A Second Family

-Chapter 7-

  EDITED
  They drove the entire way back in silence. Peter couldn't decide if it was comfortable or uncomfortable, maybe a bit in the middle. But he wasn't getting screamed at, so that was a plus!

  When they got back, Peter quickly got out of the car and went into the big building. When he came in contact with the Avengers, he avoided all contact with them, assuming that they all knew something about what had happened. It didn't settle his nerves when he saw Natasha Romanoff, the assassin, glaring daggers at him. Peter dodged them all and practically dove into his room, crawling under his covers and pulled out his phone to text Ned.

  Hey Ned.

  Are you okay?!?! Did Iron Man kill you?

  I'm not dead Ned...

  Really? I thought you were a goner! He was really angry

  I just told Mr Stark what happened, I'm gonna be in a bit of trouble though

  Oh. Well good luck with that

  Thanks

  Peter closed up his cracked phone and tossed it on the floor. Minutes later, Tony Stark walked in, ready to talk about some sort of punishment that he truly didn't want to give, but he had to enforce good grades and behavior in this house.

  "So," Tony leaned against the door. "I was thinking I'm gonna ground your from your phone for a we-"

  Peter quickly cut him off, "Mr. Stark, I only ever use my phone to text Ned, Happy, and you."

  "Dammit, why can't you just be a normal kid who spends hours on their phone?" Stark rubbed his face trying to come up with some sort of idea. "How about no going to that Ted guy's house after school."

  "Alright," Peter slightly frowned, knowing that the punishment was beyond fair, but wanted to be nice to Tony, knowing he had trouble coming up with even that plan. "Also uh, his name's Ned." Parker was trying hard not to be a total pain, but he just couldn't help himself from correcting Tony on his best friend's name.

"Heh," Stark scratched his head. "That's what I said." The billionaire took a seat next to the kid. "So what do you want for dinner? I'll let you choose whatever you want, despite Bruce's stupid hate for food you don't eat with a fork." (Would you believe that I randomly came up with that XD) Tony laughed as he ruffled Peter's hair.

"Thanks Mr. Stark," Peter smiled as Tony got up and left the room, the kid followed not far behind. "So uh, think we can get pizza?"

"Hm," Stark tapped his chin. "Something that I like and Bruce hates... sounds good!"

They both laughed but were quickly cut off by a voice filled with rage and confusion, "Peter Parker you missed detention AND got into a fi- Oh my god! What happened to you?" Natasha brushed her hand over one of the wounds on Peter's face.

Before the kid could answer, his mentor took that responsibility for himself, "Big misunderstanding. Pete's friend was getting picked on, the kid was just standing up for his friend."

"Oh," Nat put her hand on Parker's shoulder. "That was brave of you, but how could you skip detention?"

"Yeah... I'm working on getting better at that..." Peter nervously scratched behind his neck. "So uh, we're ordering pizza!"

Nat raised her eyebrow and completely forgot about their previous conversation. "C'mon!" Bruce stood up and threw his arms in the air in protest. "You know I hate eating pizza!"

"Just eat it with a fork like you always do," Sam said, slightly sarcastic.

"Every time I do, you guys make fun of me!" The man slumped back down in his seat, annoyed.

Tony told F.R.I.D.A.Y. to order 4 pizzas, the usual. Moments later, the Avengers were munching on pizza while flipping through the tv channels looking for a good movie. Bruce was frowning as he stuck a bite of pizza in his mouth while Clint made fun of him.

"How about Star Wars?" Peter offered one of his favorite movies out to the group but was quickly turned down, no one wanted to watch his 'nerd' movies as Sam said.

Eventually they decided on Jurassic Park, or the one Peter Parker referred to as, "That one old movie with the dinosaurs."

That night was one the group hadn't had in a long time, not Avengering or anything. But something was happening in Queens that would need to be dealt with soon.

Sorry for the lack of post and it being very short, Infinity War is taking up a lot of mind space.