Here's Chapter 4! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 4

When Amelia had woken up from her nap, she started to discover the bins full of toys. Pepper and Tony had agreed they would introduce Amelia to the rest of the team just before dinner. After they watched Amelia amuse herself for a long period of time Pepper left to start cooking, which left Tony to watch over Amelia. He watched as she played with the different toys but, not long after, dropping them to reach for another. After she dropped a handful of toys, Tony decided to intercept.

"Hey, Amelia, let's not drop our toys of the floor…OK? That's why we have the bins…so we put them in there once we're done with them. Like this!" Tony demonstrated what to do with a toy and Amelia watched, one hand held the end of the couch and her other arm held a fluffy sheep teddy. Tony slowly exaggerated the movement to make sure he kept her attention.

Amelia stared at the toy bin, looking like she was thinking through what her dad just did. After a moment, she let go of the couch and stood wobbling, trying to keep her balance. She carefully reached down and picked up a toy she had disposed of earlier and looked up at Tony.

"That's right! Put it in the bin…" Amelia fell onto her bottom and then moved to the toy bin and dropped the toy into it. She looked back at Tony, seemingly waiting for a reply.

"Good girl Amelia!" Tony praised, lifting Amelia under the armpits and kissing her on the cheek. Amelia looked shocked at first, then slowly started to smile and laugh at Tony's antics. As he placed her back onto her feet she quickly grabbed his shirt to keep her balance. Tony admired the dainty fingers holding onto him. Amelia picked up another toy and repeated the process. Looking up to her dad hoping for more attention. Again Tony picked her up and kissed her. They continued to do this until all the toys had gone back into the bin. Amelia decided to keep the sheep with her and hugged it close, pushing her face into the soft fur.

Tony sat of the couch feeling eyes watching him while he pretended to watch the children's cartoon on TV. He looked out the corner of his eye to see Amelia peeking through the fur of the sheep to see if Tony was looking. When she caught his eye she quickly hid her face, laughing quietly to herself. Tony loved how happy she was with everything, never once failing to have a smile. He decided to go along with her game and continuously looked over to her when he felt her looking.

After a while she started to move closer to Tony. When she reached his legs she placed her hand on his knee and made a grunting noise, grabbing his attention.

"What's wrong sweetie?"

Tony's reply was having the sheep shoved onto his lap and the scurrying sound of Amelia crawling away. Tony moved the sheep to catch a glimpse of Amelia as she went into the kitchen.

"Hey sweetheart, what's wrong?" Pepper's faint voice reached Tony and he turned to watch Pepper carry Amelia back into the living area on her hip. When Pepper reached the couch she sat next to Tony and watched as Amelia shifted into her father's arms, sighing contently with her sheep.

"Oh, you just want a bit of attention do you?..." Pepper stated whilst she leant over to tickle her sides, receiving sharp sounding laughter. "So…dinners almost ready, are you going to introduce her to the rest of the team soon?"

"Yeah, I think now will be a good time. JARVIS! Call down the others please."

"Of course Sir, they will be down momentarily."

Whilst Tony waited for the team to slowly filter into the living area, Pepper went off to the kitchen to continue the dinner. Amelia sat on a play mat in the middle of the room, oblivious to the people entering. She played with the sheep she retrieved from her father moments before, and babbled to herself.

Once everyone was comfortably situated on the couch, Tony stood up and announced, "Right, everyone! Pepper and I are now the proud parents of Miss Amelia Maria Stark." He picked Amelia off the mat, much to Amelia's annoyance. As she squirmed around Tony states, "Team, meet Amelia."

At this point Amelia noticed the accumulated amount of people and instantly freezed, before letting out a loud whine and cry in her way of saying "Please put me down!" Tony quickly placed her back on her mat saying, "Hey, hey, it's okay, they may look scary but I promise you they're nice…well, most are.."

Natasha glared.

Amelia resumed playing with the multi-coloured building blocks she recently found in one of the bins, ignoring Tony's plea for forgiveness and turned her back on the team. Tony tried to grab Amelia's attention again, gently taking away the blocks she mashed against each other. She whined and made grabbing motions with her small hands, pleading for them back. "Now Amelia, it's rude to ignore others, especially when they want to meet you." Tony said slowly, internally wincing at the mass amounts of drool being relocated onto her hands in her mouth.

As Tony tried to convince Amelia to turn around, the team felt mixed emotions about the new addition to the tower.

Clint looked on in amusement at the antics of the Stark family, smirking. Clint looked forward to having another mischievous member in their dysfunctional group. Natasha felt cautious of growing close to the child, so accepted to keeping a distance between them. Bruce automatically felt weary of the child, scared he may accidently harm her fragile state. Steve, on the other hand, felt the girl would be a great way to extinguish Starks snarky and irresponsible attitude towards life.

Snapping out of their thoughts, their eyes turned towards Tony once again.

"Amelia come on, don't be rude, I have enough rudeness to cover the both of us." Tony pleaded whilst trying to lift her by her armpits. This did not go down well.

"WAAHHHHHHHH"

Instantly Amelia dropped the blocks she held, straightend all her limbs and let out a piercing wail. Tony almost dropped her in surprise. Almost. Instead, he quickly lifted her and struggled to hold on to her by placing one arm under her bum and one round her back. Her face an uncomfortable shade of red, indicating her lack of oxygen.

The team were amused by Tony, looking like a deer in headlights, awkwardly attempting to soothe the girl with disjointed rocking. "Shhh…it's okay, you're okay..er.." Amelia grabbed two fistfuls of Tony's t-shirt in her pudgy hands, giant tears rolled down her cheeks. He quickly picked up the stuffed sheep toy she had grown particularly fond of, and shoved it into her arms, startling her into quietened whimpers. Her dainty lips still trembled, but the toy grabbed her curiosity once again. Tony sighed in relief.

"Right, now that's settled, Amelia this is the team!" Tony exclaims grabbing her attention. "See? This over here is Clint, otherwise known as Legolas or, my personal favourite, Robin Hood!" Clint glared at Tony ready to protest, but he ignored him. Tony turned next to Natasha, Amelia stared intently, mouth ajar. "Then we have.." Natasha glared. "..Natasha, just Natasha, nothing else whatsoever." He finished quickly, moving onto the next person. Natasha grinned triumphantly. "This is Steve, also known as Capsicle, and Bruce, who is my personal favourite." Tony whispered to her making Amelia giggle.

After he finished the introductions, Tony placed Amelia back onto her mat. Although now, it seemed Amelia decided to give the team all of her attention and she stared. She forced her hand into her mouth, drool appearing over it. Tony left to go check on Pepper, leaving the team to sit in uncomfortable silence. After a minute, Amelia turned and picked up two building blocks, one blue and one yellow. She crawled towards Natasha and Clint, and when she got there she whined, reaching towards the couch. Clint looked at Natasha, who had frozen with the close proximity. Then he reached down and lifted her up by the armpits, placing her in the space in between them.

Amelia studied the two assassins, considering whether they were worthy of her precious slobber-covered blocks. After a minute or two she made a short squeak and pushed the blocks into Clint and Natasha's' faces. "Oh, thankyou Amelia!" Clint exclaims, making an over-exaggerated face of happiness. Natasha stayed blank. Clint nudged Natasha, forcing her to stare at him, muttering, "Yeah, thanks.."

Pleased her gifts were well accepted, Amelia slid onto the floor and proceeded to crawl into the kitchen. Leaving bewildered avengers in her path.

Not long after, Pepper exclaimed that dinner was ready. She had made a variety of food to suit all of the team's preferences. As everyone filtered in, drawn by the mouth-watering aroma, Pepper asked Tony to place Amelia in her new high chair. Amelia was currently playing with her toy sheep in a corner of the kitchen and was oblivious to Tony heading towards her. This time when Tony picked her up, she didn't complain.

Tony moved to the high chair and started to lower her in. Amelia, seeing she was going to be restricted in the seat, started to whimper and squirm. She pushed her feet against the edge of the table section. "Come on Amelia, don't you want to eat?" Tony is answered with a growl-like screech. He finally got her into the chair and turned her face to his saying, "Now Amelia, we don't act like this, do we?"

Amelia flung her body to the side of the chair, wailing and making grabby hands, face bright red. Tony sighed and left her to calm down, hoping that ignoring her will do something. After a couple of minutes of eating, Amelia didn't show signs of stopping. She flung her food on the floor and table. "I don't think she's calming down Tony." Steve pointed out. Tony glared at him retorting, "Noooo, really? I thought she was mellowing out!"

"What I mean is, I think you should help her! Obviously she wants some attention, the poor girl!"

"Don't tell me how to look after my daughter Capsicle, I can do just fine!"

Amelia started to calm, listening to Tony and Steve's arguing, hiccupping every so often. "Well it seems something has calmed her down. Trust a Stark to calm at the first sign of confrontation." Natasha joked. Tony glared at Natasha and turned to Amelia saying, "Well now you got that out your system, how about some food?"

Tony refilled her dish with pasta and sauce then placed it on her table. Just as he reached for the spoon, Amelia smacked his hand, squealing. "It seems we have another Stark who doesn't like to accept help." Bruce murmured amused. The rest of the team smothered their laughter at Tony's sharp gaze.

As a result of Amelia self-feeding, the outcome was a messy one. Pepper looked over to see pasta all over her face, in her hair, on her clothes and on anything in a close proximity of her spoon. But still, the team left her to it. Pepper looked away, then felt a wet splat on her arm. In shock she looked over and found remnants of pasta sauce slowly sliding down her arm. She looked up to see Amelia staring at her, making grabby hands to be picked up. 'Gosh, and I thought Tony was a handful.' Pepper thinks.

"Excuse me, we do not throw our food at people." Pepper said slowly, but gave in to Amelia's doey-eyes and pout. Picking her up she placed her onto her lap and tried to wipe some of the food accumulated over her hands and arms with a wet wipe. Amelia struggled, not liking the wet, cold feeling. She finally realised she would not be getting away, and ended up sitting still with a big pout.

"It's like having an exact replica of Stark!" Clint taunted, grinning at Amelia's face.

"And what could POSSIBLY go wrong with that I wonder?..." Pepper sighed.

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