realization

Peter stepped out of the starks tower and let out a HUGE sigh. "That was terrifying." He said. Peter began walking and decided to head to the library before going home.

A quick walk later and Peter saw the library. The bell ringed as he walked through and the immediate smell of dust and paper refreshed his senses.

He let out a heavy breath and smiled, walking straight to the comic section. Peter always visited the library at least once a week, and sat down at the exact same spot in the comic section. He liked reading all of the comics made about his idols; the avengers. Some comics were made up, just "wow that would have been cool" things that never happened, but some told true tales about the avengers. And Peter was always there to read them. And maybe one day, they would add a spiderman comic. That had never happened.

Yet.

Peter entered his lovely area, and stopped in his tracks. "Lilac." He said.

Lilac was sitting in his spot, reading the one and only spiderman comic. Peter would have focused on lilac, if not for the shiny cover exposing THE spiderman suit.

"Woah, when did you get this one?" Peter asked and sat down next to lilac. Lilac put down her comic. "It just came in today." She said. "You like comics?" She asked.

Peter looked up at the 5 shelves of comics. "I love them. Read every single one of these." He said. Lilac looked up and then back at Peter with a smile. She picked up the comic book again. "really?" This is the first one I've read."

Peter wanted to keep talking, but something  about lilac was always off. "Lucky." He said. Peter got up to leave, but lilac stopped him. "Do you like spiderman?" She asked.

Peter stopped walking and turned around. "I guess." He said. "Never really thought of it." He quickly said. Lilac looked down. "Why?" He asked.

Lilac hid her disappointed look. "Just wondering. You seemed excited to see this comic." She said. Peter looked at it again and smiled. "Yeah I guess."

Peter turned around and went walking off again. "Tell me how it goes." He said.

●●●

NEXT DAY, SATURDAY AT STARK TOWER

"Here you go Mr stark." Peter handed tony his coffee. Tony had never said it outloud, but every one of Peter's coffees had been perfect. "Thanks." He said.

Tony and Peter were on level 55, but in Tony's personal lab. It was huge, Peter was in heaven.

Tony was working on alarm clock, little did Peter know; he was testing him again. "Look here, Pete. I need you to watch what I'm doing carefully." He said. Peter snapped into attention and watched carefully. 20 minutes went by, and Tony was still building it.

Another 10 minutes later, and tony decided he was done. "And done." He said. Peter nodded. "Good job." Peter said awkwardly.

Tony put on a face. "You think so?" He said. Then, in a rage tony pulled it all apart- carefully. "I hate it." He said.

With in seconds, tony pulled everything apart. The last 30 minutes wasted.

Tony looked at his rubbish and smiled on the inside. "Actually, I liked it." He said. Peter was confused as ever.

Tony handed peter a screwdriver and his tools. "Fix it for me?" He asked. Tony got up and went to leave the lab. Peter stood with a screwdriver in his hand.

"Huh? Sir-" peter said. He looked to the side and saw all the pieces. Pretty simple. He looked back at tony. "Alright." He said. Tony looked at Peter and internally smiled. "Meet back in 30 minutes." He said.

•••

30 MINUTES LATER

Peter looked at his work. It looked identicle to Tony's. He sighed and started to pack up, when karen spoke. "Good job, Peter." She said. Peter smiled to himself and placed a hand on his ear. "Thanks, Karen. I'm no tony stark, but I tried."

"You'll get there." Karen said. Peter was about to respond, when tony busted into the room. "Kid, what is that you're going to drive me nuts." He said.

Peter stood there with wide eyes. "...what?" He asked. Tony looked crazy. "The ear thing." He took his arm and pointed aggressively at his ear. "Why do you...do that thing?" He asked.

Peter tried to understand what he was asking, when he clicked. Peter laughed quietly. "I'm talking to karen." He said.

Now tony was confused. "What?" He asked. Peter stepped forward. "Karen, my A.I." peter pointed to his ear. "Wanna meet her?" He asked.

Tony looked astonished. "You made an A.I?" Tony asked. Peter gave an embarrassed smile. "Yeah, I worked on her for a while." Peter gave tony his ear piece. Tony, still astonished, placed it on his ear.

"Hello, tony stark." Karen welcomed. Tony gave Peter a look. "Hello...karen?" He replied.

"That is me. Peter has mentioned you a lot." She said. Tony looked at peter who continued cleaning his mess. Only the person with the earpiece was able to hear Karen. "He does?" Tony asked.

"Yep. He loves your work." She said.

Tony beamed. "Well that's nice." He said. Peter checked his watch. It was 9:00.

Tony and karen kept talking for a moment, when Peter got a call. "Connecting," Karen said. Tony freaked out. "Pete, you got a call." He said.

"Peter?" The person said. "Peter? You there? This is N-"

Peter quickly took the ear peice. "Hey, man. Sorry I cant talk right now I'm at the," peter began. He looked at tony who was admiring Peter's alarm clock. "The stark internship." He said.

Ned gasped on the other end. "Oh yeah I forgot about that." Ned said. Peter sighed. "Really?...I mentioned it this morning." He said.

"Sorry, I was watching this cool show. You know that show about these kids going through puberty? Its about that but now theres a new season and it focuses more on this girl names Jessie, she's going through some hard times with her parents-"

"Bye dude." Peter hung up. He sighed and put the ear piece away. "Sorry," he said to Tony. "Karen has learnt to just pick up instead of giving caller ID." He explained.

Tony nodded and put the alarm clock on a shelf. "Simple mistake." He said. "We could fix it if you want?" Tony suggested.

Peter opened his mouth. Being able to work with tony stark on his own A.I?? Yes PLEASE.

"Sure, thanks." Peter smiled. Tony smiled and Peter placed his ear piece on the table. And his phone on the table too, easier access to coding Karen.

"You did all this, on a phone?" Tony asked. Peter didnt think that was all too special. "Yeah, hah. But she has plenty of mistakes so," he said.

Tony shook his head and plugged the earpiece to his pc. Now Karen's digital coding and neurological thoughts were displayed. "Woah." Peter said outloud.

The two spent 3 hours on karen, til finally she was fixed. She said the persons name before picking up. It was great.

"Woah, thankyou mr stark." He said as he put the ear piece back on. Tony waved the thanks goodbye. "Don't mention it kid." He said.

Peter and Tony spent the rest of the day just talking. "So, hows life?" Tony asked Peter while drinking coffee.

Peter took that question lightly. "Okay. Cant complain." He said while tidying up tonys lab. Tont looked up. "Really? That's it? No friends that you hate, family issues or after school stuff you enjoy?" Tony asked.

Hmmm.

Friends you hate? Nope. Sure lilac was weird, and ned needed to CALM DOWN, but defiantly no hate. Family issues? Peter cringed at himself. After school activities? Sure, peter could think of one. But admitting to being spiderman could open some interesting conversations.

"Uh, nope. Nothing bad going on, but nothing great either I guess." Peter said. Tony sighed. "You're no fun, kid." Tony said.

Peter laughed.

•••

while the next month passed very quickly, peter had rushed around from going to school, the internship, being spiderman and everything in between. Being Peter parker was difficult. Good thing though, the internship was going very well. He and tony had gotten quite close.

And so had 'kid' and 'rando'.

KID

bro hows work going?

RANDO

Eh. Okay

Meeting some cool people

KID

That's good.

Hey question?

RANDO

Yes, my dear :/

KID

Do you think we'll meet each other soon?

RANDO

well

Honestly I dont know if that'll work out for the best

KID

yeah, I was thinking that

RANDO

wait what

No.

I'm the adult

I make the important decisions

Not some 10 year old

KID

Hey I'm 15

RANDO

Same thing

KID

Anywayyy

What are you doing today?

RANDO

stupid work stuff

You?

KID

hanging with my friend

RANDO

the one you thought was me? Ted?

KID

close

Ned

RANDO

Ahh okay

Only person I've ever heard that has the name Ned

KID

lol

RANDO

K

I gotta go to work now

Bye

KID

Byeeeeeeee

•••

Peter sat quietly, finishing the stop watch tony asked peter to assemble. Peter looked at his bag and sighed. He didnt pack lunch.

Tony looked at Peter's empty lunch box. He pulled open his first draw and handed peter $50. "Go down to level 15, theres a cafe there." Tony handed him money.

Peter hesitantly took it. "Really? I wont need $50." He said. Tony laughed. "You wont, I will. Can you grab me 2 chocolate muffins, a hot chocolate and 4 cookies, also?" Tony asked.

Peter grabbed his bag and smiled. "Yep, I'll come back in 10 minutes." Peter said. He left off and closed the door.

Tony smiled and looked at Peter's watch. He finished it in 5 minutes. Tony grabbed it and added it to the shelf. He showed off everything Peter had made.

Then, a noise made tony jump.

It was...yodeling? Tony looked around and noticed it came from peters phone. He checked to see and nope, Peter wasnt near. He wanted nothing more than to see who called him. Tony went to grab the phone, when Peter walked in the door with a bag full of snacks. "Mr stark," Peter began.

Tony jumped back from the phone to see Peter struggling with bags. He chuckled.

"How come everything was only $10?" Peter asked. Tony 'ooooh'ed and went to grab Peter's bag. "I forgot about my discount." He said.

Peter took a moment to take in what was happening again. Peter parker was working with THE tony stark and they were going to eat snacks in HIS lab. Wow.

Peter pulled everything out of the bags and placed the snacks on the table. "So, where would you like your muffins, cookies and hot chocolate?" Peter asked. He had purchased one egg salad sandwich for himself.

"Oh yeah," tony said. He grabbed a bag and placed everything besides the hot chocolate and a muffin, in the bag. "It was for you." He said. Tony then left the $40 change in the bag.

Peter looked at the bag, then the food, then tony. "What?" He said quickly.

Tony rolled his eyes. "Kid, all I ever see you eat is a sandwich. Thats it. Eat somthing yummy." Tony said.

"But, I do." Peter picked up his sandwich. "See? Delicious." He said.

Tony pushed the hot chocolate towards peter. "Then drink somthing yummy." He said.

Peter sighed in defeat. "Oh and don't even think about returning that money. You keep it." Tony said while biting a hamburger he randomly hid in his lab.

"So, this is all for me?" Peter asked. Tony took a bite of his burger. "Yep. Although, I'm gonna still a cookie."

The two ate, it was delicious. Peter gave in and ate the muffin, and it was great. "Oh, by the way. Somone called you." Tony said as he threw away his rubbish.

Peter grabbed his phone. "Oh, thanks! I'll check now."

Peter saw neds number and sighed. He dialed the number and waited for him to answer.

Tony picked up his tools and put them away. Ned picked up.

"Hey Ned, sorry I was away." Peter answered.

Tony's head stuck up.

"Ned, jeeze calm down. Yes, you already told me about that show." He said.

there it is. That name. Tony thought for a second. That sounds so familiar....

"Yep. Talk later. Bye Ned." Peter sighed. He turned to Tony. "Sorry, my friend just doesnt really listen hah."

Then It hit him.

"Ned?" Tony repeated. Peter laughed. "I know, quite a unique name." He said.

Peter got up. "I'm going to use the bathroom." Peter stood up and left.

Tony freaked out.

That's the kid.

Peter is THE kid

The kid I talk to

Oh my god.