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peter x harley enemies to lovers. p l e a s e.

The first time Peter met Harley, he was visiting Tony for summer vacation, driving all the way from Tennessee for a real internship, not like the fake one that Peter had. Peter was trying not to feel like Harley was replacing him but Tony only seemed to care about this teenager with a slight country accent whenever he was in the room. Peter tried to get along with him but Harley was cold and always seemed to be begging for a fight or for a rivalry.

Harley seemed desperate to one-up Peter at every opportunity. While Peter was playing with ideas for new kinds of webbing, Harley shot him down and tried to convince him that the idea was useless and stupid.

If Harley wanted a rivalry, Peter was willing to comply. They argued about mechanics problems which Harley usually won as Peter wasn’t specialized in engineering. At least Peter won the Physics and Chemistry arguments.

Tony seemed bewildered at the situation and Peter heard him talking to Pepper as ‘I really thought they’d get along...’

After weeks of knowing Harley, Peter decided that he would try to be nice, no matter what. Harley probably was probably angry or frustrated with something else and taking it out on Peter because he refused to fight back. He just tried to have some sarcastic response and give up on having the last word.

Peter started by making Harley coffee. He didn’t know if he added too much milk or sugar but he made it the way he liked it as he had no clue how his new ‘friend’ liked it.

It was fair to say that Harley was surprised. He had spent a lot of time giving Peter a hard time, borderline bullying him. And he just handed him a cup of coffee. His natural reaction was that Peter put laxatives in it or something. He literally had FRIDAY do a test on the liquid for any foreign substances. He only took a careful sip after it came back clean. Okay, it was actually kind of good, he just had to figure out Peter’s motives.

It took entirely too long for Harley to realize that Peter was being nice to him because he was a genuinely nice person. Only then did he feel especially guilty for giving him a hard time.

On one of the few times Tony had left them alone to take care of something boring, Harley built up his courage enough to apologize. He was too embarrassed to look into Peter’s eyes as he said it, he tried to give reasons as to why he was being an asshole, His mom had sent him to new york to send back the money he got from the internship and he felt like he was under a lot of pressure. He was missing home and he felt terrible for letting out his frustrations on someone that he barely knew.

After they worked things out, everything seemed to get easier. This sudden change also left Tony bewildered as he had no idea what changed and it wasn’t like FRIDAY was going to tell him anything besides ‘the interns worked everything out boss!’

After a month and a half of ever-vigilant rivalry, Harley and Peter became something like friends. Harley still teased him from time to time but there was no malice behind his words now. He would lean on Peter’s shoulders as he looked through his code, he would laugh softly closer to his ear. Peter found that he liked it. He probably liked it too much as he had to actively try not to blush when Harley got too close.

This was a turn Peter really didn’t expect. He didn’t hate it. He found himself drawn to Harley like a magnet and he started smiling a whole lot more when they were around each other.

He had no idea how he got to that point but he realized that he had a crush on Harley. Shit. He spared glances while Harley was working, sometimes he came to the workshop in a tank top when he planned on working on something big like an Iron Man suit and that made Peter feel things.

Eventually, it got to a point where Peter was sure that he was in love. The funny thing was that while Peter wasn’t looking, Harley did the same thing. The only person who seemed to notice anything was Tony, who was starting to get frustrated.

Tony would leave the workshop for no reason just to pressure them into talking to each other, which to their credit, they did. However, they avoided talking about what was going on between them. It was driving Tony insane.

Tony started doing subtle things to bring them together, like ‘accidentally’ demolishing half of the compound so that there was only one guest room left that they would have to share for a week. He ditched them at a fancy restaurant and planned a gala for no other reason than to have them go together.

None of these worked. However, something definitely changed on their first mission. Peter surfed on Tony’s back as they flew towards where the Avengers were being assembled.

The fight didn’t end up being anything serious until Harley got shot down.

Tony had never seen Peter go so fast as he desperately webbed Harley in his new iron suit to stop his plummet. It almost worked. Harley crashed to the ground fast enough to be worrying but it would’ve been so much worse if Peter had never intervened.

Tony followed behind Peter and got there just in time to see Peter pull a bleeding and bruised Harley from his black and gold suit. Tony promptly banned them from the fight and had Peter take Harley to medical through all of the protests.

The fear of Harley falling to his death seemed to be enough of a push to make confessions happen, as when Tony came to check on them after the fight there seemed to be a wall that had been broken down as they were making out. He muttered a ‘finally’ before leaving them alone as they were obviously fine and a little busy.

After that, Tony kind of regretted pushing so hard to get them together as they clung to each other more often than not, but he didn’t regret it that much as there was such a dramatic difference between what they first met to now. It was a little bit of an improvement.

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