Summary: Peter Parker convinces Tony and Pepper to join him and May for the first night of Hanukkah.

A/N: In honour of Hanukkah which begins this year on December 2, this book will have a one-shot featuring Jewish Peter. I'm sorry if not all the details are right as I'm not Jewish, but I tried to research as much as I could before writing it so I hope it's close to how Hanukkah really is. Enjoy!

Tony wasn't sure what to expect tonight. After asking Peter why he'd been more excited than usual for the past few days, Peter had eagerly explained that Hanukkah was beginning in two nights. Now, Tony didn't know much about Hanukkah other than it was celebrated sometime in December by Jewish people, but by the end of their time in the lab, Peter had invited him and Pepper to join him and May for the first night. Of course, Tony wasn't going to say no (not that he wanted to anyway), so he told Pepper and she had been reading up on the event for the past two nights.

"Let's go, Tony!" Pepper yelled up the stairs, balancing on one foot as she pulled her other shoe on.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," Tony replied, rushing down the stairs and jumping straight into the lift.

Tony grabbed the keys to the first car in the garage and together, they hurried over.

"You read those articles I sent you, right?" Pepper asked, sliding into the passenger seat.

"Yeah," Tony answered, fastening his seat belt. "I also had FRIDAY find me some more and read them out loud while I worked. Don't worry, I'm not going in blind."

"Good," Pepper said, nodding then looking out her window as they shot out of the garage.

There wasn't as much traffic as usual when they drove through town. It was just past 3PM when they arrived at Peter's apartment building that the traffic started to pick back up.

Tony led the way up to the Parker apartment and Pepper followed close behind. It was only seconds after he had knocked on the door when it was pulled open and he was met by a grinning May Parker.

"Come on in," she said, waving them in. Despite smelling something cooking in the kitchen, Tony had no idea what it smelled like. "Peter's in his room, but won't be for much longer."

As if he had heard her (and he probably had), Peter came rushing into the living room to greet Tony and Pepper. He gave Pepper a giant hug, lifting her off her feet in his excitement while Tony chuckled. Pepper hadn't been at the Tower the last few times Peter had been, so it had been about a week since he'd last seen her.

"Hey, Peter," Pepper said once she was back on her feet. "You seem excited."

"Oh yeah!" he exclaimed, bouncing on his toes. "May makes the best latkes in the world but she only ever makes them for Chanukah, but I also really like candles and dreidels are super fun to play with. Have you ever played with a dreidel, Mr. Stark?"

"Can't say that I have, Underoos," Mr. Stark replied, smiling at Peter's excited rambling.

"You'll love it! Come on," Peter said, grabbing hold of Mr. Stark and dragging him into the living room. "I'll show you how to play."

"I think I know how to spin a top," Mr. Stark said, glancing at the dreidels on the living room table.

He picked one up and looked at it closer, noticing there was something inscribed on each side of the dreidel.

"No, Mr. Stark, it's different," Peter protested.

He pulled out a bag of change and set it on the table, handing a dreidel to Mr. Stark and dumping all the nickels out. As Mr. Stark looked at the dreidel, Peter explained that each different inscription stood for a different Hebrew word. Taking the dreidel out of Mr. Stark's hands, he twisted it around and told him what each stood.

"Okay, I think I got it," Mr. Stark said, snatching the dreidel back.

Peter raised an eyebrow at him but sat back and began dividing up the coins.

Once each coin was divided, he spun his dreidel. It landed on gimmel and Peter grinned, looking up at Mr. Stark. Mr. Stark grabbed his dreidel and spun it only for it to go flying off the table. Ignoring Peter's smirk, he picked it up to spin again. It landed on nun.

"Alright, you get to go first," Peter told him. Mr. Stark asked why and Peter explained how nun was the highest followed by gimmel, hey, and then shin.

"Don't forget to put a nickle in the middle," May yelled from the kitchen.

Peter's eyes widened at the reminder and put a nickel in the centre of the table. Mr. Stark followed suit then spun his dreidel when Peter told him to.

* * * * *

Peter and Mr. Stark played with the dreidels until May told them it was time to light the menora. Although Tony recognised the word from the various articles he'd read beforehand, he was a little surprised when May pulled a silver candle stand from a top cupboard. He followed her and Peter over to the window sill and stood beside Pepper. Carefully, May set the menora on the window sill and handed Peter a lighter.

"You're handing the kid fire?" Tony teased.

Peter scowled at him and Tony smirked.

"I always get to light the menora the first night," he informed Tony.

Tony gave him a teasing smile and Peter lit the shamash candle (another thing Tony was proud he could recognise).

Tony knew that May and Peter would say at least some sort of blessing in Hebrew, but he wasn't prepared for how smoothly the language seemed to roll off their tongues. He watched in awe as they both recited two different blessings, pausing briefly between them. When they finished, Peter lit the first menora candle and set the shamash candle back in its place.

"Wow," Pepper breathed beside him. Tony nodded and Peter's grin seemed to grow only bigger.

"We only say the first blessing tonight," May told them, wrapping an arm around Peter's shoulders. "We also sing Peter's favourite hymn Maoz Tzur. I printed off the lyrics with how to pronounce the words if you would like them."

"Of course," Pepper said immediately.

May walked into her bedroom and came out two pieces of paper, one that she handed to Tony and the other she handed to Pepper. With a small smile at Peter, May began to hymn.

No amount of research could have prepared Tony for how difficult it was to pronounce each word. He stumbled through the whole song and at the end of it, Pepper apologised for the both of them.

May waved her off. "It was your first time and even I still stumble over the words every now and then."

"Oh," Pepper replied, feeling a little better knowing she hadn't ruined the whole night simply by messing up Peter's favourite hymn.

"Peter, how about you tell them the story of the first Chanukah you got to light the menora," May suggested.

Peter nodded eagerly then launched into the story about how Uncle Ben had let him light the menora for the first time when he was eight years old. Unfortunately, he'd seen a spider in the window just as he picked up the shamash and had promptly dropped it.

As they moved into the dining room together, Peter continued to ramble happily about previous Hanukkahs that had—fortunately—not ended with Peter almost burning down the house. By the end of the night, Tony decided he rather enjoyed celebrating Hanukkah with the Parkers so until the very last night, he and Pepper joined them.