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It had been a rough day, hopping from meeting to meeting, and Tony felt like he was going to combust. He was on his way home from the last meeting of the day when he got a phone call from a hospital. Confusion kept him from answering his phone, being that his parents died in a car accident when he was in his teens and having no other close relatives.
Ignoring the call Tony undid his tie and mussed up his hair letting out a deep sigh. Before he could let his head fall back and close his eyes, the phone rang again with the same number.
Groaning in annoyance Tony decided to set the caller straight.
“Stark, talk to me” he greeted.
“Yes hello Mr. Stark this is Dr. Crain calling from Weil Cornel medical facility in New York City. Is it at all possible for you to come out to the hospital?”
Tony sighed checking his watch, 9:30pm. He was currently on route to his home in long island. Taking a deep breath Tony questioned the man. “May I ask why I need to drive to the big apple this late at night?”
“Well,” The the doctor explained, ”I’d prefer to discuss this matter in person rather than over the phone”
Rubbing a hand over his face tony grunted. “Happy, change of plans take us to Weil cornel” he told his driver.
Giving Tony a slight frown into the rearview mirror, but not protesting, Happy made a U-turn at the next light.
“ETA 11:00 doc see you in a few,” he said into the phone.
“Thank you Mr. Stark for your understanding,” the doctor responded.
He murmured a quiet, “Sure, sure,” and with that he ended the conversation.
10:50 had them pulling up to the hospital. Happy double parked near the entrance allowing Tony to exit the car before finding a secure parking spot.
As Tony made his way in through the sliding doors he looked around until he spotted the front desk to the right of his entrance. Making his way to the woman situated there tony cleared his throat.
“Ahem, yeah hi, I received a call from a Dr. Crain?”
The woman, her pin read Alice Mathers, looked up in confusion but upon seeing who she was facing decided to call upstairs.
“Err sure give me one sec.” She picked up the desk phone and dialed the sector Dr. Crain was located. “Yes this is Alice from the lobby desk, I have a-” looking to Tony for what she should call him.
“oh, Mr. Stark,” he remembered the doctor had referred to him by such.
“Mr. Stark here saying Dr. Crain called him? Uh huh, oh ok, I’ll send him up”. Hanging up the phone Alice spoke to Tony. “Okay, Dr. Crain is on the 4th floor just take the elevator on your left and make a right when you exit, they’ve notified him that you are on your way up and he’ll be waiting for you in the waiting room upstairs.”
With a wink and a two finger salute Tony made his way over to the elevator. Pressing the up button he looked at the directory beside the doors to see that the 4th floor was the labor and delivery level.
Dread immediately filled Tony as the elevator dinged, announcing its arrival. Stepping onto the elevator Tony gave himself a pep talk. “Alright best case scenario some female just used my name to get money.” He could fight this...whatever this was, but there was just no way. Well technically there was a way, but no not possible because, and he …. “Oh jeez I’m really bad at pep talks.”
Stepping off the elevator onto the 4th floor he turned right, immediately seeing the waiting room where a man in a white lab coat was leaning on the counter. Tony made his way over to him
“Dr. Crain?” he questioned. Seeing the doctor nod, Tony was about to go on the defense opening his mouth to dispute... Whatever this was, but Dr. Crain beat him to it.
“Hello Mr. stark, this evening around 8:30 Annalise Trescott gave birth, but didn’t pull through.” The doctor told him with a solemn look.
Tony froze, Anna Trescott that name wrung a bell, having met her at a gala around 8 ½ Mon- oh no, no he paled. Nononoono this couldn’t be happening. “How did she, wha-‘the doctor cut him off before he could start panicking.
“she gave birth via C-section, we tried everything we could but, well it was just too much, her family is being notified. We just need to know if you are going to fight or sign over your rights.”
“Wait what? I….” He floundered, “can I see the baby first?”
With a slight smile the doctor began walking, but called over his shoulder, “Babies.”
That made Tony pause. “What now?”
“Babies, plural” the Doctor reiterated.
“As in twins?” Tony managed to gasp out.
“Actually, triplets,” The doctor corrected with a smile.
Tony grabbed his chest, “Fucking triplets! Aw hell!”.
A passing nurse glared at Tony, he responded with a “so sue me” look. “Deep breaths stark deep breaths you will not faint, hang in there” he mumbled to himself.
The doctor chuckled, earning a glare from Tony, before they stopped at the nursery viewing window. The doctor pointed to the left where three babies were each swaddled in pink blankets.
Looking at the label on the cradles the babies were situated in, Tony noticed there were no names listed besides Trescott and the time and date of birth. “No names.” Tony remarked.
“No she didn’t get to voice what she wanted to name them. She had you listed as the girls’ father. So we were going to do some blood work but we’d need you-”
Tony stopped him there. Looking closer he could see brown curly tufts of hair on the girls’ heads. The same shade as his he noticed. Though the girl’s skin tone was light he could tell that they were going to have a darker complexion than his being that Anna was a light skinned African American.
“What about Anna’s family?” He asked, though he already knew the answer, all she had was her half-brother on her mom’s side, an absentee father and a deceased mother, being that was how they bonded over drinks before they had a drunken night of release. Tuning back in after the doctor had voiced his thoughts aloud, Tony asked about the brother, remembering Dr. Crain had said something about contacting her family.
“Well actually he's on his way down here, we told him about the situation and he’s coming down for Ms. Trescott's things. He didn’t say anything about the girls though.”
“I see,” was Tony’s response, but he didn’t, he couldn’t fathom a thing! What was he supposed to do. Looking over at the triplets he was having an internal debate. How could he take care of a newborn, hell, three newborns on his own? He pondered over adoption but his mind immediately rejected that idea. He helped bring them into this world, the least he could do was find a way to take care of them.
As he was thinking, he gave the doctor the okay to run the DNA test using his samples. One of the girls woke up, the one on the end, and in what seemed like a chain reaction the other two popped their eyes open one after the other, causing Tony to smile and chuckle.
The girls looked around at the ceiling before they turned their questioning gazes to the glass Tony was on the other side of. As if in recognition they smiled towards him before slowly drifting back off to sleep. Simultaneously warming Tony’s heart and winning him over.
He sighed, this was going to be difficult but, he wanted this he realized.
Just then the elevator dinged, Tony ignored it as a tall black man came to stand beside him. He turned to meet his intimidating gaze, he’d always had a headstrong reaction to intimidating people, but before he could say anything the doctor returned.
“Ahh Mr. Fury let me get your sisters things for you,” The doctor greeted.
Mr. Fury as it was gave the man a terse nod before looking into the window. “Triplets, damn, they have Trescott's nose. L.ucky girls, not so lucky father,” Fury said with light amusement in his eyes.
Tony sharply inhaled. “Wait! You’re Anna’s older Brother?”
“Half-brother,” Fury Corrected. “Nicholas Fury,” the man greeted with a nod.
“Anthony Stark,” he returned.
The man turned to fully face Tony at his greeting “as in-”
“Tony Stark, billionaire, genius, playboy philanthropist,” The shorter man confirmed.
At this Nick gave Tony a raised eyebrow, then an eye roll. “Yeah, okay about-” but before he could continue Dr. Crain returned with a small bag that he handed off to Nick. He then turned to Tony.
“Mr. Stark the results came back positive, Congratulations you are the father to three healthy baby girls. Have you made a decision?” The last question caught the man’s attention, they both waited to hear Tony’s response.
“Right, well if they’re mine, they’re mine so... Where do I sign?”
“Oh I’ll get the paper work, names?” the Doctor reminded Tony.
“Right well?” he turned to Nick giving him a questioning look.
“Yeah I’ll leave that to you,” Nick announced while handing Tony a business card. “If you need anything give me a ring.” Hand still out stretched with the business card Nick waited for Tony to take it.
“I don’t like to be handed things,” Tony responded to the man’s raised eyebrow.
“Right, well then.” Nick tucked the card into Tony’s suit pocket. “Take care Mr. Stark and just know I got my eyes on you,” He said as he made his way into the waiting elevator, letting it close behind him.
“Weird,” Tony thought aloud. Turning back to the window he looked at each girl carefully. Names, Right. He continued to stare until the doctor returned ten minutes later.
“Mr. Stark if you could just sign here I can allow you in to see the girls, I figured you’d want to hold them?” The doctor offered.
“Yeah sure why not,” Tony agreed while signing and following the doctor into the nursery room. After removing his jacket and washing his hands he followed the doctor over to the girls. Gently picking up the one closest to him the small baby blinked up at him to reveal eyes the same color as his. Tony cradled the baby in his arms while thinking aloud.
“Names, hey kid you need a name. Let’s get down to it. For you child of mine I dub thee Alexandria Alyssa,” putting Alex down he moved to the next child. “And you, Chryssandra Marie” At that Chryssy giggled. “Oh you like that? Good you’re stuck with it." Kissing her on the forehead he gently laid her down before moving to his last baby girl.
Picking her up, she looked at him, as if challenging him to give her a bad name. “Ahh so you’re going to be a tough nut to crack, jeez you drive a hard bargain, okay how about Anastasia Lynn? oh hoho where did that come from ... I’m so good at this. Piece of cake I can handle triplets.” Ana seemed to role her eyes at this, or maybe Tony imagined that, she was barely a day old. As he laid her back down she did seem to have a content smile on her face.
Turning back to the doctor, Tony told him to give the girls the last name Trescott, his name coming with a lot of unwanted attention. The doctor only paused for a second before adding that to the files.
Escorting Tony out of the room the doctor explained that the girls would need to stay the night and that Tony could help with feeding and diaper changes so he could get accustomed to taking care of the girls basic needs. To which Tony agreed before telling the doctor he’d need to make a phone call. With a nod they went their separate ways while Tony placed a call out to Happy who he just remembered was in the car waiting.
"Hey Happy, congrats you’re an uncle!” There was a pause over the line. “In through the mouth, yeah deep breaths. Okay listen I need you to pick some things up from the store. Yeah three cribs, that weird baby holder playpen, bottles okay, wow I’ll just order the stuff and you pick it up.” He Explained.
“Boss we’re leaving to go back to Malibu this weekend. You forgot didn’t you?” Happy asked.
Tony paused. “yeah actually, oh crap how am I going to, wait,” he smiled as an idea formed in his mind. “I’ll just call up the God father,” he chuckled, deciding then that his best friend Rhodey, was going to be the god father and he would be assisting in getting the girls back to Malibu.
Yup three guys three babies, alright that’s settled, Tony chuckled again before telling Happy that he would be calling back. Finding Rhodey’s number he quickly dialed the man.
“Colonel Rhodes,” a groggy voice responded.
“Rhodey hey bud I need you! Come down to Weil Cornel,” with that he hung up. Knowing that after leaving his friend hanging he’d get there all that faster.
An hour later brought a frantic Rhodey running off an elevator. Finding Tony in the waiting room sitting down looking out a window he walked over.
“Hell Tony, what did you do, why are you-” before he could finish Tony hopped up and dragged him over to the window of the nursery. “What are yo-”
“There.” Tony pointed “Alex, Chryssy, and Ana your God daughters. Eh eh, look at those faces.”
“Tony how?”
the man in question shrugged.
”Me?” The man gestured to himself, “A God father? Tony are you sure tha-?
Tony cut him off with a nod. Of course he was sure.
Rhodes smiled, his eyes going back to the three girls situated behind the glass. “Wow, thank you!”
“Um don’t thank me yet. Tomorrow you, me, and Happy are flying the girls back to Malibu,” Tony deadpanned.
“Ah hell” Rhodes groaned.