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Since Tony, Steve and Bucky got together not a lot had happened. Steve and Bucky had adopted Peter a few weeks ago so they now all were legally his parents. He had started to call them his fathers around that time and actually managed to make Bucky cry in front of everyone by doing so. He still called only Tony Dad and had taken to call Steve Pops and Bucky Papa.
He finally told Ned and MJ about it too and they first laughed their asses off – well especially MJ did – at the thought of Peter being the Avenger’s Amor.
Peter was sitting in his physics classroom and already groaning when Mr Harrington announced a field trip. Then their teacher handed out the permission slips and Peter wished that the ground would swallow him because on top of the piece of paper stood: FIELD TRIP TO STARK INDUSTRIES.
“Now listen, everyone!”, Mr Harrington tried to calm down everyone between excided calls of “That is so cool, dude!” (Ned), “Do you think we’ll see the Avengers?” (one of the girls) and “Finally ready to get exposed, Penis?” (Flash).
“The trip will be on Friday two weeks from now. I need the permission slips by next Wednesday or you won’t be able to come. Please keep in mind that Stark Industries is a very prestigious company and that you are representing our whole school while there.”
He looked as if he wanted to say something more but gave up when he looked at the excited class. Instead he dismissed them. While walking out of the school Ned was chattering a mile per minute and Peter was trying not to panic. MJ was drawing his face and was having way too much fun with it.
“Stop worrying, loser”, she finally said when they were outside the school. “I’m sure it won’t be that bad.”
Peter thanked her with a smile and said his goodbyes to her and the still talking Ned. Then he walked over to the familiar white car and climbed in on the passenger seat.
“Hey, Papa”, he greeted Bucky.
“Hey, Pete”, came the answer, almost directly followed by the question: “What’s got you down, baby?”
The nickname was something that had started a while ago after one of Peter’s nightmares. He protested at first, saying that he wasn’t a baby but gave up after a while and quite liked it now because it showed how much Bucky cared. Peter also was the only one that got a nickname from Bucky.
“Mr Harrington announced a field trip today”, Peter said after a moment. “It’s to the tower.”
“And that is bad?”, his Papa asked, glancing at him.
Peter shrugged. “I’m just worried that everyone will embarrass me. And that someone finds out that I’m the heir to SI. And that someone finds out about Spiderman.”
Bucky’s expression softened. “Don’t worry, Pete. Everyone on the team knows not to reveal your identity as Spiderman and they managed with all of the employees, didn’t they? We’ll tell everyone not to mention what position you really have and to pretend you are an intern. It may be impossible to keep everyone from embarrassing you but at least they won’t disclose any information you don’t want them to.”
Peter smiled. “Thanks, Papa.”
When they got to the tower, Tony signed the permission slip immediately and most of the Avengers promised not to disturb the tour. The exception were Clint, Sam and technically Thor and Loki since they weren’t there to promise it.
When Peter turned in the slip with everyone else on Wednesday at the end of the lesson, Mr Harrington commented with: “Mr Parker, please stay back for a moment.”
Flash snickered at that and Ned shot him a worried look but Peter simply walked up to the desk and waited for everyone else to leave.
“So Peter…”, Mr Harrington started with a friendly smile. “You really want to come to this field trip? As far as I know it’s basically a tour of your home.”
Peter shrugged. “Why not. It may get Flash to shut up about the fake internship.”
His teacher frowned. “Does he still bother you?”
“It’s not that bad”, Peter assured. “He doesn’t dare to do anything in your presence most of the time however.”
He smirked and Mr Harrington chuckled, looking pretty smug.
“Anyways”, Peter said after a moment. “My fathers wouldn’t let me skip out either way, no matter if I know SI or not.”
“Your fathers?”, Mr Harrington asked surprised. “Bruce only told me you were adopted by Mr Stark.”
“I sometimes forget that you and Bruce are texting”, Peter said with a shake of his head. “It’s weird how the different parts of my life are connected… I think Bruce didn’t tell you anything because it’s kind of a secret even at SI. But really; I know he wanted to invite you for dinner next time Loki is on earth and you’d find out by then, so I might as well tell you now.”
“Bruce didn’t tell me anything about a dinner yet”, Mr Harrington said while he started to pack up everything.
“Oh, well, if he asks I didn’t tell you”, Peter said with a sheepish smile. “Regardless of that… my Dad got together with Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes a while ago and they adopted me only a few weeks ago so now I have three fathers.”
Mr Harrington closed his bag with a headshake. “Your life is something else, Parker”, he said while walking towards the door.
“Well yours too, isn’t it?”, Peter asked with a grin. “After all you are best friends with the Bruce Banner, Mr Harrington.”
His teacher laughed when they left the school. No one else was there at this point.
“Listen, Peter, you can call me by my first time when we’re not in school”, Mr Harrington said after a second or two. “Especially when I come to your place for dinner.”
Peter laughed and rubbed his neck. “I’ll try… bye Mr Harrington!”
With that he speed-walked to the dark grey car already waiting for him.
“That was weird and funny at the same time”, he told Vision and Rhodey who were sitting in the front. Vision was driving and Rhodey probably there in case the non-human messed up.
“What happened?”, Rhodey asked while Vision started the car.
“Mr Harrington told me to call him by his first name when we’re not in school, Uncle Rhodey!”
Rhodey laughed. “What? That is pretty weird.”
Peter gave a shrug. “It’s actually pretty plausible. You know about Bruce’s best friend? He talked about inviting him over for dinner.”
“Roger, from college”, Vision chimed in, gaze firm on the street even if they were almost standing still in the New York rush hour traffic.
“Yeah, exactly. Well it’s Mr Harrington.”
That of course made Rhodey laugh a bit more.
The day of the field trip came way too fast for Peter’s liking. Before he knew, the whole class was gathered in front of the school, ready to get onto the school bus waiting for them. Mr Harrington was taking attendance.
Then they could climb into the bus and were off, back towards Peter’s home. It was warm outside and even warmer inside the bus, even if it only was early morning. Everyone wore short-sleeved shirts but Peter had packed a hoodie because he knew the temperature at the tower was the same as always and he would be cold without something warmer.
“Hey Penis!”, Flash called five minutes into the ride, careful not to catch the attention of their teacher who was talking with the bus driver. “I’m surprised you actually came. Do you really think you can hold up your lie when we’re at SI? I’ll prove to everyone that you aren’t an intern there. Anyways, they would take me ten times before they would even consider you for an internship.”
“Mhm, probably”, Peter simply responded, before he hit his head on the seat in front of him.
“That’s something I wanted to ask you, actually”, Ned said. “Who decides who to take as interns? Didn’t you say something about an intern supervisor? Do you know them.”
“Yes, there is an intern supervisor, but Mr Millers doesn’t decide who to hire. I do.”
“You… what?! That’s so cool!”, Ned gushed quietly.
Peter hit his head on the seat again. “I’m the heir, Ned, you know that. Dad and Pepper decided it would be a good task for me.”
“Stop hitting your head, nerd”, MJ said at the same time, lifting her head to give him a look over her book.
Peter groaned and closed his eyes, choosing to ignore everyone for the rest of the ride.
After getting to the tower, the class scrambled to get out of the bus and see the tower up close. Once inside they continued staring while Mr Harrington – who still hadn’t been at the tower – walked up to the front desk to check them in. Only seconds later the intern Kaylee excited the elevator and came over.
Mr Harrington came back with Happy in tow and the students finally quieted down enough for Happy to address them.
“Ok, listen closely everyone because I won’t repeat anything. While in this building you have to follow a few rules or you will be escorted out and will have to wait outside. The rules shouldn’t be too hard to follow, even for a bunch of teenagers.
Rule number one: You’re leaving your bags and phones down here. I don’t want any complaints or you turn around and leave. I don’t care how important your phones are to you.
Rule number two: You’ll be given security passes”, he held up the bunch of passes on lanyards, “that you have to wear at all times. If not you will be escorted out as well.
Rule number three: Don’t touch anything except given permission and don’t disturb anyone working unless your guide says otherwise.
Rule number four: If you would happen to come upon an Avenger – which is unlikely – treat them with respect. As much as this tower is the main building of Stark Industries, it is their home as well.”
With that he led them all to another room where they could leave their things, Kaylee following silently. Peter didn’t want to stand out so he left his bag as well after he took out the hoodie and his fake intern pass and put the hoodie on.
“You can keep your phone if you want”, Happy muttered to Peter as he passed him and Peter nodded lightly.
Happy then handed out the passes to the class, Kaylee now standing behind him. Then he wanted to leave the room again but was stopped by Flash’s voice. “Why didn’t Pen- Parker get a pass?”
Happy turned around, one eyebrow raised. “Who?, he asked, pretending not to know who Flash was talking about. Obviously the head of security knowing exactly who Peter was would be a little suspicious if he was only a low-level intern.
“Peter Parker”, Kaylee said, taking a step forward and pointing to Peter. “He’s an intern in R&D.”
Happy looked over at Peter before he gave a nod. “Parker, where is your pass?”
Peter immediately pulled it out of the pocket of his hoodie and put it around his neck. “I have it here, Mr Hogan.”
Happy nodded once again before he led them out of the room and to the scanners in front of the elevators.
“You’ll step through this scanner here and then Miss Richards here will start with your tour”, Happy explained.
Ned was so excited that he seemed to forget about his friends and went first.
“Ned Leeds, visitor, level 1”, FRIDAY’s voice rang through the invisible speakers around them and quite a few people jumped. Kaylee snickered, Peter grinned and Happy showed a half-smirk.
“That was Mr Stark’s AI FRIDAY. She has her ears and eyes everywhere, so we will know if you act against the rules”, Happy explained.
Next on the line was Flash who stepped through the scanners as if he owned the place.
“Eugene Thompson, visitor, level 1”, FRIDAY stated again. “Mr Thompson, you have been informed that you have to leave your phone behind. Please hand it over to Mr Hogan now or you may not continue with the tour.”
Flash turned a deep red when Happy took his phone out of his hand and most of the class laughed quietly. After that, everything continued smoothly. Flash seemed to be fine again by the time Kaylee stepped through the scanner, leaving only Peter and Happy behind.
“Kaylee Richards, intern, level 5. Temporary status: tour guide, level 3. Good luck with the tour, Miss Richards.”
“Thanks FRIDAY!”, Kaylee called with a smile.
Then Happy ushered Peter forward with a reassuring look.
“Peter Parker, intern, level 5. Welcome back, Mr Parker”, FRIDAY said and Peter let out a breath as he said his thanks to FRIDAY and Happy followed him through the scanner.
“Happy Hogan, head of security, level 8.”
Happy then proceeded into one of the elevators while Kaylee took the class a bit to the side to introduce herself.
“Now as you already heard, I’m Kaylee Richards and I’m a college student at MIT as well as an R&D intern here at SI. You can call me Kaylee but if you prefer Miss Richards, that’s ok. Are there any questions or shall we start with the tour?”
A girl raised her hand and Kaylee called her on. “What do the different levels of the passes mean?”, the girl asked.
“That’s an amazing question. There are ten levels of passes, each with an assigned colour. Level one – white – is for visitors, such as school tours. Level two – light blue – is for the press or for business partners who always only get a day pass, same as yours. Level three – orange – is for tour guides. If I was a full time guide, my pass would be orange; however I’m an intern and only guide tours occasionally, so I have an intern pass.
Level four – brown – is for janitors and maintenance staff. Level five – dark blue – is for interns such as Peter and myself. Level six is for normal employees. The level six passes have different green tones, each assigned to one department. The medical department for example has pale green, R&D has light green, biology has grass green and the PR department has emerald green.
Level seven – red – is for department heads. Level eight – black – is for security, as you heard. Level nine – silver – is for most of the Avengers as well as our CEO, Pepper Potts. Level ten – gold – is only for Mr Stark and his family. As most of the people with level nine or ten passes are residents of the tower, they don’t have to wear their pass all of the time, although they all have one. FRIDAY has saved their biometrics to make their lives easier.”
“Thank you”, the girl who asked the question said, looking quite overwhelmed with the onslaught of information.
“Cool!”, Kaylee said excited. “Let’s go on with the tour.”
She led them all into one of the elevators, talking about the history of the company.
“How did you do that?”, Flash suddenly hissed behind Peter and he almost jumped.
“How did I do what?”, he instead asked.
“How did you get them to pretend to know you, Penis?”
“I’m working here, I told you”, Peter sighed tiredly.
Flash just scoffed but concentrated on Kaylee again. Their first stop was the Avengers museum where Ned absolutely fanboyed over every single display and MJ took out her book she had somehow managed to sneak past Happy. After a while, Peter left Ned on his own and sat down on one of the benches that were all around the place. About two minutes later, Mr Harrington sat down next to him.
“So you actually have a level ten pass?”, the teacher asked.
Peter shrugged. “Yeah, but I just wanted to have a normal field trip for once. We told everyone to treat me as they would a random R&D intern. However a few of the Avengers apparently really want to embarrass me regardless, so we might encounter them somewhere along the way.”
“You really think so?”, Mr Harrington asked, seemingly not sure if he should be excited of wary.
“Definitely”, Peter replied. “Clint and Sam take their uncle duties pretty serious.”
His teacher laughed at that. They sat there in amicable silence for a while – eventually joined by the reading MJ – until Kaylee called them all together again to continue.
They started with the business part of SI, keeping it rather short because they were as science and technology school. Then they carried on to their last stop before lunch, the medical labs. On their way they were stopped by an intern who explained to Kaylee that the lab they originally wanted to see wasn’t available due to an important experiment taking place. Kaylee simply shrugged and targeted the next lab.
However once inside, the class stopped dead in their tracks. At a table at the far wall sat the department head – a nice woman called Irene – as well as Bruce Banner and Loki, whose feet were propped up on Bruce’s lab. When they noticed the students, the three went silent.
“Oh, I’m sorry”, Bruce immediately said. “I thought the tour wouldn’t come through this lab.”
Peter shrugged with a smile as Kaylee shook her head. “It wasn’t planned. The lab assigned to the tour was occupied so we had to change plans. But now that you’re already here, would you care to answer some questions?”
Irene looked at her watch before she answered: “I have a meeting in less than ten minutes, so I’ll have to leave unfortunately.”
“That’s all right”, Kaylee said as the scientist left the room. “What about you Dr Banner?”
Bruce looked at all of the hopeful faces before he sighed and stood up to lean against the table, Loki doing the same.
“I suppose I can spare a few minutes for the next generation of scientists”, Bruce said. “Ask away.”
The first few questions were all about Bruce’s research and he relaxed slightly. But then one of Flash’s goons of course had to ask what it was like to be the Hulk.
“Uh… well I -”
He was interrupted by MJ whose out-of-the-blue question made everyone forget the previous one.
“When you and your nephew are working together in the lab, who gets more work done?”
Bruce looked at her surprised but smiled when he saw that she was standing next to Peter. Peter heard a few whispers about how they didn’t know Bruce had a nephew.
“It depends, but most of the time it’s probably my nephew”, Bruce answered after a moment and grinned before he picked Flash for the next question.
“Isn’t it dangerous to let him walk around freely?”, he asked, motioning towards Loki. “After all he’s the guy who attacked New York.”
Bruce – not smiling anymore – pushed himself away from the table and took a step towards Flash, fists balled at his side, same as Peter’s.
“Don’t you dare insulting him ever again”, Bruce almost growled and would probably have said more (or turned into the Hulk), if Loki didn’t set a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.
“Are you two together?”, someone gushed out.
“As a matter of fact, yes, we are”, Loki spoke up for the first time. “And I think it would be a good idea for you young Midgardians to leave this room before you insult our relationship or do something equally dumb.”
Kaylee nodded and ignored the protests. “Yes, we should leave. It’s time for lunch anyways.”
As if the word lunch was magic, everyone instantly stopped complaining and eagerly followed their guide to the cafeteria.
Lunch passed with Peter trying to process everything Ned was saying and surprisingly with only two comments from Flash.
After that the class went to the R&D labs where they got to work on old Stark Tech and were given the chance to try their hand at the same assignment the interns had; disabling the nanobots of the Stark Nano WatchTM (no one did it although Peter didn’t even try).
They were in the middle of working when Peter’s spider senses flared up and a moment later Clint and Sam entered the room.
“There is my favourite intern!”, Clint exclaimed as they came over to the table Peter, Ned and MJ were working on. Their backs were turned to the rest of the room so they were facing the trio.
“How has the tour been going, Petey-pie and friends?”, Clint asked enthusiastically and Ned immediately started to explain everything they had done so far.
“Is that the Hawkeye and the Falcon?”, someone asked as Sam laughed over something Ned had said.
“No way”, Flash answered right away. “There is no way Penis Parker actually knows any of the Avengers, even if he was an intern here.”
Clint and Sam went rigid instantly which effectively got Ned to shut up.
The two heroes turned around slowly to face Flash, before Clint hopped on a table and opened a vent.
“See you upstairs”, he told Sam with barely contained anger (not that anyone really noticed) before he disappeared into the vents. Sam shot Flash one more look before he left the room as well. Kaylee, who of course had heard the whole interaction too, gave Flash a glare before she continued with the tour and led the class to the bio labs.
It was there that FRIDAY announced: “Miss Richards, the presence of your tour group is required in conference room 4. Please lead them there as soon as possible.
“You heard her!”, Kaylee called. “Come on, everyone!”
While they were walking, Peter’s phone buzzed. He took it out because he was at the back and no one was looking at him.
I know I said we will keep away from the tour, bambino, but this is too much. It’s time they learn how amazing their classmate really is”, Tony had texted him. Peter was about to text back, when Flash shouted: “Miss Richards! Parker still has his phone!”
Kaylee didn’t even look back when she said: “I know”, and pushed open the door to conference room 4. They all sat down on the chairs in front of the stage, Peter as far back as possible.
They only had to wait half a minute before every single Avenger plus Pepper walked onto the stage, some of them in full gear, Bucky and Steve wearing their Tony Stark has a heart hoodies, which, Peter noticed, he wore too.
Tony stepped forward and gave them his press smile. “I’m sure you’re wondering what you’re doing here!”, he started. “Well, we heard there was a class full of nerds here so we decided to spare a few minutes to answer some of your questions.”
If anyone thought that was a strange reason for a Q&A they didn’t say anything. The first few questions were fairly normal and even MJ asked a few questions, all directed at either Pepper, Natasha or Wanda.
Then someone asked: “Mr Rogers and Mr Barnes, where did you get the hoodies you’re wearing?”
“Oh, they were a custom made present”, Steve said.
“And I’ll warn you all now, if I ever catch anyone else witch a hoodie like that, I’ll make their life a living hell”, Tony added.
“Mr Stark, Penis Parker is wearing one of those hoodies!”, Flash couldn’t resist yelling, (not at all) helpfully pointing Peter out.
The Avengers all stiffened at that and Tony looked at Peter.
“Come up here”, his Dad said with barely contained anger.
Peter sighed and did as he was told. Almost immediately he was surrounded by his three fathers.
“Are you alright, baby?”, his Papa quietly asked first.
“Yeah, of course I am. He calls me that all the time so you can stop mother-henning me”, Peter replied.
He knew it was a mistake to tell them this wasn’t a one-time thing when his Dad quietly snarled: “I’ll fucking kill the little shit!”
“Language”, Bucky berated him mockingly, while Steve said: “You can’t kill a minor.”
Tony obviously forgot about their super hearing once again as he rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath: “To think that I want to marry them…”
Bucky and Steve both blushed and Peter started smiling.
“And to think we want to marry you…”, Bucky countered after a moment and this time Tony blushed.
“To think that I actually already bought the rings…”, Steve continued.
“Seriously?”, Tony and Bucky chorused still quiet enough that nobody else could hear anything. “You too?”
They stared at each other for a moment, before all four burst out laughing. Then Peter wrapped his fathers in a hug and asked: “Can I help planning the wedding?”
“Of course you can, son”, his Pops whispered in Peter’s hair while the other two started laughing again.
“Can you tell the group what’s so funny?”, Clint then interrupted and they all let go of each other.
“You’ll find out eventually”, Tony answered with a bright and happy smile.
“Now I’m sorry about that”, Tony addressed Peter’s class again. “We got a bit carried away there. To come back to the topic of the hoodies: Peter was actually the one who bought them. He also has more than enough reasons to wear one himself.”
“But why?”, someone asked.
“Because he is my son. Also on that note; if one of you ever again insults him or doesn’t treat him respectfully, I’ll definitely ruin your life and every single person on this stage would gladly help me.”
The Avengers all confirmed Tony’s statement with a nod or an affirmative noise.
Tony then clapped his hands together and startled the whole class with the action. “Now: I think it’s time for you all to go home. We’ll accompany you down where you can all sign an NDA and then you can all enjoy the ride back. Come on, everyone!”
With that Tony ushered the shocked class out of the room, the Avengers trailing behind. And when Peter was pressed into one of the elevators with half of his class and half of the Avengers he couldn’t help but feel grateful for his big, crazy and loving family.