Ágnostos

Chapter 7

Peter

I was sitting on the couch with Tony. He was showing me a bunch of baby photos and videos of Thea and explaining the story behind them.

"This is us with the first prototype of the iron man hand," he explained as the video played.

An eight-year-old Thea sat on the hood of a car watching her father with expectation.

"Have your helmet down?" Tony asked.

Thea pulled the helmet mask down and patted it. "Go on daddy!"

Tony held his hand up. The explosion seemed to be faulty, causing Tony to fly back against one of the cars. Althea busted out laughing.

"Yeah laugh it up," Tony said walking back towards his daughter. "You put the finishing touches on it."

"I did it on purpose!" She said through giggles.

"You little bug!" He ran to her and they began playing chase before he caught her, flying her around the room as she giggled hysterically.

The video cut out and the picture popped up. Thea's eight-year-old self smiled with her two front teeth missing and the iron man hand held out.

"Who's that adorable cutie?" Thea's voice sounded from behind us.

She soon was sitting beside me.

"You helped build the iron man suit when you were eight?!" I asked, looking to her.

She shrugged. "Yeah," She said nonchalantly.

"She's always been beyond brilliant," Tony said with admiration. His eyes shined with pride and happiness. I had never seen Tony Stark look so... soft.

"Oh I love this one!" Thea exclaimed as the next photo pulled up.

Thea seemed older in this picture, about twelve with braces. It was a giant selfie with Steve, Tony, Thor, Bruce, Pepper, Clint and Natasha. I could tell it was originally just Tony, Pepper and Thea by the way the others were randomly thrown in there — Tony and Thea's smile matched, looking as if they were laughing.

When I looked to Tony, his eyes grew sort of... sad.

"Well." He stood up, the screen going black. "I'll let you two do... you're date thing I guess.... you know the rules."

He walked over to Thea, leaning down and kissing her forehead.

"Have her home by 9." He pointed to me.

I nodded. "Yes, sir."

"Dad gets a little emotional over the avengers drifting," Thea explained as we headed down the elevator. "That's my favorite picture though. I had just gotten my braces on and I was super sad because I thought I looked super ugly. My dad and Pepper tried getting me to smile for a picture but I refused. Uncle Steve then jumped into the camera kissing my head which then prompted everyone else to jump in doing crazy poses to get me to smile."

"You seemed really close to all of them," I said.

"I was... I'd give anything to see them all again."

I decided I would do anything to get them all back for her. What exactly could a teenage spider-man do to get a whole team of superhero's back together? Not entirely sure but I would do it. For Althea.

***

"So where are you taking me Peter Parker?" Thea asked as I started the car.

"Anywhere you'd like Althea Stark," I said. Namely because I only know of places in Queens and none of them are date worthy that I can think of.