crystal ball
The next day went about as normal as it could, Peter begged Tony to stay in his room forever, Tony signed the paperwork and Peter dreaded having to take it to school. He almost ‘conveniently’ left it at home before Harley decided to bring the lunch, he oh so kindly made for Peter, out to the car. Peter had just climbed in all ready to go and suddenly Harley was knocking on the window. Peter sighed as he rolled it down, just barely glaring at Harley.
“I just wanted to make my lovely boyfriend lunch and happened to notice you left behind these papers” Harley drawled in a sickeningly sweet voice. Peter heard Happy snort and his head snapped towards him. If looks could kill they would need a new head of security and peter would need a new boyfriend, but they couldn't. So, Peter looked back at Harley and took the lunchbox grumbling a thank you. Harley smiled “what was that darlin’? I don't think I quite caught that-"
"I said thank you!”
Harley leaned in real close to Peter's ear and whispered, “that's more like it.” before kissing his cheek and walking back inside the building, leave a very flustered Peter behind. Peter groaned and put his head in his hands as Happy laughed and drove him to school.
Once he arrived at the school, he hopped out of the car yelling thank you to Happy once again and headed in to find Mj and Ned. Ned was propped up against the lockers talking animatedly to Betty while Mj silently drew in her crisis book, they all looked up for a moment as Peter approached them. Mj returned to her book muttering a “hey loser” and Ned immediately pulled him into his conversation. “Did you get the forms filled out? Betty somehow already turned hers in.”
Mj interrupted with a small smirk on her face, (I swear she has actually been showing emotion lately) “by the way... Shuri texted me, coincidentally the tower is holding a big meeting over the weekend so most, if not all, of the avengers will be there plus some. Shuri said she can't wait to see her favorite white boy though.”
Peter let his head hit the lockers before responding “this is in no way coincidental and you know it.”
flash took this as the perfect opportunity to walk up to them “I must admit penis, I'm surprised you showed up today. How long are you going to be able to show your face after everyone finds out?” and with that the bell rang signaling class was about to start. Flash walked away and the four started their trek to calc... Peter would rather be anywhere else. He wasn't going to let flash get to him today though. Flash had done enough.
His classes were about as uneventful as they could be, but Mr. Harrington's class always seemed to find a way to spice things up. (Note the sarcasm there.) Peter sat with his head on the desk once again as the teacher droned on and on about God knows what. After a while class was about to end and Ned had nudged his shoulder trying to get him to pay attention.
Mr. Harrington was making another announcement because so much good seemed to come out of those. “In other news there will be no Aca Dec tomorrow because of the field trip so you can all relax today. Speaking of the trip, we will be leaving bright and early tomorrow! The bus leaves at 8am sharp, with that in mind I need you all to pass the papers up to the front of the class so we can go ahead and get that situated.”
Peter pulled the papers out of his backpack and stared at tony starts fucking signature. His dad really was out to get him, it wasn't fair. Tony knew they kind of drama would stir up for Peter, well, he kind of knew. He knew the funny bits but still! Peter swore he was out to get him, just like everyone else today. Okay, so many he was being a bit dramatic, sue him. He had the right. He all but slammed his head on the deck this time and gave the papers to Ned. Ned of course immediately started talking about how cool it was tony signed his paper “you got tony start to sign it?!?! That's so cool! Do you-"
Peter cut him off. “He's my dad Ned obviously he signed the paper, and before you even ask, you have already met him!! you. work. there.”
Despite what he said Peter had a small smile on his face, Ned's enthusiasm was infectious. “Yeah, I know, I know, but it'll be like seeing the tower in a whole new light! I'll get to meet everyone as if I were just another person and not a coding genius-” he winked “and the best friend of an actual genius" Peter couldn't help but laugh, okay, maybe this won't be so bad.
He spoke too soon, instead of Mr. Harrington trying to ‘discreetly’ tell Peter to meet him after class like yesterday, he instead yelled it Infront of everyone, guess he got the papers. Peter didn't know if he was trying to embarrass him, or if he was genuinely enraged but would do anything to suddenly get a call and have to go home immediately. Thanks to the lovely Parker luck though that didn't happen, and Peter could do nothing but nod his head and pray the class moved on.
Ned and Mj offered to stay after again and Peter almost accepted but he really didn't need to add embarrassment of them seeing whatever it was Mr.Harrington was going to say to him. They agreed to meet by the lockers again as Peter made his way to the front desk. All he could hope was that this would be short and sweet.
It wasn't.
“Peter, just yesterday you promised to stop all of this and now you come in here with a forged signature?? If you are going to lie, why couldn't you at least pick someone more believable. This is entirely unacceptable, and you will be forced to stay by me, and the tour guide the entire trip. One small step out of line and you will be sent home immediately. …you know I really don't get it Peter; this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Why are you trying to mess it up for everyone?”
Harrington looked furious and Peter couldn't lie, he was a little shocked. He had never seen the man before him lose his cool like that. Peter sighed; he did that a lot lately. He swore these people were going to give him gray hairs at the ripe age of 18.
“Mr. Harrington it would be almost impossible for me to forge that signature, Tony made it so squiggly.”
The teacher looked at him like he was a ghost and almost yelled “T-that's Mr. Stark to you!”
Jeez no need to take it so personally he thought before adjusting his backpack and nodding. There was no point in trying to get out of this so he might as well suck it up, ”I'm sorry sir, I'll stay with you during the trip”
Before the teacher could respond Peter turned on his heel and walked out leaving Harrington staring at the papers he left behind.
He met up with his two friends and they made their way to the car while he briefed them on what just happened. “So, Ya’ know, I obviously forged his signature. I really should be in prison or something at this point if they really believe it all.”
Mj snorted “they're too scared of the backlash, they would never recover if they tried to do something to you, just to find out you did in fact know Tony Stark.” “Mj’s right the school would collapse so fast, bye, bye Aca Dec.” Peter smiled of course the only thing Ned would miss is the Aca Dec team. They said their goodbyes and Peter was back with Happy, a lot… happier this time.
The ride home wasn't anything special, Peter rambled about Star Wars, Happy shut the divider in his face, it was an average Thursday. Once he was home, he all but ran to the elevator, Friday opened the doors to let him in before speaking “Hello, mini boss. Would you like for me to take you to Tony?”
”No thanks Fri, i need to go to the 92nd floor”
On the way to his lab he started brainstorming ideas for his suit, he had an idea to try and make his webs luminescent. That way he could see a little better and wouldn't have to rely solely on his Spidey-senses. He eventually reached his lab and got to work immediately. He sat down at a silver table in front of a testing area so once he got a web sample, he could try it out right then and there. Luciferin wasn't exactly the easiest thing to add to his web fluid so he started trying out anything he could, a few hours passed without him even realizing it.
Harley had made his way down to the lab to fetch Peter for dinner, and found him so emerged in his work that he didn't hear the older boy come in. Harley loved when this happened, not only did he get to stare at his beautiful brainy boyfriend, but he also got to scare the living daylights out of him! Harley slowly made his way behind Peter and attacked his sides with tickles.
Peter quite literally jumped to the ceiling, ready to fight before realizing it was just his mean ass boyfriend. What was the point in having Spidey-senses if they don't work with the one person that tries to scare you the most? He shot a glare at the other boy as he jumped down, Harley had tears streaming down his face from laughing so hard.
The moment Peter was on the ground again Harley pulled him into a hug, ”Aw darlin’ don't be like that. I love youuu” he drawled.
Peter didn't even know why he bothered to pretend to be mad sometimes, he knew the moment Harley said anything to him his whole facade would crumble, the worst part about it though was that Harley knew it too. "Yeah, yeah, I love you too” he mumbled, burying his face in the other boy's neck. They eventually calmed down and Harley dragged Peter to dinner while the younger boy rambled about what he had been working on.
Dinner was just Harley and Peter today as most of the avengers had a mission to attend to, so they opted for take-out. Who didn't want Chinese food when they had to mentally prepare for the biggest shit show of their life? When their food arrived, they snuggled up on the living room couch and turned on The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey (because this will be an (un)expected journey) .
Peter felt so at peace he could almost forget about tomorrow, almost. However, after Harley whispered a few sweet nothings to the boy, he was out like a light. Harley finished the movie before untangling himself from Peter and began cleaning up. Once he was done, he carefully picked up the sleeping boy bridal style and carried him to his room.
Peter looked so peaceful; Harley almost felt bad that he had to wake him up. He sat Peter down on the bed and gently shook his shoulder, speaking as softly as he could. “Darlin’, you gotta wake up. You gotta take off your binder and get ready for bed.”
Peter whined and rolled away from Harley. The blond could help but chuckle as he nudged him some more, ”Cmon love, I'll be in here to cuddle as soon as you change and you can go right back to sleep”
Before Peter could protest, he was being pulled up by his arms into a sitting position. Peter looked up at Harley with the biggest puppy eyes he could muster, but Harley just turned his back to him. “You can't get out of everything with puppy eyes darlin”
Peter sat there pouting for a few minutes before admitting defeat and getting up to change. He grabbed one of Harley's hoodies and a pair of boxers as he walked into the bathroom. He stood in front of the bathroom sink, pointedly avoiding looking in the mirror while changing before he went through his nighttime routine.
While he got cleaned up, Harley straightened out the bed and climbed in, laying down on his side facing away from the bathroom. He hadn't realized it, but he was exhausted as well. Peter made his way to the other side of the bed and snuggled into his chest; Harley wrapped his arm around Peter's waist pulling him even closer as if he was afraid Peter would disappear. As they got comfortable Harley mumbled “night beautiful” and kissed Peter's forehead. He could feel the boy smile into his chest as he fell asleep.
Peter would go through tomorrow a million times if it meant he got to sleep in Harley's arms every night.