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It's just anatomy, you're only half of me (still, you don't know me at all)

When Penelope Parker Stark was 5 years old and she watched all the kids from her kindergarten get picked up, she didn't feel anything. She knew that it was not normal for someone who was hired by her dad to pick her up.

In her short five years of life she knew that her dad Anthony "Tony" Stark was a media sensation. However she also knew what her dad was not to her. An actual dad after all the only times she really saw him when he was drunk or high.

Penelope was considered a child genius at her age, already understanding things much greater than a normal child should. That in introspection should've made someone worried about her but no one ever did. Afterall it was all about Tony Stark. And wasn't that something fun to think about.

"Penny" Her teacher called, "Someone's here to pick you up." She blinked and got up from the seated area and went to the door already knowing the routine.

She got picked up by her Nanny Miss.Julie and then she was driven back to her house and from there she would go to her room. From there she would do her homework or anything she wanted to build or try out while waiting for her dad to get home. That didn't matter too much. She was always ignored or forgotten by Tony, it wasn't anything new to her and wouldn't be for a long time.

(And wasn't that sad)

After getting in the car she watched as the world flew by. In her five year old mind she greatly cared for someone to actually care about her. But, alas she didn't think that was going to happen for a while and just sat there quietly.

Whenever people looked at Penelope Parker Stark they expected something great from her. Afterall she was a stark and considered american royalty but people were often disappointed.

Instead of a loud raucous arrogant child like they expected, they got a quiet demure blue eyed sullen girl. She never seemed to care about anything and people were mean even when you were a five year old.

The lights were on and Penny looked at the house with a dull interest, it was grandiose and something fit for a stark.

(penny hated this quiet mausoleum of a house with all her being)

She walked and saw her dad was plastered on the couch with bottles of alcohol surrounding him. Her nanny tried to push her on with a shocked but not at all surprised expression on her face.

You see she was already used to this

(the best money can buy right)

and Penny quietly walked up the stairs to her room quiet like a ghost. Her nanny had already left seeing that her parental guardian was already here. Penny didn't say anything, she never did when her father was like that or even sober. It was like living with a stranger, and Penny was already used to it.

(Age 7)

Two years passed by and Penny got smarter and smarter. She was already taking fifth grade courses and was on her way to middle school with how fast she was learning everything. Her father attained a new personal assistant Virginia "Pepper" Potts. Penny didn't say anything at all because why would she, Pepper was just another stranger to her and with the rate her father was getting attached she might actually be a new stepmom.

Penny was still alone and she didn't mind because she preferred to read and get lost in her own wonderland with superheroes and villains. You see Penny always wanted to save people in some kind of way and she didn't care how. When they were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, Penny stated with all seriousness in her tiny little body, "A superhero" And wasn't that funny, Penny stark wanted to be a superhero while her father was a war mongering whatever.

People thought Penny was joking but she was dead serious.

One day she saw uncle obie walking in all smiles.

(Penny never trusted him)

Obie went on and on to her father about all these weapons and her father just nodded along

(It was pennies birthday that day, but who cares right)

Penny just sighed and went to her room with a store bought cupcake and a singular candle. She wished for the birthday she saw on tv where the little girl had her parents surrounding her wishing her and being with her.

Instead penny just got a rich absent alcoholic father

(Tony didn't want to be his father)

look how that turned out

Today her father was supposed to go to Afghanistan for a weapons presentation and he was already late. Penny stood there watching with blank eyes as he flirted with pepper.

"Alright penny now say goodbye to you dad" Pepper stated cheerfully.

Penny slightly inclined her head and walked away annoyed. She didn't even know why she dragged her to say bye to her father. It's not like he ever said bye whenever he was going anywhere and penny would find out from whatever drunken mishap he did on the news.

(Penny would never say this outloud but she hated her dad for being like this)

Penny never saw the fallen expression on her dad's face when she walked away.

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The news was on and it was talking about the abduction of tony stark. Penny watched on with a numb look on her face and tried to find the sadness that everyone expected her to feel. Instead she felt nothing because why would she?

It's not like tony stark was anything to her anyway besides her father she was just some stranger she saw get wasted ever since she was born. Penny had more of a connection with "Happy '' Tony's bodyguard/ butler.

(Wasn't that sad)

Now there was a mess of who was going to take penny. Apparently that was resolved quickly because somehow in tony's will for something ever happened to him she was supposed to go to rhody.

(That pissed off obadia when he found out he wasn't given guardianship at all)

He can’t control the next stark heir this time

As the three months passed by Penny continued on as usual already used to being ignored. Everyone was shocked to see Penny look the same. She wasn’t crying or even seemed sad that her father was gone,

(What they didn’t know was that penny did feel sad, she just couldn’t show it)

Pepper always looked like she was about to burst into tears while Rhodey looked even more exhausted every time he came home finding nothing. It didn’t mean that they weren’t hopeful to find her father.

A dark part of her mind whispered, “Maybe we are better off without him”

Penny just shook the thought away and continued working on the math work that was assigned to her. Her teachers along with Rhodey decided to let her skip school for some reason.

Penny wasn’t going to complain

she hated the stares

Penny was at the mansion with everything quiet

Pepper had run off in a rush over something and Penny didn’t bother to question it. It was probably some issue with Stark Industries and something inside her was begging her to turn on the TV.

She did and their was her dad in all his glory bruised up but alive

(Penny was supposed to feel happy, she felt nothing)

Penny turned the TV off and went to her room and quietly told Jarvis, “lights out protocol” and the lights closed in her room one by one. Penny was not in the mood to deal with this and she just decided to go to sleep. She didn’t want to face the world or anything at all so she sunk into oblivion.

Hours later Penny woke up feeling bleary and even more exhausted than before.

“Jarvis?”

“Yes miss.stark”

“Is my dad home?”

“Yes mr.stark is home, would you like for me to call him?”

“no”

Penny didn’t know what to feel and decided that nothing would be a great idea. She didn’t want to care, just like how Tony never cared for her.

(Age 10)

A lot has happened ever since Tony got back from Afghanistan. Penny saw the rise and fall then the rise again of Iron Man. Her dad was an actual superhero and worked alongside earth's mightiest heroes.

Penny couldn’t find it in her to care at all since she was busy raising herself and going to school in Midtown Elementary.

She knew that the elementary was considered a top notch school and could easily get her in midtown middle and midtown high without her even trying. Penny never liked name dropping her dad and she wasn’t very well known in the public.

People knew that Tony Stark had a kid and that’s about it.

(the only thing penny thought he did right)

After moving back to New York after their home in Malibu was destroyed because of Tony leaking their address Penny actually made friends…

She was friends with Harry Osborne, and Ned Leeds as well as Michelle mj Jones. Penny thought the world of them because they actually listened to her. Penny got used to the absences her father set out because of being Iron Man and she couldn’t find it in her to care even more.

The school day was over and Penny was waiting for it to be over. Today was really boring and dare Penny say it she just really wanted to go home and hide under her covers and do nothing. She was used to walking home because Happy was too busy babysitting her father which made Penny scoff and roll her eyes.

Her indifference to her father was slowly turning into resentment and that's maybe how Harry and Her got along so well. The mutual hate they both have for their dad’s.

The wind was blowing softly and it was nearing summer time. Penny spent most of her time out of the tower just wondering wherever. She was stupid rich because of the large allowance her dad gave her and never really cared about what she spent it on.

Penny snorted derisively, “He has to notice in order to care”

She sometimes spent her time at Ned’s house and his family loved Penny. Ned would jokingly complain that his parent’s would prefer penny to him and she just giggled at that silly notion. Her father was busy with the Avennger’s initiative and Penny couldn’t find it in her to care. Like yay black widow is cool and Captain America is alive and whatever.

(She wanted a dad not a superhero)

So here Penny was walking towards the park where she and Ned were meeting up to go to his house and build legos while also eating Thai food and binging Star Wars movies. Harry or MJ might come to join them and they would have a wicked sleepover.

Penny liked that idea very much and the fact that it was a reality made the pain of having dad who never cared sting less and the hurt to bury deep down.

In the coming years she wouldn’t know the insane things that would end up happening but at the moment she had at least her friends.

(age 14)

Penny knew that going to Oscorp was going to be a big mistake especially with her luck. She made Pepper sign her permission out of spite because of her dad’s hatred for oscorp. Penny didn’t want to go but was intrigued by the different promises. Besides, she did not want to leave Harry alone or ditch Ned and MJ just because she didn’t like the company. That was petty and dumb.

It was a normal day, the sun was shining and the birds were chirping. Her dad was out doing something and Pepper was busy running a company. Nobody really focused on Penny but let’s be serious who ever did?

Penny didn’t get enough sleep last night because she was distracted reading a book that mj somehow just knew she’d be obsessed with and by the time she realized it was like three am in the morning. Penny had a grand total of three hours of sleep that were definitely her fault.

She usually took the bus to midtown and could afford to be a little late so she stopped at Starbucks and got a frappe because why not and went to school. Surprisingly she was not late and got to finish her drink in the bus while Ned just rolled his eyes.

Once they got to Oscorps the four of them completely ignored the tour guide while Harry gave them his version of a tour.

“Yeah that part is sketchy”

“I don’t suggest you touch that”

“I think someone died here”

Ned and Penny looked at him with horror in their eyes

“What it gives the place character” Harry sheepishly stated

MJ smirked, “Yeah losers character”

The “tour” continued when Penny got distracted by a display of spiders and she was examining them when someone pushed into her.

She crashed into the display and lo and behold it was Flash fucking thomason a literaly pain in her ass since first grade. HIs mommy and daddy gave him everything he wanted because he was the miracle child as he liked to brag. Penny just found him a miraculous ass.

“OOPS you should watch where your going parker” Flash sneered at Penny

Penny just rolled her eyes as she pushed herself off the display and that’s when she felt a stinging pain on her neck.

“Ow” Penny hisses as she slapped a hand to her neck

At that moment everyone was staring at her and Flash, but Ned quickly pointed out that Flashed shoved Penny and everyone who saw the whole thing nodded fast. For some reason Flash was the only one who didn’t like Penny but the rest of her year was indifferent towards her and felt bad for the cruel treatment that Flash gave her.

At that moment there science teacher Miss.Luisa walked forward with a stern glint which let flash know he was in deep shit and couldn’t weasel his way out of this one.

“Are you ok Penny” as the class watched Flash getting dragged away

Penny felt a little dizzy but smiled weakly, “Yeah just hurt my neck with how sudden the push was”

MJ scowled, “Flash is just an asshole”

Ned nodded, “Agreed”

The four followed the group and the entire day Penny felt worse and worse. She made it home in a haze and felt like she wanted to pass out forever. Once she made it to her room she muttered, “lockout and blackout protocol, password I need a break”

This basically meant Penny would be undisturbed for a period of time and she could get away with it.

The next two days passed by in a haze and blur, she felt her fever go higher and buckets of sweat were dripping off of her. The pain got so bad that she felt her screaming her throat raw for someone to make IT STOP.

FInally, Penny passed out again and awoke with the world seemingly louder and everything brighter.

Penny dragged herself out of bed and felt her eyes gummy and her mouth bone dry with an unimaginable hunger in her stomach. She felt strangely lighter and when she tried to open her bathroom door the door knob broke.

“What the hell?” She stared down at her hands and there was the knob just stuck to her fingers. She pried it out and dropped in on the ground freaked out. Penny stared at herself in the mirror and noticed she was taller.

Penny was previously at 5ft5 but for some reason she grew three inches and was taller. Her hair that was up to her shoulders were waist length and she got abs somehow.

At that moment Penny realized she could see astonishingly well and did not need her glasses or contacts.

“This is so weird, do I got powers or something” Penny asked herself

She tilted her neck and felt something behind and there was a spider that was dead.

“This was at Osborn, how the hell did I get powers from a freaking spider” Penny muttered even more confused.

“Just my luck” Penny groaned when she thought of her crashing into the spider exhibit.

Penny went through her morning routine painstakingly after she realized how delicate everything was.

She attempted to put on a shirt that literally fit her last week and felt the tire when she tugged a little too hard.

“I need new clothes” she grumped to herself

Penny thankfully had some of mj’s clothes when she came over last time and some that she stole. It was a joke between the two and Penny KNEW that mj had her favorite pink sweatshirt. “no <3” written on it in eye watering green

Ned got it for her as a gag gift when he went to Hawaii with his parents and Penny treasured it before mj somehow just took it.

Penny tugged on a beige sweatshirt that had women's rights written in bold with Ned’s sweatpants.

She didn’t even want to touch her hair when her hands sometimes got sticky randomly and it took forever for them to unstick. Panicking did not help and just made everything worse. Penny didn’t know how to explain the waist length hair.

“Hey penny what happened to your hair”

“Oh you know i’m secretly rapunzel”

She did not see that going over well, so she asked Friday to put on a hair cutting tutorial video, took a gigantic breath and started to cut. She just so happened to have hair cutting scissors in her bathroom because she has done this before with mj. Or well mj did it for her.

She got her wet because that was the first step and wanted to dye it as well. She had time and it wasn’t like she was going anywhere anytime soon. It was a long weekend and she had school tomorrow. The hair dye was sitting in a drawer as well as the bleach.

“Either i’m going to be doing something dumb or it might end up looking really good” Penny muttered out loud

Hours passed and Penny looked at her new hair and she grinned because it just felt like her. She decided to do a longish wolf cut, bleached it and colored it blue with a little bit of purple at the ends. In the end it looked really cool and exactly the way she wanted it.

Before she did the whole hair montage she went to the kitchen and ate like a starved animal. Penny had a little notebook and she was writing down every notable thing about her enhancements. The most she got so far was,

“I’m sticky”

“VIsibly taller, at least three inches”

“Abs???”

“Super hearing and sight”

“Hella strong for no reason”

“Hair.”

It was written in her messy cursive but hey it made sense.

Penny figured out the super hearing bit when she finally canceled the blackout mode which basically put her room in complete silence. She was hearing everything and anything all at once and it hurt but little by little she figured out how to regulate and filter sound. Just in case she managed to find some earbuds that were noise canceling and they seemed to help a little.

When she went back to school her friends complimented her new hair and mj grinned seeing her, “looking edgy loser”

That just made penny’s hear warm and happy

As the days went on Penny attempted to learn every little thing about her powers because they were so cool. It wasn’t that hard to sneak out and go to an abandoned gym to learn and that’s what Penny did.

Her dad had finally come back from his trip and the first thing he said to her in a long time was, “What the hell did you do to your hair”

Penny was reading a book at the time and without a beat responded, “I dyed it”

“This is unacceptable Penny”

Penny finally looked up, “Why does it bother you, it’s literally my hair”

Tony’s eyes hardened, “Don’t talk to me like that”

At that point Penny got annoyed and stood up, “Whatever i’m going to my room”

“No your grounded”

Penny snorted, “Grounding me because I dyed my fucking hair, funny”

Tony gaped

“How about next time i’ll get 4 piercings just to spite you” Penny scoffed

“PENELOPE STARK”

“ANTHONY STARK” penny mocked right back

“Whatever dad go play overprotective parent to someone who gives a shit” and with that Penny walked away continuing to read the book in her hand.

Once Penny got in her room she just sighed and sat down on her bed digging her hands in hair because really after all this time the most her dad did was comment on her hair.

“Fucking pathetic” she muttered to herself got herself ready to simply leave again

She was in the mood for candy and ever since Pepper was in Tony’s life they were living on shitty rabbit food that tastes like ass because anything pepper wants pepper get’s. Half the stuff Pepper made Penny hated because they tasted like sadness and regret. It’s like the woman never head of the word seasoning in her damn life.

Penny knew it wasn’t fair to take out her frustrations on Pepper but at this point she’d rather do that then blow her own brain out.

Penny knee her dad wasn’t running after, a thought that made her even more irritated for some reason so she kept walking to the nearest convenience store. She walked and the only people there were a man in his police uniform and a person at the cashier.

Penny walked towards the candy aisle and thought to get her some actual ice cream, not the frozen Greek shit that pepper kept in the freezer.

Once she got her twix, nerds and whatever else she got her grubby little hands Penny went towards the cashier and that’s when everything went totally wrong. SHe felt her spider sense an irritating buzzing at the back of her neck get louder.

Suddenly a man came running in with a ski mask on, “Empty the cash register or I shoot”

Penny stood there frozen solid not knowing what to say or do at that situation but the police man did know what to do and slowly deescalated the man. Everything was going alright until the man noticed Penny standing there frozen.

“Hey little girl come over here” He barked angrily

Penny shuffled towards him while the police officer stated, “It’s not her you want calm down please”

And in a split second a gunshot went off and the man walked away with a bag full of cash. Penny rushed forward with tears already welling up in her eyes.

“Your going to be ok, please be ok” She cried while attempting to push pressure on the wound to get the blood to stop flowing

The officer smiled weakly, “It’s ok kiddo, it’s just part of the job”

Penny tried to keep him talking, “What’s your name?”

“Benjamin Parker”

Penny smiled shakily, “we have the same names, Parker is my middle name”

“Oh really”

“Yeah and mine is Penny Stark nice to meet you”

Before Ben coil reply Penny cried out desperately, “Someone please call 911”

“Penny it’s alright, i’m ok with this because I did my job and managed to save you” Ben consoled her quietly

Penny whimpered, “No why are you ok with this you didn’t have to do that”

Ben smiled serenely, “Because Penny with great power come great responsibility”

And the man’s eyes slowly closed while Penny begged for them to stay open. Everything that happened after was a blur, she remembered getting in the ambulance and barely remembered talking to other officers.

When she was in the hospital she heard the horrible scream of the woman, Ben’s wife Penny assumes let out and Penny just sat there muted. Someone died and all Penny did was gawp and stare, with all the powers she had she did nothing.

And that was the problem; she did nothing

That day May 9th was a day that Penny would never forget

Because she made two promises to herself when she sat in the back of happy’s car with blood stained clothes, red rimmed and a broken heart.

“With great power comes great responsibility”

And

“Never do nothing”

She went back into her room alone where the shadows continued to haunt her and dreams were red rimmed and bloody. Penny was alone in this world, it was obvious when her dad couldn’t even be bothered to pick his traumatized daughter up from the hospital. She didn’t want other people to be alone and so Penny did what Penny did best

Survive

(age 16)

A lot happened in the two years she got bit by a spider and got really cool spider problems but also got traumatized from seeing a man die.

Penny became Spider-Woman and she spent the nights and early mornings helping out the little guy. She was known as a vigilante but people still called her a superhero because she saved lives. Penny did whatever she could, she rescued cats from trees and consoled a crying girl who got lost and took her back to her mother.

She was there to chase off the rapists and nobody needed to know she punched a little bit harder and webbed a little too tightly.

That was also a new thing her web shooters which Penny made in an abandoned lab in stark towers Penny was the hope of New York city and she clung to it tightly. It took two very long years but the NYPD finally started to work with her rather than against her.

Her father, who didn’t know she was Spiderwoman at all, attempted to recruit her to fight Rogers and his merry little band. Penny outright refused because she read the accords and the shit written on it was frankly disgusting. It was basically a lock and key for people who had powers, people like her trying to do the right thing.

Penny just told her father to shove it up his ass

He was trying to get her to go to fucking germany as if she didn’t have a life. Of course everyone should drop everything for the great tony stark.

Penny didn’t know if that was the resentment or the irritation talking, she was sticking with both. Being Spider-Woman was freeing and everything she wanted to be. She wanted to keep it a secret but she knew when her friends eventually found out and they will she was so dead. So Penny told them 6 months after being Spider-Woman independently for a year.

Ned freaked out

Harry was silent

MJ snorted

Then all three collectively decided to help her and no matter what Penny tried to say they did not budge.

“I’m not letting my best friend get killed you dope” Harry stated

Ned giggled, “Can I be your guy in the chair please please pleasee”

MJ sighed, “That suit is a crime to humanity, Penny for goodness sakes how did you wear that and not die”

Penny coughed awkwardly

Harry looked up from the plans he was making for her and narrowed his eyes, “Penny?”

She groaned, “Ok so I may have nearly died but it was fine”

Ned gasped, “Wait was this during Liz”

Michelle hummed, “This makes so much sense”

Ned then began to piece everything together, “Wait so when we found out Liz’s dad was the weapons dealer you found originally and you were her prom date!?”

“Igotcrushedunderawarehousethancrashedaplane” Penny stated all in one breath

Her three friends looked at her dumbfounded

Penny spoke slower, “I got crushed under a warehouse than crashed a plane which was my dads which had the weapons liz’s father wanted to sell”

Harry spoke a little louder, “Wait is this why you ditched the academic decathlon competition at dc because you were saving our sorry asses”

Penny laughed fakely, “Yeah that was my fault, I may have accidentally put a chitari core in Ned’s back and then it went boom”

Ned just squealed, “Best day ever!!!”

MJ just slowly shook her head, “Penelope Parker you are a mess woman”

Penny groaned, “I know”

Harry grinned, “Well that’s why you have us darling”

Penny just smiled, “Yeah I really am aren’t I?”

So that’s how Spider-Woman swung through the streets with a supportive army on her shoulders and in her ears helping her along the way.

(age 17)

Penny never really thought of dying even when she became a vigilante and almost died many times. Dying permanently was a thought she never had when she was on titan with her mask off and her look at her dad. Her dad was clutching her and begging for this not to happen.

“Hey dad it’s ok” Penny grinned

“No Penny no we just managed to start talking it can’t end like this” Tony sobbed

It was the first time ever that Penny saw her dad cry and she didn’t like it. The previous year had been one of the best years of her life. Her dad found out about Spider-Woman and they had this gigantic fight. They somehow managed to make it and little by little they became father-daughter again and now a dumb purple ball sacked dick was going to take this away from her.

Penny clutched her dad weakly and saw people begin to fade, “I love you and i’m sorry I never got to say it to you but I truly irrevocably love you”

At that moment Penny was crying while Tony sobbed harder, “No this wasn’t supposed to happen your supposed to outlive me, your supposed to live”

Penny managed to mumble, “I love you and i’m sorry daddy” before she became dust

Tony cried and mourned because his daughter was gone and he regretted the 16 years in which he made her seem like nothing. Tony regretted not being there for every birthday party all because he was afraid or didn’t care. He regretted not holding her close to his heart. He regretted a lot of things and no matter how much he could regret Penelope Parker Stark wasn’t coming back

(All he could do was mourn)

(five years later still 17)

The fight was over, hallelujah the fight was over. There was so much that happened Penny didn’t know what to feel at the moment. She hugged her dad and then somebody snapped and the fight was over.

She’d later find out that Captain Marvel was the one who snapped and Penny found that out to be badass.

Penny also found out she had a half-sister who was five years old. Morgan Harriet Stark is her name and Penny didn’t know what to feel so she shoved that right back. She learned that Tony finally got married to Pepper and they lived in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in a big family styled house.

It was strange to say the least and how fucking quite it was. Penny was used to the noise and bustle in New York and here there were just birds chirping and the wind whistling. It was weird to think about.

Somehow all her friends got snapped with her so they were all going to spend their senior year together. Penny was going to midtown high and she didn’t care if her dad said no because that was her school and she was graduating from it.

Penny quietly observed her new family and saw how remarkably different it was when it was just her and dad. For one he actually tried at the whole parenting thing. He didn’t leave Morgan alone for hours with a stranger or hell even by herself.

Morgan had a mother who would sit with her and make her laugh.

Morgan had a father who went to every one of her events and did the daddy daughter dances.

It hurt to realize that fact and Penny wasn’t resentful or angry that Morgan got all that because Morgan deserved it and Penny wouldn’t stand for her getting any less.

Penny was upset that her father tried for Morgan but never tried for her. Sure they made up for one year but why did it take for her father to figure out that she was Spider-Woman for him to give a shit at all?

She felt like she was four again when Daddy was too busy getting drunk with models for him to give a shit about her. Penny was four watching her father ignore her for someone else.

(Tony Stark could change but he didn’t want to change for Penny Parker)

Ever since coming back from titan tony just expected her to adjust to everything quickly as if 5 years passing was nothing and she was still 17 while everyone moved on. There were now movie nights and taco Tuesdays and whatever nuclear family bullshit her dad and pepper came up with.

Penny felt like an uninvited guest and sure Morgan was cute but Morgan didn’t know her. She was a ghost story now standing in her childhood home. Any child would be scared of that and Morgan finally stopped hiding whenever Penny came into a room.

She didn’t want to be in this house anymore where all she was known for is a ghost story. Penny wanted to go back to her room in New York where she was able to see the Manhattan skyline. She lived in an apartment with Rhoady because she didn’t want to move to the compound after her dad sold the tower.

Penny was home over there not here.

“Penny, you want some more eggplant parmesan?” Her dad asked distractedly while trying to get Morgan to finish her food.

Penny wrinkled her nose, “No i’ll eat something else”

She hated Parmensan and could smell the mint; she was deathly allergic to it.

Unfortunately, Morgan heard that and started whining, “why do I have to eat this when Penny doesn’t have to”

Tony gave her the stink eye, “Well Penny is going to eat it”

At that point Penny was already walking away with 5 ramen packets and a bowl, she had a microwave in her room just for this occasion.

Penny called out, “Unless you want me to die from anaphylactic shock after consuming that mint i’ll eat the entire plate just for you”

She saw her dad’s face pale and all Morgan could ask was, “Daddy what’s anaphyctic shock” completely butcher anaphylactic which Penny found hilarious.

Everything came to a head when Penny told her dad that she was going back to new york.

“No your not going back you staying here” Tony stated sternly

Penny scoffed, “Oh you funny if you think i’m going to listen to you, I turn 18 in two weeks you can’t keep me here”

“Penny i’m your father and i’m telling you your staying here” Tony stated harshly

Penny was pissed at that point, “Oh your a father when it’s convenient for you well guess what old man you can take you fatherly title and shove it i’m going”

Tony quietly murmured, “Your grounded”

“You do this every time I say something but you know what, I’m done playing nuclear family with you and your wife and daughter, i’m going back to New York living my life the way I want” Penny looked at him dead in the eye resolve steeled and hardened

“Penny-”

“No i’m not doing this anymore where you pretend im like some fucking ghost story when you can’t even look me in the eye anymore, congratulations dad you have everything you ever want a wife and a daughter you actuall give a shit about” Penny derisevly muttered.

Penny just continued

“I’m tired of being the bigger person and trying to make YOU comfortable when i’m the one who died, you’ve never once asked me how it felt because you ignore me just like how I was seven years old watching you get drunk so i’m done listening to your bullshit”

“I’m not standing in the way of your fairy tale happiness and pathetic Penny Parker could finally be out of your life”

With everything said and done Penny called a taxi and picked up her things. She simply just left because what was the point of staying. She could scream and shout and beg for her dad to understand but she was simply done.

And for once

Penny was free

#felt like being angsty #oh yeah 6k words of angst and some fluff #Peter Parker #Female Peter Parker #tony's a shitty dad #so sorry for you irondad stans out there #he gets better #for a bit #but then sucks again #emotional neglect #whump #kinda reminds me my dad #if he ever wants to show up #but yeah <3

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