My life wasn’t terrible by any means but that didn’t mean I didn’t have any problems. All of my problems and issues piled up until I quite literally blew up. You see I had IED, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, combine that with my psycho-kinetic abilities, I made quite a mess. Currently I was punching all my anger into a punching bag. Every stupid little thing that piled up in the week was taken out on this bag. My anger right now was focused on the fact that I was never allowed on missions because Tony my guardian considered me a risk he didn’t want to take.
“Hey Thalia what’s . . . holy crap!” Peter’s voice made me jump hitting the punching bag harder than I had before sending it flying across the room before bursting apart.
“Peter . . . uh . . . I didn’t think anyone was here today. After all everyone is on the mission. Hell, even Bucky gets to go. Why can’t they see I’m completely okay now I have scars now that’s it.” I say rubbing my arms which were littered with scars from my time in Hydra.
“Hey come on Mr. Stark is probably just waiting until things are less dangerous than they are right now. I mean Bucky is specially trained . . . not that you aren’t trained it’s just that maybe Tony just wants you to be safe?” Peter questioned making me roll my eyes.
“I think he wants to keep himself safe from me.” I say as my hand began to glow red just like Wanda’s before it began to spark out of control I violently shook my hand making it disappear.
“You know that isn’t true. I mean he does let you have free reign even when he is here. That is pretty cool besides you did good when the Avengers were fighting. I mean you took down Vision without trying and you helped Rhodie with no problem using those powers.” Peter explained making me nod remembering that fight. Remembering how I was handcuffed and put in a cell. I shivered at the memory of being stuck in a cell in a floating ocean prison. I kept having panic attacks feeling like I was suffocating the metal restricting me from moving around.
“I know and after that I was even more terrified than I was at Hydra.” I say making Peter sigh before wrapping his arms around me. Wrapping my arms around his torso I bit my lip trying to hold back the tears I so desperately didn’t want to let out.
“Listen Mr. Stark loves you like a daughter and just wants you to be safe. I can’t see it any other way and neither should you.” Peter said as we leaned apart. His hands came up to wipe tears that had escaped. Smiling weakly I looked at his face and leaned up pressing a kiss against his cheek before slipping out of his hold. I was almost at the door when I felt something tug at my waist. Looking down I saw webbing making me groan but smile anyways.
“Peter I have to go shower. I’m sweaty and gross.” I say before I was spun around my lips meeting his. It was an amazingly perfect kiss and felt like it lasted forever. When we pulled away to breathe my hands were on his chest holding his shirt in my now clenched fists while his hands were on my cheek and on the back of my neck.
“Wow that was just . . .” He trailed off obviously trying to think of a word.
“Amazing, fantastic, or wait let me guess almost as cool as watching The Empire Strikes Back?” I tease watching him smile before looking around and leaning down and pecking me on the lips again before grinning again.
“How about tonight you come over to my place and we watch all of the Star Wars movies?” He asked making me smirk.
“Peter Benjamin Parker are you asking me on a date?” I tease making his eyes widen.
“H-how did you find out my middle name?” He practically squeaked out.
“I read your file . . . well watched it really I had no patience to sit down and read all of your academic achievements.” I say making his face go slightly red.
“Oh god you saw my original suit. Tony called it a onesie and I understand where he’s coming from because yes it does and oh god the goggles you saw the goggles.” He rambled making me giggle.
“I got bored and wanted to do something I knew that would make you squirm if you knew.” I smile making him close his eyes before he tossed his head backwards.
“You are an evil evil girlfriend.” He groaned moving his hands to my waist.
“Well well well what do we have here?” Tony’s voice said making us jump apart my powers sparked sending me up to the ceiling where I grabbed onto the rafters.
“Hey Tony what’s up . . . other than me of course.” I say swinging myself up to balance on the exposed rafter.
“Well I just watched you two have a very adorable moment. Which of course I thought was just a first time thing until I heard that word come out of his mouth.” Tony said pointing at Peter who was clinging to a wall which made me giggle.
“Oh right um that . . . kind of slipped out Mr. Stark. I swear I wanted to do it the right way but everything kind of just happened.” He said getting off the wall and standing up straight.
“Well then how about she hits the showers, then we are going to sit down tonight with Aunt May and explain to you two the birds and the bees.” Tony said before walking out. I then lowered myself to the ground using my powers before being engulfed into a hug.
“He’s gonna kill me. He’s going to rip me up, chew me to pieces, spit me out, and then send me in a box to the deepest darkest part of the ocean.” Peter rambled making me start laughing.
“You are so scared of him yet let me guess you still are more in love with his inventions than your own girlfriend?” I ask making him let go of me and stare at the ceiling.
“Nope not answering that I refuse to have you tease and taunt me. Especially since I am going to sneak into your room tonight so that we can watch all the Star Wars movies together.” He said still staring up at the ceiling.
“How about we watch the movies and study at the same time because we have a science exam and history exam on Tuesday?” I ask making him look at me and roll his eyes.
“You just want to steal my chemistry notes from last year again.” He groaned making me giggle before pressing a quick kiss to his cheek before walking away ignoring my heart fluttering as he grinned. Walking out of the training room I headed up to my room passing Steve and Bucky drinking coffee.
“Hey Stevie . . . Frosty.” I smirk making Bucky slam his head against the table.
“I swear that I’m going to come up with something to get you back for that!” He yelled making me chuckle before popping my head back in the doorway.
“Try me. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN IS MAD AT ME!!!” I scream as he chased after me. Once I hit the stairs I realized he wasn’t chasing me anymore. I rolled my eyes before jogging up the stairs to find Sharon, Hope, Nat, and Wanda all sitting on a couch watching The Notebook. Gagging I continued up to my room where I grabbed a towel and some clean clothes. Once I was all clean and shaved from my shower I tossed on my clean clothes before turning on my computer and checking my emails. They were all fan-mail for Tony. All of them went into the trash. I saw one which was from Peter that just said ‘look at these amazing pictures’. Rolling my eyes at my boyfriend’s amateur photography habit I opened all the attachments I smiled at the pictures of Aunt May crying over a bowl of ice cream probably while watching Titanic. I looked at all the amazing bird eye view shots he probably got as Spider-man. Then I came across three that made my face go red and my heart do crazy things. They were pictures of me while I was at his apartment spread out on the couch laying on his chest clearly asleep, at his apartment for Christmas wearing the brand-new Spider-man onesie with a hood he had bought for me at a superhero store, and then a final one of me at a Star Wars convention wearing a Princess Leia outfit. The white dress not the slave bikini. That day he had dressed up as Han Solo while Ned just wore a Star Wars t-shirt. Ned and I were checking out some of the merch and I guess Peter had taken a picture of us laughing over a Jabba The Hut toy. Grabbing my phone I called Peter.
“Hey Thalia what’s up?” He asked as I heard air whooshing past the phone.
“Just saw the pictures you sent me.” I say before the wind stopped.
“What did you think?” I could practically hear the nervousness dripping from his voice.
“Well the city shots are perfect, Aunt May is going to kill you for those chick flick tears being captured on film, and the last three are probably the best ones yet.” I say before hearing him let out a huge sigh.
“I was worried you would’ve thought I was a freak or something. The Christmas one is my favorite if you were wondering.” He said making me grin as I flopped down on my bed.
“Really and whys that? Is it the fact that you know we basically match or that I look like my face is about to split in half from smiling so hard?” I asked with a giggle.
“More like the fact you tackled me once you realized what it was. We weren’t even together until the next year but still I knew you were the one for me when you admitted Spider-man was your favorite superhero.” He said making me grin even though I heard the teasing lilt in his voice.
“Hey Tony didn’t tell me anything about you being Spider-man! So don’t even start.” I warn before I heard a knock on my window. I jumped when I saw it was Peter in full Spider-man costume. Hanging up I walked over and opened the window letting him jump in.
“You had to have had some idea. I mean I was always around working with Mr. Stark and he constantly called me spiderling.” He said taking off the mask which messed up his hair. Looking at it I reached up and began to fix it without replying to Peter who had his eyes nearly closed.
“Are you enjoying me playing with your hair?” I asked making him nod before he moved to sit down on my bed as I sat behind him continuing to run my fingers through his hair.
“So tell me which picture was your favorite?” He asked noticing I still had the pictures up on my computer.
“Us on the couch with me passed out because you were watching a Tony Stark documentary.” I say making him laugh.
“Hey I didn’t know you lived with him. I just assumed you were some new girl who talked to me because I said ‘hey nice shirt’ when you sat at our lunch table.” He said making it my turn to laugh.
“I sat down with you because I thought you were cute and Ned said I could sit with him in first period.” I said making him stop and look up at me.
“So you’re saying that the only reason we are together is something as shallow and temporary as my looks?” He asked dramatically.
“Yep.” I said popping the ‘p’ he smirked at me and suddenly I was pinned to my own bed with a grinning Peter hovering above me.
“So you had a crush on me from the moment we met?” He asked making me groan as I tugged my wrists out of his hands before wrapping them around his neck.
“Maybe I did but that was a little crush, but eventually I got to know you more and more which caused me to fall asleep on you, tell you my superhero crush, be at your place for holidays, and go to nerd conventions with you. So do you want to tease and taunt me for having a huge crush on you before I even talked to you?” I asked making his face go pink.
“God you would make such a good lawyer.” He said plopping down beside me.
“Just call me Matt Murdock . . . except I don’t bump into the edges of tables.” I say making him laugh. Smiling I curled into him my head on his chest.
"So what do you want to do tonight?" He asked his arms wrapped around me while he traced circles into my back. I grinned looking up at him before placing a kiss on his cheek.
"Let's just lay here for a minute okay? Then we can watch all the Star Wars movies and study." I said making him nod as we relaxed onto the bed. The sky started to get dark and I sat up his eyes were closed.
"No come on five more minutes." He whined making me chuckle.
"It's time to study, now." I said making him whine even louder.
"You have to do something for me first." He said sitting up with a sly smirk instantly keying me to exactly what he wanted but I decided to play coy.
"Exactly what is that?" I asked as he leaned up onto his arms.
"You know exactly what." He said sitting up even more before grabbing my hands entwining my fingers with his.
"No I have no idea what you want." I tease as he leans towards me.
"Stop playing dumb already." He said pressing his lips against mine gently making me smile into the kiss before kissing him back. When we pulled apart to breath I was straddling him and my shirt was halfway up showing my stomach.
"You know it's kinda hot making out with you while your still in uniform." I tease making him groan.
"Shut up." He pecks my lips making me chuckle.
"I mean it's no onesie with goggles but still really hot." I continue making him push me off of him making me bounce on the bed.
"I'm changing and getting our books. You stay over there." He says walking towards my closet where I had put some clothes of his.
"Yes sirree I will stay put. Oh hey you want some snacks or something?" I asked him.
"Yeah sure. Just finger food no soup like last time or any hot drinks." He answered making me smile as I adjusted my top feeling my bra move.
"Holy crap did you undo my bra? When did you do that?" I asked as he walked out wearing jeans and a t-shirt his face going pink.
"Sorry I didn't think about it." He said shoving his outfit into a spare backpack before walking over to me turning me around.
"No it's fine but damn it's a three hook bra and I didn't notice until now. You sir are almost Joey level." I say with a grin as he lifted the back of my shirt to re-hook the bra.
"There now go get snacks while I set everything up in here." He says kissing my head and pushing me to the door. Nodding I headed out into the main area where the movie was off but the girls were sitting there chatting with coffees in hand.
"Thalia you were in there a long time. Is Spider-Kid in there tonight?" Nat asked.
"Yeah study night because two final exams were scheduled on the same day because our teachers are dumb." I said making them all groan.
"Poor kid what subjects?" Sharon asked.
"Science which is fine because Peter has these amazingly detailed notes from the year. History though is going to kill me because every class I just zone out the teacher is so boring and the books barely cover anything." I complain making them chuckle.
"Hey you can always ask Steve about the war and his life. Plus Bucky is remembering some stuff from then too." Sharon said helpfully.
"Thanks I will ask when we get to it. Do you girls have any finger food still out?" I asked before being supplied with m&m's, popcorn, gummy bears, and some sodas that Hope got me. I walked into my room with armfuls of snacks and drinks. Peter instantly emptied my arms with a thank you and a peck on the lips. I desperately wanted to continue what we were doing earlier but we had to study plus I could con him into staying the night.
"Okay so which subject do you want to hit first?" He asks as everything got set up.
"History please." I say making him nod as we got the books opened up slowly taking down notes and brainstorming the meanings, symbols, religions, cultures, and time frames of everything mentioned. Eventually we checked the clock and switched subjects which I was glad to do because his face lit up when I asked about anything. Every time I got confused on something he was so perfect about explaining it to me without making me feel like an idiot.
"Babe it's an easy concept once you apply it to something you understand or like . . . .” He rambled on easily for another few minutes making it easier to understand what the notes said. After awhile we were just staring at the notes silently revising in our own heads. This continued with us switching notes and moving positions. Soon enough I was re-reading a chapter in history leaning against Peter’s chest while he was annotating the next weeks assignment.
“Seriously? You two have been in here for hours and all you have done so far is do schoolwork?” Nat’s voice interrupted us making us jump slightly. Apparently we were so focused on studying we didn’t even hear the door open.
“Well . . . I’m exhausted. Peter is staying the night wake us up before Tony decides to barge in on us trying to catch us doing stuff.” I said as I began to move around picking up the studying supplies and food dishes. Peter was trailing behind me picking up anything I forgot to grab and then tried to follow me out to the kitchen area.
“The cameras work out here genius.” Nat said grabbed the stuff from his hands and following me to put the dishes away and stacked the books nicely on my dresser.
“Hey Nat how was the mission?” I asked as she hovered at my door.
“Honestly? We could’ve used you out there but it’s his decision to keep you out of the firefights until further notice.” She said making me tense my shoulders.
“You mean until he can trust me to not turn on you guys.” I say making her scoff. Suddenly I was engulfed in a hug by the red haired assassin.
“We all trust you even Tony admitted we needed you out there but your powers are still developing and we need you at your best okay? To prevent injuries to you.” She explained making me nod before she let go walking out the door and shutting it behind her. Turning around to head for my bed I was engulfed in yet another hug this one smelled a lot better though and made my heart flutter.
“Hey Pete you jealous? Or trying to get a residual caring Nat hug?” I asked as my arms wrapped around him for the second time that day.
“Can it be both?” He teased back making me grin as he placed a peck against the top of my head. We stayed in my room for the rest of the night talking quietly and when we woke up the next morning he kissed me gently on the lips before exiting through my window swinging away into the morning.
“You two are cute together. I’m glad you found someone to make you happy.” Natasha said before leaving my room crawling into my bed I looked up at the ceiling smiling to myself. Yeah my life wasn’t all that bad.
