Chapter 11
He sighs heavily and runs a hand through his hair as he looks around the dark and empty lab – there used to be homework assignments scattered around the workshop, and now…now they’re all gone, and Tony doesn’t know what happened, what caused Peter to come while he was gone and just pack up everything and leave.
They had been getting along so well, too, he thought; he thought that Peter looked up to him, and Lord knows he is no role model, but he tried, he tried for Peter and he thought that was enough; though, he supposes, Peter was bound to walk out on him eventually – might as well be sooner rather than later.
He sighs again and nods, leaving the lab without knowing that back in an apartment in Queens, there’s a teenage boy tucked into the corner where his bed meets the wall, and he’s sobbing because he failed – he meant to walk out on Tony so that he wouldn’t get hurt when Tony dies, and he’s failed because this hurts more than any death every could.