Chapter 9
The elevator chose that moment to return Mr. Harrington and Sarah to the lab. Both of the adults caught the tail end of Peter's speech, but had missed the downright hilarious scenes that had occurred since they had taken their leave to contact Flash's parents. So, they continued the days trend of shock and awe, with gaping mouths and bulging eyes indicating their shock.
For what Peter suspects is FRIDAY's attempt at humour, the elevator closed on the two adults shocked faces before reopening.
His AcaDec team were still in their state of shock from when MJ had revealed his currently secret superhero identity. Of the bunch MJ was unsurprisingly the least fazed and Peter had half the mind to interrogate her later. Who knows how many secrets she was privy to. While his other friend, Ned, looked like he was about to faint. But there wasn't a negative face in reaction to the surprising news he had just given them.
Surprisingly the first words to break the silence were from Abe. "Well Flash has signed his death warrant."
This statement caused Peter to burst into laughter and soon enough the rest of the room followed, the tension breaking. Tony was the only one not in on the apparent joke and just stood there thoroughly confused.
When everyone managed to calm down, Peter felt a huge sense of relief. It felt good to have at least a weight of the secrets off of his shoulders, especially with people he considered friends. Harley's arm wrapped around his shoulders supportively and he could feel the proud aura radiating off of his boyfriend.
Sarah, the only Stark Industries employee, was looking between Peter and Tony realisation clear on her face, "How has no one put this together? When you look at it, it's so obvious."
"Honestly, I have no idea. It's not like dad's discrete," Peter replied.
"Wha- what do you mean not discrete? I'm plenty discrete!" Tony cried, fake hurt plastered on his face.
Peter just rolled his eyes, "You picked me up from school the other day in a bright red and gold convertible."
"Ah," He exclaimed and had the decency to look abashed. Everyone else just laughed.
"But wait! What was the Stark Internship then?" Ned broke through the laughter, the dots still trying to connect in his head, "I knew about Spider-man but I thought that you said you did actually have a real internship though?"
"I was just going home Ned."
"Home?"
"I live here Ned. Well not right here, but about three floors above us."
"Oh My God. Wait. If Mr. Stark is your dad then you're a Stark too. Peter Stark. And you live in the Avengers Tower. Holy Shit." Peter laughed again as his friend verbally processed the news.
An alarm rang out from Sarah's direction and she fumbled for the phone in her pocket. As she pulled it out, the guide let out a sigh.
"It's lunch time." She looked to Peter as if he was now the boss or something, but he supposed he had taken over her tour.
"Why don't y'all head off then? Peter and I can join you after lunch if you want?" Harley offered from beside him.
Sarah nodded, "That would be great." The addressing everyone else, "If we want to finish the rest of the tour it's time for lunch, so if we could please head back to the elevator I'll take you down to the Stark Industries cafeteria."
She then began the difficult task of herding the teens onto the elevator. Mr. Harrington wasn't much help either as he was still getting over the fact that he had both Spider-man and a Stark in his class. Eventually though they were ushered into the elevator, leaving Nat, Harley, Peter and Tony alone in the lab.
"Well that went well Pete," said Nat, smug look plastered on her face, "I'm not sure what you're worried about."
Peter just glared at the spy.
"You did a great job Pete," his dad followed, "I'm proud of you. How are you feeling about it?"
"Surprisingly calm, and to be honest, it's kind of good to tell people."
"They took it really well, although I'm really glad that that Flash kid was gone before you decided to tell them. We might have had to call security ," Harley commented.
"Flash?" Tony questioned, as the boy had been removed from the lab before he had entered the lab covered in glitter.
Peter sighed, "Just the schools resident ass."
"Who apparently has it out for Pete," Harley followed up, knowing that Peter wouldn't divulge the extent of the situation to his dad without some prompting.
Tony shot a concerned look at his son, "We're going to talk about this later. But first I'm going to take a shower because this glitter is in places glitter should never be. All of you head up to lunch and Nat?"
"Yes?" she acknowledged, smug look still on her face.
"Please try not to embarrass Pete anymore today. I just know that you're the mastermind behind all of this."
With that the glitter covered genius shuffled back to the stairs and headed up in pursuit of a shower. Pete and Harley followed with Nat in the rear, as they made their way to lunch.