Evolution

After that incident it obviously became impossible for Wade to get Peter to stay at home while he was on a mission. He had tried everything – talking, locking the boy in the apartment, hell he had even put some sleeping pills in the boys taco just to prevent him from coming along. The pills were the only thing that had worked, but afterwards Peter was so pissed that he had refused to talk to Wade until he had finally agreed that Peter could help him on his missions.

The thing is that Peter was right. He had shown Wade multiple times that he was more then capable of defending not only himself, but the two of them – sure he still didn't know how to use a weapon, but all those Kung-fu-movies they had watched had given him a pretty good idea of how to fight and then there were his webs, which enabled him to do some really crazy moves. Wade had to admit; he was amazed by Peter's abilities and they actually made quite a decent team.

So the first thing Wade did, was to order a suit for Peter, because the boy couldn't run around in one of the Deadpool suits that were way too big for him. He had told his tailor that he wanted something inspired by his Deadpool outfit, just with some spider-theme. He probably shouldn't have called while eating though, because instead of red and black the suit was red and blue, which Wade found to look a little too colorful, but Peter liked it so they kept it. Wade had even thought of the webs and so there were small holes in the gloves.

When he saw his baby boy in-suit for the first time, right before a mission Wade wondered why the hell he had agreed to all of this, but then Peter hugged him in his excitement, thanking him, while he nestled against the taller man's chest, nothing between them but two thin layers of spandex.

The two of them went on missions every now and then and patrolled through the city every night, but Wade kept Peter a secret from S.H.I.E.L.D.. He didn't want them to intervene, to ask questions about who his new, awesome side-kick was and even though rumors started to spread about him teaming up with some unknown guy he denied everything. Sure he was a S.H.I.E.L.D member now, but he didn't trust them – not when it came to Peter. For Peter himself that was somewhat hard to understand, because he thought that Wade just didn't want to introduce him to his friends for whatever reason he had.

Everything had been fine until one time some green guy on a flying ironing board had shown up. He was a pretty lame super-villain and soon Deadpool and Spidey had shown him his place, but unfortunately he managed to escape them and since then he was always on their backs, he was more of an annoyance then anything else, though.

Today was not different.

They had chased him down to the Brooklyn bridge after he had attacked them while they were on patrol. While Wade was jumping from car roof to car roof, Peter was swinging close behind the man that called himself the 'Green Goblin'. As almost everyday there was a big traffic jam, which made things a little easier for Wade, but it also caused some people to leave their cars to look at what was happening around them. As the Goblin flew past them just inches above the bystanders heads he suddenly reached out, grabbed one of them by the arm and picked her up before flying to the top of one of the pillars. Of course Peter followed him instantly, jumping and crawling his way up, but Wade cursed, because he wouldn't be able to be a part of the action. He could only watch them while running towards them. There was a small fight, with the Goblin throwing his explosives at Peter, but the boy was way to fast and evaded them easily, he then proceeded to tackle down the Goblin, but just when he was able to grab him the guy let go his hostage, making her fall all the way down. Peter who had his priorities set pushed the villain away to shoot a web at the screaming girl, catching her mid-fall. It gave the Goblin enough time to escape once again so Peter just moved to release the girl from his web.

By the time Wade reached the two of them there were already a couple of people surrounding them, taking photos or just staring.

Peter was carrying her bridal style, looking a little lost, because the girl was unconscious and he had no idea how to deal with that. “You okay, baby boy?” Wade asked when he finally stood in front of him. Peter nodded. The older man took a look at the girl his roommate was carrying. She was quite a pretty thing, blond hair a little pale maybe and checked her pulse to ensure that everything was okay. “She's dead.” He whispered in a low voice, which seemed to startle Peter. He looked at the body in his arms confused and shook her a little, making her head fall into an unnatural position. “Shit. Okay, we can't help her, just lay her down – we should get away.” Wade ordered, nervously looking at a guy who was still taking photos. Peter did as he was told and after he had laid her down, Wade took his hand and started running.

When they finally were back in their apartment Wade started to actually worry about Peter, since it was the first time an innocent died while he was present, but the boy seemed to act as if nothing had happened and simply started to read a book. Wade sat next to him, trying to find out how the boy was doing. “So.. uh.. how do you feel about what happened today?” He asked cautiously. Peter looked up to him and shrugged. “He got away.” Wade frowned. “Yeah, but.. I mean the girl – she died.” “What do you mean “died”?” Peter blurted out confused making Wade go pale.

The merc had taught the former spider so much – talking, reading, getting dressed, how to use the microwave, but of course the one thing he couldn't teach him was the one thing he himself couldn't do. Sure, Peter had heard about death on the news, he had read about it many times, but maybe seeing Wade who simply healed up after a deadly injury he believed 'death' to be nothing but a fairytale.

“What does it mean?” He demanded to know once again.

“Ugh.. uhm.. you see..” Wade tried to think about a way to explain the whole matter to him, which was really hard. “Sometimes.. sometimes human bodies just stop working, maybe because some of their internal parts got injured or simply because they are very old..”

“Then why don't fix them again?”

“Eh.. mhm.. that's not always possible, Peter. Sometimes you just can't safe their lives anymore.” Peter nodded and Wade was glad that he seemed to understand.

“So why did the girl die?”

Great, this was getting better and better. Wade swallowed hard.

“Seemed like she broke her neck.. it damaged some nerves that people need to live..”

“But I saved her. The Goblin didn't do anything.” He pouted.

“Err.. well.. Pete.. it's..”

“Why?” He looked at him frustrated.

“It had something to do with you webbing her probably..” Wade said softly, but Peter just stared at him in disbelief.

“It was my fault?”

“No, Peter, no..” He tried to calm him, but when he reached out to pat his shoulder the boy jumped up and started pacing up and down, obviously unnerved. “Peter you did your best – you tried anything, but that's just how it is.. sometimes it's not enough..” Wade explained, standing up. He wanted to hug Peter but the boy pushed him away shaking his head.

“I killed her.” He sobbed, tears starting to fall from his cheeks once again, then he turned around and hid away in his spider-web, leaving Wade cursing and hating himself.

Even a week later Peter was still unresponsive, hiding in his orb of web, eating barely not even reading. Wade was worried and helpless, because no matter what he did or what he said Peter wouldn't even answer with a growl or anything. He had shouted, he had pleaded and at some point he had given up. S.H.I.E.L.D was still bugging him about his new side-kick, especially after they had seen the photos from the other day and Wade thought that maybe it was a good idea to tell them everything now. Maybe all Peter needed now was some prep talk from Cap or the other heroes.