Tony

I woke up to another nightmare and decided that was it. Without waking up Pepper I carefully got out of bed and snuck out to the kitchen. I've been having bad dreams for years now. Pepper thinks I should go to a doctor but it's really not necessary. And ever since we got Peter I get 8 hours of sleep at least one night a week. Not when he started school though. That week was nerve-wracking. Not for him. Peter only has good memories from that week. While I only remembered how completely stressed out I was about everything. Thankfully now I don't have a mental breakdown because I worry that Peter might trip over the stairs at school. But I am worried about the kid. It's only a natural parent instinct I guess. And Peter's not exactly the easiest child to take care of because of his super geniuseness and nightly activities. Still....I wouldn't change a thing about him....on second thought. Removing the word "boomer" from his vocabulary would be pretty nice. Pepper says he gets his snarky comments and need to help others from me. If that's true I'm glad he didn't pick up anything else from me other than his big brain. I walked into the kitchen and started making my coffee before I was gonna go to my lab. As my coffee was getting done I heard footsteps approach the kitchen. Please tell me I didn't wake up Pepper. She'll literally kill me if she sees me drinking coffee at 2 am. But no it wasn't Pepper, instead I saw Peter walking into the kitchen.

"And what exactly are you doing out of bed?" I asked causing Peter to literally jump up on the ceiling.

"My gosh dad don't scare me like that" he said annoyed as he got down again.

"If you would've been sleeping I wouldn't have scared you"

"I can't sleep" Peter said shrugging his shoulders.

"Why?" I asked and slowly got my coffee mug.

"I.....I have nightmares" Peter admitted looking away a bit ashamed.

"About things you've seen as spider-man?" I asked.

Peter nodded and I mentally sighed. My god he's actually starting to become me. The second he starts getting girlfriends I'm grounding him until college.

"Why are you up?" Peter asked changing the subject.

"We're talking about you Mr.!!" I said raising a finger.

Peter put his hands up in defense and we both giggled.

"How'd you know....what I have bad dreams about?" Peter asked.

"Let's just say....it's more common than you think"

"Does this mean we're gonna start meeting in the kitchen at 2 am?" Peter asked

"Hopefully not. But knowing you....yeah most likely"

"Mom's not gonna like this" Peter sighed and leaned against the counter.

"No....no she won't" I said putting away my coffee. "C'mon I have an idea"

Peter looked at me a little confused but followed me to the living room where we sat down on the couch.

"What are we doing?" Peter asked as I grabbed a blanket.

"We're gonna watch a german documentary about toilet paper" I said turning on the TV.

"Why?" Peter asked.

"You'll see" I said and turned on the 3-hour long documentary.

It took about 10 minutes of the documentary before both of us became sleepy. 30 minutes for us to be half asleep and 40 minutes for Peter to peacefully fall asleep. I smiled as I saw him and then carefully laid down, letting Peter sleep on my chest. I smiled and started playing with his hair and Peter smiled in his sleep. That smile was contagious and I soon fell asleep too.