A/N: Ah~ his is going to be a bit emotional~~
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Mothers
Madison traced lazy circles on Peter’s chest, the way someone doodles on a napkin when they’re half-asleep and half-bored. Not trying to turn him on—just using his pecs like a fidget spinner she’d owned for years. Familiar. Soothing.
The touch that only exists after you’ve seen someone puke from the flu and still crawled into bed with them the next night.
They were tangled in the dark, her body tucked against his like a comma in a long, complicated sentence. Madison’s breathing had gone slow and even, sliding toward sleep, while Peter’s stayed quick and shallow—his cock half-hard against her thigh simply because she was naked and warm and there.
Proximity tax.
Peter was wide awake, eyes open, brain spinning like a hamster on espresso running threat models, logistics, and—occasionally—a vivid mental replay of bending someone over the kitchen island.
Three days. No real sleep in three days.
"You need to sleep," Madison mumbled into his shoulder, lips grazing the dip of his collarbone. Her voice was thick, syrupy with oncoming dreams. "Like, actual REM sleep. Not this... lying here plotting world domination while ARIA whispers stock tips in your ear and your dick does a little salute every time you imagine railing your aunt or mom from behind."
He huffed a tired laugh. "I’m good."
"You’re not." She pushed up on one elbow, hair falling across her face. Even in the dim, he could see the worry etched there—and the soft sway of her bare breasts as they brushed his arm, nipples dragging lightly across his skin.
"Baby, three days is zombie territory. You’re running on spite, caffeine, and whatever eldritch battery powers you. Your body and cock are ready to go, but your brain is basically dial-up."
"I’ve got shit to do," he said, the excuse sounding flimsy even to him. "Jasmine’s range needs blueprints. Quantum Tech—"
"Peter." She pressed a finger to his lips—gentle but final. Her other hand slipped under the sheet, cupping his balls with a warm, possessive squeeze that dragged a low groan out of him. "Sleep."
"I can’t."
Her face softened, half sympathy, half exasperation. Her thumb traced up his shaft now—slow, deliberate, maddening. "You can’t. Except..."
She let the silence finish the sentence, her grip tightening as his cock pulsed hard in her fist, betraying him instantly.
"When you’re with your mom," she said, voice dropping to something low and rough. "Yeah. I know. And Jesus fucking Christ, it’s twisted and scorching hot at the same time."
Every woman in his harem knew the humiliating, cosmic punchline: Peter Carter—teenage superhuman, walking aphrodisiac, literal harem king—could only truly shut down and sleep when he was curled up against Linda.
His mother.
The stronger he became, the worse the curse got. Some divine prank: the untouchable god-boy reduced to needing Mommy’s warmth, her scent, the same arms that once rocked him through childhood nightmares.
Madison sat up fully now, sheet pooling at her waist, moonlight painting silver across her heavy, naked breasts. She looked like a goddess ready to deliver bad news.
"As much as it kills me that I’m not the one to put you to sleep..." She swallowed, pride and jealousy flashing across her face while her hand kept that lazy, torturous stroke along his aching length. "As much as I hate that we can’t just fuck like normal people—that I can’t ride you raw until you’re spent and dripping out of me, passed out with your cock still buried deep... I’m not going to be the selfish bitch who keeps you awake when you’re this wrecked."
He opened his mouth to protest.
"Don’t," Madison said, cutting him off before he could muster a single excuse. She leaned down, tongue flat and deliberate as she dragged it up the underside of his cock—one slow, wet stripe from balls to tip that made his hips jerk involuntarily.
Then she pulled back, lips shiny, eyes gleaming with that mix of tenderness and filthy triumph.
"This is the perfect window, Peter. Linda’s right down the hall. You’re finally home. You need actual sleep before the next apocalypse or board meeting drags you off for a week and I’m stuck humping my pillow pretending it’s your thigh."

Only Mom could turn him off.
He padded to the closet, dug out the designated set—soft cotton pants, plain white tee. The uniform of "just your son tonight," not "conqueror of worlds and every woman in them." Boundaries mattered when the single safest place in the universe for him was still the same arms that had carried him home from kindergarten.
"Mmm." Her fingers kept that lazy rhythm, eyes fluttering shut. "Tell your mom thanks for me. For keeping my man from turning into a sleep-deprived dick with a god complex."
He tucked the covers around her like she was something precious—because she was—then slipped out the door.
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