PottsStark



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    "When holding your breath is safer than breathing,
    When letting go is braver than keeping,
    When innocent words turn to lies,
    And you can't hide by closing your eyes.

    "When the pain is all that they offer
    Like the kiss from the lips of a monster.
    You know the famine so well, but never met the feast
    When home is the belly of a beast.

    "The ocean is wild and over your head
    And the boat beneath you is sinking.
    Don't need room for your bags, hope is all that you have.
    So say the Lord's Prayer twice, hold your babies tight,
    Surely someone will reach out a hand
    And show you a safe place to land...

    "Be the hand of a hopeful stranger,
    Little scared, but you're strong enough.
    Be the light in the dark of this danger,
    'Til the sun comes up.

    "'Til the sun comes up."

    — A Safe Place to Land, Sarah Bareilles

     

    Wherein Peter drifts between foster families, dreaming of a day he'll finally be on his own. Life doesn't always go as planned, though, and Peter certainly hadn’t been planning for Tony Stark and his son, Harley. There just may be a safe place for him to land after all.

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    06 Oct 2026

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    The day that Harley’s adoption paperwork went through was a Thursday.

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    Or, his little brother’s getting adopted and Peter is excited for him, he really is. But it’s bringing up a lot of other emotions too and Tony’s not making things any easier.

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    06 Oct 2026

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    “Hey there, you must be Peter. I’m Tony and this little guy here is Harley.”

    “Hi.” The word was a little breathless and the teenager’s eyes darted up to Tony’s face, then over to Harley and back to the tips of his frayed, off-brand Converse. “It’s, uh, nice to meet you.”

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    Or, Tony Stark has been a foster parent for a few years. He tries to avoid any kids old enough to talk back, but when a social worker calls him with a teenage boy who has no place else to go, Tony reluctantly agrees. Peter is almost completely self sufficient, used to foster homes where nobody pays much attention to him. These new arrangements are uncharted waters for both of them.

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    06 Oct 2026

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    Peter's trying to get through the last period of the day - physics with Ms. Warren.

    His phone rings, and he dies a little inside, because he knows Ms. Warren's rules: accept the call, and put it on speaker.

    "Mr. President?"

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    05 Oct 2026

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    peter’s calculus teacher has a policy where a student has to answer the phone on speaker in front of the whole class. because peter parker is, in fact, peter parker, the heir to stark industries, he knows a lot of…influential people, and this gets him into a lot of trouble when he has to take calls in class.

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    05 Oct 2026