Peter and May are invited to Tony's house. In which, they meet his Fiancee, Tony's a gosh damn billionaire and he has a sweet looking lab.
"I cannot believe that Mister Stark slipped me $100," Peter mumbled.
"What?!" Ned exclaimed.
"I only paid for his Ice cream!" Peter groaned and pinching the piece of money. "I wasn't expecting for him to pay me back!"
"Y'know, if you were sneaky enough, you'd pay him back too," Ned pointed out unhelpfully. Peter glared at his best friend, unimpressed. "Thanks, Ned. That makes me feel so much better."
"Maybe he's just filthy rich?"
"I don't need his pity money," Peter huffed, indignantly stuffing the $100 bill in his pocket. "Besides, I told him that I'd pay for all my food and stuff I got, but he just brushed me off and paid for all of it."
"You even met Bruce Banner," Ned said.
"That, I can accept," Peter responded.
"Dude, I'm so jealous that you met him, and that you read a research paper!" Ned grunted. Peter laughed, "It was a sight to behold."
"Where's MJ?" Peter asked as he looked around the front of the school. Ned shrugged. "She might be late-"
"Think again, losers."
The boy yelped and stepped backwards, suddenly in the presence of MJ. The girl smirked, tucking a strand of hair behind her hair. "How was your day at the science convention?" She asked nonchalantly.
Peter smiled. "It was so much fun! I was able meet Bruce Banner!"
"Sounds...boring," MJ mumbled.
"Only you would say that," Ned sighed.
School was like any other average days.
He loved math, mentally cried during Spanish and enjoyed doing Photography. The rest of the classes he forgot to mention were a meh. P.E was a double meh. Luckily, his Asthma was getting worse due to Spring coming in soon.
During which, Wilson was annoyed but called a class for him to wait until P.E was over.
Though, he wasn't expecting that he would spend his P.E time with Mister Stark. Not that he complained or anything, but he noticed how excited he would be every time he was able to spend time with his teacher.
Non the less, he wished a good luck to his friends who kept calling him 'lucky' and went Mister Stark's classroom.
He was expecting for a class going on in there, but no student was there except Mister Stark himself who was looking at a few papers and typing something into the computer. Peter pushed his glasses up his nose again and knocked on the door shyly.
Mister Stark jumped up and looked to see who was here. There was an instant smile forming onto his lips as he sat up and walked across the room to greet his student. "Welcome to Tony da le class," he said.
The boy raised a brow at Mister Stark. "Is that Spanish?"
"Hey! I never said I was speaking any of languages." He exclaimed, and then continued with, "...might be a bit of French in there if you listen to it more clearly," he mumbled.
Peter laughed and walked in fully, propping his backpack on a students desk. "I thought you had a class here?" he asked, looking around. Mister Stark shrugged. "My senior class had a Spanish trip this week, so I'm free," Tony explained.
Peter clicked his tongue and nodded. "That makes sense."
"Does it?" Tony asks.
Peter snorted and shrugged. "I'm bad at Spanish, but I would enjoy a Spanish trip," he replied.
Tony gasped playfully, hand smacking to his chest in false pain. "My own student turning against me! How could you?" Tony asked bitterly, looking away and wiping a fake tear away from his cheek.
The teenager laughed again and shook his head. "Nah, I would rather visit Italy...Or maybe London!"
Tony chuckled. "Its pretty nice there," he said.
"You've been there before?!" Peter squeaked.
"Yup!"
"Jealous," Peter muttered.
Tony scoffed. "It gets boring after a few trips...perhaps I should have brought my buddy that I went with to the science convention," he said, a thoughtful smile gracing his lips.
Peter pursed his lips to conceal his small smile and looked away. It was obvious that Mister Stark enjoyed their trip together and no doubt that Peter did too, but it was odd as well. He felt a connection to Mister Stark...as if he understood what he was going through.
That familial kind of feeling.
Peter shook the thoughts out, suddenly remembering the hundred dollar bill that was somehow tucked inside his pocket before he left. "Speaking of buddy from the science convention," he said, digging the bill out his pocket. "he found money that you dropped."
Peter handed the money back to Tony, who didn't take it and shook his head. "I wanted to repay you," was all he said.
"The ice cream was only two dollars!" Peter exasperated, his hand outstretched and waiting for his teacher to take back the money. "Besides, I should be the one to repay you, y'know. The gas, the food and then getting that VIP."
Tony shook his head again and grinned at his student. "You don't have to repay me at all, kid. You deserve it as much as the rest of class do," he said sincerely. Peter hesitated and stumbled back. Did his teacher just exploit that He was his favorite student.
Peter was too shocked to protest as he watched Mister Stark stroll to his teacher's desk and sit down before typing away again. He sighed in defeat and looked at his with a raised brow. "I'm not gonna be able to get out of this, am I?"
Tony smirked. "Not a chance, buddy."
"Fine," Peter groaned. It wasn't like that he hated it, he just felt it was too generous after all that. He didn't want to be selfish and take someone's money just because he deserved it.
Stuffing the money in his pocket once again, he sat down in usual student chair and brought out a physics book.
It was probably 25 minutes since they said a word to each other. Peter could hear the clacking on Mister Stark's keyboard and mouse clicking every so often, while Tony was able to hear his student flip a page with a quick fwip!
It wasn't like he didn't enjoy Peter's company, it was the matter of inviting the kid to his house, introduce his soon to be wife and show him the lab, but not know how to ask him.
Was it odd to ask a student of his to invite him over his house? Was it weird? Did it sound...awkward?
Tony's Fiancee has been nagging about this boy that had changed her Fiance's switch around about having kids. She was even the one to suggest that they invite them over to dinner at some point.
Which was literally after Tony got home from dropping off Peter to his apartment. Cutting it short, Tony would blabber on how this specific student was absolutely intelligent and took pride in him sometimes.
Pepper would joke to him that he has a secret child, but he would just indignantly deny it...and tease, but whatever!
A loud ring interrupted Tony's thoughts as he averted his eyes towards the noise. He realized that it was Peter's phone.
Peter sheepishly took out his phone and looked over to Mister Stark, mouthing, I'm sorry. Tony just smiled and nodded in permission to answer before turning his eyes towards his screen.
Peter cleared his throat and answered.
"Hey, Aunt May," he greeted.
"Hey sweetie! Listen, I accidentally burnt the meatloaf again," she started. Peter smirked inwardly. "And that's new?"
"Hey! I tried at least," May laughed and Peter laughed in return.
"Anyways, we might as well get takeout or something like that, what are you in for?" She asked. Peter thought for a moment and shrugged. "Mmm, I kind of don't know, what do you want for dinner?"
There was a loud cough from behind him. Craning his neck with his phone still pressed against his ear with glasses smushed between his ear and phone, he saw his teacher looking at him.
"Why don't you have dinner with me and my Fiancee?" He suggested. Peter had to keep his shock to himself as he contemplated before turning to his phone.
"Mister Stark just invited us over his house for dinner," Peter said, his voice sounding like a robot. He was taken back with his teacher just nonchalantly suggesting him and his Aunt to come over his house.
"The math teacher?" She asked.
Peter hummed through the call. There was silence at the end and then a, "Why not! I'd love to get to know Mister Stark."
The boy looked at Tony and nodded as a confirmation.
Tony smiled. "I'll give you our address right after school, yeah?"
"Yeah, that would be helpful," Peter said, watching the teacher write down the address on a piece of paper. "When should we come?" he asked, outstretching his hand to reach for the paper as Tony handed him it.
Tony pondered for a moment and shrugged. "Probably around 6 or so."
"Well," Peter started, perking his head up a bit to show enthusiasm. "I guess I'll see you soon!"
As if on cue, the class bell rang.
"Yeah, kiddo. I'll see you soon," Tony laughed. He waved his student a goodbye, watching him disappear in the overcrowded halls. Tony sighed and dug through his phone, tapping a specific Caller ID that read: Soon to be Mrs. Stark
He put on a call and held it to his ear, anticipating for her to answer.
"Hello?" It said.
"Hey, Pep," Tony greeted warmly.
"Tony, aren't you supposed to be working right now?" She asked, and Tony knew that Pepper was raising a brow at him. He chuckled lightly. "Some classes are off due to the Trip from Spanish class. Besides that though, we have two new guests coming over tonight."
The end of the call was silent for a fresh moment. "New guests?"
"Yep!" Tony popped the 'p'
"May I ask who?"
"Remember that kid who I've been talking about? The one I brought to the science convention?" Tony asked, playing with the hem of his shirt as he sat down in his teacher's chair with a cheeky grin on his face.
There was a hum of confirmation from her.
"Well... turns out that the kid was talking to his Aunt about dinner and I might have invited them over," he explained, laughing a bit nervously now.
"...Well that was unexpected," Pepper said at the end of link. Tony had to laugh at his Fiancee's blunt comment.
"Believe me, Pep, I surprised myself too," Tony sighed.
"Well, I'm lucky to see a student that wrapped around my Fiance's 'cold' heart," Pepper replied, a slight teasing tone in her voice. Tony scoffed and shook his head in denial. "He's just gonna eat dinner with us. What's the worse that could happen?"
Apparently, Tony jinxed himself way before he invited Peter. More like jinxed himself when he met his intelligent student, Peter. He wasn't out and about on getting attached to a kid, but in his defense...the kid had such adorable puppy eyes.
Now, he was walking back and forth in front of his door, anticipating for the doorbell to ring at any second. God, he could not believe he was doing this. Tony Stark was never nervous!
There was a familiar chuckle from behind him as he braked his tracks and looked at his soon-to-be wife with a questionable look. "What?"
She smiled and kissed his cheek before dusting something off his shirt. "Just watching you pace around is a sight to see," Pepper mused. Tony rolled his eyes, but a fond quirk tugged his lips. He placed his hands on her lips, bringing her closer to his face as he intertwined his lips with hers with a passionate kiss.
"Then you should take a picture while you still can," he said in between their kisses.
Pepper laughed, breaking off their kiss. She thumbed Tony's cheek gently, grinning and eyes gleaming with affection. "I already did when we had out first date," was what she responded. "Its just going to be interesting to meet your student that made you pace around nervously."
Before Tony could reply with a comment, the doorbell rang with a cheery chime sound echoing through the empty hallways. Their house wasn't small, nor big either. This was one of their houses. The others were larger than this, but they rather enjoyed this cozy home.
Tony and Pepper let go of each other quickly and composed themselves before Tony cleared his throat and opened the door for their guests. They were met with a familiar dorky kid with baby brown eyes that adorned glasses. Nerdy T-shirt with jeans were his basic clothes. His curls bounced everywhere due to the gentle wind flying through his hair.
Along with the kid, was a middle-aged woman, about the same age of Pepper who wore a light green tank top with blue jeans. Her hair was down that went down to her waist as her glasses reflected the sun.
In all honesty, Pepper would have thought that this kid was really adorable. It was no wonder that Tony got attached to him.
Speaking of which, Tony smiled widely and held out a hand to the woman. "It is nice meeting you again, Miss Parker," He greeted warmly. The woman returned the favor of shaking hands with the teacher and smiled back. "You can call me May, Mister Stark."
He smiled even more. "Then please call me Tony." The man then turned his gaze towards the scrawny kid. "Hey, kiddo!"
"Hi Mister Stark!" Peter chirped at him with a small wave.
Tony chuckled and gestured his hand towards his wife. "Peter, May, this is my Fiancee, Pepper Potts."
Peter looked at her with awe, eyes widened and mouth open. He craned his neck towards his teacher. "She's really pretty."
That's when Pepper laughed softly. "Thank you, sweetheart. It is so lovely to meeting you two," she said with a smile, hand held out to shake. Peter took it gently and shook a bit before retracting it.
May and Pepper returned the gesture.
Tony clapped his hands together. "Okay! Now that we got the introductions out of the way, why don't we give you the tour to our cozy home," he said, placing a hand on the teens shoulder as he guided him in first while the women were now in a deep conversation.
It was like they were friends since forever.
"I still need to make preparations for dinner," Pepper said with a grin. "But, by all means, make yourself comfortable."
"Is there anything I can help you in the kitchen?" May asked as she hung her purse at the door. Pepper nodded and guided the woman to the kitchen. May stopped in her tracks and turned around to face Peter. "You behave, Pete, alright?"
Peter nodded happily. "Yes, ma'am!"
"That's my boy," May said, smiling and following after Pepper, who was already talking to her with hush excitement.
It would seem like they would get along very well.
The boys were alone at that moment. So it was the perfect opportunity to show Peter his lab and stuff.
"Okay, kid. Now that the women are doing their girly stuff, why don't we head down to the lab I mentioned before, hmm?" Tony couldn't hold back a smile when he saw Peter widen his eyes and nod slowly.
"Come on now, shall we head out?"
Tony started walking down the hallways, followed by Peter who was looking around the halls. It was pretty barren, but they did have some archetypes that were hung up on the walls.
They were greeted by a door;an old regular wooden door.
Peter was expecting it to be a basement, and that's where he thought the lab was, but to his surprise, a finger scanner popped out and shifted in front. Tony clicked his tongue and placed his thumb, blue lights scanning his calloused thumb.
It dinged and then the door opened, along with a unfamiliar voice that entered the halls. "Welcome back, sir," it said with a Scottish, but robotical voice. Peter ducked his head on instinct, eyes clenched and hands over his head.
Though, nothing happened.
Peter opened his eyes and saw that nothing was attacking him or anything. He looked up to see Mister Stark smirking at him.
"Peter, meet my AI, JARVIS," Tony said, eyes looking at the ceiling.
"Hello, Peter Parker," JARVIS greeted.
"Woah," Peter said in awe.
Please," Tony scoffed, waving a hand in dismissal. "You haven't seen the rest of the lab."
The old looking door suddenly slid into a metal looking door and revealed its true findings. Peter didn't even realize that he was being gently pushed through the door as he stared at it in awe.
Blinking again, he noticed that he was literally in the lab now. His eyes wandered through every nooks and cranny. So many machines, computer and tech stuff were everywhere. Unfinished machinery were displayed and so many stuff.
It was like a kid's candy store for Peter.
"Holy friggin..." Peter breathed.
"Crap," Tony finished with a soft whisper.
Peter nodded and walked a bit forward, looking everywhere. The floors, walls and tables were made out of some type of special metal. Holograms of projectile mechanization and blue prints just lying on a grand table.
"This is amazing, Mister Stark!" Peter exclaimed, eyes filled with excitement.
Tony chuckled enthusiastically. "I'm glad you think so!"
"I never expected to be actually in here and looking at a...real lab," Peter said quietly. He looked up to see shelves with awards and other certificates being proudly displayed. "Are those your certificates and awards?" He asked, pointing at them.
Tony nodded and smiled. "Yep! But that's not really important," he said, waving a hand at them. "How about I show you the inventions I'm making right now?"
Peter perked up and nodded in agreement. "I'd love too!"
"So, Tony is like your child, huh?" May asked, smiling a bit. Turns out, they had more things in common than they thought. Especially when it came to Tony and Peter.
Pepper rolled her eyes, but there was a quick tug of her lips. "Yeah, he's always cooped up in that lab of his. The only time he actually gets out is when I'm home or he has to go to school," she explained.
"Yeah, I'm going through that with Peter," May said, laughing. "Always being cooped up in his bedroom and doing his 'exciting' homework."
"I would say that's a good thing," Pepper smiled.
May laughed again and shook her head. "Its amazing, but I think he tends to forget that sleep is a thing as well."
"You and me both," the strawberry haired woman groaned out. "Tony is always the one to forget to sleep."
"Its always that," May sighed.
"Does your child geek about science?" Pepper questioned.
May looked at her with an incredulous look. "My kid is literally being shown in a lab. I bet he's in his own candyland right now."
Pepper chuckled and wiped something on her apron before getting her over mittens to take out the lasagna out. "I shouldn't have asked," she joked.
May grinned, but a thought came to mind. "Hey, mind if I ask...why does Tony work at a school if he is already a billionaire?" She asked genuinely. It wasn't a bad question to be fair, but it piqued interest for May.
Pepper was silent for a moment, intently taking out the pan before she swiped the mittens off her hands and threw them on the counter. She then shrugged in response. "Tony is a bit unpredictable when it comes to that. Either that, or he just gets bored easily. I never expected for Tony to come home and say that he rather enjoyed teaching students."
May smiled softly at that.
"And he keeps mentioning a certain student that he ironically got attached a bit," Pepper mused, gesturing her head towards her with a broad smile and brow raised.
May gave a shrug and gave a smirk. "What can I say? My kid is infectious when it comes to that, but I admit that Peter also mentions Tony after school. Always saying that he makes funny jokes, very fair and also understanding."
Pepper quirked her lips up gently. "I see. My husband has a way of empathy. Although, he may think otherwise, I have a feeling that he feels a connection between Peter and him."
"I can see why," May said quietly, a small tug of her lips quirking up.
There was comfortable silence for a minute or so, until a voice popped in.
"Miss Potts, it seems that Mister Parker and Sir are going with the explosions again..." JARVIS said with a bit of amusement in his voice, despite being a robot. Pepper groaned and rubbed her fingers between the bridges of her nose. "Of course he did..."
"Who was that?" May asked worriedly, looking around the unsuspected voice.
"That's JARVIS. Tony's personal AI. And it would seem that out children are making mayhem in the lab," Pepper sighed.
"Oh... what did they do?" May asked, composing herself.
"It would seem that Sir has been showing off machines to Peter and decided to test one out," JARVIS explained.
"I am not surprised," Pepper replied monotonously, as if this was normal every day.
"Should I be concerned?" May teased.
Pepper shook her head and sighed, exasperated. "No, if anything, he probably used the testing chamber to show him. No harm done."
"Isn't that...dangerous?"
"Mister Stark has made his lab proofed for any explosions. As well as a testing chamber to test out his machinery and other technology that could potentially explode," JARVIS responded for her.
"That's good, right?"
Pepper laughed out loud and nodded. "Don't worry. Tony won't let harm go anywhere near the kid."
May blew out a breath of relief.
"JARVIS, can you tell them that dinner is ready?" Pepper asked, bringing the got lasagna over to the dinner table, to which, the table was pretty freaking large.
"They are on there way," JARVIS informed.
Pepper looked over to May with an amused look. "Shall we greet them?"
May grinned. "Of course."
"That was amazing, Mister Stark!" Peter exclaimed, cleaning off his glasses that held speckles of dust and such. "I wasn't expecting for that kind of formula could make such a big explosion!"
"That's why we test stuff," Mister Stark said, smiling as they headed out the lab.
They were met with two woman standing in front of them with arms crosses and stern, raised brows pointing at them.
"Tony..." Pepper said.
Immediately, Tony raised his hands in surrender and chuckled nervously. "I swear, Pep, no kids were harmed in the making."
May cocked her head towards her nephew. Peter was the one to raise his hands in surrender as well. "Nothing!"
May hummed and craned her neck to Pepper. "What do you say?"
Pepper shrugged. "No scorch burns were on them. So...we'll let them go," she answered.
Peter and Tony blew out a breath of relief.
"Dinner's ready, by the way. Why don't we head down, hmm?"
The boys followed Pepper and May like little children through the halls and into the diner's room, where lasagna, some side dishes and drinks were displayed on the table. Everything smelled absolutely delicious.
Peter turned to Pepper with a waned smile. "It smells really good, Mrs. Stark!"
Pepper smiled warmly, while Tony tapped his chin thoughtfully. "Technically, its still Pepper Potts, but that does ring a nice bell to it, doesn't it?" He mused, earning a pointed glare from Pepper.
"Right," Tony murmured, absentmindedly scooting away from his Fiancee's death glare. "Why don't we sit down and enjoy the food my Fiancee so graciously made, along with the help of your lovely Aunt, hmm?"
Peter nodded enthusiastically and waited for Tony and Pepper to find their preferred seats before he and May found a seat next to each other.
It was a comfy diner's table. Not cramped, but close enough in range to hear other people talking. It was sort of nice. Pepper started handing out plates full of Lasagna and the sides that were still steaming from the heat.
When everything was settled, Peter wondered what the conversations were gonna be like now that they were all together.
Good or bad, it was just going to be interesting...
Holy shizznuggets, I am so sorry for being gone for almost a month, like i have some hell i'm going through right now and writing is kind of impossible when life is slowly dragging me down into the abyss. I don't know when i'll upload again, hopefully in the next month.
As always, your reviews are most appreciated and helps me write better to please you guys! Thanks and i'll see you soon!
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