Chapter 5
Everyone was sitting peacefully in the living room waiting for the guest. But suddenly Security Alarm started ringing, "Armed Intruders are detected, Peter." Karen says. Just as they heard this Ben stands up and takes his licensed gun from the secret drawer in the living room showcase. Peter stands up and scans his palm on what looks like a plain wall but there is a secret weapon room behind it which was full of weapons he made or he and ned made. Peter takes 2 laser guns and gives them to May and MJ while he and ned take beam guns.
They are all ready to fight then he asks Karen, "Show us the live footage, Karen." he commands. Karen shows him live footage of avengers fighting off drones and defense systems. They are struggling to keep up with numbers as they are all separated and are in different areas. Shit that is what I was forgetting. He thinks. "Why would avengers intrude our house," Peter says out loudly unconsciously. "I think you should see this, Peter." Karen's voice comes as she is playing footage from the 7:55 pm in front of there house. They see the avengers and other's discussions and laughs. MJ goes to open the door and invites Pepper and Happy in. Pepper at first looks confused as to what is going on but when she sees the screen she burst out laughing.
"They deserve that. We were here for dinner, not to test your defense. Serves them right." Pepper says. "Good decision, by the way, Miss Potts," MJ says. Pepper only smirks and tells her to call her Pepper. May asks Pepper and Happy to sit down on the couch as the all put their weapons down. "Should I stop it or you all want to enjoy the show more?" Karen asks with a smug tone. Everyone one more time let out a laugh but then Peter tells her to stop and lead the others here.
When the other guys are in the living room, their dinner clothes are now disheveled and they all look really embarrassed. They look at the weapon room and then Tony says annoyed, "You even have a secret Weapon room? Was that not enough?" Pepper, MJ, Ned, and Peter looks at each other and again burst out laughing. Happy looks like he can start laughing at any moment but is holding back because of his boss. "Enough guys, Is anyone of you hurt?" May asks them to which they all say no. "No, it wasn't and I forgot to upload you guys' data in my security system, that is why it got activated. If I had done that it would not have gone off even when you get in with weapons. My security systems have levels. It was this intense because there were weapons, enhanced humans, and more than 3 intruders plus you broke into my house. That is not the top-level security trigger though." Peter explains.
"What the hell man? Then which is the top-level?" asks Pietro. " I made it when I first encountered shied agents but over the years I upgraded it. The top-level now is when all the intruders are enhanced and armed. But my security system is not made to kill the intruders, it is made to capture them. It will not hurt them unless necessary, it will tire them out and then will get them unconscious. I have made many strong knock out drugs." Peter says.
"I must say I'm impressed with your system. It activated really fast. The minute we got was just a trap so we let our guard down thinking there is no security." Nick Fury says with a nod of approval. Peter only smirks as he asks, "Why are you guys carrying weapons when all you're doing is going for dinner? You know what I know. What can I expect from spies, director and commander of shield and other avengers?" They all only smirks and then sighs. "You tired us out Pete and even our clothes are disheveled now. And I'm really hungry." Tony says with a pout. Everyone laughs at his childish pout. "I did not ask you to become a mischievous child and break into my house," Peter says while ruffling his hair and Tony huffs. Everyone looks at their interaction and give each other look including May and Ben. They realize that they are even having matching colors in the outfit. They all smile at them and know that they are defiantly going to end up together. Tony and Peter look at them and ask at the same time "What?" They all laugh and say nothing.
May, Ben, Ned, and MJ introduce themselves to others properly. And they all go to the dining table. Peter, MJ, and May are getting things from the kitchen. Tony and Pepper decides to help them. This is when Peter notices Tony's tie and sees that it's the same color as his shirt and smiles to himself.
Peter and Tony are talking with each other while they are getting the dishes divided into the bowls which Pepper and MJ are taking to the dining area while May is taking dishes. Peter sees that MJ is giving strange looks to Pepper like wain does MJ have a crush on Pepper Potts? Woah! Just when he was about to tell Tony about his discovery, Tony says first, "Why does Pepper looks like she is having the time of her life with that MJ girl? Is she having a crush?" Tony gets excited at the last question. "Wait! I was going to say the same. Why does MJ looks like she is having a crush on Pepper?" Peter says and the realization hits them both as they both look at each other and Peter says, "It looks like we're going to have a new couple in the group in the near future."
"It doesn't just have to be them only. We can be one too." Tony unconsciously mutters out loudly but not loudly enough to anyone to hear. But Peter has enhanced hearing so he heard it and his eyes go wide and Tony's too as he realized what he just did. Before Tony can deny anything Peter speaks up first, "I heard that, and don't you dare deny that. We are going to discuss it later after dinner." Peter smiles at the end of the sentence and then kisses Tony's cheek before taking out the last bowls. He puts them down on the table and sees Tony leave the kitchen flustrated. They both take the last seats available which are beside each other. All throughout the dinner, they both were giving each other glances. Everyone eats dinner while talking about different things. It is a lively atmosphere. Ben talks about his business and all type of stuff while May is talking about her volunteering works and her domestic life and the guys are listening without any sign of annoyance. In fact, they are also talking about some silly stuff too. Peter is glad to see that everyone is getting along well.
After dinner, they all settle down in the living room again. "I loved the food. You were not kidding when you said that you and your aunt are good cooks. You guys are great." Scott says. "Yess! I loved the sweet dish in the last. What do you mortal call it?" Thor asks. " It's called Pie brother." Loki answers. "It was all made by Peter. I was out at old age home today when he got home so he made it all alone." May says proudly. Peter feels blood rush to his cheeks as everyone looks at him. "God! Peter. That was amazing. Looks like we will get to eat some good food once in a while. Now that we have him on the team. You are an angel sent from God to feed us good food." Clint and Pietro say sentences one by one in sync and everyone laughs.
They all talk about things for a while but when it was 10 pm Fury and Hill says that they'll have to go. Ned also says that he has early morning classes so he'll have to go too. "What about you guys? why don't you all just stay over? we have enough place for all of you." May asks others and Tony says in a lighting speed, "Yess" and Pepper hits him on the shoulder, "If you don't mind. We'll can use a day off tomorrow." she says. Everyone agrees. MJ says that she doesn't have any classes till late afternoon so she can stay too. But Happy says that he'll drive Nick and Maria to the compound and he has some work to do tomorrow so he can't stay too. Stephen had to go to the sanctum too. After that, Ned, Fury, Maria, Happy and Stephen left.
Peter takes those who were there to give a little tour of his lab. Peter shows them that and says that be careful of things. Bruce is looking at everything excitedly while others are examining the place curiously. Before Tony can take off to explore the lab Peter takes his hand and pulled him out of there and took him to his room while asking Karen to supervise, "Hey, I wanted to see the lab!" Tony complains. "Isn't it enough that Lab owner is standing in front of you? You can see the lab anytime you want. You can see it in the morning." Peter says starting with teasing but his sentence ends genuinely. Tony just nods at him.
"Now, what did you say in the kitchen?" Peter asks with a smirk as he looks down on Tony as he is a head taller than him. Tony gulps and answers, "Wh- what did I say? No- nothing."
"Ok let's go back," Peter says seriously and starts to turn but he is holding his smile and laugh inside as he sees Tony get troubled. "Wait! I said that we could be a couple too." Tony says as he holds Peters left upper arm to keep him from going further. Peter burst out laughing and Tony acts like he is annoyed but is smiling a little. "I was not going away. It was just acting." Peter says but now Tony really looks annoyed and he starts walking towards the door but Peter pulls Tony to himself and wraps his arm around him tightly from behind, "Ok. I'm sorry baby. I went too far with teasing." Peter says and when he feels Tony relax, he turns him around to face him. "So how did you start imagining us as a couple?" Peter asks Tony with a smile, his arms still around him.
"I was impressed by you after the ferry incident. We spent the whole day trying to find out who spider-man was? I saw many of your videos and saw your powers and I was getting more impressed. But I still couldn't find out who you were. It was like a challenge to find you. That night, you saved my plane and I was thankful for that. The next day, means earlier today, Fury showed us your video and I was shocked to see your strength and thought that surprises keep coming with you. But then you, yourself showed up there and then things you did blew my mind away. But when you removed your mask, I was like speechless and all I could do was to stare at you and your beautiful eyes. Then I got to know many things about you and within those few hours, I was totally head over the hills for you. Today, at the end of our talk, I had already accepted my feelings and decided that I'll try to court you. That is why I dressed up too today but then you know what happened. I was really happy when I saw that my tie is matching with your shirt and you looked so handsome. You still look. But then I accidentally said that out loud in the kitchen." Tony answers but his voice got a little low at the last sentence.
Peter was shocked at the confession but he instantly got his composure and starts smiling as he says, "I'm glad you did. If not we might have wasted so much of our time in just realizing that we like each other." before he can continue Tony interrupts him by looking up to meet his eye and asking, "Wait, You like me too?"
"Yes, Tony. I like you too. I have had a crush on you for years but when I today met you. I was sure that it wasn't just a crush. It was more than that. When told me stuff about you and when I heard you laughing, I really liked it. I wanted to keep the smile on your face forever. I liked just everything about you. I liked it when you complimented me and talked to me. I knew that I liked you very very much so I also decided that I'll pursue you. Looks like you beat me to it. I think I can even say that I love you Tony Stark." Peter says genuinely as he pulls Tony even closer and kisses his forehead. Then looks down to look into Tony's eyes which are watered.
"I love you too Pete. Oh god! I can't believe it. I hope I'm not dreaming." Tony says. Peter takes his hand and kissed the back of it then put it back. He cups both of Tony's cheeks with his large hands and pulls him close while he himself leans closer. He kisses him on the lips. It was slow and full of love. The kiss lasted a minute or two but it felt like hours. Peter loved every second of it. "It is not a dream Baby," Peter tells Tony while pulling back. Tony opens his eyes and smiles at him. They stand like that for a few minutes looking into each other's eyes and smiling.
"Now what? What are we?" Tony asks still smiling foolishly. "Ok! now what? what do you want us to be?" Peter asks teasingly. "Can I be yours? Can we be lovers aka boyfriends? I love you very much. I didn't realize that this much till now." Tony says. Peter laughs happily. "Of course, you're mine now. I ain't letting you go anytime soon, you're stuck with me. I'm yours too. You, Tony Sark, is my boyfriend." Peter tells Tony as if claiming his possession but there was a smile on his face. "I like the sound of that and that was hot!" Tony says as he peaks Peter's lips.
"We should go back now before they start looking for us," Peter says and Tony agrees. They go back to his Lab. "Where were you guys?" Nat asks but there is a knowing look on her face. "I was showing Tony something," Peter says confidently. "What? What? I wanna see it too." Bruce interjects. Peter was silent for a moment before Pepper comes to his rescue, "Why don't we all go back to the living room? We can watch some movies there. Your couches are comfy by the way, Peter." she says. Peter thanks her and they all go to watch a movie in the living room.
The rest of the time was spent watching movies. In the middle of the movie mostly everyone went to the shared guest rooms to sleep. The last one to go was Bruce and Thor.
Now, Peter and Tony are alone in the living room. They are still not sleepy so they decide to watch another movie. They decided to watch Frozen first part while snuggling up to each other. Somewhere in between watching the movie and sweet kisses they ended up with Tony on the top of Peter who was laying on the couch. Peter wraps his arms protectively around him and Tony rested his head on Pete's chest. They don't know when they fall asleep like that. Karen turns off the TV and dims the light while silently getting the curtains down so they don't get disturbed by the morning sun rays which will come in after a few hours.