Chapter one
“Whee!” Peter yelled. He closed his eyes growling In frustration. “A bit vocal today are we?” May asked looking at peter from across the table. Peter shrugged. “I dunno it’s not usually like this” he mumbled.
See Peter had Tourette’s. It wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t good either. Ever since he was a tiny child he always made little sounds or had weird little facial tics that his parents had written off as just being a kid. But after they had died and he moved in with Ben and May they got worse to the point where he couldn’t go to school.
May of course knew what it was putting the money and effort in of getting peter diagnosed and medicated along with therapy and other things to support him.
It made Peter feel guilty. He wasn’t even mays actually son and yet he was taking money and time away from her because of this stupid thing he had since he was born.
May didn’t mind helping peter in fact she loved it and wanted to help him. After his parents passed away he was extremely upset making his tics worse. There had been about a month when he was in a terrible mood swearing and having tantrums around may refusing to do anything he was asked to do.
May had lugged him to a doctor and he was diagnosed with multiple things like ADHD and ODD the doctor had sent him off with medication and ways Peter could get support at school. May thought it was the end. I mean yeah she noticed the way his face would scrunch up or he would yell at random times. But it wasn’t too bad and could easily be written off as anxiety or a kid with lots of energy.
It wasn’t until the spider bite that may started to take more notice. When Peter had gotten bitten the whole ordeal had already been horrific. He had been violently sick for three days unable to get out of bed or stomach food or water. He had refused to go to the hospital and may started to get frantic. She remembers being up late at night chewing on her nails a panicky feeling in her chest.
Then a sudden thump came from peters room. She had rushed towards it swinging the door open and stopping in a horrified shock. Peter was on the floor shaking and convulsing screaming and yelling twitching and throwing his arms up shaking crawling yelling. May stopped.
“May” he had whined breaking her from the dazzed trance she was in. She rushed forward laying him on his side checking for anything in his throat calling 911 while trying to comfort her shaking nephew.
It had been a tic attack. He was in the hospital with a locked up hand for about a week. That’s when may had realised all the little screams and scrunches where actually a much bigger thing.
When he’s finally gotten out of hospital may kept him out of school for a month his tics were the worst they would probably ever get. Thankfully though he had gotten the correct support and medication he needed. And while it didn’t “cure” him it made it more manageable. And he was able to go back to school.
Peter didn’t tell his friends at first thinking they would think he was weird but when Ned finally found out along with peters spider man powers he had thought it was cool. “I mean it sounds horrid but like man your spider powers are so cool it’s
fascinating how it made it worse” he had said.
Peter had only told a couple people. May, MJ, and a few of his teachers new and that was about it. He wanted to keep it this way. People thought Tourette’s was rude or fake or attention seeking. He didn’t want or need that backlash from people so he kept it quiet.
And when tony stark and found him he shed thankfully been able to keep it in and keep it together. The man hadn’t found out. And peter wanted to keep it this way. The new suit though could detect his Tourette's and peter had gotten Ned to help him take it out.
“Come on man I don’t need someone babysitting me!” He said to Ned when he had hesitated. Ned had sighed only doing it since he knew how Peter wouldn’t stop insisting on it.
And after home coming and his suit had been taken away and then he’d gotten trapped under the warehouse he decided maybe to take a break for awhile. It had been roughly a month after peter had only used the suit once every two weeks. When may had found out she wasn’t angry in fact she already knew.
“You’re not as good as hiding things as you think you are spider boy” she had said. And that was all they said after that. Anyway roughly a month after tony had contacted him telling him that he wanted to work in the lab with Peter on his suit and maybe hang out.
Peter had been wary at first but tony had grown on him. So he did go. It as fun at first. Nerve wracking yeah but tony had made sure he wasn’t being too rude or full of himself.
But it was only a matter of time before Peter broke and tony would find him weird taking the suit away. And Peter dreaded the thought of it happening. He didn’t want it to happen so he hid his tics.
That probably wasn’t the best thing to do.