Chapter 4
The first one to find out was Bruce
That morning, when Peter woke up, he was in a room he never saw before, the wall a green color and the bed and sheet whites. Judging by the choice of furniture in the room, Peter guessed he was in a guest room at Stark Tower. Peter was about to get out of the room when he remembered the night before and his face drained itself of all color. He had fallen asleep on Tony Stark. This day was going to be so embarrassing. He was sure he couldn't even look at the man in the face after that.
Taking back control of himself, Peter took a deep breath and pulled to open the door before stepping into the main room, catching Bruce attention. The man simply waved at him to come closer and Peter obliged. He wasn't going to miss an opportunity to sit next to THE Bruce Banner. That would just be stupid. However, he was quickly reminded that he needed to think things through more when the man started to speak.
"So... I found something interesting on a video yesterday when we were trying to find you" Bruce was strangely serious when he talked to Peter and that made the younger boy sweat nervously. What could they have found? They didn't find out about him bring Spider-man right? If they did he would have no choice but to quite literally ran away to another state. He couldn't let them know. It was too dangerous.
"y-yes?" He mentally groaned. He stuttered again. Another great achievement for the amazing Peter Parker. Bruce simply nodded at his answer before pushing a button and letting the live feed of the day before when he climbed up the gigantic building. He hated building. Why did he ever thought it was a good idea to go back there? His suit could have waited. Now they knew. They know. Bruce knew and he was going to hate him and Tony probably knew too and he was going to hate him even more than he did before.
Peter mind was racing as he watched the video on repeat, the words Bruce was saying coming out slurred and tangled. His breathing was uneven, and way too fast but he didn't care. He wasn't careful enough and now the entire city was going to know. Flash would be so angry and he would insult him again the next day and Ned-
Peter mind halted to a complete stop
Ned. Ned was his best friend. He was such an idiot. Ned was going to hate him now and he was going to join Flash gang and he would tell them all his secret so they could use them as blackmail. He was so stupid. It was all his fault.
Peter was so stuck in his self-deprecation circle he hadn't even felt Bruce trying to comfort him by rubbing circle on his back. When he was slightly calmed down Bruce started talking again.
"Peter I'm gonna need you to calm down okay? Can you try to name 5 things you can see, please?" Peter complied and looked around before starting to answer
"Y-you, Table, um.., the t-television, my shirt a-and c-couch" Peter was too stuck to even have time to think about his stuttering while he was calming down considerably with Bruce help.
"Are you feeling better now?" It felt strange to Peter to be comforted by Bruce. He felt almost like someone else should be doing it but he wasn't going to deny the affection he heard in the man voice and god be damned if he wasn't going to appreciate it. What could he say, he was a sucker for affection.
"Yeah... sorry."
"You don't have to be sorry. Now can we talk about the video? I would really like to know how you managed to do that." Bruce knew he shouldn't be so harsh with the boy but he couldn't help his curiosity. Peter was truly a unique person in every sense of the word. Peter on the other side, was thinking about how to answer. He knew he didn't have a choice but, to tell the truth, but he wanted to make sure no one else would know. Peter sighed when his mind finally made its decision before he started whispering to the man so no one else could hear him
"if I tell you, you have to promise me you will not tell anyone else ok?" His voice was so quiet he wouldn't have been surprised if Bruce didn't hear him but the man simply nodded in response.
"well.. this is gonna be weird to say but.. you know spider-man? He gave me his glove to stick to walls and I used them?" It sounded more like a question then an affirmation and Peter knew at that exact moment he had messed u and that Bruce wouldn't believe his lie.
"Peter you didn't wear glove yesterday."
Peter knew when he heard that response that he was stuck. He couldn't try to wiggle his way out by lying but he could still try, right?
"well...I mean maybe you simply didn't see them?" Bruce sighed at his attempt to try to lie and put his hand on the side of his forehead, lightly rubbing circle on it.
"F.R.I.D.A.Y please zoom in on the video and show me if Peter was wearing a pair of gloves yesterday."
F.R.I.D.A.Y did as Bruce asked and when the A.I had finished zooming in, Bruce turned to look at Peter who had tried to make himself as small as possible when he saw that it showed that he indeed did not wear any glove the day before. Bruce sighed before taking back the lead of the conversation.
"So....you're spider-man. Why didn't you tell anyone?" Bruce certainly did not miss the way the boy seemed to flinch away when he said he was spider-man which only made him more sure that what he had assumed was right.
"Can you promise me you won't tell anyone? " Peter didn't like what was happening. He just revealed one of his biggest secrets to one of his idols.
"Of course Peter. I won't tell anyone so don't worry about that."
"And you don't....hate me?" The words came out of his mouth before he could stop them.
"Of course not Peter." Without hesitating, Peter hugged Bruce and stayed gripped to his lab coat firmly while the tears made their way down his cheeks
"Thank you..."
Well...at least Peter knew he had one person on his side for now.