Looks Can Be Deceiving

➳ 09

It had been an average couple of weeks since the Tower attack and so far, Peter and Harley's secrets hadn't got out, so, that was good. Alex seemed to be getting more agitated every day, but no one knew why and when they tried to ask her, she simply said she wasn't.

Ever since the press conference, the twins seemed to be getting slightly more attention than normal, not much, but a photo every now and then. Peter's decathlon team, of course, knew more than the media, but it wasn't like they could just tell them, they'd be killed.

The night before, everyone had decided to have a movie night, so naturally, when Peter woke up on Sunday morning on one of the couches in the common room, he wasn't surprised to see a bunch of passed out kids and superheroes.

"Hey FRI, take a photo." He gently said, knowing the AI would hear him, there was a soft click and he knew it was done.

Peter looked more carefully around the room and saw a few things; Morgan was lying next to him and Harley was on the floor, 'good job Morgan, you kicked him off' Peter laughed to himself; Alex slept silently on an armchair; Lila and Cooper were asleep on top of Thor, who had chocolate bars stacked on his head; Cassie was in-between her dad and Hope; Bucky lay curled up on another sofa next to Steve and Sam had his feet on Bucky's butt, while his head was at the other end of the couch; Wanda was asleep in Vision's lap on an armchair; Loki and Bruce were sleeping on another couch, not touching; Clint slept in the middle of the last couch with Nat's legs on his lap, Laura's head on his shoulder and Nathaniel in Laura's lap.

Peter wondered where Tony and Pepper might be but concluded that they were probably doing some work. So, Peter got up carefully, sneaked over to the elevator and rode it up to Tony's lab. He found his father figure sitting at the back of the lab playing with a hologram blueprint.

"Hey kid." Tony greeted.

"Hey Tony." Peter replied.

"Who else is awake?" He asked

"No one... yet."

Tony nodded his head, "How about you come over here and help me with this." He said pointing to the very detailed and confusing hologram. Peter excitedly walked over and sat next to Tony.

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About an hour later FRIDAY called over the lab with a message from Bucky, "Mr. Barnes says to 'get your butts downstairs before breakfast gets cold'. It seems everyone is awake now."

"Yeah, thanks FRI." The pair said at the same time.

After a couple of minutes, finishing up what they were doing, they headed down to the kitchen to see not chaos, but something close to it.

People were running to the kitchen, attempting to be the first in line to get Bucky's famous French toast. Of course being the sweetheart angel she is, Morgan was the first in line. When everyone was seated at the large oak table, Alex decided to voice what she was thinking.

"Can we go to the park or something today?"

Everybody heard, but only a few people seemed to be considering the idea.

Tony was the first to say anything, "I don't know if that's such a good idea."

"Oh, come on Tony, let the kid have some fun." Clint interrupted. Tony glared at Clint but he decided to continue anyway. "Let me and Laura go, we'll take the kids, that includes you two boys." He finished his proposal pointing his fingers at Peter and Harley, who were having their own little chat about who know what.

There was a sudden rush of "please" around the table coming from the kids, mainly Morgan, Cassie and Nathaniel. Peter, sensing this, had already covered his ears with his hands.