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Peter groaned lightly and rubbed his hands over his eyes. Blinking slowing, he was finally able to focus on where he was- back at the tower.
“Tony” He called out softly.
“Peter! Peter, hey, how are you feeling” Tony responded striding into the room and back over to Peter’s bed. He placed glass of water on the table next to him.
“Drink that” he commanded softly.
“Tony, I...I did something bad.” Peter confessed with the cup in hand “I think I might have gotten us in some trouble. And I know this is the second time, so I’m just going to leave.” He stared up at Tony with slightly watery eyes and moved to try and get up.
“It’s ok Peter” Tony called lightly pushing him back down on the bed “You’re probably feeling pretty sore right now so it’s best if you just rest for a while.”
“My ribs hurt” Peter groaned suddenly feeling all the bruises on his side from hitting the wall.
“Yeah I thought so. You wanna tell me what happened.” Tony asked, not unkindly. Peter sighed and thought for a while about what he should say.
“I wanted my suit back” Peter started, staring at the ceiling “And Deadpool said he could help me. And I know that you told me not to trust him, and I know I should have listened, but I didn’t. So we sort of broke in, and Deadpool snuck off and took some stuff, but I didn’t notice at first. He said it was only a file and some money. When I tried to stop him, I guess he sort of just electrocuted me.” Peter felt ashamed and guilt nestled in his stomach. “I’m really sorry Tony. I guess you were right, I don’t deserve to be here.”
“That’s not true Peter” Tony stopped him and Peter’s head snapped over to look at him “I was wrong about that. You’re independent, and strong and I know that every decision you make is to help people.”
“Well it doesn’t always work out like that. Everytime I try to help people I just mess everything up for everybody instead. Like tonight.”
“Well technically that was yesterday” Tony corrected him
“Shoot really”
“Yeah but that’s not important right now. I have some S.H.I.E.L.D guys looking for Deadpool and it won’t take them long. I sent some people to your aunt’s house to so you don’t have to worry about that. As for the money, it wasn’t enough to do any real damage.”
“S.H.I.E.L.D actually offered to help you?” Peter questioned.
“Yeah, I sort of told them they could take whatever they found on the file. That seemed to calm Fury down.”
“Is that worth the risk?”
“It’s probably just some not-so-dangerous weapons. I keep the really bad ones somewhere else so the Merc probably didn’t steal anything too bad.”
“Oh” Peter sighed.
“I want you to know that I’m not mad at you Peter.” Tony said after a long pause “I know that I overreacted before. I never should have told you get out. I have immensely appreciated all the help you have given to me so far and I know that one day, when you’re older, you’re going to make a great Avenger.” Tony smiled.
“Really.” Peter smiled to himself.
“Yes, really. And I know for a fact that everyone else thinks so too. I also wanted to apologize, I wasn’t thinking before. I should have done more to help you after you came home. I know that it must of been pretty scary for you, pretty upsetting, and I’m sorry that I wasn’t there for you after it was over.” Tony stopped for a second and looked over at him “So I want to make a deal with you.” Tony paused and Peter looked up at him, trying to hide how eager he felt “I want to keep training you, me and the rest of the Avengers, we can make you stronger and smarter, and we can give you a group of people that you can always fall back on when things get hard. And I want you to have more freedoms so I’m not going to try to tell you what to do all the time, but let’s be honest there is probably going to be a time when you want me to so I don’t ever want you to feel like you can’t call us for help. Anyway I made you this” Tony handed Peter his watch “This is an updated version of the one you had before. You can call me anytime with this, and there is a tracker but you can be the one to turn it off and on.”
Peter slipped in on his wrist “Thanks Tony.”
“I want you to come see us more often, just to check in. I know that you need help right now, and if you don’t go looking for it from us then you might go looking for it in someone like Deadpool again.” He spoke softly and sincere.
“Yeah I promise.” Peter whispered.
“Great!” Tony called regaining his usually confident attitude “I’ll let you rest up here until you’re ready to go home then I’ll send you the details for our next training session.” Tony patted Peter on the shoulder and walked out of the room. Peter smiled at his back, watching him walk away. He knew now that things were going to be ok, he had the Avengers now, he could be a real hero, he was home.
End.