If You Can’t Take the Heat
Summary: Peter gets sick while visiting the Stark’s at their lake house during his summer vacation and discovers a negative side effect to his powers. His sensitivity to spicy foods.
Whumptober Day One: Shaky Hands
Peter’s discovered a lot of things that have changed about himself ever since being bitten by that spider and getting his powers. His asthma that he’s had for as long as he can remember was now completely gone, he no longer needed glasses, he needed to eat a whole lot more than the average person, he got colder in the winter and sometimes warmer in the summer, and a whole bunch of other things. His powers came with both positives and negatives.
One of those negatives, being his newfound sensitivity to spicy foods.
He’s not really sure how or why it started, but a few weeks ago he went out to dinner with May and Happy, and they ordered buffalo wings as one of their appetizers. Peter ended up eating a good amount of them, too but he woke up hours later around one-thirty in the morning, to his chest cramping and burning away. He ended up dismissing it as heartburn and chewed on a few Tums tablets, which seemed to do the trick.
Little did he know at the time, that it would soon become an issue for him.
This time around, however… it was worse than the first time it happened.
Way worse.