Throwing Caution to the Wind

Chapter 17

The weekend had finally arrived. As nervous as Peter was, he was equally as exited. After all he was staying at the Tony Stark's penthouse. And sure, they had gotten close these past few weeks. But this was different.

When the bell rang on Friday made  his way to his locker to swap some stuff out. He put back all the textbooks he didn't need and grabbed the overnight back he had stowed in there earlier. He had managed to avoid Flash all week. Ducking into empty classrooms or merging himself with larger corwds had been a difficult job, bit it had been so worth it. After the bruise had disappeared, he had hoped that everyone would forget about the fact that he was being bullied, especially if he layed-low for a while. But of course, his luck had to run out eventually.

He was out the doors when he felt someone grab hood of his sweater. He was pulled into the grabbers chest and his arms were quickly pinned to his sides. He looked up and saw Flash sneering at him.

"Well look what the cat dragged in. Thought you were being all clever avoiding us hmm" he taunted.

Peter knew that Happy was probably watching so he needed to find a way out of this quickly. But at least it was Happy. He didn't seem particularly fond of Peter so he hoped that that meant that he wouldn't tattle. Still, better safe then sorry.

But before he could try to wriggle out whoever was holding him's grasp, he felt his Spidey senses go off, then nano-seconds after, he felt the first blow. And then another. And more soon after that.

At first he thought it was just Flash, but he now saw that there were 2 other people. No chance now. This kept going at him. His ribs were definitely going to bruise, but he hoped the wouldn't break again. Especially since he was going to the tower.

Unfortunately, just like last time, crack was heard and he was promptly dropped.

Groaning he got back up trying to hide his limp.

Once he spotted the familiar car, he straightened up as much as he could and made his way towards it.

When he finally slid in the seat he sighed in relief.

"Are you good Peter, those guys seemed pretty tough" Happy asked.

"Uh, oh, yeah, nonono, I'm fine. Those were just some friends of mine, you know how guys are" he said with a nervous laugh.

Happy didn't look convinced but started the car nonetheless.

A few moments later, he asked Peter the magic question.

"So, how was your day?"

Peter immediately started rambling about his day.

Finally they got to the tower. Peter got out if the car, said his goodbyes. And Happy waved.

"Hello Peter" said Friday.

"Hey Friday"

"Boss has requested that I take you to his labs unless you want to get a snack" she told him.

"To the labs then" Peter said deciding against the snack.

When Friday dropped him off in the lab, he found Tony at his workbench.

"Hey kid" he said looking up from his work.

"Hi Mr Stark, how are you doing" Peter said.

"Pretty good" he replied "but kid, we need to talk".

"What about" Peter asked worried.

"Here, let's go to the sitting room" he said pushing a button on his workstation.