Notes: I am not going to include anything in this story that happens after Homecoming, mostly because I enjoy that wonderful side universe that we writers adore when everyone bloody well lives! I simply dispise that we were deprived of our IronDad+Spiderson dreams, and so will make mine a reality while ignoring the Phantom Planet of the Marvel Universe (AKA Infinity War).

Enjoy!

Peter's class was going on a fieldtrip! And Peter was… Peter was staying behind.

Peter wouldn't even have known about the trip if Ned hadn't been so excitedly chatting about it. Peter had been out 'sick' for the last few days (sick of the knife wound in his side) and had missed the big announcement. And although Mr. Harrington was very apologetic, all forms required had to have been turned in that Monday. Peter just shrugged it off, its not like missing a trip would kill him. Heck, the last trip he had gone on almost had killed him! He was really lucky that that spider had just mutated his DNA instead of poisoning him or something. And that the whole D.C. thing hadn't resulted in the deaths of his friends (well, friend and classmates-who-couldn't-care-less-about-him) or himself.

Since his whole class was going, which meant Pete would essentially by himself at school, he simply asked Mr. Harrington if it would be alright if he stayed home that day, to which the teacher agreed, but only after checking in with Mr. Mortitia.

The thing was that, while Peter had asked to stay home, it was a rather flexible term; at this point Peter wasn't quite sure were his home was. There was S.I., May's apartment, the compound and Tony's mansion back in Malibu which had been rebuilt because 'I may not be a emotional person Pete -just ask my wife- but I spent a lot of good times there. And when something of mine breaks I either fix it or get another one'. To be honest though, the house in Malibu was more like a summer home, as Peter and May had stayed there with the Starks over summer vacation, and whilst they had a great time, it was just too far away for it to be practical for it to really be his home.

The same rule applied to the compound; it was to far away for him to go regularly, although May let him go during school breaks or over the weekends sometimes. Usually though, if Peter was at the compound it meant that he had been hurt in a way that meant he had to pretend to be healing to the public. May hated lying, so if Peter got hurt and had to miss school she would be honest and say Peter got stabbed in a mugging, she never said why he was there, or mentioned that he had been stopping the mugging, but the simple truth of it was that the entire school would be suspicious if Peter came back in less than two weeks. But since his enhanced healing allowed him to recover from such in things in two days tops, the kid would spend the rest if the two weeks training the with the Avengers; none of which were too pleased about the stabbing and were determined to help the kid learn to handle himself in a fight better.

May's apartment was home for obvious reasons, but at the same time, so was S.I.. He worked there for Pete's sakes!

Originally, after the whole Homecoming Incident, Tony had wanted to help Peter update his suit some more, but this time with explanations as to why things were added and why he should not convince his friend to help him hack the suit and disable things! It was meant to be a short term thing, but after a long day of working Tony had been stressing over a problem with his new suit (Peter was sure he was up to mark 72 or something at this point) when Peter had taken a chance and looked at it while Tony was out if the room.

It could have been that Tony was just tired, or maybe because he had studied the issue recently, but it took Peter a very short time to find the problem, and when Mr. Stark had come back he had meekly suggested a method to solve the problem. At first the man had been annoyed, but after trying it and -wonder upon wonders- getting the suit to work, he had grinned at the kid and almost begrudgingly offered to let Peter help finish the suit. The new mark was now worn proudly by the hero, a collaborative design of two extraordinary geniuses who got along surprisingly well.

The internship, which was fake as all get out to begin with, became an actual thing a few weeks later. Tony had gradually started letting Peter try more things in the labs and help him with more stuff until Peter had found himself coming over a couple times a week to just tinker. Mr. Stark joked that he was 'an assistant, not a teammate, we aren't there yet kid', but eventually Peter was making his own stuff and the two were collaborating on things and spit-balling ideas off each other in a way that was suspiciously like partners (although Peter would never say so).

It had been a normal day in the lab, Peter was tinkering and Mr. Stark had been called away on a mission, but either Pepper was having an off-day (It was rare, but give the woman a break, she can't be perfect all the time) or Mr. stark didn't tell her he was gone, but before Peter knew it, he was face to face with Mrs. Pepper Potts-Stark Ma'am, CEO of Stark Industries.

Pepper had, of course, heard of Peter before (Tony wouldn't shut-up about him), but she had never met the kid before. Her intention in coming to the lab was to find Tony to deal with an issue in R&D, but in coming face to face with the genius kid her husband spoke so fondly of, and not being able to find Tony anywhere, the woman was struck with a sudden inspiration and dragged Peter down to help the internment scientists in the R&D department.

That was why when Peter had left for the day and Tony came home, the man had been immediately set upon by his wife insisting that he allow Peter to help elsewhere in the building, and stop hogging the kid to himself. As it turned out, the interns and scientists had taken a liking to the kid, and once Tony had granted Peter an actual internship, it swiftly became less of a internship and more of a management positions more and more people came to Peter for help. He was more open to helping than Dr. Stark, didn't judge and generally carried a sunshine about him that lit up the day of whoever was working with him. Peter was run ragged by people all over the building wanting his help, not that Peter himself was actually needed, but everyone wanted his help. The kid was the perfect mix of boss and puppy to help manage while still keeping everyone happy and in a good mood.

Peter had started coming to S.I. every day after school to work in the labs and with Tony. His weekends when May was off work were spent with her in their apartment, but the ones where she was busy, he spent losing himself in Mr. Stark's personal lab and helping built new Iron Man suits and tech, and even working on his own stuff.

It hadn't stayed like that of course. Mr. Stark had had a rough night; he was getting better at sleeping through the night, what with a kid around that he had to be a good example too, but nightmares weren't something you could turn off, and neither was trauma. And after waking in a cold sweat with the whole Siberia fiasco playing in his head, Tony was in no mood to try and fix the same metal arm that had nearly killed him. Bucky of course hadn't pushed, and instead determined to let the mechanic rest, after all, it was his own fault Tony had issues with him.

Natasha hadn't taken any of that and had dragged him down to see Peter, whom she had met previously in the training room, and since then had been helping him with his training. The teen was only too happy to help Mr. Bucky White-Wolf Sir, with his 'awesome metal arm' and from there it had just spiraled.

Tony was out of town for business and Clint needed more arrows, so he thought he could manipulate the man's protégé into making him some. Big mistake. Peter happily made the arrows and Clint found himself swearing to never try to take advantage of the precious kid again, prompting an arched eyebrow from Natasha when she overheard him watching his 'please' and 'thank you's' when dealing with the kid. Honestly though, all of them were essentially wrapped around his finger, each Avenger who dared ask for his help found themselves entranced by the positive ball of puppy dog and sunshine that Tony had all but adopted.

Needless to say, Peter quickly found himself at home at S.I. and with the Avengers, and now that he had all of Wednesday off from school, the kid had determined to spend it at the tower. May would he busy at the hospital where she worked, and Spiderman, while being very important, couldn't be out all day when science was pleading for his aid in plain sight from across the skyline.

Wednesday was going to be great!

Hey there! Thanks so much for reading this!

This is my first FanFiction on this site, so I would really appreciate your thoughts regarding this fic. Yes, it is your typical fieldtrip fic, but who cares! I love that trope to death, and wanted to do it myself (after finding out that one was one of this fandoms biggest tropes I had to join).

If there are things you'd like to see during the trip I would love ideas.

Thanks again for reading.

~Rhei