Wade's place wasn't much but it was warm and quiet. When peter wakes the next morning his backside is sore but after everything that happened last night, it was the least of his problems. He sits up slowly, glancing down at Wade's scarred back. When they first got together Wade was adamant that Peter never see him without his suit, but after a while he warmed up and now takes off the suit immediately once they're alone. When he first pulled off his mask it took everything inside of Peter to not react in any way, now he can't imagine Wade any other way. He smooths a hand over Wade's back, following the curve of his spine with a smile.
He lays back down, turned on his side so he can see the back of Wade's head. Last night…how it must have looked to his parents, being ripped from his window by someone they think is a criminal. Last night he didn't care but now he felt guilty. He knows he should get dressed and head home, but after everything Wade went through to get him out quickly…and the window…his dad would probably be furious. Maybe staying for a bit of time wouldn't be so bad. Wade stirs and shifts, flipping onto his back.
"Hey Petey!" he says in a teasing voice.
Peter rolls his eyes but scoots in closer, "How are you so chipper in the morning?"
"How are you not?"
When Peter doesn't answer Wade says, "Oh right…fighting parents…well….want to go get some pancakes?"
Peter chuckles and sits up, leaning over Wade and kissing him, "Sure, but you buy."
"Of course!"
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Ihop would have been nice, if a familiar face hadn't cut them off right before entering. "Peter," the man says curtly.
Wade leans over and whispers very loudly, "Who's the guy with the swanky arm?"
"The man who's tearing my family apart," Peter responds bitterly.
Bucky shifts from one foot to the other, "I know you're angry, but Steve's worried about you."
"You think I don't know that? He's my dad!"
Bucky glances at Wade, "He thought you'd been kidnapped."
Wade grabs Peter's shirt or more like he pinches the hem of the bottom of his shirt, "We can go somewhere else Petey."
"Please," Peter mutters, preparing to turn around.
Bucky, though, grabs his arm and says, "You should at least go home and tell him you're all right; he feels guilty."
"He should!"
Bucky frowns, "This wouldn't have happened if Tony hadn't refused to let him see you!"
"THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T KILLED HIS PARENTS! IF YOU HADN'T TAKEN MY FATHER FROM HIM! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" he was screaming so loud that it felt like his throat was being torn open.
Wade shoves Bucky off, "Don't touch him!" he snarls, "And leave him the fuck alone!" He pulls Peter around and grabs his arm, pulling him down the street.
"He'll go straight to my father."
"Let him, it's not like they know where I am."
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Tony paces back and forth, Steve sitting on the couch with Natasha, holding his head in his hands. When Vision first came in, like Natasha, he'd asked about the mess, "Did the kidnapper do that?"
Steve had looked away in shame while Tony grit his teeth and turned his back on them.
Tony's about to sit down when Steve's phone rings. He picks it up, "Bucky…you found him?!... Wait what? I'm on my way!"
Tony grabs him, "Don't you dare leave without telling me what's going on!"
Steve shoves his hand away, "It's Wilson! Deadpool took Peter."
"I already knew that," Tony hisses, "Is he ok?"
"He's fine, apparently they're on a date!"
Tony feels his stomach drop. He knew the fighting was wearing on Peter and as much as he wants to find him and scold him for scaring him like that, he knows he shouldn't chase him. "Let him be."
Everyone turns, mouths dropping open. Steve freezes and slowly looks over at Tony, "What?"
"You honestly think he never hears us fighting? You think he doesn't see the way we tear into each other? He needs space and someone who isn't upset."
"Wade isn't fit to be-"
"What? Dating our son?"
"You just want to go against whatever I do!" Steve snarls.
"That's not true!" Tony says with a scowl, "I want him to be Happy! How is it you can see the good in everyone, you can accept people's mistakes like they're nothing, but this you can't do? Leave him alone!"
Steve grips his hands into fists and looks at Tony as if he wants to hit him, but instead he sighs, letting his shoulders fall, "What have we done to him? To make him feel like he needs to do something so drastic just to get away… I don't even know if all of this is even worth it."
Vision slowly taps Natasha's shoulder and the two of them leave the room.
"I don't want you to leave…but I'm still in love with you…" Tony holds his arms around himself, the pain of their separation is still raw, still driving splinters of pain into his chest. "Do you really love him?"
Steve sits back down, weakly holding his head in his hands, "I don't know anymore. All this fighting between us…it's too painful. Sometimes I just want everything to stop moving so fast, but it won't happen. If things hadn't happened the way they happened…maybe I'd know for sure."
Tony goes over to the bar and picks up a large envelope, pulling the papers out. He walks over to Steve and holds them out, "It's time you think about it seriously, because honestly, I can't take it anymore. It's not fair to Peter either."
Steve holds the divorce papers in his hands, feeling something hot well up in his eyes. "You're going to fight to make sure he's never around me, aren't you?"
Tony folds his arms and sighs, "Your boyfriend is unstable, I won't let him near my son. I won't keep you from him, you can visit him here."
"It's dangerous here for me!"
"And whose fault is that?" Tony's voice is almost tired, and he is tired, so very tired. He's tired of the fighting, of the constant feeling of anger and shame, tired of waking up in a bed that's empty and cold and knowing that his husband is off with another man, happy. He's so very tired of the jealousy, of the friction, of hurting his son.
"And if I decide to stay?"
Tony shakes his head, "If you stay? We'll need counseling, you can't see Bucky anymore. If you stay you'll be MY husband. No more boyfriends, no more sneaking out. We'll see about getting your record clear but until then you won't be able to leave."
Steve rubs his face, the papers hanging from his fingers, "I want to try…I want to try to work things out."
Tony looks at him with a steel gaze, "You better be serious. You better not be doing this just for Peter."
"Would it be so bad to stay together for him?"
"Yes!" Tony shouts, "He's a smart boy, do you think he won't realize your miserable and I'm miserable? Do you think he won't feel guilty because we're miserable and it's because we don't want to hurt him with a messy divorce? Yes family separations are painful, but at least he won't think it's his fault that…that I…" Tony shakes his head and looks away.
"I still love you. It never stopped, it's just…Bucky needed me-"
"So did I!"
Steve tenses up and hides his face, "Please, can we just stop fighting?" his voice sounds frail, like he's crying behind his hand.
Tony slumps down in a chair across from him, "It's not like I want to fight, but we can't do this in front of Peter again. We need to get this out now…"
Steve gets up and walks over to Tony, kneeling down in front of him. "I love you," He breathes, "Sure I love Bucky too, but the more I think about not having you and Peter in my life…of having to make that choice…I'd rather be with you. I think I just got caught up with everything, with trying to be…trying to do the right thing and Bucky was there and you…you were on the opposite side."
"If you had just stayed and done things by the book…we might have still been able to clear his name! You ran off without thinking! People got hurt because of your choices!"
"I know! If I could repay everyone I would! I made a mistake, but I thought it was the right thing to do! We can't foresee the end of every battle."
Tony leans his head back, trying to keep tears from spilling over the rims of his eyelids, "I don't want to lose you!"
Steve feels the guilt of what he's caused clench his inside into knots. He leans forward putting his head on Tony's lap, "I'm so sorry…I promise I'll do everything to work through this…"
Tony bends over him, and for a long moment the only sound in the room is two people crying over what they'd done to each other.
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A/N: Ahhhh this one was longer than it needed to be! But it was worth it originally I wanted to have Steve and Tony actually separate and for Tony to come out on top of everything but be the benevolent ex and let Steve and Steve alone come to see Peter but when I wrote it up I couldn't do it. Poor Bucky will never get Steve in my fan fictions…I probably won't even like him until the next movie he's in, idk what it is but he is not my favorite or even one of my sort of liked characters. He's rad, don't get me wrong, but damn I cannot bring myself to root for him.
