Family Secrets

Greeting the Guests

Peter woke up early on Tuesday morning. It had been a 3 day weekend, and he was grateful for that, seeing as he was nearly fully healed. He had school today, and he was excited to see MJ.

The two teens had been texting all Sunday, much to Peter's family's displeasure. They'd been subject to spotty responses and sentences that died out as Peter grabbed his phone. Pepper had been careful not to be too upset, and made sure the family wasn't too hard on him for it, and Peter had been talked to by Natasha about it. Monday was a notable improvement, as Peter ended up spending the majority of the day with family and without the phone.

But this morning, all the excitement from Sunday was back. He was going to see her! And kiss her!

Peter dressed quickly, choosing a pair of jeans, a long sleeve grey top, and the new blue sneakers he had gotten on Saturday. Sliding into the kitchen, he was met with only 2 family members, his Uncle Sam and his Uncle Clint.

"Where is everyone?"

"Your parents had work, everyone else is getting ready to receive guests today," Sam shrugged, sipping his coffee.

"Happy will drive you," Clint smiled.

Peter gave a small smile. He didn't mind that his family was busy, he was just a little disappointed that he wouldn't see them until tonight, when he would also be meeting so many other people. He poured himself some coffee, grabbed a banana and his bag, and then gave his uncles a quick hug.

Happy was waiting for him in the garage, keys to the Audi in hand.

"We're taking this today, since I have to go get someone from the airport after I drop you off."

The drive over to school was slow, there was a lot more traffic than normally. Peter noticed a few streets were shut down.

"Is that cause of us?"

"Oh, the streets?" Happy glanced up at Peter in the rear view mirror. "Yeah, we have high security routes for today's pick ups."

"Pick ups?" Peter knew that Shuuri and the Guardians would use the landing pad on the Tower for their own ships, and Thor and Loki would just use the bridge to the courtyard, and Stephan would take a plane, but who was the other pick up?

"Oh, well... Wanda is heading home."

"What?" Peter sat up straighter, his voice heavy with panic.

"Calm down," Happy assured the teen. "She and Natasha talk more regularly than you think, she wanted to come home and help." Wanda had lived at the Tower for a year when Peter was young, but ultimately, she had left by the time he was 10, and Peter didn't have a clear memory of her. Ever since then, she had been travelling and helping out with low-level crime around the world.

Happy pulled up to the school and Peter hopped out, shouting a quick thank you.

The tall boy made his way into the school, spotting MJ at her locker. He threw a lazy web, pulling it shut and grabbing her when she spun around.

"That wasn't very nice," she huffed.

"I know it wasn't. What can I say, I'm just a bod boy." Peter ran a hand through his hair.

"Uh-huh, a bad boy? I think not," MJ laughed and wiggled out of his hold.

The two held hands down the hall, towards MJ's history class, joking the whole way there.

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Peter's school day passed quickly and he walked out of Midtown High with a score of 4 kisses, 7 hugs, and 2, yes 2, whole trips to classes holding hands. He hummed a little tune while getting in the car.