The Room Where It Happens
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The Room Where It Happens by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Room (2015)
14 Jun 2020
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At 7:36 pm on the 12th of May 2016, Tony Stark is put in the Room.
A twelve-by-twelve-foot shed, soundproofed, double locked. It becomes his home. It has to be, because there’s nowhere else.
At 4:22 pm on the 15th of June 2017, Peter Parker is put in the Room.
They make a living under duress, fearing at every moment the entry of their captor. Confinement halts their lives in their tracks, changes them both for good: breaks them and brings them together simultaneously.“If someone has everything they need, but nobody, do they have everything? Or nothing?”
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- Part 1 of The Room Where It Happens
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You're the one I wanna go through time with by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Room (2015)
05 Feb 2021
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Blinking awake to a soft nudging at his chin, Peter can’t quite tell where he is for a moment.
He’s used to being jerked awake by the click of the Room’s door opening or invading hands where they shouldn’t be or, at best, Tony’s roughened call of “morning, kid.” This gentle touch is none of these things.
Light seeps past his eyelids, real light, sunlight from underneath his curtains in his room - and then a flash of white fur.
He searches blearily for the source of the fluff. It melts like cotton candy beneath his fingers. The nudging is coming from a black button nose.
“Kobol.”
It still feels like a dream that the bundle of fluff in his arms is his dog. Every inch of him is overwhelmed by affection for Kobol, his tiny, floppy ears, his bright eyes, his dainty paws, the translucent set of whiskers that frame his snout.
His dog.* * *
On the 20th of October 2020, Kobol became Peter Parker's dog. This is the story of their friendship through the years. After all, dogs are man's best friend.
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- Part 2 of The Room Where It Happens
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A Film by Harley Keener by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Feb 2021
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Cut to interview Peter, who plants his elbows on his knees and says, “I owe everything to Tony. Really, basically everything in the world. If he hadn’t been there with me in the Room, hadn’t... loved me and supported me the way he did… I wouldn’t be here right now, that’s for sure. He was all that kept me going. That sounds pretty depressing, but - that was it. He was it. I mean, there’s not a lot to look forward to in life when you’re facing, like, an interminable amount of time stuck in a little room, getting violated by this random guy whenever he so pleases.”
He pauses, jaw tight.
“But Tony was amazing. He somehow managed to stay calm and comforting, just - all the time. He’d get beaten up, and just walk it right off and crack a joke. I can’t comprehend how he managed that, but… I sure am glad about it.”---
A short documentary film project by Harley Keener. Submitted as part of his third-year undergraduate Film degree at SVA.
Title: A MISSING BOY RETURNS A DIFFERENT MAN.
An account of the life of Peter Parker years after his extended kidnapping as a child.Series
- Part 3 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 1 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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Into The Mystic by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
16 Mar 2021
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All in all, by the time Peter finally gets to class, he’s thrown up, possibly concussed himself, and met a new friend and the girl who’s probably the love of his life. What a ride.
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- Part 4 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 2 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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The Cologne Debacle by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
01 Apr 2021
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Pain lances through Peter's hands as he scrubs, scrubs, scrubs, scrubs, soaping up although it stings bitterly, streaming rivulets of water-diluted red, desperate to get the smell off him.
“Be careful,” Harley says to him gently, worriedly. He’s worrying Harley even more than he already did. Perfect.
“I’m fine,” he blusters.
“Peter, you literally just had a breakdown. You can say that you’re feeling rough.”
“You have no idea how sick I am of breakdowns,” he spits back at Harley. Maybe too harsh. Harley closes off, just a little, but Peter sees it.
His hands. His mental health. His friendship. Everything’s gone to shit.
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Peter and Harley's Target shop for new apartment furniture goes awry when Peter encounters an unexpected trigger. Harley supports him through the days of recovery that follow.Series
- Part 5 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 3 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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He's Out of my League by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
04 Apr 2021
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“How long have you worn nail polish?” Peter asks him quietly, his own downturned exhalation shifting the stray hairs catapulting from the dented crown of Harley’s head.
There’s an implicit question hidden beneath the spoken one; after years of protecting himself from possible judgement, Harley’s especially sensitive to those.
But this is Peter Parker.
Harley’s trust flows towards Peter Parker like some kind of sacred river.
So: “Probably… not as long as you think I have.”
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Harley Keener thinks on his childhood, his flaws, his misgivings, and the development of his huge and incredibly unfortunate crush.Series
- Part 6 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 4 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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When the Party's Over by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
18 Apr 2021
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Harley knows he’s in for a night when Peter opens the door to Kyle Price’s place and the wave of chatter and music and pulsing portable disco lights and cheap spirits and gross young adult sweat collides so viciously with him that his vision actually blacks out for a moment.
There are bros at the ping pong table, hollering like apes, dribbles of beer on their shirts as they down Solo cups and crunch them to pieces in their hands. Hordes of people dancing--if you could call it dancing. An ungodly amount of twerking. The room is dark and bright and flashing and stinky and deafening, actually vibrating with the colossal natural phenomenon that is a frat party.
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Peter and Harley attend a frat party on New Year's Eve. Predictably, it ends in disaster for a cluelessly innocent abuse survivor and his ADHD-ridden disaster gay best friend... who might just wish he was more.Series
- Part 7 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 5 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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Where Is My Mind? by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 May 2021
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“Shoot your shot," Dinah says. "Does he have Snapchat?”
“No.”
“Oh. Ew. DM him on Instagram? His crusty little Insta account?”
MJ jumps to Peter’s defence without a thought: “Hey. Kidnapping.”
“A prior kidnapping doesn’t remove him from general scrutiny,” Miguel points out, suddenly serious. More serious than usual, anyway. “Remember that, MJ. He’s still gotta treat you well, or so help me.”
Now, MJ can’t help the dreamy sigh that escapes her. “He found my favourite paintbrush.”
Yeah, yuck. It’s allowed. She’s got a crush.
Dinah beats her with a pillow for that, shouting, “Take. Him. Out. Take him out! You’re insufferable!”---
MJ falls hard and fast for Peter Parker. She also happened to follow his kidnapping case back in the day. Her dorm friends are no help in the matter. She'll try to make it work.
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- Part 8 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 6 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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The Boy and his Shadow by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 Jun 2021
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Peter is a stranger to the contours, the curves, the mysteries of women’s bodies, and all too familiar with men’s.
And yet, he knows that he’s made to hold people. He longs to become one with someone, to worship them and be worshipped. He wants warm and languid and strung-out and close and frantic and his damp hands in another’s and slow, euphoric draws of breath in the afterglow.
But he’s so far from that dream.---
Peter navigates the bewildering, exhilarating, terrifying new waters of intimacy. Featuring ASMR, dance lessons, gay dreams, artist's block, Spider-Man PS4, wishful not-really-there boners, legit boners, sleep deprivation, Peter Parker's Magnificent Ass, hardly any actual successful sex, binge eating disorder, and Guy the gay male escort.Series
- Part 9 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 7 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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I Still Don't Know How to be Yours by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
25 Jun 2021
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Peter’s hot and prickly and hammering rain and a watercolour lit on fire.
“Your line,” Harley reminds him, and there is that stupid smile, that paper-bag rip across the plane of his jaw, his jaw--
“Um. Uh--'if you’ll shut up, I’m going to kiss you now',” mumbles Peter.
His very toes are burning red. Heat isn’t a good look on him. Oh, God. Get him out of here.
He downs his hot chocolate, waves it frantically in front of Harley. “Gonna put it in the wash-disher,” he rushes. “Dish-er. The--the--you know what I mean!”
Harley just lays back on the bed and cackles Peter out of the bedroom.Series
- Part 10 of The Room Where It Happens
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Burn in His Arms by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
05 Jul 2021
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Someone catches Harley by the collar suddenly, yanking him up, and a choked noise flies out of his throat. There is Peter, with his black wool coat and golden-brown hair and jaw set more sharply than he’s ever seen, the real Achilles to his helpless Patroclus.
“Say it,” Onion-Piercing says an inch from Peter’s face. “Admit you’re gay.”
And there forms a standstill.
“I’m reporting you,” Peter snarls at him, incensed, not at the demand, but with them. “Homophobia, physical assault, bullying--”
“I’m reporting you,” Onion-piercing pantomimes. “Do you think they’ll really believe you? You?”
Another expression altogether crosses Peter’s face, something clenched and keen and utterly foreign to Harley.
“I’m not gay,” he says. “But I am bisexual.”Series
- Part 11 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 8 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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He's in a Tennessee Town, and He's Fine by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
28 Jul 2021
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“You’re gonna glue me back together?”
“Metaphorically, dumbass. I’m gonna fix you.”
“You’d do that?”
“Give me one reason why I’d wanna not do that.”
“‘Cause maybe I’m just... not worth the gold.”
Stroking Harley’s cheek tenderly, so tenderly, Peter says, “Fuck that. You’re worth all the gold in the world. No, more. All the gold in the sun.”
“Sun’s got gold?”
“2.5 trillion tons of it,” Peter tells him.
“I hate that your family is so great,” Harley chokes.
Because Peter has people to fall apart into. Peter’s got trillions of people who think he deserves all that gold and more. Harley carries a trail of people who think he doesn’t deserve shit. How’s he supposed to live with all that?
Because there’s a scar on Harley’s arm, not huge, but white and raised and in the jagged circle shape of a broken bottle. And Peter’s never asked him about it.
Because he thinks, even if Peter had asked, he wouldn’t have said.---
Thanksgiving with the Starks goes awry and resurfaces Harley's old trauma.
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- Part 12 of The Room Where It Happens
- Part 9 of The Room Where It Happens: The College Years
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We All Fall Down by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies)
03 Aug 2021
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Peter opens the door with a hip about an hour later, his hands already paint-splattered, a--a fucking Kiss The Cook apron on and all and a heap of fluffy pancakes and Harley knows they’ll taste like heaven on a plate but he can’t eat.
“What’s this?” Peter says. Eminem is rapping from the bedside speaker. Harley is sprawled inconsolably across the unmade covers, lost in the emotional chills that song now imbues him with. It’s the song that concludes the film, his film, his film that he made, his film that’s over now. Just like that.
It doesn’t make sense.
“Emotions,” Harley mumbles.---
Harley gets a nasty case of post-film blues. Peter has just the thing to chill him out.
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- Part 13 of The Room Where It Happens
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More Than Just a Dream by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Room (2015)
22 Sep 2021
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The glass doors. The white lights whining, receding, whining beneath his head, again receding. People people people bashing into him or he’s bashing into them. Someone on a bed. Tony? Not Tony.
“Third floor,” a voice calls from behind him. “Fourth on the left.”
He takes the stairs, not the lift, feet hovering, never once feeling them connect to something so mundane as floor. Breath hurling itself from his throat. Get to Tony. Run. Sprint.
There’s the door, fourth on the left. The door. Tony. Footsteps behind him--cops.
Door bangs against the wall. Peter’s in the room.
Tony’s in the room.
Larry's in the room.---
What if Peter's escape from the Room had ended differently?
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- Part 14 of The Room Where It Happens
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You know you got a hold on me by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies)
22 Dec 2022
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“Wait, wait, wait--Peter, are you green?”
But Peter’s moving at lightning speed. By the time Harley’s finished the damn sentence, his tongue is on Harley’s chest.
Harley groans. “Pete,” he gasps. “Babe.”
“Mm?” Peter hums into his armpit.
Harley laughs kind of crazedly. “Green?” is all he gets out.
“Peachy.”
“Peachy green?”
“Yeah.”
“That makes no sense.”
“You make no sense,” Peter mumbles, pushing his tongue into Harley’s mouth. “I’m very green. I promise.”
“Okay,” Harley giggles. “Okay. Get your pants off, weenie.”
“The way you sweet-talk me,” Peter fake-swoons.---
By the time Peter and Harley are finally able to start taking things safely to the next level, they're both more than a little desperate.
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- Part 15 of The Room Where It Happens