before you read this!

For the next couple of weeks the team had found a lot of the 'Old Man' Protocols. Most of them were for simple things like reminding Tony to eat and sleep, a couple helped in battle as well. For example the old man bifocals protocol was for when he needed to zoom in to see something.

They were all a lot shorter then the first one, normally just a quick explanation and then the video was gone.

At first Tony loved when each protocol happened because he knew each one came with a video of Peter. No one mentioned it if Tony cried everytime one of the videos would pop up.

The rest of the team had ended up looking forward to them just as much and even if they had never met the kid they had adopted him as their nephew. They were also hoping to be able to see Tony act like a dad again unfortunately he hadn't been in any more since the first one.

But no matter how many videos there were none of them were Peter and god that hurt having to see him without being able be with him.

So eventually Tony did everything he could to avoid the protocols because it was killing him having to see his son so alive when he knew he wasn't. I mean sure Tony was fine physically but he didn't know how many more of the videos he could handle.

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It was mid day and all of the survivors were gathered around the common room. They had been working so hard to get everyone back, especially Tony the most they had seen him was when he was passing them to get coffee, that Steve deemed it necessary to have a relaxing day.

They were watching some movie Steve had yet to see, when it suddenly turned off. Everyone was confused for a while before a familiar face popped up on the screen.

It had been a couple of months since the last video so they had assumed they had seen them all. The last one being on Christmas about five months ago. Everyone turned their attention to Tony who had started muttering to himself.

"Please, please not today Pete." Scott looked around to see if he had missed something being new and all but it seemed as if no one knew what was so special about today.

"I know you are probably sick of all the protocols and the videos." Peter rubbed the back of his neck anxiously, he was sat on his bed similar to all the other videos except this time his was wearing one of Tony's old MIT jumpers. Everyone guessed he had filmed this on a different day to the others. "Especially since I'm probably gone and you blame you're self so maybe all the videos weren't a good idea. Oh my god I'm sorry for making you put up with these but its to late to get rid of them I made Friday promise not to get rid of the-"

"I'm rambling."

This earned a chuckle from the team. Tony had mention once that he rambled a lot.

"So yea I'm sorry for all the videos, this is the last one. But this one is the most important I swear! Did I say that in the first one?" Peter looked to be thinking for a minute before he shook his head. "They are both equally important!"

Tony knew what was coming, he knew what this video was about. He was glad no one else seemed to know. Nat gave him a look as if she was trying to find out what he was thinking.

Tony looked at Rhodey who was looking back at him. Tony didn't know whether to be thankful or annoyed by the sympathetic look on his face.

"This one is because...." Peter gave a dramatic pause. "It's your birthday! I know that only me, Pepper and Rhodey know it's your birthday so I thought I should get you something!"

"I mean I always get you something but this is your first birthday with out me being there since I was adopted and I didn't want you to be alone because I know you'll try and isolate yourself." Peters smile dropped for a second before coming back. "I gave Friday strict instructions to give Rhodey the lab code if you are locked in there!"

"Why didn't you tell us it was your birthday Tony?" Steve asked a hurt look on his face.

"I read your file it didn't say when your birthday was." Nat added.

"Yea I read it too, wasn't there." Clint joined in.

"He probably has a reason and he'll tell us when he's ready." Bruce said, Thor nodded in agreement.

"Whats a birthday?" Rocket whispered to Nebula who shrugged in response.

Peter hands were anxiously playing with the sleeves of the jumper. "So I made you something, I wanted to make you something to help you since you always help me and you always say that its your job cause you're my dad but still you adopted me and took me into your home when you didn't have to."

"I mean Aunt May had just died and I was sobbing at your door step and you just," Peter paused for a second, you could tell he was tearing up. "you just hugged me and told me you would never let anything bad happened to me again."

Peter wiped his eye, took a deep breath and looked back at the camera.

"So your present!"

The rest of the team weren't sure how the boy could go from crying to looking so happy that quickly but Tony knew that it was because Peter didn't like people seeing him cry, it made him feel weak even if he was the strongest person Tony had ever met.

"Its an AI, I know AI's are your thing and we already have Friday and Karen but I know you made it so they can't tell people when you are having a nightmare." Peter looked embarrassed. "I also know you don't want people knowing about your nightmare but you once told me that 'everyone needs help sometimes' and that includes you."

They all chuckled slightly as Peter did an impression of Tony similar to the first video.

"So the AI, I call him Sleepy like the dwarf, he'll warn the closest person whos awake that you are having a nightmare. If no ones awake he'll wake someone up." Peter smiled, obviously proud of him self. "You can make it so he won't get certain people but if you put everyone in the building he will still wake someone so don't even try that."

"It will work for other people in the building too, no matter who is having a nightmare it'll get someone to wake them."

"I also made a couple sets of ear plugs that you can put in when you sleep that should lessen nightmares as well but they won't stop them completely. The science behind it is all written in a guide." Peter pulled a box on screen from off camera. "The box that it's all in looks like this." He lifted the box closer to the camera. "It's in my room under my bed!"

Peter must have heard something because he quickly hid the box and throw the camera on his bed next to him. You could see him pull out a textbook to look like he was working. Someone knocked on the door and past Tony walked in.

"Hey kid." The angle of the camera was weird so they couldn't see much other then the bottom half of Peter who was sat cross legged. Once Tony walked closer they could see from below his waist to his knees. "What you up too."

"Just some studying." Peter replied as he closed the text book.

"Huh, I guess you wouldn't want to come work in the lab with me then?" Tony replied .

"No!" Peter yelled. "I mean yes I want to work in the lab!"

Past Tony chuckled at his son, you could see him more his hand out of frame of camera for a moment before it was back at his side.

The team guessed he was ruffling Peters hair.

"Well finish up whatever you were doing and then come meet me down in the lab." Past Tony turned and left. The frame stayed on Peters lap for a minute or two until he picked up the camera and was filming himself again, he didn't bother putting the camera down and continued to speak as he made his way to the lab.

"I hope you like your present, I made spare ear plugs in case of guest and stuff its all explained in the manual." Peter did something off camera and a ding was heard, he then stepped into the elevator. "Happy birthday, old man."

"I love you dad." Peter smiled sadly before turning off the camera.

They all sat there in silence staring at the blank screen for a couple of seconds before Tony started sobbing.

No one knew what to do as he sat there and cried and cried and cried. It was that kind of crying where its hard to breath and you have to keep taking deeps breaths and yet you still cant stop. This was the hardest they had even seen the man cry, they didn't know how to help.

Steve made a move to Tony side, gently placing his hand on his shoulder before pulling the smaller man into a much need hug. Even then Tony still didn't stop crying and Steve didn't care he just held him tighter.

"We'll get him back, we'll get them all back." Steve kept repeating, over and over and Tony was thankful, he needed the reassurance and he needed the noise because the quiet was to close to how it sounded in space and he couldn't handle a panic attack now.

Even after the others excluding Rocket and Nebula because they aren't those type of people joined the hug, Tony still didn't stop crying except now they were all crying to at seeing their teammate, their friend. No their family break down was too much for even Natasha to handle.

It was a mess and they didn't stop hugging until they heard a quiet 'I'm okay' from the middle of their group hug.

~*~

After the last video the team worked non-stop. They worked harder and faster and finally they had done it, they had found a way to bring everyone back without anyone dying and oh god Tony was so excited but at the same time so so scared but it wouldn't matter if this worked and he got Peter back.

They were all waiting in the compound for people to reappear, the.y knew that they would come back where they had disappeared but they had sent Rocket and Nebula to wait on Titian so they could get strange to portal everyone even the people in Wakanda back to them.

If he was being totally honest Tony was panicking just a little bit because what was he suppose to do if it didn't work and nobody came back and it was all Tony's fault or even worse what if everyone but Peter came back or-

"Dad?"

Everyone whipped around to the new voice and there Peter stood with all the dusted coming out of the portal behind him. He was still in his dirty iron-spider suit but Tony didn't seem to care as he ran and hugged Peter harder then he had ever hugged anyone ever.

"Oh my god Peter!" Tony exclaimed. Peter was crying, holding onto his dad for dear life and that was okay because Tony was crying too. They didn't seem to notice everyone watching them reunite or maybe they were just to happy to care.

Peter suddenly pulled away and looked at his dad.

"Hey! Holy cow! You will not believe what's been going on. Do you remember when we were in space? And I got all dusty? And I must've passed out because I woke up and you were gone. But Doctor Strange was there right. And he said 'It's been a year. Come on, its time to go home.' And he started doing the yellow sparkly thing that he does. Anyway..." Peter was cut of by Tony laughing and pulling him into another hug.

"I missed you so much Pete." Tony pulled away and saw everyone watching them, all long done with their reunions. "So guys a lot of you already know but this is my son Peter."

"Hey, I'm your Uncle Steve. I know we haven't met but me, Clint, Natasha, Bruce and Thor saw all your videos, so we kind of adopted you as our nephew." Steve laughed slightly. Everyone who had come back was a little confused.

"Dad? Did Captain America just say hes my uncle?" Peter asked slightly shocked.

Tony chuckled a bit before answering. "Yea underoos."

"Holy shit." Peter breathed out. Everyone laughed this time.

They all spent the rest of the night introducing the dusted to Peter as well as the guardians and Doctor Strange. Everyone had decided that they were Peters Aunt and Uncles, even Loki once he had turned up.

Thor had hugged Loki so hard he kind of wished he had faked his death a little longer.

But for the first time in a long time Tony was happy, he had his son and he had the rest of his family and although he knew something else would come along eventually right now in this moment everything was okay.

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Hi! I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

I wasn't planning on doing a second part to any of the chapters but someone requested a part two, I wasn't sure what I was going to do at first so the story it a bit messy but I hope you liked it none the less!

Shout out to the person who requested it!

I had to change the quote from endgame slightly so it would fit the story.

Stay safe my dudes!