A Second Family

-Chapter 6-

EDITED
  Mrs. Leeds had finished patching up Peter a few minutes ago. She'd wrapped his head in gauze and placed bandaids on ever open wound, but there was nothing she could do about the dark, swollen, eye the poor kid had. Her son and Peter had explained everything that'd happened. While she was in fact disappointed in the both of them, and Ned would face some punishment in the near future, Mrs. Leeds did understand the reasoning behind their actions.

The middle aged woman had finally gotten herself to calm down and relax while the boys were in Ned's room doing whatever. But the relaxation was nice while it lasted, because soon later, there was a loud knock, err more like bang, on the door.

The woman groaned as she stood up and answered the door, when she opened it, she found her self nearly fainting. "OH MY GOD NED! GET IN HERE! ITS TONY STARK!"

  In the other room, Peter and Ned could hear Mrs. Leeds's shocked voice. "Shoot! This is bad!" Peter frantically ran his fingers through his hair. "Mr. Stark probably found out I skipped detention, why else should he be here?!"

  Ned was utterly shock, "You had detention Peter?! And you skipped?!"

  "Yeah! I did!" Parker started pacing around the room. "Ned, can you do me a huge favor? Can you distract Mr. Stark while I get out? He cannot know I'm here or I'm dead!" Peter pulled his book bag out and put on his mask.

  Ned nodded and left his room to see his mom, who had calmed down, chatting with Tony Stark, though the billionaire seemed very frustrated.

  "Woah...! It'S ToNy StArK!" Ned said in a voice that screamed 'I'm lying'. Just before Peter left his room, Parker couldn't help but face palm. "What are you doing in my house?"

  Stark deadpanned, "Okay, you can cut off the act kid. I know that Peter's here."

  "No he isn't," Ned started sweating. "Why would Peter Parker, my best friend, be at this house er- my house?"

  "Okay, I don't have time for this," Tony walked past Ned and his mother and held up his phone that had the tracker on it. "Oh looks like the kid's leaving now, shouldn't be too big of a problem." Tony walked into Ned's room which had a window that lead to a very small balcony, that of which the billionaire stepped onto. When he did, his suit quickly came to him and before Ned and Mrs. Leeds knew it, Iron Man was standing before them. Before flying off, he said, "Thanks for the hospitality, but I really need to go." Leaving the other two in utter shock.

•~•

  Peter laid himself on the roof of a building, hurting because his body was still aching from his fight with Flash. He was wearing his normal school clothes but covered his face up with his mask. How else could the kid have gotten on top of that building? He puffed out his cheeks in frustration, he'd have to go back to the Avengers Compound at some point.

  He forced himself to get up when he'd felt a buzz from his phone. Peter received a text from Ned,

  "I failed you. Iron Man is coming, and he knows where you are. Sorry Peter."

  "It's fine. I'd have to deal with it later."

  Peter closed up his phone and put it into his backpack. "Peter," the kid turned around to see Iron Man. Though he couldn't see his face, Spiderman could assume that his idol was absolutely furious.

"Hey Mr. Stark," Peter suddenly felt himself to be very depressed. "I already know what you're going to say."

Tony walked out of his Iron Man suit, biting his bottom lip, hoping to keep in his anger. "Y'know Parker, when I got a phone call from school about you skipping detention, I was disappointed. I was going to give you a simple heart to heart conversation about your grades." Stark started to massage his temples, another one of his stress relievers. "But do you know what really pushed me over the edge? The fact that you punched a kid. And before you try to deny it, I saw him at your school. I thought you were so much better than this Peter."

"I'm sorry Mr. Stark," the kid started to cry as he got continuous alerts from Karen on his rising heart rate.

"Sorry isn't gonna cut it," Tony walked forward. "And why're you wearing that stupid mask? Take it off, I'm trying to talk to you face to face."

"I can't!" Peter tried to avoid showing Tony that he wasn't capable of fending off a bully. "People will know I'm Spiderman."

"We're on a roof for God's sake, you're not swinging around with webs. Take off the dang mask," Stark was getting angrier by the minute. Peter was hoping he could keep on the mask until his wounds fully healed, but he should've realized awhile ago that that plan would've failed sooner or later.

  Peter sighed and pulled off the red mask that covered his bruised and beaten face. When he did this, all rage that Stark had building up within himself died down, "Kid, how did this happen?"

  "It doesn't matter," the boy buried his face in his hands. "It was my fault anyways, I shoulda seen it coming."

  Tony sat down in front of Peter, "C'mon kid, you gotta tell me why you're all beat up."

  Parker sighed, "It was Flash. He kept on saying mean things to Ned and I, and then when he started talking about May.. a-nd said she's dead, I just snapped and threw the first punch." Peter quickly wiped his eyes before he started looking like a baby, or at least that's what was going through his head. "When he tackled me to the ground and st-arted punching me, I couldn't defend myself. I felt-I feel terrible about punching him. So Ned had to pull him off of me and we both ran away."

  "You know," if Tony was being completely honest, he had absolutely no idea on what to say. Stark never had a good example to set for him, or helpful advice shared his childhood. So, he handled it in the only way he could think to, he laughed "I get why you punched him, if I were there I'd punch him too. So, I might just let you off the hook for that fight. That doesn't explain why you skipped detention though, but we'll talk about that later."

  Tony pulled Peter off the ground, they both carefully made their way down the building and eventually found his car. Stark drove back to the Avengers Compound, occasionally looking back at Peter through the mirror.

Someone who's seen it, please talk to me about Infinity War and assure me that everything is okay! I haven't been the same since Friday.