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The weather was starting to get uncomfortably hot. ‘Ah Summer’ Peter thought as he walked to the Avengers Tower after school. He preferred the cooler months, but that was before Aunt May died during the holidays. It had been 6 months since her passing and Peter was still struggling. Peter had weekly nightmares, panic attacks (particularly at the worst timing) and now recently the occasional bedwetting. To Peters defense the bed wetting has only happened twice during a bad nightmare about May.
There wasn’t a week that went by where Peter didn’t cry. The amount of guilt that Peter carried with him daily was becoming overwhelming.
‘If only I was fast enough I could have saved her’ Peter thought for the 100th time this year. Sadly, May died from an aneurysm and couldn’t have been saved.
For the first 5 months after May died, he lived with a friend of May. Cheryl was so kind, welcoming but she was recently an empty nester with 4 adult children.
Last month, Tony offered again for Peter to live in Pepper and his quarters. Peter decided to take him up on the offer, feeling like he was becoming a burden to Cheryl. Tony had offered to “talk” during their lab sessions, but Peter pushed away. He didn’t need to push his mental health problems on him. Tony already has enough problems without Peter adding his own. However, it was becoming a challenge to hide his panic attacks from Tony, and others in the Tower.
‘I’m supposed to be an Avenger!’ Peter thought. ‘Avengers aren’t babies, GROW UP PARKER’.