It was 7:30.

The location that Viktor had sent them was not too far from the compound.

Natasha and Bucky were sitting in the car.

Natasha could tell Bucky was worried.

She took one hand away from the steering wheel, and put it on his arm. Holding it tight.

"He's gonna be okay. Peter's strong" She said, more like she was trying to convince herself.

Bucky looked at her and nodded.

They stayed quiet for another 10 minutes before Natasha said "we're here." She looked at the warehouse.

"Mmhm"

They got out of the car and knocked on the only door.

It opened and Viktor was standing there. Smiling.

"What did you do to Peter!" Bucky yelled and walked closer to the man.

Something electrocuted him and he fell down.

He saw Natasha down too.

She was the last thing he saw before blacking out.

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Natasha opened her eyes to see a gray floor.

She looked around the room.

Her hands were hung to the roof as were Peters and Buckys.

Peter's shoes were barely touching the ground.

That's when it hit her.

Peter.

He seemed to be unconscious.

He was just hanging there.

Bucky then woke up.

"Peter" he whispered as he looked at the boy In front of him.

Natasha was next to him her hands cuffed to the ceiling like peter and himself.

"Yeah" she answered.

The door opened.

In walked Viktor Mnushkin.

Natasha quickly tried to get out of her cuffs so she could get to peter before Viktor could.

"Don't worry. It's vibranium." He said as he walked toward the still unconscious peter. He cupped Peter's cheek.

"Don't touch him asshole" Natasha said.

"Ooh, I'd watch your language" he said, pointing at peter.

Bucky then opened his mouth to say something when he looked at peter. He closed his mouth.

Viktor let go of Peters chin and let his head fall back down.

"Peter wake up! Please peter. Please" Natasha said as she saw Viktor pick up a tool from a near by table.

Peter slowly opened his eyes.

The light inside his eyes were gone.

"What did you do to him?!" Natasha asked, not taking her eyes off the boy.

"Just some drugs to help him cooperate, I couldn't have him moving around" Viktor said.

Natasha once again tried to get out of the cuffs.

Viktor walked up to peter.

"You wanna tell them why I'm doing this?" Viktor asked.

Peter was tearing up.

He shook his head "no" he said.

Natasha looked at him.

Viktor slapped his face. And not the kind Natasha does to wake you up, no, the kind that makes you want to scream.

Peter sighed in pain.

"No! Stop, please. Don't hurt him" Natasha begged.

"The reason I'm doing this is to teach you a lesson, Natalia. Remember vasilina?" Viktor asked.

Natasha's face paled at the name.

"Now, it's time for payback" Viktor said.

"I didn't know you were her father" Natasha said.

"And he didn't know you guys were his parents" Viktor pointed to peter.

"I'm sorry" Natasha said "please. Let him go. He didn't have any part in this"

"None of us would be here if it wasn't for you, Natalia" Viktor remarked.

He turned back to peter.

A fist hit his face.

"No! Please" Natasha yelled.

Another fist.

"Stop!!!" Bucky yelled.

Fist after fist, Peters face was bruised.

Then, after the 10th fist, peter was bleeding.

Once Viktor was satisfied, he stopped and picked up the tool.

It was like a knife but sharper.

"No, please. I've learnt my lesson! Let him go, please." Natasha begged.

"You see, Natalia, I'm just getting started" Viktor said.

"Please, if you really want to teach me a lesson, you can't be punishing him, you need to punish me" she said.

"If you say so" Viktor said, walking towards her and Bucky.

Peter had blood coming out of his nose and he had cuts on his cheek.

"N-no, don't h-hurt her, p-please" Viktor begged.

"I'm giving you all a break. You have 5 minutes to decide if Natalia, Peter or Barnes get hurt. It's all up to you" Viktor told them, then he walked out.

"It has to be me" peter said.

"Peter, look at yourself. I can't-we can't let you get hurt like that again" Bucky said.

"Which is why it has to be me" Natasha said.

"No. No Natasha, you guys are the last people in the world who are family to me. I can't let you do that." Peter said.

"You knew?" Bucky asked.

"Just found out today" peter answered.

Viktor came back inside.

"Have you decided?" Viktor asked.

"Yes" they all said at once.

Peter glared at the two.

Natasha glared back.

"It's going to be me" peter said before the others could.

"No, Peter. It's me. It's going to be me" Natasha said.

"It's me" Bucky said last.

"Well you know what they say, first come, first serve. And first was sweet little Pyotr. So-" Viktor was interrupted.

"How did you know?" Natasha asked.

"Who's Pyotr?" Peter asked.

"You" Bucky said instantly regretting it.

"It's the name we gave you, before you were taken away" Natasha clarified

"Anyway, Pyotr is the one" Viktor said.

"No! Please. He doesn't deserve this" Natasha yelled.

"No, he doesn't deserve anything" Viktor said, as he walked up to peter.

"Nat, it's okay" peter said.

"No. No it's not" Natasha said.

"If you want to help me, you need to calm down, okay? For me" peter said.

"Shut up" Viktor said, as he injected something into Peters arm.

Peter hissed at the pain, but decided to stay strong for Natasha.

His body felt like it was on fire.

"What did you do?!" Bucky asked.

Viktor didn't answer. He just went to pick up the sharp knife again.

"No, don't do it" Natasha said as her eyes were tearing up.

Peter was burning on the inside. His lungs ached. Natasha was talking to him. He only heard part of it.

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Peter was digging his nails into his skin. He was usually good at hiding his pain, but this time, you could see pain written all over his face.

Peter's palms began bleeding.

He was going to hurt himself.

"Peter, Stop. You're making your palms bleed. Stop" Bucky said, noticing what Natasha saw.

Peter looked like he couldn't hear anything they said.

His arm was red where the needle had been.

Viktor dug another needle into Peters arm.

Peter screamed.

"What was that?" Bucky asked.

"It intensifies the feeling"

He started thrashing around.

"Make it stop!" Natasha yelled to him.

Viktor opened Peters cuffs. Natasha sighed in relief. But she knew that peter was still in pain.

Viktor opened the door.

"You can leave if you want" Viktor said.

Peter didn't move from his spot on his ground.

"Cmon Peter! Push through it. Go! Run!" Bucky yelled.

"You're so close peter, go!" She yelled

Peter groaned.

"Not-Not without t-them" peter motioned towards Natasha and Bucky.

"Shit" Bucky sweared.

"They'll be on their way soon" Viktor smiled.

"Kleptomaniac" Bucky whispered.

Viktor slammed the door shut.

" I told you to watch it" Viktor said, as he walked over to peter on the ground.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Leave him alone" Bucky said.

"Viktor, doing this won't bring her back" Natasha said.

"Yeah, but it will bring her justice" Viktor said, as he took the knife in his hand and stabbed Natasha in the stomach.

"No!!!" Peter yelled at the top of his lungs.

Natasha started coughing up blood.

Peter used all the strength in his body and got up, holding on to the wall, the serum was still inside him and he was in pain.

Peter took the knife on the ground and stabbed Viktor.

He immediately fell.

"Don't tell anyone about this" peter said, gesturing to the man on the floor.

He rushed to open their cuffs.

When he opened Natasha's cuffs, she fell down.

Peter caught her just in time.

There were a bunch of noises outside.

The door swung open and 2 people walked in.

"Did we miss anything?" One of them said.

"Wade! Matt!" Peter said.

They walked over to the boy.

"You look terrible. You all do. Especially black widow" wade said.

"Shut up and help me get her back to the compound" peter said annoyed.

"How'd you find us?" Bucky asked as they walked out.

"Oh. So get this. Peter has this thing on his wrist, that is like a button. So when he's in danger he presses it like a web shooter and an alert gets sent to us. So yeah that's how we're here" wade said.

Peter elbowed him. "For real? You can't keep one secret."

"Hey at least I didn't say it" Matt said.

Bucky quickly grabbed Peters wrist.

He could see it. It was inside his skin between his two visible veins.

Peter quickly pulled his hand away.

"Anyway..." Peter said, eying Bucky. Bucky gave him a glare "I found my parents guys!"

"Really? Who?" Wade asked.

"Um so my dad is Bucky Barnes." Peter said as they gawked looking at him. "And my mom is... black widow, aka Natasha romanoff."

"That explains your behavior" wade said with a laugh.

Peter just glared at him.

"Anyway where here" Bucky said as he pulled up by the compound.

Peter got out the car with a grunt. Everything still hurt.

They took Natasha and went upstairs.

Clint was walking by when he saw a beaten up peter and Natasha with a huge stab wound.

"Woah" Clint said grabbing peter from the group of people. "Kid, What happened to you guys?"

"Um... buckys good, it's just Natasha" peter answered.

"What about you peter?" Clint asked, pointing at his swollen arm, cuts and bruises on his skin.

"It's nothing" peter said as he turned to walk away

Clint grabbed his arm again.

Peter winced.

"You sure about that?" He asked.

"Mhmm" He said with a grunt.

Peter could see Clint was still not convinced so he pulled his face into a weak smile and said "right now, we need to focus on Natasha. We can deal with me later."

Clint nodded but still kept an eye on him.

Peter looked at his mom. Mom. He was gonna have to get used to that.

"Is she gonna be okay?" Peter asked.

"Yeah, kid. She's gonna be fine. However we should get that arm checked up, whatever's going into your blood isn't good for you" Bucky said.

"What happened. Where were you guys?" Clint asked.

Wade opened his mouth to speak when peter said "I don't feel so good. What's happening to me?!" Peter asked as he looked at his hands.

Peter immediately fell down but Clint caught him in time.

"You sure you're okay kid?" Clint asked.

"It's the serum" Bucky said walking towards Peter " it's still in his system"

"What serum?"

"Wade, you like talking, why don't you explain while I take care of peter here?" Bucky said.

"Yeah sure"

"Hang on for me kid" Bucky said as he took peter to another room.

A second later tony walked in.

"What the hell?!" Tony asked. "What did you do this time peter!?"

"Tony calm down. I need to fix him" Bucky said.

"Fix him?! He's broken?" Tony asked confused.

"No, something happened at the warehouse"

"Warehouse?!"

"Tony calm down, I'm okay." Peter said

"Your cuts and bruises tell me otherwise" Tony said.

"It's-its Fine Tony. It just hurts on the inside. Nothing on the outside" peter said.

"What?!" Bucky and tony said.

"How come you didn't tell me you were in pain?" Bucky asked.

"I didn't want you focusing on me. You needed to help Natasha first" Peter said voice full of pain.

"Peter Stop. Open your fists." Tony said.

Peter looked at his hands.

He opened them. They were pierced and they were bleeding.

"I-I'm sorry" peter said.

"It's fine, it's fine" tony said as he grabbed some tissues and added antibiotics to it. He wiped Peters palms.

Peter groaned.

"I can feel it getting worse" Peter said.

"It's okay, just hang on" Tony said. "What's it meant to do?" Tony asked.

"Kill me" peter said.

"What?!" Bucky yelled "how'd you know this?"

"It's tetrodotoxin" Peter said.

"Oh god. Peter." Tony sighed. He put his hand on his forehead. Tony thought of an idea "Maybe we can try and reduce the quantity. We can try and use his super healing to cope with it we can try and-"

Peter's eyelids were growing heavy.

He began closing his eyes.

"Hey! Don't go dying on us yet, Peter" Tony said.

Peter snapped his eyes open.

"It hurts" Peter said with pain.

"It's okay. We'll try to stop this. We can't do it if you don't try. If you give up on us, peter, we can't help you" Bucky said.

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Natasha woke up.

Her stomach stabbed her with pain as she got up.

Clint was next to her with two other people.

She assumed they were team red.

"Hey. Enjoy your beauty sleep princess?" Clint asked with a smile.

"Shut up Clint. My head hurts. Where's peter?" Natasha asked.

"About that..." Clint said.

"Yeah were just gonna Leave now" wade said.

And so they did.

"What happened to peter, Clint?" Natasha asked as she got up. She closed her eyes at the pain in her stomach and sighed when someone pushed her back down.

"He's um.. he's sick. And you need to rest" Clint said.

"I know when you're lying. What happened to peter?!" Natasha asked.

"You might want to see For yourself" Clint said.

Natasha got up. She almost tripped. Clint was about to help her when she said "it's okay I'm fine"

She walked after Clint. They reached a door.

"He's in here?" She asked.

"Yeah" Clint said.

She opened the door and walked inside.

She was broken when she saw tony and Bucky running around peter who was on a bed.

Peter's lips were a tinge of blue. His skin was pale and the only thing standing out were the cuts and bruises he earned a few hours back.

She ran to his side.

"Peter! Oh my god. Peter." She said as she began crying.

"I'm fine Natasha" Peters voice was hoarse. His eyes were so close to closing.

"Peter, be honest. She won't bite" Bucky said.

"Yes She will" Peter laughed, but then started coughing. Violent coughs.

"Mister Stark I don't think this is going to work" Peter said

"No, Peter remember. If you give up, we can't help you." Tony said.

"But it hurts. It's hard to breathe" Peter admits.

"What's going on?!" Natasha yelled.

"I'm sick" peter said.

"Stop lying" Natasha said.

All of a sudden Peters heart rate began to go up.

Natasha grabbed his hand.

"Hey peter, you gotta calm down okay? You're going to be okay. We're gonna help you. You're going to be okay" Natasha said.

"No, I'm not. I'm going to die" peter said.

"What?!" Natasha yelled.

"And you're the one to tell me to be calm" Peter chuckled.

"Are you seriously laughing right now? You just said your dying" Natasha said.

Before peter could answer he tensed.

"Peter?" Natasha asked.

"It hurts so bad" he made out.

"It's burning through his veins. We need to stop it now" tony said.

"No shit Sherlock" Natasha said.

Peter's breathing quickened. Usually this toxin would kill someone instantly. But thanks to Peters metabolism, it was taking longer and it was far more painful.

Natasha had to calm him down again.

He began closing his eyes.

"Nonononnonono Peter look at me. Hey, hey eyes on me. Please. Don't do this to us" Natasha begged.

Nothing happened.

Peter's heartbeat was getting too low when Clint practically shot the door open.

"I found it!" Clint yelled

"Found what?" Natasha asked, not letting go of her Pyotr.

"The cure! It's one of those things fury keeps for emergencies only. So I went to check it out to see if I could find anything, when I found... this!" He pulled out a syringe.

"For real?" Natasha asked.

He walked up to peter and gave him the antidote.

"Looks like it worked" Tony said.

"Yassss Clint to the rescue" Clint said.

"Okay Legolas" Tony said. "Looks like peter is good for now. We'll have to do a checkup on him later." He sighed and looked at Natasha "and you need to rest so that you can heal faster"

"Imma sleep here. Next to him" Natasha said.

"Oh yeah. Guys... peter is me and Buckys.. um son" Natasha said.

"Bruh. You're joking right?" Clint asked.

"Nope" Bucky answered.

"Wow. That's a huge step up. Just yesterday you guys were staring into each other's pupils. But wow." Tony said

"And when he wakes up, we're gonna have a looooong chat" Natasha said, looking at the boy on the bed.

His lips were red now. His skin was back to normal and his cuts were healing faster.

Natasha noticed something on his wrist.

"Um..what's this?" She held his wrist up. It immediately got pulled back down by peter.

"There's another thing he does like you. He sleeps with one eye open. Or...dies. I don't know with you two anymore. You always do it the same. No wonder you're related" Clint said.

"Anyway, What was that on his wrist?" She pointed.

"Something to call his friends with when he's in trouble" Bucky said

"Hold up. He made that?" Tony asked walking up to peter.

He picked up Peters arm and this time peter flinched.

"Stop..Stop let me go..stop" peter said.

All heads turned over to peter who was whispering in his sleep.

Tony quickly dropped Peters hand.

"He's having a nightmare" Natasha said.

"We should wake him up" Clint said

"Yeah" Tony said.

Bucky went up to peter.

"Peter. Peter you need to wake up." Bucky said.

"No..please. It hurts. Let me go!" Peter was crying now.

Peter started throwing random punches at random directions.

Bucky had to hold him down.

Peter through Bucky to the other side and got up.

He was panting.

"Oh god" peter said as he buried his face in his hands.

"Peter?" Natasha asked.

Peter flinched at his name.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Mmhm" Peter said, while getting off the bed.

He walked towards Bucky and gave him his hand.

Bucky took it and got up. "You're pretty strong" he said.

"Thanks. Sorry about that" peter said.

"It's nothing. Looks like you had a hell of a nightmare though" Bucky said.

"No.. no I didn't" Peter lied.

"Whatever kiddo.. if you don't wanna talk about it you don't have to" Natasha said, ruffling his hair.

"Now, you've got a whole lotta explaining to do, peter. And so do we" Bucky said.

Everyone else smiled at him.

"Ah shit" Peter swore.

"Oh and stop swearing it's setting a bad example" Natasha said.

"Okay" Peter said as he swore in Russian.

Natasha raised an eyebrow.

"For real?" Natasha asked.

Peter just smiled innocently at her "what?" He said.

"Okay that's enough" Bucky said.

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Hey so um... one more chapter to go!

I updated early

Thanks for reading so far.

Update: June 30

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