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It had been around thirty minutes since Tony had left when Banner went to check on Peter. 

As Banner entered the room the first thing he saw was the blood on the blankets and an unconscious Peter below them. He rushed over and pulled off the blanket trying to identify where the blood was coming from and in doing so waking Peter. 

Peter was alarmed when he was woken by a near frantic Banner ripping the blankets off. It only took him a few moments to realize what he was looking for as he felt the sting in his arm from where he tore his stitches.

“How did this happen Peter?” Banner asked in a rushed tone while applying pressure to the now gaping wound.

“I-I don't know.” Peter lied in response not wanting to upset him more.

“We are going to have to restitch this.” He said before calling for a nurse to bring the necessary supplies to stitch him up.

The nurse arrived less than minutes later.

They sat in silence while Banner prepped to stitch him up. Peter was hoping that he wouldn’t question him any further about how his sutures ripped.

“Okay Peter, this is going to hurt, just take a deep breath.” Banner said before pulling out the remaining stitches and starting to replace them. 

Peter winced at the pain shooting through his body but in a way he enjoyed it, he liked the pain because he thought he deserved it. 

“Halfway there.” Banner said, trying to soothe him.

“You know you really don't deserve him helping you. He already did it once but you had to go and mess it up didn't you?” The voice teased as Peter tried to ignore his thoughts.

Peter was thinking about the events of the day and everything that had happened with Tony and how Tony blamed Bucky even though he was the one who went ahead. He wanted to apologize but he didn't think they would care, but he wanted to try and at least thank Bucky for not telling Tony what really happened. 

“ Dr. Banner do you think you could maybe see if Mr.Bucky could come down after you finish with that? And um how long do you think I’m going to have to stay in here?” Peter asked cautiously. 

Banner was surprised he was asking for Bucky instead of Tony but thought maybe he just wanted to make sure he was okay as well.

“Of course no problem I’ll have him come down as soon as I’m done and as for how long you need to stay down here probably another night and we will see how things are in the morning.” Banner replied not wanting to give an answer until he talked to Tony about what they were going to do about the cutting problem.

“Okay.” Peter replied thinking about what he was going to say to Bucky. 

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Banner had finished up and left Peter alone while he went to go find Bucky.

“You going to screw this up too? He probably hates you, you know that right? He blames you for Tony being so angry with him. But you knew that, that's why you feel guilty isn’t it ?” The voice tormented. 

Peter was sick of it and just wanted it to stop but he knew the only silence from it he couldn't get. He knew that if he were to cut himself that he’d have to stay longer or maybe even be sent off somewhere else. And as much as he couldn't stand the ridicule he was more afraid of getting himself in more trouble. But before Peter could continue his thoughts there was a knock at the door followed by Bucky coming into the room. 

“Banner said you wanted to see me?” He said standing at the foot of the bed. 

“Yeah, I just-I wanted to say thank you for not telling Tony that I was the one who went ahead.” Peter said, anxious for his response. 

“No worries kid, and if you ever want to talk about that” nodding at his bandaged wrist “I’m here to talk to. I can understand what it's like for the only stop from the pain is to cause it.” He replied calmly.

“You don't think he's serious right?”

“Thank you Mr. Bucky I appreciate it but really I'm fine.” Peter said, reassuring him.

“Just Bucky. And you're not but when you're ready for help you can come talk to me.” Bucky said before walking out of the room.

Peter sat there thinking about what he said and with the conversion still in his mind he drifted off to sleep.

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I was early the next morning when Tony had come back while Peter was still asleep and just stared at him sleeping trying to make sense of how he didn't notice sooner. He couldn't get the image of Peter yelling at him, tears in his eyes, voice shaking, he looked so scared and he just left him. Tony kept debating whether or not he made the right decision by leaving he would never know for sure but god did he hope he did.

“You know kid I really want to help you but I can't do that if you don't let me. I just wish you knew how much you mean to me, to everyone really. Even Happy is worried about you, he won't say it but he cares about you. We all do and we all just want to help so let us.” Tony said talking to a sleeping Peter to just try and voice his thoughts even if he wasn’t awake to listen.