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"Don- don't leave..."

"I...I won't."

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Peter cried into Tonys arms, the arc reactor still very powerful, but not as bright.

All the avengers have crowded around not knowing what to do.
Steve tapped on the bed frame, signalling to Nat. In Morse code, he asked: "do we leave?" Nat shrugged.

"Group hug?" Clint tapped, and Peter said. "Yes please" making everyone look up.

"Wait, Pete you know Morse code?" Nat asked. Peter nodded sadly.

"And Russian, but I haven't spoke like that in..well a while."

Everyone nodded in understanding, until Tony spoke up. "So...want to talk about it?" He asked. Peter looked around the room, then sadly shook his head no. Tony gave a hesitant nod, and finished the hug before slowly ushering people out of the room. "Wait da- Tony please." Peter asked, sitting on his bed resting his back against the wall. His voiced cracked as he did, and as soon as he said 'tony' he felt guilty. "sorry..I meant Mr Star-"

"Nope. Can't go back." Tony said, siting down next to Peter after he closed the door. Everyone else had exited, so now it was just them two. Tony gave a slight smile and sat right next to Peter. "Please um...stay?" Peter said, barley above a whisper. Tony gave a happy sigh. "Of course." He said.

Peters straight back slowly started to lean into Tony and he rested his head on his shoulder until he finally passed out, fully asleep. It was around 12 am, but Tony had work to do. He slowly and carefully moved from the bed, making sure Peter wouldn't wake up, and left the room headed straight to the lab.

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"Friday I need research." He demanded.

"Shall I use your last Google searches? They are as I recall: how to feed a baby, how to not kill a teena-"

"No- give me research, on how many night mares Pete gets and what they are." Tony had made a little Tony device in each room that looks like a security camera, but it's actually a vital reader, and can scan when your in distress and reads your nightmares to play on a holographic film. He made it after Wanda would stay in her room day on ends and not tell anyone why.

"Searching..."

Then a holographic film came up, of Peter's last nightmare. It showed all his dead realtives, it even shows what they were saying. He kept watching the nightmare until it was all done.

"Pull up any nightmares from the... um." Tony wanted to see Peter's nightmares from the past month or two but since he didn't live in the tower back then, that technology wasn't with him. "oh wait, Fri did we install those mind tracer cameras in public areas?"

"Yes sir. In 2018."

"Great. Pull up the security footage from the 'secret alleyway for drunks'" he asked. Tony made sure one of those nightmare readers are in every camera around. It showed Peters nightmare about Mysterio, one about his parents dying, one about somone Killing may, one about somone Killing him, one about killing himself, and he woke up from all of them in distress. "do an average."

"Peter gets an average of 6 nightmares a week. 5 he wakes up with chest pains, the other one he wakes up with a headache." Said Friday.

Tony sighed a deep sigh.

"Any good dreams?"

A holographic film blipped up, showing a very young boy being rescued by iron man at the 2010 Stark convention. Tony stared and looks confused. "hey, no I remember that, that wasn't a dream."

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