Chapter 10 motherfuckers.
When the doctors finally let Peter have visitors Tony was the first one inside the room, he had to have surgery which lasted up to 10 hours and Tony had stayed outside the door the entire time. "Hey kid, you really gave me a scare and you know I have heart problems." Peter's eyes were opened and he had somewhat of a lazy smile on his face, considering he was high on drugs it was a miracle that he was even able 1ook around. "sorry -ark. Don die ease." His words were heavily slurred but Tony could understand him perfectly fine "I'm not going anywhere kiddo and that's a promise. Mind telling me what happened?" Peter's smile grew "you know 'ony, never ave you the story. Remember Battle New York? Was there and Hydra ook me. They had lil spiders crawl me and bite me to give more 'upper powers to me…it worked and now look at me!" Though he was smiling Tony saw his eyes water and he was close to tears himself "you don't need to tell me right now. You can tell me later Pete." The boy shook his head and looked back into Tony's eyes and he looked to more coherent "no. Won't tell then. I did something bad." Tony was ready to interrupt but didn't, "they didn't feed me for a week…I didn't know the spiders hurt me more." Tony noticed that he was talking much better but he couldn't bring himself to smile "girl. A lil girl in a cage with me, she didn do wrong but they took her and brought me to her. Killed her 'ony. I ate her!" Tony reached out and pulled the now sobbing teen into his arms. "Shh, rest Pete it's going to be okay."
It took some time but eventually Peter collapsed from exhaustion, when he was positive that his now self-proclaimed son was going to be alright he had left the room and went to the commons where the rest of the Avengers sat. None of them saw anything wrong with the teen but they must've been looking at the wrong stuff because the boy just had a 10 hour surgery. Tony took it the hardest. "Guys…oh my god they did so much." Everyone jumped at the voice of the man on all of their minds "what happened down there?" "What do you mean they did some much?" "What happened?" Tony took a deep breath which made them all stop their river of questions "they had made their own spiders and used them on him. It changed him and…he thinks he's a monster." Steve went to say something but Tony just shook his head. "A little girl was set before him after he was starved for a week, and he…he ate her." He looked at all of them in their eyes and they finally saw the unshed tears in his eyes, "they made him eat a child. They just…" suddenly a dark look came over his face and even Natasha took a step away from the man "Tony?" "I'm going to kill them. Every single one of them who hurt him and I'm going to make sure they get every ounce of pain they gave Peter." With a sharp turn Tony went down to his labs without another word and he ignored his team's desperate cries for him to stop and think things over but not once did he turn around.
"Oh fuck… this is going to be ugly." Everyone agreed with Clint, this was going to be a large amount of fuckery that none of them wanted to be in the receiving end of.
No one had seen Tony for a month after that interaction and Peter was growing restless without him, he had accused the others of murdering him and almost killed them his damn self. When Tony came back Peter was out of the medical wing on strict instructions to never be left alone and rest as much as possible. "Tony!" Peter all but jumped on the inventor to hold him in a tight hug, when he finally got off the man so the others could see him they all noticed how at ease his face seemed but they saw a hint of what looked like regret in his eyes. "Hey Pete, how are you feeling? I'm so sorry I left you without a warning." The teenager just continued to hold Tony as close as he could. "I'm never going to let anyone hurt you like that Peter, I promise." This caused the teen to start sniffling which clued them in that he was crying, Tony picked Peter up by his legs and moved to the couch where they sat together in silence.
"Should we be worried?" It was a couple weeks after Tony's return and they watched as Tony and Peter seemed to be around each other all the time, Tony even took it upon himself to help train Peter to use his abilities as well as catch him up on everything he missed in school the last three years. Not to mention his birthday was about three weeks away and Tony had been buying anything and everything he deemed necessary for the teen. Though it hadn't created a dent in the man's wallet. Peter was thriving in it though, he wasn't every comfortable using his abilities at first but as the minutes turned into hours Peter started to warm up to it. Amazingly he was a very quick learner, what should have taken him forever to learn only took him a few weeks. English was a bit difficult for him at first but soon he was blowing all the work Tony was giving him, Clint liked to say it was because he had been taught everything while in the hands of Hydra (he said it when the Avengers were out of hearing range of the wall crawler) and honestly that might've been the case. After all, he had told them that they liked to make him aware of how long he had stayed with them, maybe they taught him other things besides being a killer.
"Hey Tony?" They all turned to see the little spider walk up to Tony with a determined look on his face. "What's up kiddo? I thought you'd be hungry so I was about to order some pizza. What-" "I want to become Spider-man again."