No way Back

No Way Out

Tony and Peter always had a good relationship. Initially, it started as a mentor relationship when Peter managed to get an internship under the great Tony Stark when he impressed him in his school science fair ,but rapidly that same relationship evolved to an almost father and son relationship, Tony was like a father to Peter and Peter was like a son to Tony, everyone saw them that way and they didn't try to denied it.

But that all changed when May got a new boyfriend, Chris. And Tony hated Chris, with all his fortune.

In the beginning Tony tolerated Chris in fact he never really had a problem with him since he never interfered with Peter and him and Peter never complained about the man.
He remembered the day when Peter came with the news, the boy was thrilled that his aunt had found somebody. So if Peter liked him Tony liked him.

He was a good man, a doctor, that had transferred to the same hospital that May worked. He was her boss, and the two of them fell in love at first site, it was a beautiful story even Tony admitted, but he didn't care about that all he cared was what they were trying to do: to take Peter away from him. At least he saw it that way.

So tony started to hate Chris when Peter arrived with the dreadful news

"Mr. Stark?" Peter caught his attention as the two worked together

"yes Pete?" Tony responded while working on a new stark phone

"Chris, is moving back to London" Peter said breaking the news to Tony

"really? How is May handling it?" Tony said knowing that the two were really close.

Peter paused with his work, trying to find the right words to break the news to his mentor.

"May and I are going with him" the moment Peter said that, every thing stopped.

The kid was moving out, to London? No, it can't be. Not that far.

"May manage to get transferred there so we are leaving in three weeks" Peter continued not managing to look at Tony.

"what? Peter you can't move across the world! You have your whole life here"
'you have me here' he thought to himself

"I know but I don't have a choice, May doesn't let me stay, and I'm under age so I can't live alone" Peter said remorseful "I can still visit during the summer" he tried to reasoned

"During the summer? Peter that's not nearly enough, I need you here!"

"I know I'm sorry" Peter said with tears running down his face

"Come here kid" Tony said hugging the boy close to him "I know it's not your fault. I'll find a solution" he comforted the crying boy, that didn't knew the impact of the words that has left Tony mouth, he didn't realize that at that moment his whole life would change.

That night after Peter went home Tony started to forge a plan for him to stay with Peter. He had two options: or he moved to London or he would make Peter stay.

It was an easy choice, of course, it would be impossible for him to move Stark industries to London not to mention that it would be a lot of commotion with the press and media, it would draw to much attention to him.

So it was decided, Peter would have to stay. Of course, he knew that it wouldn't be that simple. The kid had already said that his aunt wouldn't let him stay, but that wouldn't be a problem to a genius like Tony Stark, he would just have to force him to stay.

With that Tony started to plan his mission. It took all night, but Tony couldn't be happier with the outcome. He revised one more time looking for something that could go wrong, but after he didn't find anything he smiled.