Dedicated to @Mysteryfan17  , thanks for the prompt!

Clouds rumbled overhead of Stark Tower as the snowstorm raged on. The blizzard taunted Peter as he sat there in the lab with the other interns. FRIDAY struggled to keep the lights running. Flickering lights taunted Peter as the cold started to creep in.

Oh shit, Peter thought as he started to shiver before anyone else in the room even began to feel the cold. One of the eldest interns noticed Peter shivering and started to panic. He knew that Peter was Mr Stark's personal intern, and if anything were to happen to him- well let's just say that he didn't want to be held accountable to the fate of his bosses favourite worker.

Hesitantly, the older intern asked, "Peter, are you okay?"

"Yeah of course! Just a little cold flash, it will flash."

It will not pass. Ever since the bite, Peter had been having trouble with keeping his body temperature stable. It must have to be something to do with his newfound spider senses. After some experiments (curtesy of Ned making sure he didn't die/ recording the progressions), Peter soon learned that extreme cold forced him into a hibernated state.

Peter started to layer on his sweater and winter coat while the other interns watched him warily. The lights suddenly went out as the entire city grid died out. Peter knew that Stark Tower was on its own power course, and was nothing short of extremely worried that even FRIDAY had lost power. The other interns, in turn, started to also layer up. "This is going to be a long night," sighed another intern who was braiding her friend's hair to keep herself occupied.

And a long night it was.

Progressively throughout the night, the tower got colder and colder. During this Peter could feel himself steadily heading towards his hibernation state. Firstly he would stop shaking, even when the other interns were huddling and shivering. Then he started to lose feeling in his limbs as his body started to slowly shut down and put his body into it's sleeping state. At this point, the other interns were so concerned that they started trying to get Mr Stark on the phone, albeit unsuccessfully. "Peter? We're getting kinda' scared here, bud. What's happening?" asked one of the interns as she felt Peter's pulse starting to slow and his skin became colder and colder.

Peter, now struggling to move his lips to be able to talk, mumbled, "I don't do too well in the cold." He yawned and his eyes started to flutter shut as his body took note of the temperature.

The other interns started to mutter amongst themselves as Peter's eyes finally fluttered shut and his breathing slow. "Fuck, bros, we can't lose Peter- he's Mr Stark's favourite and I just really need to keep this internship," some guy mumbled as he started to rifle through the drawers. "We need blankets and heat packs - just anything that can keep him warm." He then went on and asked himself why they didn't search for these things beforehand.

After an eternity, they found Peter surrounded by handmade heaters. The interns put their minds together and started to act. They split up, half the interns constructed self-sufficient fans without the need for electricity (don't ask, it took some work to figure it out), while the other half kept Peter warm. This included: bundles of blankets, cuddling (which was wholesome considering a bunch of the interns saw Peter as their little brother), and more layers of shirts and such.

Peter never explicitly told his coworkers about his past time activities as Spider-Man. But it seemed they already knew or at least expected something questionable with Peter and his powers. And if they didn't expect anything before- they did now. Since they couldn't leave the room and get any of the medics in the tower due to the power outage made it so the doors didn't work (Stark would have to reconstruct the safety systems after this), so they took turns monitoring his vitals. It was a stressful day, to say the least. Once the heaters turned on, Peter's eyes started to slowly flicker again, and his skin began to take on a healthier hue.

Just like that, the lights flickered on again and the workshop began to come back to life. One intern rushed to brew some hot chocolate, while another contacted Mr Stark and this time successfully got through. The other three interns sat next to Peter and waited for his eyes to flutter open.

By the time Tony Stark rushed into the room with the rest of the Avengers, Peter was sitting upright sipping his hot drink under various layers of blankets and jackets. The other interns sat on the floor next to him, looking dead tired as they clutched their own drinks as if their lives depended on it.

"What happened here?" Mr Stark asked as him and Doctor Banner rushed over to check Peter's vitals. They knew about Peter's powers but had no idea about his hibernation state. In fact, they didn't know until the intern's frantic calls reached him once the phone lines rebooted.

Peter just half-heartedly shrugged in a way that told Tony he would tell him later. "I just don't do well in the cold..." The other interns hummed in agreement before curling up in the huge blanket pile they had over Peter and slowly lulled themselves to sleep.

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School starts Tuesday nooooo

-SecretsInMyHead