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Peter hadn’t shown up for school since he fainted and was sent home, that was a couple days ago. Ned hadn’t heard from him at all. Peter usually didn’t miss school unless he was really sick or injured, so naturally he was starting to worry. He had sent countless messages to his friend with no answer, left on delivered. Weird.
He thought that maybe MJ had heard from him, so Ned found her in the halls to ask if she had seen Peter.
“Hey, MJ!” He said while jogging towards her. “Have you heard from Peter at all? He hasn’t texted me in a couple days..” She gave him a confused look.
“No, no I haven’t. I assumed he was talking to you?”
“He hasn’t said a word to me! We were supposed to hang out yesterday but he didn’t show up.”
She paused for a second and then she picked up her phone to call Peter.
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No answer. She expected that though, but she was still nervous about him. Unless he was on patrol, which she was completely sure he wasn’t, he always answered the phone. MJ looked at Ned and shook her head.
“Maybe we could go to the Avengers tower, to check on him.. Something serious might be going on and we don’t know about it!” He questioned, and MJ nodded.
School was over and they headed straight to the tower. Kind of. Ned seemed a little giddy at the thought of seeing Tony Stark again and the tower. MJ hadn’t said much since they came out of the building, they were walking to Ned’s place to eat before going there.
Even though he was happy to be going to the tower, he was scared that something was wrong with Peter. The last time he had ignored Ned like this was right after the spider-bite, or thats what Peter had told him after Ned found out he was Spider-Man.
Peter was a very good friend, and they hadn’t argued at all recently, they hadn’t fought in ages. There was no reason for him to avoid his friends? Maybe Ned had said something to upset him? No, no. That doesn’t make sense. He hadn’t talked to MJ either. Man, this was so weird. He didn’t understand what was going on at all, but paying his friend a visit might help.
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Peter was injured after patrolling, and then he fainted at school, so Tony let him stay home for a couple days. He kind of needed to find out how hurt Peter actually was. What if it was something serious? The kid had been acting really weird this past week. He hadn’t been like himself. Peter hadn’t come out of his room, like, AT ALL. Tony started putting food at his door because he knew he wasn’t allowed inside. Spider-boy had made a sign and written on it was: “NO ONE IS ALLOWED INSIDE” but Tony didn’t really mind all that much, he was just worried about him. Another thing about Pete..
..He hadn’t talked in ages, which is unusual for the kid because he can talk for hours on end. Tony liked listening to Peter ramble on about Star Wars or science. It was nice. In most friendships, he himself was the one who dominated the conversation.
Tony was getting a little nervous about his behaviour but he didn’t let it show on him. He was working on Peter’s damaged spider-suit, part of the damage was self inflicted, but most of it was caused by someone or something else, probably a knife or a bat? Whatever. The more important thing is-
Why would the kid do that to himself? It was like he was trying to rip it off. Tony sighed loudly, he had no clue what was going on. At least he knew that Peters friends were coming to check on him, since Peter hadn’t talked at all to Tony.
Should he try to go into his kids room? It probably isn’t a good idea. That would invade his privacy, but Tony had always just waltzed right into the boys room and he never cared.. Until now. No, it isn’t a good idea, Tony knows that his friends are coming to check on him, so he can go with them to talk to Peter… For now, he needs to repair the suit, and if Pete’s up to it later, he can explain what happened and why he tried to rip it off… Fuck. FUCK. He was so worried. What the fuck was going on?