Scars That Last Forever II

Chapter Ten

I fly up in bed screaming.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" I scream over and over again.

My body begins to remble. 

"Peter!" I stop. The voice isn't Tony's. 

I look next to me. 

"Bucky..." I fling myself into his arms and begin to sob. 

"I missed you. I thought I thought... you might have been..." 

Bucky runs a hand through my hair. 

"Do you want to talk about it?" 

I nod slightly. 

"M-my first kill, the lady with brown hair..." 

"Sssshhh they are gone," 

I freeze and pull away slightly. 

"Peter, what's wrong?" 

I shake my head. 

"The-they aren't" 

Bucky's face contorts in confusion.

"Yesterday, during patrol these people tried to... kill this kid. The people, they were from it..." 

Bucky's mouth drops open in shock and tears begin to form in his eyes. 

"I thought they were gone," 

Soon we are both sobbing, hanging onto each other with our life. 

...

"Steve!" I exclaim walking out into the living room with Bucky. 

"Hey Buddy," Steve says standing up from the barstool and walking over to me. 

I give him a hug and he returns it. 

"I'm hungry," Steve lets go and the three of us walk towards the kitchen. I sat on the barstool by Bucky and Steve grabbed a plate of eggs from a hot plate. 

I heard footsteps walking in and turn to look, "Hi Tony!" 

"Hey, kid," Tony says sitting at the barstool on the other side of me. 

Steve puts some eggs on my plate and I thank him. For the rest of breakfast, we talk about random things and I smile. Hydra may be back, but at least we are together for now. 

... 

Nat had to take me to school today. Tony had a meeting, and Steve and Bucky had to talk to Fury about something. I'm not sure what. 

When I walk into the school, everyone ignores me. I go straight to my locker and open the lock putting my backpack and take out a couple of books. 

I hear someone walking behind me and quickly turn around. Ned. MJ. 

"Peter... I'm so sorry, stop ignoring us. We want to be your friend," 

"You didn't do anything... I-I," I look down at my shoes. 

It's ok Peter. 

I'm ok. 

They want to be my friend. 

"So, want to walk to class?" I ask. 

They all nod and I smile.

"Maybe we could go to study on Wednesday?" Ned suggests. 

I shrugged and MJ responds with a 'whatever'. We arrive at the classroom door and take our seats in the back of the class. 

"Alright everyone shares something you did over the weekend, Flash you can start." 

People respond with the same answers,  'I hung out with friends' or 'I slept'

When it gets to me I shrug, "UHHH, I hung out with..." I look over to Ned and MJ, "Friends," 

I see a small smirk play across their lips. 

... 

"Yo Penis!" An annoying squeaky voice calls out. I roll my eyes. 

"What," I say my voice sounding a little too much like HYDRA for my liking. 

"What happened with that freak out thing last year? And then you just disappeared?" He is now close me and my back is against a locker. 

Don't think about it, Peter. Don't think about it. 

Breathe, you'll be ok. 

I can imagine Bucky quietly talking me through my panic. 

They aren't in my mind anymore. 

"You were probably freaking out about the fact you'll have to go to Homecoming (trigger word) alone," I hear a group of 'ohhs' from the group around me. 

My mind goes blank. 

No. 

No. 

No. 

No. 

I squeeze my eyes shut as I feel something searching my brain. 

Don't he is just some idiot. 

He doesn't know what he is talking about. 

I can see the men handcuffing me to a metal chair. 

"If I told you, you would not believe me," I hiss shoving him out of the way and walking through the mass of students. 

Ned and MJ run up to me. 

"Are you ok? Oh my gosh, that was almost better than punishing him in the face... almost," 

I roll my eyes and MJ chuckles slightly. 

Homecoming still wrings around in my head. And my scream. And Buckys. 

I shiver but try to push it away. 

I want to go home. 

I want to see Bucky, Steve... and Tony.