Disclaimer: I do not own anything that I have written. Yep, that is right, I own not even one iota of the below work.

Warnings: Cannon violence, sexuality, and blood. Possibly worse language than the actual movie. Will contain homosexual relationships.

Authour Note: Been awhile, huh? I got a bit back into the swing of this fandom and edited up Chapter Twelve. Watching Avengers Infinity Wars really put me back into a Marvel mode. Having said that, not sure I'll update again soon, but editing this wasn't a big mission. Hope you like it, leave your thoughts if you have them. Also, eventually, there will be one-shots about Wade, Tony, and El's life in the tower together. Not sure when, but I have the ideas in my head still.

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Chapter Twelve

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Besides, looking at Wade watching so carefully after his daughter, he knew that those two deserved to have more time around one another.

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A few months later, and Tony, Wade, and the munchkin were housed inside of one of the greatest technological marvels of the century. Honestly, Tony was enjoying life far more than he expected he could all those months ago, after losing Pepper and Rhodes. Wade and Elle had been, dare he say, healthy for Tony to be around. There wasn't any expectation from either of them for Tony to act a certain way, give to them, or anything of the sort. They were fast becoming a firm and constant anchor in his still chaotic and fast-paced world.

Wade and Elle had both elected to move into Tony's penthouse with him, instead of having their own floor.

Tony wasn't sure he was able to hide his utter relief when he heard Wade mention that he wanted to stay on the same floor. This was only after just having heard from Emily Preston claiming that she wasn't going to be moving in with them. Elle had acted nonchalant about it, but Wade was rather touched by the trust that Emily had in him (even if he hadn't actually show it) to actually trust that he wouldn't harm his daughter - That he would protect her.

When Wade asked Emily about this, she swiftly replied, "I've been in your head, Wade Wilson, I know how much you care about her."

Of course, months of happiness were always followed by trouble, at least that was Tony's experience.

"Sir, there is a situation in the SHIELD facility holding the Tesseract. From what I've gathered from the surveillance systems, this man appeared," As JARVIS spoke, he projected an HD image of the intruder, a lanky leather-clad figure holding a rather deadly looking spear which Tony would very much like to avoid the pointy end of, "There were fluctuating readings from the Tesseract before what I can only assume to be a portal appeared, and once the energy dissipated, he was there. I can't discern much else, though I've got the files ready for your review."

Tony walked around his workshop, not quite pacing, but his mind was quickly working on different possibilities, "J do we have any idea where this guy's going ?"

"He isn't exactly trying to hide it, sir."

"Well don't leave me waiting, sweetie." Tony snarked, but was tenser than he normally was with his beloved A.I. Of course, it wasn't JARVIS' fault, but the idea of the Tesseract being stolen was not a good one… What someone could do with a nearly infinite source of power, especially one that was the close, though thoroughly surpassing, the type of energy signature that Tony's element gave off. They weren't based off each other, it was hard to explain, but both of them seemed to be in a weird sort of constant change - Something which Tony hadn't encountered before comparing the two with elements that were otherwise known on Earth.

The lights suddenly dimmed as JARVIS started a completely proportional playback.

"Please don't." The dark-haired mystery spoke, "I still need that."

Tony, even knowing how dangerous the whole situation was, couldn't help the snort of laughter that came out of him at that. The brief byplay between Fury and the mystery man was interesting - Although Tony really had no idea what Fury was thinking, trying to so obviously sneak away when in plain sight. Then again, Fury didn't have a history of good decisions, considering he had decided to cross Tony Stark, even if the man still didn't know that he'd done so. After all, Tony hadn't forgotten the review he'd gotten, nor the spy that Fury saw fit to embed within his life, and that wasn't even taking into account the horde of his father's things that SHIELD felt the right to hold onto.

For a brief second Tony almost hoped that he'd get to see the mystery man take Fury's head off, that would just about make Tony's day after remembering all the wrongdoings he'd just thought over.

"I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose."

Glorious purpose, but he showed up looking so incredibly sickly. Still, Tony didn't know much of Asgard or what their people were like, it didn't seem unreasonable to think that such things were normal for aliens he knew next to nothing about, There was a way of cross-checking that information though, "J, give me everything we have on Asgard, and Thor? If I remember his name correctly, also, look up Loki in the legends and give me the results. Hopefully, some of it should be true."

Immediately information started to flicker around Tony as articles appeared detailing the legends surrounding Loki's life, children, and tortures that he supposedly went through during his time in Asgard. Afterwards, the screens started to show the minuscule details which had been gathered via Thor. The picture painted was extremely contrasting. On Thor's end, it would seem that Asgard was a wonderful place, although there was some minor issue within the ruling family. The legends pained a rather stark contrast - Tony couldn't accept one or the other without more proof but retained the knowledge for potential later use anyway.

"Continue playback."

"An ant has no quarrel with a boot."

Tony had to admit, the way Loki put that nearly offended look on Fury's face was a particularly attractive quality, even for someone who would likely end up being Tony's enemy.

Before Tony could continue watching though, there was a familiar squeal erupting from behind him. It wasn't too surprising, considering Wade had full access to his labs, but he seemed far too excited to see what was happening.

"OMG, It's LOKI~! I've been waiting forever for part two of my OTP to finally show up!" Wade rushed out, practically swooning over the now paused image of the thief, "Slow burn tag my ass, I've been waiting so long for this! Hell, I've complained about that slow burn tag for so long that complaint was on a slow burn."

"JARVIS, could you translate that into English please?" Tony drawled but looked amused at Wade's antic, judging by the raised eyebrow he shot toward the other.

"It would seem that Mister Wilson was speaking about a relationship between Loki and someone else, which he views as the pair that he most wants to get together," JARVIS answered, his tone serious as the subject matter.

Tony rolled his eyes as his mostly rhetorical question was answered, "I know that J, I do have a twitter."

"Then why ask, sir."

"We have more important things to talk about than Twitter! Listen, Tones, Tony, my favourite Tonette, you have to let me come with you when you leave for SHIELD, I HAVE to see my OTP in action, pretty please?" Wade begged, and damn Tony for not being able to say no to that face.

A face that had rarely been graced with a mask ever since they had moved in together with Elle, and if that wasn't one of the most touchingly symbolic things Tony ever realized, then he would shave his head and blow up all his Ironman suits. Trying to say no to baby blues like Wade's was, strictly speaking, impossible.

The only time Tony had ever seen better-begging eyes was when he was faced with Elle's pout of doom.

It wasn't even that Tony would say no if he wanted to though. Asgard produced some strong threats, as shown by everything which happened around Thor, and thus Tony felt the need to have someone he could trust to protect his back, not stab it.

"Better sharpen your swords, then, because as incompetent as SHIELD is, I doubt it will take them too much longer to rub a few brain cells together and realize they need me," Tony commented, before turning back and facing the hologram of Loki speculatively.

"You say as if my sword isn't always ready for some action." Wade quipped.

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"Sir, there is a laughable attempt to override my protocols being made by one Phil Coulson." JARVIS suddenly announced.

It had apparently taken SHIELD a total of nineteen hours to get their heads out of their collective asses and come to the realization that they needed Tony Stark. Which of course would have been fine, if when this happened Tony, Wade, and Elle weren't taking that downtime to watch one of the most pivotal movies a little girl could watch - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That was a movie that Tony and Wade agreed was a must watch, no matter who you are. Even if you hated it, you simply have to have at least seen it.

"Cute, a power move right off the bat, as if they don't know who they are dealing with." Tony nearly rolled his eyes, but couldn't bring himself to because of just how deep into pride he was, at the fact this beloved creation was updating himself and such to the point where he didn't need Tony's help any longer to protect himself from the evil governments, "Let him up J, but make it painfully clear just how out of his league he is."

Elle and Wade just continued watching the movie, as if politics on movie night were a normal thing. Which they were, as Tony did run an important business which he'd gutted and renewed not all that long ago. Tony placed his StarkGlasses on the bridge of his nose, the tinted nature of the glass hiding his impressively glowing eyes from sight. A glow which had only gotten brighter over the last two months, although the rate at which was starting to slow down. Not surprising, considering Tony now looked to be about twenty-five. It was a miracle that no one really thought to ask after that, though they likely just assumed that money has a way of de-ageing you.

"Mister Stark," Coulson stated, smoothly walking in as the elevator door opened, looking completely unaffected by the fact he was unable to touch JARVIS, even though Tony knew internally that had to be something which terrified SHIELD

"Agent, I've been expecting you." Tony teased out, to which Wade finally looked over like an excited puppy.

For once his mask was on though, having expected the company, and Tony tried to ignore the pang of deep sympathy he felt, now wasn't the time for that mushy stuff, there were far more important things to do.

"Then I'm assuming you know the whole situation?" The agent spoke as if trying to tempt Tony with information. Which, Tony had to admit, wasn't a bad idea. For someone who was scientifically inclined and curious-minded as Tony, it was certainly the correct way to go.

"Don't get cute with me, Agent," Tony shot back and watched as pushed a console onto the table in front of the trio, and the Agents composure even managed to stand up against Elle's glare as the movie was interrupted. Tony reached forward and activated the console, not wasting any time before downloading the information right to JARVIS, "So tell me, is this a Tony Stark thing, or are you here to beg my forgiveness and accept that you need me in your little boy band."

"This has gone far beyond personality profiles - But since you asked, your lack of contact with SHIELD has simply made your report seem all the more correct, and Fury was hesitant to involve you at all. I was the one who had to put forward a request for you." The agent explained, though he still seemed completely unruffled, and that was just unnatural. Tony tried not to judge, but clearly, Agent wasn't of the human species.

Still...

"How kind, I'll be sure to add you to my Christmas list." Tony mentioned, and turned back to the console before throwing all the information into the air, the holograms forming around him, not just him though, another formed around Wade, "JARVIS, make note, Agent Agent is to be added to my Christmas list."

"Of course sir, and what shall we be getting him?" JARVIS asked, his tone far less emotive as it would have been without the guest.

Tony took a second to think, "Perhaps his next round of silicon treatment, a face like that probably needs a yearly."

"I'll book the appointment now."

Yet, the largest reaction Agent showed didn't come from the hilarious jokes Tony was making, but rather who the information was being shown too. It wasn't even because of Elle either, which seemed the most likely reason someone would complain, "This is restricted information, Wade Wilson is certainly not on the approved list."

"He is, because he already knows most of it anyway before you even got here in fact." Tony offhandedly mentioned, waving a hand dismissively as he studied the more in-depth scans of those who were put under the sceptre's mind control.

"Yeah, I'm in the big boys club now, you posers ain't got shit on me." Wade childishly sang.

The biggest change from what Tony could tell was that the person under control had their eyes turn colour. In fact, they nearly matched the colour Tony's took after the mutation started to occur, although there was no sign that their eyes were glowing, it was all the more reason that Tony needed to get his hands on that weapon. It could bring him strides closer to figuring out his own element and the mysteries that came with it.

"I don't know if you heard, but Wade and I are..." Tony paused for a moment before putting a significant amount of stress on the following word, "...Besties, practically a package deal."

"My nickname for Tony is 'My beloved ball and chain' because we are soooo married," Wade stated matter of factly.

Tony snorted at that, "Dear, you know that JARVIS is my wife, are you really sure you want to get into the middle of that?"

"Changing my Creators designation to 'My beloved ball and chain'."

Tony outright snickered, "Love you too, J."

"If we could please focus on the matter at hand." Agent broke with his usual no-nonsense demeanour, so usual that Tony was sure that it never actually left his face, likely to the point that he was born with that look.

"Oh, would you look at that, Bruce Banner and his alter-ego will be coming as well. Fun, I can't wait to meet the guy." Tony smiled at the picture of one of the brightest minds this Earth held. Nothing to his of course, but still incredibly impressive. Well, Bruce's educational history outshined Tony's, well, simply put, Tony just didn't care that much for actual degrees when he could learn all of it so quickly. One or two was enough to show how impressive he was, the rest would have been a waste of time. This was sounding like it would be more of an interesting and lucrative venture the more time that passed. Tony looked back at the Agent and waved him away, "Wade and I will meet you at the helicarrier in a few hours. Now get out, I don't want you to infect anyone with that stick up your ass."

"I would, but the kid put a huge spider on me," Coulson spoke, his eyes watching as Parker moved up his body, though his facial expression hadn't changed, his whole body was tensed - Likely an effect of not knowing just how dangerous a breed the spider was.

Wade just started to laugh, and though Tony couldn't help the smirk that mirth that spread across his face, he turned to Elle, "Troglodyte, what did Dadpool and I tell you about putting Parker on the guests?"

"To only do it to the people who come in for company meetings." But Elle didn't look in the least bit guilty, "I don't care though, he interrupted movie night Toneroony~"

Tony thought it over for a few seconds, ignoring the horrid nickname which would someday soon need to be addressed as no one living with him could be so lacking in naming ability, "True enough, and I would say that we could see how long it took Agent to make an actual facial expression, but me and Wade are on the clock now, and if you leave him immobilized then when Emily comes over to babysit you, she's going to figure it out."

There was a calculating expression crossing the young child's face, but eventually, she got up and removed the spider, going back to her room to place him in his cage.

"Whenever your voice gets stern like that, it does things to me," Wade interjected the second Elle was out of earshot, even though being who her father was, she'd heard far worse things.

"We don't have the time to play tonight dear, we have homework," Tony spoke, but his eyes were once more gliding across the information that passive scans showed about the people who had been mind controlled, there was starting to be half an idea forming, but there wasn't really any way to prove it. Besides, it didn't really change the object of the game, which was to capture Loki and retrieve the Tesseract.

"But it's been so long since I've pounded you into submission on the mat," Wade whined, and beneath his mask, you could tell he was pouting.

"Use the idea of fucking with Fury by staying in his blind spot to hold you over." Tony smoothly replied, neither of them noticing as Agent Agent left the room,

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FIVE MINUTES LATER WITH DEADPOOL THE MOST BADASS MERC EVER POV (MOSTLY)

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"Are you guys as excited as I am?! Soon enough our OTP is actually going to meet, won't that be great? Oh man, I can hardly believe it's finally happening." Deadpool squealed out as he ran across his room, quickly gathering all the supplies he thought he might need during the current venture, deciding to leave his mound of C4 at home, considering Tony had made him much better explosives to bring. Wade hadn't even asked, and clearly, that was a sign of a truly strong friendship

[Or he was just trying to buy you.]

(There's always the possibility that he just liked explosions as much as we do, and wants to see even better ones! Did you see his show in the first Ironman movie, methinks he doth protest too much.)

"Hurry up Wade, we don't want to be late. I know you want to make a good impression, I saw your buzzing when you came across Roger's photo."

"Everyone likes Captain America, even Canadians!" Wade exclaimed back, but paused for a second, and lost even the slightest bit of energy, "Although it's harder due to what happened in the movie-verse. Cap was kind of a hypocritical asshole."

Wade was a fanboy, but he wouldn't let that get in the way of the first real friendship he had since before the people of Weapon-X got their grubby hands on him. Tony wasn't perfect, but then neither was Wade.

(He's lasted a long time, but I wonder just how much longer that will last.)

[I hate to admit it, but he's probably right, Stark is great, but history repeats itself.]

Wade forced himself to ignore the negative nancies that were inside his head. He found acceptance of himself in Tony, and if there was anyone who would stay, it would be him. Chances might have been that Tony won't stay, but that wasn't something Wade would allow to fuck with his head. If he stayed, then he stayed. Maybe even if the friendship broke apart a bit, they would just be strained friends like Wade and Cable, and that would be enough. (Though Wade tried his best not to think about just how heart broke his little girl would be if his bestie couldn't swing it.)

As Wade turned the corner, fully stocked and ready to rock, Tony was there waiting already in the Ironman suit, "Change of plans, we're going now."

"What the shit, Stark? I thought we were getting a ride from SHIELD?" Wade was actually somewhat angry, you don't offer someone a ride then cancel last minute.

"But think about it this way, you get to have a piggyback ride." Tony motioned toward his back, the mask of his suit flipping down to cover his face as he turned around and offered his back to Wade, "Besides, we are still getting a ride, we are just meeting them halfway to save some time."

Wade couldn't help the wide grin that and clambered up to wrap his arms around the neck of the suit and wrap his legs around its sides, "You know, next time you let me wrap around you like this, we could do without the inch of alloy between us and make some real chemistry."

"Your dick probably has the half-life of Hydrogen-7." Tony quipped, even knowing that smart as Wade pretended he wasn't, the man certainly wouldn't get that particular joke.

"Don't talk smart to me, you know it does things."

"If you want me to not talk smart, then I'd have to never open my mouth again," Tony said confidently, before taking off as fast as he could with a human attached to him - Having JARVIS carefully monitor the situation to make sure that Wade was always at his safest. Of course, if Wade did fall he would eventually just heal, but there was a bit of a time crunch on the current situation.

Besides, Wade was more than enjoying himself, if the whooping sounds he was making at the take-off were any sign.

(WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE THIS BEFORE! THIS IS GREAT!)

[Likely because Stark doesn't want to accidentally drop us and have to deal with the puddle of human that he'd have to clean up and try to place back together should we fall.]

(Why would he care about that, we heal.)

[We don't paint a pretty picture, or puzzle, as it were.]

Wade was far too busy enjoying the ride and sights to actually pay attention to what his boxes were saying. Of course, that had been happening more and more the happier Wade got. There was less need for voices that were more than likely a creation of his loneliness when Wade was far from actually lonely, "You know when Peter and I did this kind of thing, the shippers went crazy. What do you think Stark, does anyone actually ship us?"

JARVIS took the audio and removed the sound of rushing wind from it before transmitting it to Tony within the suit. Tony quickly realized that this was another reference to the multiverse theory, and took it in stride as he did before, knowing he couldn't technically prove it true or false (though there was far more proof of it being true) and decided to just answer, "Who would ship us, we would destroy the world in a few weeks."

"Ha! If you think we would make a volatile pairing, your sweet ass is in for a surprise."

Tony would have shot Wade a look there but wasn't exactly capable of it right now, so instead, he just picked up speed without giving warning to his passenger and decided that he'd just ignore Wade for the rest of the way. He didn't particularly like it when Wade seemed to know more than him and gave the slightest hints to that knowledge.

[He loves us anyway.]

(I'm pretty sure he just thought briefly thought about dropping us and allowing us to become finger paint. The author might not have written that thought in, but I'm nearly absolutely sure.)