Hey guys! Welcome to my second fanfiction! I hope you enjoy it :)
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of these characters! They all belong to the MCU!
Caution: This fanfiction has a lot of dark and angsty themes so if you are uncomfortable with that, please don't read!
A.N
Hello my lovely readers! Wow this has been a journey! I can't believe we're at the last chapter! Thank you for all of your amazing reviews and please consider leaving one if you haven't already! Well, here we go! Last chapter! Don't worry there's plenty of fluff :)
Btw: See end for more notes!
.
.
Peter: Yo! You won't believe what just happened!
Ned: Hey dude. What's up?
Peter: Tony just adopted me!
Ned: WHAT! DUDE! THAT'S AWESOME!
Peter: I know!
Ned: WHAT IS YOUR LIFE MAN?!
Peter: Dude…
Ned: Sorry. Just got excited. So is Pepper Potts your mom?
Peter: Pepper Stark dude. And I guess? She said she loves it when I call her mom
Ned: MJ is gonna freak!
Peter: I know lol
Ned: I'm really happy for you dude. You have a family. You deserve it.
Peter: Thanks man. And you're my family too
Ned: :)
Peter: Oh yeah. I'm going on vacation with the Avenger's tomorrow
Ned: WHAT?
Peter: Yeah lol. It's pretty great.
Ned: How can you be so casual about this?! I would be pissing my pants about now!
Peter: After you hang out with them long enough, you'd get it
Ned: Wow. That's awesome dude. Have fun! Take some pics of the Avengers for me!
Peter: Sure! Gn
Ned: Gn! :)
.
.
.
Peter wakes up with a start. Gosh. Stupid nightmares. They don't come as often as they used to but they're still there.
"Peter? Did you hear me?" a robotic voice asks.
"Wha.." Peter yawns.
"Mrs. Potts is requesting your presence." FRIDAY tells him.
"Where? What's wrong?" Peter asks frantically. Did something happen to her? Or Tony?
FRIDAY pauses for a moment. "Boss seems to be in distress. They are in their bedroom."
Peter leaps off his bed and hurries toward their room. "Tell them I'm coming."
.
.
.
"Tony. Wake up. Tony." Pepper says, trying to wake up her sleeping husband. Tony had silent tears running down his face and he kept mumbling things.
"Tony, I think this is a nightmare. Wake up." Pepper insists. Tony starts to shake, tears flowing more freely.
"No please stop. Stop. You're hurting him." Tony mumbles.
"Tony!" Pepper says, raising her voice.
"No please. Peter! Stop!" Tony whispers.
"Please wake up honey."
"No! Please...take me." Tony sobs in his sleep.
Pepper keeps shaking Tony, desperate to wake him up.
"Peter!" Tony screams, and bolts off his pillow.
"Tony. You had a nightmare. Peter is fine."
"T-They killed him Pep." Tony sobs, slightly. His breathing was erratic and labored.
"Tony. Look at me. You need to breathe. Peter is safe in his room, asleep." Pepper says, running a hand through his hair.
"No. P-Pep. He's gone. I-I couldn't save him. Oh my God." Tony cries.
"Peter just woke up from a nightmare. Would you like me to get him?" FRIDAY asks softly.
"If he's awake, they could both use each other right now." Pepper says, rubbing Tony's back.
"Tony. Peter's coming. Just breathe with me, ok?" Pepper asks soothingly.
"I let him hurt him Pep. He's gone because of me." Tony says, letting the guilt consume him.
"Listen to me. Peter is ok. He's coming right now." Pepper whispers.
Peter comes rushing into the room. "Where is he?" he asks, before his eyes focus on a shaking Tony.
Peter rushes in and takes Tony's hands.
"Hey, hey. I'm here." Peter says, rubbing circles on his dad's hands.
"Peter?" Tony asks hoarsely, trying to focus on his son's face.
"That's me. Right now, you need to breathe. Follow me." Peter says, taking exaggerated breaths.
Tony follows Peter while taking his face in his hands. "You're here."
"Yeah I am. We're both here." Peter says. He looks at Pepper for conformation and he nods.
"You rescued me, remember? You saved me Tony. I'm not gone, I'm right here with you." Peter tells him gently.
After a while, Tony's breathing improves. "I'm sorry Pete." he apologizes.
"You've helped me countless times with my nightmares. Let me help you at least a few times dad." Peter says, pulling his dad into his chest.
Tony stays there, savoring his son's heartbeat. "You're not supposed to be helping me deal with my problems. It's supposed to be the other way around." Tony says, only half-joking.
"Is that one of the many stupid and useless rules you've come up with your massive guilt-complex?" Peter asks, running a hand through Tony's hair, like Tony did for him.
"Maybe." Tony whispers, closing his eyes.
"Mmm." Peter hums, laughing softly.
Soon, Tony is asleep, with Peter nodding off slightly.
"Maybe you should stay here tonight? It seems to be helping all three of us." Pepper asks quietly. Peter nods and shifts Tony off his lap and onto his pillow. With one hand curled into Tony's shirt and his head on his dad's chest, he falls asleep.
.
.
.
BEEP BEEP BEEP. Pepper quickly tells FRIDAY to shut off the early alarm. They decided on the flight to Fiji being at 8:00 AM in the morning so they could at least get a bit of sleep on the first day in the huge private villa that Tony and Pepper bought out. She knew she was going to have to drag her boys out of bed, but she could give them 20 more minutes of sleep while she finished packing Tony and Peter's suitcases.
After about half an hour, Pepper finally finished packing everything. She walks over to the bed and smiles. Peter was completely curled into Tony with his head on his chest and Tony had both arms around his son. Pepper snapped a photo and grinned to herself. Tony was never going to hear the end of it when she showed it to the team.
"Wake up boys. Don't make me ask FRIDAY to turn on that annoying alarm." Pepper says, shaking their shoulders.
Tony mumbles in his sleep and Peter slowly opens his eyes.
"Hey mom. So tired." Peter mumbles, closing his eyes again. Pepper heart leaps and she laughs.
"Come on honey. We're going on vacation with the Avengers, remember?" Pepper asks. If one thing will wake Peter up, it's that.
Peter's eyes fly open. "Oh my gosh! I haven't packed!" he says, lifting his head off of Tony's chest.
"Don't worry. I finished packing for you sweetie. You guys just have to get up." Pepper laughs.
"Thanks Pepper. You didn't have to do that." Peter says sheepishly, as he leans back into Tony's chest.
Pepper leans down and kisses Peter's forehead. "Well I am your honorary mom now right?" Pepper asks.
Peter grins and nods.
"Ok! If the both of you are not out of the bed in 5 minutes, I'm asking FRIDAY to blare that alarm until you do." Pepper says before hurrying out of the room.
Peter groans before lifting his head off of Tony again.
"Tony. Get up." Peter says, shaking his shoulder.
"Mmmm." he replies.
"Pepper's gonna get mad and I really hate that alarm." Peter whines, shaking his shoulder more.
"Wow. You're a buzzkill kid." Tony says, yawning.
"Nope, Pepper is. Get up! We're going on vacation remember?" Peter says, stretching his arms.
"Kid. I'm a billionaire. We can go on vacation pretty much whenever we want." Tony complains, trying to get back to his pillow.
"Tony!" Peter whines, forever blocking the pillow from him.
"Alright, alright. I'm up." Tony grumbles, getting up off the bed.
"Don't go back to bed. I'll see you in the common room with everyone else!" Peter says and races to his room.
Tony chuckles and heads to the bathroom.
.
.
.
"The perks of being an Avenger. Tony Stark pays for everything." Natasha jokes.
Everyone laughs. "Yeah but I can't believe he wants us along on his first vacation with you kid." Steve says, gesturing to Peter.
"He knows I would kick his butt if he didn't invite you guys. You're family and he knows it." Peter says grinning.
"What did I tell you? Best kid right here." Clint says, putting an arm around Peter.
"You're so sweet squirt. No wonder Tony's soft now." Bruce laughs.
"I heard that Brucie-bear." Tony smirks, coming down the hall.
"And I'm only soft around my kid, not you idiots." Tony says, ruffling Peter's hair.
"You're such a dad Tony." Sam says, laughing at him.
Peter grins up at him and Tony kisses the top of his head.
"You should get a t-shirt that says world's proudest dad." Rhodey tells Tony.
"That would be accurate." he says, looking down at a blushing Peter.
.
.
.
"Ok, everyone ready?" Pepper calls.
"Yup." everyone replies.
"Ok. Let's go. Plane's ready." Tony says, clapping his hands.
They all walk over to Tony's private jet and head inside. It's almost like a hotel inside. Peter gapes as he sees a chandelier in the middle of the room. There's a bar and expensive looking couches too!
"Wow." Peter whispers.
Tony smiles down at him and Peter keeps walking.
"Too bad Thor and Loki are missing this. I think they would like Fiji." Natasha remarks.
"They have to go visit their people sometime Nat." Clint says, dumping his backpack on the couch.
"How long is this flight again?" Bruce asks.
"Take off in 5 minutes. Flight duration, approximately 17 hours." FRIDAY says from above.
"Don't worry guys. Everyone has their one room where they can sleep. Me,Pepper and Peter have a private room." Tony informs them.
"Everyone settle down in their room and we'll meet back here after we take off." Pepper announces.
The team agrees and head off toward their designated rooms. Peter runs into their suite and collapses on the twin bed next to the King size bed.
"This is awesome!' Peter exclaims. Tony laughs and sits on the the king bed.
"Shall I prepare for take-off boss?" FRIDAY asks from above.
"Yup. Let's do this FRI." Tony tells the AI.
.
.
The flight is over-all pretty great. Peter, Tony and the Avengers hang out in the living room and play games for hours. The adults, aka everyone except Peter, indulges in the huge bar while Peter enjoys some Coke products. Pepper stayed in the room, saying something about being the CEO of Stark Industries, but promised to keep everything work-related away when they arrived. After a bit, everyone got tired and headed to their rooms to grab a quick nap. Peter and Tony head to their own room to check on Pepper and get some rest.
"Hey Pep. You done?" Tony asks as Peter throws himself onto his bed.
"Almost honey. Pete, are you alright sweetie?" Pepper asks, looking at Peter who was face first in his pillows.
"Yeah. Just tired." Peter says, muffled by the bed.
Tony looks down guiltily and Peter senses it immediately.
"Tony. It's not your fault." Peter says, looking up.
"Jeez kid. You would think you had a sixth sense." Tony says sarcastically, walking over to sit on Peter's bed.
"I'm going to go take a shower. You boys get some sleep." she says and turns toward the bathroom.
"Are you ok?" Peter asks quietly. Tony smooths Peter's hair back and smiles.
"I'm fine Pete." he replies. Peter raises an eyebrow.
"After I see you, everything goes away." Tony says, looking into his son's eyes.
"Anything you want to tell me?" Tony asks.
"If there is I'll tell you." Peter replies.
"Damn right you will." Tony tells him.
Peter hums and leans into Tony's chest. Tony puts his arms around the teen and they sit there for a moment. Soon, Tony hears soft snores. Tony chuckles.
"You can fall asleep anywhere kid." Tony laughs.
"Anywhere you're here." Peter mumbles, half-asleep. Tony's heart warms and he pulls Peter closer.
.
.
.
"Arriving in 2 minutes." FRIDAY informs them. They all pretty much slept the flight away.
"Ok FRI. Tell everyone to get their butts out of bed." Tony tells the AI.
"We're here?" Peter asks sleepily.
"Yeah buddy. You gotta get up." Tony says, ruffling Peter's hair. Peter lets out a big yawn.
"M'k." he mumbles.
As the plane lands on the beach, everyone eventually gets their jet-lagged butts out of the plane and into the huge villa. Even at 1 AM, Peter is wide awake thanks to his 12 hour long nap. Everyone puts their luggage in their rooms and comes back into the living room.
"Ok guys. Get some sleep if you can, we'll all meet up here at 12 PM so make sure you're out of bed by then. We'll all go to the beach and hang out while we make our plan for the day." Pepper says.
"Chill Pepper. It's vacation. We don't need an elaborate plan. Tony, you need to get this woman to a spa, stat." Rhodey jokes.
"I know right. How about all the women go to the spa while the guys chill out on the beach?" Tony suggests.
"Yeah! We'll get all day to do irresponsible things with the kid, without Pepper swooping down on us!" Clint says enthusiastically.
"Not on my watch." Tony says as Peter giggles.
"A girls day. Sounds great." Wanda shrugs.
"I'm in." Natasha and Pepper say at the same time.
"Ok, it's settled the women will have a girl's day and the guys will hang out at the beach. Can we go sleep now?" Steve yawns.
"Stop being such a baby Spangles." Tony says, rolling his eyes.
"Ok! Everyone to bed!" Bruce calls.
.
.
.
Neither Tony nor Peter had nightmares that night which for them, was pretty awesome. The next morning, Pepper kissed them both goodbye and went off with the girls, leaving Tony and Peter with Bruce, Rhodey, Steve, Sam and Clint.
"You ladies ready? Cap got your speedo?" Tony asks, munching on his waffle.
"For real?" Steve asks, shaking his head.
Everyone laughs as Tony smiles sheepishly.
"Let's go to the beach!" Peter says, grabbing Clint, who was basically his age anyway.
"Woohoo! Let's go guys!" Clint calls.
Clint and Peter race out to the water, everyone else following behind.
"Kid! Did you put sunscreen on?" Tony hollers. Too late, they're already in the water.
"God Tones. You're such a dad." Steve laughs. Rhodey nods with a huge grin on his face.
"I'm gonna make sure those two don't die out there." Bruce says, heading toward the duo.
"I'll come too." Sam says, following Bruce.
"Thanks guys!" Tony calls.
"Anyway...You guys have said that enough, chill out." Tony says, sitting on a lounge chair, watching Peter closely.
"Yo Cap. Check this out!" Rhodey says from the lounge chair next to Tony. He passes his phone over.
"Aww. These two are too cute!" Steve coos.
"Who are you two muttonheads fan-girling over?" Tony sighs.
"You." Rhodey laughs as Steve hands over the phone to Tony.
Tony grabs it and looks at the photo. It's a pic of Peter asleep in Tony's arms, probably from this morning. "Where the hell did you get this? Are you stalking us or something?" Tony asks incredulously.
"Nope. Pepper gave it to me." Rhodey laughs.
"You turned my own wife against me. What has the world come too?" Tony asks, dramatically.
Before he can reply, Peter comes running towards them.
"Come on guys! Let's go! Wait, except Steve. I think he's too old and frail to swim." Peter says teasingly, wisely beginning to run away.
"I'll show you kid!" Steve says chasing the kid down to the water.
"Let's go Honey-bear. My child is in dire need of my presence." Tony smirks.
Rhodey scoffs."Sure he does. It's not like he has 5 Avengers as his babysitters." Rhodey says laughing as they walk down to the water.
"I don't think Clint counts. He's probably a teen with a growth mutation or something." Tony points out.
"That's true."
.
.
.
After a day of tirelessly splashing Peter, they come back to the villa to have dinner.
"How did your girl's day go?" Clint asks.
"Amazing! I forgot how great it is without you boys." Natasha says smiling.
"How dare you!" Clin says putting a hand to his chest.
Everyone laughs and they sit down on the couches.
"I'm in the mood for Indian food. Does that sound good for everyone?" Tony asks.
"Sounds good."
"Yup."
"Great. I'm starving."
"FRIDAY, order some Indian food. Don't make it too spicy please." Tony requests.
"Sure." the AI answers.
Of course, Tony made sure he installed FRIDAY into the villa. The AI just made life simpler.
"We should finish our Hunger Games marathon!" Peter exclaims. Everyone agrees so he puts Catching Fire on.
After everyone is fed and watered and they finish MockingJay Part 1, Pepper crashes the party and tells everyone to go to bed.
"It's vacation! We should get to stay up as late as we want!" Clint complains.
"God. You're worse than Peter." Pepper says with her hands on her hips, as Peter giggles.
.
.
.
Peter is back in the cursed basement. But this time, he's chained onto a chair not on the wall. Peter looks up and sees Tony chained to the wall, Hammer getting closer and closer to him.
"No! Get away from him! Dad!" Peter yells, desperately trying to break out of the chains.
"No kid. I'm fine. Leave him alone." Tony growls at Hammer. Hammer stops and looks at Peter.
"You said I couldn't break you by hurting you remember? Maybe that's true. But you care about Stark a lot. Maybe that'll do the trick." Hammer cackles.
"No...no..NO!" Peter screams as Hammer brings the knife down on Tony's leg. Tears stream down Peter's face as Tony groans.
"Please. Take me. Stop please. You're hurting him! Tony!" Peter begs as he repeatedly slashes the knife against Tony's skin.
Hammer stops and regards him. "What's wrong kid? Can't stand to see your mentor in pain? Let's see how long it takes for him to scream." Hammer says, smiling evilly. Suddenly, that horrible electrocuting device is there and Hammer turns it on to full power.
Tony's screams echo through the room as Peter sobs and begs Hammer to stop.
"Oh not too long!" Hammer says.
"Please! I'll do anything. Please." Peter sobs.
"Ok fine. Let's put him out of his misery." Hammer says. Peter lets out a small sob of relief as Tony's screaming stops.
"Oh. I meant literally." Hammer laughs. He brings out a wicked sharp knife and approaches Tony.
"No. Please!" Peter yells.
"I love you Peter." Tony tells him, looking into Peter's eyes.
Hammer grins and plunges the knife into Tony's chest.
"NO DAD!" Peter screams.
.
.
.
""Boss. It seems that Peter is having a nightmare." FRIDAY says loud enough that it wakes Tony up.
"What? How bad?"
"Based on his vitals, worse than anything he's had before." FRIDAY says in a regretful tone.
"Oh shit." Tony groans, jumping out of bed and running to Peter's bedroom.
.
.
.
"FRIDAY turn the lights on to 20 percent." Tony requests. FRIDAY turns the lights on slightly and Tony gasps at the sight. The AI was right. This is definitely the worst Tony had seen Peter. Tears are streaming down his face and his body is rigid and shaking.
"Pete. Wake up!" Tony says, shaking his kid's shoulders.
"No..Take me! Leave him alone! Tony!" Peter yells, his voice breaking.
Tony cards a hand through Peter's hair. "Come on kid. Come back to me." Tony tells him.
"No! Dad!' Peter screams and bolts off his pillow.
"It's ok Pete. I'm here. You're ok." Tony sooths. Peter sobs into Tony's shoulder.
Suddenly, Peter is shaking. "No. No. You're not here. He-he killed you. Dad." Peter says, shaking violently.
"No kid. I'm right here. He didn't do anything to us. We're fine." Tony tries. Peter stares at Tony's lips as he talks, drinking in the sight of him.
"Here?" Peter asks, his voice cracking again.
"Yeah. I'm here bud." Tony replies. After a while, Peter stops shaking and backs out of Tony's shoulder.
"I'm sorry." Peter apologizes, tears leaking out of his eyes.
"Don't apologize. I've told you a hundred times, it's not your fault Pete." Tony tells him gently. Peter nods slightly.
"Do you need to talk about it?" Tony asks. Peter shakes his head.
"I said need, not want." Tony says, lifting Peter's face to look at him.
Peter sighs. "He-he killed you. And-and I couldn't do a-anything about it." Peter croaks.
Tony tenses. That was exactly what his nightmares were about. Except Peter was killed.
"Peter. All you have to know is that I will always be here when you wake up. You have to remember that it's just a dream.
You have to remember that I love you." Tony whispers.
"You told me you loved me before he…" Peter chokes. Tony rubs his back.
"See? Even in your nightmare I told you I loved you. So it has to be true right?" Tony asks.
"I know. But, he hurt you dad it-it was so real." Peter says, a few tears leaking as he looks at Tony's chest where Hammer put the horrible knife.
"But it wasn't. That is the important thing." Tony soothes.
"Will you stay with me?" Peter asks quietly.
"Always."
"Promise?"
"I promise son."
Didn't think the chapter was going to end like that but it did! Thank you all so much for all the support and reviews! I decided to write another Irondad and Spiderson fanfic (read more about it in the authors note) ! Thanks again, you guys are amazing! :)
Please review, it means the world to me!