Anecdoche

A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

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*Peter Parker's P.O.V*
Even though Peter had suspected Flash's parents didn't care for him much, he didn't realise how bad the situation was. It was obvious Flash still blamed himself for his sister's death and hadn't had any help to move past it.

He could empathize with Flash, he had had much more then his fair share of traumatic experiences but Peter had always had Aunt May. Flash felt all alone.

Peter was kind of honoured Flash trusted him with his secret. He could tell Flash could barely admit it to himself let alone others.

After Flash finished his story he started crying so Peter pulled him into a hug. Surprisingly, Flash didn't pull away.

They sat there for a while in silence before Peter pulled Flash to his feet.

"We should get back to the tower it's cold"

Flash nodded wiping away his tears.

They pair then swing off into the night.

*

Karen was in both Spiderman suits so she connected the headsets so they could talk.

"How did you know I was going to my parents house?" Flash asked "did Karen tell you?"

"Yeah, well she told FRIDAY who told me. Mr Stark doesn't know anything" Peter reassured Flash.

He wanted to advise Flash to get professional help but Peter didn't want to pressure Flash when he was already stressed and scared and he didn't want to ruin the weird almost-friendship between them that came out of nowhere.

*

By the time they made it to the tower it was 1am. They climbed back in through Peter's bedroom window. (Peter using his webs and the iron spider legs)

"Thanks for not telling Mr Stark, FRIDAY" Peter muttered.

Peter could almost see the AI smiling.

Flash took off the spiderman suit and immediately crashed on the air mattresses. Peter sent the iron spider suit back to the lab and lay down in his own bed.

He mulled over what Flash told him in his head. The bullying suddenly made sense. In Flash's head Peter had everything he wanted, little did Flash know the hardships Peter had been through.

Peter drifted off to sleep. He was going to tell Flash that his life was far from perfect in the morning.

*

Peter woke up the next morning to FRIDAY playing the Hamilton soundtrack at full volume.

"Ok, ok I'm getting up now Fri" Peter almost jumped when he heard Flash's voice. Then be remembered he was Flash.

Peter looked down at the floor to see his own body extracting itself from a blanket. "What the fuck, Parker?" Flash said, his voice muffled by a pillow "you could've poked me or something"

"Sorry" Peter replied as he got ready for the day.

He wanted to talk to Flash but now wasn't the right time.

*

Flash and Peter entered the kitchen at the same time to see Mr Stark sitting at the the table, drinking coffee.

"Bruce is arriving in 10 minutes" he said through a yawn. "Then we can carry out some more advanced test"

Peter nodded and then put some bread in the toaster for him and Flash.

*

10 minutes later Mr Stark, Flash and Peter went to the runway, that definitely exists and isn't just plot convenience, to meet Bruce.

Peter was exited to see Dr Banner again, he had missed there sciencey talks.

They watched as a huge high-tech jet flew towards them and landed on the very real runway. The doors opened automatically and Dr Bruce Banner walked out looking serious.

"Hey Bruce!" Tony said sounding upbeat. "We have a slight problem"

"What is it? because on the phone you just told me to get here as quickly as possible and don't tell anyone. Then you hung up. I swear if you accidentally put ice cream in the toaster again I'm not helping"

"No it's not that but I did tell you Peter did something"

"Hey, I didn't do anything" Peter protested.

Bruce looked at Peter In concern.

"That's the problem" Tony said "Peter and his classmate Crash mat-"

"Flash"

"Gesundheit, switched bodies and we don't know why. That's why we need your help"

Before Bruce could say anything a child screamed "PETER!"

"Morgan?" Peter, Mr Stark and Bruce said at the same time.

They all turned around to see a small girl running away from the plane towards the group, a big smile on her face.

She tackled Flash in a hug while everyone stared open mouthed.

Sorry for the wait I was procrastinating 😅

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