Chapter 21

Author's Note: This is the first time; I have ever written anything like this. Spider-Man action… I am not good with things like this so please forgive me ahead of time.

Peter sat perched on top of the Avengers tower, ready to get back out in the crime-fighting world. He had promised Tony to be back by curfew and all of these other things. Half of them he couldn't remember because he was too excited to get out. He pulled his mask down over his face when KAREN came on.

"Hello, Peter."

"Hey, KAREN. What's first on tonight's list of crime?" Peter asked as he began swinging towards the outer part of the city.

"Nothing yet. Mr. Stark has asked me to remind you that curfew is one a.m. If you are not back at exactly one a.m., he will send an empty suit to come and fetch you." KAREN reminded Peter.

"I know, I know, Kar."

Suddenly his mask beeped with a robbery taking place in a small convenient store. Peter went inside, climbing the ceiling to quietly inspect what was going on. When he noticed the cashier at the front, he put his finger to his mouth and said, "shh". He snuck up on the robber who had a black cap on, Spider-Man quickly pulled off the cap.

"Knock, knock, mr. criminal. Hey, my name is Spider-Man. You know stealing is bad, right?"

The criminal fired off a shot but thankfully missed. Spider-Man webbed the gun and the criminal to the outside of the fridge door.

"Bye, mr. criminal!" Spider-Man called out as the robber was trying to yell at him.

The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful. Peter stopped a few more robberies, helped an old lady not get hit by a speeding car, and even got a kitten out of the tree. Time flew by and before he knew it, it was 12:50.

"Crap." Peter whispered. He was 15 minutes from home and began swinging as fast as he could to get to the tower in time. Needless to say, he was three minutes passed curfew. He seriously hoped Tony wouldn't kill him for being three minutes late.

He was wrong. Tony made him change out of his suit, as soon as Peter was inside his room. Peter did what he was told as quickly as possible.

"Sit." Tony pointed to the bed, which Peter did immediately.

"I am only going to say this once. A one a.m. curfew is not 1:03 curfew. Got it?"

Peter nodded his head rapidly, hoping that would be it. "Yes, Dad. It won't happen again. I will be the most on time hero you have ever seen."

"Let's hope so. Go to bed." Tony said as walked toward the door. Before he closed it, Tony whispered to Peter, "Love you, kid."

"Love you, too." Came the sleepy reply from Peter, who was already falling asleep.

The next day was fairly uneventful. The kids went to school, came home, did homework, watched a movie. The day seemed to never end. Tony asked Peter after dinner if he wanted to go out as Spider-Man that evening. To his surprise, Peter said no. The teen seemed kind of down, but Tony figured he was just missing May.

That night, as Tony was walking around the house turning out lights, he checked on Morgan who was sound asleep. Next, he went to go check on Peter, figuring he was asleep as well. It was almost 2 a.m. and Tony was quite surprised to see Peter sitting on his bed facing the opposite wall of his bed.

"Peter." Tony whispered, not wanting to startle him. There was no response and after the second time Tony called his name and no response, Tony walked over. Peter was staring blankly at the wall. It was like he wasn't even there.

"You okay, kid?" Tony asked as he sat down next to Peter.

A single tear dripped from Peter's eye. Tony sighed sympathetically, as he felt bad for the boy.

"Peter. What's wrong?"

"I am fine." came the response out of the teen. Tony knew he wasn't fine, but he didn't want to scold him or accuse him of lying.

"I am here if you want to talk." Tony said, as he took his thumb and wiped the tear off Peter's cheek.

"Do you think it would be okay if I took off school tomorrow?" Peter asked.

Tony didn't expect that question, "Well it depends, why do you want to take off school?"

"Never mind. Forget I asked." Peter said, as he moved to lay down and face the other way. Tony caught his arm before he could get to far.

"Ah, ah. Tell my why, Pete." Tony said.

Peter took in a deep breath and closed his eyes for a second. "I want to spend some time with Morgan. I always wanted a little sister or brother and well, you know."

Tony realized Peter was talking about his parent's death.

"They always wanted a second kid. There was even talk of it for awhile and I was really excited. I told all of my friends that I was going to have a sibling." Peter continued. "I guess to put it simply, I feel terrible that I haven't been a better big brother."

Tony couldn't help but smile that Peter really wanted to hang out with Morgan. "Well, Pete, Pep won't like it much if both of you are out of school. However, I think I can convince her it's for a good cause."

Peter smiled, "Really?"

Tony scoffed, "Yeah of course." Tony pulled his wallet out and handed Peter his credit card. "Here, y'all use this and do what you would like."

Peter's mouth fell open at the idea of having freedom to use his dad's credit card. "Wait, seriously?"

Tony ruffled the kid's hair, "Go. Have fun. Be safe, tomorrow." He then held up his finger, "Now, it's time for you to get some sleep, Spider."

Author's Note: Hey guys! I had some extra time to write out another chapter. Work was insane but I have been wanting to write this all day. Up next is some much-needed sibling time between Morgan and Peter. It will be a spirit lifter for Peter. He needs it and you will find out why in the following couple of chapters!