Kisses, disobediance and nightmares
The day started bad.
Some how Rhodey and him had both overslept, even after having Friday wake them up neither of them woke up for the alarm. They'd both rushed around the floor to get ready and Rhodey even drove him in, (That wasn't so bad he was pretty cool) but in the end he was still an hour late to school.
That was just the start.
The moment he stepped into class with his late slip the entire room stared at him. He gulped loudly and apologised before moving over to MJ in the back of the room. She raised her eyebrow at him and once everyone stopped staring whispered to him. "So what got your lazy ass out of bed?" She asks, a small smirk on her lips as he blushed darkly.
"Tony, Pep and the others all left for important stuff. Left me with Rhodey" He grunts, She raises a brow. "Slept in, both of us. Won't happen again" He sighs tiredly, MJ chuckles and leans on him a bit.
"Shame. Guess I can't start placing bets with people" She grins at him and he rolls his eyes and pats her head.
"Yeah cause you'll totally talk to people" He teases, she puts her hand on her head and gasps lightly.
"Oh my feelings" Peter grins at her. A small blush rested on his cheeks and one thought went through his head.
'Oh shit...' He gulps 'I think I like her...'
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Lunch rolled around and Peter was trapped.
Everywhere he turned someone was next to him asking questions, the most common ones being
'Are you really Tony Stark's kid?'
'What's it like living with the Avengers?'
'How come you never told us?'
'Hang out with us later ok Pete?'
It was honestly the most annoying thing in the world and Peter had never been so pleased to see Ned and MJ push past people to get to him. "Move it loser." MJ grunts, grabbing the crook of his elbow and dragging him out of the canteen and towards the art class. Miss.Will sat in side and glanced up.
"Hi Peter, MJ, Ned. Something I can help with?" She asks, Peter liked her more than the other teacher. She was kind and always gave tips. "Can we eat in here? People are bothering us, Pete's on a Code Amber." MJ asks with a slight crack in her voice, Peter smiled at her apologetically and the teacher nods.
"Just don't get food anywhere, You're in here next anyways" She waves them over to the back table and the three sit down to eat quietly.
"I can't stand this" Peter mutters, MJ glances at him. "I feel like crap, I'm getting people following me everywhere and you're both suffering. They won't leave you alone" He mutters. MJ punches his shoulder making him yelp.
"Oh suck it up princess. If that head of yours gets to big we'll make sure to kick your ass. Now, shut up eat some rye bread whilst we listen to Ned talk Nerd." She points to the other guy and he squeaks a bit.
"Right so urm- I got to see the new star wars...." That's how they spent lunch, Peter was surprised at how much he missed being around his friends and smiles a little, relaxing for the first time all day as they talked 'Nerd'.
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Peter sat in engineering class as was trying not to focus on all the eyes on him as he fiddled with his circuit board. He could feel all of them watching his every move and caught a few eyes any time he glanced up that immediately moved away from him when he caught them. He almost jumped when his teacher walks behind him and puts a hand on his shoulder. "Peter. I've called for your...some one's coming to collect you. There's a bit of fun out side so go out the back" Peter blinks in confusion and nods, packing his stuff up he leaves the class room and calls Rhodey.
"Sergeant James Rhodes here" Rhodey's voice echo's through the phone and Peter rolls his eyes.
"Rhodey it's Peter" He says quietly as he slips into the toilets with a sigh. "Please tell me you're on your way to grab me?" He asks and Rhodey's chuckle makes him sigh in relief.
"I'm outside, back entrance. You're engineer teacher called, said that there was some serious amount of paparazzi out side. Something about a Code Violet. Should be able to get out easily enough." He says casually. Peter thinks for moment and fidgets.
"Will they go after my friends?" He asks for a moment, he hears Rhodey grunt a bit and he groans. "C...Can I bring my friends with me? We can drop them off at home, it's only two of them and they're both really close to me right now" He begs, Rhodey scoffs.
"You sound like you dad when he was trying to steal my beer for the first time" He teases. "Fine grab your friends and move fast" He says seriously, Peter hangs up and runs off to grab his friends.
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The ride was quiet, Rhodey kept glancing at the three in the back and smirking at Peter. Peter flushed each time he saw the smirk, MJ was leaning against him as the car moved. Feeling a blush covering his face one more time as Rhodey parks out side of Ned's house the other boy waves a bit. "See you tomorrow Pete" He says high-fiving the other boy with grin. Rhodey starts to drive again once the door closes.
"So...How long have you and Pete been dating?" Rhodey's teasing voice rings out and Peter's pretty sure he can die now. MJ glanced up at Rhodey with a study gaze.
"We aren't." She responds and Peter nods his head a bit, gulping a little as an awkward bubble forms in his throat.
"Bull. I've seen enough teen drama movies to know when there's a couple in my car." He grinned evilly. "Or are you two in that awkward 'I like him/her but I don't know what to do' stage because you need to get over that fast." He says casually and Peter glares, MJ snorts a little.
"Shame, Pete here isn't my type. I'm more into tits then I am dicks" Peter coughs violently into his hand and hides a grin as Rhodey him self stiffens.
"Oh shit urm...sorry sorry I-I urm-" Rhodey pulls up out side of her flat. "I didn't know I won't-" MJ shakes her head.
"I'm joking. I swing both ways" She gets out of the car, Rhodey's mouth drops open as he realises a teenage girl had him babbling and apologising. "I'll see you tomorrow Peter." She leans in to grab her bag, brushing a soft kiss on Peter's cheek. "I'll call with details for the three way with Ned ok big guy?" She sends him a wicked grin and runs off in side whilst Peter just gapes and splutters.
"W-what the fuck" His voice went up 3 octaves whilst Rhodey just whistles low and drives towards the tower.
"Jeez you know how to pick 'em Pete. And you aren't even together yet" Rhodey says softly. The rest of the of the ride is silent as Peter just holds his cheek. A blush covering his face the whole time.
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Peter was late.
He was soooo late.
He was over an hour late and it wasn't even his fault. The boy was running fast across the rooftops, the tower finally coming into view. He'd ran out of web fluid and was just out side of queens. He'd been running the whole time and was exhausted. "Shit shit shit!" He mutters finally landing on a window at the tower, he spots Rhodey staring at him from the front room window and gulps.
"Get in side. Right now" He says seriously. Peter climbed in through the window and pulls off his mask as Rhodey approached him. The teen gave a soft gulp as he stood in front of him. "I better hear a valid reason on why you're 2 hours late Peter." Rhodey says seriously. He was in his wheelchair right now but he was still petrified of the aura Rhodey was giving off.
"Ok so like I have these web fluids, they're what helps me swing. Really cool stuff but urm..I-I urm...I ran out of web fluids. I was on the opposite side of queens and I had to run the entire way" He pauses to breath as Rhodey stairs at him. "I would of called! really! But my phone died about an hour into patrol and I didn't think-" Rhodey grunts at that and glares at Peter.
"Yeah. You didn't think, I was worried. Thought I'd have to call Tony and tell him 'Oh hey Tones, it's been a day and I've already lost my nephew. Hope you don't mind' Do you have any idea how freaked out that had me?" He says seriously. "I got word earlier that Cap will be back by tomorrow morning so after school he will give you your punishment. Now get your ass to bed and stay out of trouble." He warns angrily, Peter gapes at him a little. "I will spank you here and now and then tell Cap to repeat if I have to. Move out now!" He orders and Peter feels his legs speeding into his room as he hears the chairs wheels. He slams his door shut and collapses on his bed. Tears in his eyes as he listens to Rhodey go to bed. He thought his points where valid enough but apparently not for Rhodey.
He prayed for his ass in the morning.
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"Get the fuck down!" A voice screamed at him.
"Useless!" Another one shot at him.
"It's your fault!" A third echo'd.
Peter was in a dark void with nothing but constant screaming voices. He couldn't breath, he was suffocating and now he was suddenly staring at his Uncle Ben's bleeding body as he pointed at Peter with a sickening grin. "This is your fault" He accused. "You could of saved me" He spat at the boy, Peter felt his body shake with sobs as his uncle's body fades away and switches to being trapped under a building. He felt his throat close over.
"STOP! HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE! ANYONE! I'M TRAPPED! I CAN'T BREATH!" He screamed, he begged for hours on end.
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Rhodey and Steve sat in the kitchen chatting away quietly to each other, Rhodey informing Steve about last nights events. "Two whole hours? What was his reasons?" Steve asks flexing his hand a little, a little unsure about spanking the boy as two days ago he'd just spanked him for the same reason.
"His webs running out? Then his phone was dead or something?" Rhodey says in-sure. Steve huffs.
"I see. He's had this before, Tony tells him to make sure his webs are filled and phone is above 90 percent. He knows better I'll give him 15 for the lateness and 5 more for disobeying." He says seriously. He sighs standing up. "Lets go wake him up. I'll give him 10 now and 10 tonight" Steve said seriously, the other man nods and they move towards his room. Steve opens the bedroom door and froze as he saw a curled up boy under a pile of sheets and swears softly.
"What's going on?" Rhodey asks, his legs carrying him awkwardly towards Peter. Steve grabs him and shakes his head, "Steve?" He asks.
"He won't be going in school today" He mutters, pulling the blankets back to revel a shivering sniffling boy, twisting and turning in fear as he wordlessly screamed.
"What's going on?" Rhodey asks again, Steve glances at him as he carefully gathers the boy in his arms and restrains him, feeling him kick and struggle against him.
"Peter get's really bad night terrors. When they get this bad he's anxious all day and can't focus on anything. Usually leads to him staying around Bucky, me or one of his parents almost like protection from something" He mutters, grunting when Peter's head smacks repeatedly into his chest. "I'm going to wake him up slowly if you could phone the school and tell them its a code blue they'll under stand" Steve says gently and holds Peter closer whilst Rhodey leaves.
Once Rhodey leaves he sets Peter face down on the bed, moving his arms behind his back he puts his weight onto the boy and starts gently shaking him. "Peter. Pete come on. It's a nightmare" He mumbles, Peter shrieks a little in his sleep and that's when the real fight to keep Peter from hurting him self starts. Peter bucks and kicks under him and screams, Steve grunts at the effort he had to use to control the boy. "Come on Pete. It's Steve. No one is going to hurt you" He mutters.
"HELP! PLEASE SOME ONE! HELP!" Peter's heart breaking voice echo'd through the room, Steve flinches at the tone and has to double his efforts to restrain him.
"Son, it's time to wake up. It's a dream, a dream Pe-" He gasps as he feels Peter jab him in the guy. "Shit boy." He grunts, getting a better hold on him and delivers a firm slap across the boys backside. He almost sunk to the floor when Peter opened his big brown eyes in shock.
"S....Steve?" He mumbles, his body felt stiff and in pain. But over all he felt petrified. Steve let go of him and Peter clung to the boy immediately, a sob breaking through his throat.
"Pete, it's ok. I promise it's ok" He mumbles. Rhodey watched the two from his spot in the doorway. "Rhodey, can you hold him whilst I get him some drink and food?" He asks, Rhodey walks over as quick as possible and takes the boy from Steve. Peter sobbed into him and Rhodey realised with a sigh.
Today was going to be a hard day.