It was the last day of school for Peter and the day just ended, meaning it was summer time. Peter was excited because Tony wanted to spend the rest of the day with him, Happy was about to pick him up and usually, he would be annoyed that Ned was asking him a bunch of questions, but right now he was super excited and fine with answering.
"So what are you gonna do?" Ned questioned.
Peter shrugged "I'm not totally sure, but he said he has some ideas for my suit."
"That is so cool, I can't believe you hang out with Tony Stark like all the time now," Ned's voice held uncontained excitement.
Peter smiled "Ya I know it's pretty crazy,"
"You are so lucky dude" Ned playfully nudged peter shoulder.
A car honk took them out of their conversation and Peter saw that Happy was there.
Peter turned back to Ned "Oh, Happy's here, I gotta go, Ned, I'll tell you about it when I get home,"
"Ok have fun!" Ned yelled as he waved goodbye.
"Thanks, Ned!" Peter waved back.
Peter got into the car and greeted Happy with a big smile on his face, and Happy started to drive.
"Hey kid looks like you're excited," happy greeted
Peter nodded "Yeah, well says he has some ideas for my suit, so that should be pretty cool,"
"Well that sounds fun and all but on another note, I thought 'Mr. Stark' told you to start calling him Tony last time you came over," Happy raise an eyebrow.
"Oh ya, sorry, just a force of habit," Peter smiled sheepishly.
There wasn't as much traffic as there usually was so they were able to get upstate quicker, and when they got there Peter quickly got out of the car and headed for the lab he knew Tony usually goes in.
"Thanks happy," Peter waved goodbye.
"No problem kid," Happy smiled.
Peter entered the lab and saw Tony already working on something already.
Tony noticed that Peter entered and he looked up "Hey Pete!"
"Uh hey Mr.," Peter interrupted himself with a cough. "uh I mean Tony,"
"Good save," Tony teased.
"Thanks," Peter smiled "what are you working on?"
"What do you think?" Tony gave a questioning look.
"My suit?" Peter asked
"Bingo! I'm just working on some calculations, and all that fun stuff. Care to join?" Tony pointed towards his work.
Peters face lit up "Absolutely!"
Peter and Tony worked on Peters suit for the rest of the day, enjoying themselves the whole time. Tony occasionally teasing Peter, then ruffling his hair right after. Peter making puns and pop culture references, Tony rolling his eyes at them, but secretly (while also very obviously) loving it. After a while they decided to sit down on the couch and watch wheel of fortune (Peter's suggestion) and would compete with each other. 'Somehow' Tony ended up with his arm around Peter and Peter slouched against him. They are covered in blankets and occasionally Tony's hand will find its way into Peter's curls.
The screen went to commercial break and Tony looked at Peter "Ok kid, I know you have to leave soon, but I wanted to ask you if you would want to spend a week or two of your summer here with me? I mean of course you would have to ask your aunt and what not, and you don't have to if you don't want to but.."
Peter sat up "Are you kidding? That sounds awesome, plus I'm sure Aunt May will say yes, she's really warmed up to you recently,"
Tony raised his eyebrows "That's good to know,"
"Yeah, so what do you think we would do for said two weeks" Peter slouched back down onto Tony.
Tony shrugged "Well, I'm not entirely sure, so think about what you might want to do, and I'll keep thinking, and we are pretty smart guys so, I'm sure we will think of something,"
"Awesome," Peter said as the show came back on.
Soon it was time to go, and Peter didn't really want to leave, and Tony didn't really want him to either, but May wanted to have dinner with Peter tonight, so he had to go home earlier than usual.
"Well, see you soon kid, text me about those two weeks," Tony reminded as Peter was getting into the car.
"Will do Tony, thank you for today!"
"Of course, I'm glad you had fun" Tony closed the door and Happy started to drive off.
...
"How do like your larb?" May asked.
Peter smiled in response "It's great!"
"Good. How was your time with Tony?" May seemingly more interested with the answer to her second question. She notices the role Tony has taken in Peter's life, it's a hard one to fill, and Tony seemed to fill the position perfectly.
"It was awesome, we did a bunch of improvements on my suit, it's pretty cool," Peter answered happily.
May grinned at her nephew's excitement "That's great Peter!"
"Ya, and he um…" Peter hesitated "he offered to have me spend two weeks over at the compound."
May quirked an eyebrow "Oh yea?"
"Ya, and I was hoping you would say yes, but you don't have to of course," Peter said looking down at his food.
May honestly wasn't surprised by the invitation, but she wasn't sure she wanted to have Peter out of their apartment for two weeks. "And what would you be doing for these two weeks?"
"We don't actually know yet, but we were gonna figure it out, and I was thinking of just telling you the details as we came up with them?" Peter shyly looked up from his food with the suggestion.
May felt like saying no, just because it was so long, but on the other hand, he was going to be staying with Iron Man, in a building with advanced security. "Alright honey, if you give me a legit plan, then maybe I'll say yes,"
Peter's eyes widened and she smiled "Yes! Thank you, May!"
May pointed finger at him "But you have to test me an update at least once a day, it can be about anything but I need at least one,"
"Yes! Of course!" Peter nodded his head.
May giggled at his excitement "Speaking of plans, are you thinking of doing anything with Ned?"
Peter remembered that he Ned were talking about plans in the morning "Oh yeah! We were thinking of doing a movie night, maybe some sort of marathon,"
"Sounds like fun," May was way more comfortable with Peter spending time with Ned because that was, well, normal. Her nephew spending time with Tony Stark was not normal.
"Yeah, we need to work out the dates for that too but-" Peter started but May interrupted
"Just keep me updated okay Peter?"
"Alright May," Peter said and went back to eating.
Finally, they finished their meal and Peter went to the bathroom. As he was washing his hands, his spidey sense went off and it hit him like a brick. It overwhelmed him to a point where he couldn't even move, and then, the bomb went off.
…
May was sitting waiting for Peter to get out of the bathroom when she heard the bomb go off. She looked over to where the bathroom was to see that it's where the bomb exploded. Her ears rang and she had gotten some shallow cuts on her face and arms from the debris, but she didn't even notice.
"PETER!" she screamed, her heart pounding as she ran over to where the bathroom used to be. She ran through the flames and through the ruined bathroom. "Peter!? Where are you?!"
May heard a groan from her left and saw in the very distance a man dragging Peter into a car and she ran as fast as she could to get to him. "Hey! What are you doing with my nephew!? Hey! Get back here! Give him back!"
The car was already speeding off, leaving May behind, tears running down her face. Her knees buckled and she fell to them. "No no no no, this can not be happening," she stayed there for a minute wondering what to do when it came to her. She took out her phone and dialed a number.
…
Tony had been in his workshop working on his own suit when he got a call. He checked the collar ID that told his it was May that was calling.
"Hello?" Tony answered the call
"Tony?" Mays' voice was shaky and full of worry.
"May, what's wrong?" Tony questioned, his own worry finding its way into this mind.
"It's Peter, somebody took him, Tony, somebody blew up the bathroom and Peter was in it and they took him. I can't lose him, Tony, he's all I have and somebody took him from just like that, he looked hurt and I tried to get to him but he drove away, and, a-and I don't know what to do Tony, I -I just don't know, please...help me find him...please" mays voice was now reduced to sobbing.
Tony in the meantime was having a bit of a panic attack of his own. Peter was taken? By who? Did they know that he was spiderman? She said Peter was hurt, how bad? Tony snapped himself out of it when he noticed May stopped talking. "May, I'm gonna find Peter alright? I won't stop until I do. Why don't you come over to the compound, you shouldn't be alone right now, tell me where you are and i'll have Happy come a get you okay?"
"Thank you, Tony, thank you so much I'll text you where I am," May said quietly.
"Of course, I'm gonna hang up now, but Happy will be right there," Tony reassured.
"Alright, thank you, Tony," May sighed.
"See you soon," Tony was beginning to panic again, desperate to end the conversation.
"Okay," May hung up.
Tony failed to control his breathing, "Friday, text Happy the address May sends."
"Of course boss, and sir, you should slow your breathing, I believe you are experiencing a panic attack and you are hyperventilating," Friday warned.
"Huh? Oh...yeah ...I'll get on that…." Tony's last words before he passed out.
...
Peter woke slowly. He felt a sharp pain in his head. He tried to remember what happened, but nothing came to mind. He thought of the last thing he remembered, which was having dinner with May, and then he went to the bathroom, and that's when his spidey sense went off and...oh man, Aunt May must be worried sick.
He assumed that he was in the med bay because he felt the IV in his arm, but no annoying beep of a heart monitor and no hand holding his, or in his hair. When he opened his eyes the first thing he noticed was that he wasn't a room in the med bay, whatever room he was in didn't look even close to the med bay, or any other room he's been in. The walls are light blue and there are star wars and spiderman decor on the walls.
"Mmm...Tony? May?" He didn't get a response, it was worth a shot.
He was slumped on a pile of pillows that slightly propped him up, and internally he was freaking out, but he couldn't find any control in his body that allowed him to get up. When he tried to move, the movements came slowly and even small movements seemed to take a much larger amount of energy than it should have.
He slowly looked down to find that that the IV line in his arm was secured by a few zip ties that went up his arm. He tried to take it out anyway. He lazily tried to grab at his right arm when he heard a voice and made a failed attempt to try and tug harder, but he felt so weak and the more he tried the more tired he got.
"Peter, I'm so glad you are awake!" Peter heard from the doorway to his right.
"Who are you?" Peter said quietly, he had meant to say it louder, but wasn't able to, just now noticing there was a thin device around his neck. It must have something to do with why his voice won't work properly.
"I'm going to explain that to you right now" The man grabbed a chair and moved to Peter's bedside. "Peter, I have waited to meet you personally your whole life, you have no idea. I suppose I should just get to it, so sit tight, it's story time." Peter had a terrible feeling about this.
"My name is Ryan, you see, years ago, not long before you were born, I had a wife, and oh, she was beautiful, and one of the most wonderful people you would have ever met. We tried for years to get her pregnant, and finally, she did. We were so happy, we had everything going for us, and then two months into her pregnancy she was caught in an armed robbery and got shot. She died and I had no idea what to do with myself,"
The man sighed, then took a deep breath. "One day I went to the park. At this point, I had nothing to live for. That was until I saw this family sitting under a tree having a picnic. They looked so happy, and their son, the little baby, was the cutest, sweetest baby I've ever seen, and they were exactly how I would have wanted my son to look and act like. So I followed you and your family home that day. I went back to your home regularly to check on you. When your parents died, I saw a chance to have you, but then you were taken in by your aunt and uncle. Then your uncle died, so I decided to finally take you as my own, you needed me to step in, so I put a plan to work and I figured summer would be the perfect timing since that gives you two months or so to get used this,"
"Get used to what? Getting kidnapped?" Peter was getting upset, who did this guy think he was? Peter already had a family, well for the most part, sure, none of it was biological, but first of all, May was legally his family and Tony was close enough.
"Peter, I've watched you your entire life, I know you need a father figure and I want to be that for you," Ryan smiled.
"No, no you don't get to decide that, okay? That's not your call," Peter tried to yell but he still couldn't.
Ryan didn't react much to the statement "You'll understand in time,"
Peter was getting upset "No, I don't need to understand anything, what you need to understand is that you can't seriously expect me to get some case of Stockholm syndrome and start calling you dad. You're not my father, I'm not your son, I don't know you, and quite frankly I don't think I want to. You're crazy. I'm sorry you lost your wife and child, but I can't be that replacement for you, I have a family, who will be looking for me by the way."
"And you don't think I've thought of that? There's nothing that they can track you to. You don't have your phone or your suit." Ryan replied.
"No it- it doesn't matter. They are going to find me." Peter tried to sound confident.
"Well, it'll a while before they do, if they ever end up doing so," Ryan started to stand. "Peter, I know you don't want to accept me right now, but I think we can get there,"
Peter rolled his eyes "I'd have to disagree with you on that one,"
The man sighed in response "Let's have you take a nap, you've got a head injury that needs to heal"
"No, just leave me alone," Peter didn't like this at all, he hated that he had no control in the matter.
The man was already putting something into the IV line "Sorry Peter, that's not up to you,"
"Ugh, no stop, I don't even know what else you are putting into my system," Peter argued.
"You don't have to worry about that," Ryan answered simply,
Peter's expression turned to one of confusion "Uh, yes, I absolutely do, it's my body,"
Ryan sighed, seemingly bored "And you don't need to worry about it,"
"That...really doesn't...comfort me much coming..from...you" The drugs started to kick in.
"Peter, just sleep for right now,"
"You shouldn't get to...decide..that," Peter was out.
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Tony woke up to annoying beeping and an IV in his arm. He shot right up and took in his surroundings. He was in the med bay. He looked to his right and saw May staring at him, unsure of what to do. Once he saw May, it hit him. Peter, explosion, taken, oh no. He sat straight up.
"Tony, I think you should lie back down," He heard Happy say.
Tony shook his head"No, I don't need to, what I need to is find Peter."
He felt happy place a hand on his shoulder " Tony, just lie down for a few minutes,"
Tony began to panic once again, he should be doing something, he should be finding his kid. "B-but I- I need to find-"
"Tony we can't find Peter with you having panic attacks and passing out every five minutes,"
Tony sighed "Ok, fine I'll lie down, but not in here,"
"Ok, fine," Happy replied.
Tony got check out of that med bay and they moved to a couch, the couch he was just with Peter on.
May spoke up after a few minutes "Who would take him? Why would they?"
"I don't know may," Tony replied "For all I know, it's somebody who knows that he's connected to me. They probably want money or something, and it's my fault for not putting more repercussions since we were getting closer-"
"Tony, do not blame yourself " May interrupted "you are the reason Peter is still alive. I'll admit, you weren't my favorite person for a while, but you gave him a suit, instead of pajamas, you are there for him everytime something goes wrong. I can't give him advice on superhero stuff, that's your job, and you've done a great job. It doesn't matter why Peter was taken, it matters that we bring him back. I can't do that either, not alone. I trust that you'll find him."
"Thank you, May, and I promise I'll do everything I can to get Peter back."
"I know you will."
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