Prologue
The first time Tony Stark had met Peter Parker, it was a split-second interaction.
The man had, embarrassingly, tripped over on the sidewalk whilst walking back from his favourite coffee shop in Queens. The way things were looking for him that day, it was just his luck that he had fallen into oncoming traffic and was probably going to die without having even taken a sip of his God Given coffee.
Or at least, that’s what Tony had thought.
But instead of dying in the most anticlimactic way a superhero can, a hand reached out and pulled Tony back onto the sidewalk. Before he could even hit the ground, might he add.
And when the billionaire turned around the thank the man who had saved him, imagine his surprise to find out that his saviour was a clumsy looking teenage boy that fluffy brown curls and the most ridiculously innocent doe eyes he had ever seen. Babies could never.
A still full cup of steaming hot coffee was placed in Tony’s hands, and quick goodbye was mumbled by the boy, and just like that, he was gone.
It was like him saving someone from certain death was an everyday occurrence for the boy who hadn’t even spared Tony a second glance before running off. And it wasn’t like Tony could even find out more about the boy because he didn’t even know his name.
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The second time Tony Stark met Peter was much less dramatic.
Tony had recently started a new intern program that branched out to discover the next generation of genius’. He had sent out an application test to all the best schools in New York that specialised in all the specific departments that held internships within Stark Industries. Each test was designed by the head of the department they are specialised for, and would be looked over by this person as well.
Tony was, to nobody’s surprise, the creator of the Research & Development test, and so imagine his surprise when one specific test for an Internship within the R&D department came back to him 100% correct.
He had been stunned at the time, his brain struggling to comprehend how this ‘Peter Parker’ – a 17 year old teenage boy! – managed to get all the answers right on a test he had designed himself. Tony had even added extra questions for the equations that he himself had yet to figure out!
He had to have this kid.