The adorable Spider-Man (who is misunderstood by everyone)

5 - Are you really him???

"What about you?"

The man in the blue robe looked at him incredulously.

"What?"

Peter squirmed under the judging gaze of the man.

"I mean, what's your name? I think I know you from somewhere, I just can't seem to remember..."

"It's Strange."

Peter looked up at him with wide eyes.

"What is strange?"

The man rolled his eyes, visibly annoyed.

"My name, it's Strange."

Peter opened his mouth to answer, but before he could say something, Strange interrupted him.

"Dr. Strange. Dr. Stephen Strange. What, you heard of me?"

Dr. Strange raised an eyebrow at the boy as his eyes widened in realization.

"Yes! I knew that I know you from somewhere! Weren't you that neurosurgeon that was really well known but then had an accident I think? So you're ok! Then why aren't you a doctor anymore? Just if you want to tell me, of course you don't have to..."

Peter shrank under the seemingly annoyed, but surprised gaze of the doctor.

Then he slowly raised his hands which where shaking, unable to hold any medical equipment anymore.

Peter gaped at that and lowered his head.

"Sorry."

Once again, Strange rolled his eyes.

"Well anyway, I don't know why you're still here?"

Peter looked up again, a kind of embarrassed but confused look on his face.

"Uhm, I mean, I can go? But like, I don't even know where this is? Like, it could be in, I dunno, Germany or something! Are we even still in New York? Also I wanted to ask for Mr. Loki's autograph, if that is okay with you, Mr. Loki." At this his face started getting red, and it only grew in intensity the more he rambled. "And now I kind of also want your autograph Mr. Dr. Strange. I mean, I didn't recognize you, because you weren't in a doctors coat and all that, but you did some amazing work when you were still a doctor and you know..."

Dr. Strange pressed one hand over his eyes, as if to compose himself, as Peter started to shut down a bit. Loki just raised one eyebrow at Dr. Strange, not having said anything for a while now.

Then Dr. Strange let out a tired sigh.

"Look, just... do whatever you want. I don't care anymore.  But I'll still keep my eyes on you, Loki! So don't even think about trying anything. I'll just send you back now..."

Peter looked disappointed but nodded in acceptance. Strange let out another sigh.

"...after I give you an autograph or whatever."

He held out one shaking hand in Peters direction, which made Peters eyes start to shine as he searched in his backpack for the notebook he found, which he then decided was going to be reserved for autographs. With how often he met his heros only in the last week, maybe he will even be able to get more than two autographs.

Just as Peter gave Strange the Notebook, he remembered the things he had already written in it. Some web formulas, scribbles of spiders and other hero related things, lists of homeless shelters starting with the ones most likely to let him in. He got nervous about it, but tried to play it down and convince himself that Strange wouldn't even look at...

He noticed. Of f***ing course.

"Oh, so homeless and a fanboy, huh? Not that I didn't already notice the second one."

Peter started blushing again.

"Oh, uhm, yeah... I... yeah..."

He just ended up nodding at the statement. Loki decided to take pity on the young boy.

"Oh Strange, let the poor boy be. We don't want him to die from embarrassment, now, do we?"

Strange just continued flipping through the notebook, until he got to a blank page and messily signed it. Then he wrote something else on the page, that looked kind of like a number.

Peter just stared at them, still red.

Strange finished writing and gave Peter the notebook back who just passed it to Loki.

"You know, Peter, you are smart and I don't hate you (yet). If you need or want anything, food, a place to sleep or just talk to someone, you can call this number. Just don't... give it to someone else or prank call me or what you kids do nowadays."

Strange looked disgusted while saying the last bit but Peter just nodded vigorously with a big smile plastered on his face. That nearly made even Strange smile. Nearly.

Loki also put down his number next to his autograph and smiled at Peter.

"Well Peter, if I ever lose my wallet again, now you can reach me. Or for anything else. You are quite an adorable child, so maybe I wouldn't even kill you, if you were to prank call me."

Peter looked affronted at both of them.

"Why would I even think about prank calling either of you? But," he looked ashamed and dropped his head, "it's not like I even have a phone or money to call you."

Loki didn't even stop smiling now. He seemed to really enjoy Peters distress.

"That's all? That shouldn't be a problem. I know just the right person to fix that. That's really the only thing he's good for."

Peter just looked at him confused, and not even Strange knew who Loki was talking about. Loki just rolled his eyes at them.

"You do know that I live in the Avengers tower? Thor has to watch over me, " this time he did show his dislike through a snarl, "But it has the advantage of enough of your human money at hand. I can just give you one of these phones at Tonys expanse. The tin can wouldn't even notice anything missing. Just come to the tower tomorrow, I'll tell them that I expect a guest."

Peter just gaped at him and continued to do so long after they were back on the street and Loki was already gone.