"Hey Kid," Tony began, voice uncertain "we… we should talk."

"What about," Peter said. His eyes still fixed on his notebook. He knew that this convocation would have to happen sooner or later, that did mean he had to like it.

Sighing, Tony looked down scratching the back of his neck and moving into the room, "You know what I'm talking about, Kid."

"I'm NOT a kid anymore," Peter bitch out before placing his pencil down next to his notepad. Swivelling on his chair to face Tony he crossed his arms. He nodded his head in the direction of his bed, letting Tony know he could sit down. Taking the hit, Tony sat down, awkwardly, on Peter's bed.

"Well, I don't know anymore. I haven't seen you in ages, and know that you are here you barely talk to me outside of missions," Tony said, coping Peter's crossed arm stance. Only for Peter to but in and say.

"And whose fault is it that we didn't talk after the ferry?" Peter asked rhetorically "You left. You left me when I needed…. Someone."

Tony looked down, ashamed, as he fiddled with his hands. Not completely sure of what to say.

"I know, and I'm sorry..." Tony Began, moving to put his hand on Peter's shoulder.

"NO, zip it, this is where I talk," Peter said, coping Tony's old words as he stood up and shook of Tony's hand from his shoulder.

"I made a mistake, I get that. But I was a kid, trying to do something to help people, to make the world a better place. But instead of helping me, you left me after I made 1 mistake. Because I wasn't useful to you anymore. Because that's the only reason you tried to find me isn't it? Because it would help you in your fight with your team that I had no part of. When have you ever done anything that wasn't in your own interest?" Peter said, the start of tears welling in his eyes as he paced around the room. His voice crescendoed as he spoke.

"And I can't even completely blame you," Peter began his voice just above a whisper "Because that would be cruel and it would be right. This was my fault as well. You were in a bad place after the "civil war". But I just… I just need you to..." Peter's voice quieted at the end, looking down at the floor.

"Need me to what, Pete?" Tony questioned. He wanted to make this right, he needed to make this right. This kid, Peter, deserved more than what he had. Tony should have been better for him. But he wasn't, and he needs to fix his mistakes.

"I need to hear you say you're… sorry…" Peter said breathily, refusing to look Tony in the eye.

"Ohh peter," Tony said, hesitantly he stood up and wrapped his arms around peter in a tight hug "Of course, I'm sorry. You did nothing wrong. I left, you never did anything bad. This was all me."

Peter's head was resting on Tony's chest. Tony's hand racking through peter's soft locks. They just stood there for a bit, in each other's arms in silence. Tony missed this, just being together. Peter had always brought this fun energy and hopeful outlook to any room he was in.

Sure, Peter was different now. More sure of himself and mature, but you could tell it was still peter. Still the peter that saved cats stuck in trees and helped old ladies with directions. The kid that would do anything to help the world, even if it meant losing everything that he had.

Slowly, Peter pulled away from the hug and looked up at Tony with confidence.

"I need you to know that I don't need you. I have a new family, one that lifts me up and will catch me when I fall, that doesn't leave me when I fall. They care about me. Do you know how may days upon days I spent training harder and harder to try and prove myself to you? I guess I hoped that you would come back, that everything would go back to normal. And I hurt myself trying to prove to someone who didn't care, that I was worth something."

Tony had tears in his eyes, ones that pooled waiting to rain down his fave like an avalanche, but for now, they stayed put.

"And I don't need you. But that doesn't mean I don't want you. Because I would be lying if I said I didn't miss lab days and watching movies till the sun came up with you because I do. I really do. But I wouldn't let myself get hurt again. I have been hurt enough by people… and this world. So if you have don't really care than do me a favour." Peter moved and opened his bedroom door "Leave again before I start to care. Before it would hurt again, for you to leave"

The dam broke. The usually stoic Tony stark had tears rushing down his face. Because this kid, this kid really though he would leave again. 'Not again' Tony thought. Plucking up his courage, tony said.

"I'm sorry, Peter. For everything. For dragging you into civil war. For leaving you. For hurting you. You derive so much more than this world is giving you. And I'm not leaving again. I want to fix this. So let's fix this. Let's try again.

I don't expect you to forgive me. I don't deserve that. But I want to try. In some way. To fix this."

Peter looked at tony with an unreadable expression, and before he could stop the worlds from coming out, Peter said:

"I can't forget what happened. But I forgive you."

And he meant it. For everything that had happened, how everything had changed, he meant it.

"You shouldn't," Tony said, both hands-on peter's shoulders, looking him in the eye.

"But I do."

Before they knew what was happening they were both huggings again. Peter could just pick up Tony quietly saying:

"you're going to be the best out of all us."

After more words and tears and apologies and talking they finally made their way upstairs to the common room for lunch after being called by FRIDAY.

Bucky looked at the pair arriving together, seeing the redness of their eyes, he went up to Peter and asked, "Are you okay?"

Looking back at Tony, who was now talking with Nat he said.

"Yeah, Yeah I am."

And for the first time in a long time, he was telling the truth.

A/N

ME? WRITING DURING CLASS AND NOT LISTENING? NEVER. HAHA BUT ANYWAY HOPE THIS CHAPTER WAS GOOD, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOU THOUGHTS. I REALLY LIKED WRITING THIS CHAPTER (I WAS WATCHING AVENGERS BLOPPS WHILE WRITING) I HOPE YOU LIKED IT TO. KILLER KITTEN, I CHOSE THE NAME BECAUSE I LIKE ALLITERATION AND IT SOUND REALLY COOL.

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