'See that? Oh my god, I think we lost control!

Feel that? Don't mind me, I won't be here for long,'

"Who the fuck is Peter?"

His tone is what Tony notices the most. It's cold and distant, nothing like the way Peter sounds… sounded. It was odd to refer to him in the past tense but, this isn't his Peter. His cold glare and the fucking gun pointing at his head.

" ?" Steve mumbles, tears welling in his eyes. His hand falters on the knife held to the girl's neck.

She moves immediately, seizing the knife and dropping Steve to the ground harshly. He whimpers slightly but doesn't struggle as she places a foot near his neck and stares at Peter.

Something passes between them and Peters' arm drops slightly. Tony hasn't moved since Peter spoke. He's afraid if he moves Peter might disappear and his face replaced by someone else. That maybe the man in his bedroom wasn't Peter but just some mercenary sent to kill him and he's just imagining Peters face in some act of desperation before he dies. And if it really is Peter, he obviously couldn't be happier, but what the hell has been done to him.

He stares desperately at Peter trying to catch his gaze and see some form of recognition in his eyes, but Peters' eyes are locked on the girl. Her face in unreadable, hidden almost completely by a mask. But Peters isn't. He looks unsure but his face is still cold and hard. It's something Tony has very rarely seen.

"Webs!" The girls say strongly. Webs? That's a bit close to home. She's still eyeing Steve but he isn't struggling. He looks like he's in shock.

Peter seems to snap out of whatever he was thinking about. His arm straitens and he looks at Tony, his gaze is calculating. Its familiar, like when they would work together in the lab and he was trying to solve a complex equation. But it quickly turns to a cold stare.

"Have I been here before?" The question shocks Tony, he wasn't expecting something so..so personal?

"Webs? What are you doing?!" The girl sounds slightly annoyed and impatient.

"J..just let me do this," Peter replies. She stares at him for a moment before nodding.

"Answer the question," he commands and continues to point the gun at Tony.

"Yes," Tony replies as confidently as he can manage.

The answer doesn't seem to surprise him, his expression remains the same.

"Why?"

"You lived here," Tony replies breathlessly. He answers seem to be automatic.

This does come as a surprise. Peter blinks a couple of times and breathes out unsteadily.

He looks like he wants to ask another question. But he resists and looks questionably over at the girl as if asking for permission.

"We have 5 minutes," she says, answering his silent question. He looks back at Tony, and then casts his eyes to the ground.

"The empty bedroom with the boxes?" He mumbles but its more of a question to himself than to tony. He answers anyway.

"it was yours," Tony says quietly.

Peter breathes out. His arm lowers slowly and he puts his gun back into his holster.

"We need to finish here," The girls says. She takes her foot off Steve, but keeps her knife handy, Steve doesn't move.

Peter looks over at her.

"I..I can't, I can't kill him," Peter says looking shocked with himself.

"I'll do it then, just please we need to go before they.." She doesn't finish her sentence and looks away from Peter.

"No," Peter says and walks towards the girl, "we can't kill them, we just need to leave,"

"Webs," she says quietly and brings her hand up to his cheek. "What are you doing?" Her tone is caring and concerned and it takes Tony by surprise.

"Let's just leave," he says, he puts a hand behind her head and clicks something, he pulls the goggles from her face and chucks them on the ground, which lets him stare into her eyes.

"I'll call the plane," she says and looks down at her wrist. Peter grabs it quickly.

"No, not back, we should just leave," He says, but then his head flinches violently to the side. He whimpers slightly and his hold on the girl's wrist tightens. she winces slightly and tries to loosen the hold.

"Webs? What's he saying?" she looks so unsure and afraid and it just reminds Tony of how young Peter is, and by the looks of it, this girl too. And what is who saying? Do they have comms in their ears that Tony missed?

"N..Nothing, he's just trying to take over, I don't know if I can hold him back," his voice is strained and he sounds in pain.

"You can," she grabs the hand he has on her wrist and squeezes it, Tony feels like he's intruding on an intimate moment, but he's also very confused as to what they're talking about.

"We can go, we can leave, you just need to hold on," Her voice and eyes are so full of hope.

Then something happens.

Peter gasps, tenses up and he tumbles to the floor, landing with a thud.

"Webs?!" She half screams before tensing and falling as well. Tony doesn't know what to do. Everything seemed to have happened in a matter of seconds. He drops down and looks at Peter. Checks his pulse, it's steady and puts his hand on his cheek. He feels the tears well in his eyes.

"Tony?" Steve says, he's standing unsteadily by the bed, looking worriedly at Peter and then at Tony.

'What the hell just happened?" He says and wipes his face to free them of the tears.

"I think we just narrowly avoided being killed by our kid," Steve replies, trying to slightly to lighten the mood.

Tony is shocked he referred to Peter as 'our' kid, but it kinda makes him warm inside. He just wants them all to be together again. Tony looks up from Peter and smiles.

Before he can respond, FRIDAY interrupts.

"Sir, my systems have been compromised,"

"Thanks, FRI, but you're a bit late,"

"Sorry sir, but my emergency backup power just kicked in, I should also inform you a plane has landed on the roof and armed men are attempting to enter the building from the windows,"

"Oh god, FRI send me a suit,"

"I'm sorry sir, but I don't have access to your suits at this moment only primary systems are back online,"

"Well, make giving me a suit a primary system!" Tony shouts. "Steve help me move them, we can't let them get Peter back,"

Steve immediately jumps to action, he hauls Peter up and carries him bridal style out of the room. Tony does the same with the girl.

"Let's take them to the storage room, it's empty and secure, I don't think they're safe to leave out in the open," Tony says.

They both hurriedly carry them to the empty storage room and lock them inside. Tony grabs both Peter and the girls guns, they look standard issue, but seem to have no identifying brand, he checks the bullets. They're unmarked and he's sure if someone got shot by one, no-one would be able to identify which gun it came from.

The door they're guarding is the only entrance to the room so hopefully, it can keep the men from getting them back.

"Sir, the men have broken into the building they are in the common room, I'm trying to access your suits but I'm still having trouble, there's something blocking my main access to the tower," FRIDAY announces.

"Shit, Steve here," Tony says as he passes Steve a gun. Steve grabs it and they both share a look before moving quietly towards the common room.

The see the men before they see them. The room is nearly pitch black except the blinking red light that goes off every few seconds. Tony counts 10 people.

Steve silently takes down one when he ventures too far from the pack and grabs his handheld taser.

He slides the taser over to Tony, who quickly zaps and takes down another man. 8 to go. The flashlights off the intruders' guns scan over a mirror near of the bench Steve is hiding behind and it completely gives him away.

"Here!" The man yells and starts shooting, breaking the mirror and then turning to Steve. Tony jumps him from behind and tasers him in the neck. The other 7 people in the room immediately start shooting blindly in his general direction.

Tony manages to flip the guy he tasered and uses him as a shield to stop the bullets, it doesn't stop one for grazing his upper arm, he grunts and falls to the grunt, the weight of the now dead man weighing down on him.

Steve pops up from behind the bench and draws the fire. Once the bullets stop and Steve can hear them reloading their guns, he jumps up again and shoots down 2 men before dropping down again.

Tony pushes the man off him and slides behind the bench with Steve.

"5 left, what's the play?" Tony says quietly.

"I'll draw the attention of them and then you take down the one at the back them jump behind the wall," Steve suggests.

"Okay, I don't have anything better, so let's go,"

Steve rolls out from behind the bench, and fires a few shots, one man falls down. The men all surround Steve and he rolls behind a couch.

Tony sneaks from behind the bench on the other side and zaps one of the men in the back before quickly sliding behind the wall before the other 3 men can see him.

Steve manages to shoot down one more man, then Tony takes out his gun and shoots down the other two from behind.

They both let out a simultaneous sigh and get up of the floor.

Everything seems to come crashing down all at once. The adrenaline previously keeping Tony from collapsing is wearing off quickly and he manages to stumble over to Steve before his knees buckle beneath him and he falls into his arms.

Steve pulls him close and hugs him into his chest.

"If we go back to the storage room will Peter still be there?" He whimpers into Steves' chest.

"He's come back to us Tony, he's back," he says into Tony's hair.

There are a million thoughts running through Tony's head, Like, how the hell is this happening, what is Peter doing here and what happened to him, he clearly has some memories or recognition at least. Why is he back? It clearly wasn't a voluntary decision to come here.

He and Steve embrace on the floor for what seems like forever.

Soon the lights come back on, FRIDAY must be back online. Then a loud banging rings throughout the walls. All the rooms are soundproofed so whoever is making the noise must be desperate and extremely strong.

"It's coming from the storage room," Steve says, which leads to them both sprinting to the room.

The door to the storage room has been dented outwards in an unnatural shape and its only growing.

"Is that Peter?" Steve asks breathlessly

"it couldn't be, that's not human," Tony says, knowing full well it's probably peter.

The mass hits the door one more time and the door crumples. Whatever is standing there Tony refuses to believe is Peter. It's a black mass with white eyes and a spider on its chest. Tony knows it's him, it's his size, small and build, lean, it has to be him. He just doesn't want to accept it.

It turns to Tony and Steve, its posture threatening.

Then the girl emerges from the room. Her mask is gone and there's a large scratch mark down her face, it looks like it just went over her eye. Missing it by a fraction, but the rest of her face is bleeding profusely.

She stumbles out over the door, she looks concussed but manages to get out of the room.

"Webs?" She says quietly, holding out her hand towards him.

The creature growls and backs away from her.

"V, I need you to let him go okay?" She puts out both her hands and moves towards him slowly. "Please V, I need him back, I..I need him back," She stutters out.

Tony and Steve just watch silently as she slowly inches forward.

"Please V," Peters body or 'V' moves towards her, he's only just taller than her but he looks so threatening.

The girl reaches for one of his hands, he moves forward and places his hand on hers. She sighs and reaches up towards his face, then he strikes. His other arm smacks her, she flies across the room and slams into the wall, thumping onto the ground.

She immediately tries to get back up but the second she tries to push herself off the ground, she groans, falls back down and goes limp.

V looks over at her limp body and then flinches. He stumbles back and into the wall. He slides down against it and grabs his head while making an inhuman hissing sound.

"Stop it!" It growls to itself and lets out a guttural scream. Then the black starts to dribble back and reveals Peters pale and sweaty face. He looks like he's about to be sick. Then he is, he hurls into the ground next to himself, it looks black and sticky and Tony prays it isn't blood.

He looks up and sees the girl against the wall. He immediately gets up and stumbles over to her, kneeling beside her and checks her over.

"Sin?" He says, "Hey, hey wake up," he taps her face lightly but she doesn't move.

Then he turns to Tony and Steve who have been too stunned to move throughout the whole ordeal.

"Can you please help us?" Peter says quietly, "I..I did this and I don't know how to help her," he sounds so afraid, his dads look at each other before running over to their son and helping him move the girl 'sin' to the Medbay.

A/N Yo, so I'm not dead. I'm so sorry for the wait, I haven't updated for like over a month and I understand the frustration of waiting for the next chapter of a fic so I'm so sorry. I'm super impatient so I would definitely be annoyed with the author for making me wait this long. I know that I always say ill update quickly but that's probably not gonna happen. I have exams soon and although I'm on holiday at the moment I've been working a bunch, other than that I have no excuse I'm a massive procrastinator. I should have updated ages ago.

ANYWAY, this is going interestingly, I've had writer's block. I literally had no idea what was going to happen, I have an idea now but man I don't even know how I got to this. I literally didn't plan anything.

Please review and let me know what you think. literally reviews actually make me want to keep writing.

- M