The day is cold. The streets are all but empty. The Avengers have lost.

Bruce swiped through the list of known and unknown people, either missing or...dead. He hadn't slept since what was left of the team had made it out of Wakanda. It was evident on his face.

Steve approached the man slowly with a cup of coffee in his hand, which the doctor took with a grateful smile. Steve walked around the desk Bruce had been hunched up over for the past hour, glancing up at the pictures shown.

"How many more of us did we lose?" His voice was tight, the soldier trying not to display the amount of pain he was in. There really wasn't much point though, everybody was feeling the same. The hurt. The dread.

Bruce tapped a couple of buttons on his tablet in response, a few more faces appearing on the screen in front of them.

"Um, quite a lot of Wakanda's population was wiped out, T'challa himself and his little sister Shuri." He cleared his throat before continuing.

"Scott, who I'm told is the Antman is unaccounted for, as is Clint." He stared hard at the screen, at all the faces.

"He did it." Bruce all but whispered, and Cap rested a hand on his shoulder in somewhat comfort.

The screens flickered and changed revealing a few more who were gone or missing. Bruce paused the screen.

"Who's that?" He nodded his head up to the face of a young boy which read: Missing underneath.

"I don't- I don't know. I've been away almost as long as you have." Steve said sadly.

Bruce frowned and looked back down at his tablet.

"Peter Parker." He read aloud. "His file is almost double the size of anyone else's." Steve looked on at him, confused.

"I mean, as in, there's tones more data and used space in his folder. Mostly they should all consist of basic information, who they are, where they come from etcetera." he waved his hand. "But his..." Bruce trailed off and opened the file with a few more taps of the tablet.

Bruce motioned with his hands from the tablet and spread them out to the room until a whole array of documents, pictures and videos filled the room. The men just stood and stared for a couple of moments.

"I don't understand." was all Steve could say, his eyes flickering over the small pictures in front of him.

Bruce didn't speak, he just opened up the first video.

'A film by Peter Parker.'

The two stood in silence as they watched a hyperactive young teen voice over a home made video. Happy was there so the kid had to be someone important.

"No one has actually told me, why I'm in Berlin." They heard the kid say. "Or what I'm doing. Something about, Captain America going crazy."

Bruce gave Steve a side glance. Tony had filled him in on what had happened in Germany and the team breaking up. From what Tony had said, neither side were really to blame, but they both played their own part in it. Steve was too invested in the video to notice anything, until he shouted stop and the video paused on the boy's almost hysterical face as the new Spiderman suit was revealed.

"He was a kid." Steve said, dumbfounded. He stared opened mouthed at Bruce.

"Spiderman was a kid. A strong kid I'll give him that, but a kid!"

"Steve." Bruce wanted to calm his friend down a little. "I'm sure Tony had his reasons for it."

Steve still frowned, not knowing what to make of all this. But when Bruce moved off the video back to the collection, Steve's expression softened. He pointed to a bundle of photos and they automatically spread out along the screen.

Bruce took a step back and allowed himself to smile. "I don't think I've ever seen so many pictures of Tony smiling."

Steve just nodded. The collection of photos were of Tony and Peter. Many of Tony pulling a face in the background while Peter was laughing. Most of them, however, had Tony almost beaming as the kid was doing something silly.

Steve smiled at a more tender one, clearly taken by Pepper. The two boys were fast asleep on the couch, Tony slouched slightly, his head rested on his hand on the arm of the chair. Peter was snuggled up by his side and holding an empty popcorn box. Popcorn completely littered the floor.

Bruce clicked on one of the last videos and chuckled at the sight.

"Ah man, hold on a sec guys I'm recording instead of taking a picture." Rhodey's voice was clear as day behind the camera.

"Nah, keep it rolling." Tony all but wheezed out. He was doubled over with laughter next to the kid, Peter. Said kid was standing next to him with him arms folded and not looking impressed. He was in his Spiderman suit, covered head to toe in slick mud.

"This is so not funny okay, I fell! I could have been hurt!" He exclaimed dramatically, which only made Tony laugh harder. Rhodes was clearly trying to keep the camera still, muffling his own laughs.

"I'm sorry, Pete, but you've utterly made my day." Tony breathed, trying to gain control of his own laughter.

The boy grinned. "Actually Mr Stark, I completely forgive you." Tony pouted at the boy, highly disagreeing with his statement.

"I think we should hug it out!" The look on Tony's face was priceless and he had no chance of getting away from the spider boy. Peter pretty much latched onto Tony, smearing the mud all over and up and down Tony's crisp suit.

Steve watched in stunned silence, expecting the boy to get an earful. Instead, however, Tony scooped up some of the mud from his suit and smeared it across Peter's face and into his hair, making it stick up one end. Then, with more life in him than anyone had ever seen, he bolted out of the room, the giggling boy racing after him.

The video ended a couple seconds later and both men stood in silence.

"Did Tony have a kid we didn't know about?" Bruce asked, still staring at the screen.

"Not biologically." Both men turned to see Rhodey leaning against the wall just inside the room, unshed tears in his eyes.

"But that there," he moved further into the room, pointing to the screen. "That was Tony's boy." He sniffed, remembering the day of the video as if it were yesterday.

"He went with Tony." Rhodey answered the unasked question. "He was trying to keep Dr Strange safe and got beamed up to the ship. Tony went after him and that's all we know." Rhodey bowed his head solemnly.

Steve straightened up, his eyes, too, glistening slightly.

"We're going to get them back." He declared.

"Bucky. Tony. His boy. We're going to get everyone back. You with me?"

An: Hey guys! Just keeping this as a one-shot so I hope you all liked it !:))