Suspicions and cuddles
When morning came it was around seven in the morning and Peter woke early as usual, after brushing his teeth went down to the lab to work on some new upgrades to his web-shooters. As he went down to the lab he asked FRIDAY to let him know when Harley would wake up, after working for about an hour FRIDAY told him that Harley had woken up.
Coming up he saw Natasha, Bruce, Pepper, Wanda, and Clint sitting at the island table, Steve was making pancakes and Vision trying to help make breakfast, Sam and Bucky on the couch along with Tony, Thor, Rhodey, and Scott. Before joining the others on the couch he saw Harley walked in, and thought he looked both funny and adorable with his hair a bit of a mess, making him think he looked liked a lion and tried to hide his laugh. As for Harley he thought Peter looked adorable in the baggy Hello Kitty pajamas Tony gave him and his StarWars shirt, after grabbing a cup of coffee and a plate of food both of them sat next to each other.
After finishing their meal, Harley went to his room to video chat with his sister and tell her about what’s been happening since he got to New York. While he was doing that Peter and Tony went down to the lab.
“Hey Abbie are things fine back home?” Harley asked being the big brother he is.
“Yeah things are fine, but it’s so~ boring here.” His sister said dramatically
“How about you? how are things with mister Stark?” Abbie asked
“Things are good great actually.” Harley said as he smiled to himself sounding happy.
“Okay who is he?” Abbie asked noticing the tone of happiness in her brother’s voice.
“What do you mean?” Harley asked confused by her sister’s question.
“I mean who’s the guy that’s making you feel all happy smily?” Abbie clarified as she rolled her eyes.
Harley gave his sister a deadpan expression, and told Abbie about Peter.
“His name is Peter, he’s Tony’s intern, and you’re gonna love this he knows Spider - Man.” Harley said as he watched his sister’s mood change to excitement and laughed.
“He also works on his web-shooters, and don’t even think about it he’s mine.” Harley said a little smug smile.
“As long as you get me a picture and autograph you can keep him, and if you can put in a good word for me to Spider - Man about how i’m single you be the best big brother ever.” Abbie said as she batted her eyes with a innocent smile.
Harley shook his head and rolled his eyes at his sister’s request, which made both of them laughed. After talking for a few more minutes they said bye to each other, once he finished talking to his sister he got curious about Spider-Man. Granted he only saw pictures of him and news reporters saying how he’s either a hero or criminal, going on Youtube he looked up some videos of him. Some of the videos were him stopping a bus or catching and stopping some thieves.
As Harley was watching some videos, he noticed how Spider-Man had nice figure, but when he saw one video about how this guy said hi to Spider-Man and he said hi back, he paused the video and replayed a couple more times. He kept replaying the part where he says hi to the random person recording the video, he listened closely and noticed how he sounded a lot like Peter.
At first Harley thought he was just being ridiculous, but with curiosity getting the better of him he thought about asking either Tony or some of the avengers about Spider-Man. He didn’t really know who to ask first, he would just ask the first person he ran into. Thankfully for him he saw Vision playing chess with Wanda.
“Hey Wanda, hey Vision.” Harley greeted walking up to them.
“Hey Harley”. Wanda greeted back looking up from the chess board.
“Hello Mr. Keener, is there something we can do for you?” Vision greeted back while politely asking Harley a question.
“Harley is just fine, and I was wondering about Peter and Spider-Man.” Harley said his voice full of curiosity.
Both Wanda and Vision looked at each other, both worried about what Harley was gonna ask them. They both knew about how Peter wanted to keep his identity of Spider-Man a secret, for Wanda she saw Peter as a little brother. She wanted Peter to be happy, but at the same time she was worried about what Harley would do if he ever found out about Peter.
Seeing the worried on Wanda’s face, Vision decided to be the one ask Harley what he wanted to know while being careful to not tell anything about Peter’s identity.
“What is it you would like to know?” Vision asked calmly putting a hand on Wanda’s shoulder in an attempt of comfort and to help calm her down.
“Well, is Spider-Man an avenger?” Harley asked just wanting to know more about both Peter and Spider-Man.
“Not officially. He was offered to join, but refused because he felt that it was his job to watch over his home and to protect those who can’t protect themselves.” Vision answered calmly and politely.
“Okay, well how long has Peter been Tony’s intern?” Harley asked his tone changing from curiosity to suspicion.
“For about several months, he started back around I believe in either late September or early October.” Vision still being the one to answer the questions, as he looked over to Wanda who was about to using her powers but Vision grabbed hold of one of her hands and shook his head slightly to let her know it was a bad idea.
“Well how often does Spider-Man swing by?” Harley asked now a little skeptic about Vision’s answers.
“Maybe twice a month, he sometimes keeps his visits short.” Wanda answered the question this time but was mentally slapping herself knowing that was a bad lie.
“Okay how about this, do you have a picture of both him and Peter together?” Harley asked sounding more serious.
This time neither Vision or Wanda answered the question, both were quiet and looked at each other knowing if one of them said yes Harley would ask for proof. Thankfully Wanda thought of something hoping that Harley would find it more believable.
“Not really no, the only reason why is because Peter knew if he posted a picture of him with Spider-Man on social media people who have something against Spider-Man would go after Peter and probably use him to get to Spider-Man.” She said a little stressed of thinking that on the fly.
“That’s not what I meant, I meant even if Peter didn’t post of the two them together. Wouldn’t he still have the picture?” Harley clarifying his question hoping this time he would get a real answer out of one of them.
Again both Vision and Wanda were quiet, they looked at each other again but now they were both at a lost not knowing how to answer his question without telling Peter’s secret. Seeing how they weren’t answering his question, Harley was starting to think he was right about Peter and Spider-Man being the same person.
“You know what, never mind forget I asked sorry to bother you.” Harley said and apologized before leaving to find someone else hoping to answer his questions. Then he remembered that Peter was working the lab, he thought if he heard Peter’s voice it would confirm his theory.
Before he went to the lab he made two sandwiches and poured some drinks for Peter and Tony so it wouldn’t look like he was snoopy around or act suspicious, as he made his way down to the lab he saw Tony working on another armor model, and he couldn’t really see what Peter was working on. Before he could get a closer look Tony saw and caught both his and Peter’s attention.
“Hey Harley what brings you down here?” Tony asked moving the safety googles above he his head.
“Oh I just thought you guys could use a snack.” Harley said gesturing to the tray of sandwiches and drinks in his hands.
Both of them smiled at Harley’s gesture, before they went back to work Harley asked Peter on what he was working on.
“So are you helping Tony with his armor? or something else?” He asked looking at Peter’s table.
“Oh just fixing up Spider-Man’s web-shooters and coming up with some new webbing.” Peter told him.
“Wait so the web stuff he shoots is actually based on some chemicals?” Harley asked looking at the chemicals
“Yeah, but he does have some spider qualities. Like he can climb the walls, but he doesn’t spit acid or control other spiders.” Peter said making sure he say too much.
Before he could ask another question, Tony spoke up drawing both boys attention.
“As nice as it is seeing you two bond, Harley I just need to borrow Peter for a second.” Tony said calmly.
Both boys smiled at each other, and before Peter went over to Tony, Harley gave Peter a quick kiss on his cheek and went back up stairs. As for Peter he saw that Tony had a bit of a smug look on his face.
“So I take it that the two of you are dating now?” Tony asked not even bothering to hide his smile.
Peter just rolled his eyes to Tony’s comment before letting out a laugh.
“Well even though you and others kinda surprised us on our date, we still had a good time.” Peter said as he turned back to work on his web-shooters.
Remembering how they kinda ruined their date, Tony wanted to make it up to them so he texted Pepper if she had any ideas. She texted back saying just do something simple like they should have the tower to themselves for the night. Tony liked the idea and texted the avengers Pepper’s idea, and the rest agreed.
When it got to around 6, Peter went upstairs to wash up. After taking a shower he saw a text saying come to the kitchen. When he got there he saw Harley at the kitchen island with two candles lit up.
“Is this your idea of a second date?” Peter asked amused about the set up.
“Actually it was Tony’s, this is his way and the rest of the team’s way of saying “sorry we screw up your date”, so I guess it’s just you and me tonight.” Harley said as he got and wrapped his arms around Peter’s neck and bringing him for a kiss.
Peter smiled let out a laugh and kissed Harley back. He noticed that it had both of their favorite foods, after finishing their dinner Harley suggested they watch a movie. Peter agreed because he got to cuddle with Harley, Harley picked one of the “Star Wars” films and proceed to cuddle with Peter on the couch.
As they were watching the movie Harley couldn’t help but wonder about Peter being Spider-Man, he was thinking about asking the other avengers, but after with Vision and Wanda he knew that he would probably get the same results. Then he thought about asking Tony, too see what he knew seeing how he’s well Tony Stark.