Peter
Peter talked to Darcy since he didn't have anybody else to talk to. They were alone in Tony's lab, Mr. Bossman was probably taking a nap somewhere and Darcy was on a break with an enormous cup of coffee. Peter massaged his fingers. He didn't know where to start.
"I found out about my biological parents."
"Wow. Who they are?"
That was exactly the question he wanted to avoid.
"Well, it's complicated..."
The worst thing about Darcy was that she could really look at you and make you tell the truth and whole truth and nothing but the truth or do whatever else she wanted. She could do that even to Tony! She could be scarier than Pepper. On the other hand, for Peter, Pepper wasn't scary at all.
Luckily Darcy didn't shoot him with that look, she just raised her eyebrow for curiosity.
"Why?"
"We... decided to keep it just for us."
"Well, Tony isn't one of them, or I would know. Why the secrecy? Are they celebrities?"
"No, not really, or maybe in a way. They are doing business, quite successively, and known in their fields. It would be news." Darcy looked like she got it, so he continued. "My mom is married and my father is not."
"They are not together?"
"No."
He didn't know how to continue.
"What do you think of them?"
Peter exhaled.
"I don't know what I think of them! I haven't even met both of them! I met my mother and she found the guy who made her pregnant and just I've talked on the phone with him." Peter buried his face on his hands. "Now he wants to meet."
"And?"
"I don't know if it's a good idea."
"Why not?"
"He's been in jail for attacking my biological mother and her partner and a group of other people." Peter thanked himself he could say it without revealing who he was referring to. "She says she's sorry he is my father and I shouldn't trust him. So maybe I should just forget I was adopted."
"But you want to meet him."
"Yes!"
"Do you think he could be violent towards you? Does she think so?"
"I don't know. Maybe?"
"But you want to meet him anyway?"
He wasn't a coward. He could have been an Avenger.
"Yes."
"Then you'll meet him. You don't always have to walk the safe path." That's why he loved Darcy like a big sister or a fairy stepmother! "But take care of you, have some people around you who can help if needed. I can lend you people from my security team."
Darcy's security team was like the best in the world! But he didn't want them to tell her or Tony! who the man in question was.
"Thank you, but I'm good. I think I can get help from my mother."
He hugged her because she was Darcy and walked to the private corner to call his mother.