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Tweak says, "Gonna take a mean ride"

Peter Parker || Spider-Man (gangewifre) wrote in timerift_log,
@ 2022-04-10 12:43:00

Entry tags:

mcu: peter parker, mcu: tony stark

Scene: Peter & Tony
Who: Peter Parker & Tony Stark
What: Are you who I think you are?
Where: Huddol Street
When: Backdated to April 7th
Warnings: No Way Home spoilers, probably.

Peter had sort of assumed the whole 'hole in the multiverse' situation was the kind of thing that only happened once. Definitely to one person, anyway. Definitely definitely in the space of three months.

So it had been a bit of a surprise to climb in through the window of his apartment, and emerge on a street in Cardiff in 1999. He was just glad he'd had a change of clothes in his bag.

The wizard (obviously there was a wizard. There was always a wizard) who had met him had seemed about as baffled as Peter felt. There had been a little while where he'd had to try and convince the guy that he wasn't 'Mr Potter' - whoever that was - but eventually he'd been pointed in the right direction, with a new phone and a few scraps of information. Now Pete was wandering down what had to be the most insane street he'd ever seen, torn between flicking madly through his journal and staring at everything going on around him. It was only the familiar, tingling feeling lurking under his skin which had prevented a major collision.

"Oops. Sorry," Peter muttered, for perhaps the fifteenth time, spinning sharply on his heel without breaking his stride, barely glancing up from the book at the figure he'd narrowly avoided bumping into. But it was during that glance that he spotted something. Or rather, felt something.

Peter's gaze snapped up so quickly that it almost hurt, and he whirled around. Where was... there. Journal forgotten, the young man broke into a run, easily dodging the other pedestrians and vaulting over a display of what looked like cauldrons in his pursuit of the rapidly retreating back. He bounded after him, his heart pounding in a way that had nothing to do with physical exertion and everything to do with...

"Mr Stark?!" He yelled, a little too loudly. Without thinking, Peter threw himself forward and grabbed the man's elbow, forcing him to turn.

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gangewifre
2022-04-14 02:00 pm UTC (link)

"I dunno!” Peter shrugged hopelessly, eyes wide. “It's a wizard world, right? You could have been!”

It definitely seemed like the right Mr Stark, anyway, from the arched eyebrow to the confident stance. It was all so familiar that it drove the breath from Peter's lungs. But did that mean that Tony knew about what had happened on that battelfield, then? How long had he been here? What were they doing here?

Pushing all ‘whys’ and ‘what ifs’ aside for a moment, Peter stepped forward and hugged him.

More than grief, was the huge rush of relief that swept through him like a wave. Ever since he’d lost May, and especially after the whole thing on Liberty Island, Peter hadn’t really had anyone. Not someone who’d cared about what he got up to. Or even just cared about him in general. It had been easier, in a way, but it had also been… well, pretty lonely.

“It’s really good to see you.”

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cutsthewire
2022-04-15 03:56 am UTC (link)

Tony smiled at Peter's response and was about to pull the teenager into a hug, but Peter beat him to the punch. He dropped the bag of gifts he had purchased for Morgan so that he might return the embrace with a proper, two-armed one. "It's good to see you, too, kid. I'm sorry we didn't have time for more than 'hello' last time."

Seeing Peter alive and well on the battlefield outside the Compound had removed the weight that had been bearing down on him ever since the he'd watched Peter disintegrate in his arms on Titan. At the time, Tony thought there would be a later opportunity to tell Peter about what he'd missed, regale him with the science of time travel, introduce him to his daughter. Instead there had been more goodbyes, even if Tony had been unable to voice his.

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