Everyone had wings. They came in all shapes, sizes, and colors, from raven to dove, from white to blue to black. Some people were wingless, it wasn't uncommon for children to have defects in their wings. What was rare, however, was for one to have two pairs of wings. It was extremely rare if those wings were different, like falcon and eagle wings. Those with raven and owl wings, especially if both pairs were the same color, even more so if it was black, was unheard of.

   People with raven and owl wings were seen as pariahs and avoided. Most of them also had very high intellects, the rarest also having superhuman abilities. The superhuman ones had a slight glitter to their wings, like stars in the night sky. 

   Peter was born with the rarest of these wings, two pairs of different black wings. One pair was raven wings and the other was owl wings. His parents were unnerved, but it wasn't impossible given Peter's genetics. He had a 50% chance of developing two pairs of wings, and a 25% chance of them being different. The black coloring wasn't surprising either, as Peter had a 33% chance of developing black wings and a 16% chance of white wings.

   Mary had the wings of a shallow-tail kite while Richard had the wings of a male scarlet tanager. Mary's father had had the wings of a falcon and an eagle, while Richard's mother had two pairs of female scarlet tanager wings.

   Wanting to protect their son from ridiculing, they asked the doctor to note that Peter had been born with a single pair of raven wings, which wasn't rare at all. The doctor accepted, not wanting an innocent child to have to deal with bullies and ridiculing all his life just because of his wings.

   As Peter grew, he was taught to hide his owl wings, taking advantage of the fact that people could absorb their wings into their backs if they wanted to go to bed or get dressed easier. Peter simply kept his owl wings in while letting his raven ones out. Peter never told anyone about his owl wings, and only let them out to groom them. Sometimes, he would be able to fly with them or both pairs as long as it was in private with no chance of him being seen.

   When Peter's parents passed and his aunt and uncle took them in, Peter never showed his owl wings. When he had to groom them, he closed his curtains and locked his door. Neither his aunt nor his uncle ever asked why he did this, they just accepted it.

   It wasn't until the spider bite, when Peter's wings took on the glitter of a superhuman/mutant, that May and Ben had questions. However, the questions remained unasked until after Ben had died and Peter had gotten the internship.

   "Peter, do you have another set of wings?" May had asked one day. Peter panicked and said that he didn't.

   "Peter, the glimmer of your wings is only found on superhuman raven-owls." Raven-owls was the term for people with both raven and owl wings. Peter was reluctant to show Aunt May his wings as she'd expressed her distaste in raven-owls multiple times.

"Aunt May, what are you talking about?" Peter's mind was racing, but he hoped to throw her off by pretending he didn't know what she was talking about.

"Your wings have a glimmer. It appeared around the time that Spider-Man showed up. Are you him?" Peter didn't know where she got that from, despite it being true. As Spider-Man, he claimed to be wingless.

"Aunt May, Spider-Man is wingless. He said so, and why else would he get around using webs?" He was so focused on what to say and calming his internal panic that he didn't notice May until it was too late. She had snuck up behind him and pressed a spot on his back that would make his wings appear. Everyone had one, though their location varied from person to person, but Peter wasn't sure how she had figured his out, nor was he concerned about that fact at the moment. He was more focused on the fact that his owl wings had emerged.

"I knew it! I knew you were a freak! Get out! Now!" May now had her house finch wings held in a supposedly threatening way. Peter, extremely panicked and confused ran to his room instead of the front door, locking himself in. Karen, who was installed on a watch that Tony gave him, informed him that she was calling Tony. In the midst of a panic attack, Peter didn't register this, nor the fact that both pairs of his wings were out.

Tony had been tinkering in the lab when Friday informed him that Peter was in the middle of a panic attack, according to Karen. Immediately, Tony climbed into the Iron Man suit, flying to Peter's coordinates.

What he hadn't expected to find was Peter, with raven-owl wings on full display, having a panic attack as his aunt pounded on his locked bedroom door, screaming at him to get out of her house. Leaving the suit on the fire escape, Tony stepped in through the window, thankful of the desk just below it.

Once he was safely inside, he rushed to Peter, placing the boy's hand on his chest and exaggerating his breathing, telling the kid he had to breathe and that it was okay in an attempt to calm him. It worked, Peter being pulled from the attack to find Tony calmly holding Peter's hand to his chest still, a small, relieved smile on his face.

Peter then realized something. Both pairs of his wings were still out and Tony was in the room. Tony had seen his wings. Peter started to panic once more, afraid of what Tony would do because of his wings.

"Kid, calm down. I'm not going to hurt you because of your wings. You're still Peter, after all." This seemed to calm Peter's panic enough for Tony to get him to pack a small bag, ignoring the fact that May had stopped pounding on the door. Less than five minutes later, Peter had absorbed both pairs of wings into his back, a backpack with his belongings inside in their place. May rounded the corner of the building where the fire escape was just in time to see Iron Man fly off with Peter in his arms.

Once the duo had arrived at the tower, Tony took Peter to his room, knowing that it wasn't a good idea to bring up what had just happened. When Peter wanted to be left alone for a bit, Tony had made him promise to stay in the tower before heading to his lab.

A couple hours later, Peter arrived, walking into Tony's lab only to stop dead in his tracks. Tony, as he was tinkering with something, had let his wings out. Two pairs, both black, one raven and one owl. Tony had the same wings as Peter, minus the superhuman glimmer.

Tony had known Peter was about to enter the lab and had let his wings out as a way to silently tell Peter that he was there for him. He wasn't heartless, contrary to the public's beliefs. When the door opened and a gasp was heard, Tony turned around, already knowing that it was Peter.

"You have wings. Wings like mine. Am I hallucinating?" Peter's brain short-circuited. Tony chuckled, pinching the boy's arm lightly to show that the boy wasn't hallucinating as he had thought.

"Yeah, I have wings. They're like yours, which just makes us even more alike. So what?" Tony tried to hide his true meaning of revealing his wings, which he hadn't even shown to Pepper or Rhodey, to Peter.

"I thought you were wingless, like Rhodey. Both of you used suits to fly." Sam, though he used a wing pack to fly, wasn't included in that as he had wings, but preferred to keep them from harm by using the metal wings.

"Nope. I'm not wingless, I just didn't show my wings, similar to you." A memory of Howard Stark's punishment for the time that Tony had let his wings out flashed across his mind, but he pushed it down. No need to have a flashback of a less than ideal childhood, especially now.

Peter surprised the man by hugging him. After a second, though, Tony returned the hug, awkwardly wrapping his arms around his - the kid. Peter let his true mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion out, slowly falling asleep on Tony. The genius billionaire just picked the kid up, avoiding the kid's wings, which had let themselves out sometime after the boy had entered the lab, and carried him to the couch, setting him down on it. As Tony put a pillow under his head and threw a blanket over him, Peter mumbled something, but Tony heard it clear as day.

"Goodnight, dad."

"Goodnight, son." Tony fought back pure tears of happiness as he filed a lawsuit against May for the custody of Peter Parker.

After Tony won the case, he and Peter revealed their wings to the team, who whole-heartedly accepted them. They were no longer excused from the daily wing-grooming session, though Peter and Tony did each other's wings, which the Avenger's didn't mind. They were just glad that Peter and Tony trusted them to see their wings, which had been ridiculed and strictly hidden for their entire lives.