Peter Parker x Reader

Secret

—————time skip brought to you by Peppers allergy to strawberries—————

   The quinjet came to such a steady landing, you hardly noticed you touched the ground. Everyone began standing up at once, anticipating quite unnervingly the opening of the doors.

    You had all given input on a plan during the ride, so everyone's was silent as they ran through it in their heads. you noticed how peter would lightly bob his fists up and down in preparation, as if he were going over his punches and blocks.

   "you ready spider-boy?"  you asked half heartedly.

   He gave you a nod without even looking your way. His face hardened again and there was a slight twitch in his eyebrow. you knew that look, you knew that nervous twitch. He had a secret.

   "Peter?" you asked in surprise. you pointed towards your own eyebrow and continued, "i know what that means, Parker, you have something to say." you said calmly and quiet enough for the others not to hear.

   By that time, you were all on your way to the large doors in the sandy ground which steve was now pulling open with a deafening creak and croak of the old metal hinges.

   He shook his head in one violent motion, as if he were physically deflecting your statement.

    "peter, whatever it is, we can figure it out." you urged in a hushed tone.

   He looked at you with pleading eyes, the pain of keeping something from you overflowing into pools in his lids. your own heart ached as you knew he was caught up in something he didn't want to be in. Whatever it was he needed to say, he didn't deserve to be burdened with, and that's what tore at your gut, making it drop.

   He parted his lips and you looked at him tensely, wanting to relieve you both of the burden of the secret.

   "alright, it's open, everyone file in." Rogers stated, command and certainly laced in his voice homely.

   You could see this quite literally weakened peter, his shoulders slumped slightly. You knew how much it took for him to decide to tell you and his chance was taken. You gave him a comforting glance, trying to say with your mind, it's okay, petey. However, it was to no avail, he still looked broken.

   "Spider-boy!" Stark grunted, "get with it, are you sleep walking over there?" he asked firmly and rhetorically.

   Again, the soft boys face hardened and the twitch came back to his brow.

   This pissed you off. It was Tony's fault you were all in this mess, that Bucky had been missing for four days. Maybe, and he knew this, if he just looked at the tracker earlier on, this wouldn't be happening. For him to have the audacity to play the commander was nauseating and you wanted to punch his stupid jaw. Wanda and you shared a disapproving glance and shake of the head as you all continued on through the underground tunnel.

   The lights whispered quietly a hum that buzzed everyones brains. the blue hues flickered on and off rapidly, giving you a slight headache, causing you to whince and squint. You all heard it at once, the faint, raspy screams of your friend and the maniacal laugh of what you assumed was a hydra worker, that followed.

    Steve quickened his pace to a run until the yells were excruciating and heart breaking all at once. Peter looked mortified and you bet a hard dollar that it had something to do with his secret.

    Steve rammed his body against the door and in one, breezy movement it swung open. alarms none of you knew existed started flashing red and there was a choir of sirens. There were only three people in the room then. Following close behind Steve, you two were able to take them down within seconds. You used your f/c throwing knife on one of the men and head butted the other.

   You turned back to Wanda and she gave you a smiling nod, "nice work, chic."

   being one of the youngest next to Peter, you rarely got the opportunity to get your hands dirty. you usually just fit into small spaces and snuck around pressing buttons no one else saw and taking things no one else could get their hands on. you were happy and proud of the two slumped bodies scattering the floor. but you knew it wasn't over.

   Buckys hair was a sweaty mess, his eyes were shattered and you immediately took pity on the broken soldier. instead of the calm, cool, and collected gentlemen he worked so hard to be, he was transformed into anything but. he looked fierce, his teeth showing in a snarl, eyes bugging and bright red. his extremities were restrained.

   "oh, buck." Steve touched his friends arm causing bucky to thrash what Little he could

   "jesus, tony." bruce ran his fingers through his hair. his muscles growing and turning colour. "you realize you let this happen, right?" he began to seethe a little louder.

   Tony's Face grew cold. you began to hear more of hydras agents and soldiers stomp through the halls.

   something on the wall caught your eyes, it was a map with pins highlighting different areas. You're nudged Peter, pointing at the map, hoping he had either the means to remember or take a picture. he nodded, saying, "i took a picture with my suit." you nodded back.

   at this point, bruce was growing more and more out of control.

   "sshh now, this isn't helping," nat said calmly, raising her hands at the beast growing before them.

   "no." tony grunted. "let the green guy get mad."

   and oh how he did. You didn't like it all that much when the hulk came around. He seemed to cause a lot of problems for not only Bruce, but Nat, who of which were growing extremely close the passed few years. In this case, though, he was helpful.

      "Steve," you yelled and threw a serum you and peter worked on together. you motioned toward Bucky and Steve nodded in understanding. After releasing the serums fumes under bucks nose, he was out like a light, allowing Steve to safely unharness him. He began to take him back to the quinjet when trouble rolled their way.

   The whole team easily took out the waves of soldiers until the halls were completely empty. Soon you were all back to the quinjet, laughing and smiling in glee of your easy win. Even you had to crack a smile, feeling lucky to have taken down Hydras own mutant workers.