Penny Parker

002

Warnings: Mention of abuse. Under-eating (not purposely)
Also apologize that this sucks. It's currently 1 am and I was ✨crying✨ while writing this. Anyways enjoy!

"𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣, 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙. 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙙."

Penny was glaring out the window with a smile on her face. All her worries drift away. That until she pulled out her camera. She realized the mark from this morning turned into a purple circle on her chin. No no no. Most of the time Mr stark wouldn't be very concerned when penny showed up with a bruise. However he knew she wasn't patrolling last night because they made a deal she had to take a one day break to study a week. Her face turned pale. Either way she was screwed. She could say she did in fact go on patrol last night but Mr stark wouldn't be too happy. But everything's fine. She's 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒. She'll just say she tripped or something. Yeah it'll be alright she just needed to breathe. "Hey stop day dreaming we are here." That got her attention. "Oh.. alright!" She said with the biggest fakest smile ever. She jumped out of the car as Happy led her to the compound.

When she entered she greeted F.R.I.D.A.Y as usual. "Good to see you Penny." The A.I responded. "Where's Mr Stark?"
"In the lab Ms Parker. I've already alerted him about your presence. He's expecting you."
"Cool. Thanks Fri."
On her way to the lab she saw Bruce.
"Well hello there Penny."
"Oh hi Dr Banner! What are you doing here?" She paused and said, "Not that you aren't allowed here of course you are. This isn't even my place I don't know why i'd say that. I am so sorry Dr Banner. I mean no disres-"
"Woah it's okay Pen. Really." He reassured her.
"I was just here to check up on you. Tony said you'd be here after school."
"Check up on me? What I'm fine-" She was cut off by Mr Stark. "Hey underoos. Calm down it's just a checkup to make sure everything going okay. Wouldn't want you to screw up on patrol right?" He chuckled. Ouch. That hurt. She stared at the ground. "Anyways.. can we get started with your checkup?" Bruce asked.
"You sound like an actual doctor." She snorted.
"Woah woah woah. Young lady where did you get that nasty bruise from?" Mr Stark asked with him eyebrow raised. "Oh I tripped. You know how clumsy I can be." She laughed.
"Uh uh. Tripped on who? Cause it looks like to me someone did that to you."
"Jeez Mr stark you sound like a father." She answered with sarcasm.
"I was just teasing kid. But seriously you can always tell me if someone hurt you."
"Yeah of course Mr Stark." She smiled. "Now let's do this." She headed to the med bay. Dr Banner did normal checks like her reflexes, blood pressure, height, weight, breathing. But then came the blood work. She dreaded that. As Bruce got the needle out she started freaking out. "Um wow. Haha. That's a big needle. And how many tubes are you doing? I just want to make sure your not a vampire or something.." She laughs nervously.
"Kid your rambling. Are you scared of needles or something?" Mr stark just had to ask.
"What nooo.." He looked at Bruce telling him to continue. The needle was one inch from her vein when she breathed out, "I just- I just have a problem with them going in my veins." He chuckled.
"You can deal with getting stabbed and almost drowning but needles are where you draw your limit?"
"Needles in my vein is where I draw the limit." She sighed.
"Don't worry Pen. I won't do anything your not comfortable with." Bruce reassured her.
"Thank you.." She whispered. Her cheeks her red. I mean it's just a needle. Mr Stark was right I should be fine after everything that has happened to me. But god I hate bloodwork.

After Dr Banner finished with the rest of the checkup he said everything was mainly good.
"What do you mean "mainly"?" Mr Stark questioned.
"Well when I checked her eyes I could see redness in them and dark circles under her eyes. Nothing concerning. But she needs to be getting better sleep."
"Guys I'm right here. And what do you mean better sleep? I get perfect sleep." She lied very dramatically.
"Uh huh. Well the doctor thinks differently." Mr stark replied.
"Again not a doctor." He ignores him.
"Kid I need you to be getting sleep at night. It's not healthy being Spider-girl and having to go to school while getting no sleep."
"That's rich coming from you." She scoffs.
"Zip it ms attitude. The adult is talking. It doesn't matter if I do the same at times. Your just a kid. Not to mention your super abilities and metabolism. You need to get better sleep if you want to be able to fight back." That makes her think of her dad. She needs to fight back. She's so weak when it comes to him. And sleep will never cure that.
"Hello you still there? Good. Now I expect you to be getting good sleep at night for now one." Easy for you to say. She thought. I have insomnia, anxiety, and have to remind myself that i'm a constant burden to everyone at night time.
"Capesh?"
"Yeah yeah." As she's stood up the world around her started to spin. Oh that's not good. She stumbles forward but Bruce catches her.
"Are you alright sweety?" He asked with concern. "Yeah I just stood up to fast."
"Nope not a good enough answer." Mr stark added. "No one's supposed to get dizzy when standing. Have you ate something today? Drank water?" He questioned with more concern than he meant to come out.
"Yeah yeah I had some cereal." I replied.
"Cereal? Just cereal? Jeez kid with your metabolism you should be eating 5x more than that. Let's go to the kitchen." She didn't even realize she only had breakfast. She's just been too exhausted to care.
"Mr Stark you don't have to-" He cut her off.
"Uh uh. No backtalk missy. We have leftover pizza for you here and I'm gonna make sure you eat it."
Dr Banned had left and she was in the kitchen practically swallowing the whole pizza without chewing. She did not realize how hungry she was.
"Jeez kid. Don't forget to chew." Her cheeks flushed. Way to eat in front of your idol. She continued eating piece after piece more slowly. After she finished her last piece she stood up.
"Mmm thank you Mr stark! I feel a lot better." She checked her phone and it was messages from her father. Saying "Where the hell are you?" "Get your disgusting ass home!" "You piece of shit." Then followed by some drunken texts that didn't even make sense.
"Shit."
"What's the matter?" Mr Stark asked.
"My dad wants me home. Now." She panicked. Her dad was gonna kill her. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. She couldn't breathe.
"Kid? You alright?"
"Y-yeah yeah I'm fine. Just need to get home like right away." Tony was confused on what the big deal was. It wasn't even six yet. He was also concerned on her response to her fathers texts and rushing.
"Okay okay calm down. I'll have happy drive you home. I'll come with."
"What- Mr Stark you don't have to."
"None of that. I wanna make sure you get home okay." She would smile at that if she wasn't on the verge of crying.

In the car both Tony and Happy knew something was up. She wasn't talking at all. Just staring out the window bouncing her leg. She chewed her lip. She kept thinking about all the things her dad would do to her when she arrived.
"d. KID!" Her attention snapped to her mentor.
"I've been calling your name. We are here."
"Oh okay bye Happy! Bye Mr stark thanks for having me!" She slammed the door and immediately went to the door. It was locked. She looked back at the car and they were still there watching her. She called out. "Dad! Dad open up it's me!" Finally the door flew open. Her dad smelled like beer and in fact had one in his hand.
"Where the f*ck we're you?!" His veins here pooping out of his forehead.
"I told you dad I was at work.." She whispered.
"SPEAK UP!" He screamed. Suddenly he got quiet when he noticed the car out there.
"Who's car is that?!"
"It's my b-bosses. They dr-drove me home so I wouldn't have to walk.." She slightly stuttered.
"Okay.." he said calmer.
"Get in the house now." He faked smiled and waved to the car before he basically dragged her inside.
Tony witnessed the whole thing. He was pissed. How could someone yell at their kid that way? And he was drunk.. No wonder Penny wanted him to quit.
"Drive Happy." Once he got to the compound he had some researching on Penny's father to do.

I know this sucks!! I was just upset so I started writing. Each chapter will get better and more interesting. Thanks for reading!