HAUNTED ✯ mcu ✔

I D O N ' T C A R E I F I T H U R T S .

"Sorry, didn't sleep. How's your boy? Nice seeing him?" Tony asked as Happy began driving.

"He's fine.. 'n yeah, was nice." Coby spoke out, anxiety lingering in his tone as his leg bounced up and down, one of his fingers digging slightly into one of his wounds on his wrist to try and provide himself with comfort through pain; he needed pain to thrive. Tony turned in his seat to look back at him, quickly letting out a small sigh as he saw what Coby was doing, moving to gently grab his hand and pull it away. Coby just bit his lip harder before nodding.

"We, uh, buried Ruby at the compound." Tony told him in a nervous tone, ".. made sure it was in a nice spot, got a bunch of flowers and shit around it.. it's calm." He continued and Coby just stared at him for a moment, unable to get any words out before nodding at him. Coby quickly looked away from the man, staring out of the window to try and distract himself of the looming anxiety of having the see where his baby was buried, she shouldn't be buried, she should be alive. He bit his lip as his leg bounced up and down even faster, she was scared of the dark.

And now she was forever in the dark and he couldn't do anything about it.

Tony let out a small sigh before turning back to face the road once again, mumbling something small to Happy beside him. Stella stared at Coby for a couple moments before following suit with Tony, staring out of the window beside her. None of them knew what to say to the boy, there was nothing to say. Coby's life was over before it even began but now its fully crumbled into a pile of dust, Stella had lost her whole world from losing her father but it wasn't fully destroyed- she still had somewhat of life.

Sure Coby had Peter but was that even enough to convince him to keep trying? It wasn't a couple days ago so what was stopping him from trying again?

Nothing. That what it was, absolutely nothing.

And that was terrifying.

"Maeve's really excited to meet you.." Stella managed to mumble out, turning back to him, "She's Tony's kid, she's really sweet, I think you'll like her too.. Complete opposite to Tony in every way apart from her attitude." She chuckled out and Coby finally looked to her, his expression was exhausted and Stella almost felt bad for bringing him into conversation.

It took a second before Coby got the energy to reply, "..Iron Fucker's got a kid?" He questioned in a small, tired tone but it managed an eye roll from Tony. Stella just grinned at him before she looked over to Tony, offering him a small wink. Tony let out a huge sigh as it dawned on him exactly the situation he had got himself into, three terrifying teenagers together.

"It's Tony, brown eyes." Tony huffed out in feigned annoyance but his smirk that lingered on his face betrayed his tone.

"Didn't ask." Coby quickly spat back without a thought, "..'n wha' kind of fuckin' name is Maeve?" He whispered, hand moving up to rub his eyes as he held back to urge to just pass out right then and there. Both Tony and Stella eyed him for a second, carefully watching his every movement as if he was one word away from breaking again (he was). The atmosphere in the car suddenly became tense as all attention was on Coby.

Finally, Tony broke the silence, "Woah, watch it kiddo, Stella's protective over her, ever since she gave her a huge hickey-" He began and Stella's head whipped around to glare at him.

"Tony!" Stella whined out, shooting forward to whack him on the arm, "Why would you say that? I thought you said you'd keep it a secret! If you've told Steve, I swear I'm shutting down FRIDAY-"

"Jesus kid, no I haven't told Steve.. yet." Tony chuckled out, "And it's your fault, shouldn't have gave my precious daughter a huge fucking hickey." He shrugged.