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   Stars, Hide Your Fires by YellowDistress

   Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
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   • Complete Work

   26 Aug 2018

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   • Peter Parker & Tony Stark
   • Tony Stark
   • Peter Parker
   • Pepper Potts
   • James "Rhodey" Rhodes
   • Happy Hogan
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Pre-Iron Man 1
   • Protective Tony Stark
   • Young Peter Parker
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Tony Stark Acting as Peter Parker's Parental Figure
   • Peter Parker is Tony Stark's Biological Child
   • Tony Stark Needs a Hug
   • Peter Parker Needs a Hug

   Summary

   Starks didn't create beautiful things.
   They created weapons that destroyed beautiful things. That was the way it had always been.

   But when the four-year-old's wide eyes blinked at him, Tony was struck with the sudden realization that maybe that had been a lie.

   Series

   • Part 1 of What We Are

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   English

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   Bookmarked by malach1te

   14 Feb 2026

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