To say Peter was stunned was an understatement. Shocked, numb those kinds of words they worked but didn't grasp the whole situation. Not even 4 hours ago Peter was happily chatting to Aunt May on the phone about what food they were going to eat that night and now here he is, wearing a lose pair of black trousers and a random Star wars shirt in side of the compound, about to go out and meet the Avengers as Peter Parker. Science nerd, geeky teenage boy with a serious need to head through puberty, and not as Spider-Man. To say he wasn't sure how to feel was laughable especially when he was faced with the reality of the situation, with a heavy sigh he walks over to his door, shaky hands go to open the door only for it to do so it's self. To say he jumped-Never mind.

"Mr. Parker, please meet at the kitchen. Boss and the others are preparing stew and have requested you join them." Friday's voice spoke through the room causing Peter to sigh in slight relief.

"R-right let him know I'm on my way now" He mutters and makes his way out of the room, his sneakers lightly tapping on the floor as he followed Friday's directions to the kitchen. He almost laughed at the sight of Captain Freaking America dressed in a bright pink frilly apron with 'I'm about to Spat-u-love you' printed on it, The winter solider seemed to be openly teasing him and Tony was taking pictures.

"Come on Cap, Lemme spat-u-love you" Tony teased a bit as he grabbed another handful of what looked like cut up peppers from the bored. Steve's hand came down fast on his hand making Tony yelp and shake his hand. "Ice-cube 2.0 stop your boyfriend from hitting me, that's bullying-Oh...hey kiddo" Tony stops his playfulness and smiles weakly at Peter who waved awkwardly. The group in the kitchen froze and looked at the young teenager in the doorway, a soft gulp escaped him as he looked at Tony for help.

"Hi, I'm Steve Rodgers. Call me Steve, You're Spider-Man right?" Steve asks, turning the heat down low and walking over to the teen who tensed under his approach and gaze. "Not planning to steal my shield again right?" He joked lightly and Peter glanced at Tony again in a more frantic look.

"Stevie, you're gonna make the kid wet him self, back off" Bucky's voice echo'd around the room and Tony walked over to Peter, giving him a slight nudge and indication to his head Tony gave a deep sigh and nods a little.

"Y..Yes-yeah. I'm Spider-Man urm....Peter..it's urm.." He goes quiet and looks at the two men staringat him, "urm...did I do something...?" He asks lightly, slightly gripping Tony's sleeve in his hand. Steve and Bucky share a look before Steve coughs into his hand and shakes his head.

"No...no. We just didn't realise you were so young-Not that there is anything wrong with that-just...you know arent your-" He stopped him self and a look of realisation crossed his face. "Never mind. Here I'm making Chicken and pepper stew, why not give it a taste and then you, Tony and Byck can go meet the others ok?" He asked gently, Peter stiffly nodded and walked over to the counter cautiously. Steve grinned and skimmed up a small amount into a spoon and handing it to Peter, with an encouraging nod he watches as Peter takes a bite and coughs a little from the taste.

"w-wow urm..it's good I-I urm" He coughed a little more and Bucky took the spoon and took a taste before gagging.

"Jeez Stevie, did you dump the whole salt shaker into the stew or what?" Bucky coughed a little and handed Peter a glass of water and drank his own. Steve pouted and huffed.

"I only added 3 table spoons" Steve mutters "Just like the recipe said-" Tony snatched the paper off the desk and broke into a fit of chuckles.

"Oh wow, Steve. It says 3 tea spoons. TS means Tea Spoons and TBS stands for Table spoons" He teases "I think we should order a pizza and be done with it." Tony says nodding to him self. "Friday order the usual-Pete what do you want?" Tony pauses looking at the teen who is chugging his glass of water down greatfully. Pausing to breath he looks at Tony.

"Cheese?" He asks tentivly and Tony nods and stretches a little, going to Peter and snaking an arm around his shoulders he calls.

"So that's 9 Cheese Pizza's for the Soilder boy's and Baby cheeks, 2 hawwian's for clint and Sammy, 2 meat feasts for Spider mom and Green bean, and 3 Mushroom delux's for me and Thor and whatever Wanda and whoever wants." He says chuckling and Peter looks shocked, Tony grins. "Don't looked freaked out, 3 pizza's each for you 3 because you have a crazy appatite between you 3" Tony says shrugging and dragging the boy with him. "Lets go Pete, we have to annoy a bird brain or two-" Steve's strong arm stopped him along with Bucky's gaze.

"Tony. You should let the kid stay and talk, Can't just rush him off-" Steve warns but is cut off by Peter's soft voice.

"It's ok Mr Ro-Steve. I want to meet everyone-I should right...urm...let them know they don't have to call me 'kid' or Spider-Man" He assures gently and Tony sticks his tongue out at Steve but almost jumps in surprise as Bucky's arm linked into Peter's.

"Tell me about those webs, They clogged up my old arm a bit. Can we use them to get some pranks on the others?" He whispers something into Peter's ear and has the teen chuckling a little with a nod. Tony flaps his arms as Bucky walks off with Peter, acting almost like they knew each other for years not minutes.

"What the heck under-roo's!? Get back here and argue with cap about socialising!" Tony complains, Steve's chuckle makes him turn with a heated glare.

"Relax Tony. Bucky's great with kids. Peter will be fine." He says gently and indicates to the pot of ruined stew. "Want to help clean this or-.....and you've run off to the lab, if course" Steve stares at the empty kitchen and shakes his head with a chuckle.

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Bucky and Peter chatted happily about life, Peter had told him about his life at Midtown Tech, how he was on the Decatholone team and how he'd accidently figured out he could climb walls. All the talking had the boy almost walk streight into Sam's back. Sam turned and glanced at the boy with a blink. "...Bucky....you....you didn't kidnap a child did you-I know you used to-" Bucky's glare had him go quiet for a moment and Peter almost laughed at the fact that Sam hadn't realised what was going on.

"Peter Parker, Age 15, Born and raised in Queens New York. Legal Gaurdian unknown. Peter is smart on a Tony and Bruce field and  matches strength, speed and stamina of me and Stevie. Be nice to Peter or I won't be kind to you" Bucky threatens and Peter gulps a little. Sam's hands raise jokingly and he rolls his eyes.

"So like....Tony your dad or what?" Sam asks and Peter splutters a little and shakes his head in denile. "Then what, he your new legal gaurdian?" He questions and Peter pauses, shaking a little he shrugs a little.

"I...I don't know. He kinda just...took me in" He mutters looking at his hands. The phantom pain of May's hand replayed itself onto his cheek and he almost flinched at the thought. "...Just family drama.." He mumbles and looks at his feet, Sam's voice brought him back from his thoughts and he glanced up. "Sorry...could you rep-"

"I was asking if you wanted to com play some Mario-cart. Bucky needs to be taught and Clints on some big kick that he's the best ever" Sam's voice is soothing and calm and all Peter wants to do is listen but a pit in his stomach made him stop for now. Bucky looks at him and frowns, that makes Peter feel guilty and almost agree instantly. "It's ok, I mean if you're scared Bucky will kick your butt-" Peter shakes his head a little.

"It's not that...I'm just tired...Maybe I'll just go rest for a bit" He mutters and shuffles away. Bucky's arm is around him in minutes stopping him from moving and making him wither a little.

"You can rest by watching me destroy them at this game." He insists, pushing him forwards a little, Sam looks ready to stop him but Peter sighs shaking his head.

"I'll watch....but I really don't want to play ok?" He says softly and Bucky's smile has Sam blinking in shock. The three soon made their way to the front room.

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Tony and Steve wandered into the front room with pizza's in hand, a raised eyebrow at each other as yells errupted from the front room. "Come on Snowflake, just a bit more and maybe you'll get 3rd" Clint's teasing voice is heard over the noise. Tony rolls his eyes and wanders in, pausing at the sight of Peter, Clint and Bucky all playing Mario cart. From the looks of it Peter was in first, Clint second and Bucky 5th. 

"Oh what will we do with all of these pizza's Steve. No one here seems to be hungry. Guess we'll just-" Tony squeaks as Sam ran over to grab the food. The entire front room had turned to grab the food, Clint running past others to grab his. Peter seemed to hover awkwardly behind everyone and Tony smiled. "Under-roo's I need help in the lab, grab your pizza's and follwo me" He says gently as he watches Peter grab three boxes. Steve looked ready to intervene. 

"Tony, shouldn't he eat with the team?" He questions and Tony shakes his head a little, Peter glances over and whispers gently.

"I...don't like....eating in front of people" He mutters a little and Steve pauses before nodding.

"Ok, but young man tomorrow at breakfast you better eat in here" Steve starts his lecture, something normal, happy, excitable Peter would listen to and agree with but he wasn't feeling like that. He just shrugged a little and Steve frowns a bit as Tony drags Peter away.

"Ok. So bets on why the kids here. I'll go first - He really is Tony's biological son." Clint says excitedly, Bucky looked interested but waited for others to cast their votes.

"I agree with Clinton, what other reason does one take in a teenager so close to adulthood" Thor asks.

"No way, betting Pete's on the run from someone, saw the way he flinched as I brought up family. Maybe he's on the run from 'em" Sam says thoughtfully.

"Someone hurt him. Stark took him in" Bucky says and the group turned to him. "He has a healing bruise on his left cheek bone. Miniscule but that is probably because it was done a few house ago. He flinches at the mention of family, seems reluctant to talk about such manners and hovers around Stark like a lost puppy. He clearly trusts him most" He pauses. "We protect him. Question Stark about it." He says seriously and the group nod as they eat their pizza's.

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Tony and Peter watched the conversation on one of Tony's screens and Peter bit back a few choice swears. "Seriously. Can't keep a secret round here" Tony mutters with a chuckle as Peter glares slightly and huffs out a chuckle.

"Guess not. Think I can avoid them-" He squeaks as a cough echo's through the kitchen. Bruce stood holding his pizza box and a sheepish smile. 

"Sorry guys, mind if I join?" He asks, directing his question more to Peter who almost immediatly nods. Bruce smiles gently and sits next to Peter, his oversized sweater almost covering his hands as he looked at a few of his holograms infront of him. "So what are you working on?" He asks, seeing Peter's webshooters on screen.

"My urm...webshooters....they've been a bit testy when it comes to aim and web out put...Tony's helping me get them back to working order" Peter mumbles as Bruce nods. Both eating a slice of their pizza's, Tony grins.

"Why don't you two work on making  some webs whilst I start some suit repairs yeah?" Tony asked and grinned as they both nodded. Almost immedately going into formula's and the like. Tony smiled. 'Yeah...the kid'll be fine' He thinks as he walks over to a closed off sector and messaged Pepper about what was going on and needing papers in for legal gaurdian ship. '...Maybe I'll humour Clint with proof he's not mine' Tony grins a little at the thought and shakes his head. 'Later' He thinks once more beofre working into the night, Bruce and Peter following suit.