Peter slid into the chair next to Davis. Leaning back he closed his eyes and hit his head against the wall. Nat had been able to find out that Tony was alive but not out of danger. The extreme drop in temperature had caused a "cardiac incident". Peter had spent the years expecting some kind of heart issue. There was only so much they could do about the damage that had been caused by not only the shrapnel but also the arc reactor. Peter knew that Pepper held a tight rein over his dad's diet but all that did was make sure there weren't any additional problems. He didn't even know what a "cardiac incident" was. Nat didn't think it was a full blown heart attack. But she also didn't have any additional information. Just that he would be in Dr. Cho's way if he went back there. After she was sure Peter would stay put she had left them to headed to ops.

"I'm sorry."

Peter opened his eyes and looked over at Davis. He really hadn't noticed how bad Davis looked before. "It's not your fault."

"It is. He went because he didn't want me to face my father alone." Davis looked over at Peter. He started to continued but he realized he had no idea what to say so instead he looked down at the floor.

"Why? I don't understand why these rings caused all of this. Why go after them?" Peter looked at his team. His team that had run ops without him. He wasn't over it yet. He'd get there eventually but right now he was still mad. Not punch a wall mad like before, but still not happy about it.

Wyatt looked up at Peter. He had gotten tired of pacing and had knelt down with his back against the wall. "I think the thought was we might be able to use them against our glowing friend. We all know that confrontation is coming. It's just a matter of time." He stood up and looked over at Johnny. "You two were in the middle of the fight. I was watching from the sidelines. I'm not sure you truly appreciate how close we were to losing."

Peter leaned back against the wall again. He could understand the desire for weapons to fight against the "glowing guy"...who seriously needed a nickname. He also knew the Ten Rings was more personal for his dad. If there was a chance to eradicate them, he'd take it. For the most part, Peter knew he had been shielded from the reality of what had happened before. He didn't know anything more about Afghanistan than anyone who had read an article about the origins of Iron Man. And he knew those reports only told a fraction of the real story. It dawned on Peter in that moment that he would never know what his dad had gone through. The vision their enemy had given them on Moord was as close as he would ever come. He also realized that no one knew what Ben's death had been like. He and his dad had talked about it, some, but it had really only scratched the surface of what it had actually been like. The weight of that realization made him feel like he was drowning. Looking back at Davis he focused on the target of their mission. "So how did you get the ring from your father?"

Bobby stiffened. He didn't think of them had really processed what had happened. He wasn't sure if Davis could talk about it right now. "Remy did a good job of taking out most of his support. We had seen video of when Tony, Dr. Strange, and Rhodey tested the ring they have so we knew it was a weapon but I don't think we really understood how powerful they are." He looked over at Davis. "Even though Tony keep trying to drill it into us." He looked back at Peter. "This ring in particular manipulated temperature. I think I was expecting more of what I do. It wasn't."

Davis leaned forward, still staring at the floor. "He figured out quickly that Tony was his biggest threat. The ring has the ability to almost narrow beam target temperature. He completely iced the suit."

Peter shook his head. "The suit is rated for short term EVO. For it to cause a problem it would have had to exceed something like negative 500 degrees." Peter thought through the suits' designs. He didn't think even rapid temperature changes should have been enough to cause the problems it did.

"It might have been even colder than that. I was the only one that could touch him. I warmed him up as much as I could on the way back." Bobby unconsciously rubbed his shoulder where the Iron Man armor had been in contact with his ice form. He went pretty cold on a regular basis. The suit had been so far past that.

Johnny looked at Davis. "How'd you stop him." He had a feeling he wasn't going to like the answer. He also knew Davis would be ok. They'd all make sure of it.

Davis sucked in a breath. "I opened a portal and held him in it."

Peter looked over at Davis. "A portal to where?"

"The ocean." Davis leaned back, preparing for his life to be splayed open in front of those closest to him. "Same way he killed Heather." He looked up at the faces of his team mates and saw compassion. He hadn't talked about his sister much. They just knew she was dead. "Heather was an excellent swimmer. Spent every moment she could in the water. As soon as she was old enough she got her lifeguard certification and worked after school and during the summer at the beach. After our mother was killed, both of us reacted differently. My escape was alcohol and drugs." He looked over at Bobby. He thought Bobby was probably the only one who would understand. "It's how my powers triggered." He looked down again. "Heather pushed back. She believed from the beginning that he was responsible and confronted him every chance she got." He unconsciously leaned forward, resting his arms on his knees, feeling the weight of the tragedies in his life crushing him. "I don't know if he just got tired of it or if she said the wrong thing to the wrong person. One of his enforcers told me what happened. I think he was trying to scare me into cooperating." He took another deep breath. "My father handcuffed her, forced her into a boat, and dumped her in the water a couple miles off shore." He looked at his friends gauging their response. He still saw compassion on their faces even after admitting that he had killed his father.

Wyatt spoke first. "Your father deserved what he got." He knew Peter had always tried to hold himself and the rest of the team to a higher standard. Wyatt didn't have that same stance. Some people just deserved to die.

Davis chuckled. "That's the thing. I didn't go on the mission to kill him. I wanted to show him that despite all of the things he had done, I was doing something good." He looked over at Peter. "Then he targeted Tony and something inside me snapped." He looked back at Bobby, Wyatt, and Johnny. "Before, the only real family I had was Heather. Even when my mom was alive she sided with my father in an attempt to just stay alive. This team and by extension the others are more of a family to me than anyone related by blood ever has been. Tony dying wasn't an option. I just wish I had gotten to him sooner."

Bobby nodded, "I think we all feel that way. This team as well as the other teams are more of a family to me than my parents are. There's a lot that I would do to protect all of them, but especially you four." He knew relied on Tony, Sam, Bucky, Steve, and Rhodey for advice and knew the other did as well. He would do a lot to protect them but he would do more to more to protect his teammates.

"Yeah, well maybe next time you'll remember that and you won't leave me behind." Peter knew it came out gruffer than he intended. "Davis, what you did probably saved dad's life. I wish you hadn't had to do it but...". Peter trailed off, remembering a conversation he and his dad had sitting on a bench on Coney Island. He had known that night that if it came down to it, he wouldn't hesitate to kill to protect his dad. He'd look for other options but in the absence of options, he knew what he would do. It had been a hard thought to process but it was always there in the pit of his stomach. Part of him hated the person he had become because the list of people he would kill to protect had grown significantly. He'd go to the same lengths to protect his teammates because Davis and Bobby were right...they were the family he never had. All he had for so long was May. Then he met Tony and his family had grown by leaps and bounds. He'd go to great lengths to protect them all. MJ and his unborn son...he knew without a doubt he'd do whatever it took. He looked back at Davis. "...but I'm glad you were there."

Peter scrubbed his hand over his face. He thought they all probably needed several hours of therapy. Davis might not be ok right now but he would be. He glanced over as the doors to the corridor pushed open.

MJ walked through the door and immediately knew the five of them weren't ok. "What happened?"

All five turned to look at MJ, then the four looked back at Peter. "Dad got hurt on a mission." Peter wasn't sure how MJ had know something was wrong. Of course, through the entirety of their relationship, she always seemed to have her own Spider-Sense, only it centered on Peter being hurt. It didn't matter if it was emotional or physical. She just always knew.

MJ stopped by the small refrigerator and pulled out a Gatorade. Walking towards Peter she handed it to Davis as she sat down next to Peter. "What has Dr. Cho told you?"

"Nothing! That's the problem. She won't let me back there." Peter crossed his arms in a definite pout. "Something about a cardiac incident."

MJ looked at Peter. She had noticed the hole in the wall on the way in. It was too low to be Johnny or Wyatt. At 6'2" and 6'4" respectively, if they had hit a wall it would have been higher. She couldn't, in any situation, see Bobby taking his frustration out on a wall and Davis looked like he could barely lift his head much less put a hole in a wall. Which left Peter. She reached over and forced her hand into his. "Did you call Pepper yet?"

Peter shook his head. "And tell her what? If I tell her I have no idea she'll freak out even more." Peter blew out a breath and let his arms drop to hold MJ's hand.

MJ nodded. "Ok. We'll give it five more minutes and I'll go back there."

Peter looked at her like she had grown a second head. "If she won't let us back..."

MJ squeezed his hand. "You will be pacing the ceiling and demanding answers that she probably can't give yet. I can get a status update." She looked at the other four. "What's wrong with the rest of you?"

Wyatt shrugged. "Nothing. Except we kept Peter out of the loop and now we feel bad."

MJ frowned. Wyatt and Johnny looked like they had been swimming, Davis looked worn out, and Bobby just looked worried. "Are you sure none of your are hurt?"

Bobby nodded. "When everyone was gone Dr. Cho upgraded the transponders so they report directly to her any injuries that need attention."

MJ laughed. "I'm surprised it took her that long. She should have done it a long time ago." She looked over at Davis. "Are you sure you're ok?"

Davis shrugged. "Too many portals and a rough mission. I'll be fine." He gave her a reassuring smile.

Peter stood up abruptly and looked at the doors to MedBay. Everyone turned to look. They knew Peter had heard something. Thirty seconds later Dr. Cho pushed the doors open.

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A/N: I originally had Davis having an actual verbal conversation with his father but when I shifted the point of view of the different missions to Peter, the ability to do any exposition went away. When I brought Davis into the mix in To Meet A Need it was because I needed a way to get them from Boston to New York quickly. Oddly enough there are not that many Marvel characters that can form wormholes or teleport. I stumbled across Davis and he seemed to fit in with the other four. In the Marvel storyline he and his sister don't know who their father is until after he dies and they both turn out to be half alien...yeah...I not going there. I changed their backstory to fit this story a little bit better. A piece that I did pull out was Davis's father drowning. He died like that in the Marvel storyline...in a completely dry room. It was another mutant that did it, not Davis, but I thought it fit with the backstory I was weaving.

Peter...Spider-Man has always been the superhero that didn't kill. Way before I started writing these stories, I read a story that had Peter effectively kidnapped by Hydra and turned into an assassin. Tony, of course, goes after him, it gets messy, but at the end it turns out that Peter was being blackmailed. They had a bomb in Tony's lab and threatened to set it off if he didn't do what they wanted. There was a phenomenal line from Peter that went something like 'I always wondered what my breaking point would be...what would make me kill. It turns out it was you." It was a great IronDad - SpiderSon fic and if anyone knows what story it is let me know because I'd love to read it again (and I can't find it now!). Anyway, it's a thought that has always stuck with me...everyone has a breaking point. What is Peter's? In the world of IronDad - SpiderSon it's definitely Tony. In my little AU world I think it's MJ and his unborn son. I also think it's the rest of his team as well.

A fun fact...Karen and MJ have never let Peter know that they talk to each other. MJ's "spider-sense" is all Karen telling her when Peter is hurt or having a problem which goes back to when MJ and Peter first got together.