Crushes, Twitter,and Tony Stark
“Boy troubles?”
“You have no idea.”
Throwing himself onto the couch he hugs one of the pillows to his chest as Natasha sits next to him and starts to run her fingers through his curls. He would’ve gone down to the lab but Pepper was making Tony go to even more meetings especially as there was 'no threat, you can’t keep making upgrades when no one needs it Tony'. He would’ve gone down and try making a new project but all he could think of were pretty brown doe eyes and Peter’s pink lips.
“Having a crush sucks, especially when they don’t notice you.” He grumbles as he slides up to put his head in her lap.
"Aren't you friends with him by now?" She asks as she twirls some of his hair. He waves his hand in annoyance in the air at either the hair twirling or over his feelings for Peter he's not sure he just needs to get whatever this is out.
"Yes we're friends now, I even sit with him at lunch which is a miracle. But I don't even know if he likes guys, he went to homecoming with Liz in his freshman year too. I don't know why he'd like me anyway, he's so nice and smart he actually has a shorter schedule because his college classes. I'm nothing compared to him, he good at things I can confidently say I'm great in. If anything he should have the internship, not me." He doesn't like to share his stupid insecurities with any of the Avengers. First because he had no reason to trust most of them, and second because they're the Avengers?! He still can't believe that he lives with them now that he's gone to known them. He's come to see them as family which is still a bit crazy to him although Abbie took to them like fish to water soon after she felt she could trust them. Only Ma and Tony understood his hesitence. How could they so easily leave just like his dad he did?
They had to make an internship front as to why he would be at the Tower after someone took a picture of him going in back in Junior year. In a way the internship wasn't fake, just not official. They had used the fact that he and Tony had met some years ago and he reached out to give him 'better possiblites that he wouldn't get in the middle of nowhere' to explain why a kid whould know and be close to Tony unless if he was his long lost son. Returning to school after that was an annoyance of people wanting to be close to him. Luckily the group of friends he's had still wanted to be friends with him, although Harry had already known thanks to when they met at a gala Tony made him go to.
"He could be smarter then Shuri but you know Tony would still want you close right? I swear he sees you as his own kid." Natasha reassures him as she starts to braid his grown out dirty blonde locks.
"He's still more deserving of an internship with Tony though. I mean I can't even imagine what he could do if he had Stark Industries backing him up."
"Who should be my intern?"
Looking up he sees Tony enter the Avengers living room. He's dressed in his usual suit with a pair of matching dark blue sunglasses. Coming in behind is James with both Clint and Scott bugging him with wanting to know what's in the bags hanging from his arms. Steve and Sam is slightly behind looking fresh from a shower likely after another session at the gym or run. Vision comes in as the four follow James into the kitchen. 'Wanda must still be with Strange.' he thinks as he sits up.
"Peter, the kid he's been crushing on since sophomore year." Natasha quickly adds in before he can even open his mouth. She gets up and goes to the kitchen, probably to scare the ones who can't cook out of the kitchen for the ones that could finally start.
"Really kid? Well I guess my surprise for you will have to come early."
'What?'
"What."
Tony laughs at his face, that jerk, and takes off his blazer as he sits on a couch and pulls out a Stark Pad out of nowhere, clicks a couple times then hands it over to him. He takes it and reads as he starts to explain.
"You've been praising that kid for years now and I decided with Pep to expand out internships and to include high schoolers. Seeing both you and Shuri who are geniuses at your age, there must be more and it'll be smart to reach out. I took the time to search for the smartest of the smart in New York and Parker definitely tops up there even competing against some college kids. He hasn't taken an iq test in some years but even back at 11 years old at around 120. I was thinking of reaching out tomorrow and seeing if he'll be interested in being my personal intern alongside you."
It takes him a moment to put everything he read and heard together.
"Again, what?"
"What, you aren't excited? You'll get to spend time with your boy and he'll get the chance to make a name for himself if he'll be interested. Of course we'll have to work around his other internship, don't know why a science kid would want to be an intern under a lawyer but all the power to him I guess." Tony shrugs as he goes to the kitchen, probably to bother for a taste before the food is done like the heathen he is. Putting down the Stark Pad he joins Tony to bother the rest.
When word spread that Peter had an internship everyone was sure that he was working with some big name scientists. Imagine everyone's surprise when rumors spread that he was actually interning under some law firm in Manhattan. He was confused as well, and when he got the guts to ask he said that his boss had helped his family with something that happened years ago. Apparently he reached out and the guys accepted him. He would always say how interesting but busy it is. It must be really time consuming since he quit Aca Dec, although he would come in to help the members study. Although he didn't spend as much time with everyone after what happened with Flash.
Coming into the kitchen he sees it has quickly become it's usual mess when more than five of the Avengers were in the same room, surprisingly better considering just who is in it, including the food. He takes a seat at the counter in front of James who's chopping some mushrooms. He quickly speaks up to hopefully pull Tony away before he joins in any future mess that would end up pissing off Pepper and Hope when she comes down to join them.
"You're gonna talk to him tomorrow? How do you know if he's gonna be free? Wait, how are you even gonna meet him?"
Tony looks up from where he's trying to take the spoon away from Vision who's stirring something in a pot, "Oh, I'm going to his apartment when his aunt comes home, of course I'm going to call her either tonight or in the morning. Wouldn't wanna surprise her too much."
"You aren't gonna tell him first?" he asks.
"You volunteering? I thought it would be a nice overall surprise just showing up. Not everyone can say that they had Tony Stark show up where they live after all, might up the price of their apartment."
"What, no! He'll ask and I'll hafta tell him I've been telling y'all about him!"
"Then I'll tell him. Problem solved. Hand it over Vision I need to make sure you added enough flavor!"
Shaking his head he pulls out his phone to ignore the inevitable mess that'll occur, seeing a notification from Spider-Man's twitter he eagerly clicks it ignoring the rest.
Ultimate
@Spider-Man
I’ve been on Twitter for almost three years and I’m still not verified. This is a problem @Twitter don’t make me fight you.
8:29 AM
37.4K Retweets 1.3 Likes
→Twitter ✓
You know what you’re right Spidey. Let’s fix that now.
1:45 PM
27.5K Retweets 98.3K Likes
→ Ultimate
@Spider-Man
WAIT WHAT JVHBGINDJ
3:02 PM
42.8K Retweets 33.9K Likes
Quickly liking and retweeting Spidey's posts he goes to his account and starts to refresh it constantly. Seeing nothing being done he goes to the rest of his notifications and gets rid of the ones he already saw or could care less about. He goes to Twitters account because there might be some delay to Spidey seeing their post. Right on time he sees their recent post and can’t help the laugh that escapes him.
pinned tweet
Twitter✓
Consider your wish done👀
3:17 PM
26.8K Retweets 30.2K Likes
Twitter Retweeted
Kid Arachnid✓
@Spider_Man
OMG IM VERIFIED!!! THANKS @Twitter AHHHNNAINVJU
3:20 PM
6,258 Retweets 13.7K Likes
→Ultimate
@Spider-Man
WAIT WHAT @Twitter HE'S NOT EVEN A YEAR OLD AND HES VERIFED @America EXPLAIN
3:23 PM
8,847 Retweets 15.3K Likes
He turns his phone towards Scott who came to sit next to him awhile ago. They share a laugh at the turn of events. Seeing a new post by Spidey he quickly clicks on it.
Ultimate
@Spider-Man
unlike others im going to be the mature one out of this.
3:25PM
12.4K Retweets 16.K Likes
→Silk
@silkspider
Wow im proud of you spidey
3:26PM
8,595 Retweets 11.3K Likes
Ultimate✓✓✓
@Spider-Man
There. One for each year. @Twitter take one away and ill take your @ 🔪
3:46PM
16.K Retweets 67.4K Likes
→Silk
@silkspider
That's not being mature.
3:46PM
12.3K Retweets 24.1K Likes
→Twitter✓
You win for now @Spider-Man
3:50PM
32.5K 92.2K Likes
→Satan
@s8n
Hit me up
3:57PM
19.6K Retweets 56.7K Likes
They're eventually done and he helps set out plates for everyone. With even more people joining in they've had to bring in a new table, sadly they couldn't find a table that would sit everyone while having enough room for all the dishes or whatever would be on the table. He and Tony in the end just bought two tables they liked and meshed them together. Now there was enough for all of them and anyone else who joins in the future, luckily they had it in time when the Guardians came to Earth. Dinner was it's usual mess of conversations and food being passed from one side to the next. Once everyone got atleast two sevings they stacked them in the sink for the unlucky ones to clean as everyone settled down on the couches next to their cuddling buddy.
"So who's choosing tonight?" Sam asks as he wraps another blanket around himself.
"My turn. And concerning who we were talking about," here Natasha gives him a glance "I thought why not watch Harley's crush on youtube, hm?"
Quickly the room is full of aww's and laughter as he covers his face with a pillow.
"Werry Nataha," his mumble is somehow heard throughout the noise.
"Of course kiddo." Her voice is smug as Friday starts a video that seems new. Looking at the bar he can see that its almost three hours long, eyes shifting up he sees the title that clears none of the confusion he got from seeing how long the video is.
"Why would a game of Uno be almost three hours long?" he asks as the video starts and the lights dim.