The Interning Spiderling
Lunch was soon over and they scattered to the rest of their classes for the day. All they did the entire lunchtime was argue about whether water is wet or not, and eatting the shitty lunch food from the cafeteria. He cherished these conversations, even if they were insanely ridiculous. Jungkook daydreamed or did other work for his other classes as the rest of his classes finished up.
As the school day ended, Jungkook quickly rushed out of school to meet Happy who was picking him up. He was now headed over to the Avengers facility for his internship. It was a real paid internship and no longer just an excuse for his Spidey adventures. Sure Mr. Stark had to pull a lot of strings to make it happen, but he would do anything for his little spiderling. Jungkook and Tony had become a lot closer now, especially after the whole Vulture fiasco and the building collapsing on top of him.
Technically his official internship would only be on Wednesdays and Fridays. Jungkook was Tony’s personal lab assistant and official intern there. He had met the other interns and thought they were cool and nice. He would hang out with them sometimes when he was not busy fixing his spider suit or in the lab with Mr. Stark.
However, he would mostly hang out with this one intern that he was extremely fond of, Peter Parker. Peter Parker was Pepper Potts' personal assistant and head of the intern department there. Peter was the first person there to approach him and show him the ropes of being an intern. Since he started there, Jungkook and Peter had been able to work together on some of Mr. Stark’s tech. He found their friendship kind of funny, because Peter also lives in Queens, has an aunt named May, and actually goes to Midtown too! However, he’s a senior and is going to MIT next fall with his best friend.
He’ll definitely miss Peter and his best friend Ned. Ned Leeds was also an intern but wasn’t in the same department as them. The three of them would always talk about Star Wars and about how cool Spiderman was (both Peter and Ned would freak out or faint if they found out that they were actually talking about him). It was the three of them together, there amongst the adults, the Midtown Nerds.
As Jungkook entered Tony's personal lab, Friday did a quick scan and let him into the lab saying, “Boss has been waiting for you, Jeon.”
“Thanks Friday! And you can just call me Jungkook. We’ve been over this a million times” He chuckled as he went further into the lab.
“Hey, Jung! Can you come help me with this?” Tony greeted and asked, while he was trying to pull some pieces of metal from under one of his cars.
“Uh, sure!” Jungkook replied, quickly setting his stuff down and jogging towards Tony.
“Can you pull this piece off with your abnormal arm strength?" Mr. Stark teasingly asked.
“Yup!” He then pulled out the metal like it was nothing and handed it to Tony.
“Thanks, kid, and Jesus, you need to go against Capsicle in an arm wrestle. I gotta see if Cap has finally met his match,” He said while chucking. He tapped his finger a couple of times on his lips as if he was thinking about something. “I’ll bet 500 dollars that you’ll win! I can see it now: the Spiderling vs. the Capsicle. It’ll make big headlines, spidey.”
Jungkook chuckled and asked nervously, “I don’t know Mr.Stark, Mr. America is a big guy….”
“Oh, nonsense kid. I’ve seen you catch a bus! You can definitely take him down.”
Jungkook stayed silent for a couple of seconds, hesitant to address the semi-huge elephant in the room. “So I take it, you and the rogue Avengers made up or something?”
Tony nodded and grabbed a rag to clean the oil off him. He was silent for a couple of seconds, hesitant to tell Jungkook about the sudden change in attitude towards the former team. He sighed and tossed the rag onto one of the empty tables, turning back to him.
“Yeah, kid we did, but there’s still a lot of tension between the whole team. We had to draw up some new accords for this “peaceful” agreement.” He said, while putting up some air quotes and rolling his eyes. He let out another big sigh before continuing on. “According to the new accords, they’ll also be staying here at the facility, under my supervision. So they’ll be here by Friday.”
Tony’s playful mood from before had disappeared and there was a hint of distress and annoyance that flashed on his face. Jungkook only knew a few details of what happened between Cap and him, but he knew that whatever happened wasn’t good and that it broke Tony. He knew Mr. Stark was still hurting from it.
“I could stay with you over the weekend if you’d like!” He blurted out. He wouldn’t mind staying over, sure he would have to cancel the weekend he had planned with his friends, but that could be rescheduled any day, and what mattered the most was that Mr.Stark wasn’t alone when they came here. Mr. Stark was a very important person to him, he sometimes would say he was like a father figure to him (definitely not out loud though... or to his face).
“Ahh, I don’t know Jung, it’s more of an adult thing. And don’t you hang out on the weekends with that friend group of yours?” Tony hesitated and questioned.
“Yeah, I do but I can cancel it! They’ll understand. Plus, we can make this an ice cream sleepover or something like that! It can be a Spiderman and Iron Man day! Or we could go patrolling together or something?” Jungkook rambled on. He wanted to- no needed to be there for Tony. His mentor who helped him a lot and who he would do anything for. He owed it to Tony to at least try to do something about it.
Tony sighed and looked at the star-eyed kid. He knew that he couldn’t say no to this kid.
“Fine, you can stay over, but don’t you start a fight with the others! I know what you’re thinking Jeon. No fighting and we can watch the Star Wars movies and some anime. Heck, we can even watch Your Name , even though that movie makes you cry a bit, but absolutely no fighting, understand me Underoos?” Tony said with a strict but soft tone.
Jungkook agreed and let out a victory, yes. He also thought that he could definitely take Captain America in a fight if he wanted to. And that he could possibly win. Possibly.
“I mean it kiddo. Whatever happened between me and them shouldn’t affect you. It’s just…grownup business.” Tony’s tone was final and Jungkook didn’t dare to push it. He nodded and fiddled with the tools on the workbench.
And with nothing else said about the situation, Tony pulled up his latest drafts of his suit. “Now, how would you feel if I added some more cool upgrades to your suit?’
Jungkook let out a yell of excitement and rushed over to Tony’s computer.
“Can I get a rocket booster?!”
Tony chuckled and shook his head.
As time passed, Jungkook and Tony had been working on their respective suits for a couple of hours, when he got an alert from the police scanner app. It was another drug ring. He figured it was time to go out and patrol.
“Hey, Mr. Stark! I’m going out to patrol! See ya tomorrow!” He yelled while packing up his stuff and rushing out the door. Tony waved him off and turned his attention back to his suit.