Family

What Do You Say Kid??

Peter felt himself slowly wake up, but he didn't want to. He remembered what had happened earlier that day, what he had found out; all he wanted to do was have the ground suck him up. Sitting up, he rubbed his tear stained face and looked around, seeing he was in the spare room at Stark Tower; now he remembered. They all knew and...he had passed out in Tony's arms after Nancy and Thomas had left. Another thought hit him; foster home!! Shaking his head, the teen looked at his phone and saw it was 6 O clock; had he really slept for four hours!? He stood up and stretched before making his way over to the lift; JARVIS spoke "good evening Peter, how are you feeling??" he asked "I've been better, can you take me to the Common room please??" the kid asked "of course". Once the door opened again, Peter saw all of the Avengers sat on the sofas watching TV, Tony had a laptop resting on his lap, looking very focused. Natasha noticed the teen first and sent him a smile "hey Peter, how are you feeling??" she asked, this caught all of the teams attention as they looked to him as well; Peter just shrugged "...I've been better" he really didn't know what to say. Sitting down on the arm chair, Peter could see everyone was still staring at him; he just kept his hair down and wrapped his arms around himself. "Do you want some food yet Peter?? We were planning on having some pasta" Bruce asked "Bucky's cooking of course" the teen didn't really want to talk but he didn't want to come across as rude "em...save me some when it's made...I'm not that hungry right now" he replied earning a nod "okay". They all fell quiet and Peter looked up again, all eyes were still on him "em...you guys..okay??" he asked, feeling really awkward under their worried gaze "we're fine kid, it's you we're concerned about" Clint stated as he leant forward in his seat, elbows resting on his knees. The kid shrugged and looked back down at his lap "I just....I miss her....I'm never gonna see Aunt May again" he mumbled "she shouldn't be gone" they all knew how he felt. Bucky suddenly spoke up "don't blame yourself Peter" everyone looked to the man with the metal arm "huh?? Why would he blame himself!?" Tony asked; the question was ignored. "You were in school, you were where you were meant to be at that moment in time, you couldn't stop her fate" he stated, careful of his words due to not actually knowing how the woman died; Peter shrugged "whatever you say" he didn't actually believe it but didn't want to talk about it more. He was Spiderman, the person that saves the little guys.....he couldn't even save his own Aunt May; the one person he promised his Uncle Ben to protect!! And he had failed.

They could see he didn't believe them so they dropped it for the time being; Bucky and Natasha stood and entered the kitchen to make them all some dinner. Peter suddenly felt his phone vibrate, he looked to see he was getting texts from everyone he knew; they were all saying how sorry they were, how they hoped he was okay, asked where he was and that they couldn't believe it. They were talking about May, but how did they all find out?? Peter asked his best friend who just replied "dude, it's all over the news!!". Eyes wide, the teen shot up in his seat "JARVIS, put the news on please" even upset, he was still polite. Everyone raised a concerned brow, including the two cooks who looked over to the TV; JARVIS did as asked and they saw it. A reporter was stood where the crash took place "May Parker, a 39 female who worked at NYC hospital as a nurse, was just going on her daily stroll when 25 year old male - Thomas Greene - hit her as he drove at 180 miles under the influence of alcohol" she explained "sadly, May Parker died on impact, leaving her 15 year old nephew an orphan again". Peter's eyes widened at the last part, how did they know about him?! They went back to the studio where two other reported sat "yes, May Parker was the Aunt and guardian to 15 year old Peter Parker, whose parents and uncle are also no longer with us" what the?! They had quite the research team "our thoughts are with her nephew" and then they went to another topic. Peter felt angry towards the news, they shouldn't have mentioned his name or past for the whole damn world to hear!!! "I'll call some people up" Tony stated as he stood up "they had no right in saying anything other than your name" he told the teen who nodded; Peter just slouched back down onto the chair. He text everyone who was sending him massagers, saying he was fine - a clear lie. Everyone fell silent again, not sure on what to say, especially since Tony had now left the room to rant to his contacts about how absurd the news was. Clint quickly turned the channel so the news was gone and turned on some random TV show. It was so awkward!!!