Wrong Number (Spider-Man)

🕸 36. Adopted v2 🕸

TW: Abuse

Peter happily went into Happys car after getting MJ as his prom date. He was quiet the whole ride because his mind was filled with thoughts about MJ, so Happy naturally enjoyed the ride at the start, but then he actually got a bit worried for the kid.

"You alright kid?" He asked and the kid jumped a bit in his seat.
"Oh yeah, I'm great actually, I'm doing fantastic"
"Oh alright" Happy replied and put up the divider between them again.
The rest of the ride went silent as well.

They arrived at the tower and Peter went upstairs to his room, almost skipping through the living room, Tony picked up the odd behavior of his son and raised his eyebrows.

"What's up Bambi? What are you so excited about?"
"I have a girlfriend" he chimed and Tony frowned. "Are you sure it's not just because you're my son?" He asked and the spider quickly shook his head. "I've liked her for quite a while and we've been friends for a long time" He replied and Tony smiled at his son. "Well, good for you Pete, is she your prom date as well?"
"Yep, anyway, gotta go" he said and hurried into his room in order to text Flash and Ned how it went.

'The Boys'

Peter
MJ said yes!!

Ned
Congrats dude! You two have been sending each other glares for ageeeeees

Flash
True lol

Peter
:(
She's also my date to prom, have you guys gotten any dates?

Ned
Nope :'(

Flash
Not yet:(
Btw I'm at my internship rn

Peter put away his phone and went downstairs to find Flash.

He arrived down at the floor and looked around, he found Flash and his boss standing around and talking about a project. They were acting just the way that he and his dad were at the start, so maybe there was a chance of Flash getting a good adoptive parent in her.

Peter smiled and went over to his friend. The boss looked at him.
"Hello, what do you want?" She said and then Flash looked up. "Oh hi Peter"
"You can't be here just to meet your friends"
"Oh, I just wanted to see how his boss was treating him, and it seems like you're a great person"

"Thank you uhhh, what's your name?"
"Peter Parker-Stark" he replied and her eyes widened. "You're Mr. Starks son?"
"Yep, how is it going with Flash?"
"Oh, he's excellent" she replied with a smile.
"Good to hear, are you two getting along?"
"Yeah, we're very close, she's like a mother to me" The boy said and immediately turned red, but his boss smiled, so maybe they were turning into a mother-son duo.
"And you're like a son to me too, if I had the chance I'd adopt you" she said and Flash smiled wide.

Peter smiled and then waved at the duo and then left the floor and went up to his room. He shot Flash a text as soon as he took his phone.

Spider boi
Hey Flash, can you come by my room now you have that friend level badge? When your internship is over?

The Flash
Sure Parker

Peter put his phone away and waited for his friend to go visit his room.

After half an hour, the boy arrived and knocked on his door. The spider opened and met him.
"What's up Parker?"
"I think you should get her to actually adopt you, you seem pretty close"
"Maybe, I would actually like her as a mom, she's so sweet, my mom isn't abusive but she doesn't care"
"Yeah, well why don't you"
"I don't know how to, and I gotta go now"
"Bye Flash" Peter said as the other left the tower to go home, Peter got his suit to form around him and followed the boy home, with his phone ready.

Flash arrived at his own home and found the door locked. He knocked on the door and Peter filmed it.

Mr. Thompson opened the door and looked at him. "You're 3 minutes late!" He yelled and Flash flinched, the sound of a hand hitting Flash's cheek sounded and then he was dragged inside, Peter wanted to interfere, but that would probably just cause Flash to be hit even worse, so the spider snuck closer and filmed Flash getting yelled at and hit through the window.

After 10 minutes the poor teen was sent into his room and the vigilante stopped recording and swung home, feeling extremely bad for his friend.

This went on for a couple of days until Peter thought he had enough proof.

Spider boi
Flash
I'm reporting your dad to CPS!
You need to get a better family

The Flash
But how, you don't have any proof

Spider boi
Says who?

The Flash
??

Spider boi
I have video proof

The Flash
Creep.

Spider boi
Spider-Man have been filming you and your dad, so why don't you come and stay at my place while we sort something out?

The Flash
Fine, can we ask my boss to adopt me before we do anything, because I don't want to do anything if I can't get adopted by her

Spider boi
Sure

Peter closed down his texting app and waited for Flash to arrive at the tower.

After an hour of playing games on the phone, he heard a knock at his door. He opened it to reveal Flash, Peter walked outside and the two boys went down to find Flash' boss.

"Hey Ms Watson?" He asked and she smiled.
"Flash dear, call me Mary please.
"Oh, well Mary, were you serious when you said you would adopt me?"
"Yeah of course, I've always wanted children but was never able to, why are you asking?"

"Well, my father is abusive so I want to go to court against him, but I don't want to do so unless I know for a fact that someone will adopt me"
"Oh honey" she said with a sweet voice, laced with sympathy for the poor boy, she hugged him and kissed his forehead.

"I'll adopt you, don't worry, and I'll help you against your father" she assured him and they smiled.

Peter smiled as well and then got all the videos sent to Ms Watson and they went to Marys lawyer to start a case against Flash' father.

With all the videos as evidence the case was quickly over and Mary figured out all of the adoption papers and soon after, it was official, Flash was now Eugene Watson.

And his father got 30 years in prison for child abuse and neglect.

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