"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on darkness." -Nikos Kazantzakis

*We get to know a little bit about their lives.*

(Important Author's note at the end) Not Beta'd but, Enjoy!~

A skinny, brown haired boy leaned against the school building, listening to his favorite music while he waited for someone to pick him up. Today was his favorite day...Friday. The weekend was here and he was going to embrace it by staying home, maybe save some people's lives and chilling with his favorite mentor.

Tony Stark.

Peter looked up and saw two parents holding their child's hands as they swung them gently. They were smiling and the kid was giggling. Peter couldn't help but smile at the scene, though deep inside, it hurt looking as well.

He couldn't help but go down memory lane.

Peter was young when his parents died. His Aunt and Uncle took him in before he was able to know about his parents. He was a normal teenage boy, just wanting to have fun and hang out with his friends. A very smart kid that is. His life was pretty perfect. Then, his Uncle died. Uncle Ben was probably the only father figure he had in his life time.

That is until he got an internship at Starks Industries.

It was probably the most exhilarating and nerve-wracking moment when he was going to work for Tony Stark.

He managed to get a panic attack right before and guess who found him and comforted him?

Tony Stark. Peter cringed when he went down that memory road.

Peter was pretty embarrassed when it happened. He didn't want to think that Tony Stark was hiring a weakling, but Tony Stark knew that he found the perfect intern. His intern was smart, sweet and he loved to tease him.

In all honesty, they both teased each other as the weeks went by.

Skipping a few months, Tony found himself giving his pupil life lessons like a father does. He will never admit that he always wanted children of his own. Even with his hard past and having doubts, it was just a calm reminder that he wanted kids, but who's got the time for that when he was balancing being Ironman and maintaining his business? Love never came across his mind.

Though, he already had a kid. A very smart kid. Peter was beyond intelligent for his age. High GPA, good grades (Except Spanish) and a good attitude. And Tony Stark definitely did not gift Peter a watch that monitors his vitals and everything.

Peter loved learning about science and how it worked. Thats what Tony loved about this kid. He was almost as smart as Tony. Eventually, he let Peter go in his lab and help Tony out. He even let Peter create some of his own inventions.

And to Tony's surprise, some of Peter's creations were absolutely brilliant, including the web formula for the kid's suit. It never ceased to amaze Tony being astonished by his kid's excellent ideas.

Then, before Peter knew it; he was spiderman. It all started out with being late for a field trip to a science laboratory, and then accidentally getting lost and then being bitten by a radioactive spider.

He thought it was going to be a whirlwind of problems. Peter wanted to keep things secretive, but Tony knew his kid, and he helped him through it. Peter could never thank him enough for helping and building a spiderman suit.

Peter was still pretty immature, and definitely not ready to be part of the Avengers, and even when Stark had asked him to join, he declined and Tony knew that his kid was becoming maturer everyday. He was proud of his kid.

It didn't mean life was perfect. There were still bad days for both of them. Peter getting panic attacks every so often, Aunt May being gone for quite awhile and also dealing with the fact that he's a superhero.

Despite Tony being a chill dude, he could relate to the kid in more ways than one. Not having parents, panic attacks and being a superhero, but doing it together helped them both. Although, Tony would never put Peter in a situation where he could potentially die, but eventually...Peter would have to make a sacrifice to protect people who can't protect themselves. That including the universe.

Soon, Peter found out that Aunt May had to be transferred to Africa and help those in needs. She tried disagreeing, but unfortunately it was denied and only had a week to find Peter a home.

He thought he was able to live on his own, but then Tony Stark offered him to stay at his tower, and to Peter's surprise and some reassurance from Tony that he didn't have to do that, Tony insisted and with Aunt May's permission, he said yes.

It was then when Tony signed a legal document, finalizing that May Parker and Tony Stark were now co-parenting Peter Parker.

With that, he started living at Tony's tower. Got himself his own room and everything. Peter talked to Aunt May as much as possible, but it was short and as much as he wanted to talk more, he knew that she had a job to do and it starts with finishing the task at hand. He was allowed to have Ned and MJ over sometimes, but he loved hanging out with Tony more than his friends.

They got to the extent where they talked about their past lives and problems. Tony was understanding and listened to the kid's rambling.

Overall, Peter was still a kid, and he was going to enjoy it while it lasts. Tony wanted the same for Peter. He wanted the kid to hang out, have fun, take selfies and remember that life is still young for him.

Peter snapped out of his thoughts as a black car started honking at him. He smiled when he saw Happy rolling down the drivers seat.

"Hey kid! Don't have all day!" Happy Hogan yelled, beeping the car again.

"No! Wait! I'm coming!" Peter yelled back, running to and opening the car door. Once he slammed the car door shut, Happy drove off.

"Thanks for picking me up!" Peter chirped, taking the ear bud out of his ear.

"No problem, kid. Always nice to see ya squirt." Happy explained, turning on his blinkers. Peter grinned and looked out the window. Even though there were still problems that he can't escape, he wouldn't trade it for the world.

Peter and Happy got to the tower, with the same giddy expression Peter always had. When they arrived at the compound, they were greeted with Tony Stark lounging on the couch, watching mindless television. He was wearing a stained T-shirt and jeans that had oil and other stuff that he spilled or wiped on his poor shirt.

"Hey Mr. Stark!" Peter called out to him as he walked into the kitchen, looking for something to eat. Every since he got bitten by a radioactive spider, he now has fast metabolism which makes him hungry all the time.

"Hey kiddo, how was school?" Mr. Stark asked, getting up and stretching his back. He went into the kitchen to find Peter stuffing his face with animal crackers. Peter turned around and gave him a sheepish look.

Mr. Stark chuckled, and patted the kid's shoulder. "Alright Pete, chew, and swallow, then you can talk about your day." Peter nodded and stuffed more animal crackers in his face.

After a full minute of Stark watching the kid gulf down animal crackers, Tony had to say something, "Damn kid, I know you have a fast metabolism, but didn't eat like three hours ago?" he asked.

Peter shoved down the last of the crackers and nodded, "Yep! But I'm still hungry." He answered.

Mr. Stark shook his and chuckled once more. "Well alright spiderboy, save your appetite though, I ordered some pizza. Come join me at the lab when your finished stuffing your face with cute animal crackers." He smirked before leaving the kid to do their own thing.

Peter muffled an "Ok!" and had 2 more handfuls of animal crackers before he put the animal crackers away. Grabbing a water bottle, he headed down towards the lab where Mr. Stark was waiting for him.

When he arrived there, Mr. Stark wasn't at his usual place. Walking in completely into the middle of the lab, he stood there, waiting for something to come out of nowhere.

"Hey there kiddo." A voice popped behind him, startling the poor kid and dropping his water with a frightened, but funny expression. Tony laughed aloud as his intern made a 'Eep!' sound and then staring at him with a slight surprise emotion.

"Haha, very funny." Peter punched his mentors arm, but a smile split his face. He could feel the vibrations the man was producing from his laughs. Tony wiped the wetness that formed in his eyes and gave an amused sigh before ruffling the kid's hair.

"Sorry, just love messing with ya," He smirked when Peter rolled his eyes.

"No your not."

"Yeah, I'm not. I'm surprised your spidey senses didn't detect me." Stark raised his brow mischievously.

Peter laughed and gave his mentor a slight shove.

Tony gave a mocking pain expression, "Oh! I'm hurt!" he said dramatically.

"That's so sad...F.R.I.D.A.Y play Despacito." Peter replied mournfully.

In the background, the music came on and Tony made a face, making Peter howl with laughter.

"Seriously F.R.I.D.A.Y?!" Tony exclaimed, looking up to no one particular but the voice.

"Sir, you forgot that you gave Master Peter access to me." F.R.I.D.A.Y reminded.

"Master?!"

"Thats his preferred name he wanted me to call, sir." F.R.I.D.A.Y said.

Tony raised his brow and looked over to Peter who was smiling sarcastically at him. He then turned around. "F.R.I.D.A.Y, change his name to spiderkiddie, and turn off that horrible music."

"As you wish, sir." F.R.I.D.A.Y replied, turning off the music, and changing Peter's name.

"Spiderkiddie?!" Peter had his mouth open.

"Yep!" Tony smirked savagely.

Peter crossed his arms to his chest and gave an exasperated huff, "This isn't over yet..." staring at Mr. Stark with full determination his eyes.

"We'll see," Tony smiled and brushing his stubby chin. "Besides that, how was school?"

Peter let his guard down and smiled brightly. "There was a school announcement that there will exchange students who will visit! We'll be be pairs of two and we'll do a project on how to help the economy in our world! Its also a competition during that and first place will present their project to the MIT, including a scholarship!" Peter exclaimed.

"Oh? Do you know who you'll being paired up?"" Mr. Stark asked, sitting down at his chair and listening intently at his intern. He was glad that the kid was excited about the competition and the scholarship, but he was also skeptical with an anonymous student.

Peter shook his head, "No, not yet, but i'm sure they'll be awesome!"

Tony smiled at the kid's enthusiasm. It was a gift for a person to be upbeat about meeting new people. Though, Tony met with other allies, he barely trusted them.

"I'm sure they will." Mr. Stark said.

"Sir and Spiderkiddie? The pizza is here." F.R.I.D.A.Y interrupted. Peter made an annoyed sound but smiled at the thought of pizza. Without warning, Tony grabbed a hold of his kid's shoulder and guided him out the lab, "Okay, Spiderkiddie, lets go get you some food, or else you'll be a grumpy toddler." he teased.

"I'm not a kid." Peter rolled his eyes.

"Lets just get some pizza." Tony sighed.

A 15 year old Perrin Parker walked into Ms. Potts office, sighing un-enthusiastically as she plopped into the chairs that were right in front of Pepper Potts' desk. The ginger haired woman looked away from her screen, peeking at the girl who had her brown, wavy hair up in a ponytail, though her side bangs flowed freely in the girls face. Pepper raised her brow, "Bad day?" she asked, looking at her computer again.

Perrin only grumbled in reply, as she started playing with her fingers.

Perrin Parker was not a cheerful child, which followed into her teenage years. She always a glum one and though she tried to be happy, it always ended in a upsetting manner.

She was an exchange student and it so happened that Pepper Potts was the one who took her in. Not that it was a problem;they got along very well the first week Perrin arrived. Though, how she became an exchange student wasn't a choice to begin with.

After her parents died and being separated from her only family was hard enough, Perrin had to go with the flow.

"I have to work with a random person to figure out a way to help the economy, as well as be part of a competition. First place will represent their project to the MIT and full scholarship." She replied, sighing and crossing her arms to her chest. Perrin was never good with making friends. Luckily, since she started living with Pepper, she's been doing well with talking more often, considering that she is kind of like an apprentice to Ms. Potts.

Pepper sometimes spoke to other people who were the companies allies, and they spoke different languages, making it difficult for her to actually communicate, but when Perrin arrived and had said that she was bilangual, it helped the ginger haired woman immensely.

Considering that Perrin was an exchange student, she had to adapt to different homes, to different countries too. Perrin was used to traveling, and so was Pepper. So they fit pretty well.

"I'm sure it won't be that bad," Pepper said, shuffling some papers on her desk. "Besides, it might be fun to make some friends and get a scholarship." she encouraged. Perrin sighed, "In the last times I've tried to 'Make friends' ended up in disaster."

"Just because someone put hand sanitizer in her hair, doesn't mean you should hold a grudge over them." Pepper remarked.

"It is when you have a have a open sore on your scalp." Perrin defended. It was one of the reasons why her hair was up in the first place. Most people she knew had Panic or anxiety attacks, but her? She has a thing called Trichotillomania, in which she pulls out her hair and picks at the scalp.

Perrin rarely shows her panicking state. Instead, she physically pulls, or picks to relieve her stress/panic. It was a horrible thing to do and she didn't know whether she wanted Panic attacks or Anxiety attacks rather than Trichotillomania.

Admittedly, all disorders were horrible. No person should go through that, not even the most meanest ones.

"Rin," Pepper started with the girls nickname. "Its not the end of the world. I know you'll do your best. And about that sore, did you put ointment on like I told you?" Pepper inquired, raising her brow once again. When Pepper found out about her mental disorder, it broke her heart and she couldn't help but take Perrin under her wing immediately. Because of that, Pepper made it her goal to help the girl with her hair problems and that starts with healing Perrin's sores.

Perrin nodded but frowned when remembering dabbing the ointment on her sore. When it touched her sore, the girl immediately hissed in pain. Non the less, Perrin was grateful for the woman's help with her disorder. She also liked when Pepper would call her by her nickname. Perrin usually was called by her full name, but when Pepper asked her if she could call her Rin sometimes, she agreed and every since than it was either Perrin or Rin.

"Good. Now with that, I am almost done. You don't suppose you could translate this for me?" Pepper asked, handing the paper to the girl. Perrin nodded and took a hold of the paper, and started translating the paper in fluent English.

Once they were done, Pepper locked up her office and started to exit, followed by the 15 year old girl. Without the heels Pepper was wearing, Perrin would be taller than her.

As they were exiting, A man in a plaid tuxedo starting walking towards them.

Please don't come here, please don't come here. Perrin pleaded silently.

Sadly, the man were right up in their faces.

Crap!

"Ms. Potts," Aldrich Killian said fondly, and then turned to Perrin with a blank expression. "And Perrin..."

Perrin was about to spew a bunch of profanities, but fortunately Pepper seemed to notice the girl's agitated posture and decided to interrupt her before any words were spoken.

"Mr. Killian," Pepper strained a smile. "I see you were on the newspaper. Congratulations with opening another industry." she said.

Killian smiled proudly. "Thank you, though I wouldn't have done it without you." he purred, winking at Pepper. Perrin had to conceal her eye roll. She knew that Killian has been flirting with her mentor and thank God that Pepper was not interested.

"Thank you for your input sir." Pepper smiled, staying professional. "But I really have to go. If you'll excuse me." she said, walking pass Killian who just stared at her with an disbelieving face.

Perrin followed right behind and she could've swore that Killian was giving her the cold shoulder.

When they were completely out the building, Perrin had to ask something. "How do you stay professional when being flirted like that?" she asked.

Pepper shrugged, "I don't know. I'm just not interested. Maybe he is just joking. Besides, he hasn't asked me on a date."

"Yet..." Perrin mumbled under her breath.

"Rin..." Ms. Potts warned. "There's nothing going on between me and Killian. Now, lets go home, eat dinner, do homework and rest. You have a big day on Monday, and I don't want you to spoil your health."

Perrin sighed but nodded. "Yes Ms. Potts."

"Good." Pepper smiled.

With that, they called a taxi and were on their way home.

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