'i've been too long, i'm glad to be back

yes, I'm let loose

from the noose'

- back in black, led zeppelin

"it's ac/dc parker!"

"right sorry, go back to sleep kyungsoo!"

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"My favourite player has to be Heungmin Son, representing my country you get me?"

"He's a zeer goed player but Mo Salah is also top." The Dutch man in full football supporting gear turns to Kyungsoo's with a face that says 'bring on your football knowledge, I will still win'

"You got me there Dedrick, I can't fault good footballers, more of a hockey fan myself though so I will let you take the crown here." Kyungsoo looks over to a fidgeting Peter who has finally awoken. The other guy next to Dedrick, who also is in full football fan kit, notices Peter too and nods with a simple 'hi'.

"Where am I?" Peter is wearing a football shirt too, face still heavily bruised.

"Municipal holding facility. They said they found you unconscious at the train yard. Very dangerous." Peter looks towards Kyungoo who is between two other Dutch people. The one having a private conversation with Kyungsoo chimes in.

"We gave you and him the shirts because you seemed a bit cold."

"Thanks. You guys are nice. You speak really good English."

The three kind Dutch men and Kyungsoo all smile and simply state "Welcome to the Netherlands."

Peter's panicked head flicks up to the more calm boy who got stuck in the cell too, he stutters before asking "We're in the Netherlands right now?" Kyungsoo just nods with an awkward smile, "Nice people though. You look good in a football shirt too."

Peter smiles "It's soccer." He runs towards the cell door and calls for the guard. He gets no response apart from the three paint covered men behind him.

"The guard's on a break. Probably talking to his wife."

"Yeah. She's pregnant."

"Oh ja? Wat leuk!"

Peter's hand reaches towards the large lock on the bars.

"Ja, vier weken al."

Peter breaks the lock with his hand, opens the door and leaves the cell, he stops suddenly and turns with an outstretched hand, "You coming Kyungsoo?"

"Oh- I Fuck yeah Spidey!" Kyungsoo uses his longs legs to stride up to Peter pretty quickly.

"It was nice meeting you guys, stuur me een bericht." One of the hooligans stands up and salutes the boy, he walks to the open door standing there for a while before shutting the jail door with them all inside still. Peter looks to his left to see the guard wearing the Night Monkey mask, his phone lifted to his ear. Peter searches for Kyungsoo's hand as he leaves the building.

As they leave, the boy in the orange football shirt, soccer as he'd call it, searches the market square for someone. He steps up to a man and politely asks to borrow his phone. His phone is placed into Peter's hand as he turns to the other boy with him, "Everyone's so nice here."

"Parker, I hate to break it to you but not everyone is American."

"Peter." Kyungsoo looks at the boy, "Call me Peter, Parker makes me think you are about to shove me in a locker."

"No promises, your highness." Peter let out a laugh, thankful he had someone keep him sane in this hectic moment of life. His attention turns back to the phone, pressing in Happy's number once he remembers it.

"Okay... Pick up, pick up, pick up... Hey. Hey! Uh... I messed up. I need a... I need a ride. Where am I? Uh... where am I, sir?"

"Het is Broek op Langedijk." Peter attempts to say it to Happy on the other side, clearly struggling with the pronunciation. A laugh erupts loudly from the taller, Peter's cheeks go red from embarrassment. Peter gives up and asks the kind man to say it to Happy.

"Dank je." The man turns to Kyungsoo with a smile and a nod.

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The boys walk as fast as their still damaged bodies can take them, they reach the opening where Happy said to meet or he'd leave Peter to fend for himself. They reach a large flat field that's blanketed with colourful tulips. Kyungsoo runs his fingertips over the flowers he walks through.

"Deep, unconditional love for someone, whether it's your partner, family or friends. Happy must be worried about you to land in field that represents love in its truest form. Each colour makes up the deepness, yellow means eternal love." Kyungsoo excitedly leans and picks a purple tulip and hands it to Peter, "This, this is loyalty and material wealth. I'll give you both Peter."

"How do you know so much about flowers?" Peter steps closer to the the tallest flower in the field.

"One day, a long time ago, we were still living in Korea when it happened. My halmoni gave my brother some flowers, it was Azaleas. The last gift she ever gave, she passed the day after, no warning. My parents in Korea, in England and now in America don't really support me and my brothers, so my halmoni back then meant the world to us three. It was 2 days after we lost her, my parents came home to say we were leaving for England, Jaehyun was and is argumentative, he kept saying it's too soon and let us mourn halmoni with a real send off. My parents freaked, threw the flowers across the room and me and Eric couldn't do anything, stuck in our rooms. Jae was heartbroken as the day we left he saw the withered flowers. I tried everything and anything to make him feel better, nothing worked. Until for some reason as I touched those Azaleas time seemed to go back and life was put back in them. Halmoni told bed time stories to me about things like this, it was like she sensed something different about me now that I think about it. The story was that the holder of a Mugunghwa at heart would have abilities that people would kill for. It blossomed from heaven and could only be found where beauty met more beauty. The power of the Mugunghwa to the people never faded even in the darkest times of Korean history. The moment my touch ignited life into a dead flower was the day I vowed to keep my my halmoni's knowledge and love of plants going, to keep things alive when we couldn't keep her. Peter I just spoke too much, you can say shut up to me." The boy had his eyes downcast still, fiddling with a petal of a red tulip.

Peter walked closer, toes touching the taller's. "Thank you Kyungsoo, and one thing I know about flowers is the meaning of pink tulips." Peter plucked a healthy pink tulip before turning back to the boy with tears in his eyes. Peter went to reach for Kyungsoo's face, the height making it a little hard for the injured boy, "Um can you bend down a little, I can't reach what I want."

Kyunsoo felt as if he experienced whip lash at Peter's statement, with hesitance the boy bent towards Peter who was still holding the pink tulip, he laughed airily at the sight. "Thank you," and at that he placed the tulip behind Kyungsoo's ear with a heart stopping smile, "talk as much as you want Kyungsoo, I'll never stop listening." Both pairs of eyes never left one another during the exchange.

The moment was interrupted as their hair began to become messy from an aircraft heading towards them. Happy exited as the stairway ejected from the door. Peter stumbled forward before taking steps back from the supposed Happy

"Happy, is that you?"

"Is it me? Yeah, of course, it's me!"

"Stop! Tell me something only you would know!"

"Only I would know. Uh. You-I-uh, remember when we went to Germany? You pay-per-viewed a video in your room? They didn't list the titles, but I could tell by the price it was an adult film at the front desk. And you didn't know how I knew-" Peter looked back at Kyungsoo who had his face looking to the ground to cover the sheer amusement on his face at Happy's words.

"Okay! Okay! Fine, it's you, it's you, stop!" Peter sprinted up to Happy, tears in his eyes. The sudden contact shocking Happy but he could tell that Peter went through something so he hugged back.

"It's so good to see you."

Happy pointed towards the jet, eyes still on Peter, "Peter, you're going to have to tell me what the hell is going on here." Happy guided Peter towards the jet, Kyungsoo following at a safe distance, the tulip still in his hair. A little broken thanks to the jet's air but as he climbed on you he picked from his ear and petals sprouted from the new life from ripped ones.

"I like watching you do that."

"Odd phrasing Peter. Now go sit, the nurse awaits."

Peter drags Kyungsoo to the seat opposite the one where Happy gestures, new clothes sit on the table. Only enough for Peter as Happy wasn't expecting a plus one on this trip. He points towards an area, telling Kyungsoo to check if there is any clothes and if any of the clothes fit the tall boy.

"Okay... hold still. There we go." Peter visibly flinches as Kyungsoo sits, changed into a tight and short shirt that show a little of his waist. Peter's eyes hold for a little too long on the exposed skin before he looks up and sees that he was caught red handed. Kyungsoo just offers his typical wink which causes the boy in front of him to go red from the neck up. Happy sits behind the flinching boy with glasses perched on his nose. He goes in to stitch up Peter some more just for Peter to verbally exclaim his pain.

"I thought you had super strength."

"It still hurts." Peter waits for Happy to continue, Kyungsoo grabs Peter's hand for him to squeeze forgetting that the boy would probably end up dismembering him in one swift, deft movement. Happy continues, Peter grips harder.

"Happy, come on."

"All right, relax. Just a few more... there we go." Happy doesn't look up and just keeps poking through rough skin.

"Oh, my God, Happy!" Peter releases a yell of pain, yanking Kyungsoo towards him due to the said pain. Kyungsoo just sits on the position on the floor with his legs crossed, letting Peter use him to his hearts content.

"Peter, come on relax for him, he's just trying to stitch you up." Peter pulls his hand rather aggressively from Kyungsoo's tender hold.

"Don't tell me to relax, How can I relax when I've messed up so bad? I trusted Beck. Right? I thought he was my friend so I gave him the only thing that Mr Stark left behind for me, he through you out of a building waiting for you to die and now he's going to kill my friends and half of Europe, so please do not tell me to relax."

Kyungsoo puts his hands up in surrender, taking steps away from the riled up and sad boy before sitting a few seats away. Peter's outburst finishes and he sits back down holding his silence for a bit. Peter turns to Happy with an apologetic look, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I shouldn't shout. I just really miss him."

"I miss him too."

"Everywhere I go, I see his face. And the whole world is asking who is going to be the next Iron Man and... I don't know if that's me, Happy. I'm not Iron Man. I could never be anything on par with Mr Stark."

"You're not Iron Man. You're never going to be Iron Man. Nobody can live up to Tony. Not even Tony. Tony was my best friend. And he was a mess. He second-guessed everything he did, he was all over the place. The one thing he did that he didn't second-guess was picking you. I don't think Tony would've done what he did... if he didn't know that you were going to be here after he was gone. Your friends are in trouble. You're all alone. The tech is missing. What are you gonna do about it?" Happy's words seem to bring motivation to the superhero. He walks up to where the timid Kyungsoo sat, shaking his shoulders with determination.

"I'm going to kick arse, Happy. That's what I'll do." Happy smiles at the enthusiasm but interrupts the boy shaking Kyungsoo like crazy.

"No, I mean right now. Specifically, what are we gonna do? Because we've been hovering over a tulip field for the last fifteen minutes."

Peter walks up to Happy, his hand outstretched while a shaken Kyungsoo tries regain his balance, Peter's super strength throwing him like a rag doll, "Right, um... I can't call my friends because he's tracking their phones... uh, give me your phone?"

"My phone? Okay. Here." Happy clearly trusting Peter's judgement.

"What's your password?"

"Password?"

"No, what is your password?"

"Password. The word. Spell it out, password."

"You're the head of security and your password is 'password'?"

Kyungsoo can't hide his enjoyment at the situation, both turn to him with odd looks, "Sorry but I really like this guy, I'm Kyungsoo! Pleasure to meet you Mr Happy."

"I know who you are."

"Right Stark, yep go it! Still pleasure to meet you."

The phone distracts the two from conversing as Flash's voice blares out of the speaker with a terrible British accent.

"London, they're in London." Happy just nods and heads to the front of the jet, tapping the coordinates in for their next destination and reaching up to a button that exposes a compartment behind Peter. The two turn and make eye contact, Peter smiling, then he turns back toward the compartment and moves toward it with Kyungsoo connected to him by his hand. Another small compartment opens as Peter stares at it. A small metal pad descends from a part of the ceiling, and Peter puts his hand on it. Blue lights appear, and he steps back.

He turns to Kyungsoo "Think I'm a dork still? Okay, um... bring up everything you have on Spider-Man." Holograms appear from the screen and Peter scrolls through it all showing his extensive knowledge of well everything.

"Yes, I do." Kyungsoo says matter of factly, Happy watches with a small smile. When Peter turns to thwack Kyungsoo he see's Happy looking at him.

"Nothing. You take care of the suit, I'll take care of the music." Happy presses more buttons and Tony's playlist starts with AC/DC's Back In Black. Kyungsoo skips to Happy with his arm up for a high five.

"Good choice, love me some Back In Black." Happy looks at the hand and then back at the boy with a blank stare, Kyungsoo gets the message and slowly his hand descends to his side again. Both turn when they hear Peter begin to talk nonsense.

"Oh, I love Led Zeppelin!" The two who know it's AC/DC send glares and looks of bewilderment at the guy scrolling through science words. Peter distracted with building his new suits doesn't notice a Kyungsoo charging at him with anger. Kyungsoo tackles him, sitting on top of the far stronger boy but Peter lets him over power him by staying still.

"Disgrace two music legends like that again Parker, and trust me you'll be fighting fish bowl and me at once." Peter laughs, his smile stunning Kyungsoo, for a moment Kyungsoo almost forgot he had a very deep and harsh crush on Peter, but how could he really forget when the boy under him has a face like that.

"Excuse me, I do not want that in the jet please."

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Mugunghwa - The National Flower of South Korea, I did some research on it and incorporated the ideas of it into Kyungsoo's character, if it is offensive please tell me and I can change it.