Disclaimer: Nope, just a fanfiction writer. I would be a man, if I owned it, wouldn't I? So nope.
Story: Penelope Parker had a habit of picking up strays and attracting the wrong kind of men.
Set after various episodes.
Spoilers: Probably.
Warnings: Cursing and violence for now…hm, just in case since I'm usually writing it, bit of crazy humor, perverted humor, morbid or sarcastic humor, and maybe some sexual situations…
Pairings: Features Fem!Peter/Various Others, (main) Fem!Peter/Flint Marko (Sandman), Fem!Peter/Norman Osborn, Fem!Peter/Dr. Connors, Fem!Peter/Kraven
Love in Hopeless Places
Chapter Four: Don't Be Lonely
"What's up with you and Tony Stark?"
Penny blinked, pausing midway into feeding herself a spoonful of cereal. Honestly, she hadn't expected Amadeus to pop out with that question all of a sudden, but now she had the whole room's (full of her fellow heroes) attention and everyone staring at her. Her original team fidgeted, though they too tossed her interested looks, combined with suspicious ones that didn't help matters when some of the others glanced at them to try to get a clue about the answer to the question.
She also really couldn't stand having Flint's narrowed gaze on her. By then, she figured out he had a crush (that was so strange, especially since she had never had someone crushing on her before…she thinks). She still wasn't sure how she felt about that.
"It's…" she felt like hiding, especially since she spied Mr. Osborn ("Please call me Norman, Penny.") and Curt in the room as well, watching her.
This would've been so much easier if she was invisible. Or could become invisible like Sue.
"Complicated," Penny said instead. "Tony and I's relationship is complicated."
Because it pretty much was.
They hadn't actually first met when in uniform, chasing after Living Laser. Actually, she had been fifteen and had yet to get her powers yet, when she met Tony at the nightclub Provacateur. And to be honest, it was luck (or fate if you wanted to look at it that way) that they had met at all.
"Why do we have to dress up?" Penny sighed, letting Mary Jane wrestle her into some kind of tight dress she was sure she would never have had the confidence to wear otherwise.
"It's a nightclub that allows only those dressed up to the nines," Mary Jane rolled her eyes. "So we have to be dressed to kill, Penny. Plus we've got to look the age, don't we?"
Penny frowned, reminded again that they were sneaking into a club that they were underage for. But Harry wanted to celebrate their end of year testing and them entering junior year soon, so he and Mary Jane had come up with going dancing (and choosing a high profile club while they were at it).
"Done, girls?" Harry asked, knocking on the door.
"Done!" Mary Jane sing-songed and Harry entered, appraising them approvingly. His eyes, unnoticed by Penny, lingered on her longer, and Mary Jane gave him a knowing grin he blushed at.
"Let's go before I change my mind. And I hope your dad won't notice or find out what we're doing!" Penny got up and hurried on to leave Harry's home.
"Ugh, please," Harry snorted. "He wouldn't care, even if he miraculously did notice."
Penny slowed down and reached out a hand to squeeze her best friend's shoulder, giving him a sad smile. He returned it awkwardly and they kept on walking. Soon enough, they were being driven to the nightclub Provacateur and Harry somehow wrangled their way into the club, while also skipping the line. Inside, the music was blaring and people were crowding the dancefloor as they danced wildly.
"Awesome!" Harry cheered. "Let's get dancing and then put our fake IDs to use after!"
Penny tried to hang back, but both of her best friends knowingly grabbed one of her arms and dragged her with them and they reached the dancefloor. She laughed and shook her head, but ended up dancing with them as the three moved to the beat of the current music blasting around them.
When they finished there, they headed to the bar and ordered some drinks, trying to keep from looking shifty as they ordered alcohol. When they weren't questioned or bothered about their order, they tossed each other grins and enjoyed their drinks, finishing their first one quickly and then ordering another. It wasn't long until Penny was tipsy, though Harry and Mary Jane were worse off. Harry, especially, seemed to be the most drunk out of the three of them.
"I'll be back with him," Mary Jane told her, carrying Harry up. "I'll take him to throw up. You stay and enjoy yourself. One of us should!"
Penny was going to protest, but Mary Jane gave her one of those looks that she specialized in and Penny's mouth shut tight. Smugly, Mary Jane turned away with Harry and carried him to where the restrooms were supposed to be.
It wasn't even that long before Penny wasn't alone anymore.
"Looking lonely tonight?"
Penny turned to face whoever said that, immediately wanting to refute, when she saw just who it was who spoke. Oh, she knew him alright. Who didn't know Tony Stark? And he was right there in front of her, his lips moving into a playful smirk as his arc reactor glowed brightly beneath the dress shirt he was wearing.
He gestured to the seat beside Penny. "Mind if I sit?"
Penny shook her head slowly, still processing that the superhero known as Iron Man was right next to her.
"What's your name? I'm Tony," he said after ordering a drink for himself.
"Penny," she said shyly, clasping her hands so that she didn't fidget with them.
His smirk widened. "Penny, huh? Cute. Try this," he pushed a drink over to her and she accepted it in surprise. She hadn't even known he'd ordered one for her.
Picking it up and observing it curiously, she tentatively took a small sip before making a small surprised but also pleased noise at the taste.
"It's sweet," she grinned. The other drinks she'd tried had been too much for her, so she hadn't really enjoyed them too much, even though she finished them.
Tony laughed. "Figured you're a sweet one."
She blushed at that.
A ringtone went off and they both ended up checking their phones.
"It's me," Tony frowned. But he perked up. "I'll be back after I check on this, okay? Promise you'll stay?"
Penny hesitated, but looking at Tony made her hesitantly nod. So she sat there, waiting first for Harry and Mary Jane and now waiting for Tony Stark of all people. But then her phone vibrated and she looked to see a text.
Taking Harry home. Ready?
Penny bit her lip, looking in the direction that Tony had gone to.
I was with a guy.
She waited for a bit before worrying about the long delay from the other. But then she received another text from Mary Jane finally.
Have fun ;) About time you loosened up. Go enjoy yourself.
She let out the breath she hadn't known she'd been holding and just then Tony appeared.
"Hey, you want to switch over to the café side so we can talk better?" He was grinning at her and it was infectious. She grinned back and nodded, and he held out a hand for hers. She let him take hers and he led the way to the café side of the room, where he found them a seat.
And then they sat down and Penny found herself face to face with Tony, not knowing what she was going to say or do.
"So what are you into?" he asked, tilting his head.
"I like messing around with things," she blurted out before inwardly sighing at herself. Why was she such a geek? Oh well. Might as well go all out. "I really like examining quantum physics, bioengineering…" and she went on to talk about science stuff that Harry and Mary Jane usually pretended to understand or pretended to listen to her about.
But Tony, instead, was sitting up in interest and listening avidly. It was a nice change…
And then the two of them were trading back and forth about science stuff, and it was awesome because she couldn't remember ever doing something like this with anyone.
"Do you want to come with me?" he asked later, once there was a lull in their conversation.
She tried not to show her surprise, but she'd been caught off guard. She also realized that this was probably a usual for him, while she had never done anything like this at all. But…
"Yeah, that's fine," she said faintly.
Tony beamed at her and took her hand again, and she let him lead her out of that nightclub and to his car, where he drove to the Avengers Tower (Oh God, it was the Avengers Tower). She was practically in a daze as he helped her out of the car and into the tower, getting into an elevator that led up to a floor that she assumed was his.
Before she could say a word, the moment they stepped out of the elevator, Tony had turned to her and kissed her firmly.
She'd never been kissed before. This was her first kiss. She was being kissed by Tony Stark and he was taking her first kiss.
Oh wow.
He was so warm, especially against her. And when his callused hands grasped her face gently, she practically melted against him. She hadn't even flinched when his tongue slowly dragged against her lips, parting them as it slid inside.
But then his hands moved to the bottom of her dress, lifting it up, and she broke out of her daze to panic and break away from him.
"W-wait a sec, er –I'm 15!" she shouted in her panic.
He froze and stared at her, looking thoroughly confused. Then he grimaced and moved back a step.
"Ah well, I've done crazier stuff in my teens," he laughed it off, giving her an easy grin that relaxed her. "Nice job sneaking into that place. Not an easy thing!"
Penny smiled shyly, glad he was taking it so well.
"I like you," he laughed again. "You're spunky and daring, and you've got a hell of a brain on you. Plus you're definitely easy on the eyes," he winked at her, making her blush. "Want to stay over anyway, maybe check out my personal lab instead of doing the other fun stuff I had been hoping to do with you tonight?" He gave her a playful leer.
She definitely turned red at that, but ignored that last comment. "I'd love to!"
So she found himself looking over some of the coolest stuff she'd ever seen, talking with Tony, and even giving a hand on some of his projects for the rest of the night.
And if she wore one of his shirts and just that in the morning, in her defense, a dress was uncomfortable to sleep in and nothing had happened.
Penny grimaced and focused back on the still creepily staring group.
"We're friends," she tried to explain to them. "Just friends. With benefits." It was how Tony usually described them, so she inwardly shrugged to herself.
But the gaping coming from the others made her think that maybe that hadn't been a good idea, more so when she saw Mr. Os –Norman looking livid and Curt looking contrite. Flint even was scowling and looking a little like his old villainous self.
"Er, something I said?"
Tony stuck his tongue out as he turned the wrench clockwise. Penny was going to come over soon, and he wanted to finish this so she could take a look at it and be her adorably in awe self. He still remembered how they met, first when she was just Penny and then when she was Spidergirl.
To be honest, he remembered Penny after that first night together in his lab. But then he'd taken her home and they hadn't talked for the longest time. But then all of a sudden, he was going after Living Laser and ran into Spidergirl, and he'd invited her to his workplace after she'd impressed him with scientific knowledge (laughingly again, though he hadn't known that at the time). But then they were in Stark Labs and after he'd shown her everything, she took off her mask after he'd been showing something off, and he instantly recognized her. Funnily enough, she hadn't even thought he would.
"Oh, that's amazing," Spidergirl practically gushed over one of his suits and Tony smirked proudly. But then she took off her mask, curiously taking one of the head armor to slip it on, and Tony saw who she was.
"Penny?"
She blinked and looked at him in surprise. "Oh, you remember me? I didn't think you would."
"Wby wouldn't I?" he said in delight. "I may have a bad habit of collecting women left and right, and probably not remembering them," he added that as an afterthought, realizing why she would think what she did then. "But you, I would never forget. You were definitely a smart cookie and I had fun just talking and tinkering with stuff with you that night."
That brought on that adorable flush he remembered she tended to take on. Which made him give her a second look, looking her over thoughtfully. She'd grown a little more and was even prettier than he remembered…
"How old are you now?" he asked.
"16," she answered in curiosity.
He let his smirk return and surprised her when he cornered her against the table they were against, his arms on either side of her.
"You're almost legal," he teased, sneaking a kiss. "Too bad you're not!"
He gleefully noted her full blush once more. Oh, he definitely missed her.
"Hey, got a sec?" Natasha knocked on his glass door, her face hard to read like always.
"Yeah?" he asked, still focusing on his work and chuckling under his breath as he remembered that moment.
"Just curious, but I was wondering about you and Penny…"
That made Tony raise his eyebrows and finally move his focus from his current project.
"What about Penny and me?"
Natasha shrugged. "Nothing. I've been curious about your relationship for a while. It's just…odd."
"Is it?" he asked absentmindedly, turning back to his work. "Penny and I…we're…complicated."
After that, he kept his focus on what he was doing, and soon enough Natasha gave up and left after a quiet snort.
Well, what did she expect? It wasn't like he had a lot to say about it.
Penny caught the water bottle tossed to her.
"Breathing hard already?" she giggled at Tony, who rolled his eyes. "You really rely on your armor too much."
"Meh, never been too physical," Tony shrugged, taking a towel and wiping himself down. "Good spar, even if you're hardly winded."
Penny straightened up in her cross-legged perch proudly. "Skills, Tony. It's skills."
Tony gulped down some of his own water. "And a radioactive spider bite."
She gave him that, she inwardly mused while eying his muscled torso appreciatively, especially as he was only wearing a wife beater and track pants. He caught her and gave her a wink.
"Speaking of appreciation," Tony started in a playful but curious tone. "How're things with Flint?" Or the various others he wanted to tease her about, but she hadn't caught on about the others yet. So long as they never ever talked about Reed Richards.
She blushed lightly. "What about him?"
He sat next to her. "He kiss you yet?" he teased and she swatted at his head.
"Shut up, Tony! And n-no, he hasn't," she stuttered.
"But you want him to," Tony continued to mess with her, ending up having to duck her hand.
But then she stilled. "Maybe," she confessed and he grinned.
"Aw, my cute protégée is growing up~" He poked at her side, making her squirm and scoot away. She glared at him though, but he ignored that and turned the music player louder and switched out his water bottle for a can of beer. He cracked it open and took a sip, before offering it to Penny. She took a sip of her own with a quiet huff.
"Once I was eleven years old, my daddy told me go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely. Once I was eleven years old~" he sang along, grinning at Penny. She joined in and they sang together, before he put down his beer and jumped up, dragging her with him and pulling her into a dance.
He put his hands on her waist and she'd ended up placing her hands against his chest. They swayed while singing along, and Penny's hands made their way to his shoulders while his moved to her face. Placing his forehead against hers, he sang against her lips.
"I'm still learning about life; my woman brought children for me, so I can sing them all my songs," he grinned against her and hummed the rest of that, letting the song build up before he kissed her with fervor, and gripped onto her face as she clutched onto him and their bodies plastered against each other.
Well, at least when things got lonely, they always had each other to look out for.
Started 5/11/16 – Completed 5/11/16
A/n: Tony's got some nerve, huh? ;D I hope you guys liked this chapter. Please remember to review!
Quick Points:
1. Next guy: I already started the next chapter with Reed and almost finished it, and after that will be either Norman or Connors, depending on my mood.
2. Second parts: There will be second parts to the Flint, Steve, and Tony chapters, in addition to the guys just having more one-shots. Because you know, lots to add to those XD
Anon Reviews:
1. Guest 1: Lots of sweet moments, definitely! And humor for sure too.
2. Guest 2: Villains capturing Spidey and, er, breeding…Hey, not implausible. There are probably creeps out there willing to do that! Good thing she's got so many cuties on her side.
3. trim: Thanks! Glad you're liking the story so far!
4. Leska: I'm spoiling you guys XD I'm not taking so long to update, ya know?
