After the events of civil war, Steve had gathered his team to reluctantly sign the updated and edited accords, Tony had accepted his mistakes and so did Steve, but that wasn't going to mend Tonys distrust of steve.
The captain was sad about that fact..but he didn't push it on him he decided it wouldn't be good to push a guy who was housing him and the guy who (unconsciously) killed Tonys parents.
The tower became a strained alliance between Tonys team and Steve's team and for the first month... everything was.
Until Peter Parker Swung into the tower casually walking past them and grabbing a caprisun and a Twix bar
"uh-are-what are you doing here..your like 12.." wilson spoke up startling the kid who had his headphones on, he ripped it out raising an eyebrow
"I'm 16..how old are you" he asked but didn't let him respond when Tony walked in, the older man's eyes lighting up in happiness when he saw Peter, something Steve's team hadn't seen in..awhile.
"kid! What are you doing here it's not lab day?" Tony grinned putting an arm around Peter
The kid shrugged ducking his head away from Tonys hand that was trying to ruffle his hair, "well..I left my chemistry homework here, and Its due tomorrow, it couldn't wait Mr stark" he beamed
"awh, not cause you missed your old man?" Tony teased leading Peter out the kitchen
Clint turned his head the gears turning in his head as he blinked dumbly
"is that your kid? " Clint blurted out, an uncomfortable silence filling the space.
Tony turned to Clint with a confused almost annoyed look "uh..no. this is my intern. And Spiderman. obviously." Tony said dryly motioning to Peter.
Peter flushed in embarrassment turning his head from the spluttering avengers
"Tony! We fought a kid?! That was 2 years ago he was 14!" Steve said outraged as he stood up
Bucky tensed at the raising voices, Tonys eyes narrowed as Natasha intervened "it's very nice to meet you Peter." She said putting her hand out. Peter blinked "woah..I'm meeting the black widow..your.. awesome!" He gushed then covered his mouth in embarrassment of his fangirling.
So to be fair..there first meeting was astounding..and Clint was still convinced Peter was Tonys kid.
it was only when Peters aunt had asked a big favour of Tony, that things changed around the tower
"as you've heard, Ive taken a break from my usual working at the hospital..for a vacation, Peters pushed me into it saying I deserve it I was thinking of taking an actual break for a few months, If its too much I can definitely postpone it-" she stumbled over her words nervously,
tony laughed assuringly "I'd love to have Peter over for a couple of months, you take a well needed break with happy, me and pepper have got this." Tony grinned, aunt Mays relieved smile was all Tony needed.
Oh how wrong he was about that.
On September 13th, May dropped Peter off at the tower with his belongings and a kiss on the cheek, assuring him it would only take one phone call and she'd be on the first flight over.
Peter smiled at that, "I'll have fun here, don't worry aunt may!" He laughed,
That didn't lessen her worries, she slid a tazer into his hands "if any of the rogues give you crap Peter you taze them you hear me? You taze them!" She said getting in the car.
The first few weeks of living with Tony was good enough, Peter avoided the rogues as advised from Tony, (though it might've just been personal bias against them that fueled this decision) but Peter didn't question his words only agreed with a small smile.
The first time Peter met a rogue again was when he was sneaking out with his spider suit on one leg out the window as Natasha cleared her throat
"hello little spider. Fancy meeting you at.." she checked her phone "3am."
Peter laughed nervously rubbing the back of his neck "wha-what a coincidence Mrs Romanoff.."
"and your sneaking out because.."
"I'm..patrolling..?" He said nervously,
now on any other day Natasha would've believed that, but the the packed clothes that were definitely not his shoved messily in his bag spoke other volumes.
She rose a brow "be back by 6" she said nodding her head
"your the best miss widow!" He whispered and hopped out the window swinging into the night.
The next rogue he met was was a week later and with the terrifying assassin Bucky. Except ..that was strange because he definitely did not catch the winter soldier watching star trek in the movie room...
"uh..hello Mr bucky." Peter adressed him making his presence known to the assassin who flinched at that
Guilt past Bucky's eyes as he pursed his lips
Silence filled the room at this being there first not hostile meeting
"-mr Bucky I can't believe I threw captain America's sheild at you, please forgive me!" Peter interrupted
Bucky stared at him bewildered. Peter was apologising?
"I fought a fourteen year old kid who do you think is worse"
"I was nearly 15" he complained grumpily
"still a kid. Sorry about that." Bucky said awkwardly
Peter smiled and shrugged "water under the bridge! I love your metal arm though!" He said plopping down next to him inspecting his arm with narrowed eyes,
Bucky did his own inspecting giving Peter a once over his eyes narrowing at the bruise on his neck..
It could've been caused by a criminal that had gripped his throat but the bruise would be skinnier than that.
It finally clicked in his head what it was and he flushed in second hand embarrassment for the kid
"uh...kid you've uh..got something on your..ahem neck." He said pointing to it,
Peters eyes go wide in embarrassment and he pulled up his hoodie further up "oh-uh-thi-uh-" he stammered with an excuse resting on his tongue,
It had been awhile since Bucky had been in this situation but he knew enough of it from the little memories he was recovering
"I don't know if they still do it now..but the broads back in the day would cover that up with foundation, If you wanna hide it that bad..I know Wanda has an assortment of them.." Bucky cleared his throat at the foreign notion of giving advice to a kid
The teenager nodded shyly rubbing at it "uh..thank you Mr Bucky.. I just don't want.."
"—tony figuring it out?" Bucky answered his smile a bit more free now,
Peter blushed nodding his head quickly
"I don't think Wanda would want me talking to her..or in her room..or..around her..she seems very..avoidant" he answered swallowing thickly
Bucky put a reassuring not metal arm on Peters shoulder "just go ask, Kid, won't hurt to try." He said sending the teenager out.
The soldier doesn't mention to anyone how from then on he seemed a tiny bit more comfortable in the tower.
The next rogue he met was not accidental this time, but nonetheless made him nervous.
He worked up the courage, trying to squish down any remaining embarrassment and knocked on Wanda's door hesitantly.
The bed creaked and he heard the patter of feat against floorboard and then finally the door ppened
He blinked up at her "uh..hi Mrs maximoff.." he squeaked taking a step back,
Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion "lunch is not until another hour, Mr Parker..I don't.." her voice trailed off confused and also wary of him
"I kind-of..I need your help? Not life or death help! Or power help.. uhm.. Mr Bucky said I should go to you?..I kinda..I need girl help I suppose?" He floundered nervously as he dragged his hoodie away from his neck to show his purple problem.
She blinked an amused smile creeping on her face, for a minute Peter thought she'd start laughing.
She grabbed him gently guiding him into her cosy clean-ish room, Peter took a seat at the end of the bed nervously wringing his hands and toying with his sweater, anxious looks sent Wanda's way. She grabbed out a few foundations and a beauty sponge dabber thing. She sat diagonal from Peter, cross legged and inspecting his colour of skin "alright kiddo, the hoodie comes off, gotta see what I'm working with" She smiled amused as Peter fumbled with his hoodie pushing it onto the bed and straightening up
His neck was littered with the purple Hickey's some leading down but how had no one seen this yet? Especially stark?-
"your keeping this from stark?" She asked in realisation
"so he hasn't approved of the relationship your in right now?" She asked incredulously
He rubbed his neck awkwardly "I think he'd throttle me and ...well you get the point, hes a bit..."
They sat in silence as Wanda dabbed on the foundation that covered his skin easily she sighed shaking her head "if you want to keep this from stark I advise asking your.. girlfriend to refrain from obvious places, parker" she smiled as Peter flushed a deep red ".. noted." He laughed nervously and gave her a quick hug
"your the best Mrs maximoff thank you I owe you one!" He said jogging out her room in excitement
Wanda was a bit..touched the kid even hugged him. She was still feared from alot of people, so she was winded with the reaction of not fear or hatred from the kind boy.
The last of the rogues he met were Steve, Wilson and Clint, and this one was twice as embarrassing for Peter, why you ask?
Oh because Peter was half way through his phone call with Ned talking about his date to be when he noticed he was not alone.
He turned around and saw the three stumble around to look casual Wilson tripping over his shoelaces and falling on the couch backwards, Steve wiping down the already clean and dry dishes while Clint inspected the fake fruit on the dining room table whistling indifferently to act as if they hadn't heard about his mysterious dating life.
"you didn't hear any of that... right?" Peter asked with false nervous hope in his voice
Wilson stuck a thumb up "nope all good here, can't even...nope"
Clint put his hands up in surrender "I'm deaf!" He pointed to his hearing aids in assurance
They all turned to Steve who had stopped wiping
"uh..I could recommend you a restaurant for your next date with the gal..?" He shrugged his shoulders with a sympathetic smile
Peter shreiked in horror groaning "my life is over" he walked out loudly hitting his head with his phone to try erase the memory of it all.
"huh..nice kid?" Sam mumbled looking at Steve and clint
"you couldn't have acted like you hadn't heard?" He said unimpressed
"I can't lie to the kid!" Steve defended wincing when Peters superheating caught on and he let out a mortified moan of despair.
Tony had been getting considerably good sleep while Peter stayed at the tower, he felt at ease next to his wife..watched over by Friday..it usually kept away the nightmares..not this night.
He woke up in a cold sweat breathing heavily, he ripped the sheets off of him to stop the feeling of drowning he checked to see that pepper was still sleeping, sure enough, after a long week of stark industry meetings she deserved all the deep sleep she could catch.
Tony toed out of bed heading down to his lab, letting the heater warm his frozen toes as he began reworking on ironspider, his concentration unmovable.
It was only when he heard a cup smash from upstairs that he rubbed his head, now aware of the pounding headache he had. It occured to him that it was probably just Peter up there bored and making a hot chocolate.
Tony let his feet drag him off to the kitchen, ready to offer the kid to work in the lab till he got tired but was surprised to see it was just the captain's team huddled around drinking hot cocoa and sitting with eachother, Steve swept up the remaining glassware and looked at Tony guiltily "sorry uh..I knocked it over" he murmered as the rest looked at him
"no I just..was expecting to see Peter up here" he murmered confused as he looked at all of them, it was the first time they had a non passive aggressive conversation in the time they had been here.
"uh..no, the kids been in his room since dinner. Probably asleep" Wilson spoke up motioning to the room. Tony nodded walking to the room, just to make sure Peter himself wasn't having any nightmares, it didn't happen alot but..better safe then sorry right?
The door creaked open and there Peters bed was..but there Peter wasn't.
Tony stumbled out "Friday where's Peter? Friday?" Tony asked hurriedly alerting the others
"I'm sorry boss, he took the tracker out of his suit tonight."
Natasha whipped around "he's gone?" She questioned
The older man nodded hollowly silently freaking out as he paced the floors so much he thought he might burn a hole in it.
"let's stay calm, where could he have gone? A friends house?" Steve questioned tony worriedly.
He looked up "uh-uhm I suppose? Maybe Fred or mj..but at this time it's 2 am!"
Wanda's worried suggestions filled the room suddenly
"what if he's been kidnapped or-or-" she slammed her hand down the rings making a clink against the marble table
"security footage shows he willingly left after taking the tracker out" Friday answered calmly and robotically.
"okay okay okay..so..so someone he knows right?" Steve affirms rubbing his temple
"let's call his friends, then uhm.. well we'll start from there, Natasha Clint you two go out and patrol queens" Steve said and turned to bucky and Sam
"you guys search the tower me and Wanda and Tony will try to track him down" they all nodded at the order and left to look for Peter as Tony freaked out calling the MJ's parents first
"sorry Mr stark, he didn't end up at ours, goodnight."
Neds parents were next and they couldn't give up any location either "Peter hasn't turned up at ours either Mr stark, apologies, we'll keep a lookout for him, I'll ask Ned if there's any places he likes to hang out.. hopefully we find him." Atleast they had a little hope in their voice,
Tony was wrecked with worry watching Wanda blueprint the city, trying to see where the last string of web fluid ended up at,
It was only when stark had gotten a text from a private number that he felt a slight rush of relief but not that much.
"he has a person he hangs out with alot..I can give you an address but..if it really is that place don't freak out on him. —M.J"
The address sent and before Steve could refuse Tony was in his suit flying to the location with hope but fury.
He landed out an apartment, normal enough with an okay neighbourhood but that wasn't changing his mind, he lifted up in the air again, circling the windows till he reached the apartment seeing a flash of skin, a muffled laugh.
"Peter Benjamin Parker. Get out of that apartment right this minute" the suits and Tonys voice sounded out to the apartment, a slightly ruffled and tshirt-less Peter poked his head out the window, shock and embarassment dawning on his face, his jaw dropped
"m-mr stark?! What are you doing here!" Peters voice wavered
"what am I doing here? I should ask you the same damn thing, kid. Get your ass out here now, tell your little girlfriend I'm pissed my kid snuck out at the dead of night to sneak into her apartment too, and that I'm also Tony stark, aka; ironman." Tony barked out dryly, he heard a muffled
"What?!" From inside but ignored it in favour of glaring as hard as he could through his suit
"Peter Benjamin stark get your ass here, I have nearly all the avengers looking all over new York and queens for you." He seethed, accidentally letting stark slip out his mouth, but he was so pent out he couldn't care.
Peter shrugged on a t-shirt that wasn't his with a glum look on his face walking out the apartment with a huff.
Tony landed on the ground "were talking about this when we get home." He said sternly grabbing Peter in a cradle position and flying him back.
Once he was back he called the rest of his teammates telling them that Peter was home safe luckily.
Wanda hurried in "Peter where have you been you had us worried sick!" She said eyeing him up and down catching the hickey before she began to shake her head,
Peter shrugged weakly with a tight smile, Tony sent off Peter shaking his head and muttering thank you's to the exhausted avengers as they all went to sleep awaiting the confrontation tomorrow.
The breakfast was awkward. Well. More than usual, everyone was sat down this morning and all staring at Tony and Peter who ate quietly despite the soft scratches against their plates.
"so. Peter. Would you like to tell me and the rest of us why you thought it would be a good idea to sneak out of the tower at 2 am to go see hookup with your girlfriend?" Tony set down his cup of coffee watching Peter.
The boy glanced at everyone awkwardly before clearing his throat "it's..a private relationship..I didn't want you finding out I was doing that typa stuff..plus you said teenage rebellion is good once in a while!"
"I was talking about taking a shot of tequila not going ghost, without a tracker and without protection!"
"I am the protection Tony!"
The both glared at eachother for a minute before Tony relaxed back with a tight grimace
"so..uh..are we meeting this kind soul?" Wanda asked nervously breaking the silence and stares
Peter rubbed the back of his neck grimacing "I guess I can't hide them from you guys anymore..not that I hid it from you guys.." he gestured to the rogues. Tony spluttered angrily turning to them "you guys knew?!"
"he didn't want you to know, we were respecting his privacy" Natasha said calmly
"if it makes you feel any better...we didn't necessarily find out because he willingly told us..we all just found out in awkward times he was dating someone.." Steve smiled supportively,
"fine. They come over today."
Peter nodded his head and left the day.
A quick text sent to the contact "Babe💕" was soon received with a thumbs up.
Sitting in the lounge room everyone sat in awkward silence, awaiting the arrival as Peter cleared his throat avoiding any questioning looks he got.
The elevator let out a soft sound to announce someone was here,
Out popped Harley fucking keener
All grown with shaggy honey blonde hair, peircing blue eyes, a good filled body and a smile "hey tony" he said cheerfully
"ha-harley? What are you doing here kid? Now this is a surprise visit youve come on the awkwardest time! Were meeting Petey pies girlfriend, which speaking of, I should introduce you! Peter this is Harley, Harley this is Peter" he said with a confused yet bright smile, it was a good surprise, just bad timing.
Peter smiled shyly at Harley "hi.."
"hello darlin', now I myself have never been called a girlfriend before but uh..fair enough." Harley smiled sliding his arm around Peter
Everyone stopped dead in their tracks
Tony spluttered confused which one to get angry at "your with Harley?" He demanded
"your not angry that he's a guy are you..?"
"what are we in 1960? No! I'm angry I didn't know you knew Harley! How long has this-"
"well old man, he didn't even know I knew you, it never came up since you know..most of the time we were kinda busy.." Harley shrugged wiggling his eyebrows
"gross babe! Not Infront of mr stark!"
Tony was reeling "uh..proud of you kiddo..??"
"definitely not a broad kid" Bucky hummed
Natasha hummed "do I have to shovel talk the kid or.. should I pass the honours to the confused parent?" Natasha teased
"I think I've got it down pat, don't hurt Peter or I die, don't hurt Peter or I'll be hunted down his weird auntie and uncle avengers, be safe, use protection, don't coerce him into sneaking out and getting a belly button piercing again-" Harley rallied off
"PETER BENJAMIN STARK YOU HAVE A BELLY BUTTON PEIRCING?!—"
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