Chapter 1
Peter was so excited to be going over to Tony’s tower on the weekend. He’s been looking forward to it all week.
Ever since Homecoming Peters gotten a lot more close with Tony. That’s why he can actually call iron man ‘Tony’ now.
Never in Peters life would he have ever expected to be calling the superhero he’s been looking up to and slept on his bed sheets and had his pictures on his wall by the first name.
Peter still can’t believe his life.
It was Friday morning and Peter was on his summer break. School just ended less than a week ago and Peter just couldn’t wait to finally be on break and to be able to hang out with Tony all summer.
Peter was in his room packing his bag last minute, as always, as he waited for Happy to text him he was outside.
Aunt May was going to be going on a trip with her friends for a few weeks and at first she didn’t want to go because she couldn’t leave Peter alone but then Tony said that he could watch Peter while she was gone.
May was reluctant at the idea at first but eventually Tony and Peter convinced her.
May left early Friday morning to leave for the airport and Peter was about to be leaving as well.
Peter finished packing all his clothes and some other stuff before he checked his phone and saw a text from Happy.
Happy: hey kid, I’m outside! Hurry
Peter: I’m coming now!
Peter texted Happy back then put his phone in his bag.
This was gonna be a fun summer, Peter thought.
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The car ride to the tower was short just because Peter was talking a mile of minute to Happy and nothing important.
“See you later, Happy!” Peter said excitedly as he got out of the car and grabbed his bag out of the trunk.
Peter made his way into the elevator holding onto his bag. The elevator stopped on Tony’s private floor and Peter put his bag down to find the man.
“Hey Pete” Tony said holding a coffee in his hand and walking over to Peter.
Peter turned around and smiled up at him “hi!”
“Are you ready for a fun summer?” Tony asked and put his arm around Peters shoulders.
“Yeah! We can work in the lab all day and night without anyone telling us what to do” Peter said then sat down on the couch.
Tony sat down next to him “we still have to sleep you know bud”
Peter just laughed and shrugged his shoulders.
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They ended up watching a movie then going down to the lab to work.
They have been down there for about three hours and Peters eyes started to burn, not used to being up so late but he didn’t want to say anything.
Tony looked really focused on his iron man gauntlet and Peter didn’t want to bug him to tell him that he was tired.
After a few more minutes Peter felt like he couldn’t keep his eyes open anymore so he decided it was time to speak up and say something to Tony.
“Uh, Tony?” Peter said quietly and looked over at him.
Tony stopped what he was doing and looked over at Peter. Peter looked exhausted. And he probably was exhausted, Tony thought. Peter was a kid and he didn’t even realize the time and that he should be putting the kid to bed at a reasonable time.
Tony knew Peter had a bedtime but he’s never had a bedtime so it was a bit difficult for Tony to remember that. Also because he’s never had to take care of anyone else before.
“Oh, sorry Pete,” Tony stood up and wiped his hands on his pants “I didn’t realize it was so late, Let’s go up”
Peter stood up happy because he didn’t have to tell Tony he was tired because he didn’t want to seem like a little kid in front of the man but he knew he was one so it didn’t matter.
Tony shut down the lab then they got into the elevator and made their way up.
When the elevator arrived on their floor Peter made a beeline for his bedroom.
“I’ll come tuck you in in a minute, kid” Tony said and Peter nodded as he walked to his room.
Tony watched Peter go to his room before he went to go tuck him in feeling really excited to be spending the whole summer with Peter.
Since Peter almost died on that beach, Tony has felt the need to step up to help guide Peter. But soon that turned into him wanting to be more to Peter than just a mentor.
At first, Tony kept a distance between him and the kid and tried not to get that much involved but after awhile he knew that he wanted to be more involved.
He wanted to know more about Peters life and he wanted to be a bigger part in it. And that’s exactly what he became.
He stepped up and became a huge Part in Peters life. Tony knew that Peter had no man figures in his life so he decided that he would step up and be a kind of like a ... father figure for Peter, or dad... whatever you call it. He wanted it.
Peter quickly wiggled his way into Tony’s life. Pretty soon Peter started coming over and hanging out with Tony in his lab and watching movies and eating food with him.
Tony seemed to find Peter more of a kid everyday after hanging around him so much. He obviously knew that Peter was a child and as much as it surprised him at first, it didn’t bug him that a practical baby was jumping around Queens fighting crime.
After awhile though. Once Tony got to know Peter a little more and become closer to him it started to bug him.
Tony didn’t like the idea that Peter, his kid... not his kid was fighting crime.
As much as Tony hated Peter being Spider-Man, he couldn’t stop him just like Pepper couldn’t stop him from being iron man.
And that’s what makes Tony and Peter so much alike.
Maybe that’s why Tony likes Peter so much, because he sees himself in him. A better version of himself.
After Tony was done with his thoughts he realized the time and that Peter would probably be done getting ready for bed so he made his way to Peters bedroom to tuck him in.