Jade Stark's Story *On Hiatus*

Waking Up Together

~A/N~ I'm sorry this was SO late, I was busy Wednesday and then forgot~

~The Next Morning ~ Third Person~
 
“WOAH, WHAT THE FUCK”
 
Jade and Peter shot up, Jade slipped and fell off the bed, hitting her head on the nightstand. They had been sleeping when Natalie walked in to wake up Jade and saw them. 
 
Peter rubbed his eyes. “What the hell Natalie?”
 
“I could ask you two the same question…” She leaned against the doorframe and crossed her arms, smirking. “What’s going on here?”
 
“Well we were sleeping…” Jade sat up, rubbing the back of her head. “But I guess we’re not doing that anymore,” She said, rolling her eyes. 
 
Peter leaned over the edge of the bed and looked down at Jade. “You okay Babe?”
 
 Jade felt her heart leap when he called her that. Anytime she heard him call MJ that, her heart would sink… But this time, it was directed towards her, which is something she never thought would happen. “Yeah, I’m fine,” She said, getting back onto the bed. 
 
“Babe huh?” Natalie raised an eyebrow at them. “I thought you two were ‘just friends’?”
 
Jade looked down at her lap and shrugged. “We were… Until last night…”
 
“So that’s why you’re not wearing pants, huh?”
 
Jade’s eyes widened and she shook her head. “No! This is just how I sleep!”
 
Natalie rolled her eyes. “Mmhh, suree. But now I need to know what the hell happened at the dance” 
 
Jade motioned for her to come in, Natalie shut the door behind her and sat at the bottom of the bed. Jade and Peter both told her what had happened and that they wanted to keep it a secret so she couldn’t tell anyone. The only people they were telling were Natalie, Joce, and Ned, and Jade wasn’t sure if she wanted to tell Pepper or not. 
 
“So you guys are finally like a thing now?” 
 
Jade and Peter both nodded, trying to hide the smiles on their faces but Natalie noticed and smirked at them. 
 
“Well, I’m happy for you.” She said, shrugging. “The sexual tension between the two of you was making it almost unbearable to be around you guys”
 
Rolling her eyes, Jade smacked her in the shoulder. “There isn’t any sexual tension between us”
 
Natalie shrugged. “Whatever. Whenever you tell Tony can I be there? I want to see his head explode and him to just fucking lose it”
 
“No” Jade rolled her eyes again. “Now go away, I want to go back to sleep”
 
“Mmhh, sure,” Natalie smirked. Jade smacked her in the arm again and then Natalie left. 
 
Yawning, Jade laid back down and put her head on Peter’s chest. “She irritates me,” She said, rolling her eyes. Peter laughed and agreed. Jade asked Jarvis to lock the door and to let them know if anyone was going to come in, then Peter and Jade just chilled there, talking and enjoying each other's company. 
 
“Can I ask you something?” Peter asked, running his hands through Jade’s hair as she nodded. “When you were with Noah… Did you guys ever… You know… Sleep together…?”
 
Jade nearly felt her heart stop. She knew the answer wouldn’t be one he expected and it would piss him off… And she didn’t want him to think any differently of her… “Um… N-not consensually…”
 
Peter shot up, causing Jade’s head to fall off his chest and back onto the bed. “WHAT?!” He shouted, eyes wide. “He fucking…” Peter couldn’t bring himself to say it. 
 
Jade sat up and put her hand on his shoulder. “Pete… Please calm down-”
 
“No! I’m not going to calm down! First, I find out he was beating you and now I find out that he was…” Tears started to run down his face. 
 
“I’m sorry…” Jade whispered, looking down. 
 
Peter shook his head. “Why are you apologizing? It’s not your fault!”
 
“Yes it is… I could have tried to stop him, I could have fought… I tried to in the beginning but after the first few times I just got tired of trying to fight… I’ve been fighting against people hurting me my entire life… I don't want to fight anymore…”
 
Peter pulled her into a hug. “It’s okay… You don’t need to anymore… I’m going to protect you…” He kissed her head as more tears ran down his face. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel like anything was your fault…”
 
Jade sniffled and shook her head. “I shouldn’t have said anything…”
 
“No no, I’m glad you told me. We shouldn’t have any secrets in our relationship”
 
Jade’s heart sank again as she thought back to what happened between her and Harley. She knew that she should tell him but she couldn’t, it would break his heart… She just got him, she couldn’t lose him… “Right…” She nodded. She would tell him one day, but right now she just wanted to enjoy their new relationship. “Did you ever… Sleep with MJ…?”
 
Peter shook his head. “No… There were times when we almost… But my heart just wasn’t into it…”
 
That made Jade feel even worse… Peter couldn’t even sleep with his girlfriend but then Jade slept with his best friend without a second thought… 

~•~

Meanwhile, in Tony and Pepper’s room they were discussing what to do about Natalie. 
 
“Maybe we can send the kids to a different school?”
 
Pepper crossed her arms. “We’re not sending the kids to a different school! They like Midtown and we’re not enrolling them into another school right at the beginning of the year! Especially because of some kid!”
 
“Some kid that hurt our-” Tony stopped when he realized what he was about to say. 
 
Pepper smirked and raised an eyebrow. “Our…?”
 
“Natalie. Some kid that hurt Natalie…”
 
Pepper shook her head. “You love her, you just don’t want to admit it.”
 
He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “She’s not too bad, she’s still a pain in my ass though”
 
“So is Jade”
 
“Yeah but Jade is my daughter, I signed up for this”
 
Pepper raised an eyebrow at him again. “You love Natalie and Joce, they’re all your girls. I heard you tell Natalie that when you were in her room last night talking to her.”
 
Tony crossed his arms. “Alright, fine! I like them, but it’s just because they both remind me a lot of Jade”
 
“It may have started like that but I don’t think that’s why you kept them around. You paid for Joce’s apartment so that she can live closer to the girls and go to school, you were the one that wanted me to foster Natalie so that she could stay and go to school, you freaked out when we came home without Natalie and you went all around the city looking for her. Hell, you even offered both Joce and Natalie rooms here, and you even let Natalie decorate her room.” She crossed her arms. “You love them, they’re your girls and it’s not just because they remind you of Jade. You love them and you love the boys, just as much as you love Jade. They’ll all your kids”
 
Tony rolled his eyes. “Because apparently, I adopt random kids according to you, Natasha and Clint.”
 
“Need I remind you of your six kids: Natalie, Jocelyn, Jade, Harley, Peter, and Grace?” She smirked. “You do adopt kids with parental issues.”
 
Shaking his head, he rolled his eyes. “Whatever. Can we get back to the problem, which is that Natalie doesn’t want to go to school and had a panic attack because her rapist is there.” 
 
Pepper sighed, sitting down on their bed. “Should we call the school?”
 
“We could but they probably won’t do anything, they didn’t do anything when he said that Jade deserved to be raped, or when Isabella did literally anything to her” Tony said, rolling his eyes. “They also don’t do anything when that fucking Thompson kid bullies Peter”
 
“But this is different, this is sexual assault, they might take this more seriously”
 
Tony sighed. “We’ll try to talk to them, but if they don’t then I’m calling the cops. I wonder if they did a rape kit at the facility…”
 
Pepper nodded and went to call the school, while Tony made a mental note to threaten to stop donating to the school if they didn’t do something about Dylan. He wasn’t sending any of his girls back there if there was a rapist there, he wasn’t taking a chance on any of them getting hurt.