Chapter 1

Peter hadn't really been paying attention to Harrington for most of the class- it was his last class of the day and he was thinking of where he was going to start his patrol this afternoon before enjoying movie night with his family at the tower. It was only when his teacher started talking about the end of the year trip that the class would be going on that Peter tuned back in and started feeling excited.

"We have been very lucky to be invited on a tour of Stark Industries this weekend! Now I know this is quite short notice, but the approval for this trip only got sent through today. It is very unusual because SI does not usually allow tours, especially not just for high schools, so we should consider ourselves extremely lucky and I expect everyone to be on their best behaviour when we go."

Peter's head had hit the desk and suddenly he was feeling less excited. After all, who wanted take a school trip to their house? For the first time ever, he suddenly found himself regretting the fact that Aunt May had taken Tony up on his offer of joint legal guardianship (he still didn't know how Tony had managed that one, but Pepper was almost certainly involved somehow) so that he would always have a home, should anything ever happen to her, and that they had moved into the tower. Ned was sat to his right and was laughing at Peter's predicament.

"Don't worry about it dude! It's gonna be a great trip and nobody is gonna bother you. We'll have a great time!" Peter had just turned his head to glare at Ned, not even bothering to tell him how wrong his statement was.

Then Flash piped up, because of course he couldn't let the moment go without trying to make Peter's life hell, as if anything Flash could say would ever compare to what he was going to be subjected to on the day. "Ha Penis! Now everyone will see what a liar you are and how false your internship is! I tell you what, come clean now and save yourself the embarrassment!"

"Shove off Flash, Peter isn't lying!" Ned replied and Peter just gave him a grateful smile in return.

Just then the bell rang, allowing Peter to escape Flash and any retorts he may make. He said goodbye to Ned and made his way quickly to the alley where he changed into his Spidey-suit before swinging out over Queens, looking for crime.

In just over 3 hours he had prevented one traffic accident, stopped two muggings and helped Churro Lady with her shopping before being treated this time to a Chimichanga, which he gave half of to deadpool, who instead of a spidey-sense, clearly had a chimichanga-sense and had showed up almost as soon as Peter took his first bite. The rest of the time he just spent swinging around enjoying the feeling of being weightless at the arc of each swing, or sitting on rooftops, looking out over the New York skyline.

He sighed as he made his way back to the tower, knowing that he'd have to get one of his guardians to sign the permission slip for his trip and then in no time everyone in the tower would be aware of what was happening and were sure to make his life hell on that day.

He made it back to the tower with 2 minutes before his curfew (6:30pm on movie nights) and swung in through the window that Friday had kindly opened for him. He landed in his room and found Harley stretched out on the bed reading a book, clearly waiting for him. He removed his mask and looked over to Harley with a grin. "Hey babe," Peter said whilst walking closer to Harley.

Harley threw his book down on the bed the second he realised Peter was there and shuffled over towards him. "Hey darlin'," he returned, leaning in to give Peter a sweet kiss. "How was patrol?"

This then led to Peter sitting on the bed, drawing Harley with him and breaking down his evening, getting excited and flailing his hands everywhere as he spoke. Harley laughed along with him, happy to know that no-one had seriously tried to injure Peter this evening.

"Right I need a shower before we go out for movie night, I'll be back in a minute," Peter said, rising from the bed and walking towards their en suite bathroom and leaving Harley once again with his book.

Later that evening Peter found May and silently pushed the slip towards her. She glanced through all the information on there and then burst out laughing, looking up at Peter. "Oh man, there's that famous Parker Luck™ huh?" she asked through her giggles. Peter just rolled his eyes and grumbled at her, not feeling the need to answer. May just reached over and grabbed a pen, quickly signing her name and adding permission for Peter to meet the school at the tower, since there was no point in him taking the bus to school, just to catch a bus all the way back.

Peter hoped he had got away with not letting anyone else in the tower know and was just about to warn May against telling them when she suddenly picked up the slip and ran out of the room yelling for Tony.

"May, no!" Peter called after her, but couldn't do much to stop her in his state of shock. By the time he made it into the cinema room Tony had hold of the permission slip and was informing everyone around him about Peter's trip, the room bursting out into evil laughter and Peter knew that they were going to make his life as difficult as possible that day.

"Please guys, don't embarrass me! Everyone in my class already makes fun of me, I don't need it to get worse!" Peter pleaded with them, before realising his mistake - he'd never mentioned the bullying to them before. Soon everyone's attention had been diverted to that instead of the trip.

"What do you mean they make fun of you маленький паук (baby spider)?" Natasha asked, a mix of concern and anger written all over her face. She had always been the most protective over him, surprising just about everybody, but she had merely said that the spiders had to stick together. But looking around, Peter noticed the others all had similar expressions and tried to diffuse the situation before they decided to storm the school and demand to speak to every teacher, student and parent who had ever even looked at Peter sideways.

"It's nothing Auntie Nat, I was exaggerating, I swear! I mean Ned and MJ are in that class with me and that's great! They never make fun of me. Well, they do, but they don't do it to be horrible, they're my friends!" Peter knew he was rambling and by the looks on the Avengers faces, he was doing nothing to change their minds, so tried again. "Look it doesn't matter, it's not like most of them pick on me, they just don't believe me about my internship. And I mean technically they are right, they still don't know the truth, but I don't mind it because my life is great! Don't worry guys, please don't make a fuss!"

"Alright kid, we wont do anything ok? Right guys?" Tony asked and was met with a chorus of agreements. It was enough to appease Peter and he let out a sigh and moved to settle on the couch next to Harley, which meant that he missed the looks the other Avengers sent to each other.

After that everyone settled down to watch movies and eat their way through the feast of fast food that had been ordered. Peter spent the night curled into Harley with his arms wrapped round Harley's waist and Harley's fingers running through his hair. They whispered between themselves about everything and nothing, stopping occasionally to actually pay attention to the Disney movie playing on the giant screen (Morgan's choice), or to kiss each other, before they got too drowsy and started to drop off to sleep. At the end of the final movie, Tony and Cap carried the two boys up to their room and put them in their bed, both smiling at how they automatically curled into each other without waking up.