Peter Parker- I'm with you, no matter what

Chapter 9

A few minutes later a black car with tinted windows stopped in front of us. At first I got scared, I didn't know who was in the car and pulled Peter as close as possible to me.

"I'm Happy, we have to get him out of here quickly!", the man said.

A stone fell from my heart.
Happy picked Peter up and put him in the car, he was quite tall and strong, so that didn't seem to be a problem.
I quickly got into the car on the other side. The journey wasn't long, but it felt like it.

The whole time I just wanted Peter to wake up, but he didn't. For a brief moment I put my hand on his chest to feel his heart beating, it beating slowly and steadily, which calmed me down. When I noticed Happy was watching us through the rearview mirror, I immediately withdrew my hand and looked out the car window.

Arrived at Mr. Stark's, Happy carried Peter into a room and when I was about to follow him, Mr. Stark was standing behind me.

“So you're Lyra Adams.”

“Uh, how do you know that?”

“I watch Peter all the time and so also the people he has to do with. If you'd be so kind as to follow me, I'd like to talk to you.”

He went into a room at the end of the hall and even though I didn't really understand why he wanted to talk to me, I followed him. He asked me to sit down and gestured to a chair in front of his desk. We sat down and at first he just looked at me.

"Do you want to help Peter?" He asked out of nowhere.

“Yes of course, otherwise I wouldn't be here now. After all, we're ... friends."

"I didn't mean helping in that way. Not helping by keeping his secret or by rushing to help him when he's badly injured in the ditch somewhere. I'm talking about bigger things.”

“What exactly do you mean, Mr. Stark, what are you getting at?”

He pressed a few buttons on his computer and a hologram appeared in front of us.

"What do you see?"

"A suit.", I answered simply.

“Yes, but this is not just any suit. This is more of a “superhero” suit, similar to Peter's. Only with other properties and before you ask, yes it is meant for you.”

“For me?! I can't just become a “superhero” or something like that. Did you talk to Peter about it? Why me of all people?"

"First of all, no, Peter doesn't know anything about it yet and he won't either, until you make up your mind. Second, as I mentioned earlier, I watch everyone who has anything to do with Peter, including you. You and Peter make a good team, although you haven't known each other or have been friends for a long time. You keep his secret without questioning it and he just trusts you. You protect each other, this fight between him and this boy, he didn't do that for himself, that was for you. He needs a partner, he cannot always play the friendly neighborhood spider all by himself. When a friendship develops so quickly and is still so strong, then that is something special. You are a team.”

I knew he was right and I wanted all of this too, but I wasn't sure.

“I cannot make that decision right now, Mr. Stark. Give me more time.”

Tony Stark closed the hologram and took the real suit out of a closet. The suit was in a neat box, which he put in a bag and pressed into my hand.

“Take it with you, maybe you have to make a spontaneous decision. A list of the suit's capabilities is also inside.", he said and looked at me one last time before he left the room.

He turned around briefly and said: "Go to him now, he would surely be happy to see you!"