Tony sat, stretched out in the living room with Bruce typing on his new Stark computer. Natasha sat opposite them on a different sofa with her back straight reading some crime or horror book called Velocity and Clint looked like he was attempting to get some shut eye when, in fact, he was meditating. Most people wouldn't expect that from Clint but in all honesty he was a focused man, no matter how much he joked. He meditated to keep calm and focused as well as to practice keeping still.
Tony looked around the room and did a loud, dramatic yawn. They ignored him. Tony yawned again, this time more dramatically. Bruce sighed.
"What's wrong Tony?" he asked, not looking up.
"I'm bored!" the man replied flinging his arms around. When he realised that no one cared he sat himself up using his arms to propel himself.
"Any news on why one-eye wanted to see our residential kid?" Tony asked.
"If he wanted to speak to the kid of the tower, Director Fury would have called you." Clint said. Tony spun his head to glare at the man but it didn't look like he had moved. He was still meditating.
"You know what I meant!" Tony grumbled. Clint smirked and then opened his eyes and unfolded his legs.
"I don't know, he dismissed me before he spoke to Pete." Clint said, his smirk dropping slightly. "I bumped into Rogers when I had finished my paperwork. He said something about a Doctor Curt Connors and then Peter told him to leave and that's all I know."
Bruce looked up at Connors name.
"Why would Fury want to talk to Peter about Doctor Connors?" Bruce frowned.
"Wait, wasn't Connors that guy who turned into a lizard and then tried to do the same to New York?" Tony asked.
"Yeah, and he got beaten by this guy in spandex who calls himself Spiderman." Clint said. Natasha now looked up, making it obvious she was paying attention rather than rereading the same page several times, no matter how interesting.
"What do you two know on Connors?" Natasha asked.
"All I know is that he worked with another scientist years back on trying to reproduce animal instincts and natural evolutionary processes and so that they worked on humans. Much of his work was working with spiders that had been genetically altered so that their venom could cure illnesses and the self healing would help humans." Bruce said.
"Jarvis." Tony called out. "I want you to show every file you have on Doctor Curt Connors."
Holo-screens appeared around the sofas they were all sat at. Natasha stood up and looked at some of the pictures.
"This man had one arm?" She asked. The picture made it obvious, for some reason it still shocked her.
"Yeah, he was testing lizard organ and limb regrowth so that people like him could have their limbs back." Bruce explained looking over a recent article on the project. He had already read it but it helped to clarify some of the details.
"Looks like it didn't work out too well." Tony stated watching a video of the lizard climbing the OsCorp building.
Just then, the elevator opened and all those present in the room, looked through the holographic images and documents to see Steve step out of the lift. Steve looked over to them gravely and then turned slightly, as if expecting someone to be there. He spun around further and saw Peter still in the lift, staring at him. Peter pressed a button in the lift and the doors shut. The symbol above the door showed the lift going up until it stopped at floor seven.
Steve turned and saw the others looking at him through the screens surrounding the sofas. He sighed and walked forwards. Even Tony realised he shouldn't joke at this moment. Steve walked through a holographic newspaper report and collapsed onto the sofa. He ran a hand through his hair.
Clint crouched on a sofa opposite him, ignoring the images surrounding them.
"That bad, huh?" he asked. Steve only nodded.
"Was that a bruise on Peter's neck?" Natasha asked. Again, Steve only nodded.
"What happened then?" Bruce asked as he and Natasha took their seats again and looked at Steve. Only Tony didn't sit back down but he kept glancing in concern at Steve.
Steve sighed again and leaned forwards, his elbows resting on his knees.
"I'm not sure what you may or may not know yet." Steve started looking between Clint and Tony.
"I told them what you told me." Clint confirmed.
"Don't worry, I didn't hack into the cameras or anything." Tony said throwing his hands up in defence.
"Well, when I left Clint I went to Fury's office. He told me that a man called Curt Connors requested to see Peter, he knew him somehow. Fury wouldn't tell me how or why he knew Pete though, just that Peter had agreed to go and see him with the promise that I would follow when I could." Steve explained. "I was sent to this prison with too many protocols and defences. I could feel my strength falling from me, it had some anti strength walls or something because it took away a large portion of my strength."
"That's only installed in a few SHIELD prisons. There's that negative zone prison, Underwater prison but only in blocks two and four-" Tony started.
"That's the one." Steve cut in. "We were in underwater prison block two."
Natasha raised an eyebrow at Tony as if asking how he knew this. She didn't even have to ask. The document he was scrolling though had SHIELD: CONFIDENTIAL written on the top. Natasha just rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, I got there and there was a man guarding the room Peter was supposedly in. They wouldn't let me in the room and then I looked through the small door window and a man with one arm was lying across the table chocking Peter." Steve said sadly. He looked down at his hands as if they were the ones that had hurt Peter. Hating himself for not getting there sooner and preventing whatever was upsetting Peter. He knew being chocked wasn't fun but he didn't think that was the only thing upsetting the teen.
"He was whispering something to Peter when I forced my way in. I heard the name George Stacy and the Connors said that Peter couldn't hide from him, he knew all about Peter, he couldn't hide."
Tony turned away from an OsCorp research document he had been scrolling through.
"Cap, look at me." Tony ordered. His face was completely serious. Steve looked up, confused and upset.
"You care about Peter, right?" Tony asked, still serious.
Steve just nodded.
"Even if you didn't you wouldn't let anything hurt a young civilian, would you?" Tony said.
Steve shook his head.
"So you're never going to let this creep come near him since he's not only a civilian but someone you care about. Steve, we're not going to let him get near Pete." Tony said honestly. Steve looked around the room and smiled slightly as he saw his comrades, his friends staring back at him and nodding in agreement.
"Right, enough of this sappy crap." Tony mumbled causing Steve and Clint to grin. Tony wasn't cruel or as egotistical as he let on when you got to know him.
They sat in silence, or stood in Tony's case, for a good while. The only movement was Tony scrolling through documents.
Finally, Tony gasped, drawing the attention of the other occupants in the room. Bruce stood up and walked over to Tony when the man made no move to explain what he was looking at. He just kept reading.
Bruce read through half the document before gasping himself. Tony turned his head slightly and noticed Bruce standing next to him for the first time. He nodded as if to say, weird right?
"Jarvis, pull up everything on Richard Parker." Tony ordered. The others looked shocked and confused at Tony except Bruce who watched as all of the documents, videos and images surrounding them changed except the one right in front of him which he and Tony had been reading.
Steve stood up and browsed a few of the documents.
"What do all of these mean?" He asked after five minutes of not understanding how Tony got to this topic.
Tony turned and looked at Steve.
"Doctor Curt Connors' lab partner eleven or more years ago was Richard Parker, father of our residential teen and your grandson." Tony explained. Steve stared at Tony before walking over and looking at all of the documents Tony had been browsing through.
None of them noticed how the lift was going up to the science floors and kept alternating between the three of them.
Natasha was the first to go off to bed, then Clint and Bruce. Tony excused himself to go and work on his latest suit.
The two relatives both stayed awake into the early hours of the morning before finally calling it a night and collapsing on their beds, neither knowing the other had stayed awake.
Hi people, did you enjoy the chapter? Sorry for it being so short.
A couple of things to go over, I talked about Steve feeling weak when he got into the prison, Peter did feel it too and I will be mentioning that next chapter.
Second thing, I saw Amazing Spiderman 2 today, still dying inside about that (if you've seen it please review that you have so we can talk about it! I need to talk to someone!)
I will not be basing this story off Amazing Spiderman 2 but I might pick at elements such as the Doc Oc arms, rhino, maybe electro and green goblin. There is a chance I might have that bit with Gwen in it where she applies for Oxford but I won't stay true to the film about that bit, I'll mix and match as I see fit.
Anyway, please review; was Steve's response good enough? What about Tony or Clint/Natasha/Bruce?