I like that laugh huh huh huh huh
“Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Yes. Yes we did. Yeah. Yes. Oh my god, yes!” It was almost impressive to hear how exasperated Tony sounded.
It kind of reminded Ned of conversations with his mom. He tried and failed to stifle a giggle but to his relief Peter was giggling too. Peter looked over at him and suddenly they were hunched over laughing.
MJ let out an amused sound that Ned could almost call a laugh. She tried to smuggle it with a cough and remain neutral but it was when she looked at him and Peter that she broke.
She hung her head to hide the fit of giggles. Unfortunately, everyone could see her frame shaking uncontrollably.
The team looked at the three smiling. Tony getting mothered must have been funny to see. They had seen Fury, Rhodey and Pepper mother him too much to let it affect them. Well, no. Fury was more of a naggy great aunt.
Tony shot the three a glare which made them crack up even more. Ned was wheezing and Peter tried to wipe tears from under his eyes but he ended up just rubbing his lenses which just increased the volume of laughter in the room. MJ buried her face beneath her curls to hide her chuckling.
“Yeah that would be the Spidey siblings being the most irritating half humans ever. Well no- I don’t know if they’re spider-like too or not. Yeah his name is uhh.”
“Parker,” Peter whisper shouted between giggles before realizing that it would be better for the people who kidnapped him to forget his actual name. Seeing him freeze, MJ wheezed “you’re ... such .... an ...... idiot.”
It wasn’t even the thing about Tony that was funny anymore. They simply couldn’t stop.
Ned hunched over repeating the words “it hurts” over and over.
“We need a .... moment” MJ managed to say while getting Spidey out of the seat and escorting him and Ned out of the room. “Back in a sec.” she promised and then promptly closed the door.
The team looked at each other and shrugged. Tony was too busy being lectured by Fury to notice anyway.
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After shutting the door, MJ finally composed herself. “What was even so funny?”
The boys shrugged unable to speak.
“Ok well now that we’re finally out of there, do you want to call May?”
Peter nodded vigorously and took the phone into his cuffed hands eagerly. It was only when he heard the phone ringing that he realized what he was doing. “Ned what did you tell her?” He hissed.
Ned was about to tell Peter but suddenly the phone stopped dialing and the woman herself started speaking.
“Who is this?” She sounded tired. Peter was in shock. He froze for another 10 seconds before finding his voice. He coughed “this is uh your nephew.”
“Peter?! Oh thank god you’re ok! Ned told me you joined a band and had gigs that you never told me about? Why didn’t you tell me?”
Peter shot Ned a glare. Ned shrugged not looking nearly apologetic enough for Peter’s liking.
“Yeah haha I guess they needed a trumpet guy again. We are uh having a concert on next week for the school so I thought I’d surprise you. I really didn’t think I’d be going on a tour bus until I got there and there was a no phone rule.”
MJ gave him an unimpressed look and mouthed “tour bus?” Which Peter promptly ignored.
“I’m sorry for worrying you, May. I’ll be home soon!”
“Soon?”
“Sometime tomorrow.” Peter confirmed hoping it was true.
A very annoyed Tony Stark burst through the door and Peter took this as his cue to end the call. “Bye love you!” He called and hung up abruptly.
They filed back into the room.
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Wanda and Shuri smiled at the trio along with the rest of the group as they came in.
Tony ran a hand down his face and turned to face them.
“See!” Steve pointed at them. “They’re back!”
“Yeah well considering how they could get in so easily I presumed they could leave. I guess not.” Tony looked smug but tired. Tiredly smug.
“Who said anything about us leaving?” MJ asked innocently as she slumped in her seat next to Shuri and placed her feet on the table.
“The Director of SHIELD himself. He doesn’t want to have kidnapped kids on our hands so you two just go run back to your mommy while we talk to your brother ok?”
The team knew that that wasn’t going to work. The spider siblings were very strong and very good at distracting people from a task.
Shuri turned to Peter and simply asked “what’s your name?” She knew it wouldn’t work but she was getting a bit bored of this and she just wanted to know who was behind the mask.
“Hi my name is Michael with a ‘b’. And I’ve been afraid of insects my entire life.”
She smirked. Of course she wasn’t going to get an answer but she couldn’t help herself but join in. It took a lot of her will power to not look up at Tony’s face when he said his name was Michael.
“Stop, stop, stop, where?”
“Hmm?”
“Where’s the b?”
“T-there’s a bee?” He asked his voice shaking before the teens started giggling once more.
“I understood that reference,” Steve stated. Shuri and Wanda looked up at him proudly. Wanda sounded in awe “You watched vines?”
Steve confirmed that yes he did watch vines that night to help with the interrogation. Wanda and Shuri were practically beaming.
Tony looked in desperation to Natasha and Clint. They however looked amused by the scene. He looked to Bruce and Thor who were looking at the teens fondly. Nobody cared about this interrogation. Ugh.
Tony marched over to the vigilante. “Please can you take off the mask?”
The man in question turned to MJ and Ned. Ned shrugged “They’re probably going to keep bothering you about it if we leave now.”
Bothering? Why did they not take this interrogation seriously? Still, it seemed to help the man. He sighed and nodded.
He reached his hands up to his mask and pulled it off. The Avengers heads snapped up as they caught a glimpse of the brown curls covering his face.