Superfamily
“That is NOT what I meant when I said get me up early!” Peter groans as May tears into the bedroom.
“Peter, it’s 7am. That is not that early.” May whips open Peter’s blinds and he groans as the sunlight hits him. As May cackles, Peter turns over and pulls the blankets over his face again, trying to hide from the world. It’s the first day of his summer vacation from his freshman year of college and he has no interest to get up early after pulling 2 all nighters in a row for finals.
“If you don’t get up, I will pull the blankets off you.” May threatens above him and Peter ignores her, trying to get a stronger grip on the blankets. He’s tired though and his grip isn’t working well, so May yanks and pulls the blankets off of him.
“Up.” She says and Peter groans as he pulls his pillow on top of his face. May grabs that too and throws it away, causing Peter to finally open his eyes and look up at her. She’s fully dressed and laughing at Peter’s face.
“Happy is picking us up in an hour Peter. Do you want to be the one to tell a little girl why you’re late to her birthday?” May asks.
“She’s turning One. She is not going to remember this. Tony is going overboard.” Peter groans and May laughs again.
“Is that any different from Tony on a daily basis? Now get up. If you don’t get up in the next few minutes, I will confiscate your blankets for the next week.”
“May!” Peter gasps and May cackles at him again.
“I guess you might want to get up.” She suggests as she grins, and Peter groans again. He pulls himself off the bed and grabs the blankets and pillow to put them back on top. May pushes him towards the bathroom, not letting go until he’s actually in the room.
“One hour.” She threatens and then shuts the door behind her. Peter yawns as he pulls out his toothbrush of its holder and starts to brush his teeth before turning the shower on.
By the time he’s ready, 45 minutes have passed and he can hear Happy in the living room with May. He brushes his hair and grabs a jacket he opens his door and walks out into the living room. Both May and Happy turn around to him as he puts his hand up to cover up another yawn.
“Well, you look rough.”
“Thanks Happy.” Peter responds as May laughs yet again.
“Life of a college student.” Happy says.
“I remember those days.” May says wistfully.
“And I don’t really need to hear them. Are we going?” Peter asks and Happy nods. He grabs the keys from the table while May grabs her keys and they follow Peter out the door and down the stairs to Happy’s car.
Peter piles in the back while May climbs into the front next to Happy as he starts the car and pulls away from the apartment.
Peter feels himself drifting as the car goes along and he closes his eyes, only waking up to a poke in his side.
He opens his eyes and sees the door wide open and Tony standing there, looking at him. Peter rubs at his eyes, and looks around. May and Happy are gone but the car is still running, the AC still blasting on his face. Tony moves his finger from Peter’s side as they look at each other and then he moves away to open the front door and turn the car off before pulling the keys out of the ignition.
When he comes back round to the door, Peter is getting out. One of his legs is slightly numb and he stumbles a little.
“What time is it?” He asks, confused. The sun is a lot further up in the sky than it should be for the 2 hour ride to the Lakehouse.
“It’s 12.” Tony replies and Peter’s jaw drops.
“You should have woken me up before now!” Peter cries out. Morgan’s party was scheduled for 10am, and he’s missed some of it.
“Relax kid. You needed the sleep. May tried to wake you when you got here and you wanted nothing to do with it. They left you in the car and the car running but it’s fine.” Tony assures him but Peter still feels bad. He looks toward the front open door of the lakehouse and can hear laughter coming out from inside. He picks up on Rhodey’s voice and then Bruce’s.
“I can’t believe no one woke me up.” Peter grumbles as he climbs out of the car and starts to head towards the house. He hears the car door slam and then Tony catching up to him.
“I forgot how grumpy you are when you wake up.” Tony says.
“Am not!” Peter replies as he steps up onto the first step into the house.
“You so are kid. Right now you’re even worse than Morgan when she wakes up.”
Peter stops on the steps to turn around to look at Tony. It is a well-known fact that Morgan is an absolute terror if she gets woken up earlier than she wants. He opens his mouth to reply but Tony just laughs and pushes him forwards through the door into the lakehouse.
“Peter!” Bruce greets him almost instantly and his mood instantly lightens. Since he started college, Peter has only been back to The Tower three times and he’s only seen Bruce on one of those occasions. They have plenty of plans for the summer and Peter is really looking forward to them, plans that include shoving Tony out of his lab and taking it over. Peter is really excited for that day.
“Hi Bruce.” He replies happily as May walks over and shoves a plate with a piece of cake on it into his hands. He looks around to see the cake on the table, smashed to pieces and Morgan sitting in her highchair, pieces of cake everywhere and icing all over her face. Happy and Pepper both have their phones out, taking picture after picture of Morgan, and calling her name as she happily waves her chubby arms around.
“Um-” Peter starts. He loves Morgan but he doesn’t necessarily want cake that was destroyed by a toddler.
“It’s not that cake. There’s another not destroyed one.” Tony explains.
“He managed to hold himself down to only two cakes. Restraint for once.” Rhodey calls out, and Peter finds himself laughing.
“You missed the cake smashing, but i’m sure between those two over there and Tony that you’ll be able to see it frame by frame.” Bruce tells Peter. He grins and sits down at the spare chair at the table that is not covered by icing.
“I saw you taking pictures there Bruce. Plenty in fact.” Tony replies. He’s moved over to the kitchen counter and is wrapping up the extra cake.
“Looks like the sugar monster is crashing.” Rhodey comments and Peter looks up to see the previously active Morgan drooping in her seat. As he watches, her head drops down and then she yanks it back up a second later. A moment later and he head drops again, followed by a quick yank up. Pepper puts her hand up to Morgan’s head to hold it up and in place and the babies eyes close as her head rests against Pepper. Her hands fall to her sides and she droops as she falls asleep. Pepper moves her hand away, careful to make sure that Morgan’s head won’t drop down again, but will remain against the soft headrest on the back of the chair.
Peter’s stomach growls and he starts shoving the cake into his mouth.
“Now that the monster is asleep, shall we bring out the adult beverages?” Rhodey asks.
“There’s still a child in the room.” Tony points to Peter who stops shoveling cake down his throat to give the man a glare.
“I’m 18. I’m an adult.” He mumbles around cake.
“Nope, still a child.” Tony teases back. Rhodey ignores this and walks over to the fridge where he pulls out some beers, champagne and orange juice.
“Orange juice then for the child?” Rhodey asks.
“I just finished my freshman year of college!” Peter protests as he swallows the last of the cake down.
“Yes Orange Juice.” Tony replies and Peter groans.
Rhodey messes around in the kitchen for a minute before handing Peter a glass of orange juice. He takes a sip, instantly recognizes it’s not just orange juice and looks at Rhodey. The man winks at him.
“I saw that!” May cries out as she reaches over and grabs Peter’s glass. Before he can do anything, May downs the rest of the beverage and then sets the glass on the table.
“Woooo May!” Rhodey calls out.
“Don’t give my kid champagne again.” May calls out, but Peter can see she’s smiling and not angry at Rhodey. The man just shrugs and starts chugging a beer.
“Before this goes any further, I’m going to go put Morgan down.” Pepper sets down her glass and gathers the sleeping baby into her arms carefully before she exits the room, heading to Morgan’s room to set the baby down for her nap.
“Good call.” Tony calls out. “No one wants to deal with a cranky baby right now.”
“Father of the year.” Rhodey calls out teasingly.
“You have one Rhodey, and then tell me how it feels.” Tony replies just as jokingly.
“It’s nice to have you back here Peter.” Bruce says and Peter smiles at him. “How was your first year?”
“Tough.” Peter replies.
“And it’s only going to get tougher from here kid.” Tony calls out.
“Don’t scare him Tony!” Pepper scolds as she walks back into the room, sans Morgan. She instantly picks up her previously discarded glass.
“He’ll be fine. He’s a smart one.” Tony responds as he smiles at Peter. The teenager feels his cheeks getting warm and he stares down at the table as the adults all talk around him.