spiderman angst/sickfic oneshots

touch starved (irondad)

(prompt day 1: touch starved.
These are going to be pretty short btw, probably not more than 1000 words. Short and sweet 👍👍

This chapter consists of irondad, and being overwhelmed and just needing a hug to fix everything.)

Peter was touch starved.

Any little hug or high five he could get, he took. He enjoyed giving kids fist bumps and offering comfort where he could, but he wondered when was it his turn to be comforted?

He spent so many days struggling through everything on his own. Despite his Ned, MJ, and Aunt May now knowing that he was Spiderman, he never ever wanted to burden them with some of the stuff he went through on a daily basis.

He was too scared just to ask for a hug. He was too scared to admit he needed a shoulder to cry on.

Being spiderman and Peter Parker was a lot to keep up with. Decathlon practice and competitions and studying, school, tests, homework, saving citizens, patrolling, hiding and healing injuries, weekly lab visits with Mr. Stark, suit matinence. It all but up after a while.

He needed to wash the blood stains from the last first aid he needed to do before Aunt May noticed and started worrying about it more than usual.

He needed to do so many things.

He found himself standing in his room, frozen on what to do. Frozen on whether to study or patrol, have a snack or finish his math, he didn't have time for it all.

So he pulled on his suit, still blood stained, and climbed out his window, moving in the shadows for a ways, his heart racing a bit as he began to sling webs from building to building, trying to find some kind of peace in the speed and the air.

But he couldn't.

His heart just kept racing and before he knew it he was on some random rooftop, sobbing. Just from the stress of it all.

He felt so overwhelmed. So tired. He just wanted a hug. He wanted a hug so badly.

"Peter?" Karen chimed in.

"Shut up!" He yelled at the AI, a pang of guilt in his chest immediately after. It was strange, the way he was hyperventilating.

But then it was someone else's voice over the line in his mask. He wanted to groan from the noise of it all.

"Pete? What are you doing in your suit at like 5pm, you told me you were doing a later patrol today. And your stats are wierd, are you alright?" Tony asked, his concern only increasing when Peter let out a huge sob into his mask.

He could almost hear the snot on the inside of the spandex and how badly it would need to be washed.

"I'm on my way kiddo." He said, and soon enough the whir of the iron man suit joined the boy's soft cries on the roof.

Tony stepped out of the suit, wearing an absurdly casual Tshirt and jeans before sitting down next to the boy and assisting him in pulling off his snotty mask.

The moment he saw Peter's puffy red eyes, he wrapped his arm around him, silently offering a hug.

The boy leaned into his shoulder with a hiccup, and for maybe the first time ever, Tony took initiative and pulled the boy into a tight embrace, where Peter just let out a harsher sob.

"What's wrong, Pete?" Tony asked softly, rubbing circles into the boy's back, prompting relaxation.

"I'm so stressed out." Peter hiccuped, "I just- I have so much to do and I can't finish all of it and I just-" he let out another cry and buried himself deeper into the man's Tshirt.

Mr. Stark had no idea when he'd proudly taken on the role of being a father figure to this kid, or when he had decided that he didn't care how much snot became infused into his Tshirt, or when he decided to give words of advice to the kid he was mentoring. Well, I guess that's what he was supposed to do? So he did.

"Being a hero is hard, especially when you're also an awesome kid. What can I do to help, Underoos?"

And at the nickname and the hug he'd been needing for so so long, Peter just smiled and felt like, for the first time in a while, everything might be okay.

(WRITING IN A NEW FANDOM IS WIEEERDDD I have no clue what I am doing!! Excuse the probably a little shitty writing while I sink into the characters and style a little bit thank you muah 🫶🫶)