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Nightmares

Trope: Nightmares

It's the anniversary of May's death and Peter can't sleep. Good thing he has the Avengers by his side.

It was the anniversary of May's death and Peter woke up feeling miserable. He had been living at the tower for a year now. The murder of May Parker had happened in her own home too. Peter was out at patrol and someone had come in to rob the house. May had tried to stop him and ended up getting shot in the chest 5 times. The doctor said she was dead before she hit the ground.

"Did it hurt?" Peter had asked quietly. The man gave him a pain expression.

"A little" the man admitted. Peter knew what getting shot felt like, he also knew that if he just hadn't gone of patrol that day he could have stopped it. Even if he got shot, he would have survived, and if he didn't May would have.

Peter loved the tower no doubt about it, he had a new family. He'd never really had a big family, it was nice to have a lot of encouragement and people to go to. Tony (because Mr. Stark had finally convinced Peter to call him that) was becoming like sort-of-maybe-a-father-figure and if he did? Well, Tony didn't need to know that. Especially after events of Mysterio an then Tony showing up apparently alive and with an iron man armor prosthetic and all that fun stuff.

"Good morning Peter" Tony said walking into Peter's room. He knew what day it was. "Are you sure you want to go to school today bud?"

Peter looked down at his comforter. "We talked about this yesterday.." He said slowly trailing off a bit.

"that was yesterday today is today" Tony said putting his hand on top of Peter's. "If you don't feel up to it, you shouldn't go"

"I'll go" Peter said still not looking up. It would be a good distraction despite the nauseous feeling he felt when he thought of doing anything today.

"ok" Tony said hesitantly giving Peter's hand another awkward pat before leaving all together.

"Ok" Peter repeated quietly to himself. Getting out of bed took a lot of effort, more than it usually did. All he could see what his aunts blank face. The bodies of all the people he failed to save. He gasped and fought back tears.

Happy drove him to school after Peter skipped breakfast. Probably not the smartest thing for a growing mutant teenager to be doing but oh well. Hopefully Ned wouldn't try to give him an infamous captain America lecture.

"Peter?" Ned questioned when Peter walked up to his friend.

"What?" Peter said playing dumb. Ned looked at him with sympathy.

"You shouldn't be here today, Peter" Ned stated giving him a look. Peter just rolled his eyes.

"Yes I should" He snapped angrily. Peter wasn't angry he really wasn't but this was a lot, and school was making it worse.

Even Mj was giving him strange looks which he did he best to ignore. Both Ned and Mj knew what today was, he thought they would pretend it was any normal day. They did the opposite. They looked at him like he was made of glass and would break any moment. If it wasn't looks they straight up asked him if he needed to go home. He slapped on a smile and said he was fine. Even Flash looked at him concerned.

"Parker, what's got you in a knot" He said walking up to the table giving Mj and Ned a look that said I'm not going to do anything I am actually worried.

"Why do you, a jerk 24/7, care about me now when you had what? All these years years to do it" Peter glared. Flash looked guilty and Peter just ignore him, grabbing his lunch tray, cleaning it up and deliberately leaving.

He made his way to the library. As a self-proclaimed nerd he came here a lot, and went to the same section every time. The science section, he went straight for Bruce's books on gamma radiation. No matter how many times he read them they always fascinated him. He was there for the rest of the day.

He glanced at his watch. Shoot! He was late how long was Happy waiting for him. Gathering his things in a rush he put the book back and nearly ran out of the library, and he very well would have had the teacher not scolded him. He gave her an apological smile before hurrying (walking quickly) out.

"Peter there you are!" Happy said when Peter walked out. "I've been waiting for thirty minutes did you get a detention or something"

"something" Peter answered ducking into the car. Happy just sort of nodded and got into the drivers seat. Happy didn't put the seat divider up anymore, and Peter had hope that someday happy might let him sit in the front with him. 'til that day, Peter will just be thankful.

When he got to the tower he made a beeline for his room. Passing Tony who tried to get him to stop but he didn't listen. He flopped onto his be an let the tears come.

"How was he?" he heard Tony ask.

"not good..." Happy replied.

Peter tuned them out he didn't feel like dealing with this. If he went to sleep time would pass by quicker. He laid down, closed his eyes, and just didn't think...

If you were good enough Tony would be alive. Mysterio was back. He was positive Tony had helped him get rid of the fish-bowl.

If you were good enough Ben would still be alive It was May, she was crying and screaming and Peter was frozen in place.

Suddenly graves appeared one by one.

Anthony Edward Stark

May Parker

Benjamin Parker

Mary Parker

Richard Parker

And then bodies. So many bodies and much blood and Peter's screaming and the bodies are screaming and then-

"Peter wake up!!" It was Tony. He's dead, mysterio showed him, the graves and the bodies showed him too.

He can feel the tears trickling down his face, and Tony's hands are wrapping him in a hug and he can't breath because it feels like the building is crashing on him all over again.

"I'm Sorry" He mumbles when he feels like he can talk again and lets out a choked sob. "I- I-"

"Shhh Bambino" Tony soothes him, and they sit like that for a while, clutching onto each other for dear life, because they understand. "Star wars?"

Peter sucks in a breath, "yeah" He says softly. "and hot chocolate?" He asks. Tony hums in agreement.

Together they watch the first 30 minutes before they both fall back to sleep. When the Avengers find the two hugging each other in their sleep they take lots of pictures, because who wouldn't. And if it trends on Facebook the next day? Oops?