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Tony Stark: Earth's Best Defender (allaboutego) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-12-13 20:35:00

Entry tags:

peter parker (mcu), tony stark (mcu)

Who: Tony Stark, Peter Parker
What: …bonding? Listen, idk
Where: SPACE MALL.
When: Dec 14th

It didn’t take any kind of idiot to know that Peter had been having a hard time dealing with things since he’d arrived here. And Tony had been trying to be helpful in whatever way he knew how - or whatever he felt was best. He got that he wasn’t the easiest person to see, given Peter’s situation. So either he hovered around a lot, or he made himself scarce depending on (as the kids liked to say) the vibes in the room at any given moment.

So far, he was pretty sure that was working. Well, kind of sure. Tony hadn’t exactly asked because frankly there was no one in their household who was just out and open about their feelings and what was on their mind at any given point and time. He was probably closer to that with Gwen than he was with Peter, and that was fair and expected. They’d spent more time in close quarters, had built something up between the two of them that didn’t even really need words at this point. Peter was —

Well.

Tony was trying.

Which was maybe why they were standing in a ridiculously large mall in a place that was virtually unrecognizable beyond the fact that all malls kind of just looked the same, no matter where they were located. He was also here because he desperately needed to get Christmas gifts for people, and his adventure with Nyx had been a very bizarre and awkward bust.

“Okay,” he said, pushing his sunglasses up his nose and half watching FRIDAY scan everything while his eyes were mostly on Peter. “Three things to remember. There’s no divide an conquer in situations like these. Cinnabon is two thousand calories per roll and worth every goddamned one of them, and — no. I guess it’s only two things.”

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allaboutego
2019-12-26 07:00 pm UTC (link)

Everyone was weighed down by that sense of responsibility -- even Tony. Although, if he was being honest, it had sort of waned lately. Finding out he died to save the universe was kind of -- well. Time was cyclical. He'd done it at some point and would do it again but Tony wasn't exactly in a rush to go out and die. Not when he felt like he had things to live for. Mind, he'd do it. He'd made peace with that and was willing to lay himself down on the wire.

But a willingness and a want were two different things.

"Two then. And you think he's evil because he teases you," Tony said with a half of a smile. It felt like forever, kind of, since he'd been in Peter's every day business enough to know stuff like that. But he'd gotten all those voicemails from Happy. Weird texts, daily updates about churros and all the rest. He sort of missed it.

"Damn right I did and damn right they did. The place was garbage. But a space version? I dunno. It's just stupid enough to be good." And he had a lot of weird shopping to be doing, okay. "Oh," he said, squinting at the clothing store. "Space overalls."

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stickyboi
2020-01-15 07:09 pm UTC (link)

That was Peter's problem - responsibility to a fault. But it's the most vivid lesson he's ever learned, ingrained in him hard, wrapped up in guilt and grief and a whole mess of crap - and maybe it's nice to resolutely Not Think About It for a little while. At least until after Christmas?

"He's evil because he's evil. The teasing is incidental." Peter half-grumbles, glancing at Tony briefly before letting his eyes cut away. It's so strange, because it's Him and it's Not and also, he thinks it's probably just as weird for Tony because he's Peter but he's also Not. God, it makes his head hurt if he thinks about it too long. And if it feels far away from Tony, jeez, it feels like eons to Peter since he was sitting on that bus with his classmates.

"Sure it is. Someone has to keep the dream alive." Peter's teasing, but he'd no doubt be catching flies the second they entered the place. He cranes his neck and - ah, there's a map kiosk! Sick. "Should we get you a pair? Is Space Train Conductor in style this season?"

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