After what felt like an unrelenting week, Monday morning finally arrived. And with a kiss and the promise of unending punishment, should disaster ensue, Morgan and Evie were sent to school. Peter remained in the tower doing school work as his parents wondered if they would ever get all of their children back in school.
Walking into the high school Evie was all but tackled by one Ned Leeds.
"Is Peter okay!"
"Get off of me immediately." She said, pushing the shorter boy off.
"I saw that Spiderman got picked up by Ironman the other night!" Ned whispered. "Did he tell?"
"More like got caught. For a genius he sure is dumb."
"Is he okay? How'd they react?" Ned was talking a mile a minute.
"Grounded? Very grounded." Evie shrugged. "Look man, he's gonna be back Wednesday you can ask him then."
They parted ways as the first bell rang and headed to their separate home rooms.
"Hey girl!" Lori draped an arm over Evie's shoulder. "Missed you!"
"Glad to be out of the house." Evie laughed. "Are we still studying for history tonight?"
"About that- my mom works tonight. She doesn't want me to have people over when she's not there so..." Lori shrugged.
"Fuck. I need to catch up for the test tomorrow."
"Could we study at your place?"
"I don't know." Evie paused. "I don't really have people over..."
"Anyone? At all? Are your parents drug dealers or something?"
"No. Just... theres a lot of security?" Evie spoke softly. "Vanessa was the only one who ever came over."
"Didn't she move to Utah last year?"
"Yeah."
"I don't have to come over, just thought it might work since you need to cram- and Bertie at the library thinks we study too loudly." Lori shrugged.
"No you're right. But you cant talk to anyone about my house, deal?"
"Are your parents ambassadors or something?"
"Something. I gotta text my dad." Evie semi discreetly pulled out her phone and composed a quick text to her dad saying that she would be bringing a friend home to study after school.
Seconds before the late bell rang Leo ran through the door and slid into the desk next to Evie.
"Hey babe, missed ya!"
...
"No way."
Steve and Tony had just finished recounting the highlights of the weekend- more specifically how their docile son had turned out to be the vigilante superhero they were supposed to be hunting down.
"Yeah. So that's a fun thing." Tony rolled his eyes and downed a lengthy sip of coffee.
"What are you telling Fury?" Nat cracked her neck casually as she turned to look at her friends.
"Ah fuck." Tony ran his hand across his face. "He's out for blood isn't he?"
"Tony." Steve quickly reprimanded.
"I think he just wants to know if Spiderman is on our side." Bruce said softly.
"Exactly, we will explain the situation to Fury. Peter is one of the good guys." Steve said.
"And what if Fury wants Spiderman to be a regular thing?" Clint asked.
"He's a child. It's not an option." Steve was curt.
"Maybe Fury can continue to scare him away from Chitauri tech though?" Tony perked at the concept.
"Can't believe he would take that stuff on." Clint shook his head. "There's a reason my babies are in fucking Iowa."
"Your babies aren't superpowered though." Nat pointed out, nudging her friend's shoulder.
"Kid's lost his fucking mind taking that on." Bucky said, breaking his silence.
"You've been awfully quiet for Peter's number one fan." Tony snapped. "You know about this?"
"Tony! Of course he didn't know!" Steve lept to his friend's defense.
"Peter sure as shit talks to him."
"I didn't know Stark." Bucky said. "I would never keep that kind of thing from you."
"Sure." There was venom in the billionaire's voice.
"Believe me if you want. Ask Peter, this is news to me too."
