Hidden littles- Tony Stark

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At the age of 16, Tony Stark, along with all the other teenagers around the world, received a classification test, a test that would alter his future forever.

When Tony's results came back as little however, Tony already knew that he had it coming. Littles were shunned in the Stark family, they were a disgrace.
His father, Howard Stark who was a neutral with stiff tendencies, despised the classification Tony was given, and didn't want the media to know anything about it.
He retested Tony more times than Tony could remember, just to see if his son was actually a little like he had been classified as.
Of course, all the tests came back showing the same thing, and Howard seemed to get more and more angry every time he saw the printed words Little written next to the classification type.
After a while, Howard eventually ceased constantly testing his son and blatantly accepted that Tony Stark was a little.
Of course, he wasn't going to care for him though. That's why by law, Obadiah Stane had became Tony's official caretaker at the age of 18. Obadiah was supposed to help Tony handle his little space so he wouldn't slip as much, which was already the opposite of what a caregiver should be doing. A caregiver should be helping their little become more comfortable with their little side so that they slip into it more often, and stay mentally healthy. Stane was doing the opposite.

Tony was told not to tell anyone about his classification, but his best friend Rhodes eventually found out one day, due to a slight slip up from Tony, and he tried to be there for Tony when he needed it, even though he couldn't help much.

Most littles needed at least about half of the days in a regular 30-31 day month to be little so that they could function properly. Obadiah only let Tony get away with 2 or 3 days, if any.
Unlike other littles who had their own nursery and an array of little supplies, Tony only owned some pull-ups that he wore both in and out of little space, sweatshirts and pants, and a light blue pacifier with a faded smile on it, as well as his favorite thing ever: an old red fox plushie.
Obadiah claimed that Tony was too big to have any childish items, and that being little was already stupid enough as it was.

When Tony's father passed away, Tony being 22 at the time, Obadiah only got worse, shortening Tony's little time to just once or twice every four months to keep him sane. He demanded that Tony get rid of his pacifier and plushie as well, but Tony managed to hide them away without Obadiah knowing.

The night he and his Iron Man suit had successfully defeated Obadiah, Tony had acted cool around Rhodey, Pepper, and the news crew, but when he got home and into the solace of his private lab, he broke down and completely shattered his little space.

Tony was 29 at this time.

As much as Obadiah was a cruel and abusing caregiver, he was still Tony's daddy and Tony wanted to stay with him. It was a toxic relationship, but Tony still craved the old days when Obadiah would do more with him; color with him; hug him; even read him short stories if he was lucky.

But those days were long gone...

Years later, Tony still hadn't been able to slip fully into headspace. He didn't try often, but when he did, it was like he was stuck in between the mind of a fully grown 36 year old man, and the mind of a one year old, and it hurt.

Ever since Obadiah, it seemed as though Rhodes believed Tony's little space had ended, which wasn't how things worked, but as a neutral, Rhodey never took the caregiver class which is most likely why he didn't know these things.
The only items Tony had left to help his little space battles were his dusty and grimy red fox stuffed animal that was now missing a leg, and his smiley face pacifier which had the rubber nipple slowly tearing off.

Sometimes when Tony was working alone in his lab at the Avengers' tower, he would put his plushie on the desk and place the chewer into his mouth, biting it slowly as a way to comfort himself.

This is what he was doing today. Lost in the rift between big and little, Tony was suckling his old pacifier alone in his lab whilst making some adjustments to the right shoulder blade armor on his suit.

But this was a bad move for Tony as the fairly newly classified caretaker, Peter Parker, was about to walk right into his lab.