Throwing Caution to the Wind

Chapter 23

A few weeks later, the late November air was in full force. Thankfully, Peter now had a suit with a built in heater.

"Peter, Mr Stark is inviting you to dinner tonight, would you like me to accept" said Karen.

Karen was Peter's AI that Mr Stark helped him make. Although there were certain protocols that Peter had no say in, Karen was basically Peter's friend in the suit. Ned still helped with Guy in the Chair stuff, but he was a bit more hands off now. It worked out better since Ned could stop stressing out over all of Peter's injuries. He and Ned had picked the name together, she was named after Plankton's wife from Spongebob. Their favorite show from when they were younger.

"What time is dinner tonight" he asked glancing at the small clock in the corner of the HUD display. Since today was Friday, and May was working the night shift, Peter was aloud to stay over at the tower so long as he told May.

"In an hour, if you accept I recommend starting to head to the tower now. That way you'll have plenty of time to spare to stop a few crimes" she said.

"Tell him I'm on my way" he said as he let out a loud 'whoop' having done a particularly long swing.

"Right away Peter."

He started towards Manhattan. He got a couple kittens out trees and stopped a few bike thieves along the way. He texted May a quick picture of a small white kitten after asking the little girl who owned it. She was delighted that someone else found Snowball, her kitten, just as adorable as she did.

With that, he told May that he would be staying at the tower tonight.

Finally, the tower came into view.

"Hey Mr Stark" he said jumping in from one of the windows.

"Kid, its Tony" he said exasperated.

"Ok" he said taking off the mask.

"You're not actually gonna call me that, are you" Mr Stark said taking a sip of his coffee.

"No comment"

"You are impossible Parker" he said rolling his eyes.

"I just don't see the problem with me showing you a little respect" Peter said walking down the hallways to his room to change.

"The problem is that you make me feel old, and that we have a friendly, open relationship. No need for your "Mr's" and "Sir's" anymore" he said following him.

Peter gave him a mischievous look and closed his door.

With Pepper out for the week in Hong Kong for a business trip, that led the pair into ordering in Chinese.

They settled into the couch with their takeout for a movie. Today was Peter's turn to pick, that meant that it was Star Wars time.

At this point Tony more or less expected to watch at least one Star Wars movie whenever it was Peter's turn to pick. And he surprisingly found himself looking forward to them.

They ended up watching 2 of the movies before heading back down to the lab.

"Could you walk me through your webs again kid, I just can't seem to get it right" said Mr Stark.

He had been trying to master making Peter's webs for months now. But it never ended up being quite right. Sometimes it blew up on his face, other times it wasn't sticky enough, or it was too sticky. Other times he got the elasticity wrong. Always too much or too little. But even if he got those wrong, it refused to compact itself into areosol cans. There were about a dozen other things that he had managed to get the webs to do wrong, but those seemed to be the most reccuring ones.