The waiting game
When Friday woke Peter up on Tuesday morning he squeezed his eyes shut
“Please let it be a nightmare it can’t be real”
With that thought process he slowly edged his way through his morning routine his mind still half asleep he let his body go on autopilot making his way to the kitchen and making out the voice of Tony and Pepper As they messed about making breakfast
He walked into the kitchen giving Pepper a side hug and a grumbled morning as she stirred some scrambled eggs he turned away and started pouring himself some much-needed caffeine as his mind started to catch up he noted that everyone had turned silent ‘Huh weird’ he idly thought to raise his mug slowly and taking a deep sniff and sip
he turned around looking up from his coffee his breath caught right there in front of him was the most gorgeous man he had ever seen who was giving him the most precious smile it was an extreme effort not drop his coffee let alone dropping to the floor as his legs tried to give out from underneath him.
Peter could feel his face turn bright red as he dropped his eyes down and cleared his throat mentally preparing himself to speak.
“Um, Mr Stark?” Peter turned to look at him only to find the worst type of glimmer in the man’s eyes with a matching smile that told Peter he was struggling to hold back his laughter
Rubbing the back of his neck he looked back to Mr Supermodel with his dusty blonde hair and ugh where did this man come from “Umm who is…”
“Oh right, my name is Harley. Harley Keener pleased to meet you sunshine”
Shit double shit his VOICE! He Had the most southern accent that made his legs turn to jello
“Um Peter”……….. “Parker” he added as an afterthought god how can anyone think straight with Harley around its impossible and that's saying something as he fights supervillains on a daily.
Peter was almost gagged when Harley let out the most beautiful laugh but instead, he swallowed and looked at Mr stark for anything to save him but he was left utterly betrayed as the man did nothing but smile.
Turning away from the traitor and towards his saving grace ‘Pepper “ motherfucking” Potts’ who was smiling too but had the decency to help him out “ Harley here helped Tony a while back when he crashed landed in his backyard”
Peter numbly nodded his traitorous eyes flickered over to Harley who was already looking at him with a wide smile. Peter blushed.
“And Tony stayed in touch with the kid and offered him an internship”
WHAT but but Peter was Mr Stark's intern was he being fired?
Tony straightened his back and hastily added “No I’m not firing you, Peter”
Oh thank god
“It’s just a legal person recently told me internships only last for a couple of months so he asked whether I was hiring you or letting you go. I obviously chose to hire you so I made some fancy smancy job title wham bam you're hired congratulations Mr Director of Stark Industries fill-in thingy” Peter decided Tony was crazy one word for it nothing else.
…
“Huh wait what I’m the what now?” Mr Stark barked out a laugh, Pepper tried to hide her laugh but Peter caught it “You broke him” Harley breathed out between his own laughter
“Peter” his head snapped back to Pepper who was smiling at him and gently informed him on what the hell Mr Stark was on about
“ basically Tony gave you a job that didn't exist. Which is an understudy in a way, your job will be almost the same except when Tony and I are both out of the tower you will get a message from Friday saying how long we will be and if you need to step in as acting CEO for us friday will also give you a list of any meetings and such that need to be done while we're out.”
Holy shitballs was this happening Peter tried to form at least one coherent sentence but all he managed was to open and close his mouth like a gaping fish which only prompted more laughter from Tony
“ok” was all Peter could do to reply to such a life-changing job opportunity
Fingers crossed he wouldn't fuck up.
☙☙☙Time skipppppp❧❧❧ (:
Peter could only hope the week went by fast and the field trip even faster but he knows hoping is a fool's game.
Flash had been even more annoying than normal ( he had thought that was impossible) Mr Harrington started making snide comments during his lessons he even went so far as to spend an entire learning period lecturing the class on lying for popularity so as the week trudged by with only a few bruises from flash that healed within the hour.
Peter's only escape was after school when he could meet up with Harley and tour him around the city. After a rough week at school and a good home life, Peter was finally heading home Thursday afternoon.
After having struggled for the past five minutes with his too-small bag that was ripping at the seams Peter Slammed the locker closed.
Peter let out a sigh of relief before turning and walking straight into Flash who had a greedy look on his face, smug even “Hey! Penis Parker”
“What, Eugene?”
Peter always said this as it always angered Flash plus it was fun to see the smug grin wipe from his face eerily fast
“Are you excited for tomorrow? I mean it's not every day you get to meet your ‘best friend’ Tony Stark, right?”
“Leave Peter alone Flash, your dad doesn't want to deal with you so why would Peter?” MJ responded snarkily from beside Peter.
“Ugh whatever, penis parker's lies are all going to get revealed tomorrow. Then we’ll all see what a pathetic lying piece of trash you are”
Mj bristled next to him “And what exactly do you think will reveal Peter's supposed ‘lies’? Do you think Tony Stark will come down to reveal a 16-year-old boy ‘lying’ about his very real internship all because Eugene Thompson says so?”
“Well.. Uhh… I mean” Flash stammered out ( Peter couldn't blame him MJ was terrifying)
“No, he won’t, that would be a waste of time because Peter has already given the school his internship papers. So mind your business Eugene.” With that Mj brushed past Flash with confidence Peter would never understand.
“You coming loser?” MJ asks without turning back and Peter stumbles forward and makes a break for when they get to the school's front doors.
Peter’s only hope for the field trip was that the rest of the avengers would not hear about it till after his torture was finished
But shouldn't Peter know better than that hope was a fools game and combined with his “Parker luck™” he never stood a chance.