happy pride to the most homophobic mlm couple of all time 🏳️🌈
SONG IN MY HEAD:
“one shot honey, collect it all / the dust inside the rusted soul / you should get a ride, cuz you can’t control / the heart that beats under the bone…”
headcanon: Peter dances to girly pop music when he’s home alone getting ready in the mornings or making food in the kitchen.
Tony finds out and puts some of the songs on the lab playlist to tease him. When they come on, Tony dances and sings really loud to try and embarrass him.
Eventually it becomes an inside joke, and one of them will start randomly dancing and singing when they’re out together in public or on a mission.
Tony does it to Peter when he introduces him to MJ.
Peter does it to Tony when he’s on a phone call and tells him to be quiet.
Peter accidentally gets them caught on a mission when he sings really loud to spite Tony after he keeps telling him to be quiet.
Eventually it also becomes something they do to cheer each other up when they’re down.
Peter has a bad day at school, and when he comes over to the lab Tony dances and sings really badly, embarrassing himself to try and cheer Peter up.
Peter does the same when Tony’s stressed out about work, or comes back from a particularly difficult mission.
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THE PLAYLIST:
you can drop other song ideas in the comments this is all I could come up with lol
one shot // nights like these (so separated from my sense of self)
SYNOPSIS: a sick, delirious peter calls tony “dad.”
CONTENT: sickness/fever, worried tony, some good parental hurt/comfort. good ending. a nice short read before bed.
SONG IN MY HEAD:
★ full fic below the cut ★
peter got really sick one day. high fever of 103, dizziness, the works. he hadn’t said anything to may, so he still went to school and to lab day at tony’s. everything was fine and good until peter passed out.
tony carried him to the medbay and stayed beside him the rest of the day. when peter woke up, his stoic demeanor quickly gave way to a shaky, tear-filled delirium, crying and talking nonsense about missing assignments and falling buildings and people coming to hurt him, holding onto tony’s forearm and begging him not to go, not to leave him alone with it all.
so tony, feeling a little out of his depth, sits there in the dark and listens and offers whatever relief he can.
around 11pm, he goes out in the hall and calls may to tell her about the situation. it would be too much to move peter to the car to get him home, and if anything happened there’s no medical equipment at the apartment to stabilize him. he’s in the middle of his sentence when—
“dad?” a hoarse voice calls from the other room. at first tony thinks he’s hearing things. it sounds like it’s coming from another life—
“dad, why did you leave me?” peter calls again, between sobs. “come ba-ack. ple-ea-ase. i need you…”
tony’s frantic pacing stops dead in its tracks. he’s calling for him.
“come back. ple-ea-ase. it hurts so bad— i’m scared,” it comes out in fractured gasps, “i’m scared—”
tony finds his feet taking him back towards the medbay. something’s been triggered inside him, some instinct he didn’t know he had—
“tony? are you there?” may’s voice through the phone snaps tony back to reality. he stops walking.
“i— yeah. yeah, i’m here.”
“i’ll swing by tomorrow morning to see him.” she pauses. “he’s— he’s gonna be okay, right?”
peter cries out again, and tony turns his head back towards the panicked whimpering down the hall. he replies, with a strange new sense of duty, “he’ll be okay. i’m gonna take care of him.”
he ends the call with may and speedwalks back to the medbay. peter is wide-eyed, curled up on his side and shaking like a leaf.
“hey, buddy,” tony says softly, brushing locks of hair away from his eyes. peter flinches when he touches him. “hey, it’s okay. it’s me. it’s mr. stark.”
peter’s face squeezes in exhausted confusion. he knows he should know what that means, but he isn’t processing it…
tony takes a deep breath. “it’s… it’s dad.”
peter’s eyes trace his face, then light up in some kind of blurry recognition. he wraps his arms around tony and grabs onto his shirt for dear life, as if he were drowning, and buries his face in it, sobbing. he sounds ten years younger—
“dad. da-ad… don’t leave— don’t leave me—”
peter’s words fade to indiscernible whimpers and gasps. tony wraps his arms around his head and shoulders and holds him to his chest, rocking the upper half of his body ever so slightly back and forth… “shh… i’m not going anywhere, kiddo. i’ve got you. i’ve got you.”
peter’s tears and snot and sweat are on his shirt. it’s sloppy and it’s messy and it’s visceral and real, but in the moment, sitting where his own parents never sat, tony can’t find it in himself to care.
peter seemed so grown up all the time. tony assumed that was just how he was— and to a degree, that was true. but there was another side to peter, the little kid he buried for years and years as a way of getting by, of rising to his responsibilities. in this lapse of consciousness, that kid resurfaced, and tony got the chance to care for him— to be what would have saved him when he was that kid, if only for a little while.
so he holds him until he falls asleep in his arms, and he stays with him through the night, and he takes him on— not as a burden— but as a duty, as something he’s earned and is proud of. that night, in the dark medbay, he makes a promise to himself; he’ll look after his boy. he’ll stay beside him, and when they lose each other, he will always come back for him, no matter what.
[AN: and then he KEEPS HIS PROMISE. tony invents time travel for peter. sooooo infinity gap is canon
also, peter may be sick due to radiation poisoning in his system, inspired by this post from @gracieparkerr… just sayin’…]
key lyrics: all of them. the whole thing. this song is about them.
key lyrics: not really lyrics, but just… the vibe?? i dunno. this song truly just encapsulates their weird energy so well.
key lyrics: “everybody has you up on their wall sometimes / everybody thinks of you when they sleep at night / when i say everybody I’m actually referring to me”
key lyrics: “here come the comeback / the kid is back, he’s back on track and / there goes my hero / he’s the underdog, he’s comin’ out on top”
key lyrics: “I place my head between my knees / and think, do you ever have nights like these?”
key lyrics: “I am just a freak!” —> the whole vibe of this song just feels like Peter getting his powers for the first time. Can’t explain it.
key lyrics: “hey, space cadet / you can’t hang out with your friends / even when you are with them / hey, space cadet / you’re gonna need a lot of love / but not the kind you’re thinking of” —> it just makes me think of Peter growing up too fast and the disassociation he experienced from his peers and the rest of the world. I’m also just massive Car Seat Headrest fan.
key lyrics: “I wanna cry in your hands / I wanna die in your hands / cuz I hate what I’ve become / oh, i guess I’ll just run / cuz in my mind I’m alone / in my mind I belong / in New York City”
key lyrics: “don’t you forget about me / as you walk on by / will you call my name?”