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“ Tony! Tony!” Bruce yelled as he barged into Tony’s lab. “ Jesus Bruce have you ever heard about knocking?” Tony teased not exactly pleased with his work getting disturbed.
“ we uh.. we found something” Bruce tried to steady his breath, “ something that belongs to HYDRA..”, Tony froze “ show me”
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“ what the fuck?” Tony stood in front of a glass containment room with a teenager inside..? He had HYDRA clothing but it was ripped and damaged. The kid wasn’t even human or at least not a 100%. He had four arms and six dark eyes all looking around frantically. He was restrained and even had a muzzle on, he was huddled up in the very corner trying to squeeze himself further to hide. “ so this is the ‘thing’?” Tony gestured to the kid, Bruce nodded “ yep. It was a pain in the ass trying to get that muzzle on.” Tony finally turned to him “ so is it like with Bucky?” - “ I think it’s worse..“ Bruce whispered keeping his eyes on the kid. “ do we know his name? Anything?” Tony began to pace slowly,
“ I tried to dig some stuff up but it was no use. It’s like he never existed.”
Tony walked to the entrance to the glass room
“Let me in” - “ Tony-“ Bruce started but Tony lifted his hand up to silence him “ he’s restrained right? I’ll be fine.”
The door slid open and Tony walked inside, the air was slightly colder in here. The kid pushed himself against the wall trying to disappear into the glass, he kept glancing at Tony. “ hey- easy kid” Tony put his palms up and slowly very slowly approached, “ we’re not gonna hurt you”
The boy froze, he stared at Tony for a good moment before all six eyes frowned, he tried to leap forward at Tony but the restrains kept him a few feet away.
“ Tony get out of there!” The restrains broke making an awful echo, Tony quickly got out and slid the door closed. The two men watched as a teenager broke off the rest of his restrains and ripped the muzzle off kicking it away.The boy stared at them, he hissed revealing sharp teeth. Tony noticed how the kid stood, he was hunched over bearing his teeth like a feral animal. He began to bang on the glass making Tony take a step back out of instinct, “ what now?” He turned to Bruce,
“ he can’t break the glass thankfully.. we’ll have to wait until he tires himself out and maybe try stronger restrains?” Tony shook his head “ no. No restrains. If we want to get anything out of him we need him to trust us.”
Upon hearing the word “trust us” the boy let out a screech and hissed again.
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Tony moved some of his things to be in the same room as the containment. He wanted to keep an eye on the kid and maybe show him that they really wanted to help. It was a little hard to focus on working when six eyes watched you, Tony sighed and turned to look at the boy,
“ I think we started off wrong. I’m Tony. You?”
Tony gestured towards him, but all he got was another wet hiss. “ can you even talk?”, the kid nodded. Huh okay small progress.
“ we want to help you kid.” Tony kept his voice light, he could’ve sworn that the boys eyes softened at the words before he turned around to go lay down at the other side of the room.
Tony watched as he laid down curling up into himself with all four arms holding him. Now Tony wasn’t the person that rushed to comfort others, he wasn’t good at that. But he felt this weird crushing feeling in his chest, like he wanted to hold this strange boy and reassure him that everything will be okay. “ goodnight.”
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“ Sir?” FRIDAY whispered from the ceiling. Tony groaned and turned to lay on his side, “ I am very sorry to wake you at this hour. But I’ve detected movement in the containment room.” Tony’s eyes flew open. Banging, Tony slowly entered observatory if you could call it that. The boy was slamming his fists and shoulder into the glass desperately trying to break it. His face was wet from all of his eyes crying. He was out of breath so clearly he’s been at this for a hot minute.
“Woah! Woah kid calm down! You’re gonna hurt yourself!” Tony turned on the lights, what could he do? His mind was searching for something anything to calm down this situation. He couldn’t go inside the containment because the kid would probably kill him but using something to calm down or restraining him will make things worse! After another hard shoulder slam the boy stopped, he slid down onto the floor shaking. His hair glued to his forehead with sweat.
Tony sat down on the ground, parental instincts were yelling inside his head
COMFORT COMFORT COMFORT!!!
Tony didn’t say anything, to be honest he didn’t know what to say. So he got comfy on the floor, he watched as the poor boy slowly fell asleep leaning on the glass wall. Tony wanted to brush the hair from his forehead, tell him that he’s not alone, to let him know they want to help. Wait did they feed him? Oh my god they didn’t! Tony stood up and jogged out of the room. Peter was exhausted, he wanted to just lay down and die. He heard that Tony guy getting up and leaving him alone. Good. He liked being alone. “ wake up kid”
Peter didn’t want to, “ kid? You with me?” The voice repeated. Peter cracked one eye open, Tony had a bottle of water and a bowl of snacks. There was a chocolate bar , a clumsily made sandwich and a few apple slices. Tony quickly slid the bowl inside the glass room.
Peter gave Tony a look, “ it’s not poison and you need to eat something.” Tony rolled his eyes.
Peter grabbed the water bottle, he chugged the whole thing in a few large gulps, He threw it away and practically inhaled the food. “ Jesus kid slow down. No one will take it away from you I promise” Tony chuckled. Peter slid back down to the floor and sighed, he closed his eyes again.
Tony sat there waiting for the kid to fall asleep.
“ FRIDAY?” Tony whispered after a few minutes of the boy not moving. “ yes sir?” FRIDAY whispered back, “ is he asleep?” - “ yes sir.”
Tony nodded to himself and quietly grabbed a pillow and blanket, he slid open the glass doors and as carefully as he could lifted the boys head placing a fluffy pillow underneath. Tony tucked in the most warmest and comfy blanket around the kid trying as hard as possible not to make a sound. Tony backed out of the room and exhaled a breath he didn’t realize he was holding. He felt his heart shatter a little more, it almost looked like this poor kid was used to sleeping on the floor. Tony didn’t even want to imagine what HYDRA was doing to him.
“ goodnight kid.” Tony whispered.
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Peter blinked awake. Tony was gone from his spot on the floor and a small bit of sunlight was breaking through. Peter felt warm? But that can’t be right.. he felt around, the fluffy texture surprised him, the blanket was warm and the pillow was so so fluffy! This must be a trick.. Tony probably gave this to him in hopes Peter will trust him. Peter got up and folded the blanket up placing the pillow on top. He wandered away from the objects and sat down in the corner of the room, his knees drawn up to his chest.
He’s not stupid. He knows what Tony is trying to do. The moment Peter will show a crumb of trust Tony will betray him, strap him down to a table and mutate him further. Peter just needs to wait for an escape window. Maybe then he’ll hide at the edge of the world or just fall off the tallest building he can find. Peter hugged himself, he’ll kill Tony if he has to.
He’ll kill them all if he has to.