"Peter?"

A/n: thank you to everyone who read and voted on my last chapter, I appreciate you fuckers :)

TWs - attempted suicide

Word count - 1150

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"Peter?"

A voice rang out from behind Peter. He whipped his head around to see his mentor, Tony Stark, looking as though he was on the verge of tears, trying to talk Peter down, his Iron Man suit stood open behind him.

"Peter, hey buddy, you wanna get down from there?"

Peter could hear Tony beside him but he wasn't processing anything that was being said.

"C'mon Pete, please get down, your stressing me out buddy"

See you only cause him more stress you pathetic little shit Peter thought as he slowly edged forward, closer towards the edge.

"Peter, please" Tony almost begged, himself edging closer to Peter so he could grab him if needed.

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"I'm sorry" Peter muttered before he put his foot out and was about to step the building of when suddenly he felt himself fall backwards, not forwards, and land on something hard, but not too far down, knocking the wind out of him.

Someone grabbed him quickly and pulled him into a hug before he could make another move for the edge. And then he began to cry, letting all his emotions show as he cried into Tony's chest.

"It's okay Pete, I've got you kid, it's gonna be okay, everythings gonna be alright, I promise" Tony murmured in Peter's ear, trying to get him to calm down from his hysterical crying. After about 10 minutes Peter did begin to calm down and after about another 10 minutes fell asleep from pure exhaustion.

Tony stepped back into his suit and carefully and gently picked a sleeping Peter up in his arms and flew him back to the tower.

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Once they arrived back at the tower Tony walked straight to the medbay, he knew Peter wasn't physically injured but he wanted Bruce to check him out anyway.

"Hey Tony, what's going on?" Bruce said with a look of concern on his face as Tony walked into the lab with a seamingly unconscious Peter in his arms.

"H-he tried to jump, of a b- building" Tony replied, tripping over his words as the reality of what had happened hit him like a brick wall, "I don't think he's h- hurt, I managed to get h-him down, he's just asleep I- think, but can you j- just check him out please" he stuttered feeling almost sick as the realisation of what had just happened kicked in even more and he knew he was on the edge on an anxiety attack.

"Yeah, yeah of course Tony, do you wanna go and calm yourself down a minute?" Bruce asked, clearly seeing the panicked and anxious look on Tony's face.

"Y-yeah" Tony responded quickly before stumbling out of the room and collapsing onto a sofa in the other room with his head in his hands.

He blamed himself for this, maybe he hadn't kept a close enough eye on Peter maybe he should have done more, maybe-

He was yanked out of his thoughts by Pepper entering the room.

"Tony?" She question, as he looked up she could see the tears in his eyes, "Tony? What's happened" She ran across the room to him and lightly embraced him, she knew it must be something serious as the billionaire, who she was currently cradling in her arms, never cried if he could help it.

"Tony, talk to me" She encouraged, trying to figure out what was going on and how she could help.

"T-the kid, h- he, he" Tony stumbled over his words again and began to cry harder.

"The kid? You mean Peter?" Pepper replied now also concerned about Peter and what had happened to him.

"Y-yeah"

"Okay, what happened?" She said sounding a hell of a lot calmer than she actually was

"H-he tried to jump off a building..." Tony trailed off almost in shame.

"W-what? Is he okay?!" Pepper said, the calmness in he tone slipping slightly.

"Physically, yeah I think, he's just exhausted. Mentally though, OF COURSE HE FUCKING ISNT HE JUMPED OFF A BLOODY BUILDING" Tony almost screamed at the end

Just at that moment, Rhodey walked in and heard Tony's little outburst, which had surprised everyone in the room including Tony.

"Tones? What's wrong?" Rhodey said with an extremely concerned look on his face.

Tony didn't answer so Pepper answered for him:

"Peter tried to, well, kill himself, and now Tony thinks it's his fault."

"Oh Tony, it's not your fault, and I'm sure the kid will be fine" Rhodey said trying to comfort Tony.

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After a few minutes Bruce came out of the medbay and Tony immediately sprang to his feet, he quickly walked towards the medbay to go see Peter but Bruce stopped him.

"Tony, wait a second."

"What? Why? Is Pete okay?" Tony began to panic again.

"Woah woah woah, he's fine I was just going to say that he's sleeping and that, well, I found something on his legs"

"What do you mean?"

"It'll be easier to explain if I show you"

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They walked into the medbay and saw Peter curled up in one of the beds, sleeping peacefully.

Tony noticed almost immediately the bandages wrapped around Peters thighs,

"W-what, what's that?" Tony questioned, pretty much already knowing the answer but wanting Bruce to confirm.

"Well, I noticed he had some stains that looked a bit like blood on his pants so I had a look just to make sure, and the wounds appear to be, how do I put it, self inflicted." Bruce replied.

"You mean..."

"Yeah."

"Oh god how didn't I notice, this is my fault, shit, fuck" Tony began, feeling another panic attack coming on.

"Hey, woah, calm down Tony this isn't your fault, you know that right?" Bruce said putting his arm around Tony to try and calm him.

"IT FUCKING IS THOUGH, I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS!" Tony yelled again, pushing Bruce off him before he then stormed out of the room.

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When Peter woke up he was back in his own bed in his own room. The first thing he noticed was that Tony was sleeping in a chair beside his bed. That's wierd he thought to himself.

He pulled down the covers and was about to head to the bathroom when he noticed something, the bandages on his legs felt different.

Once he got to the bathroom he checked and realised that they were clean and therfore must have been changed. It took him a second to figure out what had happened but then it hit him,

"Shit, they found out, no..."

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A/n: Ayyyy, that's another chapter done, hope you lot liked it :) anyway ignore the fact this was posted past midnight, I'm an insomniac, I know :')

Published - 16/08/21