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Peter was working on homework when Harley comes home in a foul mood. He literally barges into the kitchen and slams open the fridge door and grabs some ice cream and sprinkles something on top of it. he then sits at the other end of the table. Poor Peter can feel his throat closing up and asks Harley what he's having.
"Vanilla bean ice cream! Whats it to you?!"
"Stop being a fucking dick. I am asking because my throat is closing up and the only..." he takes a giant gulp as his voice starts going hoarse. "...thing to change was you coming home!"
Harley takes a second to compose himself when he decides to move down and sniff his ice cream, the sprinkles he put on the ice cream smell sharp.
"DAMMIT!! ITS ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER!"
He tosses the ice cream in the garbage and says "There were peppermint sprinkles in the batch of sprinkles. go take a shower while i clear out the room."
Peter immediately runs out the room and Harley is furiously disinfecting everything and demands that Friday tell whoever bought the sprinkles (It was Stephen, by Dia's request) that there was Peppermint in the batch and to be more careful next time. Stephen automatically portals home and asks where Peter is.
"In the shower. I'm already decontaminating."
The abruptness stops Stephen short and his mama bear senses tingle, he finishes everything off with magic and pulls Harley aside into the living room. "Whats going on cub?"
Harley has a break down, its the anniversary of his mom and sister's death and everything seemed to be going wrong. He failed a pop quiz, was bullied non stop, made something explode in Chemistry, missed the train, and then to top it all off he almost poisoned Peter. He began crying on Stephen's shoulder, and Peter who had heard everything from the stairs came down to cuddle his brother.