Please don't go

Chapter 10

"When do you think I can go back to school" he asks casually as he pushes around the cereal in his bowl

"I don't know kid, I was thinking maybe 2 weeks after we have all settled in, this way you will be comfortable and maybe have had some time to get a little better, it's just, you faced a big trauma, and then went right to school where you were shoved things down your through and told to pay attention and memorize and it just didn't leave you a lot of time to process and I think that's really what you need, time to process and talk" explains tony

"But school made me feel like I was back in the good old days" peter justifies

"And I'm not sure that's a good thing, I mean it just masks the reality causing you to ignore and not address the fact that you experienced some pretty intense things a while back, Peter I'm not saying this to be mean or make you mad, I just really think it's important for you to address your issues and work on fixing them instead of ignoring them and distracting yourself from them" Tony claims

"But what if I can't deal with them" the boy questions feeling small and weak

"You can and you will, and you have support to help you along the way, you have me, may, pepper, even Morgan is rooting for you, but peter your also the strongest kid I know, and not because your spider man or because you got bit by some weird hippie spider, but because you are the smartest, bravest most kind hearted person I know, and you will fight and try your hardest and you will get through this because you can, I promise you" Tony says

"Okay" is the only words the boy is able to form

They continue to eat in comfortable silence when tony speaks up

"So I have some work I need to do today, you know regarding stark industries, the move, the avengers and just the whole inevitable big purple guy thing" he says trying to make light of it all "so I'm gonna be in my office for a lot of the day so will you be able to keep yourself busy?" He asks peter

"Yeah, yeah sure" he says

"Pete?" He says sternly

"I'll be fine mr.stark I promise, I got a whole tower to myself, and not any tower, but the stark avengers tower that has anything anyone would need, a lab, a gym, a tv, Friday! Don't worry about me mr.stark I'll be more thank fine, and if anything your only a couple floors down" peter assured him

"Alright, well if you need anything, anything at all please come see me" he advises him

When tony puts his dishes in the sink and leaves to his office peter sits there for a while thinking of what he can do, after he's finished his cereal, he goes upstairs and looks into his closet to change out of his pijamas, when he grabs a shirt off s hanger his Spidey suit falls to the floor, he picks it up and looks at it a mix of pain,sadness and thrill runs through him and he speaks

"Hey Friday?"

"Yes peter?"

"Can you open the vertical reality training program in the gym i would like to practice a little while mr.stark is working"

"Sure" says the AI

Peter throws his suit on and rushes the gym

Peter breaths before he starts the training, he hasn't been spider man since the battle, but if tony believes in him, he should believe in himself

"Ok Friday, start the program"

The exercise starts and immediately starts fighting the bad guys, since it's a vertical reality, the webs don't work, but peter added to the program that he can throw virtual webs to the virtual villains making it more real for him, peter webs one one of guys and kicks the other then webs him to the wall he continues to fight the remaining members of the team till he accomplishes his task of taking them all down, when he's done he runs through diffrebt levels and locations more times before he stops