Another Vigilante?

How does one deal with this situation?

Peter was dealing with an armed assault when he heard someone Dick was talking to say "is he like, your boyfriend now or something?" And needless to say the attackers were confused as to why Spider-Man burst out laughing when multiple guns were being pointed at him, only a slight of the finger away from being shot.

After a few hours, Peter had taken care of the assault and a few other petty crimes, it was far later than he would like to admit "but it's okay" he thought, reasoning with himself "it's Friday night, well technically Saturday morning, but, I don't have work!" Nodding in approval of his own excuse Peter headed back to his apartment and changed.

Peter went out into his living room and saw Dick turning and grunting? Or was it whimpering? Peter settled on a mixture of both. Suddenly realizing he was probably having a nightmare Peter thought "I most likely should not have told him about all my DC games." Going into the kitchen and grabbing a cup, Peter went over to the sink and filled up the glass with water. Then setting it down on the end table beside Dick he stood over him and paused, Peter was unsure if he should wake Dick up or leave him to wake up on his own.

Peter didn't have to think for very long though because as he was thinking about his options he noticed Dick's eyes opening as he woke. Backing up quickly Peter asked " were you having a nightmare?" Dick breathed for a few moments before looking to his side and seeing the cup. Dick looked at Peter silently asking if it was his with his eyes. Peter nodded and Dick took a few drinks before answering "yes I was."

"Oh well, uh do you want to talk about it while I fix up your bandages? I should've done it earlier but I think you'll be fine" Peter asked looking for something to preoccupy him while it also being helpful towards Dick. "Sure yeah I can do that" Dick answered. As soon as Peter heard that he rushed to the bathroom and grabbed his first aid kit.

A few minutes later Dick had talked through his nightmare and Peter had re-bandaged him up. They sat together on the couch in silence for another few minutes before Peter broke it "y'know there was this one time that this big ugly purple alien named Thanos came to Earth and wiped out half the population. I was apart of the 50% and apparently also the only one to be able to feel turning into dust. I was brought back 5 years later but after that I had nightmares every night about turning to dust again." Pete said little emotion evident in his voice "oh" was Dick's response.

For the next hour Peter and Dick talked about some of their most traumatizing moments, Peter talked about his schools homecoming and his dates dad crushing him under a building and holding his aunt as she died and Dick talked about his traumatic experiences until they both fell asleep sitting right next to each other on the couch.

The next morning Peter awoke early, though he didn't want to. "Stupid brain" he thought "why do you have to have an internal alarm clock?" Fixing up some pancakes for himself (he made sure to make some extra for Dick) he thought about what they would do today. "Maybe we'll swing Stephen's and see if he's still out fixing the multiverse" Peter recalled seeing a note on the front door that said Stephen went to find Wanda so she could help him with something.

Peter heard Dick getting up from the couch and put his plate closer to the edge of the table so Dick could see it was for him. "Hey do you wanna see if Stephen is home later today?" Dick sat down in front of his plate and picked up the fork Peter had also put out. "Stephen? Who- oh yeah, sure we could go stop by" "well that's good because I also have to go shopping so we could stop by on the way back" Peter said before returning to his stack of pancakes.

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