It was impossible. The situation was never supposed to happen.

Peter was currently laying face down in the back lawn of the compound; the physical pain in his back comparing to the emotional one he was feeling.

It had become a regular thing; everyone visiting the compound a few times a month to more or less give updates on what was currently happening in their lives, if they'd accidentally uncovered some secret military plan or anything. It was always the same old thing though. The previous week Scott had shown Peter every magic trick he knew and Peter couldn't figure out how he did any of them for the life of him.

What was currently happening was a lot less calm and laid back.

Happy had driven him upstate after Tony said he needed to be there to discuss a few things in private. Peter didn't mind that, everyone had their secrets.

When he arrived, along with the others, it was the same old thing like it had always been. Peter made small talk with Sam and Bucky, telling them about school projects and decathlon; neither seemed too interested but they humored him.

Steve had gotten everyone's attention and told them they'd be doing something a bit different that week, a sort of team building exercise/training run. It wasn't anything new, just a simple thing to see how well they fought together.

They all split into groups, then teams and paired against one another. Steve had explained they were using the ladder system; team vs team, winners vs winners and so on until there was one group at the top. He also informed them at someone was acting as a double agent and could stab their partner in the back at any time, gaining a victory for themselves and advancing. Only Steve and the traitor knew who they were.

Knowing that bit seemed to put everyone off; styles became sloppy, communication was bad, a few groups even stopped fighting their opponents and started going against each other.

Not Peter though. He refused to believe it. He was partnered with Tony and there was absolutely no way he would ever betray him.

The two of them had sparred with the others until they gave in. Group after group, they came out victorious. Steve's words hadn't jarred Peter in the least. He and Tony had the best communication and tactics out of everyone… and yet Peter was laying face down on the grass after Tony had shot him in the back.

"Sorry kid, no hard feelings; just doing business."

Peter had blinked several times while trying to comprehend of what just happened actually happened. He pushed himself up so he was on his elbows.

"You alright there Peter?" Scott called out.

"I think you might have broken him Tones." Rhodey said as they all watched Peter making no effort in responding to their calls.

"Yeah, kinda figured something like this would happen which is why I didn't want to do it in the first place." Tony replied.

"It's a perfect example though." Steve said. "We all know what it's like to have a teammate turn against us; that's why everyone fought like they did. Peter's still relatively knew to all of this. It was a lesson for him to know you can't always put your full faith in someone when you're in our line of work. Doubt is a good thing to have but I think everyone else needs to work on their trust issues."

"Maybe do some of those trust fall things." Tony said. Everyone more or less rolled their eyes at his words. He turned back to Peter. "Okay kid, sorry I basically killed you. Are you good?"

"I've got it!" Peter suddenly sprung up and ran over to Scott and proceeded to do a magic trick. "It's like this!"

"Heeeeey you actually got it from last time. That's awesome dude!" Scott clapped him on the shoulder.

"You- were thinking about a magic trick?" Sam asked. "Seriously. A magic trick during a training exercise?"

"Peter?" Steve raised an eyebrow. "Did you listen to a word we just said?"

"Oh, yeah. Sorry Cap, I've been trying to get this trick worked out since last time-. Yeah, don't put your full trust into anyone when you know they could actually turn on you in a second and stab you in the back for their own malicious deeds. I know."

"Well, not in those words but-"

"If you know then why didn't you doubt me at all?" Tony asked. "You listened to every order I gave you and turned your back to me every second you got."

"Honestly Mr. Stark, I knew it was you when Cap announced that someone would be a traitor." Peter shrugged.

"Uh huh. How?"

"You turned your back on me just as many times as I turned my back on you. You weren't worried about me betraying you at all because you knew I wasn't the traitor. You poked at the others saying their partner would stab them in the back. Everyone else started arguing and doubting each other but you never said a word against me, you didn't even give me a questioning look. You're talking about not having blind faith in someone but you sure had a lot of blind faith in me during the whole thing. Besides, there had to be a reason you needed to get here early to talk about something that I didn't need to know about."

Everyone was silent at his answer. He was spot on about everything. Tony did have blind faith in the kid. Everyone knew he'd never purposefully try to injure a teammate, even in the training exercises they did.

"Got me there kid. Guess everyone needs to work on some things."

Okay, as of now, this little thing is done and it gonna be marked as completed. I might add some things later like if I get ideas that can't fill a whole story so keep an eye out for strange updates or something.

Please point out any spelling or grammatical errors I might have missed so I can fix them in the future.

Hope ya liked it. See ya in the next one!