Falling

Again anxiety seemed to show up at the wrong time. Patrol. Peter was swinging into battle once more to help a middle aged woman being cornered by a small group of weapon baring people. And as he was swinging in his heart rate peaked, his airway contracted, his hearing became a bit fuzzy, and his breathing ragged. Never the less he wasn't going to let this woman be assaulted just because he, Spider-Man, had issues. It was a routine task and he finished it rather quickly especially with his accelerated web shooters.  Despite that by the time he was leaving the scene, tears were pouring down his face, he was hyperventilating, and spots clouded his vision. Of course Karen had already been noting these points since the beginning of the skirmish and now chimed,

"You are experiencing a severe panic attack,Peter. I recommend the recovery position until Mr.Stark arrives."

Immediately sirens began going off in Peters head as he realized what his AI said and hastily replied," N-no Karen, I sw-wear I a-am fine. Ple-please don-t-t call hi-im."

 Karen again spoke," I'm sorry, Peter, Mr. Stark was notified 2.87 minutes ago."

Giving up he landed on-top of the nearest building where he desperately attempted to pull himself together just a bit before Tony arrived which could be any second. His hearing was fuzzy, spots kept dancing across his vision and Peter could have sworn there were more dark spots than just a few seconds ago. And just as his mind made that observation his vision went completely dark.

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Tony was in his lab listening to music at the highest volume over the speakers, when suddenly the music cut out and was replaced with Jarvis' voice instead. 

"Karen has just notified me that Mr.Parker seems to be experiencing a severe panic attack whilst on patrol and requires assistance, although Karen went against Mr.Parker's orders to not notify you."

Tony abruptly stopped what he was doing and made his way briskly to the platform where he could get his suit as he had Jarvis locate Peter's exact position. With the location secured he flew off quickly in order to help Peter. It was within not even 3 minutes that he had Peter in his sights and the boy had only just landed on the top of a building where he paused for barely half a minute. Peter then suddenly started swaying and was within seconds falling off the maybe ten story building. 

Seeing this Tony accelerated as fast as he could and caught Peter at five stories high. He held the unconscious youth in his arms tightly as he flew them back to the tower. Tony's mind was racing for answers and his eyes were analyzing the state the boy was in. 

 Upon arriving at the tower, the first thing he did after getting out of his own suit was take Peter to the med bay to check his vitals. After being told that everything seemed to be in order he carried Peter to the boys personal room which he accommodated on the penthouse floor and laid him in bed. As Peter slept, Tony reviewed all of the health reports since a week before the bullet incident until present time.

It was 11ish pm when Peter woke to Mr.Stark sitting by his bed, reading a science book from off one of Peter's shelving units. Peter was confused at first because he couldn't remember what had happened after saving the woman. That is until after a few moments and it clicked again. Peter's eyes widened as he realized he must have passed out and Tony found him in some way or another. As Peter realized this, Tony noticed that Peter had woken up and was covering his face with his arm. Tony began the conversation,

"Welcome back to the world of the living, I hope you're prepared to explain what happened tonight."

Peter sat up and looked at the bed sheet as he mumbled out something that sounded like, "Nothing happened, won't happen again. Don't worry about." 

Tony frowned, "Not worry about it? How am I supposed to not worry it!? You fell off a building Peter. That is something to be worried about!"

Peter winced as Tony raised his voice. Despite his voice being a little shaky he said," I said it won't h-happen again. B-beside you probably already have p-poured over K-karen's reports."

Tony hesitated a bit as he heard Peter stuttering about the sentence  but rebutted with. " Yes, I have read the reports but I'd much prefer to know what happened from you, why you aren't telling me this, and why every time you go on patrol you have these attacks ranging minor to severe." 

Peter began to speak barely above a whisper, "I-i'm not sure. Every time I'm about to h-help someone I get so a-afraid that my efforts won't be enough..." Tony softened as Peter spoke. He felt bad for raising his voice at the kid, but if Karen had listened to Peter and not notified him then Peter would be well dead and Tony couldn't bare the thought of losing anyone else. 

Tony softly responded to Peter," I know it's really daunting. But even if all hell breaks loose within a battle, as long as you've done your best that's all the world can ask for and anything else is expecting too much. Now why didn't you want Karen to let me know?"

Peter hesitated for a few long moments before saying, " I  just didn't want to be a waste of time and just another thing to worry about. Besides up until tonight I've been able to keep myself together during and after when it happens..."

Tony nodded, " You could never be a waste of time and besides it's a part of the job to worry about you."

Peter smiled and asked," So... what now?" Tony quickly responded," You are going back to sleep and I'm going to get started on some medication for these attacks" Tony left Peter after a few more minutes of idle conversation and Peter fell back asleep surprisingly easy.

The medication Tony was talking about was added into Peter's suit that night. So that whenever Karen detected high anxiety levels a small pinprick injection would be released into Peter's bloodstream from a small podded  circular shaped container on the suit. The medication would release chemicals that would slow down the heart rate and breathing a small amount in order to help Peter calm down. 

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