//Father\\

6

Peter took a deep breath and headed into his school building. He opened the large metal doors that were used to contain the teens between school hours and started down the crowded hall. The teen pulled out his phone to text Ned and MJ to see where they were.

Peter arrived at his locker and entered his combination. While he dug through his locker, he felt his phone buzz in his pocket. The boy pulled his head out of his locker to check his text when he felt the metal door slam against his jaw.

"What the hell Flash?" Peter yelled as he adjusted his jaw with his hand.

"Where've you been Penis Parker? Missed you buddy." Flash spat sarcastically.

"Back off man." "Woah guys watch out! Parkers getting mad!" The group of people that grew around them laughed at Flash's snarky comment.

"Dude I said back off." Flash rolled his eyes, looked back at the crowd and came flying around to punch Peter right in the face. "Don't sass me." Flash gritted his teeth and turned and left with a huff.

The crowd started to fade away as MJ and Ned made there way to Peter who was on the floor by his locker. "Oh my god Pete!" MJ grabbed his cheeks and looked at his black and blue eye. Peter lightly inhaled in pain but kept eye contact with MJ.

"Oh it's so good to see you!" She helped the boy up and pulled him into a tight hug.

"I missed you too man!" Ned joins the hug and Peter laughed a bit. The sound of the bell erupted through the corridor and caused a string of motion from other students.

"We should head to class." MJ broke out of the hug and looked down at er feet.

"Pete this must have fallen out of your locker." She bent down and picked up a peice of paper and handed it to him. "Erm, thanks." he took the paper in his hand.

"Hey man why werent you at school for like a week anyway?" 'Shit!' Peter thought, 'I forgot to tell them about May.'

"Um Ill tell you later, I should get going." Peter's cheecks flushed red as he left his two friends standing by his locker expressign confused looks.

Once Peter took his seat in the back of his class he unfolded the note MJ gave him. He scanned it and fear fled through his body.

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Peter Parker,

It is good to talk with you and I hope we can meet soon. See you are a very important person in my life. Well so was your Uncle Ben but I killed him so. Now that you know what I do to people who are important to me I hope you don't fear me. My regards to you and your aunt. Oh how is May? She was also very important to me; and your parents? What have they been up to lately? Well Mr. Parker, we will be meeting soon and believe me I couldn't be more excited about it.

Sending my best, DL

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Peter read the letter no less than one hundred times. 'May's death was an accident.' he told himself. 'Uncle ben was robbed.' he reassured himself. 'My parent's plane went down.' the boy reminded himself. Peter pondered whether he should tell Mr. Sark or not.

Peter was taken aback when he heard his name called from the front of the classroom.

"Mr. Parker are you still with us back there?" Mr. Mathews, the professor, hollered at the boy.

He nodded and shoved the note into the pocket of his sweater. The teen decided to try to forget about it and deal with it later.

~time skip to lunch~

"Peter," Ned waved his hand in front of his face, "I got these for your eye from Margret the lunch lady." Thew a bag of frozen peas at Peter's hand resting on the table causing him to snap out of his gaze. "Oh, thanks." he took the bag and placed it against his now very swollen eye.

"Not to push or anything but can you tell us about last week?" MJ broke the silence at their table.

Peter sighed and removed the bag of peas from his eye. "Guys, Aunt May, sh-she was caught in gun crossfire. She's gone." Peter could feel a tear form and fall down his cheek and he quickly wiped it away. Peter's two friends sat in shock.

"Peter." MJ managed to whisper. The bell rung for classes to start up so Peter stood up and left his friends once again.

He didn't see Ned or MJ for the rest of the day, mainly because he was avoiding them. he loves seeing them and everything but he didn't need to be reminded of her or to have them pity him right now. Peter rushed outside and was greeted by a black SUV with the window cracked down a bit.

"Pete get in buddy." Peter opened the door in a hurry and threw his backpack in front of him so he could close the door. "Spidey you o-" "Drive." Tony was interrupted by Peter who's eye looked seven sizes too big.

"Holy shit kid what happened to your eye?" Tony grabbed the boys chin and turned his face towards him.

"Erm, the locker hit my eye?" Peter timidly said trying to sound convincing. "Kid who did this to you? You can tell me anything." Stark stroked the boys chin with his thumb.

"It was some kid. It's okay. Please, I wanna go home." Peter looked down at his lap. He felt bad for acting this way but he had to get away from school.

The two arrived back at the tower garage and parked the car. "Mr. S- I mean Tony?" "Oh no kid. You don't call me Mr. Stark unless something is wrong."

"Well I have something to tell you. It's about someone named DL. Does that ring a bell?" Peter asked.

The expression on Tony's face changed a bit, "It sounds familiar but it might be from something else. Let's go upstairs kid. I've got some ice cream upstairs I've been dying to dig into all day. We can talk about this up there."

Peter nodded trying to be obedient and the two headed upstairs.

When they arrived to the living commons the Avengers greeted him and started to bombard him about his day and about his huge eye. They backed off when they received a look from Tony.

"Here kid." Tony handed a carton of Stark Raving Hazelnuts to the boy along with an ice pack for his eye.

"Tony. This fell out of my locker this morning."

He handed Tony the crumpled letter from his pocket and held the ice pack to his swollen eye.

Tony looked over the letter in shock. "Avengers." he summoned the team and they emideately emerged to the living room.

"We have a possible threat on one of our own."