The Sun Will Shine

1. Peter Comes to Two Conclusions

A/N: This is the first one-shot of the series! All of the one-shots will be connected and in chronological order, and all will be Peter Parker and Tony Stark (Irondad and Spiderson) centric!

Some details and timelines may be changed!

Hope you enjoy! :)

Peter had always been a nerd. It wasn't something that bothered him, or, hell, even crossed his mind (unless Flash spat it at him with a glare or MJ muttered it with a soft roll of her eyes) it was simply just who he was.

He loved Star Wars, comic books, cartoons, sci-fi novels, fantasy stories, robotics— the list goes on.

Something else he'd always loved (adored, obsessed over, looked up to, wished to have, wished to be) was superheroes. He remembers very clearly how his love for heroes began.

He was five (almost six) when he permanently moved in with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben after losing his parents. For the first several months the loving (yet unprepared) pair did everything in their power to comfort the small grieving child; including giving him lots of things to watch and read, especially during their busier hours.

Peter, being so young, wasn't fond of long books with small font, but being a long-time fan of picture books he easily accepted the first comic his Uncle Ben gave him.

It was a Superman comic. He can remember siting on the couch with his Uncle, the comic resting on both of their legs as they read it together. Peter had found it fascinating; he could hardly tear his eyes away, fully engrossed in the tale of Clark Kent. It was the first time since the accident that he was able to truly forget the sadness and pain that had become ever-present.

(His Aunt and Uncle always remembered it too; staring at the colorful pages and listening to Ben change his voice for every character, Peter had laughed for the first time since he'd moved in.)

After that, more comics came. Next was Batman, then Captain America.

Captain America fascinated Peter. While the other superheroes he'd read about were works of fiction and imagination, Captain America had been real. The pictures weren't cartoon; they were black and white and real.

Captain America - Steve Rogers - had really truly existed, fought bad guys, saved the day. It was the first time Peter realized superheroes could be real.

The second time Peter realized that was when the news began to report Iron Man.

He remembers sitting in front of the TV in awe, watching as the man in a suit of bulky looking metal flew around firing light from his hands. It was something straight from the pages of Peter's comics but it was real and it was happening right then.

When Iron Man was revealed to be local billionaire Tony Stark (or rather local billionaire Tony Stark revealed himself to be Iron Man) the world (or at least New York) had gone into a frenzy. Peter had been stunned.

It wasn't because of the man's reputation or attitude (which is what everyone else seemed to care about) because at the age of seven, Peter didn't care about any of that. What stunned Peter was that Iron Man, a superhero, was just.... a regular man.

It was the first time Peter realized that anyone could be a superhero - you didn't have to be an alien or a super soldier. Sure, he had read of Bruce Wayne becoming Batman without the help of any innate powers, but that was just a comic. Tony Stark was real, and he was a hero.

Peter's walls were slowly covered by superhero posters, but most of the space was dominated by Captain America and Iron Man.

When Peter was eight, his Aunt and Uncle took him to a Stark Expo and it was without a doubt the greatest night of his young life. He'd spent the whole night gushing over everything Tony Stark and Iron Man, and Ben had even bought him his own Iron Man mask and gloves.