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Peter and Tony were in Happy's Audi, driving all the way to Midtown High. Tony sets up the boy's lunch by placing two triangle ham sandwiches, followed by some strawberry jello and a Capri-Sun juice box. He closes the lid, puts it in a paper bag and hands it to Peter.
"Here, underoos. I placed double the ham just like what you said. Be sure to get home early and—" Tony was interrupted by Peter.
"Use the door on the way back to the tower. Yes, Mr. Stark, I know." Peter said, rolling his eyes in a sarcastic manner before taking the paper bag and putting it in his backpack.
Happy parks the car in front of Midtown, and Peter opens the car door to leave. He waved goodbye to Tony and watched as te Audi drives away from the school and returns to Stark Tower.
Peter sighs, and entered the school. As soon as he entered, he looks around to see all of the students on their phones, reading something from a website. He looks at Ned who was doing the same.
"Hey, Ned." Peter greeted, doing the secret handshake as soon as Ned noticed the boy.
"Hey, Peter! Check out this popular web site I'm reading on! Apparently, this website has loads of written fanfics by authors! I just read a fanfic about Darth Vader actually being a dad to Luke Skywalker. Look!" Ned shows the fanfiction he was reading to Peter.
"Woah, this is so cool!" Peter was impressed with the writing that he started reading some of the lines in Ned's phone.
"I know, right? It's called Archive of Our Own, or better known as AO3. There are Avengers fanfictions too! Search it up on your phone." Ned said excitedly, taking his phone back to let Peter search it up himself.
Peter pulls out his StarkPhone and types AO3 in the search engine. It became the first to pop up as soon as the search loaded the results. He clicks on it, and was sent to the home page. He then clicks on the sign up button, and his eyes widened.
An activation email? It's like he's signing up for college. Luckily, the estimated time for the email was 3 days, so he immediately clicked on the button and waited for the website to send him that email. While waiting, he read fanfictions that guests are allowed to read, and Peter was starting to get the hang of it.
4 days later, Peter received a notification during decathlon, and after anticipating its notification, he opened the email app during break time. He opens the new email and finally made his new account.
As soon as he finished, he immediately jumps and skips over to Ned. "NednednednedNEDNEDNEDNED!!"
"What? WHAT?? What is it, Peter?? Is it the internship??" Ned turns to the giggling boy.
"No, no! I finally have my own AO3 account! I can read freely now!!" Peter announced like it's one of his biggest achievements.
Ned started celebrating with Peter as well, jumping with Peter like a bunch of teenage girls. MJ notices and hits the two in the head for "being too loud" and all Peter could do was stare at this beautiful mean lady.
After Decathlon, Happy was already waiting for the boy in his Audi. Peter enters the car and greets him as he read an author's new fan fiction of Darth Vader being a dad to Luke Skywalker for once. (He and Ned do share the same interests, including fan fiction preferences.) Happy couldn't help but worry by how much time Peter spends with his phone. He lowkey misses the yapping boy.
As Happy drops Peter off at the entrance of Stark Tower, he was still holding his phone reading a oneshot. When he enters the penthouse, he only gently drops his bag next to the couch, sat on it, and continued reading the oneshot instead of excitedly entering the lab to check on what Tony is doing.
After 5 minutes of Peter reading, FRIDAY chimed in. "Greetings, Peter. Boss has been alerted of your presence and requires it immediately in his personal lab, and Boss states "If Peter doesn't get here, I will absolutely and literally take away his Star Wars CDs until he gets off the phone this instant." in a scary tone. Please come, Peter."
Peter immediately stood up and went to the elevator that leads to the lab. Oh, God. He forgot it was a lab day today and the reason why he was here in the first place. How could he forget?!?
He enters the lab as soon as the elevator dinged, sliding his shoes on the floor to stop himself, then bent over, hands on his knees while panting. "I'm sorry for being late, Mr. Stark!"
Tony sighed. "It's fine, kid. Now, let's continue with the work on your webshooters. You were taking too long so I had to make up a threat. Guess it worked." Tony said as he types on the hologram keyboard.
Peter goes to his web shooters, and decides to make a new web fluid on the other side of the table. He gets a beaker, puts a few chemicals from the cabinet, then slowly puts it in the web shooters to refill it.
Tony was anticipating a conversation from Peter, the one that would take hours and multiple topics until it ends, but the kid seemed to finish fast and is back on his phone again. Tony cursed under his breath before taking commanding DUM-E, who was right next to Peter, take the phone from his hands to stop him from using it.
"Mr. Stark!" Peter tries to reach up, but DUM-E raises its hand up higher.
"Ah, ah, ah. You seem pretty busy on your phone, buddy. What about the conversations and drama you're gonna tell me today?" Tony said to the boy as he walked closer.
Peter used his refilled web shooters, shooting a web at the phone and taking it from DUM-E, he also held it close to him. Tony cursed after forgetting that he always has web shooters on.
"There's no drama today, Mr. Stark, just another boring day." Peter said.
"Oh, really? So that's why you've been spending too much time on your phone lately, huh?" Tony pressed on.
"Are you jealous, Mr. Stark? Don't tell me you're envying your own creation just because I'm spending too much time with it?" Peter asked out of the blue, and Tony stammered.
"What?? No. Never, Pete! Just uhh.. not used to it." Tony looked away embarrassingly.
"Oh, so you are jealous!" Peter teased.
"Come on, Pete. Just.. What are you reading anyway?" Tony looked at the kid's screen.
"Oh, Darth Vader acting like a dad to Luke Skywalker. This website has loads of fan fiction, I promise you, the writers are so good and cool."
"Wait, let me try something. I want to see if there's fanfictions of me." Tony takes Peter's phone and searches himself. The former and the latter came across TonyxReader fanfictions, which is apparently about Tony dating the one reading the fanfictions.
They read loads of those fanfictions, and Tony seems to realize that reading these aren't so bad after all. He now understands why Peter likes it so much. His genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist ass can get used to these genre of fan fiction.
As they scroll through the 7th page of this list, they find something called "Spider Man/Iron Man". Without knowing the difference between the slash and the and symbol, they click on it thinking it wasn't bad.
(If you don't know: / is romantic relationship and & is platonic relationship)
They slowly read the fanfic, scrolled to the lines of horrifying doom. It was going well, then in started to get weirder, and then they reached the scary part.
'Spider-Man lifted his mask, pulling Iron Man's unmasked head into a kiss, and the latter lifted the former up on the wall and pinned him without breaking the kiss. They made out for about 5 minutes before Iron Man moved his metal hand on Peter's bulging chest.'
Silence between the two. Awkward. Fluffing. Silence.
"We— I did what now?" Tony's voice shook, a horrified look on the man's face.
"Ooookay! Mr. Stark! I'll take this back now!" Peter said as he took his phone gingerly.
"WHAT DO THEY MEAN I MADE OUT WITH— A KID??? MY PERSONAL INTERN ND ALL??? I MAY BE A PLAYBOY BUT I'M NOT A FUCKING PEDOPHILE!! DON'T THEY CENSOR THIS KIND OF SHIT??" Tony complained, his hands on his head as he experienced an emotional turmoil.
"Uhh, problem is, Mr. Stark, this is an archive, which means.. you're going to see some stuff you don't like and they won't be censored. That's why umm.. tags exist." Peter scratched the back of his head, which made Tony even more horrified.
"WAIT SO.. THERE COULD BE MORE FANFICS WHERE I'M WITH YOU ROMANTICALLY?? Oh, my God I'm about to throw up." Tony immediately went to the bathroom, and Peter couldn't help but cringe as he heard Tony's vomiting in there. The toilet flushes and Tony comes out with a deep sigh.
"Look, kid. I think of you as my own child, not.. whatever this is. Tell you what, what's better than this? Guess." Tony said, walking over to the kid.
"Uhh.. What?" Peter said, confused.
"Movie night! Now, come on. Put that phone down and let's watch a Star Wars marathon." Tony said as he coaxed the boy into the couch.
Peter sat next to the man and enjoyed a movie night with him. While they were watching, Peter decided to ask.
"Are you still going to read fanfictions, though, Mr. Stark?"
"Never again, kid. Never fucking again. We are not going to talk about the fan fiction incident. NUH-UH." Tony shook his head, his voice filled with terror.
fin.