The Life of Peter Parker

The one with the funeral

"I listened intently to the speeches. The speeches of the avengers, of Miss Potts, of everyone. I know that Tony meant something to everyone who's here today. I listened closely to what they said and I realised something. I was sitting at home and preparing this speech. It took me days to complete it because everytime I thought of what to write, I cried. I thought: what could I say that is worthy enough for Tony. I thought: What would the others say. I just wrote down what at this moment was still left in my head. The words: sarcastic, billionaire, playboy and genius are written on my paper right now but you know what? That's exactly what everyone else said and it made me even more sad, because Tony was so much more. I lost my dad when I was a kid. He was the first person I looked up to. When he died I came to my aunt and uncle. As fate would have it, my uncle got killed, too. So I lost my second father figure. I was with my Aunt May and she has been with me through it all. When I looked at her I promised myself that she's the only one that I'll need. I decided that I wouldn't need a father because I had her. It worked fine, it still does except that at some point Tony came into my life. He flipped it upside down. It was the little things I admired. It was tea at 9 pm. It was ice cream after school. It was the late night chats when the nightmares didn't seem to go away. It was working in his private lab for the whole weekend. It was movie nights because May had to work. It was slipping a hundred dollar bill in my pocket because I told him that money at home was a bit limited. It was scribbling my homework on a napkin because I couldn't do it. It was canceling meetings because I got trouble in school and he didn't want May to know. So you see, it isn't always about what you see because never in his goddam life would he have admitted it but Tony was a softie. He wasn't always a playboy. He cared and he worked his ass off so he could make a difference. I admired him. He's always been a person I looked up to. I didn't realise how much he meant to me until the day I accidently called him dad. I figured he'd kick me out but you know what he did? He cried because never in his whole life would he have thought that someone out there would say something like that to him. He hugged me and told me that when thinking of kids, he'd think of me. So on this day don't think about Tony Stark as the playboy, genius, billionaire, philantropist, think about him as Tony Stark, the man that loved, even though he thought that love was foreign to him. Think about the ability to make someone feel so loved, even after a tragic life."

And with that Peter found his peace. He knew that what he said was worthy, because he always hoped people knew what good of a person Tony Stark was.

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