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The first time Peter met Logan was just like any Saturday
May had told him about Logan 2 weeks prior, at that time they had been dating for a month, she wanted to keep it quiet for a while just incase it didn't last
He had been anxious all Friday and Saturday morning before he arrived. As the night crawled closer, Peter spidey-tingle was vibrating in the back of his neck
Not alerting of anything immediately dangerous, but just.. waiting. A quiet warning to stay alert
He brushed it of as nerves
Cause Logan was nice. He talked to Peter when they were all having dinner, asking him about school and hobbies
Logan was.. good.
But Peter couldn't shake of the tingle.
Any time when Logan was mentioned or was visiting. It was there. The little warning.
But he kept quiet.
"Yeah Ned, Logan's great"
"Logan seems to really love her Mr. Stark, it's great"
"He makes you happy May, I'm glad you met him"
He didn't tell anyone about the tingle, cause what were there to tell?
'Oh yeah! My freakish spider tingle is warning me about Logan. Oh no nothing's happened'
Yeah no
Logan was good. Peter was just paranoid.
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Then, the comments started rolling in
They were small, not noticeable, and absolutely nothing to drag on.
"You really gonna eat all of that? You know your aunt is tight on money right now Petey"
'Petey?'
"You know.. you should probably get a job to help May, Petey. A real job. Not whatever you do with that Tony stark."
'Petey'
"You know that Stark is only keeping you for pr, right Petey?"
'Petey.'
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But Logan was great. He loved May. And when May suggested that he started sleeping over more, 'more like moving in', Peter said, "sure! Why not?"
Cause it wasn't a problem.
May is tight on money. Peter is a burden. Tony is only keeping him around for pr.
He also never said anything around May, so it was fine!
And it was even fine when May had to take more shifts at the hospital
It was just stupid comments. The truth.
And Logan was nice. He would never do anything really wrong to peter.
Right as he thought that, he felt his neck tingle
But it's fine.
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The first hit was Peters own fault. He shouldn't have talked back.
He and Logan was in the kitchen putting away the dishes after eating as May was working
Then the comment came, "that Stark is such an whore. Bet he makes you do all kind of stuff, right Petey?" He laughs a wicked laugh, but Peter only sees red
"Ewh! No Mr. Stark would never do that to me! That disgusting, how dare you say that!" Saying things about Peter was one thing, but Tony? The rage was too much, he didn't even catch the nickname
"How dare you speak like that to me! You worthless piece of shit!"
Logan turns, tingle screaming, everything feels like slowmotion, tingle screaming, Logan raises his arm, tingle screaming, his large hand makes contact with Peters face, tingle screaming, peters head snaps sideways
Peter just stares as Logan stands there panting
"Get out! Out! I don't want to see your face!" His whole face is red as fire, teeth baring
He quickly stands and scrambles right out the apartment door
He runs down the apartment complex, out in the street and doesn't stop until he looks up and sees the tower, Stark tower. Which is streets away from his own apartment
He didn't even mean to go here, what does he do now?
He can't go in. He look at his own face in a window and sees the faint angry red hand print
No way.
But the print would be gone in a couple minutes anyway..
He walks up to the tower and settles down with his back against the clean glass
Hes just gonna rest his eyes.
"Kid! Hey, wake up!" He woke up to yelling and someone shaking his shoulder and immediately jumped three feet away
"Woah! Calm down kid, it's Tony" Tony said. Wait.. Tony?
He opened his eyes and found himself staring into the eyes of his mentor
"Hey kid. Let's head up to the penthouse, yeah?" Tony reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him up
Peter just mumbled in response, his brain mushy from the non wanted nap
He looked around and saw that it was still night, but didn't look to be too late
He looked into a window on the side of the tower, the print was gone, good.
It was only a one time thing so it didn't matter.
As the two of them made their way into the private elevator, Tony turned to him, "so. You gonna tell me what you're doing outside of my tower at nine pm?"
"Uh.. I was just.. taking a walk." Peter nodded to himself, that was kind of true
"Uh- huh.. a walk.. without your shoes?" Tony looked at him with an unamused look and peter looked down at his feet. No shoes.
"Yeah.. i was- uh.. trying this new thing! It makes your feet.. stronger!" Peter was proud of himself with that one, Tony didn't seem to agree
He raised an eyebrow at Peter, "Stronger? Alright sure. Let's go with that Petey"
Peter immediately felt his body going rigid
"Don't call me that. Please" Tony looked surprised but agreed
"Alright kid... you wanna stay the night here? Pretty late to go home and Spider baby's need their sleep"
"Im not a baby... But sure"
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The next day when he came home from school, Logan was waiting for him
"Here he comes. The little runner. You're pathetic Petey" peter looked around the apartment
"Where's May?" He asked in a quiet voice
"Work. It's the only thing she does because of you." Logan snarled at him, peter just kept his head down and started walking towards his room
"Where are you going you little shit?!" He grabbed peters hood and pulled him backwards and landed a kick in his ribs
"You deserve this you pathetic slut!" He yelled
Then he kicked again.
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And that's how it continued. It was like a ball had started rolling, pushing everything in its way. And an object in motion stays in motion.
Any time they were alone, hit and kick.
Peter was getting used to it. He deserved it.
His internship continued like normal. He sensed that Tony was still wary from that night but tried his best to still be normal
But one thing that weren't normal was that Peter could not sleep. Not when Logan was there, which was basically every night.
Peter started hiding out in their storage room on the top floor. It wasn't great. But atleast he could sleep
When he tried to sleep in the apartment it felt like when he was playing minecraft as a kid.
You cannot sleep now, there are monsters nearby
And Peter was fully aware of that monster. Every breath and movement. Any sign of waking.
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Peter knew that what Logan was doing was wrong. He did.
But he couldn't stop it.
An object in motion stays in motion
May was happy.
It was fine.
Until something was in the way of the ball.
Until someone noticed.
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He walked out of school and quickly found the fancy black car waiting for him
He jumped into the back-seat and immediately felt all the tension flow out of his body
He hadn't been able to sleep last night but had also been too tired to walk up to the storage
He rested down into the soft car seat cushions
He didn't even notice his eyes slipping shut
He didn't notice when happy sent a text to Tony
He didn't even notice when they arrived and Tony came down into the garage and carried him up to the room that had became Peters own.
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He woke up to.. crying? Was he crying?
No.. no he wasn't.. then who?...
He looked up and saw Tony sitting on the edge of the bed, his head in his hands, small hiccups coming from his unusually small frame
"Mr. Stark..?" He voiced hesitantly
Tony's head snapped towards him, and God.
His eyes were bloodshot and tears were drying on his face
"Peter.." he tried a sad smile but it turned out as a grimace
"What- what's wrong?.." He sat up and quietly winced as his stomach strained from the kick Logan had landed that morning
Tony shaked his head sadly at him, "Peter.. Buddy.. We need to go down to the med bay and check you out"
Peter felt his own eyes snap open, "w-what? Why?" Dread filled his stomach
"I saw them. The bruises buddy. Who- God... who did this to you?" Tony's eyes snapped to Peters own stomach quickly
"What?.. when- how..?" He felt his breath quicken
Tony reached over to hug him but stopped to send a questioning look, peter nodded before Tony caught him in a hug
"I.. I carried you up after you fell asleep in the car with Happy. You- you winced when I carried you and when I laid you down, your shirt rode up.. Im sorry roos" Tony held him protectively while they both softly cried
"Who-.. Peter, I need to know who did this to you" Tony pulled back to be able to look into his eyes and Peter looked away
"Peter.. is-.. Is it Logan?" Peters eyes snapped towards Tony's in surprise
"How- how did you know..?"
"Oh, roos" Tony pulled him into a hug again, "I- I dont know buddy.. it was just a feeling"
An object in motion stays in motion
"I will help you get out if this. I swear"
unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force.
"Thank you Mr. Stark"
"It's still Tony kid"
Sleeping through the night.