welcome to the human race
Type 1 diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Insulin is a hormone needed to allow sugar to enter cells to produce energy. That's what peter has and it is shit Did you know diabetics make 180 more health decisions than the average person? I know right how suckish does that sound! So when peter is home he eats dinner, does his homework and goes to bed like any other normal teenager would do. What he doesn't do is charge his damn phone, yeah......welcome to peters life.
"peter?" says steve with a hand full of two juice boxes and a tub of penut butter. Steve is peters dad by the way . He and his husband the famous Tony stark both adopted young peter at the mere age of 5 after his parents had died that previous year in a car crash , now 8 years later and they're as happy as ever, well almost. "peter" steve repeats now shaking the young boy awake "come on pete we got to check your blood sugar" he says making peter wake up confused "hm?" he says confused
"dex says you're low wheres your phone?" he asks as peter's eyes go wide "what?" steve asks looking around "i forgot to charge it " he says in a mumbled and croaky voice "oh no pops i'm so sorry" he says apologetically sitting up more
"hey hey kiddo it's fine we can deal with that later at the moment we just need to focus on getting your blood sugar up, wheres your bag?" he asks getting up and peter points to his bag in the corner as steve gets up to go search for his diabetes bag. Steve then opens it and pulls out his meter, test strips and some swabs and pricks his finger. They wait a couple of seconds until it beeps and reads the number '42' "christ" says steve opening the juice box
"i'm okay?" peter mummers out his hands shaking slightly
"yeah love you're just really low, drink" he says pressing the straw against the brunette lips and peter drinks it quickly and they both sit in silence both wishing they could be asleep. As he's finishing the first juice Steve starts to open another box ready and hands it to his son, normally peter would be doing this by himself as he has his own low snacks in his room it's just because he forgot to charge his phone that he's gone so low and needs some help. His pops then set a timer for ten minutes and they waited, steve occasionally tapping peter on the shoulder when his eyes started with to shut.The alarm goes off and they prick his finger again "well?" peter asks his hands shaking vigorously now "36 and still dropping, pete i think we're going to have to gluc love" and peter moans " 'm gnn go high" he slurs
"i know petey but we just want to get you up okay" and peter nods slowly as steve loads up the needle and rolls up peters steve, and he injects his son. "Right i'll set a timer for two hours and we'll check in okay ?" steve says patting peters knee heading to bed "night pops" peter says
"night kiddo"
"come on pete" steve said turning on the light and running a hand through peters curls "up you get you need to drink this" he said opening a water bottle "what?" he said rubbing his eyes
"dex says you're 350 cab we check?" he asks meter ready in hand and peters hand goes to his head in pain "yeah sure whatever" he murmurs holding out his hand and letting his father prick him , there's an odd silence and then another beeping "400 keep drinking" he orders and peter rolls his eyes, he was so thirsty so he gulps it all up quickly and then gets up to go to the bathroom. He comes back and his dads now got an insulin needle ready in hand , peter puts his hands to his face and cry's on the inside. He really fucking hated this disease. He sits down, lets him inject the insulin and waits. "300 and going down go to sleep kiddo and turn your phone on please for gods sake, we will tell your Dad in the morning okay?" steve asks his sleepy son
"okay night dad" peter says laying down too tired to actually comprehend what his pops had said "good night"
"Master peter I must report that if you are any later then you will he late for school" FRIDAY reported as peter rolled over on his back, he looked at the ceiling contemplating life "i could just skip?" he says out loud
"i wouldn't advice that master peter" and peter pouts "fine fine fine you bitch" he said drawing back the covers and shoving on a baggy t-shirt and jeans
" The time is seven thirty and this is your daily remi-"
"Reminder to check my blood sugar levels and take my morning insulin , I know !" Mocked peter, tired of the same phrase that's been drilled into his brain. He goes over to his desk where his now charged phone is and opens up his dex com app"120" he exhaled.Relief . He looks at the time and sees there's enough time for breakfast, so he inputs the amount of carbs in his breakfast and pre bolused , he also makes sure to pour himself a large cup of coffee and slumped next to his Pops steve and put his head on the cool counter. "morning pete" steve says in a tired manner "how you feeling?"
He lifted up his head to show his pops his tired face and slurs "I'm fine" he says and keeps his head down until his phone alarms him that he can eat and he quickly scoffs it down and checks his watch 8:05 "fuck!"
"Language!" Came his pops
He went to the fridge grabbed some water and his diabetes bag. He goes down the steps to his fathers work shop, enters the passcode and shouts "Bye dad" to his father with his head shoved in a taken apart car.Tony looks up at his son, smiles and says " bye Pete have good day , love you"
"Yeah love you too !"peter says and then exits the lab
AT SCHOOL
Peter was putting all of his unnecessary things in his locker, still waiting for his coffee to kick in. His friend Ned creeps up behind before tapping him on the shoulder, Peter turns around grins and says "hi Ned" but Ned was too excited to say anything else and said "pete you've got to come over! My mum ordered a new lego set you've got to come over!!" Ned said filled with excitement "oh yeah that sounds cool" making Ned smile and then says "Do you want to ask MJ if she wants to join? " Ned asked smugly as Peter looks over to his girlfriend , she was his first ever girlfriend so he never really know what to do and what to and also how to feel around her, sometimes he just felt he wasn't himself around her.He then makes sure some of his emergency snacks were securely placed in his locker before continuing to make conversation with his friend. "You alright Pete, you look tired" said Ned , not maki g it sound rude."Mhm? Oh yeah it's just my bloody sugar was keeping me entertained throughout the night" he says light heartedly "awe that sounds shit man, you better now?" Peter nods , Ned continues talking about something but someone catches peters eye. It was this older boy who was quite muscular and tall with straight black hair and glasses . He didn't know why but he kind of got sort of-"Peter, PETER ! You're not too low are you-" he asks gesturing to go to peters phone which for emergencies he knows the passcode to. Only Ned, MJ and his parents knew his passcode , reassuringly Peter says "No I'm fine Ned"
Ned and Peter found their normal seat while MJ queued up . "So how was computer science ?" Peter asked Ned whilst getting out his diabetes bag "yeah it was ok , mr banks was so boring! How was Chemistry ?"
"Meh" he said whilst counting up his carbs before inputting it into his phone, the only reason he used a needle last night was because for him it works faster.
"What's up dorks" MJ said whilst sitting next to Peter pecking him on the cheek , she then looks over to Ned and says "cant wait for your dorky sleepover later Nerd" she says tucking into her canteen sandwich, Peter looks longingly at how she was able to eat without any consideration to how it may effect her body, damn his bloody pancreas. It's only a few seconds later until Peter fully registers what his girlfriend had said."Wait a sleepover ?" Peter asked curious to why no one had thought to mention it
"Oh yeah I forgot tot tell you! But yes we're having a sleepover, you might want to ask your dads" Ned explained lightly
"MAYBE? God they'll never let me go especially after my stupid blood sugar accident yesterday , and you know what they're like about me sleeping over" and MJ snorts, knowing how protective they were over their little boy "hold on what blood sugar accident?" MJ asks
"oh i just forgot to charge my phone so i went low then really high" he said taking a bite from his sandwich
"peter!" Ned shouts
"what!"
"you have to be careful"
"i know that idiot i've had this disease long enough"
"yeah how long have you had diabetes for loser ?" MJ asks and peter thinks "eeer 11 years?"
"sheesh parker