Sometimes, in the dead of night, these walls crumbled. When he shivered and sobbed and clutched at his sheets, eyes closed against the harshness of the world, against the cruelty of everything he had been put through and the cruelty he had put others through. When his throat burned and inflated and he felt as though he was on fire, a last incandescent firework blowing up in an ashen city.
(It would be strange to see that, wouldn't it? Like a Roman candle, doomed to be tortured by that brilliant burning.)
Whumptober day 27: Scars
Words: 10142, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 26 of Fill My Veins With Terror (Whumptober 2023)
- Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
- Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
- Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
- Categories: F/F, F/M
- Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, Flash Thompson, Roger Harrington (Marvel), Original Female Character(s)
- Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Suffering, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
- Additional Tags: Tony Stark Has A Heart, Tony Stark Acting as Peter Parker's Parental Figure, Parent Tony Stark, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Hurt Peter Parker, Peter Parker is a Mess, Peter Parker Whump, Self-Harm, Self-Doubt, Autistic Peter Parker, yes I give Peter Parker autism again and no one can stop me, it said scars for the prompt, but never specified if they were physical or mental, so I gave him both :D, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Injury, Broken Bones, Flash Thompson Being A Jerk, Flash Thompson Bullies Peter Parker, its like bad, Slurs, used especially for autistic people, Peter is not having a good time, Emotionally Repressed, Overstimulation, did you know there are a shocking lack of synonyms for stone, I was suffering while writing this, Author Is Sleep Deprived, We are gathered here today to witness the holy matrimony between Wren and italics, Whumptober 2023