Codename: Little Princess

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**Request for Spider_writer3000 with all of our favorite tropes. Field trips, Morgan, and an identity reveal. I hope this is what you were looking for, I know I had a good time writing it! Enjoy!**

Peter let his head fall against the seat in front of him. The cold, fake-leather of the bus seats was somewhat relaxing, especially because Peter was suddenly overheating with anxiety. The teen hated moments like these - moments that blurred his multiple lives together. Once, when Peter was much younger, May had come to the school for a book fair and saw Flash push Peter down. Ever since then, Peter had tried as best he could to keep this lives separate. No need for anyone to know anything else about his life.

"You okay?" Peter jumped at Ned's voice.

"I'm fine. I hate this whole trip."

Ned looked sympathetic, but Peter knew that Ned was excited to see the Tower. Despite Ned spending the night with Peter there sometimes, and the Fridays they worked on projects with Tony, Ned had never been on a tour and was looking forward to the experience.

"I'm sure it'll be fine," Peter said quickly. "I'm just being overdramatic. You've never been on the tour before, right?"

Ned shook his head. "Nope! But I asked around and apparently, we aren't going anywhere above the 1st level of labs. The school tour doesn't take anyone higher than that."

Peter hummed. There was something reassuring about that, but also deeply worrying. If Tony caught word Peter was in the Tower, Peter had no doubt Tony would either make an appearance on the lower levels, or Peter would be whisked up to one of the highest levels. Neither of those options seemed very good when trying to keep secrets.

"Then we'll have a good time watching lower level interns struggle to work on things." Peter gave Ned his best smile, and was thankful when Ned took it and returned one of his own.

The bus lurched suddenly and Peter looked outside. Sure enough, they were pulling up to the Tower, the bus rocking to a stop in front of the main lobby doors. Peter steeled himself as best he could and waited for his turn to get off the bus, Ned following behind him.

The lobby was just as awe-inspiring as the rest of the building. Sleek glass desks and high-energy workers in suits were jetting around the lobby. A couple noticed Ned and Peter, and they waved a little. Thankfully, those who saw them just assumed the workers were waving at the class as a whole.

"Welcome, Midtown!" Peter didn't recognize the intern coming towards them, but he noticed her badge was blue - she was from Pepper's office rather than one of the R & D labs. "My name is Melanie and I'll be the tour guide today. What do you guys think of the lobby so far?"

The class tittered with their happy thoughts, each one saying how impressive the lobby was. Melanie laughed.

"Yes, it's quite something. Just wait till we start getting to the labs."

The class followed Melanie through the lobby and to the elevators. "Right this way, kids. Now, before we can get going, we need to go through a security check with the Tower's AI, FRIDAY. FRIDAY controls everything from the elevators to the coffee machines. When you pass through, she'll ready your names out loud and take a quick scan so she can follow us through the building. This is important so she knows where people are at all times and can keep an eye on everyone."

The intern smiled brightly and invited the class through the sensor in front of the elevator bay.

"Hello, class!" FRIDAY welcomed cheerfully. "I'm happy to make your acquaintance." Flash pushed his way to the front and went through the scanner first, shooting his posse a cocky smirk over his shoulder. "Eugene 'Flash' Thompson," FRIDAY announced. Flash didn't even protest her using his full name. He was too excited to have his name said at all by Tony Stark's personal AI.

The rest of the class filed through, leaving Ned and Peter at the end. Ned went first, and FRIDAY thankfully didn't say anything. Peter took a deep breath, then stepped through. "Peter Parker. It's good to see you again, Peter."

Peter smiled at FRIDAY through one of the cameras he knew was stationed in the corner of the lobby. All things considered, that could have gone much worse.

The class headed up to their first stop, the museum of Avenger's tech. They had an hour to spend there, looking at all the old weapons used by the team, as well as picking apart the first code for the Ironman suit (partially redacted, of course) and some of the most notable criminal weapons. Peter was looking through some of the old Widow Bites when there was a chiming noise overhead. To everyone else, it was a simple jingle, but to Peter, it was something totally different. That was an alarm.

Ned made eye contact from across the room. Peter shrugged as if to say "I don't know", and they both looked around the room.

Peter's spidey sense wasn't going off.

It wasn't the alarm for a jet landing, so not the Guardians or Fury.

It was too cheery to be an attack or an Assemble code.

The only other thing with an alarm was Codename: Little Princess.

A little ball of energy and wild brown hair collided with Peter's legs. Peter instinctually wrapped an arm around the child, trying to keep himself upright. Once he recognized the smell of strawberry shampoo and the princess gown, he scooped the little girl up into his arms.

"Petey!"

"Mo-mo! When did you get here?" Peter bopped Morgan's nose affectionately.

"FRIDAY was being a meany and said you were here so I came to find you!" Morgan leaned forward and kissed Peter's cheek. Peter furrowed his brow at the ceiling.

"Why would you do that, FRI? I was going to surprise her later today."

"My apologies," FRIDAY said. "She was attempting to climb up the bookshelf. She said she was pretending to be you, Peter, so I told her that you wouldn't approve. She said you wouldn't find out and I told her you were here and could catch her at any moment. Then she was gone."

Peter's heart practically melted. "Morgan, I know you want to be a superhero like your Daddy and me, but you can't climb the shelves upstairs. They could fall and you could get really hurt."

The little girl had the good sense to look at least a little ashamed, but Peter noticed she was pouting, too.

"Mr. Parker, I'm sorry-" The intern was coming over then. No doubt she was thinking Morgan was bothering Peter, and she had no idea they were close, having only just now noticed Peter and Morgan standing to the side. "-That's Mr. Stark's daughter."

"I know," Peter said, wrapping his other arm around Morgan protectively.

"This is my brother! Petey!" Morgan was practically bouncing in Peter's arms, but that had nothing to do with Peter almost dropping her. Brother?

"Hey, now, Mo." Peter said, pulling Morgan back a little so he could look her in the eyes. "You can't just go claiming brothers. Your parents might not like that."

Morgan shook her head. "No way! Daddy says you were his son before I came along, so that makes you my brother."

Peter wasn't sure what to say to that, especially since... Well, Tony was never very open about his feelings, but Morgan had no problem spilling her guts about everyone else as well as herself. The teen felt his cheeks go red and he opened his mouth to speak but then the elevator was dinging open and Tony came stumbling out.

"Morgan?"

"She's with me," Peter called, hoisting Morgan up on his hip again. "She ran down here when someone let slip was in the building." Peter sent a pointed glance at the ceiling and Tony let the tension in his shoulders drop.

"Thank God, Pete, I was going insane." Tony walked over, ignoring the crowd of slack-jawed teens and took Morgan from Peter's arms. "You going to join us for dinner tonight?"

"That depends," Peter said, throwing a narrow-eyes look at Morgan. "Morgan has to first tell me how wonderful I am."

Tony rolled his eyes but Morgan just shrieked with laughter. "You're the best big brother ever!"

Tony's cheeks went red and Peter noticed right away. He wasn't going to force the man to admit anything, especially not with everyone looking, but...

"I know, Morgs, I make a pretty amazing brother. I guess I learned it all from our super amazing dad."

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