Now isn't our time. Peter Parker x reader
Hey all,
this one is a little heavy so beware. TW for teen pregnancy, abortion and stuff like that. don't read if that not for you. its a bit of a long one.
i feel like this one if very raw and its base don a true story (not my own but a close friend) so understand I tried to make it realistic as possible
other than that thanks for readIng, i love you all
xo
isabella
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It was impossible to stop the steady flow of salty tears which slipped down your too-warm cheeks. Trailing down to be soaked up by the loose material of your shirt. This type of thing just didn’t happen to girls like you. It was hard to understand how your life could change so rapidly in less than 3 minutes. 180 seconds was all it took to determine your future. Peter would be mortified. You were both barely 17 and apparently idiots too. There was always options of course, and you were sure peter would support your choice. That’s if he ever wanted to speak to you again.
It felt like a bad dream, and in all honesty, you didn’t even know how it happened. You were on birth control; the same one you had been on since your fourteenth birthday and Peter was always so cautions to use protection. You hadn’t missed a day in months so it can’t be that. There was no possible explanation, you were just unlucky.
It took exactly three days of peters concerned “are you okay?” and sideways glances, trying to calculate why on earth you were so distant and spaced out. He mentally checked every possible anniversary, birthday or event that could have caused your sudden shift in emotions, but nothing made sense.
“I don’t know what to do” Tony had been worried about how distracted Peter had been and it took less than 3 minutes of trying to coax it out of him before the boy spilt and started rambling on about how Y/N had been acting weird.
“maybe it’s that time of the month” tony tried to make him feel better, girls were complicated- initially he suggested asking his Aunt, but peter denied, announcing that it had been a solid rule of his to not bring aunt May into his girl problems. Not ones like this at least. Peter left he tower that night and went straight to Y/n’s apartment, he knew her parents were rarely home before 10pm anyway so when he swung through the girl's window, he wasn’t prepared for the scene in front of him.
There sat his girlfriend, hair messy and tears streaming down her face. Laptop screen illuminating the room with explicit instructions for how to do a safe abortion at home, 8 pills in hand and a terrified look in her eyes which made Peter want to cry at the first sight.
“wh-what are you doing” his voice was shaky, and he sounded more unsure than he ever had in his life, the scared look of being caught, she sent him was chilling to the bone. She opened her mouth to reply but no sound came out except for the loud sobs ratting through her body.
“I’m so-so sorry, i-I didn’t kno-w what to do. I was sc-scared” He knocked the pills from her hand and pulled her into his arms, gently stroking her hair and softly murmuring that it was going to be okay. Truthfully, Peter had no idea if it was going to be okay at all.
He convinced her that no matter the choice she was making he needed her to do it safely, so they closed the laptop, flushed the pills and emptied the boiling bathwater. Peter managed to get a warm washcloth to wipe Y/N’s face with and he softly detangled her hair with his fingers and tied it into a loose braid, just like Aunt May had taught him.
That night neither of them slept for long, they just laid silently in your bed arms wrapped tightly around each other, as if either one could disappear at any moment. Morning came and peter left a message with aunt may explain that he had come to yours to study and you both fell asleep, before calling Tony and asking if he could talk to him- and that it was serious.
Sometime between the non-existent sleep and the morning, Peter had convinced you that tony could help. He had money and peter was sure under these circumstances he could keep a secret. Peter trusted him and in reality, you had no option. Your parents could never know about this and Aunt May didn’t need any more stress.
You sat there on the bus hand in hand with peter, but a heavy silence between you. This was for the best; you were still children yourself and neither of you had the emotional maturity or funds to raise a child. Maybe not now, maybe in 5 years after college when you were adults with jobs and a home you could bring a child into the world. Now was not your time.
The bus ride seemed longer than every other time peter had dragged you to the Avenger’s Tower to meet Tony, then to have dinner and then because Tony insisted on Peter bringing a date to some fancy party. You didn’t mind, it was nice to see this whole other side of your typically shy nerdy boyfriend who became a literal superhero when he was here.
Tony was worried, to say the least, peter’s call was defiantly strange and very vague, and the fact that he said that he and Y/N needed help was even more concerning. A million thoughts rushed through his mind be he assured himself it was probably nothing and they just wanted some money or to borrow one of his houses for some sort of teen spring break holiday.
But when they walked out the elevator his manic pacing abruptly stopped, and he took in the worse for wear the appearance of the teens. Peter’s red, sunken eyes and messy hair with his arm protectively wrapped around Y/N who looked like she was going to hurl. Without words, Tony almost knew what they were going to say.
“Y/n’s pregnant” tony felt the air being sucked from his lungs, be he stayed silent and let peter continue, “Please, tony we need your help, Y/N’s parents can’t know, and Aunt May is too stressed with work and life for this right now. You’re the only help we have” Tony nodded mechanically, his heart ached for his all-but-legally-adopted son and his girlfriend who in the many times he had met was a lovely girl who looked at peter like his hung the moon and all the stars.
“Okay, what do you need”
It took any a few hours for Tony and Peter to be sitting in the waiting room if the med bay waiting for the procedure to happen. Tony hadn’t questioned or judged the decision they had made, he supported them- he agreed now wasn’t the time for them. A tense silence hung in the air before a tear fell from peters cheek and he took a shaky breath.
“she tried to do it herself” Tony’s eyes snapped towards the boy and he absorbed everything the boy was doing and saying.
“I went to see her when I left last night and found her, bathwater run and pills in hand. She was sobbing hysterically whilst reading some dodgy website telling her what to do. She was so scared when I found her. I-I don’t even know how it happened were always so careful” he pulled peter into his arms and told him it would be okay.
After Y/n came out tony suggested they stayed at the tower for a night or two, it was a FRIDAY anyway and Peter was covered telling aunt may he was staying with tony all weekend to work and Y/N told her parents she was staying at a friends place.
Eventually, they accepted what had happened, tony made peter promise he would eventually tell aunt may, which he did about a month later. As horrible as the situation was it set a lot of things into perspective for both Peter and Y/N, it brought them closer for starters. You never kept secrets anymore and peter was thankful. It was almost 3 months until the pair of you go further than a heated make out. But all in all, it made you both realise how much you loved each other, and that you couldn’t wait for the day when you were much much older but were ready and you have a family together. It would happen, but not this time.