It was warm out; humid and sticky to the point of disgust. Peter could feel the sweat sticking his mask to his face. Every movement was sickening and gross. He figured the stickiness on his hands was just more sweat but when he actually went to look, he saw red.
His hands were coated in blood.
It wasn't his though, at least he thought. Mainly because Karen didn't report him being injured in anyway. He didn't know whose it was. He didn't remember seeing anyone get injured or even touching, nor did he recall himself getting injured. Either way, it was disconcerting; hence why he was currently on his way to the tower to clean himself up before returning home.
He arrived on the Stark landing pad. FRIDAY had opened the veranda door upon his arrival. He knew she had more likely informed Tony of his visit so he didn't bother telling her not to. He took off his mask then gloves as he headed inside.
It was supposed to just be something quick before returning home, but seeing the blood on his bare hands made him sick. He froze for a second before rushing to the sink and dry heaving over it. He turned the water on and put his head under it in hopes of perhaps calming himself down but it's effects seemed to be very little.
Peter spared a small glance at his hands again and was met with the same sick feeling. They were quickly placed under the faucet and he started to scrub the blood away.
"Kid?" Tony's voice echoed through the room. "FRIDAY said you might be hurt."
Peter ignored him and continued to scrub his hands. The blood wouldn't come off. It was like a stain and no matter how hard he scrubbed, the water just wouldn't run clean.
"Pete?" Tony was behind him, watching as he scrubbed his clean hands to the point of them getting raw. "Pete, stop."
Tony's words went ignored, or they weren't heard in the first place. Peter needed to get the blood off.
"Hey." Peter stopped at that. The faucet was turned off and Tony's hands were holding his, the blood void from them and the sink. "Are you okay kiddo?"
Peter blinked several times before answering. "Yeah, yeah I'm good. I uh, sorry."
"You wanna tell me what that was?"
No, he really didn't, mainly because he didn't know himself.
"I- don't know. There was just- blood and I don't know whose but seeing it on my hands… I don't know, I- it reminded me of how Ben died and I just- I'm sorry for coming here but if I went home then-"
"Hey, hey, hey, it's okay. You don't have anything to apologize for. You know you're always welcome here no matter the circumstances." Tony patted him on the shoulder. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. Just know that it's okay when things like that happen, it's a normal human thing to react like that."
"Thanks Mr. Stark." Peter have him a small smile.
"Buuuut just to put my mind at easy, how about we let Brucie give you a quick check to make sure you're all good?"
"Sure thing."
I was thinking I might take some of the other prompts and make them into something more in depth and longer but I really wanna finish the other ones I'm doing but we'll see
As always, please point out and grammatical or spelling errors you find so I might fix them in the future.
Hope ya liked it. See ya later!
