Let Me Explain… I Guess?

Peter waited in the waiting room of the Avengers hospital, he was tired and probably experience minor blood loss but other than that he was fiiiine. He stood in place, not wanting to push the knife that was still in his right shoulder blade in any father.

Mj had been in intensive care for over an hour and finally one of the nurses had decided to pay the little spider some attention. "Hey, is there anything I can do for you?" Pete let go of a sigh and turned around.

The nurse let go of a gasp as she looked at it and Peter nearly let out his own small laugh. "First day?" He asked with a small smile. The Nurse would have hit him if the joke hadn't actually been rather funny to her.

"Yea… actually." Peter nodded and the nurse came closer to him. She looked over the insertion and decided there wasn't much she could do herself. "I'll get one of the doctors." Pete nodded and the nurse walked off to go find someone else.

She came back with none other than Dr. Banner who seemed to be running on caffeine at this point. The dark circles under his eyes and the twitch in his left hand were both telltale signs of it.

"Hey Uncle Bruce, can you get this out… Because I'm really considering just pulling it out myself." Bruce let go of a small chuckle and shook his head. He grabbed the hilt of the blade and slowly began to pull it back; blood came rushing out of the hole but overall Peter was good.

"Thanks, Bruce." However, the man wasn't done because he had the nurse from earlier fetch some of the disposable stitches from a case. "Now watch me Melony, you'll probably have to do this for one of us at some point." The nurse nodded, she had watched Dr. Banner pull out the knife and so now she figured she could watch the rest.

"With Spider-Man here you can't stitch these too tight, they have to allow for his healing to set in.

The nurse nodded and watched Bruce pull through 6 sticks that were rather loose, it was just enough to stop the bleeding.

"Okay, thanks Uncle Bruce, I'm going to go find mom and dad… I've got some explaining to do." Bruce nodded and Pete walked away, he figured Fri would notify him if Mj ever awoke.

Melony turned to Bruce and gave him a questioning look. "Who's his parents?" Bruce smiled and figured she'd learn at some point.

"He's Tony's kid." The nurse nodded for half a second before realization came over…

In the Penthouse.

Pete walked in and looked at the Avengers who were still up, which was most of them if he was honest. Wanda was the only one asleep from what he could tell. Pete let go of a sigh and looked towards his parents, both had concern written on them.

"Explain… Now" Pepper was not in the mood for anything other than the truth.., Neither were the other and especially not Tony, what the H*** was his son doing was the only thought he had.

"Well, I guess the best way to explain this is by saying. Michelle's a close friend from school and we got into a fight Monday over something so… so, so Stupid I don't want to talk about it. And she didn't come to school at all after that. So, I decided to check in on her." Pepper gave a stern look to Peter, almost to tell him, 'go ahead and continue.'

"And so, when I got to her apartment I had Karen run a scan and… and I found her Father, hurting her..." Pete let go a shaky sigh and looked back at them, he had been looking at the floor to avoid their gazes.

"He abused her… more than I could even know and I was there, just in time. I think he would have killed her if I hadn't been there." Tears began to fall from the mask he still hadn't taken off.

"I left her father lying there unconscious and bundled her up in a thick blanket the best I could. I just wanted her to be safe and happy and… I just want the best for her." Peter peeled off the mask to reveal his reddened eyes.

The team looked sympathetic towards the kid and Pepper stood and walked over to hug her son. "Hey, you did the right thing." She had grabbed him by the chin and made his look into her eyes. He always found comfort in her.

"Thanks, Mom." He pulled Pepper into a hug and Tony had stood and joined in the embrace. The three stayed like that for a few seconds before Peter let go of another sigh. His brain had begun to work on everything else.

"I'm… can one of you get her some clothes… I think she would you know… like to have something to wear." Pepper nodded, all while Tony somehow managed not to let go of a snort due to his kids' awkwardness.

"Ohh… and um could she maybe stay in one of the guest bedrooms… Somewhere near all of us. I don't want her to feel alone." Tony and Pepper both nodded and looked to Nat who had somehow gotten across the room without anyone noticing. She nodded to Tony and Pepper deciding that the extra room next to hers would be perfect.

Peter, Tony, and Pepper would only be a door or two down from her and anyone could check on the teen if need be. "Okay I'm going to go change, I don't think her first experience needs to be 'Hey Mj I'm Spider-Man, a.k.a. Peter Parker son of Tony Stark.' You know, that would just be bad, so around her I'm just an intern who has a room in the tower and I'm close with the avengers due to my internship." Pepper and Tony nodded… both knew that wasn't going to last long.

Tony and/or Pepper would bet that either an intern or Thor would ruin that in a days' time. However, for now it would help her and at least she wouldn't completely freak out.

"Junior, Dr. Cho wants me to inform you that Michelle is in stable condition and will be ready for visitors in the morning." Peter let go of a sigh and looked towards his family who were all heading to bed.

Peter began to head back to his room to change yet Peter somehow had the want to go back out, fight crime and maybe help the NYPD arrest Mj's father and mother. He had called them right after he left but he figured he could help the investigator if need be and provide some information.

"Nope, you're not going back out, you can go down to visit Dr. Cho or see if she would let you see Michelle, however, you are not going back out." Peter nodded… it was worth a shot, wasn't it?

Peter chose to go back down to the Avengers hospital and see how Cho was doing. And maybe, just maybe convince her to let him see Michelle.

Authors Notes…

Welp that's done and yet another chapter is finished! I hope everyone enjoys this, and I'll hopefully get back to Stark Spider Family Mess soon enough. I'm just in the mood for this right now.

Feel free to comment, like and all the usual stuff.

Belbelanne - Yea I get it, however, I think the NYPD will deal with them from here.

Sagitarscorpion1 - So happy your back, and I get the whole tiring semester thing… I had 7 assignments due Tuesday and I had a week to do it. Plus I had 16 chapters of Huckleberry Finn, which I can read, I've got a love for fanfic but not for nothing set in the 1800s. Hope the rest of your semester goes well, I think we can all say school is tough. Also, what are you in college or High school?

Guest - Umm yea, you wrote this at like 12 am in the morning for me so, you in a different time zone or something?