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Peter Parker never entirely got oven Bens death. I mean how could you? He died in his arms because he was to slow to stop the bullet at the time. Peter was content with his life with Aunt May, that was until he started to go to Stark Industries multiple times a week for his internship.
The internship didn’t really start as an internship, it was originally just a cover for any SpiderMan related incidents that might occur during school hours.
However, after Tony Stark saw that Peter was also into engineering he decided to offer him an actual internship in his lab working under him. So that is how Peter Parker the nerdy kid, secretly Spiderman, goes to the tower 3 days a week and sometimes on weekends.
Due to his increased time at the tower Peter felt awful leaving May alone for so much longer then normal, however she claimed that it was fine as she was just able to take more shifts at the hospital and gain some extra money.
Peter thought that’s what she was doing every time he was at the tower until one Sunday; after Happy just dropped him home from staying at the tower, May sat him down to have a serious talk.
“Look Peter” May slowly started mixing the spoon around in her teacup. “You know how I’ve been taking on some night shifts at the hospital when your at the tower?”
“Yeah?” Peter hesitantly asked sitting down on the sofa facing her.
“Well on one of the night shifts a few weeks ago I met someone” May continued fully facing him. “And I would like you to meet him”
After a few moments passed Peter stood up and walked over towards where May was in the kitchen.
“Like a friend or..” he dragged the r as he reached her.
“Like we are dating” May cut him off. “We have been for like a week and we both wanted to make sure that your alright with it.”
“But what about Ben?..” Peter mumbled looking towards the picture of the three of them they never took off the fridge.
That was the last picture they had together before the night he died. It was Peters second favourite picture he had, first belonging to the one of him and his hero Tony Stark doing bunny ears behind each others head holding the internship proof upside down.
The picture was the three of them at the park, Ben and Pater was playing football and May took a selfie of them in the background and her face smushed into the corner.
“Peter, Ben is dead.” May straightforwardly said. “I need to move on with my life, it’s been years since he had died.”
There was a deafening silence that hung in the air for a good minute after that last sentence. The silence was only broken by Peter walking out of the room quietly telling May that she should just invite her new boyfriend around.
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“Good afternoon Peter, I’m Dylan” the tall man spoke holding out his hand for Peter to shake later that evening.
He looks nothing like who Peter thought May would date after Bens death. Dylan was very tall, muscular, had blond hair and covered in tattoos. The complete opposite to what Peter was like.
To what Ben was like.
“Hey” Peter muttered holding out his hand to shake Dylan’s.
Something felt really wrong about this guy. Peters spidersence, or how May used to called it, his Peter Tingle, has been going off ever since his car pulled up outside.
It was probably nothing right?
It had been a couple of months since their first meeting before Dylan started to.. speak out towards Peter.
It started off small by just stuff like:
“Why don’t you help around more?”
Why don’t you get an actual job so your Aunt doesn’t have to work as much?”
“When are you going to start paying for what you eat?”
Peter didn’t really care at all to start with, although after months of the same constant comments they started to play in his head regularly.
Once Peter returned from school or the tower, no matter how tired he was, he would try and do something around the house, wether it be washing up, hanging up clothes, folding clothes, tidying up abit. No matter how stressful or tiresome his day was. He tried to do something.
He also stopped eating as much when he stayed at the apartment and Dylan was there to avoid the comments. If Dylan had stayed the night he would just skip breakfast at home and quickly run to Delmars for a sandwich. Although due to his luck and horrible sleep schedule due to being Spiderman late at night, he often missed the chance to go there and had to wait until lunch or when he went to the tower.
That was another thing since Dylan started coming round more. He was staying at the tower, Ned and MJ’s more. He often avoided being home as much as he could, this didn’t seem to bother anyone else, since Ned and MJ knew about the weird feeling Peter had about Dylan then both let him come whenever. Although Peter never told Tony about the reason he was coming around more, the billionaire didn’t seem to care and both him and Pepper welcomed Peter with open arms.
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It had been about 6 months after Peter and Dylan first met, and about a month before he was basically living in their apartment full time even without May being there. Peter came out of his room to just get a glass of water when Dylan came up behind him.
“Hey Pete what you doing there?” Dylan innocently asked getting his own cup out of the cupboard.
“Just getting water, then going to finish some homework.” Peter responded quickly moving away towards the sink.
“You gonna pay for that water?” Dylan commented leaning against the counter.
“Pardon?”
“You heard me Pete.” He spoke again staring at him. “You work with Stark don’t you? Might as well pay you for whatever you do there.”
The truth is Peter was getting payed, he just wasn’t allowed to access it fully yet. Whenever he wanted Mr Stark to get however much he needed. Just not the whole thing which currently holds around 15 grand.
“I am getting payed” Peter commented, “Mr Stark just doesn’t want me to have access to it at the moment since it’s more then the normal salary”
“You sure about that?” Dylan added looking at Peter from the corner of his eye. Since the start of this conversation Peters Spider Sence has been buzzing more then usual. “Maybe he’s just using you for free labor, he seems like the type”
“Don’t talk about Mr Stark like that” Peter snapped before realising what he did, “He isn’t using me for labor, he cares, he has been there, he actually listens to what I have to say. Unlike you. Unlike May since she met you.”
A heavy silence hung in the air with both Dylan and Peter looking at each other. Until a loud whack erupted through the apartment.
“Get out” Dylan calmly but viciously said. “I don’t know who you think you are, you ungrateful brat. Your just an inconvenience in my life with May.” “So get out.”
“And with that Peter got pushed out the door, not even bothering to let him put shoes on.
SPIDEYCREW
Peter:
Guys
Can I come round to either of yours for the night?
Smth happened
Ned
Sorry dude at grans for dinner next town over and staying the night
MJ
Gone to New Jersy to meet with dads family this weekend
Just go to Stark
Peter
I can’t
Well not yet anyway
Ned
Please say you didn’t get shot
..
Peter
Did you get shot
Again
Peter
What?
No?
I haven’t been out in like a week
I’ll explain when you both get back and we can talk face to face
MJ
Did Dylan do something again?
Peter
Yeah you could say that
Just not with words this time
Ned
He hit you?!
DUDE
GO TO MR STARK
He might finally get you outta there
MJ
Peter, I am going to tell you this as politely as I can.
Stop being a wuss, go to Stark.
Peter
Yeah yeah
I am
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Surprise surprise, Peter did not go to Stark tower, he couldn’t, not when he was like this.
Luckily Tony Stark had a meeting in Washington for the Accords so he wouldn’t even be at the tower anyway. In retrospect, this wasn’t looking great for Peter. He’s been kicked out of his own apartment by his aunt’s boyfriend, with no shoes, his phone on half battery and nowhere to go.
Peter didn’t know what to do next, due to it only being 7pm when he left, so he just went to the closet park and sat under a tree until sunrise.
Well that’s what he planned to do.
Peter must have fallen asleep pretty quickly as he abruptly got woken up by the sound of repulsers flying in and the muffled shouting of his name.
“Mr Stark?” Peter groggily asked leaning up against the tree and rubbing his eyes to get a good look at who was in front of him.
“The one and only” Tony snarky replied stepping out of the suit and walking over towards Peter. “Care to explain kid?”
Out of instinct Peter covered his still slightly red cheek with his palm and looked away from Tony in embarrassment.
“I know some already, how about I speak you add more details?” Tony suggested crouching down to be level with Peter. In response Peter nodded his head and faced slightly towards Tony.
“So something happened, obviously.” Tony started causing Peter to slightly laugh. “And I’m going to guess it’s to do with Dilly back at the apartment.”
“Yeah” Peter mumbled barely audible to Tony
“Come on kid work with me here, you’ve gotta speak up I’m already old and hard of hearing as it is.” Tony joked lightly pushing Peters shoulder.
“Well I’m just gonna say that he was saying stuff about you, I said my view on it, he didn’t agree and now we are here.” Peter answered slightly louder and leaning back to rest of Tony’s shoulder. “Wait. How did you know where I was? And are you not ment to be in DC right now for a meeting?”
“I was until I got a notification from your watch that your freezing, and Ted panic called me saying how your not home and can’t go to his nor Michelle’s”. Tony smoothly replied standing up. “Cmon kid, to the tower we go. Sort the rest out tomorrow yeah? You don’t need to deal with him anymore.”