Seventeen
Tony was yelling at Peter, but his angry brown eyes kept staring at May. May despite her initial fear of getting caught by Tony talking to her nephew was refusing to back down as she continued to glare back at him. She reminded Peter of Pepper for some reason, both women were not afraid to stand up to Tony despite his status and money.
"I told you to stay away from him, May!"
"Don't yell at her!" Peter yelled. "And stay away from her."
Tony turned his attention towards Peter and said coldly. "No one is talking to you, Peter. Take you stuff. We are going home. Now." Despite the sweat of nervousness dripping down his brow Peter refused to move. He knew that Tony would never physically hurt him, but Tony had other methods of torture. "Peter, I swear to God if you don't start moving-"
"Peter, honey." May said gently. "Just get your stuff please. Don't make this harder than it has to be. Go home."
Peter hesitated for a while before deciding that May was right, staying here would probably be more harmful to May if he put up more of a fight. Besides Peter may be Spiderman now, but Tony still had the upper hand with the NYC police, Avengers, and multiple suits by his side.
Peter quietly grabbed his backpack and looked at May. "I'll visit you soon, I promise." Tony snorted, but May and Peter ignored him. May kissed him on his forehead and Peter grabbed his backpack.
The two of them moved rapidly out of the apartment building once they had left May. Peter noticed that there were three police cars along with Happy waiting outside. "Was all of this necessary?" he asked with bitterness in his tone as Happy opened the door for him.
"I didn't know how May was going to react," the excused sounded pathetic to Tony's own ears. "These are precautions Peter something that you obviously do not know about."
"Why would I need precautions for my own Aunt?" Peter snapped back. Tony's jaw clenched and he saw how he paled when Peter mentioned the word, aunt. Usually Peter was careful with the words that he used in order not to piss Tony off, but he was tired of pretending.
Happy accidently let out a nervous laugh as they went home, driving at least 10 miles over the speed limit while Peter and Tony sat next to each other in stormy silence. When they finally arrived at the tower Peter was about to storm into his room when Tony snapped. "Hold it! We are not done discussing this yet, get your butt in here!"
Peter turned around and crossed his arms over his chest and frowned at him. Spiderman or not Peter knew that because of his small frame he looked as threatening as a pissed off kitten, but he was not going to give Tony the satisfaction of walking all over him. Again.
Tony for the first time looked awkward and Peter guessed it was because it was one of the rare times that Pepper wasn't around to play referee. "How much-" he asked awkwardly. "How much do you know about everything?"
"I think I got the gist of it, you should thank Midtown because if it wasn't for the stupid family tree project that they made me do, I would have probably never would have found out." Peter walked towards him. "My parents died in an awful accident, that I do know because you told me. Apparently, you didn't lie to me about that, but you lied about everything else. Why didn't you tell me that I had an aunt and uncle that were still alive?"
"I didn't tell you because it was not necessary for you to know." Tony said tensely, he had never seen Peter so upset he was happy-go-lucky-most of the time. Like a puppy. "Mary had me as your legal guardian in case she and Richard died. That was what she wanted. Believe it or not, kid May has to follow the rules just like everyone else."
"Well, that was my mom's mistake." Peter said coldly. "Da-Tony," the words sounded weird on his tongue and Tony didn't like the fact that Peter started calling him by his first name. It was a sign of total disrespect which Tony did not appreciate, even if Peter had every right to feel pissed off. "You don't even want me, you never wanted me, you always treated me like a burden-"
"That's not true!"
"You send me to boarding school for six years!" Peter snapped. "The only reason that I am even here in the first place was because Loki decided to destroy half of New York otherwise I would still be in boarding school because you wouldn't want me to cramp on your lifestyle."
Tony gave a frustrated sigh as he went towards the bar and poured himself a drink. He had a feeling that he was going to need more of these tonight. "You're acting like a brat right now, you know that don't you? I gave you the best education until you decided to go to Midtown. I gave you whatever you wanted and you never starved while you were under my roof. Do you think May and Ben could have given you that? Why do you think Mary left you with me?" He knew the words were harsh, but Peter was stubborn like Mary, maybe being cruel would have the desired effect.
"Sometimes material stuff isn't enough," Peter recounted, an idea entered his head and he briefly wondered if Tony would go through with it. Well, it was worth a shot. "My parents are no longer alive and I'm fifteen years old, you've already done most of the heavy lifting-"
"Just spit it out, Peter."
"I want you to give custody to May." Peter said slowly. "She is my immediate family and I was supposed to be raised in Queens and this-this way we can both get what we want. I'm grateful for what you have done, but this would be better. Besides May wants to get to know me-"
"Are you insane? No way in hell am I'm giving custody to May Parker. Jesus, kid do you think everyone is your life is replaceable. Have you thought about Pepper? Happy? Ked? CJ? And the rest of your little friends or don't they fit into the perfect life that you have planned out?" Tony walked towards him making Peter feel very small. "Get one thing straight, over my dead body am I handing you over to May because that's what both of you want. Another thing, you don't make the rules. You said it yourself, you're fifteen. Let me tell you what is going to happen, you are going to your room and tomorrow you are going to get on the first plane to Malibu where you will finish up high school and you will never see May again."
Fury entered Peter's chest as his fists balled up in anger. He had enough. He was not going to be controlled by his father any longer. Without thinking about his newfound strength he pushed his father as hard as he could, causing Tony to nearly fly as he hit the wall and fell down like a rag doll.
Peter's heart was beating inside his chest and he could feel his heart trembling. Had he killed him? He hadn't meant to kill him. He noticed that Tony had a black eye on his left eye. Peter went towards him and started shaking him. "Dad-Dad are you ok? Friday?"
"Your father passed out because of the strength of your push, Peter." Friday said. "He has a mild concussion, but he should regain consciousness soon. Medical attention is recommended, but he will survive and he will needs rest."
Peter breathed a sign of relief. "Fri, call Dr. Banner please. Tell him to come to the tower, but don't give him the reason." If what Friday said was true he only had a few minutes to make his escape. He needed to run. Now.
-End of Chapter Seventeen-
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